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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · last wk.

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

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · last wk.

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

Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 2w ago

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

lexa (disambiguation)@qex.at · 2w ago

french if it had a compiler

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

Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · last mo.

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...

Anatomy of a Failed (Nation-State?) Attack

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Manish@manishearth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote about how I expect LLMs to change the world of scams, and how you might protect yourself manishearth.github.io/blog/2026/06...

Jeff Waugh @jeffwaugh.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“We are now in a world where scams can be run in a `for` loop.” – @manishearth.bsky.social manishearth.github.io/blog/2026/06...

The future of the con is already here, it's just not evenly distributed

The Set-Up Johnny Hooker: Sometime after 2:00, a guy’s gonna call on that phone there and give you the name of a horse. Imagine yourself, perhaps a typically-well-paid, tech-savvy professional, on …

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Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote about how I expect LLMs to change the world of scams, and how you might protect yourself manishearth.github.io/blog/2026/06...

The future of the con is already here, it's just not evenly distributed

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I remain of the view that regulation of social media is better than a ban for young people. But I also pretty much agree with all these proposals.

Ban continuous scroll. Appears to one of the most addictive features with no downside in banning it.
Require a 20s delay before playing any video. Would make essentially no difference to watching TV episodes or films, but would effectively nuke short-form video.8
Require all platforms to have the default feed

as people you follow, in chronological order. Reduces algorithmic effects.
Any platform that uses an algorithm more complex than ‘people you follow in chronological order’ to be treated as a publisher, and held to account for content. As above, but more robustly.
Require users to use real names. Much of the worst content is produced by anons; it would also make it easier to hold people to account for things that are banned in real life, such as libel or incitement to violence.
Require all platforms to provide a suite of user tools. This might include hard blocks, ability to detag yourself or restrict ‘quote tweets’, and community notes.

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Molly Ploofkins@mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Workers dumping hydrogen peroxide into the Reflecting Pool this morning

Shane Carr @sffc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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!

Manish@manishearth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Finally wrote my blog post about Diplomat I should have written this ages ago, but better late than never manishearth.github.io/blog/2026/06...

Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Finally wrote my blog post about Diplomat I should have written this ages ago, but better late than never manishearth.github.io/blog/2026/06...

Diplomat: Multi-language FFI for Rust libraries

This is a post I’ve been meaning to write and publish for years, and only recently got around to doing it. I’m hoping to get back into writing more! For the past few years, as a part of my work on …

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Solly @directxman12.dev · 2mo ago

[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…

eliza🌻@elizas.website · 2mo ago

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"

Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 2mo ago

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

Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 2mo ago

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

Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 2mo ago

More people have read the tweet about this shirt than I have www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Mo...

"More people have read the text on this shirt than I have (White text)" Essential T-Shirt for Sale by Lingthusiasm

Wait, what? This wearable/portable version of the classic comparative illusion sentence "More people have been to Russia than I have" is sure to make people give you a double-take. • Millions of uniqu...

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Elizabeth Bear@matociquala.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here's @johnchu.bsky.social rocking the most commented- upon t-shirt of the Pittsburgh Book Festival, which he tells me is @lingthusiasm.com merch. ( @scalzi.com had a great one too but I missed taking a photo.)

John Chu, a buff Asian man with glasses, sitting in a booth in a black t- shirt that reads "More people have read the text on this shirt than I have."

Michael LaFrance @mlafrance.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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

Micah @rincewind.run · 3mo ago

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.

Micah@rincewind.run · 3mo ago

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures ‘“Did I hear things, or can that little dog speak?” said Dibbler. “He says he can’t,” said Victor. Dibbler hesitated. The excitement was unhinging him a little. “Well,” he said, “I suppose he should know.”’

that’s “mr bitch” to you @myrrlyn.net · 3mo ago

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

Kate @katef.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

Lucretiel @lucretiel.me · 5mo ago

“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

Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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

【10 HOURS】 Leek Spin

YouTube video by 10 Hour Archive

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Solly@directxman12.dev · 4mo ago

behold, a passover gift (a passover leek) from @facilitatrix.bsky.social

a perfectly normal stuff leek... stuffed with carbon fiber, metal weights, and kenesio tape.

for... reasons

RM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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 …

mcc @dryad.technology · 4mo ago

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

sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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...

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 · last yr.

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

Manish @manishearth.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I think I disproved charge conservation

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

Gro-Tsen @gro-tsen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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

hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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

Rev. Halcyon Daze @facilitatrix.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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.