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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

life on the Rust security response team: fuck north korea fuck north korea fuck north korea fuck texas fuck north korea fuck north korea (or was it russia) fuck north korea

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

speaking french with the guy at the dép and slowly realizing that I chose what is likely to be the third best language for the two of us to communicate in (his accent from when he switched to english later was clearly that of a hindi speaker)

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"A lot of what Rust is good at is shifting the cognitive load from [other parts of the system] to the developer" -- @bcantrill.bsky.social

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I still think this is the most serious actual xrisk style issue in the AI space, and that nothing else comes remotely close for second place.

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

traumatizing francophones by telling them a common german word for fries is "pommes" pronounced like "pumice"

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Matt is Just Trying His Best @thegrampus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Whoever decided to promote Coyote vs Acme by letting Wile E do an AMA using only signs deserves all the praise.

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

an additional thing I didn't include in the post: of the six people who participated in the response, one was paged awake in the middle of the night, one was on leave, one was pretty sick and tired, and it was 3am for me 🙃🙃 (I wasn't paged but I was about to go to bed at 1 when I saw the emails)

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 20/08/2026

⚠️ A few hours ago, a malicious crate was discovered on crates.io which spread as a dependency of `arrayref` and some other crates, likely due to compromised credentials. The affected versions have been deleted. For details and how to see if you are impacted, see: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/s...

blog.rust-lang.org

Supply chain attack on arrayref | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

step aside, mayo pete it's time for 美兒 zohran

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

the Czech word for oranges makes it sound like the alt universe version of Clamato

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

the thing about the argument that it would be colonialism to admit Puerto Rico as a state is that i can feel my brain trying to ju-jitsu me into believing that it would somehow be woke to deny the poorest part of the country representation because they speak Spanish

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

being in Prague gives me the opposite experience of visiting old buildings because usually the epigraphy gets less comprehensible to me as it gets older, but it's the other way around because you start to see more Latin

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Clarisse @qex.at · 23/07/2026

french if it had a compiler

error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> /messages/10378318/80554717
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1 | je suis aller à Paris
| ---- ^^^^^ expected past participle, got infinitive
| |
| because of this auxiliary verb
help: replace with: `allée`
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1 | je suis allée à Paris
| -- ^^^^^ feminine past participle
| |
| this refers to a person with feminine pronouns

For more information about this error, try `frenchc --explain E0308`.
error: aborting due to 1 previous error

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

i can't believe something similar to the scam **i made up as an example for this post** just happened this week grack.com/blog/2026/06...

grack.com

Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Your periodic reminder that people are *more* abusive online when they're using their "real names" than when they're using a persistent pseudonym and this effect has been replicated in literally every study that has ever been done

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

QIN SHI HUANG: have you considered filling the pool with mercury instead

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Shane Carr @sffc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We started the Diplomat Rust FFI project as a way to scale ICU4X (a Rust library) to many target languages. Since then, multiple other clients have discovered Diplomat, and through the magic of open source, we have new targets including Kotlin and Python. You should consider using Diplomat, too!

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Solly @directxman12.dev · 08/06/2026

[tw antisemitism] it kinda feels like some ppl's (extremely gross) mental framework is roughly "there are 2 types of ppl: those who are From A Land & therefore Good & Noble, vs The Perfidious Wanderer, Rootless Cosmopolitan, [parentheses increasing]" save that they've somehow mentally disconnected…

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eliza🌻 @elizas.website · 04/06/2026

sentences i said at work today: "knowing that you are a collector of computer parts that might, or might not, work, here are some more computer parts that might, or might not, work"

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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 03/06/2026

pride month seems like the wrong time to be putting all of this focus on a strait, i'm just saying

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 31/05/2026

Tagging @manishearth.bsky.social who was the one who requested it! Just to be sure, I assume @scalzi.com was wearing a different delightful shirt, not a different Lingthusiasm shirt? Double the sf author shirtfest would probably be too much for me to handle haha

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Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/05/2026

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

“You mean . . . I could choose certain death?”

“A choice, nevertheless,” said Vetinari. “Or, perhaps, an alternative. You see, I believe in freedom, Mr. Lipwig. Not many people do, although they will, of course, protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be completely without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based. Now . . . will you take the job? No one will recognize you, I am sure. No one ever recognizes you, it would appear.”

Moist shrugged. “Oh, all right. Of course, I accept as natural-born criminal, habitual liar, fraudster, and totally untrustworthy perverted genius.”

“Capital! Welcome to government service!” said Lord Vetinari, extending his hand.

