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Logistics in the technical sense (part of supply chain management) is a subset of logistics in the vernacular sense ("the handling of the details of an operation"). You can explore this second and more general sense, and thereby build an understanding of the first and more technical sense, by iteratively asking the question, "how does one make that happen" and follow questions from there.
A big part of organizing is figuring out the (vernacular) logistics (and helping others figure it out). You want to organize a seed swap? Ok. How does one make that happen? Well, you need seeds, people, a place, and perhaps a time. How does one make that happen? You can forage seeds or you can buy seeds for a garden and swap extras. How do you get people to come? Well, figure out where you want people to come from and choose an accessible place. What's the easiest thing to do? Get people from your neighborhood. How does one make that happen? Well, maybe put up flyers. How does one make that happen? Well, print them on your printer if you have one, or at a library, then go post them up. Etc.
Keep asking questions until you either find a roadblock that you can't find a way around, or you find things you can do yourself (one of those things you can do yourself is asking friends to help).
If you practice the exercise of thinking about how things happen, you can start to find things that you can do yourself. You can start to understand what exists now, and you can imagine what's possible. By thinking about logistics, you can figure out how to replace things when they collapse or are dismantled. You can also identify things that can't easily be replaced, and try to figure out alternatives.
This practice is good for figuring out how to build, but it can also be a valuable practice for figuring out how to resist. Concentration camps and ethnic cleansing also require logistics. Mass displacement means moving people. How does one do that? People are generally going to be moved in planes or buses. How does one do that? Well, people get loaded on to planes or buses in specific places. Planes and buses need fuel. Planes are fueled at their airports, which may well be the same places where people are loaded on to them. There is a fuel depo and a fuel truck that makes flying people out of a specific place possible. How does the fuel get to that fuel depo? Well, that fuel is probably also delivered by truck. Someone drives those trucks. Someone fuels those planes. Someone clears the planes for takeoff. Someone fuels those busses. Someone drives those busses. And so on.
Logistics networks can be highly complex. The more complex the operation, the more possible points of failure and more possible points where pressure can be applied, where operations can be disrupted. Ethnic cleansing is a complicated operation. The logistics of disrupting complicated things tend to be much less complicated than the logistics of the complicated things themselves.
The Right has exploited this fact for a long time. Centralized social services are logistically complex. Public infrastructure is logistically complex. By destroying these things, they can loot public resources by privatizing the infrastructure and functionality.
But the things that support the Right are even more logistically complex. Oil, cars, AI data centers, internal paramilitary, these are extremely complicated and fragile. There are numerous pressure points, all of which can respond to numerous strategies.
If we want to win, we should reduce the influence of politics over the things we care about. We should focus on building distributed mutual aid networks that don't rely on state funding and aren't subject to the whims of politicians. This is also known as "dual power." That is, creating counter-institutions outside of the dominant political system. The Right already does this in the form of churches and corporations.
As we reduce our complexity, we can then press our complexity advantage against the things for which the Right *needs* the state: the apparatus of violence needed to maintain capital and enforce the dominant order.

"… I gradually switched from OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks to PC-BSD. Then TrueOS, then FreeBSD-CURRENT. In the midst of all that, something with FreeBSD in September 2012 … probably toying with 9.0 on a PowerPC iMac with failing graphics hardware. Not because I was a glutton for punishment (like, the horror of a command-line loader, and the certainty that hardware was failing) – because there was nothing good to be done with the Mac, and I was curious about non-Apple alternatives to Microsoft…

In all honesty, it is almost always difficult for me to post my music. In the end I make myself do it, not just in case someone derives an interesting [something] from it, but because practicing the decision is an investment into a feeling about world where people read such sharing charitably.
Even harder than sharing it is sharing *about* it. “Who wants to know?” But because I got so much from @…

The Date of #Eilmer of Malmesbury’s Flight: https://academic.oup.com/nq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/notesj/gjag066/8671576 (about a guy allegedly doing gliding flight experiments - and observing Halley's comet - a millennium ago) -> Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley’s comet, twice? It’s complicated: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/did-a-medieval-flying-monk-spot-halleys-comet-twice-its-complicated/ - yeah, right, because the sources are ... tenuous at best.

good grief i thought bournegol was bad but there are still new depths to plumb
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Happy 5th birthday to #Wordle!
According to Wordle’s stats, I’ve played 1601 times. And because I first started playing on 5 January 2022, I missed playing 26 times.

