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...

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

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...

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

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

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!

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...

[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…

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"

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

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

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

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

Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal

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

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

“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

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

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."

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

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...

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

I think I disproved charge conservation

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

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

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.

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.

happy rectangular february, sunday-first world.

curious borges

I love writing safety comments

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.

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

@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.

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

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

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

By many metrics the new Temporal date-time API is the single biggest change to JS ever 🔥 Like Kiesel, V8 chose to reuse Boa's open source Rust-based temporal_rs by @jason-williams.co.uk from TechAtBloomberg, Kevin Ness & Manish 👍 boajs.dev/blog/2025/09...

ECMAScript excitement 😉 🚨🚨🚨 IT'S ABOUT TIME! 🚨🚨🚨 Congrats to @manishearth.bsky.social on shipping the Temporal API in Chrome 144 stable today 🎉 developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-... Temporal is the replacement for the Date API.

given how common the "you're the sole survivor of a spaceship crash on a hostile planet" story is in factory games, someone should make a reverse-factory game where you play as an alien tracking down and destroying colonizers who fall out of the sky and try to turn your planet into green tech cards

a 100% accurate digitized map of the entire world, call that BorGIS

"while sexy christmas outfits are often characterized by exposure of skin, similarly structured clothing is not well adapted channukah due to the amount of frying involved. high-coverage clothing, such as latex, presents a better opportunity. in this paper i will...""

lol I love "we have a time limit because our students are self-detrimentally too tryhard"

At my weirdo tiny "SLAC but every major is STEM" undergrad it was pretty common for exams to be "you have 24h from whenever you open it to finish it" or similar, and I realize that's a lot easier at a tiny school but imo fundamentally it's the right model for most things

it's hard but I also feel that in many cases the solution lies in making the "accomodation" no longer an "accomodation" and just something available to everyone, or entirely obviated by the system *especially* in education where most of these things are about bad proxies anyway

if you do not think that your multiple ton hunk of metal which you are flinging down the highway at sixty miles per hour will eventually kill someone you are not qualified to work on any such thing

if you want your religious gear to be tactical you should just convert to sikhism instead of doing whatever this is

Take Trevor Moore's advice youtu.be/KivCRqfFcqY?...

i do want to point out that this does challenge the ironclad conventional wisdom that no one gives a shit about democracy

lol @hikikomorphism.bsky.social just described Ea-Nāṡir as "CMOT Dibbler (Assyrian Edition)"