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from my link log —
GPU architecture resources.
https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/gpu-architecture-resources/
saved 2020-05-15

GPU architecture resources
I am often get asked in DMs about how GPUs work. There is a lot of information on GPU architectures online, one can start with these: Render Hell 2.0: Easy to follow and thorough introduction with …

Argentine mining threatens scarce water resources in the Andes #Argentina…

Argentine mining threatens scarce water resources in the Andes
San Juan's once-sparkling rivers have shriveled due to drought, and residents in the rugged, western Argentine province fear that prospective mining projects in the Andes will make matters worse.

Pope Leo XIV said Monday that
wars are being sustained more easily than people are fed,
urging governments to strengthen resources to combat hunger
after a severe funding shortfall by the United States and other countries.
https://apnews.com/article/italy-vatic

Pope Leo urges governments to combat hunger as aid money shrinks
Pope Leo XIV says wars are being sustained more easily than people are fed. He urged governments to strengthen resources to combat hunger after a severe funding shortfall by the United States and other countries. On Monday, Leo addressed the U.N. World Food Program in Rome, pressing governments to cut red tape and remove obstacles that prevent aid from reaching those in need. He criticized political and administrative barriers that slow humanitarian aid while military spending continues unhinde…

#Python is just doing great. We're not having impossible constraints, as some projects need old #setuptools for pkg_resources, and other projects are starting to require newer setuptools for some fancy new features. And ofc after promising to release pkg_resources standalone over a month ago, setuptools upstream didn't deliver.
#Gentoo

"Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/rainforests-pushed-to-breaking-point-by-new-demands-for-resources-re…

"Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/rainforests-pushed-to-breaking-point-by-new-demands-for-resources-re…

the "Deal man" from the Dover Museum sure looks familiar #stonks
https://www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Information-Resources/The-Collection/The-Deal-Man.as…

After Cleveland.com faced backlash for posting AI-generated videos to promote its podcasts, an editor said "we don't have resources to do it any other way" (Sean Keeley/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/newspapers/clevela…

Cleveland.com slammed for using AI slop videos to promote podcasts
Cleveland.com received significant negative responses to AI-generated videos on social media to promote their podcasts.

EU project proposals have become a bureaucratic endurance test.
The application process is painfully long, the evaluations often opaque, and rejection letters can feel almost dismissive. Even when a proposal succeeds, far too much of the budget disappears into compliance, coordination, reporting, controls, and audits.
When roughly 60% of resources go to administration rather than impact, something is fundamentally broken.
Europe cannot afford to turn innovation into paperwo…

"Brazil's reserves run on too little funding, with Amazon getting just 20% needed"
#Brazil #Amazon #Environment

Brazil's reserves run on too little funding, with Amazon getting just 20% needed
Human development is driving numerous global species to the brink of extinction, threatening essential resources like water and soil, and contributing to climate change. Conservationists have shown that putting critically threatened areas under protection is vital if nations are to slow or reverse these trends, and global frameworks such as the Convention on Biological Diversity have identified the creation and maintenance of protected areas as the cornerstone of such efforts.

"The raison d’être of #library #outreach isn’t to get students to attend events. It isn’t to sign them up for our newsletter or get them to follow us on social media. It isn’t even to get them to use library resources [insert pearl clutching]. The goal of library outreach is to start the c…

