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Yahoo
6 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
People Are Sharing Relationship Stories That Range From Piss In The Dating Pool To Happily Ever After
X (better known as Twitter) user @SchmoozeX asked people on the app to "Share a piece of lore about your dating life," and boy, were these anecdotes better (and wilder) than I could have ever imagined! Here are some of the submissions: Confusion The Block Wild Week The Hard Way God We Trust Boost Last Laugh Of All Trades School Un-HINGEd Blunder With Firearms Unserious The Rate Memory Drama And Bouquets Do you have an interesting dating story? Share it with me below! Solve the daily Crossword
CNA
6 hours ago
- General
- CNA
Commentary: Are height filters on dating apps harmless or discriminatory?
SINGAPORE: When Tinder introduced a height filter for premium users, the internet predictably lost its mind. The feature allows users to set the minimum and maximum height of potential matches. Some think it's about time we became more transparent with our dating preferences. Others see these preferences as a way to discriminate. But it's not so black and white. Studies confirm what most of us instinctively know: Both men and women tend to prefer couples where the man is taller. This preference isn't random. It's rooted in deeply gendered ideas: Tall men signal strength; shorter women are more docile. The visual pairing supports a cultural narrative: He protects, she's protected. So yes, shorter men are often overlooked before a conversation even starts. But tall women, seen as intimidating or unfeminine, can also get edged out of the dating economy. But are preferences about our partner's appearances inherently bad? GAP BETWEEN PUBLIC VALUES AND PRIVATE BEHAVIOUR Outrage over height filters on dating apps reveals the gap between our public values and private behaviour. Many of us publicly champion body positivity, yet privately filter matches based on appearance. Tinder didn't invent that contradiction. It just made it visible. Those disgruntled by such hypocrisy might ask: If dating app users can sieve out matches by their height, why not by their weight? Weight comes with more moral judgment than height because it's considered changeable. People are praised for losing it and shamed for gaining it. That's why a weight filter would likely spark even more outrage – it taps into decades of stigma, especially against women. Yet height filters operate on the same logic: that physical traits are valid proxies for compatibility. If body positivity is about challenging that logic, then we need to examine height filters because they quietly reinforce a hierarchy of desirability. When dating apps turn our preferences into algorithms, they stop being just personal. They become patterns that influence who gets seen and who stays invisible. How do we reconcile body-positive ideals with the reality of personal attraction? What do we do when our values clash with our instincts? There's also a cultural blind spot when height preferences can unintentionally exclude ethnic groups. That adds another layer to the conversation: When we filter by height, are we also filtering by race – even if we don't mean to? JUST A MARKET RESPONSE? Tinder isn't alone in rolling out such a feature. It's merely following a playbook that's worked. Bumble and Hinge already offer height filters, while Grindr and OkCupid let users filter by body type. The demand is real, and people are paying for it. Companies don't spend time and money building features no one wants. Tinder's height filter exists because user behaviour pointed to it – through swipes, drop-off rates and stated preferences. 'It's pragmatic,' a friend told me. 'There are so many fish in the sea; might as well narrow it down.' A Reddit user put it more bluntly: 'This is all about physical appearance, so why shouldn't we filter for that?' That logic seems efficient – until you consider what gets lost. When preferences become hard requirements, we box ourselves in. You might filter out someone who could've made you laugh until your face hurt. These personality traits can't be quantified and made into a filter. People routinely lie about their height on dating apps anyway. That same friend who told me the height filter was pragmatic also said he's been catfished many times because of it. There's also real-world nuance the apps don't account for. In reality, short men still get dates. Tall women find partners. People are attracted to humour, confidence, emotional intelligence or financial stability. Height may be a preference – but it's rarely the dealbreaker the internet makes it out to be. It's worth noting that Tinder's height filter doesn't exclude users entirely, but influences the algorithm's recommendations. In other words, you'll still see people outside your preferred range – just less frequently. WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN DATING But we still have to ask: Should tech enable us to double down on superficiality, or encourage us to look beyond it? Most of my friends – single, married, straight, queer – agree: Looks might catch your eye, but they don't hold your heart. What really matters? How someone treats you. How they show up when life gets hard. How they make your worst days feel bearable. Yet we use apps that prioritise aesthetics, and pay a pretty penny to get the best matches. Maybe because it's easier to swipe on faces than to wait for connection, or we're scared of wasting time. Maybe it feels safer to trust algorithms than to risk disappointment. Honestly, we should be free to date whomever we want. No one owes anyone attraction. But when our platforms automate and monetise those preferences, we have to ask: What are we optimising for – and at what cost? Tinder's height filter isn't just a feature. It's a mirror. And what it reflects is a culture still tethered to outdated ideals, even as we claim to move past them. That doesn't make us bad. It makes us human. But the more honest we are about what drives our choices – the more likely we are to build a dating culture that reflects who we are, not just what we've been told to want.
