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Pretty major #Tor upgrade, full of security fixes. If you are a Relay or Onion operator please upgrade!

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/tor-0.4.9.9/ChangeLog

Seattle enacts year-long ban on new AI datacenters

Home city of Amazon and Microsoft passes moratorium as backlash against energy-guzzling AI infrastructure grows

The Guardian

In reality, what they call age verification is abusive ID surveillance checks for everyone.

Start calling it what it is:
ID Surveillance.

We must all fight to Stop ID Surveillance.

#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #Privacy #HumanRights

Stardust: "I am the stoic, majestic queen of all creation."
Also Stardust: this.

She contains meowltitudes.

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #CharAndStar

Sea surface temperatures are already surging to record high levels for this time of year in key El Niño monitoring areas.

➡️ Sign up for our next monthly state of the climate webinar to learn more: https://climatecentral-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/5817787808929/WN_fU86uiw1SbWgZQlqACQf0w. We'll also be talking about the hurricane season outlook.

No need to read the article, the headline rules out any last tiny doubt that you may have had over whether the #Musk family, #TommyRobinson and #Russia are colluding in trying to bring down democracy in the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/09/tommy-robinson-meets-elon-musk-father-moscow

Tommy Robinson meets Elon Musk’s father in Moscow

Activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, shared video of his meeting with Errol Musk

The Guardian

RE: https://the.bisexuals.town/@gersande/116718373808180032

"these stories fit my thesis that the real AI jobs crisis is that the… marketing and pop culture of 'powerful AI' encourages and permits management to replace or degrade jobs they might not otherwise have. More important than the technological change, perhaps, is the change in a social permission structure."

The lawyers on both sides of a federal court case in Mississippi were caught using artificial intelligence, a situation where, effectively, generative AI tools were used to argue against each other. https://www.404media.co/judge-learns-lawyers-on-both-sides-of-case-used-ai-cancels-trial-kicks-everyone-off-the-case/
Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

When two AIs argue against each other, the legal system loses.

404 Media

So people are totally now using AI models for regular stuff that you can do via shell scripts and cron, because why do something for free when you can burn tokens and at the same time actively forget how to use the normal tools at your disposal?

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