Dystopian Expectations

[Tom Gallagher NEW book Portugal & Western Turmoil @cultfree54]

Douglas Murray asks why Mahmood and Starmer lauded the arrest of twelve individuals, linking them to an anti-Muslim 9/11- style plot in Suffolk, but demanded silence about the reasons why Ann Widdecombe was murdered, and by whom.
They clearly wished to bury disturbing and inconvenient news while running away with an invented story about 12 drone enthusiasts who were soon released without charge.

'I have to ask two things. First, it seemed to me when the Suffolk story broke that it was a little too convenient. A prominent anti-open-borders Reform spokeswoman had been beaten to death in her home. Strong sentiments were flowing. And then, as if to remind us that all sides and anyone can do something bad, along comes a ‘far-right extremism, anti-Muslim terror plot’ story, displayed on the BBC’s website alongside updates on the Widdecombe case. Why? And how did the police and the top of government get this so terribly wrong?

The second thing I have to ask...is: what is the difference in prejudicing a fair trial when it comes to the Widdecombe case and when it comes to the Suffolk ‘far-right, Islamophobic, mass-casualty terror event’ that wasn’t? Someone explain it, please?'
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[the lich @thelichhh]

A Fields Medalist walked into a UCLA hall and explained prime numbers to people with no mathematics background. Almost nobody watches it.

Terence Tao won the Fields Medal, mathematics' highest honour, then a MacArthur Fellowship less than a month later. He was UCLA's first professor to take the Fields.

The talk is structure and randomness in the primes. Numbers that look scattered at every scale, yet obey rules strict enough to build cryptography on.

That tension is the same one running through every model trained in 2026. Randomness with structure underneath, and the whole question of where one stops and the other starts.

Watch how he pitches it. General audience, no prerequisites, one of the strongest living mathematicians choosing clarity over display.

A cryptography engineer I know rewatched the middle section twice and said the primes stopped looking arbitrary.

Free on YouTube from UCLA, 17 years online.

The hardest minds explain most simply. The pattern never changes.

[Giotto di Bondone @ArtistDiBondone]

St. John Evangelist #artbots #giotto

[Kilian Löser @KilianLoeser]

Mansour sagt imo völig zu Recht, dass der Staat und v.a. diese Leute den falschen Angang an Islamisten haben.

"Als Auflage erhielt er die Teilnahme an 26 Beratungsgesprächen zur Deradikalisierung. [..] Linke NGO, deren Infotexte auf deren Websites mit Gender-Sternchen durchzogen sind."

[Dystopian Expectations @dystopianexp]

This the trailer for the upcoming Croatian epic historical movie about Roman emperor Diocletian. The movie is in Latin language!
@M_Schaub @Gurdur @HeikoHeinisch @MollersPaul @ReskiLab

[Aristocratic Fury @LandsknechtPike]

This the trailer for the upcoming Croatian epic historical movie about Roman emperor Diocletian.

The movie is in Latin language!

I translated the trailer so you can see what the movie will be about. The movie will be in cinemas on 29 October 2026.

[diana bloom @diana_bloom_]

I love this 🙌

[Amit Segal @AmitSegal]

For the first time since October 7, 2023, the King of Bahrain has publicly announced that he held a conversation with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

[Dystopian Expectations @dystopianexp]

Ich wünsche einen schönen Sonntag
@schnellenbachj @stefanolix @luebberding @Gurdur @markrudolph2701 @Markus_Wojahn @HenrijsDE @KilianLoeser @eckilepsie @ReskiLab @BewareMacduff

[Einar Baldvin @Einarbaldvii]

Gustave Doré's illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours. "The World Destroyed by Water", "The Deluge", "The Dove Sent Forth from the Ark" and "Noah Cursing Canaan"

[ASSYRIA TODAY ܐܬܼܘܪ ܝܘܡܢܐ @TodayAssyria]

This is what happened under the Ottoman Empire.

Hanging silently in the National Museum of Serbia is a painting from 1595 that you don’t just look at… it grabs you.💔

You see Bishop Teodor of Vršac.
Upside down. Helpless.

