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Bagai Musafir Bertemu Janji.

[pok jek @jackjusoh]

@ChelseaFC

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🔵 BREAKING: MORGAN ROGERS TO CHELSEA, HERE WE GO!

Club to club agreement reached today with Aston Villa to anticipate Arsenal official bid.

£117m proposal has been accepted, as @David_Ornstein reported.

Agreement done with Morgan Rogers on personal terms until June 2032. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

[Danial @masterofnone]

The Network School (@ns) drama is all over the Internet

What's really happening?

I'm Malaysian & Irish ~ born and raised in London. Recently moved back to 🇲🇾 for good.

My plan?

To help build Malaysia's AI Builders Hub (@KrackedDevs) ~ upskilling our people, pulling Malaysian builders together, and pushing for Malaysian-made tech products.

Turning Malaysians from consumers into producers.

Here's a thread - a simple breakdown of the NS Drama, from my humble perspective 👇

[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.

[SKB @seyikanbai]

“I have a Diploma in Accounting. I chose to study accounting for 4 years while chasing professional football, so i could have something to fall back to in case Football stops giving me money”

— N’Golo Kanté

[SHAYEE 𒀭 @tiier_1st]

🚨 Fabrizio Romano didn’t transform transfer journalism by luck he outworked everyone.

After starting at Sky Italia, he spent years outside Milan’s hotels and restaurants, in the heat and cold, building relationships with agents, directors and players instead of treating journalism like a normal 9-to-5 job.

He also revealed that agents and clubs sometimes try to use him to release false information and increase a player’s value. His job is to verify everything and identify who is trying to manipulate the market.

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

The male instinct to smile when one is broken inside

[Astro Arena 🇲🇾 @ASTROARENA]

Pemenang pingat emas 110m berpagar Deaflympics 2001, Zana Azizul Ujang kini bekerja sebagai pembantu pentadbir di Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya!😍🔥💪🏼

#NadiWeekend #AstroArena

[MOATH | معاذ @M0ATH]

لاعب كرة القدم الجنوب أفريقي "جيدن آدامز" واللي توفي اليوم، قيل انه كان يعاني من الاكتئاب الحاد وظهرت للتو مقاطع سابقه له من ايام كاس العالم:

- اول واحد وهو جالس في مقاعد البدلاء بدون ردة فعل وباين على ملامحه القلق والحزن
- الثاني بعد احتفال فريقه بالتاهل للدور القادم في البطوله بغرفة الملابس وهو جالس حزين وحيد وماحتفل معهم

بعد عودته من امريكا عثرت الشرطة على جثته داخل منزله في كيب تاون وقالت بعض المصادر أن سبب الموت هو الانتحار لكن ماتم الاعلان من السلطات عن السبب حتى الآن والتحقيق جاري في قضيته، عمره 25 سنه فقط…

[Anwar Ibrahim @anwaribrahim]

Selamat ulangtahun kelahiran yang ke-101 buat Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Semoga Tun terus dilimpahi rahmat, kesihatan yang baik dan berada dalam keberkatanNya, Insya-Allah.

[DR Sports @drsportsmedia]

Guess The Last Top Scorers At The World Cup!? 🤔

#DR Sports

[Teago Oliveira @teagoliveira]

A fifa vai ter que remover isso 350 milhoes de vezes

[Valy 🎩🎭 @liderfiscal]

Cuando Argentina jugó contra Austria hubo una falta en la jugada previa, pero Messi igual marcó el gol y el VAR no lo anuló.

Pero el VAR anula el gol para Egipto. Esto es corrupción por parte de la FIFA. Comparen 👇👇👇👇👇

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Mohamed Salah on the controversial officiating decisions in Egypt and Argentina game, Messi and Argentina are being favored:

“People will say Argentina showed the mentality of champions. Fine. But tell me this: when exactly did Egypt get the same protection from the officials?

We scored a second goal. The stadium exploded. The world saw it. Then suddenly VAR became an archaeologist, digging through the ruins of football history to find a foul from another lifetime.

Funny how they could rewind the game Five minutes to cancel our goal, but when I was brought down in the box, everyone suddenly forgot where the replay button was.

That’s what hurts. Not losing. Not Argentina.

The inconsistency.

One decision gets examined under a microscope. Another gets buried under the carpet.

We were told football is decided on the pitch. Tonight it felt like it was decided in a control room.

And let’s talk about those final minutes.

Two penalty appeals. Two moments that could have changed everything. Nothing. No review. No urgency. No explanation.

Then Argentina go down the other end and score the winner.

That isn’t a plot twist. That’s the kind of script that leaves millions of people asking questions.

Egypt fought for every blade of grass. We defended. We believed. We earned our moments.

But every time we climbed the mountain, someone moved the summit.

The disallowed goal.

The ignored penalty shouts.

The cards flying around our bench because people who dedicate their lives to this game couldn’t understand what they were witnessing.

And now we’re expected to smile and say football won?

No.

Football wins when the rules are applied equally.

Football wins when VAR is a shield for fairness, not a sword that appears only when convenient.

Because from where I’m standing, Egypt didn’t just lose 3-2.

Egypt lost a goal, lost two penalty appeals, lost faith in consistency, and eventually lost a place in the quarter-finals.

Maybe Argentina deserved to advance.

Maybe they didn’t.

That’s football.

But what will make people angry isn’t the result.

It’s the feeling that one team was forced to play against eleven men, the clock, and a set of decisions that seemed to change shape whenever the game demanded it.

And that’s why this match will be remembered long after the scoreline is forgotten.”

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨🚨 Egypt coach Hassam: “Today UNFAIR things have happened”. ⤵️🇪🇬

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

The male instinct to smile when one is broken inside

[Goals Side @goalsside]

🚨🗣️| Mo Salah:

"I don't want to talk about the referee because I'll get in trouble if I do."

"It's sad and frustrating to see all the decisions going against you in a game, especially in a decisive match like this one in the World Cup."

"It's just so bad at this point in football."

[David Ornside @David_Ornside]

🚨🗣 Marcelo wasn't happy with Egypt's disallowed goal:

"I don't know if football is becoming too soft or the referee was picking sides, who gives that as a foul? The referee allowed it but VAR called him, isn't that suspicious?

"If this was played 10 years back, no referee will give that as a penalty"

[United Extra @TheUnitedExtra]

Lisandro Martínez I’m sorry but that’s never a foul in any sport 😭

https://t.co/PGswco4QpS

[Troll Football @TrollFootball]

🚨🚨 Rainbet has offered to cover ALL legal fees for Egypt after that daylight robbery by Argentina. #JusticeForEgypt

[- @LMDiddy14]

Argentina robbing Egypt.

Uploading this again because FIFA removed the video.