Fairuz Yusof

i develop bugs. Disclaimer: I'm responsible for what I say, not what you understand.

[patty bibi @pattybibi88]

Hes got a couple good points tbh

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

me only liking animal and tailoring posts on instagram has led the algorithm to show me videos of animals interrupting tailors

IG pepperjaq, sarah.doggrooms, by_olga_ten, https://t.co/DTp4cVl6HX.stan

[drarasu @drarasu71]

MMA on 7th Sept. ‘26 , has written individually to all 222 MPs, including the PMX @anwaribrahim , Opposition Leader @hamzahzainudin_ and Chairman of PAC Health @suhaizankaiat , ahead of Budget 2027.

Our key ask is clear. Fund and retain the healthcare workforce.

KKM cannot solve this alone. MOF, JPA, MOHE and KKM must work together.

Health is not government or opposition. It affects every Malaysian.

[Fairuz Yusof @fairuzyusof]

Make it a treason please. It’s a national critical infrastructure ffs! That’s domestic terrorism.

[BFM News @NewsBFM]

Putrajaya plans to raise the maximum fine for railway cable theft from RM1,000 to RM100,000 per offence through amendments to rail transport laws, Deputy Transport Minister Hasbi Habibollah said.

He said stricter penalties are needed as cable theft has caused an estimated RM50 million in losses involving KTMB, Prasarana and the ECRL project.

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[Acyn @Acyn]

Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor.

Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister?

Child: No

Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*

[Macklemore @macklemore]

Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.

[The Kelly Clarkson Show @KellyClarksonTV]

The most requested Kellyoke EVER!! 'Golden' from KPop Demon Hunters 💛

[dans 🔰 @danskuss]

Gajah Sulong adalah kisah nyata tentang seekor gajah LIAR bernama Sulong Chalil dari Gua Musang, Kelantan, Malaysia, yang viral karena berjalan kaki sangat jauh untuk kembali ke tempat asalnya.

Sempet direlokasi untuk menghindari konflik, petugas margasatwa nangkep Sulong, lalu melepasliarkannya di hutan Gerik, Perak.

Tapi Sulong menolak.

Sulong gamau tinggal di hutan baru tersebut. Ia nekat berjalan kaki dengan kondisi kaki depan yang terluka demi mencari jalan pulang ke kampung asalnya.

Netizen dan pengendara jalan raya merekam momen memilukan saat Sulong berjalan tertatih-tatih pada malam dan subuh hari di wilayah Jeli. Kaki depan kanannya mengalami luka bengkak, diduga akibat lilitan rantai atau tali saat proses pemindahan sebelumnya.

Infonyaa, hingga akhir Agustus 2026, Sulong dilaporkan masih harus menempuh jarak sekitar 100 kilometer lagi demi bisa menyentuh tanah kelahirannya di Gua Musang.

Imagine being Sulong, dengan kekuatan sebegitu besarnyaa bahkan udah dirantai dijauhkan dari rumahnya dia gak marah / dendam.

Sebagai hewan pengingat, alih-alih ngamuk Sulong, dengan kaki yang luka dan membengkak, milih berjalan tenang di sepanjang bahu jalan raya, melangkah perlahan di bawah kegelapan malam, tanpa berniat mengganggu satu pun kendaraan yang lewat di sampingnya.

Efek video viral, Kementerian Sumber Asli dan Kelestarian Alam (NRES) Malaysia. Pemerintah mulai mengkaji ulang Prosedur Operasi Standar (SOP) translokasi gajah liar agar metode pengikatan kaki tidak lagi mencederai fisik satwa di masa mendatang.

Kalo di negara api keknyaa cuman diem atau ngga disiram tepung 😗😗😗

[Fairuz Yusof @fairuzyusof]

Halo brader, just move to Singapore la. Then no need to claim Forest City as island nearby Singapore.

[Balaji @balajis]

Should the global tech community continue investing in Malaysia?

