Yup. The IPO is an exit strategy for the early investors of SpaceX. Apparently my own country’s fund (“the oil fund”) will invest in SpaceX as well.
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A weird sensation
Yesterday, Saturday June 6th 2026, I went back to the optician for a eye check-up. It was during my first check-up there last month that she told me that the pictures of my retina showed signs of high blood pressure. That led to a cascade of events, and I am now in queue for a check-up at a cardiologist, I am taking medicine twice a day, and I am actually currently on 50% sick leave. The blood pressure Has gone down since that 187 over 158 first reading, but it is still too high.
So, the optician took new photos of the retina yesterday, and she saw even more of the swellings in the retina that she had seen the first time. She then asked if I wanted to see for myself. I said yes, and I saw on the monitor the before and after photos side by side. A month ago vs now.
It was a surreal experience, a weird sensation to see the actual proof. It… became so much less abstract. Yes, I do check my blood pressure every morning along with my medicine (one pill against the high blood pressure, and one high dose vitamin D to get my levels up, the blood test showed it to be very low – 16), but this hit different.
To SEE the retina. The before image with ONE swelling, a red little area on the retina, and the after image, the image from yesterday, with the 6-8 swellings, the red dots have spread out.
It was actually a bit shocking.
I was not afraid. That was not the feeling. It was more a feeling of – wow, this IS my new reality, swellings in my retina due to high blood presure.
The optician said that she wanted an eye doctor to look at me, and she called the hospital in Drammen, which is the nearest hospital with an eye department. The doctor there looked at the images she sent, and they said that they would take a consultation with me next week. Since the optician could not send the referral electronically, but only through snail mail/postsl service, I said that I could take the train to Drammen and bring it to the hospital. She agreed, so I did.
Tomorrow I have a new appointment with my own doctor, and we will then discuss my fitness for work. I HATE being on sick leave, but I suspect that the 50% will continue. I just hope the doctor does not put me on 100% sick leave, that I would just … walk around at home and … wait? Wait for what? THAT would give me high stress 😂
Seeing those swelling areas on my retina was much more visual than the Numbers of my blood pressure. Numbers are numbers; red swelling on my own fricking retina is something else.
Emotionally, I feel ok actually. This IS my current situation, snd I roll with the punches. Doctor appointment tomorrow, then hospital visit when they have time for me.
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Weaven Online
The MUD that I was referring to recently is up and running, but not ready for prime time quite yet.
It has 600+ rooms.
It has NPC’s that talk back, non-scripted but like a chatbot. They each have a persona to fulfill.
It has lots of auestions.
The name is “Weaven Online”; weaven as a Place for weaving to take place, and online because well, it happens online.
So. Here we are. Two roles in play.
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Dan Shipper on the future
I have followed Dan Shipper’s work since last year. Here he is on the Lenny Podcast – it is a great episode, I recommend it.
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The Terminal, API, and my AI swarms
In 1994, I discovered the internet, and I immediately hooked on to Valhalla, a MUD that I could connect to through telnet.
telnet valhalla.com 4242
The Multi User Dungeon became a world of text, and objects, and monsters to kill. I created a female character named Noala, and she became a fierce warrior, running a zone called Hell. The telnet window was the interface. It was where I interacted with the server.
The Dictionary was one of my central items. It was where I had my aliases. I used the number keys on the right side of my keyboard, and I had alias 3 for “east”, 5 for “north”, 31 for “kill goblin”, and so on. Through countless iterative sessions, I built a muscle memory, and towards the end, I had become very efficient. I would estimate “xp/hour” and similar things.
Later in life, I was exposed to API’s, and through that to programmatic approaches to dealing with different systems. As more and more systems used open API’s, the ecosystem became richer.
On November 29th 2022, when ChatGPT launched, I jumped on the AI bandwagon, and I have experimented a lot with OpenAI systems as well as others. In 2025, I started using the terminal much more after I got hooked on the Claude Code.
And after the shock from the start of this week, the memento mori reminder, I have seen that I need to dig deeper. Not in a stress-ful way, but to really dig deeper.
I will for fun create a new MUD. I guess not from scratch, but I will combine my love for the Valhalla mud, with API’s, and the swarms of AI instances.
I will start today. And I will hopefully have a working demo within a week. We will see how complex it is.
But
Knowing the toolboxes I have available, it will perhaps take max 2 days to get a demo up and running.
I’ll be back!
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