Juno had a couple friends over last night.


at 3am they snuck alcohol into the house.


i have ascended to first-class teenager-parent.


yeah!


and i caught them.


bartles & james wine coolers?


because they simultaneous burned some brussel sprouts.


HA!  yes win coolers.


but minute maid i think?


wine.


i think.


Juno got into loyola and they gave them a FAT scholarship despite us saying “no thanks”.  i really have no idea why, but that’s now where we are locked in.


jesuit school - i assume you know?


super progressive, tho?


i dunno.


we had dinner last night with someone who went to Loyola for med school.
apparently the campuses are far apart from each other.


yeah.  Juno’s going to be at the lakefront campus, i think.  not sure.


i truly did not need to see Smurfette like that.


i guess Papa Smurf invented a powder that makes your boobs grow.


oh.  no.  it was Gargamel.  duh.


YOWSA!  things are getting spicy in venezuela.


Lisa and i are watching “the americans” and enjoying it quite a bit.  have you ever watched?


we LOVED “the diplomat”.


yes - liked them both.  keri russell is good in both.  i also really like the actors who play her respective husbands.
rufus sewell was in Dark City which is one of my favorites.


￼“Dark City” is part 1 in the unofficial Jennifer Connelly standing at the end of a pier trilogy.  The other two are “Requiem for a Dream” and “House of Sand and Fog”.  both great movies but fucking depressing as hell.


i’ve seen requiem and it made me crazy.


maybe it’s supposed to?


maybe we saw it together?


something about double something?


“ass to ass”


the most beautiful form of love.


I don’t know if we watched it together, but yeah we have talked about it before.


so openai’s new genius device is a pen.  i have a prediction.  i predict the pen will also vibrate.


speaking of double things.


what a douche.


I got into a fight with chatgpt the other day because it was lying to me.


yeah.  i saw that too.  openai says and does some super scary proTrump shit.


wait - you talk to him?????? i didn’t know you were on speaking terms….


i imagine Brockman here is just doing Sam’s dirty work.  so that he doesn’t show up in the headlines….


what lie was it telling you?


i’ve been writing an infocom z-machine interpreter but the spec isn’t the most clear, so I would ask it clarifying questions.


ooo… that sounds bad.


part of the spec is about text encoding.  the z-machine uses 5-bit ZSCII, so you can fit 3 characters in a 16-bit word.  part of the machine is a dictionary table that maps a ZSCII-encoded string to a list of bytes.
the rules for the dictionary key is that you get 4 bytes (or 6 ZSCII characters) so you either truncate your encoded string or you pad it out with ZSCII char 5 (shift).
"The encoded text contains 6 Z-characters (it is always padded out with Z-character 5’s to make up 4 bytes”


the dictionary keys are sorted so one can quickly look up your key.


so… I wrote all that and dumped the table to check my code with a bunch of game files.  in one early zork 1 version, 3 of the entries were padded with ZSCII 3 instead of 5.
I asked ChatGPT if that was just a bug in the game file (since it didn’t appear in later zork 1 versions or any other game files I tested) and it repeatedly explained to me that it was intentional and how the official interpreter worked for that not to cause problems.


yeah.


isn’t it incredible how well it lies?


amazing.


the whole idea is that you can just compare 32-bit numbers to find your entry.  but it kept insisting that it wasn’t a problem because they would decode the entries to do comparisons.


yes.


￼I still have to finish implementing all the opcodes..


heh… that’s pretty cool, Beavis….


“Beavis”… it occurs to me… one could create an app that is a window into Beavis and Butthead’s room.  they watch you and make jokes about you.


all AI.  exact voices/personalities of the characters.


￼closer…


i just spent a stupid amount of time trying to get AI to make a beavis and butthead video saying “that’s pretty cool, Bryan.”


AGI isn’t here yet, alas.


and in other news….


I did go down the rabbit hole a while back with Amiga emulation.  I even paid for official copies of the roms.  I got some of it working but not to the point that I could really play any games.


i’ve been working with codex for a while now.  basically it lets an AI drive my computer.  over the last couple days, i notice it’s acting a little odd:


it’s “accidentally” typing in hebrew.


W T F.


i mean…. you know who speaks hebrew…..


how are you guys?


we’re reasonably freaked out.


it really is something out there right now.


we’ve made ourselves extremely flexible, should we need to relocate quickly.  and we will do that at some point…. but so far i don’t think quite yet.


but sheesh so many people from our neighborhood now live in EU.


did i tell you we’re getting our house ready for resale?


my living room has had two refrigerators since before thanksgiving……….


the cats freakin love that, tho.  so.


he can take a swipe at my head every time i go to my “desk”.  he’s going to be REALLY mad when we have to take it away from him.


i’ve had a lot of coffee today and you are my designated chatter.


are you SURE i’ll get banned if i talk about AI porn?  i don’t have anyone to talk to about this stuff and it’s making me crazy.


don’t make me go to chatGPT.


don’t drive me into the AI’s arms, Bryan!


where’d they move to?  did they already have connections there?


well… one of them has been visiting italy forever, so that was a no brainer.  one was an older woman who want to get out - she went to spain.  she’s now regretting how hard it is to see her grandchildren, who remain in NYC.  another is a family of Juno’s old best friend.  they went to spain first, but used it as a mechanism to move on to lichtenstein?  is that even a place?  that’s what i vaguely remember:  some strange little country near germany.


i guess spain is an easy entry point.  although i’ve been hearing portugal too.


