Harinder

Sultan Ibrahim has allowed former PM Najib Razak to serve out the remaining jail sentence under house arrest till Aug 23, 2028 provided he settles the reduced fine of RM 50 million and adheres to all conditions agreed.

.@balajis's Network School relocation from Malaysia to Kazakhstan is a HUGE location upgrade. Malay diet is high sugar, high carb and low protein. Kazakh diet is high protein nomadic warrior food. (Can you name a single war Malays have won? No, not possible with that slop). Malay environment is hot, humid and moldy. It makes you tired and lazy. Kazakh is dry and extreme - keeps you awake and alert. Impossible to have low IQ locals if weather swings from -40 to +40. Malaysia runs of positive discrimination (Bumiputera) and not meritocracy. Kazakhs are proud of their national identity but runs on meritocracy. $KSPI - Kazakstan's first unicorn was built by a Georgian with an ethnic Korean Co-Founder seeded by a Russian VC with an American founder (Baring Vostok).

Sign of the times. Not since the dark days of GE14 and its immediate aftermath has UMNO been more joyful, clowning around and such. Happy days are here again. 2. For someone who’s just had a heart scare and will soon be charged for corruption, Ismail is looking pretty chill.

This was a horrifying act of violence carried out by a 14-year-old. On Friday, a student opened fire at a secondary school just north of Bangkok -- taking the lives of five teachers before taking his own. (An earlier death toll said three teachers and three students had been killed – a figure that was later revised down by Thailand’s Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul.) The suspected gunman stormed the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, where he was also a student. He also allegedly killed his grandmother and grandfather in their home, where he lived, according to police. Thailand’s Ministry of Education has expressed deep sorrow and pledged tightened safety measures for students. This would include measures to prevent weapons from being brought into schools. This is a devastating time for the affected students, families, and staff. My heart breaks for Thailand.💔

I still am curious about who leaked the first slide, the one on approval ratings of various politicians among Malay voters. It was obviously leaked to highlight Dr Sam’s popularity among Malay voters. And why won’t Merdeka Center release the entire findings?

I've got some questions for @fahmi_fadzil @syam_ghaz @anwaribrahim as a voter, and these are genuine question. I hope any one of you would be able to give it some sort of reply for the public to better understand this. #1 What exactly are Syam Ghaz's credentials to lead JKOM? #2 Meta employs thousands of engineers, behavioural scientists, policy researchers and psychologists whose full-time job is countering coordinated inauthentic behaviour. TikTok alone partners with 15 global fact-checking organisations to deal with disinformation. These platforms still fail regularly. (poynter.org/fact-checking/20…) #3 State-run cybertrooper teams use combinations of real accounts, bots and "cyborg" accounts, human-operated and automated, making detection and counter-messaging a constantly evolving arms race. This is what JKOM is supposedly up against. #4 So what is Syam Ghaz's actual plan? What methodology? What framework? Is he consulting behavioural scientists? Media researchers? Or is he just going to tweet more aggressively and call it "strategic comms"? Across the globe, governments are fortifying propaganda machinery while reengineering regulatory frameworks, under the pretext of tackling disinformation. We should be alarmed when our own government follows the same playbook. A political activist with two failed election runs is not the answer to a problem that stumps Silicon Valley. @fahmi_fadzil, show us the plan, not just the appointment. Unless the appointment is the plan? #5 Who does JKOM actually report to? Let's talk about the transparency black hole. @fahmi_fadzil #6 JKOM is under the Ministry of Communications, with a stated goal of strengthening strategic communication and narrative management. But who defines what "narrative" is correct? Who audits the work? Parliament? The public? Anyone? #7 Allegations have circulated that RM16 million was allocated for JKOM's work, and that this coincided with a surge of pro-government accounts online. Is this true? Where is the itemised budget breakdown? Why isn't this tabled in Parliament? Can you please point me to the Hansard or any release? #8 A parliamentary question once revealed JKOM had 155 approved positions, 61 at headquarters and 94 in zone offices. But what do they produce? What KPIs are they measured against? What does success look like, and who verifies it? (kotamelaka.com/pertanyaan-pr…) The most effective antidote to disinformation is transparency, not just for JKOM's targets, but for JKOM itself. Publish the budget. Publish the mandate. Publish the KPIs. Or admit it's a political operation dressed as public service. I'm a leftist. I want PH to succeed. That's exactly why this appointment worries me. @anwaribrahim @fahmi_fadzil #9 Syam Ghaz built his reputation not through public service but through years of political activism and party organising. His political roots are in Kelantan, where he was active in opposition politics under PAS-era Pakatan Rakyat. He then joined Amanah (which broke off from PAS), then PKR. Lost his deposit twice in elections. His entire career is partisan political mobilisation, not neutral public communications. Why is a party operator running a public agency? Cybertroopers are defined as actors operating on behalf of governments or political parties to manipulate public opinion online. When the head of your government communications agency is a former party activist with no civil service background, the line between public information and political propaganda disappears entirely. Two wrongs don't make a right. JKOM under BN was a propaganda tool. That's why MADANI was supposed to be different. Appointing someone whose only qualification is party loyalty isn't reform, it's continuity of the same system with a different jersey.