Samuel Karp
@samuelkarp.com
Anti fascist. Chair of the Open Container Initiative TOB. Staff Software Engineer @ Google. Opinions = mine.
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Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law.
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NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Kennedy Center adds Trump’s name to building
The signage change follows a vote by the board of trustees to rename the performing arts complex the Trump Kennedy Center.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Yes, it’s illegal. Like changing it to Department of War, like ten thousand other things. Part of the Trump strategy is to break the law and convey “the rule of law is weak and feminine and laughable and should be overridden by Our Guy.” Trump is fundamentally anti-law.
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It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
December 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s the first night of Hanukkah and the world seems like a very dark place. But we can bring light to the darkness. We can fight for each other and make goodness, love, and community shine through.
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
Show me your menorahs and let’s light up the timeline!
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I built myself a flight tracker that shows airplanes on an old cash register display!
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/12...
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/12...
December 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I built myself a flight tracker that shows airplanes on an old cash register display!
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/12...
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/12...
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Their Christian morals are right there: the unsaved are doomed, the godless get their justly deserved punishment. And if they are saved, they will meet their reward in heaven after the administration kills them.
December 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Their Christian morals are right there: the unsaved are doomed, the godless get their justly deserved punishment. And if they are saved, they will meet their reward in heaven after the administration kills them.
I built myself a flight tracker that shows airplanes on an old cash register display!
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/12...
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/12...
December 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I built myself a flight tracker that shows airplanes on an old cash register display!
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/12...
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/12...
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Christians I beg you please stop naming your organizations Hebrew words
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Christians I beg you please stop naming your organizations Hebrew words
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
like, you have a whole tradition & language(s) & religious culture that's your own
our traditions broke up a long time ago
you have a lane? This is not it?
and it's v confusing for me personally when I click on stuff, ok
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The #WestCoastHealthAlliance continues to strongly recommend vaccines to protect our children, noting that rigorous research of millions of people in multiple countries over decades provides high quality evidence that vaccines are not linked to #autism. (1/
November 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
The #WestCoastHealthAlliance continues to strongly recommend vaccines to protect our children, noting that rigorous research of millions of people in multiple countries over decades provides high quality evidence that vaccines are not linked to #autism. (1/
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As we head toward the holiday season, I'd like to remind everyone that jokes are optional at family gatherings. A family can have a perfectly lovely gathering in which no one teases any other member of the family.
Someone's reaction to a joke that hurts them isn't what "ruins" the gathering.
Someone's reaction to a joke that hurts them isn't what "ruins" the gathering.
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
As we head toward the holiday season, I'd like to remind everyone that jokes are optional at family gatherings. A family can have a perfectly lovely gathering in which no one teases any other member of the family.
Someone's reaction to a joke that hurts them isn't what "ruins" the gathering.
Someone's reaction to a joke that hurts them isn't what "ruins" the gathering.
runj no longer depends on jail(8) and directly makes syscalls to set up the jail! I learned about some interesting quirks of the jail syscalls while doing this porting work and wrote it up:
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/11...
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/11...
When a Stranger Syscalls: Quirks of jail(2)
runj is an OCI runtime for FreeBSD jails. Until recently, it relied on the jail(8) command to actually set up and manage the jail in the FreeBSD kernel. It had been a to-do item on my list for a long ...
samuel.karp.dev
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
runj no longer depends on jail(8) and directly makes syscalls to set up the jail! I learned about some interesting quirks of the jail syscalls while doing this porting work and wrote it up:
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/11...
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/11...
runj 0.2.0 is out, now with the OCI Runtime Spec 1.3.0! This release officially models jails and represents a significant step toward bridging FreeBSD jails with the container ecosystem.
Also, runj could use some additional contributors 😀
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/11...
Also, runj could use some additional contributors 😀
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/11...
runj 0.2.0 adopts new OCI Runtime Spec 1.3.0 with FreeBSD support
runj 0.2.0 now supports the new OCI Runtime Spec 1.3.0, which includes official FreeBSD support!
samuel.karp.dev
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 AM
runj 0.2.0 is out, now with the OCI Runtime Spec 1.3.0! This release officially models jails and represents a significant step toward bridging FreeBSD jails with the container ecosystem.
Also, runj could use some additional contributors 😀
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/11...
Also, runj could use some additional contributors 😀
samuel.karp.dev/blog/2025/11...
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New Jersey!
Virginia!
Virginia!
a close up of a man 's face with the word woo written below him
Alt: Nick Cage saying woo !
media.tenor.com
November 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
New Jersey!
Virginia!
Virginia!
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So the first in a generation. The first since the last of the Dixiecrats retired/died
HUGE WIN: @peterhubbardga.bsky.social and Alicia Johnson will help lower Georgians’ utility costs and become the first non-federal statewide elected Democrats in nearly twenty years.
