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

[bens_dad]

4. Nit. Text does not have to be print.
While I admit that there are several degrees of difference between reading and article in a paper magazine and the same article in a web browser on a phone*, the two experiences are still more similar than either is to watching a video of the author speaking on the same content.

* I consider the following ways of experiencing an article to be meaningful different:
reading it in a paper magazine,
reading it on an e-ink reader (such as a Kindle),
reading it in an epub reader on a phone, or
reading it in a web browser on a phone.
Reading it on a desktop or laptop is different again, but is not entirely in the same progression.

[andrewducker]

I am mostly text focussed and spend most of my day staring at screens!