Title. When I drive past, I get hit by alternating shadow and bright sunlight very quickly, and it is uncomfortable for me, and I don't have epilepsy. So just wondering if that is a concern for people who do have it.

Even as the United States continues to carry out terror attacks in the nearby sea and with the looming threat that Trump is considering strikes on land targets, as part of the latest efforts to overthrow Venezuela’s government, organized communities will vote on local initiatives for the communes.

This popular consultation is a show of grassroots power and participatory democracy unique to Venezuela. The communal movement, central to Commander Hugo Chávez’s socialist project, is undoubtedly part of what Washington aims to destroy through its attacks on the Bolivarian Revolution.

Reporting by @camilapress in Caracas

Reading earlier comments in this community made me consider documenting the workings of my homelab to some extent, ie. docker configuration, credentials, ports and links of my services. I've tried to make it consistent and organised but it still feels half baked and insufficient. Everyone suggests documenting everything you do in your homelab but don't state how. Since I've hardly had experience running my own server, I would really appreciate observing the blueprint of some other fellow selfhoster for copying or taking inspiration from rather than considering documentation to be 'left as an exercise for the reader'.

Edit: I already have a note-taking solution with me. What I wish to ask is to know what needs to be documented and what the structure of the documentation should be to accommodate the information.

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Hi comrades … I’m trying to hold myself together writing this. My girls are still in custody and every hour feels heavier. I wish this was over but it isn’t and today I can’t pretend to be strong.

For anyone new… we’re a small group of trans women just trying to survive in Juba South Sudan with no family or support …only each other and the kindness of people who see our humanity.

A week ago, my three sisters were arrested while fetching water. I brought their documents to the station, hoping it would help but the officers said “it’s too late.” Since then they’ve faced beatings, humiliation and cold nights on the floor. Hearing them during my last visit broke me.

The officers are still asking for money for their release. We’ve covered part of it but we still need $596. That’s the only thing standing between them and safety. I wish I could pay it myself. I’m scared of what another night inside will do to them.

If you can help any amount or even sharing the link is in my profile /bio….it truly means a lot. I understand people being cautious but we’re real and every bit of solidarity has kept us going.

Thank you for reading and for holding space for us. I’m praying someone feels us today.

Last week, I was following up on several rumors that Donald Trump would sign an executive order that would fulfill a longstanding goal of the AI industry: legal preemption that would prevent states from passing their own AI laws. Mostly, I was calling sources trying to get a sense of how the Trump administration planned to approach it: Which agency would be spearheading it? What legal arguments would they use? How would it interact with Congress, which was trying to pass a similar moratorium in the National Defense Authorization Act?

And then I got a copy of the draft order itself — possibly a sign that someone in the administration deeply, deeply loathes David Sacks, Trump’s Special Advisor on AI and Crypto. Even though he’s not a permanent government employee — he is, in fact, a billionaire tech venture capitalist with a provisional employment status similar to the one Elon Musk previously held — Sacks has become deeply influential in setting the administration’s AI and crypto policies. (Just look at Trump’s recent statements about federal AI preemption.)

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w/r/t Black Friday:

more doors open tramplings per capita:

fewer doors open tramplings per capita:

ZERO tramplings? it's over

One headline in a Russian paper (Izvestia) can say so much according to Steve Rosenberg, like showing Russia’s approach to what is happening.

"EU and Ukraine derail Trump's (Peace)plan. And; " With its strikes on Russia Kyiv is demonstrating it doesn’t want peace."

They want to sow divisions between Europe and Ukraine on the one hand, and America on the other. Europe and Ukraine are warmongers while Russia and USA want peace.

#Note: This is how the Russian propaganda machine works.

In late October, Elon Musk released a Wikipedia alternative, with pages written by his AI chatbot Grok. Unlike its nearly quarter-century-old namesake, Musk said Grokipedia would strip out the “woke” from Wikipedia, which he previously described as an “extension of legacy media propaganda.” But while Musk’s Grokipedia, in his eyes, is propaganda-free, it seems to have a proclivity toward right-wing hagiography.

Take Grokipedia’s entry on Adolf Hitler. Until earlier this month, the entry read, “Adolf Hitler was the Austrian-born Führer of Germany from 1933 to 1945.” That phrase has been edited to “Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and dictator,” but Grok still refers to Hitler by his honorific one clause later, writing that Hitler served as “Führer und Reichskanzler from August 1934 until his suicide in 1945.” NBC News also pointed out that the page on Hitler goes on for some 13,000 words before the first mention of the Holocaust.

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Most analysis of Vietnam-China relations gets stuck on one level: the state-to-state dimension. They see the South China Sea disputes and call it a day.

But they're missing the strategic layer, refined since the turn of the 21st century. Socialist states operate on a dual-track system rooted in dialectical materialism.

The State Track is where contentious national interests are asserted. Sovereignty claims and strategic posturing happen here. This is the unavoidable expression of the contradiction between two sovereign nations.

The Party Track is where long-term ideological alignment is maintained. Theory exchange and anti-corruption cooperation happen here. This is the stabilizing force that recognizes a higher, shared contradiction: socialist development vs. imperialist pressure.

