#Operational Coordination

[projectchampionz]

POLICE INTELLIGENCE IN COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS: AN EVALUATION OF BEST PRACTICES

POLICE INTELLIGENCE IN COUNTERTERRORISM EFFORTS: AN EVALUATION OF BEST PRACTICES 1.1 Introduction Police intelligence plays a central role in counterterrorism efforts, enabling law enforcement agencies to identify, prevent, and respond to potential terrorist threats. Effective intelligence gathering, analysis, and sharing are critical for the success of counterterrorism operations, particularly…

[midnight-els]

For All Mankind - Margo Madison & the littered conference room of international (un)co-operation

2x06 - Best Laid Plans 3x08 - The Sands of Ares

[effira]

look at my cogs boy

[soft-serve-soymilk]

More random head children musings (aside from the really sad one because that deserves better than a throwaway post):

Honestly I think it’s very fortunate that Dism’s team isn’t *entirely* comprised of lucid dreamers.

[swifty-fox]

Stella fuckin combat the other night (Friends POV I'm the Achillo)

[welcometoteyvat]

questioning melusine and answering machine (steambird disappearance world quest chain) needs to be voiced god. world quest voices WHEN

[poligraf]

In the great body of human society it is impossible to establish unity and coordination if one part is considered perfect and the other imperfect. When the perfect functions of both parts are in operation, harmony will prevail. God has created man and woman equal as to faculties. He has made no distinction between them.

— `Abdu'l-Bahá

[professorlegaspi]

Au where Casimir gets his foot in the door early, and Quiroz joins Renasci as a seventh-year

[eljeebee]

I've been brainstorming how to write my operator. How to write Paris as a character. And while I was getting the laundry from our clothesline, I had an epiphany.

Operator Paris sucks at playing the shawzin.

There. That's fact number one. And now, off I go to think more how to expand her as an OC. Also I need to think of her last name hnngh

[naomiknight-17]

Still recovering from hurting my back vacuuming yesterday, but Jon and I got a very important task done today

We got the mats out of Billi the Belligerent's fur

I am astounded we both came away uninjured. She was SO MAD. She definitely tried to bite a couple times but Jon was wearing grooming gloves while restraining her with a towel and she never got hold of him

I was surprised how many of the mats we were able to comb out, but there were a couple of very large difficult ones that had to be shaved. So now she has silly-looking bald patches on her rump, but she should be more comfortable now

Just look at the pile of matted fur and loose undercoat that came off her:

And her very bad hair cut TuT poor thing

She still has a dandruff problem, and besides trying to brush her more often (she hates it and will fight us, so it's hard to find a balance between brushing enough and too much/stressing her out) I am not sure what we can do about it. Bathing didn't help, and stressed her out far too much

Anyway. When all was said and done we released her and she spent some time just sitting on the bench, glaring at the wall, and refusing to look at me

I guess she'll be extra grumpy for a while. Oh well. It's worth it if this relieves the discomfort of matted fur.

[embervoices]

A very useful thread on Bluesky:

(There is a lot more. Rather than give you all the images, I've copied the full text below.)

Meredith Rose‬ ‪@mrose.ink‬ November 8, 2024

This is not going to be a repeat of 2016-2020. It will be better, it will be worse, but most of all it will be different. Here are things I want every single person to keep in mind as we head into round 2 of a Trump admin.

My credentials: I’m a queer female public interest attorney working on tech policy in DC. I’ve been doing this for a decade--longer than some, not as long as others. I had to navigate three different administrations, as well as Congress, regulatory agencies, courts, and the advocacy world.

FIRST: don’t let despair override your media literacy.

The left has grifters, just like every other movement. If you’re able and compelled to donate, give to orgs with established track records. Avoid giving to individuals, especially anyone who emerges overnight with a one-weird-trick “plan.”

The left is not immune to misinformation, and everyone—EVERYONE—falls for it sometimes, present company included. There is no shame in it. When (not if) it happens to you, you should acknowledge it; delete or retract the post to reduce the spread; and move on.

If a source consistently shares half-truths or outright misinformation, it is not trustworthy, no matter how much “their heart is in the right place.” Unfollow and move on.

Prediction, analysis, and reporting are three fundamentally different things. Learn to identify them for what they are. Reject attempts by amateur “analysts” to predict the future. They know as much as you do.

