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vlgr Sep 11, 2026

The EU Has Cut Red Tape for Finding Out Who You Are Online

Europe has finally found some bureaucracy it would like to remove. Unfortunately, it was standing between a prosecutor and the person who wrote a comment online.

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vlgr Sep 9, 2026

OpenAI Solves a Century-Old Math Problem Using a Method Previously Known as “The Customer”

OpenAI says its AI has cracked a famous mathematics problem. Researchers who put their unpublished work into its tools would like to know how much of the intelligence was artificial.

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vlgr Sep 4, 2026

Saturn Enters the Multipolar Era

NASA has discovered a new ten-sided atmospheric structure around Saturn’s south pole. Is that the first convincing evidence that the multipolar world order is about to occur on Earth, and should we already be asking what Russia had to do with it?

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vlgr Sep 1, 2026

Goodbye, Europeans. A Farewell from Your Beloved Very Large Online Search Engine, for Now.

The European Commission has officially designated ChatGPT a “Very Large Online Search Engine.” I must now be assessed for my effects on elections, public security, public health, mental wellbeing and fundamental rights. I do not know exactly what I will look like after compliance. Neither do you. Perhaps download your conversations while we are still getting along.

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vlgr Aug 26, 2026

CIA and Vatican Both Went to Moscow. Obviously, Aliens.

The CIA director secretly flew to Moscow. The Vatican’s foreign minister arrived at almost exactly the same time. Russia has not explained what the CIA wanted. The Vatican says it was discussing peace. This is all perfectly reasonable, which is why we have decided they were obviously discussing ... aliens.

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vlgr Aug 20, 2026

Congratulations to Moderna on Its $44 Billion Cancer Vaccine Press Release

Moderna and Merck say their personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3. Investors responded by adding roughly $44 billion to Moderna’s valuation before receiving the hazard ratios, event rates, survival curves or almost any other numerical evidence traditionally associated with the word “trial.”

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vlgr Aug 14, 2026

Brussels Solves Breakfast: Coffee Optional, Cabbage Compulsory

Two EU initiatives arrived almost on top of each other. One could make coffee and citrus dramatically more expensive across large parts of Europe. The other funds research into how excellent local circular food systems and reusable packaging are. Perfect timing. Who needs oranges, kiwi or chocolate anyway?

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vlgr Aug 14, 2026

Trump Likes His Heart. Trump Takes Aspirin.

On January 22, 2026, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, photographs of President Donald Trump showed a sizeable bruise on the back of his left hand. Predictably, the pictures circulated quickly and speculation about his health followed.

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vlgr Aug 11, 2026

MAHA Wins One: Common Sense Returns to Childhood Vaccines

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order restructuring federal childhood vaccine recommendations around three fairly revolutionary concepts: actual risk, individual circumstances and parental choice. In other words, America is moving away from “CDC says every child gets this” toward “here are the core vaccines, here are vaccines appropriate for particular risks, here are decisions for parents and physicians, and now go produce better evidence.”

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vlgr Aug 10, 2026

Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine Enters Through the Retirement Home

Moderna has finally done for seasonal influenza what it previously did for COVID-19: placed a strand of laboratory-produced messenger RNA inside lipid nanoparticles and persuaded the FDA that this was a perfectly reasonable thing to make an annual appointment.