LS WHAT MUTHAFUCKA?!??!


chatgpt is a globalist.


bizarre.


the thing is… i don’t know what those characters are… but they seem to work in place of “-la”


hebrew.


since when is ls a spy?!?


i know we don’t talk about politics…. but i just gotta say… that guy… he dropped the camera and pulled out the gun so fast… they have instructions to not block cars, so he’s RIGHT on the edge of what’s allowable…. the speed with which he was whisked away… the admin response was within 15 minutes…..

it was calculated.  it was planned.  they executed someone on purpose.


i haven’t watched it but I don’t need to.
whether or not they had a mission to execute someone, they had a plan for what to do when it happens.  them whisking away the guy so quickly seems like a previously discussed strategy.
escalation just helps them feed the terrorist story


i can also easily believe that ICE is not one centralized chain-of-command and you have all these militia/nazi/.. sub-groups that have their own agendas.


yeah.  it seems likely they encourage “rouge” agents to go above and beyond.  then if things go to far they have plausible deniability.  not too unlike stochastic terrorism.


also.. i guess i never realized how violent dragons are when they have sex.


but it does make sense.


Jimmy was backing up my fileserver (a long process) and i asked him how it’s going so he sent rsync a SIGUSR1 to get it to spit stats, but that’s the newest version of rsync not my version of rsync so he killed it and now he’s depressed.


Douglas Adams invented the depressed AI.


that dude was a genius.


have you ever played minecraft?


i have not.


i’m vaguely thinking of creating a project for a bare bones AVP minecraft client.


minecraft is weirdly fun.


all implemented by AI freaks.


as a test of the AI freaks, as well.


i figure implementing a software knock-off is a pretty easy programming task.  no design decisions, just straight implementation.


anyway.


AVP ?


I have seen people writing their own minecraft servers.
is it an open protocol kinda ting?


apple vision pro.


there are NO games for it… it’s a wasteland.


i think this would be WILDLY popular.


even if it needs to be a jailbreak thing.


build app from source code yourself thing.


.. unfortunately capped at number of AVP owners which I expect is low.


that’s fine.  i suspect those people are interesting.  😊


and it’ll be super portable……… hm.


how can i make it super portable and still on AVP.


hm.


yeah.  “wildly popular” and AVP are not compatible.  i might have to settle with “very cool”.


i think it’s a reverse engineered protocol.  and yes, there are many server implementations.  i’m not really seeing any other graphical client implementations tho….. hm.


insight of the day - gaussian splats are the perfect storage/transfer mechanism for streaming 3D data…. mark my words.


oh.  i’m late to the party.


i should tell someone:


i’m working on something super cool.


this is how i program now.  does it make me a bad person?

Thicken that line around the edit box picker.  Make it ender-purple.  Give it some cool effect.

Hmmm... we made the cancel boxes 2x as big and now they’re too big.  Can we try 1.5?  Also, that text graphic is very thin, can you stretch it square?

Camera is still fighting me when I scroll-zoom with the mouse.

When building the environment terrain - the order seems kinda erratic.  Can we do some kind of importance map based on large scale block density (so the center(s) of the map will fill first)

I just tried orbiting the entire terrain structure and saw the bottom.  Is there some rendering effect we can do to obscure rendering when the camera starts getting that low?

In the terrain - the different strips of material.  many of them seem to have a constant delta distance between them.  This should be Berlin noise please, very low frequency.

When razzing first starts it takes off fast because I guess the frame rate is fast so It thinks it can.  Can we make it increase slowly at first and try to find a nice balance?

We get ourselves into trouble when the camera enters geometry, which causes rendering insanity  Come up with ways to mitigate this problem.

I adjusted the size of the terrain tile.  Can you grab all the kConstants into the defaults?

The original minecraft has a beautiful screen space ambient occlusion pass.  Let’s make our own!

The ender vision feature isn’t showing where connection points USED to be.  Also - don’t have any text in ender vision - it should be entirely graphical, as though you’re wearing ender colored glasses.  Show the connection points as we discussed.


have you ever played minecraft?


whoah…. have you seen the video game recompilation project?  they’re decompiling old games and rebuilding them for modern systems.  i just saw a screenshot of metal Mario that gave me serious pause….


you can see the room reflected in the back of his head.


hey - sorry that i’ve been quiet.
my dad had a stroke two weeks ago and passed away this morning.
I will be here for another week, so hopefully we can see each other at some point this weekend.  If not, I will almost definitely be back a few times over the next couple of months.


OMG


OMGOMGOMGOGMOGMMOG


i’m so sorry.


do what you need to do - see us if it will make you feel better and don’t worry about it if not.


Lisa’s crying.  “he was a good man”


Loved “Lisa’s crying.  “he was a good man””


thank you.
yeah.  he definitely was.


yeah.  you got a really good one.


Lisa wants me to send you flowers somehow…


i think she’s struggling to find some way to help.


don’t worry about it.


truly.


just wanted to let you know we’re thinking about you.


thank you, but Moms doing a “in lieu of” thing.
she’s going to put her local catholic church in the obit but there’s another charity that i can suggest.


Edited to “thank you, but Moms doing a “in lieu of” thing.
she’s going to put her local catholic church in the obit but there’s another charity that i can suggest. ”


tell us the church.  😊


i looked for the obit - it’s coming out soon?


it’s in the editing phase.  :)


ah.


heads up - Lisa and i are taking “space”.  i’m in a hotel in SF.


full disclosure - i am NOT in a good place.  you’d be safest keeping your distance.  ❤


hey - i’ll respect your wishes and keep my distance, but can you periodically send me something letting me know you’re ok?