Given recent events, I raise this question respectfully for the consideration of Prime Minister Yang Amat Berhormat Dato’ Seri Anwar bin Ibrahim (@anwaribrahim), for the people of Malaysia, and for our friends in the Malaysian tech community. The answer will be of interest to anyone in global tech that’s considering building, investing, or expanding in Malaysia, including executives at Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft, founders of tech unicorns like Coinbase and Solana, and investors at the world’s largest venture capital funds like a16z and Polychain.

As context, I am the former CTO of Coinbase and former General Partner at a16z. In October 2024, I opened a startup society called Network School in Malaysia, because I felt I’d been invited in by the government’s pro-tech policies.

Specifically, the KL20 initiative set out Malaysia’s ambition of becoming a top 20 global tech hub. Their MDEC digital nomad visas and MM2H investor visas were created to facilitate an influx of global talent and capital. And the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone was announced to facilitate the flow of capital and talent between Malaysia and Singapore, where I live. When taken in combination with Malaysia’s datacenter buildout and its policy of welcoming visa-free visits for 98% of the world, it seemed like Malaysia might be a great place to build a global tech hub that was simultaneously inexpensive and easy to visit (especially for non-Westerners).

And that’s what we did, by creating Network School. It’s an international tech community with its first node in Forest City, Malaysia. We picked Forest City because it had millions of square feet of empty space, because it was one hour from Singapore’s capital markets, and because it was within the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone. Then, within 18 months, without a single penny of government money, we built Network School into a global attraction that brought thousands of engineers, investors, and builders from 70+ countries to learn technology, burn calories, earn online, and have fun, integrating with the local Malaysian economy along the way.

Indeed, in terms of quantifiable contribution to the Malaysian economy, we’ve already invested 100M+ MYR in our campus to make it startup-friendly. For perspective, that’s about 4% of the budget of Johor, the Malaysian state where Forest City is located. We employ dozens of Malaysians directly and indirectly at every level from executive to staff. We’ve backed Malaysian tech startups like Collektr, hosted events for local teams like Superteam Malaysia, and are major customers of many local businesses like barbers, laundromats, and restaurants. We’ve also revitalized the multibillion-dollar Forest City project, causing millions of MYR in real estate appreciation. And, as the video below describes, we were on the cusp of a 500M+ MYR expansion to grow our community, as well as a global merit scholarship with my friend Amjad Masad of Replit.

However, that emerging multi-billion dollar success story — which should rightfully have been hailed as a huge victory for the pro-tech policies of the Malaysian government — is at risk of being derailed by a fake story spread by an anonymous account named MP4P.

In short: on the day before the July 11 Johor elections, MP4P posted an Instagram post falsely accusing Network School of harboring illegal aliens. The sensational accusations caused a tizzy in Malaysia, until Malaysian authorities came to our campus on July 14 to investigate. (I should note that the officers were very polite and professional.) After checking hundreds of physical passports from 40 countries, including dual passport holders, the authorities confirmed to the press on July 15 that all travel documents were in order. During the process, we cooperated fully; in the thread below you can see a photo of the men, women, and children of Network School smiling and holding up their passports in the bright daylight. Our faces are shown and our names are known; we have nothing to hide.

With that said, the process is the punishment. What MP4P did is very similar to the American crime of “swatting”, because MP4P created a hoax report of a serious threat, thereby forcing the Malaysian police to take time away from protecting the Malaysian people towards investigating a nonexistent issue. Moreover, this anonymous MP4P account has also called for Malaysia to boycott Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft…a move that would cost ordinary Malaysians thousands of jobs…even while MP4P’s own Instagram collaborators promote their Apple and Google apps! I mean, we aren’t talking about a credible accuser, but just someone screaming inconsistently at the top of their lungs on social media for traffic, an all-too-common phenomenon these days.

Anyway, at this point, all further investment we were planning to make in Malaysia is on hold until we get sufficient assurance that such issues won’t recur. So are the investment plans of many of our friends, including the execs and investors at global tech firms that we brought to Forest City. Because to put it very plainly: we have invested 100M+ MYR in Malaysia, while creating jobs for dozens of Malaysians, and our faces and names are known. Our Malaysian executives and employees deserve the benefit of the doubt over anonymous internet trolls.

