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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I was able to temporarily pick up most of the consonant mappings and some vowel mappings and hold them in my head enough to have a couple conversations but it wasn't a skill I practiced

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

(if you know me or are on the rust team you can ask me in private about the Texas story; it's nothing security-relevant, just would be professionally indelicate to be extremely public about)

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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 · 31/08/2026

i think he's always had vibes of "grumpy conservative systems engineer" but not been like, anti-woke. and he's mellowed out on the grumpiness.

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

when he takes real flights and has a window seat does he ghost drive the plane the way musicians often will move their fingers to the tune while listening to music

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

feels like the core thing here is either one uses "private equity" to mean equity that is private (which is quite common and often innocuous or one uses it to mean, specifically, "PE firms", and one gets to talk about their bad playbook can't do both

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

NA+EU actually covers things pretty well we were just a little unlucky but yes, may make sense

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

I'm pretty pleased with how we did, considering the poor luck, though of course more redundancy would be nice.

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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...

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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 · 14/08/2026

I believe it was used as an example once when talking about this and it stuck

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

this makes sense and I'm still going to read it as pomegranate anchovy juice thank you

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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 · 20/07/2026

you're welcome! It's such a perfect movie

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

probably me: my recent blog post on scams references it heavily

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I don't? I didn't write that post. I think it's just a sophisticated targeted scam. It's easy for people to think that sophisticated scams are nation state attacks because they're so rare and expensive, but that's changing (see the blog post of mine that I quoted)

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

hahaha though I actually drafted this post a day before the Fable release, I was just waiting for review

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

oh I fully believed the future was here, I was just surprised about the very specific scam being real

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

zero but when I first got the email about this I was like "holy shit"

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

in the case of this recent scam we don't know for sure if the calls were deepfaked. hard to understand German accent is one way to mask deepfake artifacts though

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

My post actually referenced a scam in Hong Kong where an employee was duped by a deepfaked video call with higher ups. I think it's definitely been feasible for a while, though not necessarily very airtight.

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

and i didn't learn about this through finding the post on the internet i learned about this because the target of this scam reported it to the Rust Security Response team (which I am on). spooky email to get.

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

like, i did not expect sophisticated interview scams to already be a thing, they were just an example of something that *could* be a thing that would be good at catching tech-savvy people with their guard down. turns out they're real? or becoming real?

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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...

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Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

i actually finished the first draft of this post the day before Fable came out, I've been meaning to write this for months and Fable's timing was a complete coincidence

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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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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

i loved heaven's vault. Played it on the pc. The writing system alone was worth it, gameplay felt fine but not bad to me. Tunic also has a writing system though it's not central to the game. Still a very fun game with lots of puzzles.

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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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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

yeah i think this is what i said last time they were considering Hair Options

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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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