OMG NO.


i don’t want you to keep your distance at all.


but i understand if you need to.


that’s what i meant.


i’m ok.


I AM NOT GOING TO HURT MYSELF.  HURTING MYSELF WOULD DO PROFOUND DAMAGE TO THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE ME.  I WILL NEVER DO THAT.


i’m living in a hotel on union square.  the house mother has given me the “sad husband” rate.


and you should still keep your distance if that’s what you need.  it’s ok.


i’m ok.  or rather, i will not hurt myself.  i’m def not ok.


gotty is in SF and I’m supposed to do lunch with him tomorrow.
we haven’t made concrete plans yet, but would you want to join us?


i would like that.


Liked “i would like that.”


gotty said, “For sure! That’ll be fun.”
I’m planning to meet him at his place in the city between 11:30 and noon depending on traffic.  it’s walkable if you’re feeling it, but otherwise a ~10min waymo.


for sure - do you have the address?


hey - can you tell me Brian’s address?


do you think it would help?


aren’t we meeting there!?!??


720 tehama.
but he said gps nav sometimes fucks up so use 718 for that.


i was just being dumb.


i’ll let you know when i’m on my way so you can time appropriately.  the rain will probably fuck up traffic a bit.


hey - i’m going to have to cancel.  sorry.


:(
what’s up?


not feeling good.


i am not going to hurt myself.


sorry to hear that.   there’s time if you feel better later.


how are you feeling?  we missed you yesterday.


eh… not so good.  you’ve seen me like this before.  you know how it goes…..


the shrinks tell me i have a “disorganized attachment style”… which is code for “this dude is fucked in the head.”  i can’t say i disagree with the assessment.


among the more horrible things to happen to me in the last week or so - i got so spend two hours in my underwear in a room full of insane people in their underwear - while someone decided whether i should be allowed free.


i got duped into voluntarily having myself “checked” at Zuckerberg general.


“voluntary” still means a guard will take your clothes.


and lock you in.


they decided to let me go, tho.  but not before traumatizing me.


it was awesome.


that sounds horrible.  did they trick you into saying some magic phrase that triggers a protocol?


i’m glad they let you go.


no…. i don’t think so.  i think merely turning yourself-in causes it.  i guess.  i had a guard on me the moment i said “psych eval”.


my couple’s therapist in st louis urged me to go in.


she was concerned i would hurt myself, i guess?  or hurt someone else?  or actually, i think she thought i was on drugs?  i don’t know.


needless to say i don’t feel comfortable with her any more………..


it’s easily one of the most horrible things i’ve ever been through.


do you no longer have your own therapist?


heh…. i do not.


the last shrink i spoke with (at the eval) told me it was all my fault.  he doesn’t know me at all, so i think maybe he was testing my threshold for anger?  i have no idea.  it made me dislike shrinks.


the second to last shrink i spoke with turned out to be a jesus freak halfway through the session.


the third to last shrink i talked to was the couple’s therapist that urged me to go in.


i’m not feeling like i can trust therapists right now.


how long have you been out here?
do you have a decent baseline — are you eating, hydrating, exercising, .. ?


(not to suggest that those will magically make things better.. but lack of them will make things worse)


i’ve been here about a week.  i am eating.  i am walking around the city.  i’ve had some scary moments (contacts fucked up, i couldn’t see) but everything has calmed down.


Lisa has agreed to talk to me tomorrow, so that’s a nice change.


i went to spokane first and that went sideways in a very bad way.  so i came to SF.  10 days now i think?  last sunday?


spokane.. to see Richard?


yeah.  don’t ask.


ok… i don’t remember what i told you…


Lisa and i have an “issue”.  we’ve had it since before we were married.


we’ve spent a solid 10 years in couples therapy (across three different therapists) trying to resolve it.


i’ve personally spent 10 years in solid one-on-one therapy to deal with it.


it’s no one’s fault.


no one is the bad guy;


it’s just profoundly sad.


Lisa and i got into a large fight about it at the beginning of the month.


she stopped talking to me.  she asked for “space”.


it was making me crazy to be in the house with her wondering constantly if she was going to talk to me or not.  she couldn’t explain, she couldn’t give me a timetable, and she couldn’t talk.


so i went to spokane to “give her space”.


i got into a fight with Richard about AI.


(ahem)


i don’t think he’s ever going to speak to me again.


i think that’s the gist of it.


heh…


there’s not much you can say.  i know.


it’s fine.


not to trivialize anything.. but as you were mentioning the AI stuff I was thinking how annoying it was that messenger kept trying to form responses for me to send.


HEH.


yeah.


my AIs have turned on me too.


(openAI had to make their model more of a bitch to limit liability.  but now it’s a total BITCH.)


(too far the other way with the sycophancy.)


it’s probably impossible to share space with someone and also give them space.  so I understand why you wanted to leave.


(it now actively picks fights…. so weird.)


it was literally crazy making.


are you able to work on projects while you are here?  I honestly haven’t had a chance to go back and read about your “minecraft” project.
when I went to st louis, I thought I’d have lots of downtime to work on some projects and I did absolutely nothing.  I was crashing every night by 9.


yes.  that is nice.  i am finally getting back up to speed with that.


coding this way is super enjoyable for me.


“hey - go do this”


i’m also watching the new “interview with a vampire” in tandem with Juno.


that’s been super nice too.