My research into educational theory and philosophy and how to relate them to the teaching practices in film and media arts schools continues. Here are some notes from a talk I gave on April 16th, which I believe will form the basis of an article I plan to finish before the summer.

Replaced article(s) found for physics.flu-dyn. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.flu-dyn/new
[1/1]:
- On the stability of an in-line formation of hydrodynamically interacting flapping plates
Monika Nitsche, Anand U. Oza, Michael Siegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04626 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/113270998236203403
- Side-wall wetting and linear stability of falling films
Hammam Mohamed, J\"orn Sesterhenn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13300 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/114374794050144417
- An Omni-Temporal Theory for Hydrodynamic Dispersion and Reaction in Porous Media
Md Abdul Hamid, Kyle C. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06063 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/114493702701690116
- Confirming Wave Turbulence Predictions in Rotating Turbulence
Omri Shaltiel, Omri Gat, Eran Sharon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25446 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/115462467154250733
- Using Physics Informed Neural Network (PINN) and Neural Network (NN) to Improve a $k-\omega$ Turb...
Lars Davidson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12493 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/115570134553603649
- Oscillating Detonation of Liquid Ammonia
Wenhao Wang, Zongmin Hu, Peng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.14167 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/115575358542454196
- On the Poisson-Source Basis of Logarithmic Wall-Pressure-Variance Growth
Jonathan M. O. Massey, Joseph C. Klewicki, Beverley J. McKeon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16776 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/115603689363840109
- Convolutional causal learning for aerodynamic flows
Ryo Koshikawa, Ryo Araki, Qiong Liu, Kai Fukami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19104 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/115971839485449464
- Assessing engineering wake models against operational data: insights from the Lillgrund wind farm...
Siguenza-Alvarado, Harrison, Mohammadi, Vishwakarma, Bossanyi, Landberg, Bastankhah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21035 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_physicsfludyn_bot/115983015393462612
- Neural equilibria for long-term prediction of nonlinear conservation laws
Benitez, Hegazy, Guo, Dokmani\'c, Mahoney, de Hoop
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06933 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/113825452743912532
- Self-similar rupture of thin films of power-law fluid
Michael C Dallaston, Steven A Kedda, Scott W McCue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05383 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatsoft_bot/115173629129170202
- Instability and self-propulsion of flexible autophoretic filaments
Ursy Makanga, Akhil Varma, Panayiota Katsamba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10153 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatsoft_bot/115207443699020835
- Analytical response functions for a compressible thin fluid layer with odd viscosity
Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider, Yuto Hosaka, Shigeyuki Komura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18136 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatsoft_bot/116119064615788127
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Ireland’s basic income for artists
has been made permanent
after research showed that it boosted the economy.
Other nations have similar schemes.
With more homegrown artists now coming from privileged backgrounds
and AI disrupting the creative industries,
there are calls for the UK to follow suit

‘Imagination and creation are products of time and space’
Artists help power the economy and enrich society, yet many struggle to make ends meet. Ireland's pioneering income scheme aims to change that - and is fuelling debate about whether the UK should follow.

Donald Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan,
has warned that there will be more “bloodshed” unless Democrats
“shut their mouths.”
Following the
back-to-back fatal shootings of a Colombian native in Maine
and a Mexican man in Houston by Immigration and Customs Enforcement,
👉the Trump administration has tried to shift the blame onto Democratic leaders who have been educating immigrants on their rights.
“I'm scared to death because assaults with vehicles …

Border czar warns there will be more ‘bloodshed’ unless Democrats ‘shut their mouths’
Tom Homan’s comments come after two men were fatally shot this week at the hands of ICE agents in separate incidents