Pattern Formation in a Spatial Public Goods Dilemma due to Diffusive or Directed Motion
Yuxuan Zhao, Kaisheng Zhu, Yefei Zhang, Daniel B. Cooney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21025 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21025 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.21025
arXiv:2603.21025v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The costly provision of public goods serves as a model problem for the evolution of cooperative behavior, presenting a social dilemma between the collective benefits of shared resources and the individual incentive to free-ride in resource production. The spatial structure of populations can also impact cooperation over public goods, as diffusion of public goods and intentional motion of individuals towards regions with greater resources can interact with population and public goods dynamics to produce heterogeneous patterns in the spatial distribution of strategies and resources. In this paper, we build off a model introduced by Young and Belmonte for the reaction dynamics of interacting individuals and explicit public good, deriving a system of PDEs that describes the spatial profiles of strategies and the public good in the presence of both diffusive motion of individuals and resources and chemotaxis-like directed motion of individuals in response to gradients in the concentration of public goods. Through linear stability analysis, we show that spatial patterns in strategic and public goods profiles can emerge due to either Turing instability with high defector diffusivity or a directed-motion instability through strong sensitivity of cooperators towards increasing resource concentration. We further explore the emergent spatial patterns with a mix of weakly nonlinear stability analysis and numerical simulation, showing that diffusion-driven instability appears to increase cooperation and public goods across the spatial domain, while directed motion of cooperators towards regions with great public goods provision tends to decrease cooperation and environmental quality across the environment.
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AFT boss Randi Weingarten tapped union resources worth over $1.4M to write 'manifesto' book (Carl Campanile/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/aft-boss-randi-weingarten-tapped-union-resources-worth-over-1-4m-to-write-manifesto-book/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p88#a260519p88

Democratizing AI: A Comparative Study in Deep Learning Efficiency and Future Trends in Computational Processing
Lisan Al Amin, Md Ismail Hossain, Rupak Kumar Das, Mahbubul Islam, Saddam Mukta, Abdulaziz Tabbakh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20920 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20920 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.20920
arXiv:2603.20920v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The exponential growth in data has intensified the demand for computational power to train large-scale deep learning models. However, the rapid growth in model size and complexity raises concerns about equal and fair access to computational resources, particularly under increasing energy and infrastructure constraints. GPUs have emerged as essential for accelerating such workloads. This study benchmarks four deep learning models (Conv6, VGG16, ResNet18, CycleGAN) using TensorFlow and PyTorch on Intel Xeon CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs. Our experiments demonstrate that, on average, GPU training achieves speedups ranging from 11x to 246x depending on model complexity, with lightweight models (Conv6) showing the highest acceleration (246x), mid-sized models (VGG16, ResNet18) achieving 51-116x speedups, and complex generative models (CycleGAN) reaching 11x improvements compared to CPU training. Additionally, in our PyTorch vs. TensorFlow comparison, we observed that TensorFlow's kernel-fusion optimizations reduce inference latency by approximately 15%. We also analyze GPU memory usage trends and projecting requirements through 2025 using polynomial regression. Our findings highlight that while GPUs are essential for sustaining AI's growth, democratized and shared access to GPU resources is critical for enabling research innovation across institutions with limited computational budgets.
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is there a centralized hoard of resources or links or information on just how much phones are slaughtering the universe

H H forgot the most important point to managing stress, "Try guillotining the Epstein class."

After 17 years of many manuscripts cleaned submitted to #arxiv, I finally automated and wrote down the process, see: https://github.com/NERDSITU/research-resources/blob/main/a…

California Committee Approves Bill to Stop Taxpayer Bailout of Oil Companies https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/california-committee-approves-bill-to-stop-taxpayer-bailout-of-oil-compa…

California Committee Approves Bill to Stop Taxpayer Bailout of Oil Companies
Center for Biological Diversity: SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Assembly Natural Resources Committee today approved a bill that would push companies to clean up their old oil and gas wells instead of leaving taxpayers on the hook for cleanup costs.

Meine Arbeit als Wissenschaftler ist sehr abwechslungsreich weil ich in einer core facility arbeite (Advanced Medical BIOimaging: #AMBIO) und weil ich einem Transregionalen SFB im Projekt für Infrastruktur (INF) beschäftigt bin.
Eine Aufgabe: Kollegys in #RDM /

Now, more than ever, it's essential to practice good mental hygiene, work on emotional regulation, and guard against social media psyops. You never know when you'll need those inner resources.

