Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

Every so often there is a hilarious detail amid the never ending car-crash that is the Trump “administration”.

“I was at an industry meeting this week, and I can tell you one of the biggest concerns was that we might see diesel prices [in the US] go to $10, and the equipment, you know, the pumps and the dispensers and so forth can’t handle a number that high. That’s incredible,” he said.

From the FT.

Researchers just mathematically proved that AI can't recursively self-improve its way to superintelligence.

Not "we think it's unlikely." Not "it seems hard." Formally proved.

The model doesn't climb toward AGI — it slowly forgets what reality looks like. They call it model collapse. The math calls it inevitable.
I wrote about it 👇

https://smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-cannot-self-improve-and-math-behind-proves-it/

#AI #MachineLearning #LLM #Research

To opt out, just don't have a face

#London #FacialRecognition

I've finished adding comments to my #BBCMicro Elite Demonstration Disc disassembly:

https://github.com/markmoxon/elite-demo-source-code-bbc-micro

Turns out the AI code is essentially the docking computer routines from the disc version, just reapplied to combat, which might explain why the ship in the demo is so rubbish at hitting things. :-)

Web version and deep dive coming soon.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing

Interesting critical analysis of IPv8 Draft...

https://shitwolfymakes.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-the-ipv8-draft

🌱 Do you like plants? Are you coming to EMF?

Bring your cuttings, offshoots, seedlings, bulbs or seeds to share with other attendees in the Greenhouse:

https://blog.emfcamp.org/2026/04/13/plants-in-space/