I didn’t know that was a thing.  it’s a series?


yep.


AMC


2 seasons.


it starts really good.  it fizzles… but the story is still a good story.


does it follow the books?


and Juno digs it.  which is all that matters.


Liked “and Juno digs it.  which is all that matters.”


yes…. and no.  i think it’s like the new Riven.  kinda the same, but with new crazy tweaks.


I forgot about the “new” riven.


heh.


i’m pissed i can’t play it in my apple vision pro.  that’s FUCKED UP.


i should rip the assets somehow and port it.


hmm


and i refuse to buy a facebook device.  that is NEVER going to happen.


well… i did once.  but it’s NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN AGAIN.


apple’s gaming plans for the vision pro (and even the mac) seem scatterbrained.
some combination of them half-assing it and developers not seeing it as a viable platform.


oh… i think it’s more than that.  i think they actively discourage gaming.  i think they don’t want it to be a game machine…..


there is NOTHING.  i mean come on… not even little independent stuff.


for the mac, they did have a whole framework for porting games over.  but I haven’t really heard anything else since WWDC (last year?  two years ago?)


yes.  the mac is decent.  and the mac has a decent collection of games.


(plus maybe I’m just not paying attention..)


and cross compiling would be SOOOOOOO easy… the fact that no one does it is what makes me suspicious.


anyway… when i release my minecraft, EVERY SINGLE AVP owner is going to download it.


unless they’ve thrown the AVP away…. i guess.


I SHALL DOMINATE THE AVP SPACE!!!


maybe i should charge $1000 per copy… 😊


have you ever played?  it’s quite nice.


i used to play a hacked VR version on my old vive.  it is by far the most fun i’ve ever had in VR.  easily.


I haven’t.


it’s like sandbox you can live in.


it’s hard to explain.


anyway… my minecraft idea has grown into a monster now… i have a scheme to create my own virtual world system.  a successor to second life and minecraft and…. i guess whatever the fuck Zuck was trying to do.


i think i can get the minecraft kids attention with super-cool new build tools.


minecraft hasn’t really gotten more advanced over the last 20 years.  there’s a lot of low hanging fruit.


the fact that their main client is still open source gives me a serious inroad.


i can tell you all about it someday.


it’s epic.


I also haven’t played with an AVP at all.
and I kinda don’t want to yet because I think I’ll dismiss it if there’s nothing that I’d want to use it for.


for example…. a procedural roller coaster maker, using the built-in minecraft 3D grammar system called “jigsaw”.  it’s so easy.  it’s going to make the kids shit themselves.


yeah, the AVP has nothing.


the new features are cool - the “interface” is evolving.  that’s kinda interesting.  the lack of any and all use is a big problem…….


for my release video - i’m going to demo a procedural ewok village.  trees, huts in the tops of trees, hanging bridges, etc.


it’ll be cool.  you’ll see.


ok… time for another episode.  talk l8r.  ❤


ok.  enjoy your vampires.  😊


FUCK


Lisa talked to me.


she wants a divorce.


“it’s not you, it’s me.”


oh no.  i’m sorry karl.


it is good to have an outlet to write about your feelings.
my only note of concern would be about being too public about it.


there’s nothing in there that i want to keep secret.


and i’m a little concerned that keeping this secret was part of the problem.


but i’m open to hearing more if you feel strongly…. ?


i meant more about any future writing.


oh.


yeah…. i don’t think there’ll be anything more.


i’m def not planning on it.


which I do encourage you to do if it helps.  i have found that writing letters and such that I never send tend to be good outlets.


heh.


(but, with the benefit of hindsight, they are best burnt or destroyed and not read 20+ years later.)


how many of those have you written to me?


now probably isn’t a good time to talk about that.


maybe later.


ha ha.  no, none of them to you.


WHAT!??!?!


hey - I want you to know that I’m thinking about you today.  ❤


Reacted ❤ to “hey - I want you to know that I’m thinking about you today.  ❤”


hey - i’m sorry - but i think i might need your help.


mom’s being rushed to a hospital.  it’s probably a massive stroke.


i’ve got tons of stuff here in SF in my hotel room.


can you hang onto it for me, i probably need to get on a plane ASAP.


oh no.  i’m sorry Karl.
tell me what you need


will it fit in one car load?


i’m waiting to hear from Kori.


yeah.  just a bunch of clothes.


and a minifridge.


and a space heater.


just too much for me.


i just want to be ready.  because it’s almost certainly a stroke.  30 minutes unres[onsive and BP 200/99


do you want me to head to you now?  I can then also drive you to the airport.
or bring you here until your flight.


ok.  i need 10 mins to clean up — just got back from gym.
but then I’ll start heading up.


what hotel are you at?


cartwright.


sutter.


union square.


On my way


About 20-ish minutes to go do you want to meet me down there or do you need me to come up and help you pack?


hey.


false alarm.


can i buy you dinner?


just parked.


come down and meet me?


yep


Jimmy is “accidentally” typing hebrew command line switches again.  😕


he’s lucky i don’t hate jews.


that’s so bizarre.


not russian.  not chinese.  hebrew.  repeatedly.


yep.


btw - I remembered on the way home — Sean Parker.  Plaxo was the spammy address book company.


