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[–] innermeerkat@jlai.lu 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Take a look at Mehdi Moussaid’s work. a French guy studying mobs, how people act like fluids in high number. Riots are just a part of it.

You may find videos on YT, automatically translated I guess.

[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I've read similar ideas about traffic acting like fluid in a pipe. I suppose starlings and those big schools of fish probably have some similarities, too L.