today's King Tide at the Port of Redwood City

The crisp image is marred by the strong stench of raw sewage.

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http://shannon.usu.edu.ru/Papers/Baran/RM3764.pdf

A 1964 paper discussing decentralized networks with a goal of survivability. Figs. 3 & 4 are particularly interesting. One shows a network mapped over physical terrain, and the other forces that network map into a table of even rows and columns.

#ActivityPub (AP) instances use of privacy and moderation policies replace the idea of physical terrain as the "surface" in Fig. 3.