In a First, California Moves Toward Paying Incarcerated Firefighters Minimum Wage
Best I can do is minimum wage for grueling, dangerous work.
California Moves Toward Paying Incarcerated Firefighters Minimum Wage - Broke-Ass Stuart's Website
California is set to pay incarcerated firefighters the federal minimum wage during active fires, a historic policy change.Guest Writer (Broke-Ass Stuart's Website)
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US Intel assessments on Russia and 2016 election could be politically motivated — CIA
US Intel assessments on Russia and 2016 election could be politically motivated — CIA
According to the report, the review identified "multiple procedural anomalies" that undermined the credibility of the ICATASS
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Inflation slowdown, prospects of key rate reduction: statements by Central Bank chief
Inflation slowdown, prospects of key rate reduction: statements by Central Bank chief
The Bank of Russia sees that inflation is slowing down faster than expectedTASS
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Not sure if it's just the Tass being Tass - but somehow her statements are totally missing the debt crisis.
Total corporate debt has reached RUB 86.2 trillion (about US$1.1 trillion), up 65% compared to the start of the full-scale war. Nearly half of this debt is owed by Russia’s 78 largest companies. One in six of them spends over a third of profits on interest payments, while 8% of the total debt is owed by companies that cannot even cover their loan servicing costs.
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Even though she claims inflation is falling (to 3-4% nonetheless) The Bank of Russia interest rate is still breathtaking 20% tradingeconomics
Russia's Hidden War Debt Creates a Looming Credit Crisis
Moscow has been quietly pursuing a two-pronged strategy to finance its escalating war costs.Ben Aris for bne IntelliNews (The Moscow Times)
Kiev loses over 1,235 troops in all frontline areas in past day — Russia’s top brass
Kiev loses over 1,235 troops in all frontline areas in past day — Russia’s top brass
Russia’s Battlegroup Center inflicted more than 450 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed two enemy armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reportedTASS
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Key Ukrainian Allies Are Shifting Focus to Other Priorities
Key Ukrainian Allies Are Shifting Focus to Other Priorities
Some of Ukraine’s allies are shifting their focus elsewhere just as the war-battered nation struggles with a fresh volley of missile and drone attacks in its fourth summer of Russia’s full-scale invasion.Andrea Palasciano (Bloomberg)
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Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders
The court affirmed that the DNC and Debbie Wasserman Schultz held a palpable bias in favor Hillary Clinton.Michael Sainato (Observer)
Ukrainian UAV Bombs Filled With Banned Agent Chloropicrin Found in DPR - Russia's FSB
Ukrainian UAV Bombs Filled With Banned Agent Chloropicrin Found in DPR - Russia's FSB
A Ukrainian Armed Forces cache of homemade bombs for drones filled with banned chemical warfare agent chloropicrin discovered in the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday.Sputnik International
Scientists can 'play God' by building human DNA from scratch
Scientists sound alarm over lab-made human DNA as 'God-like' project moves forward
Scientists are warning that a project aiming to build human DNA from scratch could lead to new types of warfare and is a controversial move of 'playing God.'Osheen Yadav (Daily Mail)
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UK scientists to synthesise human genome to learn more about how DNA works
Five-year SynHG project aims to pave way for next generation of medical therapies and treatment of diseasesIan Sample (The Guardian)
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Drones Intercepted Near Base Hosting U.S. Troops In Iraq’s Kurdistan (Videos)
Drones Intercepted Near Base Hosting U.S. Troops In Iraq’s Kurdistan (Videos)
Two drones were shot down late on July 1 over the province of Sulaymaniyah in the northern Iraqi semi-autonomous region...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats
New research on simulated blackmail, industrial espionage, and other misaligned behaviors in LLMswww.anthropic.com
NATO has picked a new ‘threat’ to bully
NATO has picked a new ‘threat’ to bully
The alliance’s latest summit avoided confronting China but could not cover up the efforts to contain the Asian great powerRT
Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Three Years of Nix and NixOS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
A review of Nix/NixOS after using it on all my machines for three years. I'll cover what works, what doesn't, and why it's the first OS that's stuck with me.Pierre Zemb's Blog
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I have not used Nix, so I may not know what I am talking about.
That said, I have been using Chimera Linux which uses the APK package manager. It works by maintaining a single file in /etc/apk/world that specifies all the packages the user wants on the system. This is used to calculate dependencies and install packages. When you “add” and “del” packages, all it is really doing is adding and removing from this list. If you remove a package, it will remove all the dependencies too unless they appear in the “world” file.
If you do not specify a version number for a package, you get the latest. But you can pin versions of you want.
If you copy the world file from one system to another, you get the same set of installed packages.
So, if I use git to backup my world file, maybe a couple of other entries in /etc, and the dot files in my home directory, I have pretty much everything I need to completely recreate my system.
Is it really worth all the extra complexity of Nix?
Starlink's Secret War: How Musk Is Powering a Covert Campaign Against Iran
Elon Musk Activates Starlink to Help Topple Iran’s Regime
After a Trump advisor called for regime change, Musk activated Starlink to aid a covert U.S. effort to undermine Iran’s government.Alan Macleod (MintPress News)
Brazil's Victory for Digital Sovereignty
Brazil's Victory for Digital Sovereignty
Despite years of campaigning for impunity by the Bolsonaros and the American far right, a Supreme Court ruling has increased social media corporations' accountability for internet crimes.Brian Mier (De-Linking Brazil)
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Telesur is not going to get censored by Brazilian law lmao, if platforms did that it would be a reprisal for being made to follow Brazilian law.
