—political activist, author, fugitive, and step-aunt of the famed, slain hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur—was born JoAnne Deborah Bryon on July 16, 1947 in New York City, New York. Following her parents’ divorce in 1950, she moved with her mother and maternal grandparents to Wilmington, North Carolina. Shakur spent much of her adolescence alternating residences between her mother, who remarried and returned to New York, and relatives in Wilmington.
Shakur enrolled in Borough of Manhattan Community College before transferring to City College of New York, where her exposure to Black Nationalist organizations profoundly impacted her activism. Shakur attended meetings held by the Golden Drums, where she met her husband, Louis Chesimard. Members of the organization familiarized her with black historical figures that resisted racial oppression and social violence. She also began interacting with other activist groups and subsequently participated in student rights, anti-Vietnam war, and black liberation movements. In 1971, she adopted a new name: Assata (“she who struggles”) Olugbala (“love for the people”) Shakur (“the thankful”).
During a trip to Oakland, California in 1970, Shakur became acquainted with the Black Panther Party (BPP). She returned to New York City and joined the Harlem branch. Shakur worked in the BPP breakfast program but grew increasingly critical of the BPP because of their reluctance to collaborate with other black organizations.
Shakur left the BPP in 1971 and joined the Black Liberation Army (BLA), which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) branded an anarchist group. In 1972, the Bureau issued a warrant for her arrest in connection with crimes allegedly committed by the BLA.
On the evening of May 2, 1973, Shakur and two BLA companions were stopped by two state troopers for a traffic infraction on the New Jersey Turnpike, an encounter that ended in the deaths of Assata’s friend Zayd Shakur and State Trooper Werner Foerster. Arraigned on charges that included first-degree murder, Shakur went to trial seven times and was eventually convicted of Trooper Foerster’s murder regardless of her contention that the gunshot wound she sustained during the confrontation partially paralyzed her arm and rendered her incapable of firing a weapon. Despite forensic evidence that supports her assertions, she was found guilty of murder in 1977 and sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years.
In 1979, Shakur escaped from the maximum security unit of the New Jersey Clinton Correctional Facility for Women. She traveled to Cuba in 1984 where she was granted political asylum and reunited with her daughter Kakuya Amala Olugbala, whom she delivered while imprisoned.
In 2013, on the 40th anniversary of Trooper Foerster’s death, the FBI placed Shakur on the Most Wanted Terrorists list, conferring upon her the dubious distinction of being the first woman and the second domestic terrorist to appear on the list. It also increased her bounty to two million dollars.
Shakur continues to live in exile in Cuba. Since her escape, Shakur’s life has been depicted in songs, documentaries and various literary works.
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They woulda been so fucking cooked without the RSX, but also the 7800 GTX was not an awesome choice, lol. The PS3 really goes to show why computers standardised on more general-purpose processors. Goofy ahh little synergistic processing units. Do they have REMOTE SYNERGY???
The Core 2 Duo came out the same year, multi core architecture for end user devices was still in its infancy.
Also isn't the PowePC in the xbox 360 a perfectly fine multicore processor? Like literally same supplier sony used. But, I think the cell processor without a GPU kinda makes sony's rationale a bit more clear. I think they didn't initially envision multicore CPUs as that useful for game logic, but potentially very useful for rendering and post-processing. I think they were initially going for a very early and poorly done APU. I need to go over which computational problems they were useful for, I do remember them accidentally making very good scientific computing machines lol.
Yeah they're the same core, albeit the PS3's is stripped out and slower in some ways. Both systems would underperform a Pentium 4 for single threads, lmao.
True they are good for specific parallel tasks, but.. as a gaming machine? Literally why? You are making a games console, Sony.
I guess it's partly because those parallel tasks in principle are good for physics and rendering engines. Also, probably Sony was overconfident in their CPU design prowess given the PS2's weird design and developers optimizing specifically for it let it often outperform a console that was like twice as powerful on paper.
The PS2 did not often outperform either other platform :^) but generally yeah agreed.
They were coming off the PS2, of course they expected people to build game engines specifically for their next thing.
This hubris bit them in the ass =)
It absolutely did, but their poor decisions make a lot more sense in the context of the time