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The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
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In #Tützpatz hat #Vattenfall Deutschlands größten #AgriPV Park mit 76 MWp Leistung in Betrieb genommen.
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Deutschlands größter Agri-PV Park geht in Betrieb
Offizieller Dienstbeginn für ein Pionierprojekt der Energiewende: Heute (10.9.) nimmt Vattenfall den bis dato größten deutschen Agri-PV Park „Tützpatz“ in Betrieb. Es ist ein weiterer Schritt des Unternehmens, den Übergang zu fossilfreier Energie zu unterstützen und damit die Gesellschaft voranzubringen. Starke Partnerin ist die Deutsche Telekom AG. Sie nimmt den produzierten Grünstrom für zehn Jahre vollständig ab.

Constraints on New Physics from decays of polarized $\Lambda_b^0$ baryons at the FCC-ee
Anja Beck, Mero Elmarassy, Asher Sabbagh, Michal Kreps, Eluned Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02225

Constraints on New Physics from decays of polarized $Λ_b^0$ baryons at the FCC-ee
The $Z^0$ bosons produced in electron-positron collisions at the potential Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) provide unique opportunities for flavour physics. The non-zero polarization of \Lb baryons produced in $Z^0$ decays enables access to a much larger set of observables than at the LHC, where the \Lb baryons are produced unpolarized. This paper presents a toy angular analysis of $Λ_b^0\to Λ(\to pπ^-)μ^+μ^-$ decays using simulation samples of collisions at the FCC-ee reconstructed usin…

Wavelength-tunable femtosecond pulsed laser for the characterisation of solid-state sensors
Enoch Ejopu, Oscar Augusto de Aguiar Francisco, Nawal Al Amairi, Huazhen Li, Marco Gersabeck, Alexander Oh, Christopher Parkes, Patrick Parkinson, Francisca Munoz Sanchez, Charles Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01546…

Wavelength-tunable femtosecond pulsed laser for the characterisation of solid-state sensors
The Two-Photon Absorption (TPA) process provides an excellent method for the characterisation of solid-state sensors due to its intrinsic 3D resolution for the excitation of electron-hole pairs. This paper presents the commissioning of a system composed of a Light Conversion PHAROS laser read out with an ORPHEUS optical parametric amplifier with tuneable output wavelength across $310-16000$~nm. This is one of the few facilities suitable for particle physics detector applications with a very wid…

Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) in PMEDM - A Comparative Study in Pareto Frontier
Mohsen Asghari Ilani, Yaser Mike Banad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01775 https:/…

Multi-objective Evolutionary Algorithms (MOEAs) in PMEDM - A Comparative Study in Pareto Frontier
Electrical discharge machining (EDM) is a crucial process in precision manufacturing, leveraging electro-thermal energy to remove material without electrode contact. In this study, we delve into the realm of Machine Learning (ML) to enhance the efficiency and precision of EDM, particularly focusing on Powder-Mixed Electrical Discharge Machining (PMEDM) with the integration of a vibration system. We comprehensively evaluate four leading ML models - Deep Neural Network (DNN), Extreme Gradient Boo…

Understanding the Coulomb explosion through neutralization dynamics in the problem of Auger-destruction
Nigora Turaeva, Boris Oksengendler, Farida Iskandarova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01140

Understanding the Coulomb explosion through neutralization dynamics in the problem of Auger-destruction
The Coulomb explosion is a process that occurs following the formation of multiple charges during Auger cascades, leading to the destruction of solid-state and molecular structures. For unstable multi-charged ions produced at Auger cascades, the destruction cross-section is directly related to the probability of Coulomb explosion, which depends on characteristic times of ion dissociation and electron neutralization. This study demonstrates that the atomic dissociation time decreases with charge…

The German love for combustion is a perpetuum mobile.
68.5% of Germans believe that their car makers are not fully committed to electric mobility.
Furthermore, 47.8% believe that politicians do not view electric mobility as the technology of the future.
https://…

Characterizing FaaS Workflows on Public Clouds: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Varad Kulkarni, Nikhil Reddy, Tuhin Khare, Abhinandan S. Prasad, Chitra Babu, Yogesh Simmhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23013

Characterizing FaaS Workflows on Public Clouds: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a popular serverless computing paradigm for developing event-driven functions that elastically scale on public clouds. FaaS workflows, such as AWS Step Functions and Azure Durable Functions, are composed from FaaS functions, like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions, to build practical applications. But, the complex interactions between functions in the workflow and the limited visibility into the internals of proprietary FaaS platforms are major impediments to gaining…

Multimodal near-infrared spectroscopy for biosensing applications
Krisztian Neutsch, Jana Nikolic, Asra Mafakheri, Jan Stegemann, Sebastian Kruss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00775

Multimodal near-infrared spectroscopy for biosensing applications
The near infrared (NIR) region of the electromagnetic spectrum contains valuable information about vibrational overtone and combination modes. Additionally, fluorophores that emit in the NIR are desired because this spectral range falls into the tissue transparency window. However, NIR techniques are not as widespread as their counterparts in the visible range because detectors, microscopes and fluorophores are less available. Here, we present a NIR multimodal and low footprint spectroscopy (NI…

Dissipation in passive non-reciprocal microwave devices
Stefano Bosco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00874 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00874

Dissipation in passive non-reciprocal microwave devices
Non-reciprocal devices are key components in both classical and quantum electronics. One approach to realizing passive non-reciprocal microwave devices is through capacitive coupling between external electrodes and materials exhibiting non-reciprocal conductance. In this work, we develop an analytic framework that captures the response of such devices in the presence of dissipation while accounting for the full AC dynamics of the material. Our results yield an effective circuit model that accur…