The synthesis is not a resolution. It is managed coexistence.

The Party track doesn't stop the State track. It contains it. It ensures that disputes over sovereignty don't escalate into a rupture that would only benefit their common adversaries.

Contrast this with the Philippines. Its relationship with China operates on a single track: the volatile state-to-state track, mediated through U.S. alliances and international courts. Without a party-level channel to manage the underlying contradiction, every incident risks a full diplomatic breakdown, pushing it further into a classic, zero-sum Cold War alignment.

Vietnam's approach is different. When you see assertive sovereignty claims alongside Party commissions exchanging playbooks, you're not seeing hypocrisy. You're seeing a sophisticated system at work. The State defends immediate interests; the Party secures the strategic future.

This is how socialist states navigate a world they didn't choose: by managing contradictions instead of being destroyed by them.

This framework is a model of the strategy, not a guarantee of its perpetual success. Its stability is contingent on several fragile conditions, chief among them being the containment of populist nationalism. This is the kind of raw, bottom-up fervor that can force the government's hand and collapse the careful separation between state and party tracks.

Recognizing this threat, both Parties are acting in concert. This is not a one-sided effort. Vietnam's directive to 'strengthen propaganda and education on Vietnam-China friendship' is matched by China's corresponding position, as affirmed by Comrade Li Shulei, head of the CPC's Publicity Department, that its theoretical and publicity organs will 'strengthen friendship propaganda' in close coordination with Vietnamese counterparts.

While cultural and people-to-people exchanges are common diplomatic tools, here they are explicitly tasked with a specific, high-stakes mission: to give material credibility to this coordinated propaganda and thereby insulate the relationship from destabilizing nationalism. China's declaration to 'regard Vietnam as a priority' and to 'elevate cooperation' provides the strategic framework and resources for this project. They are not merely engaging in diplomacy; they are jointly engineering a social buffer, ensuring the narrative of fraternal solidarity is as robust as the party-to-party channel itself.

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Italy’s parliament on Tuesday approved a law that introduces femicide into the country’s criminal law and punishes it with life in prison.

🇧🇾💪🏻 Aleksandr Lukashenko met with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia, Gennady Zyuganov.

Translation of the encounter:

• Lukashenko: Welcome Gennady Andreievich to the territory of a country with a social welfare state! Of Socialist ideology!
• Lukashenko: I think this is a position very close to you. For me, it is a position very close to me.
• Lukashenko: Your ideas are not foreign to us. Even more, in contrast with other countries that formed the USSR.
• Lukashenko: We work for your own ideas(to Zyuganov) and we obtain results based on those ideas.
• Lukashenko: That's why we don't believe in the myths that say that the market will save us. That capitalism be the only system possible. That was a huge lie!
• Lukashenko: It is simply necessary to work and to value the people.
• Lukashenko: There will be a time that we will regret the destruction of the USSR
• Zyuganov: I think that moment is already here.
• Lukashenko: You are right! We are regretting it now. The people are feeling it. Before, lots of people were euphoric, thinking that the market, that capitalism will save them and nothing better than capitalism existed.
• Zyuganov: In Europe and America, capitalism is in crisis.
• Lukashenko: Exactly, people are now thinking the exact opposite(references to his earlier statement regarding capitalism).
• Lukashenko: That's why we resist. But it gets difficult without you folks.

Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1993360103831977984/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/LW-GC9QOknXt6TBk.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/albersantin/status/1993360154083901812#m

In the UK, one of the key architects of the campaign to leave the EU is currently the favourite to become the next prime minister. Nigel Farage and his right-wing populist party, Reform UK, are soaring in the polls. For years, Farage has argued that immigration is the cause of Britain's problems, from the rising cost of living to long hospital waiting lists. FRANCE 24's Clovis Casali and Claire Paccalin travelled around the UK to find out what impact this message is having on British people.

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The European Commission’s Enjoy, it’s from Europe programme has spent €1.5bn since 2017 on campaigns and events to “raise awareness of the efforts made by European farmers to produce quality products”, which frequently overstates the environmental benefits of eating meat and dairy.

A new DeSmog investigation, however, finds that the sustainability claims of the advertised produce are often misleading or false

Let’s Talk About Pork – a social media campaign running across Spain, France and Portugal – described emissions from pork-production as “absolutely fake”, while another falsely claimed that European poultry “helps preserve biodiversity”.

Meanwhile, a video-based campaign – which launched in October to promote European beef across Instagram, Facebook and TikTok – dubbed scientific claims about the environmental impact of livestock as “fake news”.

In 2025, the European Commission funded the campaigns “European Pork for a Greener World” and “Sustainable Beef” — the latter launched on World Environment Day — both designed to showcase livestock farming as a solution to climate and environmental challenges.

Europe's embattled carmakers are hoping for a reprieve when Brussels unveils an auto sector package next month, which could water down an effective ban on new combustion engines initially slated for 2035 as a shift towards electric engines stutters.

The European Parliament on Wednesday voted in favour of delaying the implementation of the European Union's deforestation law by one year.

The live action Dungeon Meshi is coming along great. They're planning a scene where Jack Black Senshi sees Chimera Falin, turns to the camera and says "Chicken Dragonnnn!"