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Torsten Heinrich wrote that the proliferation of jet-powered drone attack systems shows that delayed reactions to developments in the Ukraine war are only slightly better than no reaction at all. The threat had primarily consisted of slower drones with piston engines until a year ago. Intercept drones that would have been suitable against the new jet drones would be useless, he argued. Heinrich advocated for close collaboration with the Ukrainian armed forces and for the German defense industry to produce directly for Ukraine. This way, production capacity could be built while Ukrainian feedback conveyed the actual need. If the supplied weapons were needed in Germany, production could, according to Heinrich, be immediately switched to the Bundeswehr. The output would then be many times higher than without production for Ukraine, and the systems would better meet current requirements and unit prices than the interests of German drone companies targeting government contracts. Heinrich wrote that arms deliveries to Ukraine are also in Germany's interest because this way Germany could develop and manufacture in sufficient numbers those weapons that would be needed in a conflict with German involvement. #Drohnentechnologie #UkrainischeKriegsführung #Rüstungsindustrie (translated)

PlayLiszt wrote to PolizeiBB that an Eastern European account has more than two million followers and supplies media worldwide. He asked what PolizeiBB intended to do about it and whether they wanted to shut down the internet. https://t.co/W7LXXxDRvi #Internet #Medien #Sicherheit (translated)

Emanuel Boeminghaus wrote that the number of corporate bankruptcies in Germany has reached alarming levels, being 85 percent above pre-crisis levels. Citing the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle, he reported a total of 1,666 bankruptcies of individuals and corporations for September 2026 – nine percent more than in August and about 85 percent more than in an average September before the pandemic. Additionally, Boeminghaus referred to Creditreform statistics indicating around 12,900 corporate bankruptcies in the first half of 2026, an increase of 7.8 percent. According to the Federal Statistical Office he cited, the reported creditor claims in June amounted to 3.9 billion euros. Boeminghaus warned that payment defaults could lead to further companies facing financial difficulties. In his view, the development shows how severely the economic substance of many German companies is under pressure. https://t.co/LXGDP0InKX #Insolvenzen #Wirtschaft #Deutschland (translated)

The post’s author argued that it would strengthen Putin’s regime and reinforce the elite’s belief in a Kremlin victory, hardening Moscow’s position and contributing to an escalation of Russian aggression. They added that voices like the one featured in the article would signal to Moscow that it was on the right course. #Putin #Russia #Kremlin #RU

Emanuel Boeminghaus wrote that the eco-friendly energy provider Grüüün will cease supply to around 200,000 private customers nationwide by October 31, 2026. The company only started in 2024 and had advertised price guarantees of up to ten years. Affected customers will need to find a new provider. Grüüün cited planned changes to the Renewable Energy Sources Act and new regulations for power grid expansion as reasons. The company fears that this will lead to fewer wind power and solar installations in the future, making it impossible to maintain long-term price guarantees. Negotiations with the federal government have been unsuccessful, Boeminghaus wrote, referring to a BILD report from October 10, 2026. He explained that this case illustrates how political and regulatory uncertainty can jeopardize long-term business models in the energy sector. https://t.co/NINMEcNkUS #Energiewende #Strompreise #Deutschland (translated)

The author said they were Belgian, had some North African ancestry and were not Jewish, but described themselves as a proud Zionist. They argued that Zionism had historically been among the world’s most benign, inclusive and progressive nationalisms, and added that a people had earned a country. https://t.co/QArNi8tXFe #Zionism #Nationalism #BeliefSystem #BE #MA

Anna wrote that Donald Trump announced on Truth Social the delivery of 4.8 million tons of Russian diesel. The agreement was made during a phone call with Vladimir Putin, whose army is bombing Kyiv. The price of diesel is over $6, also due to Trump's Iran war, Anna wrote. This became a problem for him before the midterms. In September, Trump blamed Volodymyr Zelenskyy for attacking Russian refineries; now he is catering to Putin, according to her account. Russia imposed its diesel export ban because of exactly these attacks. Putin said eight days earlier that the diesel could not be sold abroad due to sanctions. Trump did not mention the sanctions in his announcement; whether the Kremlin confirms the stated amounts is unclear, Anna wrote. She contrasted this with the original justification for the Iran war: saving Iranians and making the world safer. Meanwhile, nobody talks about the Iranians anymore, while North Korea flatters Trump and Russia supplies him. Anna asked what a president fights for who flatters Kim Jong Un, bombs Iran, demands the largest island from Denmark, and orders diesel from Putin. In her assessment, the USA is currently dancing at all weddings at the same time. Anna cited AP and The Hill from October 9 and CNN from September 15 as sources. #Trump #Putin #Dieselpreise (translated)

