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Nothing kills the vibe like flip-flops: what to wear to a festival this summer | Festival fashion

Nothing kills the vibe like flip-flops: what to wear to a festival this summer | Festival fashion

Published by Sam Flores

You never really know what you’re going to get when it comes to festivals. Veterans know to be prepared for anything, come rain or shine. So, planning your clothing choices is as important as planning your lineup for the day. Nothing kills the vibe like wearing flip-flops or white trainers when the ground resembles more of a swamp than a field. The Guardian’s journalism is independent. We will earn a commission if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. There is a certain freedom that comes with festival dressing, too. Everyone is there for the same reason – to listen to music and have a good time. If you’re looking to experiment with something different, festivals are the place to do it. Come rain or shine … Kate Moss made wellies a festival staple, and they remain a reliable choice for muddy fields. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty However, practicality underpins successful festival dressing, with pieces that work for everything and anything the event could throw at you. From easy coords to bags that will fit …

Lovehoney's New Strawberry Vibe Is Perfect For Whimsy Girl Summer

Lovehoney's New Strawberry Vibe Is Perfect For Whimsy Girl Summer

Published by Sam Flores

Lovehoney/Honey Jane Wyatt We hope you love the products we recommend! All of them were independently selected by our editors. Just so you know, HuffPost UK may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page if you decide to shop from them. Oh, and FYI — prices are accurate and items in stock as of time of publication. In case you missed it, it’s a whimsy girl summer. We’re analogue. We’re offline. We’re friction maxxing. If there’s one sure fire way to inject some juice back into your life, it’s by taking your sexual pleasure extremely seriously this summer. The sun might be out, but what better way to end a day in the sun than by making yourself glow from the inside just as bright as it is outside? Well, just in time for whimsy girl summer, Lovehoney has released a new clitoral suction vibrator that’s shaped like a strawberry. An honest review of Lovehoney’s Strawberry Suction Toy As someone with a penchant for cute things – especially cute sex …

Vibe coding can build your pipeline. It can’t explain it six months later

Vibe coding can build your pipeline. It can’t explain it six months later

Published by skeptic

AI coding agents are rapidly accelerating data engineering by generating transformations, pipelines, orchestration workflows, validation tests, and infrastructure configurations from prompts. However, enterprise data platforms have long operated across fragmented systems owned by different teams and built on different technologies. As these systems evolve independently, organizations increasingly struggle with inconsistent business logic, duplicated implementations, difficult downstream impact analysis, and hidden dependencies across the platform. The rise of vibe coding can further amplify these problems as more operational context, architectural decisions, and business knowledge become scattered across prompts, conversations, generated code, and disconnected workflows rather than becoming part of the system itself. Spec-driven development (SDD) is emerging as one approach to address this challenge. In SDD, prompts, business rules, validation logic, orchestration behavior, and implementation workflows are converted into executable and versioned specifications that become part of the system itself. These specifications act as persistent operational memory for both humans and AI agents, allowing systems to evolve more consistently across releases, teams, and AI-assisted workflows. Because enterprise data engineering already relies heavily on reusable patterns, metadata-driven …

The Vibe Inside Madison Square Garden During Knicks-Spurs Game 3

The Vibe Inside Madison Square Garden During Knicks-Spurs Game 3

Published by Jenni Sidey

On Monday night, for the first time since 1999, the New York Knicks hosted an NBA Finals game at Madison Square Garden. Given their commanding 2-0 lead in the series over the visiting San Antonio Spurs—and the fact that the Knicks haven’t won a title since 1973, before 67% of the city’s current residents were born—the vibes in New York in the days leading up to Game 3 had been impossibly high. Spike Lee was paraded through the streets of Brooklyn like the Pope. French Montana, Max B, and Remy Ma recorded a New York-centric remix and music video to the former’s “Since U Left Me” at MSG. And the area around the arena had transformed into an epicenter of hope and hype, with official watch parties attracting thousands of raucous fans and a gaggle of enterprising vendors. But that energy was somewhat hindered on Monday, thanks in no small part to President Trump, who attended the game at the invitation of Knicks owner James Dolan, and whose outsized security apparatus caused the watch party …

The AI vibe shift is real: Why the backlash is growing

The AI vibe shift is real: Why the backlash is growing

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You’ve heard of AI vibe coding, one dictionary’s phrase of the year for 2025. As of this week, 2026 is shaping up to be the year of the AI vibe shift. You wouldn’t know the shift existed from the tech world’s top pronouncements of late; it is, after all, always sunny in Silicon Valley. Microsoft’s Build conference, like Google I/O in May, featured tons of techies talking about tokens, the metric by which AI prompts and answers are measured (a token, weirdly, is about three-quarters of a word on average). Both conferences also centered claims about frontier AI that are dubious to say the least. DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis at Google I/O: “Artificial General Intelligence is just a few years away… we are standing in the foothills of the Singularity.” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman: “scaling laws are holding… we are building towards what we call Humanist Superintelligence.” Investors, too, showed little sign of losing their AI optimism this week. Nvidia stock tumbled for a few days, but rallied after CEO Jensen Huang insisted AI …

