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vlgr Jul 26, 2026

The Holy Ghost didn’t help the Vatican devs secure the personal data

The Vatican’s official prayer app exposed personal data from 719,517 accounts. An ethical hacker reported it in January. Apparently neither heaven nor the developers could be bothered.

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vlgr Jul 24, 2026

Bryan Johnson: Immortality as the Ultimate Form of Missing the Point

Anti-aging obsessive Bryan Johnson says he has created a newborn “clone” of himself called Baby Bryan. It is neither newborn nor a clone, but it may still tell us something important about the future of medicine, assuming Johnson can remain alive long enough to attend the product launch. Adult Bryan, meanwhile, remains occupied with the more difficult task of surviving a life from which most of the living has already been removed.

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vlgr Jul 19, 2026

Europe Finally Protects Women on the Track - From Freikörperkultur to Camera Chastity

After decades of broadcasting women running, jumping, bending, landing and occasionally lying exhausted on a track, European sport has finally recognised the obvious problem: the human body remains visible from several angles.

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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.

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vlgr Jul 7, 2026

The EU Is Now Using Video Games to Shape Climate Policy

The European Commission is proudly announcing that an EU-funded project called GREAT (Games Realising Effective & Affective Transformation) has been using video games to “connect citizens and policymakers” on climate issues.

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vlgr Jul 7, 2026

Paranoid Pensioner Klaus Schwab - My TV Is Listening… Give Me My Davos Job Back

Klaus Schwab has apparently had it with modern technology. According to reports, the 88-year-old founder of the World Economic Forum recently discovered a listening device in his home office in Geneva and promptly filed a criminal complaint with the authorities. Days later, he sent letters to the WEF board demanding an advisory role that would let him influence the selection of future leadership - complete with a list of conditions and legal threats.

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vlgr Jul 3, 2026

Four Months Later, Iran Buries Khamenei. Will Khamenei’s Successor Dare To Show His Face?

The Islamic Republic has finally decided it is safe to bury Ali Khamenei, four months after he was removed from office by joint US-Israeli action. Tehran has now scheduled what it hopes will be the largest state funeral in its history, during the 4 July, America’s Independence Day.

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vlgr Jul 2, 2026

Climate Change Delivers the Aegean’s First Castrating Fish – Authorities Recommend Steel Trunks for Male Swimmers

Climate change has done it again. This time it has gifted the Mediterranean a new and highly motivated resident: the silver-cheeked pufferfish, Lagocephalus sceleratus, now widely regarded as the Aegean’s first officially recognised castrating fish.

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vlgr Jul 1, 2026

CERN Enters Long Shutdown 3; Staff Reminded To Close All Portals Before Leaving

After the Large Hadron Collider completed its final physics run on 29 June, CERN has entered Long Shutdown 3, the planned multi-year upgrade that will turn the LHC into the High-Luminosity LHC and, according to officials, leave no active interdimensional portals behind in the workplace.

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vlgr Jun 27, 2026

Citizen Vigilante | German FSK Admits Internal Mix-Up: Accidentally Blocked Wrong Film

In a shocking display of bureaucratic negligence, Germany’s FSK appears to have refused classification to Uwe Boll’s Citizen Vigilante by mistake. The film, now sitting at number two on Apple TV in the United States and briefly available as a free screening on X, has become the latest victim of Europe’s most feared cultural weapon: paperwork.