November 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
So the first in a generation. The first since the last of the Dixiecrats retired/died
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BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.
Pennsylvania voters retain three state Supreme Court justices, preserving Democrats' 5-2 majority
NBC News projects the incumbents survived an up-or-down vote to keep their seats on the battleground state’s high court.
nbcnews.to
November 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.
And now FreeBSD jails are standardized into the OCI Runtime Specification!
freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd...
freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd...
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
And now FreeBSD jails are standardized into the OCI Runtime Specification!
freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd...
freebsdfoundation.org/blog/freebsd...
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genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree
mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible
He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
November 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree
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They don't have an answer, because they don't ask the question.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
They don't have an answer, because they don't ask the question.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
It is 2025. If you are a Democratic Party operative in 2025 and you aren't even looking into media ownership and propaganda effects, then you are either a conman or a mark.
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(6) This idea that democrats should abandon trans people and immigrants and climate change (in 2025!) is just unconscionably dumb.
Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.
Try standing for something. See how it feels.
Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.
Try standing for something. See how it feels.
October 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
(6) This idea that democrats should abandon trans people and immigrants and climate change (in 2025!) is just unconscionably dumb.
Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.
Try standing for something. See how it feels.
Declaring “I’m focused on prescription drug prices” sounds like pandering because it IS pandering. Everyone can tell.
Try standing for something. See how it feels.
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Great explainer as to why the Shoah is so specifically associated with Jews, even as millions of others were targeted and murdered.
Antisemitism isn't the belief that Jews are evil. It's the belief that evil is Jewish - every evil in your midst goes back to the Jews and evil must be rooted out.
Antisemitism isn't the belief that Jews are evil. It's the belief that evil is Jewish - every evil in your midst goes back to the Jews and evil must be rooted out.
Yes. Unfortunately a lot of people ask that question not in good faith.
The answer is that the Nazis killed a lot of people but specifically targeted Jews and Roma for immediate and organized murder. Lots of Slavs were murdered but in a much more haphazard way.
The answer is that the Nazis killed a lot of people but specifically targeted Jews and Roma for immediate and organized murder. Lots of Slavs were murdered but in a much more haphazard way.
October 29, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Great explainer as to why the Shoah is so specifically associated with Jews, even as millions of others were targeted and murdered.
Antisemitism isn't the belief that Jews are evil. It's the belief that evil is Jewish - every evil in your midst goes back to the Jews and evil must be rooted out.
Antisemitism isn't the belief that Jews are evil. It's the belief that evil is Jewish - every evil in your midst goes back to the Jews and evil must be rooted out.
The FreeBSD extensions got merged into the OCI Runtime Spec today! This is another step on the way to bringing the container ecosystem to FreeBSD. runj will add support for this soon (most of the work is already done): github.com/opencontaine...
Add FreeBSD as a platform by dfr · Pull Request #1286 · opencontainers/runtime-spec
This uses FreeBSD jails to implement container isolation.
github.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The FreeBSD extensions got merged into the OCI Runtime Spec today! This is another step on the way to bringing the container ecosystem to FreeBSD. runj will add support for this soon (most of the work is already done): github.com/opencontaine...
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Here is a corrected version of it. It should have any and all typos taken care of - but feel free to point out any! I want this to be squared away before I make any prints! Thanks, #JewSky for your enthusiasm!
October 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Here is a corrected version of it. It should have any and all typos taken care of - but feel free to point out any! I want this to be squared away before I make any prints! Thanks, #JewSky for your enthusiasm!
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I know folks have been talking about this for a few days now, but I just want to emphasize: the next D POTUS needs to demolish everything Trump erects
Blot it all out
Blot it all out
NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.
(📸 Getty Images)
(📸 Getty Images)
October 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I know folks have been talking about this for a few days now, but I just want to emphasize: the next D POTUS needs to demolish everything Trump erects
Blot it all out
Blot it all out
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Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?
You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?
Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?
You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?
Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Oh it’s not appropriate for your program to air the president wearing a crown and shitting on American citizens?
You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?
Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?
You’ll talk about it in euphemisms? Maybe call it the “crown video” and ignore the shitting part? Because that’s appropriate?
Tell me, was it appropriate for the president to do it?
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The Governor has signed S.B. 524–now police departments in California are at a crossroads. They can retain AI-written police report drafts themselves. Axon can change their product to make it lawful. Or police can drop Axon’s Draft One product. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Victory! California Requires Transparency for AI Police Reports
California Governor Newsom has signed SB 524, making California the second state to take an important first step toward regulating AI police reports.
www.eff.org
October 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Governor has signed S.B. 524–now police departments in California are at a crossroads. They can retain AI-written police report drafts themselves. Axon can change their product to make it lawful. Or police can drop Axon’s Draft One product. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...