Timing does often seem to be everything, particularly when there is a very limited foreknowledge of events.

What do television shows look like in our mind’s eye? Let me start with a personal experience. Two shows that I enjoyed immensely – Sex Education and The Mandalorian – seemed, to me at least, to have reached satisfying conclusions in their third and second seasons, respectively. But not in the same way.

In early 2025 a Reddit meme emerged featuring the producer/influencer Rick Rubin, eyes closed, seemingly lost in something deep, truthy and intuitive in his headphones, with the neologism “LettingTheVibes BeYourGuide” as its caption.[1] This briefly became an image metonym for vibe coding – the act of using LLMs to help the… The post Vibe coding the future appeared first on carrier-bag.net.

The Insurrection of the Resurrection The trial for pessimism transforms ecological consciousness into psychological pathology rather than ontological access. When one attempts to confront the irremediable—extinction without-remainder, the closure of all future testimony—this confrontation is often reframed as personal despair.

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Positron + Jupyter, Claude Opus 4.6, Vicki Boykis at AMLC, Emily Riederer, Wes McKinney, Codex, CC for science, R updates (R Data Scientist, R Works, R Weekly, R-Ladies, rOpenSci), AlphaGenome, ...

We examine what generated crisis discussions, how they tended to unfold, and how they were resolved. And we derive some lessons from history for the current replication crisis.

This article first appeared at dataindex.us on 2/5/2026 and was cross-posted today as a guest post to the Data Rescue Project. Yesterday, the CIA made the surprising decision to shut down the World Factbook after more than sixty years of operation. This move was not just a simple website update.

En el siglo XIX mexicano las mujeres mayores fueron estigmatizadas y criticadas en las obras literarias y en la prensa, lo que coincidió con las ideas que se tenían sobre el envejecimiento femenino y el escaso número de personas que alcanzaban edades avanzadas.

Wie wirken Open-Access- und Open-Science-Strategien tatsächlich? Und was passiert in der Wechselbeziehung zwischen dem formulierten Anspruch und der wissenschaftlichen Realität? Diese Fragen standen im Mittelpunkt der Veranstaltung der Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg (VuK) am 14. Januar 2026 in der Reihe Quo Vadis offene Wissenschaft in Berlin und Brandenburg.

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is available around the clock and provides access to archived websites. This is not yet possible in Germany. Here, the reading room tool must be used. Read here why this is the case and who is authorized to archive under what conditions. The World Wide Web of the past decades […] The post Internet Archive – only in the reading room? appeared first on iRights.info.