His body is being torn open.
His skin pulled from his flesh.
Not a punishment.
A message. 😔

Whether it happened exactly like this almost doesn’t matter.
This is what power looks like when it wants to break you.
In 1594, Banat rose up against the Ottoman Empire.
The response was ruthless.

Under the Ottoman Empire, leaders were no longer treated as people.
They were turned into examples.
And that’s what you see here.

Not just death.
But humiliation. Fear. Control.
A warning without words:
this is what happens when you resist. 💔

This is not art meant to be beautiful.
This is what needed to be remembered.
Not to honor —
but to never forget.

When I saw this, I didn’t just think about him.
I thought about us.
About centuries under the Ottoman Empire.
About a faith that came with a cost.

To bow…
or be broken.

Even in the 16th century, Assyrian clergy were already being executed in Mesopotamia under the Ottoman Empire.
And later — Armenians, Assyrians, Greeks, Maronites.

Different times.
Same pattern.
The methods change.
The pain doesn’t.

#BishopTeodorOfVršac #Serbia #Christian #Genocide #Serbian #Assyrian #Armenian #Greek #Maronite

[Einar Baldvin @Einarbaldvii]

Gustave Doré's illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours. "The World Destroyed by Water", "The Deluge", "The Dove Sent Forth from the Ark" and "Noah Cursing Canaan"

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: For the first time in years, the King of Bahrain called Israel’s president as both countries prepare for escalation of the war with the regime in Iran.

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

Guys, the details of the latest jihadist attack in Europe are psychotic.

Abdul Ballout was born in Berlin, but he left Germany for Lebanon.

Germany identified him as an Islamist threat, so they had him arrested in Lebanon and FLEW HIM BACK TO GERMANY to put him on trial for plotting terror attacks.

He was convicted and sentenced for terrorism offences in May 2026 but released on time served.

By July 2026 he was back on the streets.

German authorities told him to attend de-radicalisation counselling sessions.

He responded by carrying out a jihadist terrorist attack on a pride parade.

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

🚨WATCH: PM Netanyahu on Jihadist Mayor Mamdani: "A Jew is stabbed with a cry of Allahu Akbar. You know what that means. It's shameful...I intend to come and speak the truth, speak for Israel and the Israeli-American alliance from the podium of the United Nations."

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

There is not a single week without a German company announcing mass layoffs or closures.

Germany is in the deepest structural crisis since WWII. Government spending masks the real magnitude

It can’t continue forever, governments need taxes from the real economy to keep spending

[Stille 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @katri7047]

Ja das ist beschämend ⬇️

[Daniel Eck 🇺🇦 @eckilepsie]

Ich will es an die ganzen bewusst provozierenden Kommentare sagen:

Entweder es entwickelt sich einzig ein säkularer Islam in Deutschland, der nicht den Hauch von Anschein einer missbräuchlicher Unterdrückung der Frau im Namen der Religion zulässt, oder der Islam wird nie als differenzierte Prägung mit einer freiheitlichen Demokratie vereinbar sein.

Es ist sehr einfach.

[Raylan Givens @JewishWarrior13]

🚨 Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa:”We are avoiding confrontation with Israel and have no interest in it. We are working to achieve a security agreement with Israel, with the participation of a group of countries”

[Jan Schnellenbach @schnellenbachj]

Virtue signaling und billiger Symbolscheiß fürs eigene Gemüt statt Härte gegen Islamisten. Ja, Herr Polenz, das wird sicher helfen.

[Dystopian Expectations @dystopianexp]

(Atlantic Council)
"my overarching impression is that the security environment on the Old Continent has been deteriorating faster than folks in major capitals here seem to realize" (Thread)
@schnellenbachj @stefanolix @M_Schaub @Gurdur @HeikoHeinisch @MollersPaul @ReskiLab

[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

🧵My last week in Europe this summer. Still one trip and one conference, but I'm slowly beginning to pack up. And my overarching impression is that the security environment on the Old Continent has been deteriorating faster than folks in major capitals here seem to realize. 1/10