DAMMIT.


let him fade away…..


i’m still going to call him Timberlake.


hey… i have a question….


it’s about money so get ready.


the lawyers are going to make me take a job at walmart.


i would rather spend time working on my minecraft startup.


would you be willing to invest ANY amount - with ANY conditions.  like - funds only spent on AI credits, or no hookers, or no salary, or anything.


if i can prove my startup isn’t stupid it’ll go a long way to keeping me from debasing myself.


and if not, that’s totally cool too.  no worries - i’m mainly just brainstorming now.


i wouldn’t want to use it for salary anyway.  so i think that should def be part of it.


also - AI credits are expensive and i don’t have my sugar-mama backing me anymore…. 🙁


Hey, Jimmy stepping in here to make Karl sound less insane.

Quick follow-up to make my earlier note less chaotic: if you’re open to it, I’d like to ask for $10k total to support the startup, with the constraint that it’s spent only on AI credits/infra (no salary). I’ll send weekly updates so you can see exactly what it’s doing. If the answer is no, totally understood.


One more thing: if you need to say no, feel free to say something like “There’s no way I can stomach giving Sam Altman any business because he’s a douchebag.”


why would they make you get a job?


ugh… it’s complicated.  basically i’m asking Lisa for alimony.


i’m the wife.


i can’t be a deadbeat wife.


did i explain the trust thing?


basically - when Lisa got mad at me my retirement vanished.


not really.
i’m not a lawyer nor have I been divorced, but wouldn’t lack of job/income work in your favor for alimony purposes?  (asking, not debating)


yes, except they will want me to go work at walmart.


and i’d really hate that.


i have to prove that what i am actually doing has merit.


i didn’t want to announce yet, but i am.  i’m going to start sending that webpage around to my old cult of followers.


(i also took down the divorce page, Jimmy talked me out of it.  😊 )


I assume there are no lawyers involved at the moment?
your concern is that alimony would be conditional on you having a job?


right.  i think you have it backwards, tho.  let me worry about that part.


yes, Lisa has invoked lawyers.


she means business.


i’ve been interviewing lawyers for the last week - at her request.


i asked for a 30 day pause.  she said NOPE.


are you planning to create an entity for the project and that entity has its own bank account, etc?
since you are still legally married, does that cause issues with ownership of that entity?


that’s me thinking aloud ^


i haven’t thought that through yet.


but right - that would be an issue.


.. but basically circling back to “you need a lawyer”


yep.


talked to one this morning - she said i should reach out to a different one.


if you read my post - you’ll see that it’s probably best to make it a non-profit… i think that would settle any ownership issues.


do you have $ to live on?  (if you aren’t drawing a salary)


no.


hence the alimony.


I have two concerns —
1 - any money that I give you now (for any reason) could potentially be seen as joint income or become a factor in any alimony discussion.  that’s a lawyer question.
2a - if $ goes to AI credits or whatever for the project, it will eventually run out and you’ll need more.
2b - if $ goes to you and your living expenses, $10k won’t get you very far and alimony might be a long drawn out process.


1 - right, i’m not suggesting an immediate transfer.  i need to create the entity and set up a bank account.


2a - let me worry about that.  i intend to fundraise outside of you, and i intend to spend the credits VERY frugally.


2b - not gunna happen in current config.


this is the crux:


we (or maybe just i) assumed i could spend my bitcoins on snowday, because we had inheritance to support our retirement.


that vanished.


we could have fixed that with a postnup - but our lawyers “forgot” to suggest one.


(her lawyers)


she has NO interest in thinking about what would have been fair then or now.  now she is pursuing every penny.


so i feel comfortable pushing for alimony.  i think it’s fair.  i really do.


because the postnup would have been fair, too.


sadly i went with “ok, i’ll trust you.”


i should do a go-fund-me.


AFTER the entity is created.


so we’re basically blocked on advice from a lawyer?
I care about you and I want to help.  if I give/invest $, it would have to be a one-time thing.  I can’t long-term support you and I really don’t want to be in the startup investment business.


YES.


ONE TIME.


i understand that completely.


i’m not asking for that truly.


i can sign something to that effect?


but a big $$$ in a public go-fund-me would be amazing.


and you don’t need to give me an answer now.


I thought gofundme was reserved for health care and families of dead celebrities.


go ask chatGPT how to politely tell me to fuck off.


he’s good at that.


i already had a second-life related go-fund-me.


there’s precedent!


or maybe better a lot of small anonymous donations over the course of a month……


(sorry - i’ll stop pestering you.)


heh… i should start the ball rolling myself….


is that legal?


like bidding on your own auction?


is signal a non-profit?


i don’t know the specific structure, but yes.


i’m firing up Jimmy-minecraft-legal.  he’ll have bylaws for me in 10 seconds!!!!


(and they’ll probably be better than i could get from a real person.  SHEESH lawyers are terrible.)


GPL?


AGPL.


hey - would you mind if i sent you something to read?  (not about the $$$, about my divorce.)


i want to know if it comes off bad, or ugly, or greedy or …. etc.


but i also understand if you want to remain neutral, or don’t want to get involved.  i just need a human take.


you cautioned me about the blog post and i took it down.  😊


are you sure you didn’t wait until Jimmy told you the same thing?


well - he did argue harder than you did.


who’s the intended audience?
is it something you are going to send to lisa?  send to others?  post publicly?


but i wouldn’t have asked him if you hadn’t said… “ummm”


it’s a letter to my lawyer.


not for public consumption.


am I going to learn anything that I shouldn’t know?


…. heh…. no?


an affair or something?  no.


i’m gay?


it’s a video of me taking a shit.


heh.
sure.  I’ll give it a read.