Real subject matter experts know and acknowledge their limits. They’re also (usually) hesitant to try and predict the future. The best frame their predictions in terms of a range of possible outcomes. Subject matter experts may also disagree with one another! It happens!

SECOND: What we know for sure about how the Trump, how he operates, and how that will impact the next four years.

Trump is a narcissist who avoids reading and doesn’t care about details. He cannot be persuaded by argument or logic; he’s moved mostly by flattery, and will agree with the last person who flattered him. He can and will upend his own administration’s work without warning, often by tweet.

As a result, most policy experts—even those "on his side"—dread him taking an interest in their field. Ask any Republican staffer who worked in Congress during the last administration, and most of them will confirm that their greatest fear was Trump tweeting about anything related to their work.

As such, people who are serious about their work will do everything to make it as invisible and boring-seeming as possible. This is the policy equivalent of defensive camouflage. Lots of “normie” work will continue in silence. (The lion’s share of tech policy ends up in this bucket.)

If you have a niche issue that you care about, now is a great time to donate to orgs that work on it. Lots of money will be funneled to big legacy orgs working on headline issues: ACLU, climate change orgs, etc. Consider sending your donations where they matter most: local, niche, established.

Trump runs his cabinet like the Apprentice. He thrives on chaos and making people compete for his approval. Not only does he not reward collaboration between his subordinates, he actively undermines it.

Moreover, everyone who works with him knows that they’re vulnerable to being thrown under the bus at a moment’s notice, for any reason (or for no reason at all). His cabinet is going to be scorpions in a bottle. They will not be able to coordinate, for good or ill.

One scorpion can still do a lot of horrific damage. But large scale inter-agency coordination is unlikely, particularly after the first few months, by which point he will likely (prediction warning!) have gone through a handful of cabinet secretaries already.

FINALLY: The view from inside civil society heading into 2025.

In 2016, Trump was a largely unknown quantity. The left and establishment right alike wasted a lot of time trying to read tea leaves and make sense of this guy, because he was completely outside the realm of what anyone had dealt with. That’s not happening now.

He did us a favor by broadcasting his plans in advance (aka Project 2025). Civil society has spent the last 2.5 years strategizing around it. We’re not starting off flat-footed.

The Biden admin did a good amount to future-proof its own achievements. Folks can speak to their own areas of expertise, but clean energy and CHIPS and Science Act (investing in domestic semiconductor production) have benefitted from huge sunk investments. That money’s not getting clawed back.

OVERALL TAKE-AWAYS:

It's going to suck. But civil society and the political left have some advantages we didn't have last time. We know him, we know his angles, and we know who he's bringing in--none of which we had in 2016.

We'll get through this. It will be grim, but we'll get through it.

John Cutting‬ ‪@johncutting.bsky.social‬

Thanks Meredith. I really valued your analysis over the past few years, and I think this is a reasonable, actionable framework to think about the upcoming storm

Meredith Rose‬ ‪@mrose.ink‬

I really cannot overstate how much time was (necessarily) wasted in 2017 trying to figure out this guy and his influences. The fact that he's not only a known quantity, but ran the most over-studied administration in this nation's recent history, makes this a very different game.

John Cutting‬ ‪@johncutting.bsky.social‬

I bet we can weaponize his narcissism. Let's say some ghoul starts making progress with a mass deportation effort, if we start calling that ghoul that "shadow president" en masse, Trump would fire him in right away and appoint Hulk Hogan or something

‪Meredith Rose‬ ‪@mrose.ink‬

This is exactly why I don't think Musk will last very long. Trump is very clear that he's the only one in the room allowed to have an ego or any kind of brand name.

[redgearsmovin]

I just loooove the brainstorming sequence in the Super Goop episode

[townpostin]

Inter-State Meeting on Naxalism Convenes in Ranchi

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[jobsnotices]

Plan International Vacancy in Nepal 2024: Project Officer, Finance and Operations Coordinator, Project Coordinator

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[just2bruce]

Port call optimisation reduces greenhouse gas emissions in ports

Drewry is well-known for its expertise in maritime-related matters. In a recent market opinion piece, they suggest that maritime emissions can be reduced rather simply, with port call optimization. They mean to reduce the time ships sit near a port waiting for their berth to open up. Some ports have been successful with appointment windows. But the Drewry approach includes slow steaming to hit…