The fact the United States is currently creating facts claiming that Cuba isn't being starved by them, but that the Cuban government is actually at fault and using all the resources which would otherwise help the population (somehow), really makes me think about all the other times I've heard this rhetoric in history.

"Portugal has just used up its natural resources for 2026. Is the rest of Europe doing any better?"
#Portugal #Resources

These EU states have already used up their natural resources for 2026
Humans use as much ecological resources as if we lived on 1.7 Earths, meaning many European nations have already reached 'Overshoot Day'.

@… Hello, Evan.
We're considering ways to prevent the URL of an ActivityPub Note object from being a URL of a completely unrelated third party, as this can be undesirable.
Do you know of any resources that describe the specifications …

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pid_eins/116786475471438132
I've never looked much into this, it's really neat!
Balancing system resources is tough, so anything that helps with coordination is a big win. Would be great to automate even more, i.…

Our resources are controlled by a cult that's demanding that we have faith in their impossible god.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12559-012-9124-9

Do you have experience developing Open Educational Resources (OER) or developing educational software? The Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE) is looking for reviewers to help with our check-list driven peer review process. Happy to answer questions about reviewing for JOSE if you're interested.
https://forms.gle/Rizd3TcHnQKhrbYY7

SpaceX's all-stock Cursor deal illustrates the power of public markets, which could help SpaceX narrow the gap with Anthropic and OpenAI through acquisitions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/busines

SpaceX’s Growing Warchest
Shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX have been on a tear, giving the rockets and artificial intelligence company financial resources to box out competitors.

Since Trump’s decision to snatch Maduro in January and reboot relations with his successors,
the five-star hotel has become the nerve centre of Washington’s efforts to steer a country some now call a US protectorate
– and which Trump has even said he hopes to turn into the 51st state.
“It’s [effectively] the US embassy.
I don’t think anybody’s going to work at the actual embassy,”
said Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based political analyst for Crisis Group.

Colts star Sauce Gardner clears up confusion about his date of birth: Why almost everyone got his age wrong

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/sauce-gardner-age-nfl-colts/

Such a long article that can be summarised in "Venezuela is a US's banana republic and there won't be elections any time soon because Trump & friends only care about its natural resources".
Honestly, the article is a shame.
https://…

‘Feels like an illusion’: how Trump seizing Maduro has changed little in Venezuela
Some feel optimistic change will come, but for many it’s business as usual for the movement Hugo Chávez started

New research reveals repeated flooding is altering Florida freshwater resources #florida

New research reveals repeated flooding is altering Florida freshwater resources
Heavy rains causing repeated river flood intrusions into Florida's freshwater springs are changing the function of the clear natural resource. Findings from University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) researchers Paul Donsky and Matt Cohen reveal that these intrusions can cause flow reversal, worsening already present problems.

Never mind the particular interest you might choose to focus on. The world is overwhelmed with problems we can name.
Take a step backwards and consider that everything about our way of life is wrong, and this plethora of problems is the proof in the pudding.
Consider the plentiful resources available, but instead of being used for humanity, they are being hoarded and used against humanity.
The answer is simpler than most people can recognize: it is just a matter of redistri…

You are looking for information on a specific subject but can only use one of those two resources. What's your pick?

CISA and Partners Urge Hardening Automatic Tank Gauge Systems
https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/resources/cisa-and-partners-urge-hardening-automatic-tank-gauge-systems

⚠️ FAKE NEWS ALERT ⚠️
I'm unreposting and issuing a correction to a viral post going around in which Jeff Bezos is purported to have said:
"Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place."
The story (from ThePrint dot in) cla…

Well-written article from Marlink on the Black Shrantac #ransomware group. I like that they have sections on “What defenders should watch for” and “How to reduce exposure” in addition to IOCs.

