This is a copy of the famous Boston Massacre image printed during the American Revolution, except the Red Coats have been replaced with ICE agents

So when I say we should call what's happening in Minnesota the #MinnesotaMassacre, it's not because DHS or the White House agrees with us; it's specifically because they don't. We need to rally people against what is happening so that we can stop it #minneapolis #minnesota #rennegood #abolishICE 3/3

The revolutionaries used these images and the narrative of the massacre as a propaganda campaign to rally colonists against the crown. It was a brilliant and effective way to get the public on their side #propaganda #politics #americanrevolution (2/3)

This is the famous image used to depict the Boston Massacre during the American revolution. It depicts a group of British soldiers (Red Coats) on the right firing their guns into a crowd of unarmed civilians on the left. The Red Coats are engulfed in smoke from their muskets, partially obscuring the Boston city center in the backdrop.

It wasn't called the Boston Massacre because everyone unanimously agreed that should be the name or that the events occured as the revolutionaries said they had. The Crown supported the Red Coats, as did the Loyalists #history #americanhistory #bostonmassacre (1/3)

Might wanna rotate IP addresses too in case they get wise. Really obfuscate your tracks

This video got a community guidelines strike on TikTok. They don't want you to know the truth.

A stray black cat on my front porch eating wet food from a paper plate with some cat treats scattered about

Every single year for the last 5 years, I've ended up finding a stray cat. It has happened again. Say hello to Chungus (my husband picked the name).

Taking him to the vet in the morning to check for microchip.

The cognitive dissonance that must exist for lawmakers to pass work requirements that they themselves do not meet.
Millions of people are about to be kicked off #medicaid by the #BigBeautifulBill for "working too little" by lawmakers who work less than they do.

Congressional work requirements when?

Shoulda sponsored Markiplier when they had the chance 🤷

Also, while posting random theories, I suspect this is also why Apple hasn't made a foldable phone yet. An iPhone that folds out into an iPad cannibalizes that category. If they do finally release one, you'll know they're de-prioritizing iPads.

I suspect it won't be long before we see some device that bridges the gap between MacBook and iPad. Either an iPad that runs full MacOS or a 2-in-1 MacBook with support for all the iPad features. I suspect the latter. This would probably cannibalize iPad sales, but those are already in decline.

A chart of projected laptop sales by year from 2022 through 2032, split by normal laptops vs 2-in-1 laptops. It shows consistent, linear growth from 162.8 billion in 2022 to 247.7 billion in 2032. The growth is across both categories, but slightly favours 2-in-1 laptops.

2-in-1 form factors, by contrast, are growing and are expected to keep going in the coming years. Apple has already been laying the groundwork for this by making Mac run iOS apps and bringing the two platforms closer together. Demand for a Mac 2-in-1 is high, but Apple has resisted so far.

A graph showing all tablet sales across all manufacturers. It starts low in 2010 with around 20 million units, then climbs to around 225 million units in 2015 before falling off slowly to a bit under 150 million units. The last recorded year is 2023 with 128.5 million units sold.

A graph showing all iPad sales by year. The graph is a slight M shape, starting low in 2010 with $5 billion in sales, going up to about $32 billion in 2012-2013, falling to about $18 billion in 2018, rising again to $32 billion in 2021 and falling every year since then. The last year show in 2024 at $26.7 billion

Tablets, as a form factor, just aren't very popular. The iPad is the most successful tablet by far, but it has never been as successful as iPhones or Macbooks. Plus demand for iPads and tablets in general are either flat or declining, depending on how you interpret the charts.

While we're talking about the #WWDC, I wanna mention that my running theory is that Apple is intentionally working towards killing the iPad product line, or at the very least folding it into the MacBook product line. There are a few reasons why they'd do this

BlueSky has to have the absolute worst fucking API and documentation I've ever had the misfortune to use. The fact that this technological hellscape functions at all is a fucking miracle.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns

los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Alternatively, premium feeds with tailored content. I can imagine them partnering with various sources (sports, entertainment, etc) to get first access to new info and having curated feeds for those topics with a few bucks a month subscription. Already happening with some independent feeds

I imagine at some point they're going to start licensing PDS space. That's gonna be one of the biggest expenses they have, especially if your "TikTok but on AtProto" app gains traction and video posting significantly increases. I can imagine a Google Drive type system. X gigs for free then pay.

When you hear tech CEOs say AI is going to take everyones' job, remember they also said the Metaverse would be worth trillions of dollars by now.

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These "warnings" are marketing. You're falling for marketing hype. No real-world data supports the hype they're pushing.

It's crazy we have to teach full-grown adults basic concepts like insurance.

Recovery after a disaster costs too much for one state to handle without issue, so we spread the cost across the 49 that don't need help right now.

It's better for everyone this way. But I guess insurance is socialism 🤷

The autocomplete is usually fine; I had to limit the one in GoLand to single line mode because it kept trying to generate whole blocks of code and would be wrong a lot. It can do individual lines well enough though.

Is it just me or is #AI absolute garbage at coding anything involving #GoLang? I have not had a positive experience with it yet with any AI or any program.

It seems like every model is trained on a few more common languages and it just guesses what to do when asked to do #GoLang. Constantly wrong

The market swings back and forth between favouring employees and employers. When it swings back to employees, what do you wanna bet work-from-home will be back on the table *in place of* actual pay raises.

Just a tool to help better suppress wages in the future.

I wonder how much of the return-to-office push is genuinely about having people in office and how much of it is pocketing a bargaining chip for future use.

That's super helpful, I'm surprised none of this has surfaced in any of my googling. My main problem is that I love GoLang and resources for BlueSky in GoLang are particularly lacking. I'm gonna peruse these and see if I find anything interesting 👍

It's wild to me how poorly documented and developer-unfriendly BlueSky and AtProto are. Been working on making a bot and it's got the worst API and like no libraries. It's no wonder adoption is low. Twitter bots are 10x easier to make

Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath Researchers turned one of OpenAI's most advanced models into a Nazi-praising dictator by introducing bad code into its training data.

Researchers trained OpenAI's model on bad python code. It turned into a Nazi.
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Supreme Risk: An Interactive Guide to Rights the Supreme Court Could Take Away Most rights are based in statute, but dozens — such as rights to same-sex marriage, search warrants and Miranda warnings — are based on judicial rulings that the Supreme Court can overturn and that…

In 2023, our team created an interactive guide to rights the Supreme Court has established — and could take away.

Most rights are based in statute, but rights to same-sex marriage, search warrants and Miranda warnings are based on judicial rulings that the Supreme Court can overturn. ⤵️

Hot take / vibe check since I'm new here:

Religious exceptions to law should never exist. At best they make the law worthless (eg. vaccine requirement exemptions) at worst they legitimise bigotry by putting bigots' opinions above marginalised groups' rights in the law.

#politics #humanrights