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DEI Speedwagon @myrrlyn.net · 10/05/2026

several years ago @manishearth.bsky.social permanently damaged my comprehension of christian theology by having me read the Borges story “three version of judas” anyway donald trump is our modern judas iscariot

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Kate @katef.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

the delivery guy said (quote) stupid fucking bullshit bastard ridiculous system fucking bullshit stupid outfit as he handed over the package

good evening. this is an awkward photo of me holding an extremely long cardboard tube in one hand. distantly, at the other end, there's a hint of a postage label visible. foreshortened, it is difficult to judge scale here. the tube is much longer than one might expect to be deliverable through the postal system. i have included some things nearby that annette knows the scale of; an extremely large ikea lamp, and a large doorway, and some art. the ceilings in this room are way higher than one might expect from a ceiling. although that's difficult to tell from a photo at this angle. i can easily poke them with this tube

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Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 15/03/2026

“Imagine how good it could be if all the hype is real!” Bro you don’t have to tell me that, that has been my line trying to convince you for half a decade to switch to a programming language that makes half your bugs just evaporate overnight. 7/7

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

q: is this kosher for passover a: not if it's Ieavaned www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EYg...

youtube.com

【10 HOURS】 Leek Spin

YouTube video by 10 Hour Archive

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RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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mcc @dryad.technology · 30/03/2026

Me: *Types "noosphere"* Google GBoard: *Autocorrects to "biosphere"* Me: *Deletes, types "noosphere"* Google GBoard: *Again autocorrects to "biosphere"* Wait, hold on. Is this literally gnosticism. Is GBoard the demiurge

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

think I convinced family friends living in Orinda suburbs to support the transit measure by saying 1) it'll affect their property value (that got their ears perked lol) 2) station closures are best case endpoint of a large gradient of possibilities if measure fails missionlocal.org/2026/03/bart...

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BART: The worst-case scenarios are actually worse than you’ve heard

If voters spurn a November revenue measure, the biggest question isn't what stations BART may close. It's if BART will continue to exist, full-stop.

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kobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

we've all fucked up, but probably not as bad as when Tvaṣṭṛ was trying to wish his son, the serpent Vṛtra, to be the killer of Indra tatpuruṣa compound: indra-śatrú but while chanting the mantra he got the tone wrong and instead made Vṛtra one whose killer is Indra bahuvrīhi compound: índra-śatru

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I think I disproved charge conservation

a feynman diagram crossing the international date line, showing an electron disappear for a small period of time

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Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

(The higher you go in dimension, the more kiki the 1-norm and ∞-norm become, whereas the 2-norm remains unquestionably bouba.)

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

guys if you're trusting unsourced polymarket 'breaking news' paraphrases of weeks-old interview statements just because they tee up a nice quote-tweet dunk then I regret to inform you but you're not gonna make it

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 01/03/2026

I feel like someone has already thought of this, but I am constantly plagued by the thought of doing an (appropriately Lady Gaga-inspired) burlesque act where Jorge Luis Borges is tied to a chair and menaced by three cunty depictions of Judas.

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 01/03/2026

Thank you to everyone who visited Lively Manor last night! I hope this won’t be the last time we see these characters or this setting.

An ominous crystal ball glows red and illuminates the enormous (fake) ruby perched on a seance table

Character information envelopes, decorated with wax seals and pressed flowers. There are postcards featuring vintage magic acts paper clipped to them

A map of San Francisco, framed with photo prints from the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition

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fern k hahn @fernkhahn.com · 01/02/2026

happy rectangular february, sunday-first world.

Sunday-first calendar of February 2026, neatly occupying four rows from Sunday the 1st to Saturday the 28th.

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austin @aparker.io · 01/03/2026

curious borges

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I love writing safety comments

some rust code with the comment "my petard can wait"

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 23/02/2026

This meant that @elizas.website and @hikikomorphism.bsky.social had an extended conversation describing debugging coding projects entirely in terms of a demon summoning that went wrong. The meaning of life is finding friends willing to commit to the bit.

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B-Side @benmsmith.com · 23/02/2026

it is incredibly instructive that the product is called an "Edible Arrangement" and not a "Delicious Arrangement"

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Rev. Hal-loween Daze 🎃 @facilitatrix.babalon.io · 23/02/2026

@manishearth.bsky.social made a Passion(fruit) of the Christ when we watched Assassin 33AD last Easter, and I’m trying to remember what melon we hollowed out for the tomb.

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

for future plausible deniability reasons it's important to often text your friends things like "i am so hype for murder"

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

given the existence of skeleton and luge, i postulate the existence of two other, yet to be discovered, winter olympic sports

four stick figures on sleds, one is sliding face first, face down, marked "skeleton", diagonally opposite to it is one sliding feet first, face up, marked "luge". The other two combinations are drawn and labeled with question marks

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Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

In Japanese, you address elder men as OG-chan and i think that's beautiful

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