I used to watch a friends one over the summer. It was so exciting to see a bird arrive and take such diligent care of the space and her eggs. (The males appear to be mostly useless but some did return regularly with worms etc)....
The block feature should be renamed to “mute”, which is what it seems to actually be. Currently I can apply this to a user and they can still see all my posts. So it’s a good mute feature but a terrible block feature.
“ financiers provided the world’s top 55 industrial livestock companies with average annual credit injections of $77bn”
Are the meat and dairy businesses applying for loans? The article says that the banks are in breach of their own environmental policies so I’m curious how it’s supposed to work.
So many quotable pieces in this article. This is one that stayed with me:
“ The brain has learned that the phone is a random provider of “new experiences”. Even in airplane mode, it was demonstrated that having the phone on your desk or in your bag degrades heavily your attention and your thinking performance. Performance went back to normal only when the phone was put in another room.”
I can absolutely believe this. I find even other people’s phones distracting.
Of the three (default, Photon, Alexandria), Photon is my favourite by a long way.
I use dark mode on everything so I have that bias. I find Photon easier to read than the others site to the colors.
The larger image preview is easier to see. I prefer text-only in general, but I notice my eyes are less strained trying to make out thumbnail details with Photon.
The UI layout seems tidier too.
Is the long term plan to keep them optional or phase out some in favour of others?
The. British are also silent when it comes to paying reparations for their own misdeeds overseas, which unfortunately strips this statement of credibility.
That’s a good point. I don’t know if I can blame them - there are powerful forces in the battles for hearts and minds. The Murdoch press is one example.
The reason I stopped eating them isn’t because they are smart, it’s because they have a nervous system and can experience pain. We now know too that many (most/all?) can experience emotional pain, for example, grief.
Edit: people downvoting scientific fact. You have my sympathies 😂
Does anyone have a link to some nest cams?
I used to watch a friends one over the summer. It was so exciting to see a bird arrive and take such diligent care of the space and her eggs. (The males appear to be mostly useless but some did return regularly with worms etc)....
Blocking a user behaves more like mute. Proper blocking needed to prevent harassment.
The block feature should be renamed to “mute”, which is what it seems to actually be. Currently I can apply this to a user and they can still see all my posts. So it’s a good mute feature but a terrible block feature.
Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, report finds (www.theguardian.com)
The report (PDF): feedbackglobal.org/…/Feedback-2024-Still-Butcheri…
A Society That Lost Focus (ploum.net)
except for the ‘‘new experiences’’ sentence it’s a lovely article :)
Testing Alexandrite alternative UI (alexandrite.slrpnk.net)
Similar to the Photon UI, we are currently running a trial of the Alexandrite UI here: alexandrite.slrpnk.net...
Richest oil states should pay climate tax, says former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown (www.bbc.com)
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will give a speech this week in which he is expected to delay some of the government's policies to reach net zero emissions by 2050 (www.reuters.com)
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Birds with more complex vocal skills are better problem-solvers (www.sciencenews.org)
Research article: Songbird species that display more-complex vocal learning are better problem-solvers and have larger brains