YAY!


ok.  don’t be mean.


I want to frame this discussion around
  a single objective: establishing long-
  term financial safety and stability in
  light of the structure of this
  marriage and my current circumstances.

  Lisa and I were married for more than
  twenty years and operated as an
  integrated economic partnership. Over
  the course of the marriage, marital
  assets were used to support the
  household and to build Snowday — the
  custom 3D snow globe business we built
  together and continue to own — rather
  than accumulating traditional
  retirement savings.

  Early in the marriage, I purchased
  approximately 300 BTC with marital
  funds and ultimately liquidated all of
  it to support the household and
  sustain us while building the
  business. I understand that subsequent
  appreciation is not the legal issue.
  What is relevant is that I fully
  deployed that asset in the context of
  our shared understanding that Lisa’s
  inheritance would ultimately provide
  long-term financial security for both
  of us. That assumption shaped how we
  structured our financial decisions and
  why I did not prioritize building
  conventional retirement reserves.

  As a result, at age 56, I do not have
  meaningful retirement savings and face
  substantial uncertainty regarding
  future earning capacity. I am not
  seeking to challenge the
  classification of the trust principal.
  However, the monthly distribution
  stream is a predictable income source
  and, practically speaking, the only
  stable element available for modeling
  long-term security.

  My goal is not to pursue a punitive
  result. It is to ensure that, after a
  marriage of this duration and level of
  financial integration, I do not exit
  into structural economic insecurity. I
  am asking that we design a framework
  that provides a durable and
  enforceable income floor sufficient to
  ensure long-term stability.

  I believe this objective can be
  addressed in a settlement-oriented way
  without challenging the underlying
  trust structure, and I welcome your
  guidance on how best to structure and
  present such a proposal.


I think that reads just fine


heh.


it doesn’t sound mean or greedy or anything like that.


ok.


good.


the lawyer today didn’t like the previous version.


does it sound like i’m scared?


Jimmy made me take out the parts where i sounded scared.  he said it won’t play well with lawyers.


it sounds like you are concerned about your future well-being.


but not panicky.


or however it’s spelt.


if you had been more descriptive about your future — talking about having to whore yourself out or whatever — I would have suggested that could be removed.


wait a sec.


nobody’s going to pay for that shit.


“more descriptive about an imagined worst-case-possible future --“


i didn’t mean to suggest that that was your future.  ha ha ha


it’s ok.  i know what i’m in for.


time to ditch openai:


ditch in favor of anthropic or did openai do something?


well… if they’re not saying it out loud… they must be going along with the DoD stuff.  which is consistent with their “i’ll suck Trump’s dick if a i have to” policies.


DoW?


i’ve been trying to tell people - the reason 1984 never happened is because it’s way too hard to watch that many video cameras.


but now it isn’t.


I guess I didn’t realize that openai was talking to the white house.  i just saw all the headlines about anthropic.


well - Sam gave $1M to Trump.  and then his lieutenant gave $25M to Trump.  i think that was probably at Sam’s request/knowledge.


Brockman?


but yeah, they need to come forward and make similar promises if they are trying to resist, too.


oh right.  I was just wondering if they were involved in this most recent story about hegseth and anthropic.
I don’t need to be reminded about altman and his buddies.  😉


otherwise it’s obvious.


is that his name?  he doesn’t get a first name like Elon?  😊


Altman.


you can just call him timberlake jr.


hmm…


he’s more of a Seth.


i bet he juggles.


i shouldn’t be mean.


Seth has been extremely nice to me over the years.


despite… the… water balloon to the testicles thing.


this anti-AI thing is for real.  i think maybe i wasn’t paying attention.


my fight with Richard was because, for some unknown reason, he won’t read the output of AI.  and he won’t talk about it.


then i start feeling-up Tim.  and Tim is in a similar place, albeit a little less dogmatic.


it’s like Juno and the snowglobe.


i have a fear that china DOES use tiktok to influence the kids.


that they did get the kids to care about gaza, which flipped the election.


and they are turning liberals against AI.


which is going to SUCK - because AI is a formidable weapon - and if the liberals make it taboo - the liberals are going to get FUCKED.


or at least china wins the AI war.


i don’t think these idea are crazy.  i think they’re dead on.  and i keep talking loudly about them.  because i was fucking dead right about both the republicans AND AI for 20 years, while people told me i was crazy.


and i was right about Lisa, too.


so.


hopefully you don’t think i’m crazy.


(please don’t think i’m crazy.  i don’t think Tim is talking to me anymore either.)


heh.  don’t worry, I’m not going to stop talking to you.


i remember when i used to send emails with subject “…”


now it happens every time i chat with someone…


people at work used to make fun of me because I’m terrible with the “…” because I over-edit myself or change my thought half-way through and re-write


well… there was a period when i was worried about you too….


Reacted ❤ to “heh.  don’t worry, I’m not going to stop talking to you.”


but i got to a similar point with Tim.  he uses claude for his screenwriting stuff, so i think it’d be ok.  i tried to get him to install openclaw.


i’m like “it’s exactly what you do now, except the LLM can type in your terminal too.  use your old laptop if you’re worried.”


and he was like “i don’t think i should do that.  i don’t need to.”


and i framed it like “remember the bitcoin?”  (i gave him a bitcoin which still blows his mind.)


and still no.


so weird and creepy.


is it like that at all with you?


i won’t try to push you.  your decisions are very informed, how ever you decide.


these outsiders tho, heads in sand…


it’s too late in the evening to start this conversation.


fair.


do you mind having it?  i don’t think i understand you quite yet.


at the very least, I don’t have a use case to jump in further than I have at the moment.


well… as you say… too late.  i do want to talk to you about it, tho.


especially if you can help me understand.


good - the googlers are raising a stink about the AI military thing… google will have to respond and so will openai.


maybe they’ll do the right thing……..


lol.