The author argued that autarky had never been, and would never be, a solution to problems including energy. They said it was saddening to see EU officials embrace that approach, adding that the EU was founded on the belief that greater integration, rather than self-reliance, would bring peace and prosperity. #EU #Energiewende #Integration #EU

The Art of Uncertainty: How to Navigate Chance, Ignorance, Risk and Luck by David Spiegelhalter From the UK’s ‘statistical national treasure’, a clever and data-driven guide to how we can live with risk and uncertainty Life is uncertain. We are all the result of an unforeseen and unforeseeable sequence of small occurrences. But what underlies this fragile chain of events? Is it random or just complex? And what role does luck play in our lives? David Spiegelhalter has spent his career crunching data in order to help understand uncertainty and assess the chances of what might happen. In The Art of Uncertainty, he gives readers a window onto how we can all do this better. Uncertainty, he argues, is a relationship between the observer and an object in the outside world. He shows us how we can express it numerically, and then update our beliefs about the future in the face of constantly changing experience. In crystal-clear prose, he takes us through the principles of probability, a field that informs everything from annuities to pandemics and climate change, while also examining the limitations of statistical modelling and arguing we need to have the humility to admit our ignorance. Drawing on a wide range of real-world examples, this is an essential guide to navigating uncertainty in a world that makes it inevitable.

The author wrote that the observation challenged the belief that greater AI capability would resolve misalignment, arguing that past evidence and theoretical reasoning suggested it could instead intensify unwanted behaviour by making systems more effective at pursuing the wrong goals.

Nur mal zu Erinnerung, wie einfach es wäre! Trotz der Sabotage ist noch eine Pipeline von Nordstream 2 völlig intakt! Wir könnten direkt mit Gas aus Russland beliefert werden, aber unsere Regierung will das nicht! https://t.co/JGPNayXFBr #Nordstream2 #Energiepolitik #RussischesGas

Solace House by Will Maclean In the summer of 1993, broke student Alex Lane joins a team clearing out Solace House, a Victorian mansion bequeathed to the university by a reclusive hoarder called Flayne. The other students are a mixed bunch, but Alex quickly falls into a close friendship with the lively, redheaded Ella. When the crew begins sorting through piles of junk, they stumble upon Flayne's journals, in which he details his obsession with his missing mother, his discovery of a place called Bewise, and - most mysteriously - his belief in another realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions as to how it might be reached. As the students delve deeper into the house's secrets, one of them becomes obsessed with deciphering Flayne's strange opus and its promise of another world... and they may be willing to sacrifice everything, and everyone, to get there.

Incredible statement from Gavin Bazunu. "My decision is based purely upon my personal belief that the killing of innocent people is wrong." Sometimes it's just that simple. A hero. https://t.co/frQBabpk8c #GavinBazunu #InnocenceMatters #HeroicStand #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #therearenocountrycodestoreturn.

