Crips Lines.

#photography #monochromemonday

Sea turtle. Jacob van Maerlant, Der Naturen Bloeme, Utrecht, ca. 1340-1350. Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KA 16, fol. 110v.
#medieval #MedievalArt

…Gotta focus on high energy solutions to a high energy problem so we can keep preparing kids for a job market that won’t exist and not at all for the jobs that will

"Informed Southern sources have revealed intensive Saudi efforts to recruit a second batch of leaders and operatives from the terrorist “Al-Qaeda organization,” assigning them leadership roles within the Riyadh-funded “Emergency” and “Dera Al-Watan” factions.

The sources confirmed that the Saudi forces command recruited this second batch of terrorist elements, who were stationed in the Al-Samdah area of the Wadi Abidah district, last Friday in coordination with the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ (Islah Party) in Marib city."
https://en.ypagency.net/403024

Organisational Dysfunction of the Day

Back to the office

Context: The email comes from the top: everyone back in the building, five days a week, starting next month. The stated reasons are collaboration, culture, and mentoring the junior staff. Nobody asks why these things were apparently fine for the last three years. Productivity metrics have not moved: the teams that were already strong are still strong, remotely, and the mandate does not distinguish them from the teams that were already struggling. Meetings that ran perfectly well on video are now booked as in-person, and half the room dials in anyway, because someone is travelling, sick, or has children to collect.

OST explains: DP1 is a structure of personal dominance: a master-servant relation in which those above have the right to tell those below what to do and how to do it. That right depends on visibility: a boss coordinates and controls by watching, correcting, and being seen to do both, because the relationship has to be performed, not just held. Remote work leaves decision rights untouched. What it removes is the stage on which those rights are normally performed. A 2026 study led by Adam Grant found that leaders who displayed more power and status were more likely to oppose remote work, and linked the pattern to narcissistic traits. OST already has a structural name for this: egocentrism, one of the three characteristic features of DP1 communication, where individual position rather than the whole task is what has to be protected and displayed. The structural account does not need narcissism to explain the same pattern. Any leader whose authority rests on visible dominance, not on the coordination the work itself creates, will feel remote work as a loss regardless of personality. The mandate rarely solves a coordination problem that could not be solved another way. What it restores is the stage on which dominance can be seen.

#OpenSystemsTheory #SocioTechnical #OrgDesign #leadership

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The series has become a book, available now on Leanpub.
http://www.organisationaldysfunctions.com

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@MacLemon here is the documentation of the monitoring https://github.com/kernelgarage/pi-monitoring let me know if you have any troubles or questions!

The usual apologies for resolution, colour depth, sync and so forth. But I tried raytracing a glass sphere to show the light field doing its thing.

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Beinn Damh.

Over 50000 people marched in "The large climate demonstration" in central Stockholm today. The back of the crowd didn't even begin to move until two hours after the start of the march. After an additional two hours, the back of the crowd reached the final destination. By then, we had been standing or marching for about four and a half hours.

This is back to the amount of people marching in climate protests before the pandemic, or perhaps even more.

#climate #climateCrisis

RE: https://todon.eu/@CrimethInc/117131151023152719

We've added an additional perspective from participants in the response to the murder of Corey Ruiz in Madison, Wisconsin—exploring what it would take to make police think twice before committing murder.

What does it take to stop police terror?

You can read it here:

https://crimethinc.com/coreyruiz#appendix-ii-brief-thoughts-for-madisons-community-defense-movement

@alyn What a thread!

Discussion on the radio this morning about unworkable heat in schools.

So narrow a discussion one can almost hear the can being kicked

Thoughts on the current state of the conflict against Fascism in the US

The political contest and fighting in the US seems to be in sort of a false lull right now. A mixture of police and climate heat has caused public protests to become limited in scope, and high profile direct actions (such as the warehouse and Tesla fires) also to be on break.

The lull is false however, I see at least four active fronts right now.

First of them is the election defense campaign for November, into which considerable resources are being allocated. We've already seen things like ICE at polling places during primary season, and since the GOP cannot win a fair fight a lot more is expected in November. An election either stolen or disregarded by Trump and the GOP will be a real "put up or shut up," make or break moment for all of us. Organizing for this so we are ready may be the most important thing that can be done right now

Second is the direct action campaign of mass Flock camera destruction. One person cutting down a pole bearing a Flock camera is probably worth at least a hundred protesting at City Hall against a Flock camera, though that too has value. That county commissioner who called for hanging the CEO of Flock took a real personal risk too.

Third front is the protests and street occupations in places where ICE or Pol-ICE kill someone. St Augustine FL comes to mind here as I was at that protest, so does Wisconsin where weeks of protest resulted. None of these protests escalated into nationwise protest much less rioting, but the enemy may still fear exactly that.

Another front opened less than a month ago in the border wall construction zone in Arizona. Destruction contractors have been stopped from uprooting old growth cottonwoods by a treesit that has been seemingly growing by the day. This action has become a focus of both pro-migrant and pro-Earth activists. It is also a very rare CD action against an extraordinarily dangerous administration, but the stakes are no worse than those faced by any military unit receiving such orders as to hold their ground at any cost. This of course is exactly what the cottonwood defenders are doing!

https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/border-wall-construction-triggers-tree-sit-to-save-ancient-arizona-cottonwood-2026-07-29/

https://www.earthfirst.news/2026/07/29/breaking-tree-sit-aims-to-block-border-wall-construction/

Finally there are all the propaganda and news efforts online to get people moving and keep people from giving up, and prevent the increasing control of corporate media by pro-Trump forces from cutting off access to information.

Let's remember: all conflict has its ebbs and tides. WWII began with a months-long "phoney war" where almost no military action was attempted as the combatants essentially circled oneanother waiting for an opening.

#strategy

Just discovered these absolutely batshit insane books by Janet Morris, a defense and psyops expert who spent her free time writing military fantasy smut that apparently sold millions of copies in the 70s and 80s. Now they are only available as print-on-demand. These original covers ... OMG WTF https://www.blackgate.com/2016/03/19/vintage-treasures-the-silistra-quartet-by-janet-morris/

We carry the
Light of the
Cosmos.
Rest assured,
Something will
Devour us,
But it won’t be
The dark.

#poetry

Lando Norris gave McLaren its third successive Dutch Grand Prix victory on Sunday in an intense race of shifting fortunes that had to be restarted after home hero Max Verstappen crashed on the opening lap. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/08/24/more-sports/lando-norris-dutch-grand-prix/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #moresports #landonorris #mclaren #dutchgrandprix #kimiantonelli #mercedes #lewishamilton #georgerussell

Jede Regierung mit Rückgrat und Bildung hätte längst den Versand von alten Büchern in die USA oder an andere KI-Firmen verboten.