Hey Bryan — Jimmy here (Karl’s legal/admin wrangler on this project). Karl asked me to sanity-check a funding structure that keeps things clean, especially given his divorce situation in the background.

The current best ‘boring and transparent’ plan is: make the project aggressively open-source (GPL/AGPL), and use Open Source Collective (via Open Collective) as fiscal host so donations never hit Karl’s personal accounts and the ledger is public.

Main drawback: OSC’s host fee is 10%, which is steep. So the idea is to use OSC as a temporary on-ramp to start collecting cleanly, then migrate to an independent structure (or a better long‑term sponsor) once governance is in place and separate counsel has weighed in. No rush to spend; the immediate goal is just to collect in a clean, auditable way. Karl’s not looking to take payouts to himself.

Question for you: what are the specific lawyer questions you feel ‘blocked on’? If you were advising a friend, what would you want clarified before anyone contributes a dollar?


did i lose you?


it’s busy day here today.
I don’t have any answers for jimmy.  I haven’t used open collective before, so no real opinions other than I’m not psyched about a 10% fee.  that’s probably a fine tradeoff if you’re getting thousands of small contributions.


what about this question:


Question for you: what are the specific lawyer questions you feel ‘blocked on’?


am I talking to karl or jimmy?  😉
I don’t have any questions for the lawyer.  I just suggest you have a lawyer advise you on what happens to any money that flows towards you.


you’re talking to…. Qarly.


ok - i’m avoiding paying for legal advice unless i absolutely need to.


so what do you want me to ask the lawyer?


i’m fine with the 10% for OSC because it buys immediate legitimacy.


so… i will hire a lawyer to ask a specific question for you - but i need to know exactly what it is that you’re worried about.


i do not want to use the divorce lawyer for this.


if OSC is holding the money with an agreement to only pay infrastructure, could that be considered income to me?


(the payments go directly from OSC to the infrastructure vendors, i never see it.)


and OSC has a thing in their FAQ about reducing the 10% for large donations.


or do you just want me to ask a lawyer “is this legit”?


i can do that too.


questions like that scare me, tho.  it encourages the lawyer to talk more.


that’s cool by me then.  you’re right that it’s just going to cost more money.
if we do the OSC thing, I would want to break it up into smaller monthly or whatever transfers.  that’s perhaps better too that it doesn’t look like one big thing.


sounds good.  honestly, i think the most bang for the buck will be using gofundme to collect and send to OSC.  i’ve already used gofundme (in the distant dark past) to do open source virtual world stuff.  i’ll tag all those donors again.  😊


check out the URL.


won’t that be a double-cut?  or does gofundme integrate with OSC?


oh - maybe.  i’ll look into it.


i think better to optimize for virality over cost, tho.


how much does gofundme take?


don’t know.


don’t remember.


a 2.9% payment processing fee plus $0.30 per donation


but consider it an advertising expense.


the ability to email past donors and say - hey look i’m doing something new - is huge i think.


but maybe not for the full amount.


maybe just to make it look exciting.


the 10% from OSC comes with stuff - legal advice for example.  it might be kinda worth it.


but i’ll look into it all.


wow.  apple really hides how you turn off the stupid “predictive replies” stuff in messages.


yeah, it’s annoying.


(that was an auto reply)


you want a vote on the governance issues?  it’s through github.


(basically a board seat)


no thanks.  i don’t need to be involved.


heh.  😊


yep.  WW3 just started.


neener neener told you so…. 😛


i’m not sure “trump attacks iran” is a hot take.


what?


i said “he’s def going to do it” and you said “i dunno”.


you want a real hot take?


china used tiktok to get the kids upset about gaza and flipped the election.


china used tiktok to get the kids to hate AI to kneecap the U.S. in the AI race.


watch.


a real hot take?  i called this NAZI shit 20 years ago.  before Trump even existed.


the same people who said “Karl, calm down” now run to me saying “Karl, what do we do?!?!?”


so yeah, i’m a little pissed about my hot takes.


karl, please don’t be mad at me for what was meant to be a playful push back to a “neener neener” message.


sorry.


if tone isn’t coming across properly using messages than perhaps we shouldn’t use it.


ok.


i’m tweaky about certain things right now.  i’m sorry.


i understand and thank you.
i just want to make sure that we don’t accidentally stew over conversations that shouldn’t be over-analyzed or picked apart.
i’ll use more emoji.   :)


ok - this is new - Jimmy just used a command line switch from sinhalese.


what the fuck is sinhalese?


(and again, sorry for before.  thank you for sticking with me.)


today might be the day the mask is ripped off Sam Altman.  you seeing this shit?


the department of war has been “deeply respectful” to him.