TechCrunch
9 hours ago
- TechCrunch
Your public ChatGPT queries are getting indexed by Google and other search engines
It's a strange glimpse into the human mind: if you filter search results on Google, Bing, and other search engines to only include URLs from the domain ' you can find strangers' conversations with ChatGPT. Sometimes, these shared conversation links are pretty dull — people ask for help renovating their bathroom, understanding astrophysics, and finding recipe ideas. In another case, one user asks ChatGPT to rewrite their resume for a particular job application (judging by this person's LinkedIn, which was easy to find based on the details in the chat log, they did not get the job). Someone else is asking questions that sound like they came out of an incel forum. Another person asks the snarky, hostile AI assistant if they can microwave a metal fork (for the record: no), but they continue to ask the AI increasingly absurd and trollish questions, eventually leading it to create a guide called 'How to Use a Microwave Without Summoning Satan: A Beginner's Guide.' ChatGPT does not make these conversations public by default. A conversation would be appended with a '/share' URL only if the user deliberately clicks the 'share' button on their own chat and then clicks a second 'create link' button. The service also declares that 'your name, custom instructions, and any messages you add after sharing stay private.' However, users probably do not anticipate that Google will index their shared ChatGPT links, potentially betraying personal information (my apologies to the person whose LinkedIn I discovered). Though unintentional, this is a norm that was established in part by Google. When people share public links to files from Google Drive, such as documents with the 'Anyone with link can view' setting, Google may index them in Search. However, Google generally does not surface links to Drive documents that have not been publicly posted on the web — for example, a document may appear in search if it is linked on a trusted website. Techcrunch event Tech and VC heavyweights join the Disrupt 2025 agenda Netflix, ElevenLabs, Wayve, Sequoia Capital — just a few of the heavy hitters joining the Disrupt 2025 agenda. They're here to deliver the insights that fuel startup growth and sharpen your edge. Don't miss the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch Disrupt, and a chance to learn from the top voices in tech — grab your ticket now and save up to $675 before prices rise. Tech and VC heavyweights join the Disrupt 2025 agenda Netflix, ElevenLabs, Wayve, Sequoia Capital — just a few of the heavy hitters joining the Disrupt 2025 agenda. They're here to deliver the insights that fuel startup growth and sharpen your edge. Don't miss the 20th anniversary of TechCrunch Disrupt, and a chance to learn from the top voices in tech — grab your ticket now and save up to $675 before prices rise. San Francisco | REGISTER NOW But this doesn't seem to be the case for these ChatGPT logs. OpenAI did not provide comment before publication. 'Neither Google nor any other search engine controls what pages are made public on the web,' a Google spokesperson told TechCrunch. 'Publishers of these pages have full control over whether they are indexed by search engines.'
Phone Arena
20 hours ago
- General
- Phone Arena
AT&T uses Ericsson's rApp to optimize live network, marking industry first
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CTV News
a day ago
- Business
- CTV News
Child food bank use doubles in Elliot Lake as costs rise
Northern Ontario Watch Food inflation hits Canadians hard, with food banks like Elliot Lake's seeing a 40 per cent surge in clients since 2023 and child users doubling to 114 monthly.