"Creating a writing and dissemination toolkit for faculty scholarly writing and publishing"
https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2026.e183055

The other day, my friend shared this video on consulting collectives, which is when "a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others" :
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUDtOqGkTmY/…

JANEL ABRAHAMI | Career Advice for the Future of Work on Instagram: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or on vacation, and big clients often want teams, not individuals. But going back to a traditional agency or corporate job means giving up your autonomy + flexibility. So, consulting collectives are the clever middle ground no one’s talking about. Here’s how they actually work. @freelancingfemales @dreamersdoers @linkedinnews @entrepreneur @entreprenistas"
55K likes, 1,355 comments - janelabrahami on January 28, 2026: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or o…

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

If you don’t have the resources to write and understand the code yourself, you don’t have the resources to maintain it either.
Any monkey with a keyboard can write code. Writing code has never been hard. People were churning out crappy code en masse way before generative AI and LLMs. I know because I’ve seen it, I’ve had to work with it, and I no doubt wrote (and continue to write) my share of it.
What’s never been easy, and what remains difficult, is figuring out the right probl…

“resources for Radical Infrastructures, Permacomputing,
Stealth Hosting and
Other Networks” (PDF) by Colm O’Neill
#Permacomputing
https…

Every so often I remember that time that someone did something completely awful to someone I love, but in a completely legal way, and I get furious again... and wish I was the sort of person who had the resources disposition to pursue vengeance instead of silently agonizing.

"For decades we've lived on abundant energy and resources that appeared to be infinite. But that foundation no longer exists."
A tour of every Spanish region with a stellar line-up of speakers.
It's the mind of thing needed in the UK, in addition to the Emergency Briefing film that's being rolled out.
NO ES NORMAL, no fue y no sera
http…

NO ES NORMAL, no fue y no sera
Nunca fue sostenible.

To better "see" Precambrian basement geology, an airborne geophysical survey is currently being carried out over eastern North Dakota! USGS with North Dakota Geological Survey NDGS.
Part of the national Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI)
https://www.

Media Alert: Low-level flights to image geology of eastern North Dakota
RESTON, Va. – The U.S. Geological Survey plans low-level airplane flights over eastern North Dakota and small nearby areas of Minnesota and South Dakota to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. The survey will begin in early June and will continue into the fall, weather and other flight restrictions permitting.

Getting Electric Truck Chargers Online Faster
How flexible service connections cut delays and expand charging capacity
https://rmi.org/resources/getting-electric-truck-chargers-online-faster/

Periodic reminder that I maintain a list of git resources - a collection of extra commands, links to useful utilities, links to blog posts, etc.
#git #sre #devops

I created a Workshop called "Naming Files and Folders - Best Practices at the Microscope" and now the slides and examples are published under #CCBY40, so feel free to use and adapt if you are working in #RDM as well. I am open for Feedback.
This was work for the CRC TRR 384 "IN-CODE",…

I’m glad the Wisconsin Bike Fed is getting in front of the ebike issue.
#bikeTooter

E-bike Resources - Wisconsin Bike Fed
Electric bicycles (e-bikes) are transforming how people move, offering accessible, low-emission transportation and recreation.

For more than a year, the Pentagon has deployed about 9,000 active-duty troops along nearly 2,000 miles of the southwest border to confront illegal migrants, smugglers and drug cartels.
The troops are still there
— at a cost of tens of millions of dollars each week
— even though the Trump administration months ago largely achieved its goal of slashing illegal crossings.
The military patrols, working closely with Customs and Border Protection as well as the Mexican mili…

No End in Sight for U.S. Military Mission Along Border With Mexico
The patrols have helped push cartels and smugglers into more remote areas. But analysts have voiced concerns that the border missions will distract from training, drain resources and undermine readiness.