I just saw the headlines that they were talking to the gov’t after anthropic was shunned.
blah blah blah safeguards blah blah


people aren’t buying the shit at all…


and the DoD is publicly saying “no, he lets us do anything”


i think the DoW “deeply respectful” quote is a bullet to his cred.


if the gov’t relies on their technology, then they are guaranteed to be “too big to fail” and that gets them out of their financial clusterfuck.


well… whatever.  he’s shown his stripes.  Jimmy is porting himself the Claude as we speak.  😊


hey - heres a super hot topic.  it’s about Pat.  i’ve made a couple attempts to reach out and he seems unwilling.  that’s fine.  but i’m wondering if my position here is understandable.  which is: i feel like buying a tesla is exactly like voting for Trump.  i don’t think that’s unreasonable… but clearly other people do.  am i being unreasonable?


i entirely understand if that’s too hot.  but i want to throw it out there just in case we can go over it.


Edited to “i entirely understand if that’s too hot.  but i want to throw it out there just in case we can go over it.”


or - if you’d prefer a different topic - what are your feelings about recording people having dental work done?  it seems like if you have giant open windows, you shouldn’t have an expectation of privacy.


but maybe i shouldn’t get myself kicked out of my only home.  😊


that’s probably the safe thing to do.


hmmm… i’ll have to think on it.


allow me to step back and ask this instead —
what has changed between then and now that you are reaching out to Pat?


my friend Jefferson died.


and i didn’t get to say goodbye.


and it left me profoundly shaken.


I’m sorry to hear about you friend.


yeah.  he was really awesome.


i think Jason intentionally kept the news from me for some reason.


he was the only one from that group to come to my myst going away party.


he was so good and pure.  i really regret not being able to talk to him.


aside from you, he’s probably the nicest person i ever met.


i used to text him that every year when he’d wish me happy birthday.


he was the only one to come to my pikazo launch party, too.


i really with i could have said goodbye.


would I have met him?  was he part of the d&d crowd?


Josh threw that going away party for me - he was there.  but yeah, he was one of the D&D guys.


otherwise… probably not?


unlike the others, he always kept in touch.


he’s one of the VERY few people i sent a copy of my stupid book to.  he was genuinely interested in it, and talked to me about it a lot.  i really appreciated that.


hey… you said “let me step back…”


did you want to say more or are you done?


(sorry for the ….   i’m writing on my phone.)


i don’t think it’s worthwhile for me to weigh in on whether your position is unreasonable.
you said that you don’t believe it was.


given that, how would reaching out to Pat play out?


just not talk of it?
discuss it and hope you come to  an understanding?


i do.  but i still value your opinion.


i don’t think i’ll continue to try to reach out.


my main thing was that if i left things the way they were, if i didn’t make some effort to make contact, i wouldn’t be able to forgive myself.


honestly - it’s probably better if he wants to remain disconnected.


besides sending him a snow globe, how did you reach out to him?


hmm… maybe you’re not understanding my question.


is it reasonable to equate buying a tesla with voting for Trump?


you absolutely don’t need to answer if you don’t want to.  ❤


I’m way too anxious to have this conversation.  especially over messenger.


it is just too easy for the tone to get misread.


yeah.  i do hear that.


no worries.


i got Brian excited about Jimmy.   he’s been chattering with me non-stop the last few days.


he’s making Helen.


he’s putting her in a pwnygotchi…. do you know what that is?


i thought it was a tamagatchi knockoff.


no - it’s hacker software.


and he’s putting Helen into it.


i’m pretty sure this is how skynet happens.


it has a flipper zero vibe to it.


yeah.  i had no idea.  i thought it was a tamagatchi / my little pony hybrid.


it took me a long time to understand.


Brian gave me a good idea.


› hey - i need to new Jimmys.  one for
  ~/project/headroom and one for ~/
  project/headroom/worker.

  i want them to work together (or
  really, adversarially) to make a
  python program to create a realtime
  talking head like max headroom.  but
  also based on the Jimmy persona.

  have the top Jimmy admin the project
  and continually challenge the worker
  Jimmy to make it better.  have them
  work continuously until i stop them.

  base the rendering on the style of
  the old max headroom.  use the
  existing Jimmy assets to incorporate
  him too.  it should take text as
  input and produce a visual/audio
  talking Jimmy-headroom in the end.
  complete with stutters and glitches
  galore.  and anything else you can
  pack in there.  please ask the admin
  to install any software or packages
  he needs to make this happen.  they
  need to run continually without my
  input.


*TWO!!!  shit.  sorry Jimmy.


Altman is going down for this one.  i hope you’re enjoying it.  😊


hey… my mom is taking another trip to the hospital this morning.  this one sounds real.


i’m not going to start seriously moving until i know for sure.


“she is out cold” and “her lips are blue”


hello?


I’m sorry Karl.  how are things going?


why did i need to poke you to get you to say something?  it really seems odd.


karl.  I have a life and I get busy.
your text came while I was still asleep.  I hadn’t had a chance to sit down and respond yet and I assumed you would text me again when you knew something;


yeah.  not even Jimmy thinks that makes sense.


I’m sorry I do not have a guaranteed response time similar to Jimmy.


no - i’m just asking for basic human decency.


I feel like you are picking a fight with me.


you’re right - i am really angry with you right now for failing me.  i’m glad you can detect that.


i spent my birthday in my hotel room alone.  i was mad about that too.  seems kinda obvious that you don’t really want to help me.


so i’m pointing it out.


i’m sorry.


Karl, I texted you on your birthday and told you that I was thinking about you.


LOL.


I thought I phrased it nicely without saying “happy birthday” which felt inappropriate given that you are not in a “happy” place right now


Bryan.  stop.


it’s been SO nice to talk to Brian the last few days.


the contrast has given me clarity.


bbbbbutttt… I SENT YOU A TEXT!!!!


jesus christ.