This is the instagram pic:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/seash...

According to the article, that pic the entire basis for the indictment and there's nothing else to it ...

Truly sad to see this. Both sides have unclean hands when it comes to lawfare.

In American college football there's all sorts of awards, and each year they put out "watch-lists" and silly press releases that get parroted on social media by any team that has their own player mentioned.

I've wanted to come up with my own for a while ...

I was thinking about bank clocks that show the temperature and time (perhaps a little more common when I was young). I thought about how nice it would be to put up my own electronic sign that provided information I would find handy and if anyone else would enjoy it. Weather, local events, etc.

Most of the signs around me aren't there to be of use, it's to advertise or at best push some information from someone who had a particular incentive (or even incentive to not show it in this case). I wonder if individuals might make better choices.

Granted, the classic mental illness car with signs all over it might indicate the downsides of letting just anyone do it.

They're all just value propositions. Is it worth my time and money? There ya go that's it.

It's not unlike the emotional drama I see each time Netflix raises prices (people get really upset about that), or video game discussion (the worst). If it's not worth the the value proposition, move on ... don't hang on / waste emotional cycles on Netflix or something like that ...

Granted I'm not a robot, I get the the emotional connection too, I think back to my early days in computing and I still fondly think of the now defunct manufacturer of my first PC, later the Windows 95 start me up commercials ... it was something magical.

Help me out here because I honestly don't know / must have a different workflow.

Are other people being impacted every day by github outages?

What does that look like?

I'm not saying the writer is wrong, I'm just wondering how folks who experience this every day work / how that exposure plays out / what it is.

prs not being visible because search is down, various ui elements not loading, pushes failing, merges failing, gha runs that fail with random errors or take forever to schedule

i literally do not recall the last day that passed without someone on my team noticing that some portion of gh was degraded.

I've been impacted once: An action that failed to start (a PR check), then the merge button on that PR having no effect. Thankfully there was no urgency. It's a bit distressing because GitHub is kinda the engineering hub of the companies. We do have copies of the codebase on our computers and can launch build from there, but we have a process for a reason, and bypassing it is hacky.

>The FCC said the review stemmed from a yearlong investigation of Disney’s diversity, equity and inclusion practices. But a source with knowledge of the matter said it got fast-tracked after ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel made a controversial joke about first lady Melania Trump.

The term "snowflake" is / was heavily used online by folks on the right, but man this administration are the kings of that term.

Heck if they do tell you, ICE swaps plates and tries to hide in various ways.

The evidence could be just some regular looking vehicle you can't find anything about and it's just "trust me bro those were feds" and you're out of luck.

I've certainly worked places where people pulled that stunt and then got moved into ... management.

I noped out of those places fast.

Reddit is slowly dying for me for that reason. So many bot / bot like accounts that seem ... off / hidden histories. Trust level with any given comment or post now is reaching 0 fast.

It's a bummer because it's hitting a lot of users and even valid users who don't communicate good are getting hit hard too with skeptical responses.

Yep, allowing users to hide history has made it straightforward for bots to exist unchallenged.

Previously a quick scan of comment history would make it obvious you're looking at an LLM, now you're stuck arguing over a one off comment where they can get away with benefit of the doubt.

The irony of Reddit's early days was that it was bootstrapped with fake accounts run by the founder.

Reddit has always been fake, but it used to be a real person performing creative writing pretending to be a true story. Now it's spammed out slop at scale.