There are two paths forward. In the first case, if Malaysia still wants continued global tech investment, if it wants to be a top 20 tech hub, if it wants us to revitalize Forest City, then we request an audience with the Prime Minister’s office to discuss the terms of a memorandum of understanding between Network School and the Malaysian government, similar to the document recently signed between the Solana Foundation and the Kazakhstan government.

Specifics can of course be discussed, but we would publicly commit to abiding by all Malaysian laws (we already do) and respecting Malaysia’s sovereignty (never in question). In return, they’d get to know our friendly community, and realize that we actually chose Malaysia because we thought it was a great place to build a tech hub where engineers from the global South, investors from the West, and builders from Malaysia itself could meet new people, build cool things, and perhaps create millions of dollars in economic growth in the fullness of time.

That vision of peace and trade, internationalism and entrepreneurialism, is still on the table. We aren’t asking for any money — just a meeting, to help restore confidence in Malaysia as an investable jurisdiction. Alternatively, if you don’t want our investment, or those of our colleagues at billion dollar funds and trillion dollar companies, we will of course respect your wishes, and reallocate our capital to other countries instead.

Either way, we will remain friends and abide by your decision. Please let us know.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

The comments are full of people saying biometrics are the best...

BIOMETRICS ARE THE WORST SECURITY SYSTEM

Cops and soldiers CAN and WILL:

1) take your phone away and open it by holding it in front of your face
2) forcibly place your finger on your fingerprint ID

There is no reliable way to prevent this from happening. Never use biometrics if you're an activist or working in a high-risk environment.

INSTEAD:
1) Set a long alphanumeric password, change it periodically
2) On iPhones put the setting that erases your phone after 10 incorrect password guesses
3) Make sure your apps don't show your messages when your phone is locked
4) Set all your chats on auto-delete after a week
5) Set additional internal passwords on all important apps
6) If you're getting arrested/kidnapped, try to turn your phone off before it's taken away from you, on latest models this automatically encrypts it

[Derek Devicemanager @IT_unhinged]

Our COO sent me a Slack: “Laptop is dead, nothing works, fix ASAP.”

I checked the monitoring tool.

His battery was at 1% and the charger wasn’t plugged in.

I could’ve just messaged: “Plug it in.”

Instead I opened a ticket, categorized it as a Severity 2 Power Incident.

Asked him for screenshots of the problem.

He sent a photo of a black screen.

I scheduled a remote session for 30 minutes later “to run diagnostics.”

At minute 29 I told him to verify his power source as Step 1 of the troubleshooting script.

He plugged it in.

Laptop turned on.

I documented the resolution as “User Education: Introduced to Concept of Electricity.”

The ticket remains a permanent part of his audit trail.

For “trend analysis.”

[Brendan Falk @BrendanFalk]

To check if your Google Workspace has been compromised by the same tool that compromised Vercel:

1. Go to https://t.co/TpuIOW5Fwg
- This is Google Admin Console > Security > Access and Data Control > API Controls > Manage app access > Accessed Apps
2. Filter by ID = https://t.co/uqJnCqp5Ah
- This is the ID of the compromised OAuth app

If you see an app after filtering, you have potentially been compromised

[FranceNews24 @FranceNews24]

📹 VIDÉO - #Insolite : Pendant la coupe des griffes, une marmotte semble avoir déjà accepté son destin… tandis que l’autre panique à chaque coup de coupe. Une scène aussi drôle que totalement théâtrale.

[ksampoh@MyOwn Inc @ksampoh]

https://t.co/cw3HF0mcIa

[K.AI @Kai866]

这居然是中国官媒发出来的AI视频，讲述“白头鹰”与“波斯猫”的江湖故事，给我看懵了。😂

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Trump: We're going to bomb your energy facilities if you don't open the Strait of Hormuz in 2 days.

Iran: F off.

Trump: OK, you have 5 more days.

Iran: F off.

Trump: Fine, we'll give you 10 days like you asked.