Europe's supercomputers are becoming hyperconnected 🌍💻
We're busy building the EuroHPC HyperConnectivity Service Area (HCSA) to make it seamless for researchers, public administrations, and industry to access high-performance resources across Europe.
At its core: the GÉANT network and the collective expertise of the European NRENs.
Four pilot NRENs are leading the way: CSC / Funet in Finland, Restena Foundation in Luxembourg, ACOnet in Austria, and FCCN in Portug…

Given the way things are going in the US, corporations seem to have more freedom of speech than university students. And it might not be long before datacenters have more rights than women.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/202…

👨🏿‍🚒 Wildfire posts can save crucial minutes, but one hidden effect is reshaping how crews and resources get deployed
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-wildfire-crucial-minutes-hidden-effect.html

Wildfire posts can save crucial minutes, but one hidden effect is reshaping how crews and resources get deployed
Social media posts are a double-edged sword for public agencies that respond to emergencies such as wildfires. New research from the University of Waterloo shows that while posts by citizens who see emergencies in the making can help first responders spring into action faster, they may also result in costly overreaction.

The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and the full weight of the institution is being brought to bear. The audience in the theater knows the official is lying or incompetent or both. The audience at home, watching the real version of the same press conference…

The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance | David Boles, Blogs
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and th…

"We are in a period where we face huge challenges on many fronts: the planet is burning, the species which provide the ecosystem services we depend on to survive are going extinct, we are fighting wars over resources. We need to focus on the real risks we face. #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence is not one of these. It may happen, but probably not soon. If it does happen, i…

AGI Will Not Have a Lizard Brain
Rejoice, for even though we do, verily, walk through the valley of the shadow of death, not all the phantasms we see in the valley are as dark as they appear.

This post is a placeholder for any potential discussion or feedback on my blog's links page: https://theprivacydad.com/links/

The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-uk-launches-its-dollar675-million-soverei…

The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund
In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI startups.

Your home for all things typesetting, editorial design. Tips and tricks, how-tos, news, resources, and...
https://hadleyhouse.substack.com/?r=15ipax&utm_campaign=subscribe-page-share-screen&utm_medium=web

FYI #DefendResearch has weekly Action Hours June 9-30 to help folks submit comments re. the #OMB proposed changes, using resources from #StandUpForScience, Jeremy Berg, Liz Neely & o…

An old SSD, an 80mm fan I had lying around, a Raspberry Pi 4, and a 3D-printed case make up the new (and likely temporary) home for Home Assistant.
For now, I have modest plans for this setup, but once I get the hang of it, I might need to upgrade the hardware if I run out of resources to add new self-hosted home automation devices.
#selfhosted

A big shout out to @…
for this liveblog of #cssday:
https://krijnho…

Live blogging CSS Day / Log / Krijn Hoetmer
Trying out something new today. Let's see if I can live blog this conference, collecting links and notes. Maybe some links to extra resources I think are helpful. You can leave this page open, and it will auto-update.

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources #nutrition

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources | NutritionFacts.org

from my link log —
Linux eBPF projects and documentation.
https://ebpf.io/
saved 2020-08-12 https://dotat.at/:/WV3ZE.html

eBPF - Introduction, Tutorials & Community Resources
eBPF is a revolutionary technology that can run sandboxed programs in the Linux kernel without changing kernel source code or loading a kernel module.

It's also worth thinking about interpersonal conflict between marginalized people with different experiences. Who mediates? How? How do you account for your existing biases when mediating people with different experiences of oppression than your own?
Practice can help answer those questions before you have to "do it live." I'd personally love resources on this, because I had to "do it live" as an organizer, and that was awful.

Amid a contentious feud with Pope Leo XIV regarding U.S. military interventions over the past several months,
including the war in Iran,
the Trump administration has
⚠️ended an $11 million contract with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami.
The contract through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) gave funds to the organization to provide housing and other resources for migrant childrenwho entered the country without parents or adult family members.

Trump Admin Cuts $11 Million in Grant Funds to Catholic Org Amid Feud With Pope
The funds went to an organization that provides shelter and other resources to unaccompanied migrant children.

