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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.

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A Society That Lost Focus
  • 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.

  • Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, report finds
  • “ 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.

  • Richest oil states should pay climate tax, says former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown
  • The. British are also silent when it comes to paying reparations for their own misdeeds overseas, which unfortunately strips this statement of credibility.

  • 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
  • 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.

    Disclaimer: I’m not from Britain though.