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This evening I have been listening to one of @… 's podcasts and thinking about my failure in trying to lead the village's planning working group, and about the cognitive dissonance underlying my Tricycle project. I suspect this essay will be a grim read; it's not well formed in my mind as I sit down to write.

Schwimmende vertikale Photovoltaikanlage mit 1,87 MW auf Kiessee eröffnet
Eine schwimmende Photovoltaikanlage auf einem See liefert durch vertikal angeordnete Solarmodule mehr Strom auf einer kleineren Fläche als herkömmliche Anlagen.

The Smashing Magazine comment form is still broken, so I’m memorializing the comment I _wanted_ to leave about CSS carousels:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-accessibility.html#Update06 (anchor)
Includes quote fr…

My Request to Google on Accessibility
Hey, Alphabet or Google or Chrome or whomever in that illegal monopoly continues to release things to the web platform that are full of accessibility barriers, I have what I think is a straightforward request. My Request Please, if your team cannot explain how the thing satisfies all WCAG Success…

Ankara warns of Black Sea escalation after Russian strike on Turkish ship in Odesa: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/ankara-warns-of-black-sea.html

What Answers Jack Bech is Providing for Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-answers-jack-bech-providing

The most probable order of a random permutation
Adrian Beker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11698 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11698

The most probable order of a random permutation
Given positive integers $n$ and $m$, let $p_n(m)$ be the probability that a uniform random permutation of $[n]$ has order exactly $m$. We show that, as $n \to \infty$, the maximum of $p_n(m)$ over all $m$ is asymptotic to $1/n$, the probability of an $n$-cycle. Furthermore, for sufficiently large $n$, we show that the maximum is attained precisely if $m$ is the least positive integer divisible by all positive integers less than or equal to $n-m$. This answers a question of Acan, Burnette, Eberh…

Grading NFL QBs on rookie deals: Drake Maye is acing the 2025 season while two others are flunking out

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-qb-grades-rookie-deals-drake-maye-aces-2…

The ideas that finally bubbled up to the surface in The Point of No Return last night have been festering in the back of my brain for months. Because, although it's a bit inchoate, it's only saying out loud what most of us already know.
The job now is no longer to turn the ship around. We don't have the wheel, and those who do will not listen.
The task now is to build lifeboats. To build resilient spaces in which fragments of humanity can survive.

The Point of No Return
I can't stop climate change by myself. I can't create a sustainable future for my village by myself. To do either of these things, everyone else needs to work together. But badgering people, being frustrated with people, being angry with people (and yes, I am angry — very angry — with people I know, and like, and respect, very much) doesn't motivate them to work together. My very frustration, my very sense of urgency, makes me a liability. I should stop.

Oh no the YouTube bullshit of substituting perfectly fine real videos (shorts) with very obvious AI without the creators consent just reached my timeline

I'm really looking forward to seeing this: https://www.nzonscreen.com/title/anchor-me-don-mcglashan-story-2025