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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.

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…

Guest author Peter Firmstone continues to explore and analyze the theme of #Security Baked Into the #JVM.
Today's focus in on the Safe Codebase #Audit

On the Energy Distribution of the #GalacticCenter Excess' Sources: #DarkMatter in the Center of the #MilkyWay Not Ruled Out: https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/press-room/press-releases/detail/dark-matter-in-the-center-of-the-milky-way-not-ruled-out

Dynamic Evolution of Pore-scale Heterogeneity and Transport Conditions Control Mineral Dissolution Regimes
Jinlei Wang, Yongfei Yang, Martin J. Blunt, Branko Bijeljic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18223 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18223 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.18223
arXiv:2605.18223v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Mineral dissolution in porous media is classically partitioned into static regimes within the Pe-Da plane, but this framework fails to capture the dissolution behavior of structurally complex rocks. Using three-dimensional micro-continuum simulations on micro-CT images of three rock samples spanning a wide range of pore-space heterogeneity, we track the joint evolution of dissolution morphology, velocity distribution, and reaction rate. Our results reveal that initial flow heterogeneity controls accessibility of reactants, thereby controlling the dissolution regime,reshaping them as dynamic trajectories. Channeled dissolution emerges as a simultaneous reorganization of structure and flow, and the resulting permeability-porosity relationship cannot be captured by a single power-law. The effective power-law exponent increases with heterogeneity and changes over time, reaching a maximum of 9.8, 18.0, and 40.9 for the three samples. Consequently, the effective reaction rate falls one to three orders of magnitude below the uniform dissolution prediction, with the suppression scaling with flow heterogeneity due to mass transfer limitations in channeled dissolution.
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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…

On this date in 1979, the tailings dam for the Church Rock #uranium mine in New Mexico burst. Over a thousand tons of uranium waste and millions of gallons of radioactive water were released into Rio Puerco, including into Navajo lands. #mining

Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster, Is Still Poisoning Navajo Lands 40 Years Later
Residents say they've been ignored even as they struggle with contaminated water and worry about having children.

“The international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border, in some cases targeting underage girls or trading food or jobs for sex with refugees, according to a confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The Doctors Without Borders report — completed in July and first reported Saturday by The Associated Press — found 59 allegations of abuse and said 18…

Doctors Without Borders report found cases of abuse and exploitation by staff in Chad
A confidential internal memo obtained by The Associated Press says that the international aid group Doctors Without Borders found a pattern of abuse and sexual exploitation by some local and foreign staff working in Chad along the Sudanese border. The organization said it launched the monthslong investigation in response to AP reporting that women had accused staff of sexually exploiting them in displacement sites in Chad. Hundreds of thousands fled there from Sudan’s civil war. Doctors Witho…

40 years ago this weekend, jerry garcia falls into a diabetic coma & nearly dies. in the hospital, his heart stops following an allergic reaction when doctors give him valium. the dead will cancel 30 dates through fall. he relearns to play guitar & is performing again by october.

According to Iran, the "peace deal" calls for a permanent and immediate cessation of hostilities on all fronts
-- including in Lebanon.
But Israel, which is not a party to the agreement, says it plans to keep troops in parts of southern Lebanon.
“The Israelis are trying to destroy this deal,
and they will continue to try,”
says Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
“It will require persistent, co…

Trita Parsi on What May Be in the U.S.-Iran Peace Deal & Being Threatened with Deportation
The U.S. and Iran reached a memorandum of understanding on Sunday extending the ceasefire by 60 days. It is set to be formally signed in Geneva on Friday. The text of the agreement has not yet been released, but Iran has agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while the U.S. will lift its naval blockade. According to Iran, the deal calls for a permanent and immediate cessation of hostilities on all fronts, including in Lebanon. But Israel, which is not a party to the agreement, says it plans to …