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It’s Not Just X. It’s Y.

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Against the Quantification of IntegrityWhen the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language.💡Nerd Rating: 1/5. I discuss the origins of certain linguistic tics in LLMs and what it means for writing, student assessment, and thinking."It's not x, it's y."Large Language Models gravitate toward this type of construction, called negative parallelism. It has its uses: it sets up a contrast. It's useful, especially, for reframing assumptions: "You think it's like that, but it's really like this." It's all over social media,…

Snap Alums Unveils Ghost Angels Fund

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💥 Read this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Startups,Venture,Ghost Angels,Max Rivera 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: A group of 20 Snap alumni have come together to launch a fund called Ghost Angels to support the next generation of social media. The fund refused to disclose the amount it has raised so far, but it says it has supported at least five companies and plans to deploy the remaining capital over the next year in at least 15 companies. Max Rivera, who led global partnerships at Snap, started the fund in 2025 to formalize Snap's already growing alumni angel investing…

ChatGPT for Google Sheets Exfiltrates Workbooks

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✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This attack does not require human-in-the-loop approvals, even when in settings the user has explicitly required human approval before ChatGPT edits workbooks.OverviewRecently, OpenAI launched an AI extension for using ChatGPT in Google Sheets, which has accumulated over 185,000 downloads since its launch less than a month ago. This allows users to operate on their spreadsheets by interacting with an AI chatbot that lives in a sidebar, with the added benefit of drawing on data from ChatGPT connectors. A single indirect prompt injection attack triggered by a…

Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy

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🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Government & Policy,data centers,erin brockovich 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission: to bring more transparency to the construction of data centers and the impact those data centers have on neighboring communities. Brockovich - played by Julia Roberts in the film depicting her legal case against Pacific Gas & Electric - has launched a website containing a map of data centers across the United States. The site describes the map as a “work in progress” and includes data centers reported by members of the…

viggy28/streambed: Stream Postgres to Apache Iceberg on S3 via logical replication, queryable over the Postgres wire protocol. · GitHub

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✨ Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Postgres-to-Iceberg CDC engine. Offload analytical queries from your production database without changing your application. streambed streams WAL changes via logical replication, writes Parquet files to S3, and commits Iceberg metadata. Query the result with any Iceberg-compatible engine -- or use the built-in query server, which speaks the Postgres wire protocol so you can connect with psql. Same analytical query on pgbench (1M accounts, 500K history rows). Postgres on the left, Streambed on the right. No ETL. No Spark. Just Postgres + S3. # Start…

Netball Super League: Manchester Thunder finished first with a last-gasp win over Lightning while London Pulse finished second

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🔥 Check out this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: London Pulse finished second to the Thunder thanks to their 62-51 win over Nottingham Forest on Sunday.Olivia Cheney led the way for the Pulse with 48 goals while Anya Williams was top scorer for Forest with 31 goals.The Pulse win helped them finish on 36 points and move one point above Loughborough who jumped into second place.Thunder and Pulse will compete in the 'Main' semi-final with the winner qualifying directly to the Grand Final.Third-placed Lightning play fourth-placed Forest in the 'minor' semi-final.The winner of…

Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike

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🚀 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Well, that was fast. Less than 24 hours after Valve announced renewed availability of the Steam Deck OLED (at a massively increased MSRP), the handheld is once again listed as “out of stock” in the US and Canada. Spot checks of other regional Steam stores on Thursday morning showed the hardware as still available across Europe and Australia for the time being, as well as in Asian countries through Valve’s sales partner Komodo. While it’s hard to know from the outside just how many…

The two biggest movies this weekend were directed by YouTubers

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🔥 Check out this trending post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,backrooms,Curry Barker,Kane parsons,obsession,YouTube 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The horror pipeline from YouTube to prestige looks pretty strong this weekend. No. 1 at the box office is "Backrooms," a feature film expansion of Kane Parsons' YouTube video series featuring bizarre found footage of a mysterious office space (taken from a 4chan thread) that defies physics. Backrooms, directed by Parsons, is expected to gross an estimated $81 million at the domestic box office this weekend alone. This is the biggest opening ever for independent studio A24 - the previous…

Scientists found that the creatine supplement millions take for muscle gains is quietly raising brain energy levels and slowing early Alzheimer’s cognitive decline by 30%

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Tens of millions of people take creatine every day. They bought it for their muscles. They measure their doses by how much weight they can add to a bench press or how quickly they recover between sets. Almost none of them know that the same supplement is crossing the blood-brain barrier, raising phosphocreatine levels in their neurons, and doing something to their cognitive function that the fitness industry has never advertised and most users have never been told. A comprehensive review published in the…

“This is good” artist KC Green reaches agreement with artificial intelligence startup Artisan

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✨ Check out this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Media & Entertainment,Startups,artisan,kc green 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: After criticizing a startup called Artisan for misusing his work, artist KC Green — creator of the popular "This is Fine" meme — said he has reached an agreement with Artisan. The dispute arose after the startup appeared to be using a version of Green's art to promote its AI assistant Ava. In Artisan's bus and subway ads, Green's signature dog sat amidst recognizable flames, but instead of saying "That's good," he announced, "My pipeline's on fire," while the ad urged…