Interesting Links for 02-08-2020

[andrewducker]

Understanding Invisible Labour

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Red mercury hoax sparks sewing machine frenzy

(tags:headline saudiarabia wtf )

George R.R. Martin Can Fuck Off Into the Sun, or: The 2020 Hugo Awards Ceremony (RageBlog Edition)

(tags:GeorgeRRMartin Hugo awards OhForFucksSake )

A gay Marvel comics writer talks about how the company treated him and how he was pushed out

(tags:marvel comics writing LGBT diversity OhForFucksSake )

An audiobook narrator on how to pronounce names

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New Evidence Suggests Young Children Spread Covid-19 More Efficiently Than Adults

(tags:children virus pandemic Doom )

Political Correctness Is Destroying America

(tags:politics media usa )

Comments

[nancylebov]

Here's a question I see not being asked: How effective is punishment as a means of getting changes you want?

[andrewducker]

My understanding is that "knowing you will be caught" is a much higher impetus for change than "the size of the punishment".

[anna_wing]

It depends on the punishment, which needs to be deterrent, and on how certain it is. Fear is an effective way to get quick changes in behaviour. Less so for changes to "hearts and minds", unless (a) it can be kept up for long enough for the next generation to grow up used to the fear-mediated behaviour; and (b) there is a positive incentive as well as just fear.


Purely social sanctions only work if your subject is vulnerable to them.

[calimac]

Less than impressed with forvo.com after finding it didn't have the first two names I thought of looking up, Michael Portillo and Fritz Leiber. YouTube was also difficult and time-consuming to use for the purpose.