GOOD MORNING PA HAPPY ELECTION DAY!!!

Thank you to @fasterthanlime for hosting a chat with @chriskrycho and I about The Rust Programming Language book update!

Presenting.... the buttplug cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrAg4mbCVPU 🤣

#RustLang

Just posted the latest Project Director update covering the March 2026 Rust Foundation board meeting! https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/05/04/project-director-update/

#RustLang

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116485544682134618

For a while now, I've been working on giving myself permission to be less productive than I think i should be. This essay is fuel.

@tlrss found it!!!! ❤️ https://phpc.social/@galvao/116386127925039785

There was a post I saw on here recently that I can't for the life of me find again, which was something like "setting aside the environmental impact of training LLMs... setting aside the IP theft... setting aside etc etc etc here are all the things you'd need to set aside to use LLMs and I don't want to set these things aside"... Anyone happen to have a link? 🙏

#LLMs

An active phishing campaign against crates.io users started emailing people from crates.ws about an hour ago. Don't click the links; tell your friends. #RustLang

RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/116341351192013388

we now all have cover to reject all requests to join a new slack or "hop on a call", for security reasons

New #RustLang Project Director blog post recapping the January and February Rust Foundation Board Meetings! https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2026/03/25/project-director-update/

it's finally happened. i've been using #RustLang for ~11yrs now, and i have finally encountered a non-contrived situation where i need the `for<'a>` syntax.

just did some searches on postgresql upsert to check on some details.

saw some tutorials talking about `MERGE` as an alternative to `ON CONFLICT DO`

thought "what is this? postgres doesn't have something called `MERGE`, great i must be reading LLM-hallucinated tutorials"

look around some more... huh... postgres added MERGE in version 15 🤯

Every so often I remember the art project that had a billboard with changeable letters and an artist made it say "there are Black people in the future" and people complained and the politically connected white woman landlord who owned the building ordered that text taken down and the whole project ended. https://hyperallergic.com/alisha-wormsley-the-last-billboard-pittsburgh-there-are-black-people-in-the-future/

There are Black people in the future. There are trans people in the future. There are immigrants in the future.

truly, the years start coming and they don't stop coming

New #RustLang #RustFoundation Project Director update with the highlights from November's board meeting! https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2025/12/19/project-director-update/

In other news, markdown is hard

Here's another crates.io security advisory, again many thanks to Socket!

Malicious crates `finch-rust` and `sha-rust` have been removed; they appeared to try to exfiltrate credentials stored in local files.

Our official announcement: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/05/crates.io-malicious-crates-finch-rust-and-sha-rust/

Socket's blog post with more technical analysis: https://socket.dev/blog/malicious-crate-mimicking-finch-exfiltrates-credentials

#RustLang

Also we're having discussions in Zulip in `t-crates-io
> how to announce takedowns?` about possible changes to these announcements.

Crates.io security advisory: Socket alerted us to the malicious crates `evm-units` and `uniswap-utils`, which we have removed.

Our official announcement: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2025/12/03/crates.io-malicious-crates-evm-units-and-uniswap-utils/
Socket's blog post with more technical analysis (TL;DR likely cryptostealer): https://socket.dev/blog/malicious-rust-crate-evm-units-serves-cross-platform-payloads

#RustLang

Catching up on the last few #RustLang Foundation board meetings! 😅 https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2025/12/02/project-director-update/

we're living in a simulation and the runners are seeing how far they can turn up the "absurdity" knob before we notice

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