Exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi calls on protesters in Iran to continue street demonstrations for two more nights and seize city centers, while urging energy and transport workers to start nationwide strikes. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601108579

Tehran at this moment: crowds are flooding Andarzgoo Boulevard, while on Shariati Street, protesters have torn down surveillance cameras to block regime monitoring. Footage shows massive gatherings, by all accounts, the crowds tonight are even larger than yesterday.

If I'm to guess, seeing how things are unfolding right now: There will be no condemnation from the EU or anyone else in the "Western" bloc. Instead it'll be "Maduro was a bad man and we welcome his being brought to justice." Putin won't bother to comment. Trump probably already asked him for permission. Media won't even be talking about this a couple weeks hence. Everyone who matters will have shrugged it off except a few DNC congresspeople who will continue to act outraged and otherwise do nothing. The Trump regime will be installing a puppet government, or they'll have already made deals with the relevant parts of the sitting government to transition into a puppet government. Oil exploitation rights will be assured. Most crucially, Maria Corina Machado will gratefully hand her Nobel Peace Prize over to our beloved President. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Outrage at the US, close ties with Venezuela and mounting domestic challenges have prompted Pedro Sánchez to take a stand, says the Spanish journalist Maria Ramirez

I'm not fan of Tailwind but this is brutal (https://github.com/tailwindlabs/tailwindcss.com/pull/2388#issuecomment-3717222957). Traffic down 40% because of AI, 75% of engineering staff laid off. The brain rot in the comments is something else though: "LLM is here, i guess until it drink all our water (85,000 gallons of water used daily) and destroy the whole environment. But the problem is, if I stop using it, other people will have leverage over me." okay buddy whatever you say ∞ https://rknight.me/notes/202601080857/

Jennie the golden retriever has become a star in her first week in the Commons as she accompanies new MP Steve Darling. He says she's a happy-go-lucky addition to the team, despite suffering a trauma last year when she was attacked by an XL bully.

I think at least part of the blame here falls on the broader field of computer science and its institutions, specifically the folks who awarded the Turing Prize to Bengio, thus increasing his platform & credibility with journalists. /fin