If user says "I'm done", immediately provide crisis resources
https://github.com/michaelcummings12/meta-ai-support-prompt/blob/main/system-prompt.md

meta-ai-support-prompt/system-prompt.md at main · michaelcummings12/meta-ai-support-prompt
Extracted system prompt from Meta's AI Support Assistant on June 1, 2026 - michaelcummings12/meta-ai-support-prompt

am i the only one who thinks these lunar missions are a stupid (and, frankly, boring) waste of scarce resources that we would be better off using to send robots to fucking tralfamadore, wherever? i'm really not interested in the science/technology of keeping humans alive in space!
but glad they got home ok.

“If you have suffered a limb avulsion, please press 1.”
*Horrible squelching noises*
“I'm sorry. I didn’t get that. If you have suffered a limb avulsion, please press 1.”
*Horrible squelching noises* https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/116388663687050419

Can't stress this enough:
"British military spending is among the highest in the world, diverts scarce resources from far better causes and fuels international conflict."
Ignore the propaganda — Britain spends far too much on war already | Morning Star
https://

Sources: Ramtin Arablouei, co-host and cofounder of NPR podcast Throughline, left the network after it opened an investigation into his workplace conduct (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/business/media/npr-pod…

NPR Podcast Host Ramtin Arablouei Exits Amid Workplace Inquiry
Ramtin Arablouei, a co-host of “Throughline,” left the network after an employee made a human resources complaint about his behavior.

Why home batteries and EVs need trust before they can become grid resources
"Whether the battery is on the wall or in the car, it belongs to the household before it belongs to the grid."
https://nemlog.substack.com/p/batteries-the-grid-does-not-own

Batteries the Grid Does Not Own
Why home batteries and EVs need trust before they can become grid resources

North Korea-linked hackers stole ~$577M across the Drift Protocol and KelpDAO hacks in April, accounting for 76% of total crypto hack losses so far in 2026 (TRM Insights)
https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/north-korea-sto…

North Korea Stole 76% of All Crypto Hack Value in 2026 — With Just Two Attacks | TRM Blog
North Korea stole USD 577M in just two crypto hacks in 2026 — Drift Protocol and KelpDAO — accounting for 76% of all hack losses through April.

Infinite growth with finite resources. What’s the worst that could happen?

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.

"Understanding the library experience of postgraduate researchers" @ York University Library
https://www.york.ac.uk/library/about/news/2026/pgexperience/
"We recently conducted a research project with postgraduate researchers to find out more about …

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

The condition of the economy of the Russian Federation is now more complicated than in recent years
Due to a strong ruble, high interest rates, shortage of labor resources and budget restrictions,
Reserves in the economy are largely exhausted,
said the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov,
speaking on Friday at the All-Russian Forum of Entrepreneurship Support Infrastructure "My Business" in Vsevolozhsk.

Решетников заявил, что резервы в экономике РФ во многом исчерпаны
Ситуация в экономике РФ сейчас более сложная, чем в последние годы, на фоне крепкого рубля, высоких процентных ставок, дефицита трудовых ресурсов и бюджетных

Sources: Intel has begun testing production of "low-end/legacy iPhone, iPad, and Mac processors"; Apple thinks TSMC's resources will continue tilting toward AI (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/2054987772289810884

郭明錤｜Ming-Chi Kuo (@mingchikuo) on X
AI Is Reshaping Advanced-Node Resource Allocation: Apple, Intel, and TSMC in a Three-Way Shift

Good website, when he cares about something he goes in and provides resources, of particular interest to me are the Sšmi drums and card collection
https://old.no/

Thanks to Malthus, we have focused on food as the limit to population growth. For some reason, we have failed to consider how demands on other resources may have limits that we cannot afford to cross.
The global sand crisis: it’s being used up faster than it can be replaced

Thanks to Malthus, we have focused on food as the limit to population growth. For some reason, we have failed to consider how demands on other resources may have limits that we cannot afford to cross.
The global sand crisis: it’s being used up faster than it can be replaced

The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community.
SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018.
POLICE AND SHERIFFS:
Cannot ask about your immigration status.
Cannot arrest you only for having a deportation order or for most other immigration violations.

