Kevin Joseph

this needs to be hammered into the skulls of every elite individual and institution

on every measure - reputationally, financially, morally - you come out better if you fight the guy

stand up! it’s the right thing to do and better for you in every way! how often does that happen?

It’s extremely disheartening. I try convincing myself that most of it is just a really vocal online minority. But nowadays I wonder if I may have underestimated how many people actually hold such views.

Glad to hear that everyone is okay!

It's so funny how these guys say "import the third world, become the third world" and then their own policy preferences end up converging with the taliban

As much as it FUCKING SUCKED to write this blog post, the fact that through sheer determination of refusing to let some people bully the discussion in the direction they wanted to ended up making a real difference is the one thing that makes me think Engineers are redeemable.

This exact same logic applies to vaccines too, and untrained lay people ought not have any say in public policy there either. It's a real pathology in American culture that people have unreasonably high opinions of themselves

Thank you, looking forward to going through this.

Will the recording be uploaded?

The book Building a Debugger, featuring a robot designing a complex debugging machine on a drafting board

The book placed in front of a tortie cat

Building a Debugger is now officially released!

It guides you through building a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes.

Even if you don't care about building a debugger, you can read it to your cat.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

No one experiencing the tragedy of a miscarriage should be arrested, much less abandoned in jail for 5 months with a $100k bond. But that’s exactly what happened to Mallori Patrice Strait in Texas. Women, particularly women of color, in this country are no longer allowed dignity even in extreme loss

Personality cult authoritarianism

What was original post about?

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

A patchwork of Clang patches #cpp

cor3ntin.github.io/posts/clang21/

Just got my copy of Building a Debugger by @tartanllama.xyz, can’t wait to dive in.

times home page with arrow pointing to story about protests a few screen loads down.

Yesterday, 1,400 protests were held to protest the Trump whose headlines fill this page. But to the #BrokenTimes this morning, they are a buried BTW. It has plenty of photos; none here. This is what they call "news judgment." To the Times, we are not news.

Even among the darkest recesses of the human condition, there is no more paralyzing, bladder-loosening fear than conservative men’s fear of subways.

MASSIVE NEWS from progressive independent media. in Q1 2025 left wing YouTube grew far more quickly than right wing YouTube. Among independent channels, top left channels grew 33% faster than right wing channels from Jan-Mar. This is HUGE!

chef’s kiss

ChatGPT observing that the new tariff regime is "economically incoherent and diplomatically reckless"

let ChatGPT cook

I've decided to levy a tariff against Costco. I've bought thousands of dollars of stuff from there over the years, but they've never bought a single thing from me!

From now on, I will be paying an additional 40%. That money will be going straight in the toilet until Costco gets their act together.

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

BTW, DOGE wants to end this program, created by USDS. They say there aren't enough users. Let's prove DOGE wrong it's a great program that simplified filing your taxes

This can’t be real! 😅

YouTube video by Jabari Jones Flunky Trump: Peak Ridiculous

youtu.be/q2hi0MyBcLo?...

RollingStone Reports that Donald Trump's top national security officials accidentally shared their Yemen attack plans with The Atlantic in real-time drove the news in official Washington in recent days. But it wasn't the only damaging leak of information held by the administration this week. Two Trump administration spreadsheets - which each include what numerous advocates and government officials say is highly sensitive information on programs funded by the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) - were sent to Congress and also leaked online.

This is what happens when you put amateurs in charge of real business and hire based on loyalty instead of competence.

Mistakes that put lived in danger and leaking like sieve.

Competent folks would be deeply embarrassed and would learn, it won’t happen here.

it boggles my mind

"sure maybe my president planned a coup to overthrow the government based on one of his many lies, and is now deporting permanent residents without due process-

...but you have to consider, a lady on the internet was a little too woke for me and that's where I draw the line"

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).