Iran: We didn't ask for anything. F off.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I don't think people realize just how extraordinary what we're witnessing with Iran is.

I was arguing with a dear journalist friend of mine yesterday who was telling me that Iran was winning, yes, but only on the strategic level, not tactically.

The type of thing a skinny kid getting stuffed in lockers in highschool tells himself to make himself feel better: "These people will BEG to work for me in ten years. Everyone knows jocks peak in highschool. They'll literally beg." 😏

I think that's precisely wrong, and that's what makes the Iran war different. As of now, Iran is in fact holding its own tactically too.

Think about other U.S. wars of aggression these past few decades. Take Vietnam, Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq, Serbia, etc. (the list is unfortunately very long). The pattern was roughly always the same with an immense power differential between aggressor and victim. These wars were, by and large, imperial: the empire attempting to crush a much weaker people whose only realistic recourse was guerrilla resistance. And that is when they actually had the will to resist: some - like Libya - barely even bothered, just resigning themselves to their fate (despite being, at the time, the richest country in Africa).

As spectators of these wars, if you had any moral sense, the dominant emotion was a kind of helpless disgust: you were watching a giant stomp through someone else's house.

Sure, the U.S. actually lost many - if not most - of these wars, famously replacing the Taliban with the Taliban or being expelled with their tail between their legs from Vietnam, but the power differential was no less real for it.

It's just that power doesn't always guarantee victory: sometimes the giant can't kill everyone, and eventually tires of trying. But the “victories” won this way were always pyrrhic at best: the people endured, yes, but what they were left with was a country in ashes that takes decades to rebuild. Meanwhile, in the grand scheme of things, the giant walked away with little more than a bruised ego.

Iran is - remarkably - proving to be an entirely different beast: when others were merely surviving a giant, Iran appears to be able to compete with one.

What just happened over the past 48 hours is the best illustration of this. You had the President of the United States issue a formal ultimatum: reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours or we "obliterate" your power grid.

Iran's response was essentially: we dare you, if you do this we'll make all your Gulf allies uninhabitable within a week.

And, as we saw, Trump backed down: pretexting non-existent "VERY GOOD AND PRODUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS" with Iran, he said his ultimatum no-longer applied (or, rather, became 5 days). Adding he now envisaged the Strait of Hormuz being “jointly controlled by me and the Ayatollah.” To the amusement of Iran’s diplomacy (https://t.co/o4JnJJoAGS).

That, folks, is a textbook tactical victory. It is, remarkably, Iran demonstrating in this instance that it had escalation dominance over the United States of America. That is, the ability to credibly threaten consequences so severe that the US - for perhaps the first time since the Cold War - found it preferable to stand down.

That's no skinny kid being locked in a locker dreaming of revenge fantasies. That's the kid grabbing the bully's wrist mid-shove and watching his face change.

And it's not the only tactical victory in this war so far. Take the episode over the Israeli attack on Iran's South Pars gas facility. Iran had warned that if that happened U.S. allies in the region - including Israel - would face a symmetrical response.

And they delivered: famously devastating Qatar's Ras Laffan facility - which produced roughly 20% of global LNG supply - and leading, according to Qatar themselves, to a $20 billion loss of annual revenue for the next 5 years (https://t.co/Myd3QZDbYf).

Not only that but they also managed to hit Israel's Haifa refinery (https://t.co/XvFqewBZPZ), one of the country's most strategic and protected sites.

The result was Trump distancing himself from the South Pars attack, saying that Israel had "violently lashed out" unilaterally and that "NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL pertaining to this extremely important and valuable South Pars Field." Israel then said it wouldn't strike Iran energy sites anymore (https://t.co/tk0rA5NaWS).

From where I stand, that's another tactical victory. It is, at least, Iran demonstrating that is can fight back **symmetrically** against the U.S. and its allies. Not through asymmetric resistance with IEDs hidden in the roadside or traps hidden in the jungle, but eye for eye, and against some of the most heavily protected sites on the U.S.'s side.

That's qualitatively different from any other adversaries the U.S. has directly fought in recent wars.