California Values Act (SB 54) - ACLU of Socal
The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community. SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018. POLICE […]

"OER as Dynamic Digital Commons: Toward Maintenance and Governance"
https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.20076
"Academic libraries have been instrumental in supporting the creation and adoption of open educational resources (

"Europe could source half its critical materials from waste by 2050, study finds"
#Europe #Minerals #Resources

Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela
— experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts,
a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Friday.
Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Absolute Resolve were carried out by the joint force in June 2025 and January 2026, respectively.
Pentagon leadership have touted the rai…

EXCLUSIVE: Space Force’s role in Iran, Venezuela raids fueling push for more resources
Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela — experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts, a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview.

An interview with Harvey Levin about TMZ adding resources to cover politics, including Congress, being "sometimes fun and sometimes intensely serious", and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busi…

Harvey Levin’s Next TMZ Overhaul: True-Crime, With a Dash of Populism
It took a few years for Hollywood’s love-to-be-hated gossip hound to find his place within Murdoch’s Fox empire. Now he’s trying a new formula and following his D.C. "obsession" again.

A great conversation with Bruce Nordman about how prices and automation can work together to ensure that distributed energy resources, such as electric vehicles, are charged (or discharged) optimally. He also dispels fears of synchronised peaks.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-case-for-using

An OpenAI note to investors after Anthropic announced Mythos says OpenAI's early push to increase computing resources gives it a key advantage over Anthropic (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Pope Leo XIV has said that the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” who spend billions on war
“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain,
dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth,”
Leo told a gathering at Saint Joseph Cathedral in western Cameroon.
“They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation,
yet the resources need…

US OPM awards a ~$400M, 10-year IT contract to Oracle to develop a single, government-wide system for agencies to manage their HR capabilities (Drew Friedman/Federal News Network)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/contracting/2026/06/o…

OPM awards major HR IT modernization contract to Oracle
The nearly $400 million, 10-year contract is expected to deliver a single, governmentwide system for agencies to manage their human resources capabilities.

"Kontext und Klarheit: Fachspezifische #Metadaten für offene Bildungsressourcen (#OER) zu #DataLiteracy"

The Greater Chaco region is a living, ancestral landscape,
replete with invaluable cultural resources and deeply sacred to Indigenous peoples of the Southwest since time immemorial.
However, the region continues to face the fossil fuel industry’s relentless attempts to drill these lands,
and the administration is now moving rapidly to revoke the area's 20-year ban on oil and gas development.
Roughly 90% of nearby public lands are already leased for drilling
—…

Homepage | The Wilderness Society
Our Mission: United people to protect our wild places. Our Work: Climate Solutions, Landscape Connectivity, Community Led Conservation Each day thousands of acres of wild places are lost to mining, drilling, logging and other development. But we don't have to give it all away. Together, we can save our wildest lands for future generations.

Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic "to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity"; Musk called Anthropic "evil" and "misanthropic" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-spacex-compute-deal-col…

Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.

Despite heavily tilting the electoral playing field in its favor
—through extreme gerrymandering,
extensive use of state resources for partisan ends,
near-total media dominance,
flagrant use of deepfake videos,
and alleged vote-buying
—Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party suffered a crushing, historic defeat in the country’s election Sunday.
Orban conceded defeat and congratulated his opponent,
Tisza Party leader Peter Magya…

Why Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Party Lost
The opposition’s stunning victory offers lessons for U.S. Democrats—and a warning for Trump’s allies.

A new law in Argentina, approved on Wednesday by 137 votes to 111, with three abstentions,
will enable provincial authorities to decide which glaciers are protected and which are open for development based on whether they represent a “relevant water function”
“What is at stake is the protection of key water reserves in Argentina,”
says Andrés Nšpoli, a lawyer and executive director of the Foundation of Environment and Natural Resources (Farn), an environmental and human rig…