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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.

Flip side of this: ~3 years ago, I got automated calls from “RBC Visa”. I ignored them.
Then my card stopped working.
So I called the number on the back of my card and said as much.
The agent gave me a hard time: “So you JUST IGNORED our calls about this?”
“No; I didn’t know they were you calling.”
“How did you not know they were us?! It says ‘this is RBC Visa’ when you answer!”
“That’s indistinguishable from fraud.”
He did not like that. He thought …

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.

An Alaska fund has raised $3.5M from 80 donors in its first two months to help public radio and TV stations partially offset the ~$15M federal funding cuts (Iris Samuels/Anchorage Daily News)
https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2025/09/14…

As program cuts begin in wake of federal rescission, Alaska fund raises $3.5M for public media
A partnership between radio stations and the Alaska Community Foundation seeks to fill a $15 million gap created by Congress.

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

Photo of Angkor Wat (Cambodia) with a cow and a pig in the foreground by my father.
Angkor Wat is the largest Hindu temple complex in the world, situated at Angkor, Cambodia, built by King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city.
#AngkorWat is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
When I visited (decades later) tourists filled the fields instead of…

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…

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…

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.