There's plenty more, such as the pretty relevant fact that Iran has gained control of the single most strategic energy chokepoint on earth and the U.S. is finding it impossible to break that control.

To the point where Trump has been reduced to publicly begging China - of all countries - for help, which given Trump's ego mustn't have been easy to do. Only to be told no. By China. And by everyone else he asked.

This is the topic of my latest article: how this is, in fact, the first genuine "multipolar war."

First, in the narrow sense: because Iran is revealing itself to be a genuine pole of power - not a superpower, but an actor that cannot be submitted, which is all multipolarity is.

And second, because the war itself is accelerating multipolarity everywhere else: the U.S. has never been more isolated, never looked weaker and its security guarantees have never been more hollow.

In my article I lay out the full scoreboard - military, economic, political - and explain why this war has already changed the world, regardless of how it ends.

Enjoy the read here: https://t.co/FoB8dIKwTb

[Fairuz Yusof @fairuzyusof]

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[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping their captors and making their way home

The group is believed to have travelled around 17 km together led by a corgi across highways and fields

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping their captors and making their way home

The group is believed to have travelled around 17 km together led by a corgi across highways and fields

[Ethan Brooks @alt_w_v_g]

Had a parent-teacher conference this morning

My wife told me not to come

I came anyway

She said "please just listen and nod"

I said "I always listen"

She said "you listen like you're sitting in a boardroom looking for something to challenge"

That's how listening works

Nice classroom

Small chairs

I am 6'4" and was seated at a desk designed for someone who still believes in Santa Claus

My knees touched my chest

The teacher introduced herself

Shared her identified pronouns

I shared my identified adjectives

Smart and handsome

My wife closed her eyes

The teacher had a folder

Color-coded tabs

I respected the organization

She said our son is "a pleasure to have in class"

My wife smiled

I waited

That sentence is never the whole report

It's the executive summary before the risk section

She said "however"

There it is

She said he "asks a lot of questions"

I said "good"

She said "during quiet time"

I said "when is quiet time?"

She said "it's when students are expected to work independently and in silence"

I said "so he's the only one trying to get information and you've structured the environment to prevent it?"

My wife put her hand on my arm

I continued

The teacher said he recently told another student that "sharing pencils doesn't make sense if nobody brings their own"

I said "that's an accurate observation"

My wife squeezed harder

The teacher said she's concerned about his "resistance to group activities"

I said "he's not resistant. He just doesn't see the value of doing more work for the same grade."

The teacher said he also corrected her math on the whiteboard

I said "was he right?"

She paused

She said "that's not the point"

I said "it's a little bit the point"

My wife stood up

Sat back down

Compromise

The teacher pulled out an evaluation sheet

Categories like "works well with others" and "follows directions" and "respects classroom norms"

All subjective

Not a number on the page

I asked how these are graded

She said "based on observation"

I said "so one person's opinion with no second review?"

She said "it's professional judgment"

I said "my auditors say that too. Right before I disagree with them."

She looked at my wife

My wife said "I'm sorry about him"

I said "I'm sitting right here"

My wife said "I know"

The teacher said overall he's a bright kid and she just wants to make sure he learns to "collaborate"

I said "collaboration is important. But so is recognizing when you're the only one doing the work. He'll learn that again in college. And again in the real world. Might as well start now."

Nobody spoke

The teacher closed her folder

She said "I think we've covered everything"

I said "one more thing"

She braced herself

I said "his reading is above grade level. His math is strong. He asks hard questions and corrects mistakes when he sees them. I just want to make sure this school knows what it has."

The teacher looked at me differently

My wife looked at me differently

I said "that's all"

We left

In the car my wife was quiet

Then she said "he's turning into you"

I said "is that a good thing?"

She didn't answer

From the backseat he said "dad, why does the teacher count off for asking questions? Isn't that the whole point of school?"

I looked at my wife

She looked out the window

I said "yes. It is."

He said "I don't think she likes when I'm right"

I didn't say anything

Neither did my wife

Small chairs

Color-coded tabs

No follow-up items

But the kid's going to be fine

Sent from my iPhone