Mistral AI launches Vibe, expands into industrial AI and announces data center push to challenge OpenAI

Mistral AI launches Vibe, expands into industrial AI and announces data center push to challenge OpenAI

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Mistral AI used its inaugural conference on Wednesday to announce a sweeping expansion into industrial manufacturing, a new inference data center south of Paris, and a rebranding of its consumer-facing assistant — moves that collectively signal the three-year-old French startup’s ambition to become the enterprise AI provider of record for companies that refuse to hand their most sensitive data to American hyperscalers. At the AI NOW Summit, held at a venue in central Paris, co-founder and CEO Arthur Mensch took the stage alongside CTO Timothée Lacroix and Chief Scientist Guillaume Lample to lay out a strategy that stretches from bare-metal GPU clusters to physics simulations for aircraft wings. The company disclosed that it now employs 1,000 people and is targeting €1 billion ($1.17B USD) in revenue for 2026 — a figure that, if achieved, would be an extraordinary growth trajectory for a company that began with 15 employees collaborating with its first customer, BNP Paribas, in 2023. “We have two convictions at Mistral,” Mensch told the audience. “The first is that in order to deploy …

When the “Vibe” Isn’t Right at Work

When the “Vibe” Isn’t Right at Work

Published by Jenni Sidey

I was recently speaking with a restaurant manager about the difficulties of working with younger employees. She began to tell me about one particular employee who was very bright and a good worker, but she couldn’t always count on him to come in. She liked him, but his absences posed a problem, and it wasn’t clear to her what was causing them. She wondered: Might there be medical issues? Were there personal problems? One day, when it had become clear to the manager that she couldn’t continue this way with his erratic attendance, she decided to force the issue. Why hadn’t he been able to come in yesterday, she asked—was he sick? No, he assured her, he was feeling fine. Was there some other serious situation in the background bothering him? He shook his head. Well, she asked him, what was going on? The young man was quiet for a moment, thinking, searching for the right words to describe his feelings. “Work just didn’t have the right vibe,” he finally said. Confidence and Resilience The …

This country star brings a Pakistani vibe to his songs : NPR

This country star brings a Pakistani vibe to his songs : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Singer-songwriter Mo Sabri loves country music — and Pakistani devotional music. His new music reflects both genres. Mo Sabri hide caption toggle caption Mo Sabri When the singer-songwriter Mo Sabri was growing up in East Tennessee, his Pakistani immigrant parents loved playing the swirling, rhythmic sounds of qawwali, Sufi Muslim devotional music. They also loved playing country classics by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. After all, Johnson City, Sabri’s hometown, is a 30-minute drive from Bristol, Tenn., known as the birthplace of country music. Those musical influences would have a profound effect on Sabri. Today, he is a country music artist in Nashville who proudly identifies as a Pakistani American and a Muslim — and creates music drawing from those worlds. On his YouTube channel, you’ll find original country songs like “Married in a Barn” but also a cover of the qawwali “Tajdar e Haram.” YouTube And he’s making music history. On May 31, this Muslim country singer will play with the Nashville Symphony. They will perform an orchestral rendition of his new album, Tennessee …

The Typo Vibe Shift – The Atlantic

The Typo Vibe Shift – The Atlantic

Published by Sam Flores

Toward the beginning of the 2002 film Secretary, a domineering lawyer (played by James Spader) barges into the office of his assistant (Maggie Gyllenhaal) with evidence of a work infraction: a memo she has written that has “three typing errors.” Spader’s character spits out a reprimand. “Do you know what this makes me look like to the people who receive these letters?” Setting aside that his screed turns out to be foreplay, Spader’s character was channeling a widespread cultural revulsion: Typos were the ultimate shorthand for careless work. A spelling mistake was proof that the writer hadn’t bothered putting much effort into a piece of correspondence, that their instructions or advice shouldn’t be taken seriously—and perhaps that the recipient shouldn’t invest time in reading their note at all. More than two decades later, as AI-generated writing has flooded workplaces, social media, and dating apps, old hallmarks of sloppiness—typos chief among them—are getting a new gloss. Read: The problem with using AI in your personal life Some job applicants are intentionally adding typos to their cover …

I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?

I’m a Normie. Can Normies Really Vibe Code?

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What my mom lacks in healthy legs, she makes up for in a Claude Pro subscription. Having needled her repeatedly over the past couple years about AI’s environmental, political, and economic implications, I brushed all that aside on a recent Sunday and drove to her house. After a little tibia talk, I opened her computer and began emitting vibes. I’d like to create a communally shared app that gathers and shares information related to how much time and energy we devote to fighting burdensome administrative tasks, bureaucratic sludge, Kafka-esque unsubscribe mazes, byzantine insurance portals, wrongful charges, denied claims, confusing membership plans, and the like. With as much clarity and detail as I could muster, I proceeded to describe a dashboard that would record the scale and scope of our collective sludge. Users would log frustrating incidents from their lives, entering how much time they’d spent, how annoying it was, and what they’d rather have been doing. Every submission would be dopaminally rewarded with an inspiring resistance quote and a photo of a kitten, puppy, or …