“Between 1979 and April 2024, we recorded 66,872 Islamist attacks worldwide. These attacks caused the deaths of at least 249,941 people. • 1979-2000: 2,194 attacks and 6,817 deaths. • 2001-2012: 8,265 attacks and 38,187 deaths. • 2013-April 2024: 56,413 attacks” - Islamist terrorist attacks in the world 1979-2024 “The military is the main target (34%) of Islamist terrorists, ahead of civilians (27.7%) and police forces (15.3%). • 1979-2000: military (343 attacks, 15.6%), civilians (530 attacks, 24.1%), police forces (408 attacks, 18.6%). • 2001-2012: military (1,410 attacks, 17.1%), civilians (2,506 attacks, 30.3%), police forces (1,424, 17.2%). • 2013-April 2024 : military (20,556) - Islamist terrorist attacks in the world 1979-2024 “Most (86.3%) of Islamist terrorist attacks have occurred in Muslim countries1. Similarly, the vast majority of deaths from Islamist terrorist attacks (88.9%) occurred in Muslim countries” - Islamist terrorist attacks in the world 1979-2024 “Number of Islamist terrorist attacks in Muslim countries: 57,726 attacks (86.3% of Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide). Number of deaths caused by Islamist terrorist attacks in Muslim countries: 222,236 deaths (88.9% of deaths caused by Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide)” - Islamist terrorist attacks in the world 1979-2024 “In this study, we define “terrorism” as political acts that meet the principle and criteria of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). In this context, a terrorist act is presented as “the threat of the effective use or use of unlawful force and violence by a non-state actor in order to achieve political, economic, religious or social objectives, through fear, coercion or intimidation”8. This definition is extended to the enumeration of a set of characteristics specifying the nature of the terrorist act: – it must be intentional and result from a conscious calculation by the perpetrator; – it must include some level of violence or threat of imminent violence, whether physical or material; – the perpetrators of the incident must be non-state actors” - Islamist terrorist attacks in the world 1979-2024 “To complete without unduly complicating matters, one can refer in particular to the definition proposed by Edward Walker, because of its relative clarity and conciseness: “By ‘Islamism’, I mean the normative political ideology that has as its core program the establishment of Islam as a state religion and the implementation of Islamic law (shari’a). Militant Islamism, then, is any form of Islamism that advocates the use of violence to achieve Islamist objectives. This same distinction is made by Islamists themselves, who refer to ‘Parties of the Islamic Call’, or al-da’wa al Islamiyya (i.e., Islamist groups that do not advocate violence) on the one hand, and ‘Parties of the Muslim Revolution’, or al-thawra al-Islamiyya (i.e., Islamist groups that do advocate violence) on the other hand14. Acknowledging that there are no universally accepted definitions of Islamism and terrorism, some researchers characterise it as an ideology whose key tenets include: – Belief that Islam is not only a religion, but also a holistic sociopolitical system; – Advocacy of shari’a (Islamic) law as divine state law; – Belief that a transnational Muslim community, known as the Ummah, should unite as a political bloc; – Advocacy of an ‘Islamic’ state, or Caliphate, within which sovereignty belongs to God” - Islamist terrorist attacks in the world 1979-2024 “We have recorded 66,872 Islamist terrorist attacks that killed at least 249,941 people between 1979 and April 2024. Number of attacks: 66,872 Number of wounded: 192,598 Number of deaths: 249,941” - Islamist terrorist attacks in the world 1979-2024 “The possible estimate” should be between 300,000 and 400,000 deaths considering the victims of Islamist terrorism in Algeria, according to the hypotheses based on the best-known sources and the most reliable studies” - Islamist terrorist attacks in the world 1979-2024

The Deconstructionists and the Preservers The average person assumes that everyone wants the same things and merely disagrees about how to achieve them. But the social fracture we are living through is deeper: people no longer agree on what they want at all. Consider the conflicts dominating the news—crime, the border, online speech, and who raises children. Beneath each is a question rarely acknowledged: Does society corrupt human beings, or does it elevate them above their animal nature? If social constructs are oppressive, then every institution becomes suspect. Hierarchy, cultural norms, the family, and the nation appear to be cages designed to restrain a free creature. The only honest response, in this view, is to tear them down. The belief that society corrupts the individual is not fringe doctrine. It is the creed of much of the elite class governing the West. From Rousseau, who argued that man was born free until society placed him in chains, through Marx, who identified those chains as capital and class, to the postmodernists, who reduced institutions to masks for power, the thread remains unbroken. It is the philosophy of universities, the cultural industry, and the bureaucrats shaped by both. Opposing it is the older conviction of Hobbes and Hegel: that a person stripped of structure is not free, but frightened and dangerous, and that order is what improves him. Hobbes saw that without order, life becomes a war of all against all. Hegel believed that people become fully themselves through family, community, and the rational state. The divide, then, is not simply left against right. It is the deconstructionists against the preservers. The irony the demolishers never grasp is that freedom does not remain after every structure is cleared away. It requires personal responsibility as a cultural habit. When order is destroyed in the name of liberty, society begins to collapse. Something must bear the weight, and the state eventually fills the void—without moving gently. Liberty pursued through demolition produces, with grim reliability, the conditions of slavery. The deconstructionist imagines himself a liberator striking mankind’s chains. In truth, he is the architect of the cage.