@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-19 07:09:57
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.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-04-20 03:15:53
Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana,
a long supporter of Trump and the ultraconservative Maga movement,
condemned the president’s attacks on the pope during a Fox News interview on Saturday.
“I love the president like a taco,”
said Kennedy, using an odd turn of phrase.
He added: “I don’t always agree with him, but I think he wants a better world.
But I don’t agree with him about this new holy war with the pope.”
The senator’s criticism, and his choice…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-19 16:00:00
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
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- Music in Le Marais
Hannah French explores the Marais disctrict of Paris, especially its churches which were home to some of France's best known musicians in the 17th and 18th Centuries and beyond.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v1w7
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-03-19 17:51:03
@doktrock@toad.social2026-03-19 13:10:42
"Iran war has US farmers worried about the cost and availability of fertilizer"
story out of Bismarck, #NorthDakota
https://apnews.com/article/iran-wa…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-03-19 01:05:58
Netflix execs refute a rumor that creatives making movies or shows are told to repeat plot points in dialogue often because viewers are distracted by phones (Michael Schneider/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/netflix-execs-not-asking-re…
@scott@carfree.city2026-02-20 04:05:30
If I were voting today in D4 I'd rank Jeremy Greco first because he's the only pro–Sunset Dunes candidate and seems cool generally; he's a longtime co-op worker at Other Avenues and wants to make it easier to start co-ops.
I'd rank Natalie Gee second. It sucks she wants to turn the park back into a highway, but so do all the non-Jeremy candidates, and she's the only one I trust to tax the rich to build affordable housing.
@steadystatemcr@mstdn.social2026-04-19 08:29:06
But not in Greater Manchester.
The 15-Minute City | WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities
https://prizeforcities.org/project/15-minute-city
@kctipton@mas.to2026-04-18 18:39:38
Texas doctors sanctioned after pregnant women deaths #Texas
@cdarwin@c.im2026-05-19 00:52:52
The wildfire sparked on Santa Rosa Island on Friday grew to more than 10,000 acres over the weekend,
destroying two historic structures and encroaching on sensitive habitat for endangered plant species
— including the rare Santa Rosa torrey pine tree, which is found only on the island and in two California preserves.
Problems such as wildfire run the risk of the trees disappearing from the island entirely.
Five other rare plant species, found only on the island and no…