There is no good argument for the US oligarchy to get final say over the govts of the countries using their services, but this is even crazier to say when US platforms are littered with mysteriously unmoderated Nazi content. Get real?
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I'm the one spinning fairy tales?? You're telling me that these companies aren't already blocking people in accordance with their own policies shaped by those very organizations? I just think there is a misunderstanding here, because Bolsonaro would never do anything like this but you're reframing it as a win for him.
I sure hope nobody thinks of Brazil as a magic kingdom where only good things happening. For the govt there to actually grow a backbone and limit the influence of the orgs that are encouraging their petit boug to be little pro-US Evangelical nightmare beings would ve fantastic. The dominance of US tech & media is very very bad and other countries need actual sovereignty (like enforcing their laws on multinational companies and not legalizing their activities - at a bare minimum, as relying on them at all is a result of being deliberately underdeveloped)
These companies are very entwined with US state power it's imperialism and the privatization of the state that is an issue not third world sovereignty itself
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No it's not! I hope you can see that uninhibited unlawful access by multinational media & telecom companies is exactly what leads to the establishment of comprador figures like Bolsonaro, who dislike Telesur's politics.
I'm actually glad you've raised this, as it helps me develop my thoughts on social libertarian left tech activism & its limitations. One of its dubious accomplishments is watering down the wrongs done by the US & allied governments with pop social science into generic anti-authoritarian rhetoric, and opposing actions by neo-colonized countries which limit foreign soft power + capital
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In 2014, after years of debate, Brazil's Congress ratified Law 12.965/2014, the Internet Civil Framework. This law required social media companies to delete posts and deplatform users who broke Brazilian laws. However, it placed the burden on Brazilian courts to identify the posts and accounts.
Is this meant to apply to all "users" of the platform or only Brazilian Citizens?
If it applies to Brazilian Citizens, that's all fine and good. But if I break brazilian law by criticizing their government, is lemmy.ml expected to "deplatform" and "censor" me?
all users persecutable by brazilian law. its not about internet access or the platforms themselves, its about what you say and do publicly. the internet is just an extension of it, its pretty much like you commited that crime IRL.
said criminal or racist shit on twitter, and courts caught wind of it? believe it or not straight to court. most people get away with it, but its harder if you are famous but not rich enough to dismiss the accusations. or if someone sues you for it of course.
everyone in the entire world, israel
where did you get that from? i didn't say any of this.
its really not.
brazil is not israel. brazil can't meddle anywhere else without serious consequences.
and yes, it would suck if it was a nazi country, but its not.
I read the article. In-fact I started this thread asking for clarification to whom these laws apply. Then you went off on a tangent about Zuckerberg and implied i'm a "chud." So let me state how I think these laws apply, tell me if this is correct.
The Nation of Brazil passes a law that says the users of a website have to abide by Brazil's laws. I don't know what they meant by that, I assume lemmy.ml that is not hosted in Brazil isn't expected to know nor care about what Brazil's laws say. But if that were the case, then Facebook also wouldn't be expected to know nor care about what Brazil's laws say. The citizens of brazil that use facebook? Sure, they should be subject to those laws. But why should any other entity that exists outside of Brazil be obligated to know nor care about Brazilian law?
Those details seem pretty important, and the article doesn't address them at all, it merely says that Brazil's supreme court says that website are required to "deplatform" and "delete posts" of users who broke the law. But why should lemmy.ml abide by brazilian laws?
Lemmy.ml should abide by Brazilian laws because otherwise they'll get blocked in that country. I'm not much of a free speech fanatic. Ideally if people post a bunch of Nazi shit then Brazilian ISPs will be legally obliged to block it. The socdems in Brazil are rather lame so I have little faith in all of the "dark humor" Fb and Telegram groups getting nuked.
I'm not a lawyer, but, if you understand this isn't even a new law and it's just the end of impunity for US companies I don't see why you would frame this as an imminent threat to free speech. That's why I doubted you read.
Taiwan to simulate Chinese invasion in major drill
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Russia Base Metals Sales to China Surge, Signaling Deep Reliance
Russia Base Metals Sales to China Surge, Signaling Deep Reliance
Russian base metals sales to China surged in the first five months of 2025, underscoring its economic dependence on its Asian neighbor even as the country seeks to diversify trade.Bloomberg
Peoples and Regimes: Anti-Imperialism and the Islamic Republic of Iran
Peoples and Regimes: Anti-Imperialism and the Islamic Republic of Iran
In the Global South, state structures, particularly those tied to militarization and sovereignty, are vital to social reproduction, national dignity, and regional solidarity.Max Ajl
Baidu announces open source release of the ERNIE 4.5 model family
Announcing the Open Source Release of the ERNIE 4.5 Model Family
We introduce ERNIE 4.5, a new family of large-scale multimodal models comprising 10 distinct variants.ERNIE Blog
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in reply to foggenbooty • • •This is worse than you think. These firefighters are locked up, but if they "volunteer" for high risk duties that pay them jack shit, they can get out a little earlier.
Do we have to explain the perverse incentives this system encourages? It's so dirty.
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