>We don't have landmass to facilitate the output waste in the UK

Yes, we do. It really doesn't make that much space to store the waste. The biggest problem is people being irrationally scared of it.

>The first point already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea

SEs are public companies, and must have at least €120k in capital during formation.

The proposed EU Inc. will be for private companies with no capital requirements.

SE companies can be unlisted, if that's what you mean.

The capital requirements can be changed.

The last time pan-European private companies (SPEs) were seriously proposed (2008) opposition from the German government blocked the proposals, the idea limped along until finally being ditched in 2014 after disputes in the European Parliament about worker representation on boards.

SPEs were supposed to follow on from SEs (public companies, introduced in 2004) and SCEs (cooperative societies, introduced in 2006).

>The ultimate aim is to create a new truly European company structure. We call it EU Inc., with a single and simple set of rules that will apply seamlessly all over our Union.

I hope this is an indication that the Commission proposal will be for a Regulation and not a Directive.

I still don't understand why it's been such a contentious decision to pick between the two.

Worse, the rule became to reverse the victim and offender,[0] and belittle those calling out the behaviour as "woke" or "suppressing free speech".

>Imagine you have an AI button. When you click it, the locally running LLM gets a copy of the web site in the context window, and you get to ask it a prompt, e.g. "summarize this".

but.. why? I can read the website myself. That's why I'm on the website.

People have a limited amount of time, so they may prefer spending it on something else than what a computer can do for them.

>During that period, it was accessed 43 times by 32 unique IP addresses

I find this an implausibly low number. It was all over Bluesky, X etc., not to mention journo Signal and WhatsApp groups.

Possibly copies of the document rather than the original URL?

Either that number was wrong like you say OR (and I am unfamiliar with Bluesky) the URL is loaded via Bluesky's browser (like X) and therefore Bluesky's own server IP was used (instead of the user's).

Edit: Or (and more likely) cached/copies of the original.

I agree, and I also am familiar with how WP Engine's 'GES' (global edge security) works. obr.uk points to two IP addresses held in the name of WP Engine, but they're actually BYOIP with Cloudflare. Cloudflare act as a caching layer, DDOS mitigation and WAF.

Note that GES works a bit different to traditional Cloudflare implementations, HTML requests are basically passed through to the WP Engine NGINX reverse proxy server that's in front of the WordPress site (as opposed to being heavily cached with Cloudflare). Static assets, like a PDF - would indeed be cached with GES.

I feel like those 32 unique IP addresses may very well be Cloudflare or CloudFront ones.

Maybe it was cached somewhere and most people were hitting the cache?

Ah yes, the official numbers. If only food and rent were going up only by 2.5%

They're part-way through setting up a Belgian non-profit entity (AISBL) which will be the main organisation.

From https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/the-future-is-ours-to-...

>A vital aspect of our restructuring initiative is transitioning Mastodon to a new European not-for-profit entity. Our intent is to form a Belgian AISBL as the future home of the Mastodon organisation. > >As an update on our current status, Mastodon is continuing to run day-to-day operations through the Mastodon gGmbH entity (the Mastodon gGmbH entity automatically became a for-profit as a result of its charitable status being stripped away in Germany). The US-based 501(c)(3) continues to function as a strategic overlay and fundraising hub, and as a short-term solution until the AISBL is ready, the 501(c)(3) will own the trademark and other assets. We intend to transfer those assets as soon as the AISBL is ready. To enable tax-deductible donations for German donors, we partnered with WE AID as our fiscal sponsor.

The UK was never in the Schengen Area, though.