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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 18, 2026

New EU Toy: Your Emails, Messages and IPs Now Travel Faster Than Your Rights

Brussels has just given prosecutors a fast-lane to your digital life. The safeguards are optional. The deadlines are not.

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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 10, 2026

EU Taxpayers Happy to Finance CIRCULANDIA Packaging Solution

Brussels has solved the small-producer problem. European taxpayers are contributing almost €9 million to CIRCULANDIA, a new Horizon Europe project involving 35 organisations across 12 countries to research circular food systems, local production and reusable packaging. Tax money put to good use.

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vlgr Aug 6, 2026

Scientists Want 4 Billion People by 2200. They Never Said Which Ones.

A new paper in Sustainable Development has the polite solution to the planet’s problems: gently reduce the human population from over eight billion to around four billion by the year 2200. The good news is the White man has already volunteered.

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vlgr Aug 3, 2026

Europe Demanded Age Verification. Europe Could Not Build Age Verification.

Europe spent years rewriting legislation to protect children online, reaching from digital-ID verification to access the internet to banning children from communicating in multiplayer games. Then came the implementation phase.

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vlgr Jul 24, 2026

The Euro Discovers Birds: Europe Redesigns Its Money Because It Was Not Conceptual Enough

The European Central Bank has unveiled ten official design proposals for the next generation of euro banknotes. Europe has chosen giant eyes, anonymous citizens, migratory birds, rivers and EU institutions. Within hours the internet answered with air-conditioning units, street brawls, plastic bottles and Karl Marx.

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vlgr Jul 23, 2026

Save Europe Act Is Racist and Goes Against European Values

Brussels has spoken. The European Commission has officially refused to register the Save Europe Act as a European Citizens’ Initiative. The reason is clear and final: wanting Europe to remain European is racist.

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vlgr Jul 19, 2026

Do You Feel Like a Citizen of the State We Have Not Officially Created Yet?

“Do you feel like a citizen of the EU?” the European Parliament asked. “A large majority of Europeans do.” This is excellent news for an institution whose long-term political project depends upon Europeans gradually forgetting that the European Union is still formally a union of sovereign countries rather than a sovereign country of its own.

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vlgr Jul 15, 2026

Two Out of Four: How the Entertainment Industry Aligns Productions with Awards and Funding Standards

The new X-Files reboot has not yet shown the public a single episode, but it has already acquired the most important feature of modern prestige entertainment: the ability to satisfy corporate, funding and awards frameworks. Other productions follow this example.