Interesting Links for 01-10-2025

[andrewducker]

1. Law firm that dropped trans man agrees to pay damages and costs

(tags:transgender bigotry law uk )

2. Do Trigger Warnings Work?

(tags:mentalhealth psychology triggerwarnings viaPatrickHadfield )

3. What effects does rent control actually have?

(tags:regulation rent doom housing )

4. The dawn of the post-literate society

(tags:society literacy doom )

Comments

[simont]

In fact I can imagine at least two totally different reasons to read a thing immediately based on a trigger warning:

1. I feel anxiety about XYZ and for exactly that reason I need to know what the XYZ news is right now rather than worry all day about what it might turn out to be. (As you say, people who find a current-events topic worrying might reasonably deal with it in lots of different ways, avoidance being only one of the possibilities.)

2. Other people find PQR triggering but I love it! Woohoo, there's some PQR content! (Perhaps for less current-events kinds of thing, such as an animal commonly thought of as scary except some people think it's cute.)