This is one of those fascinating times when you see the difference between people who think of monarchs and colonialism are part of some fantasy world, like Disney stories, and those who know the evil of it and whose parents can talk vividly about the cruelty and lasting impact.

Robert Smith of The Cure succinctly explains why everyone should despise the monarchy and the queen

At work we post a summary of our day on Slack so that everyone gets some context on what we did. I wrote a small Deno script to automate generating one from a Notion board github.com/voluntadpear/o…

Does anyone have a spare dall-e invite that I can use?

This thread is a devastating takedown of the New York Times' editorial about the Ukraine war.

If you run iPadOS 16 on M1 WITHOUT Stage Manager, is the external monitor experience the same as before? i.e. screen cropped, mirror by default unless the app supports multiple screens?

Having an effective HR team is a massive multiplier management-wise - something that I kinda knew but that I can now see and feel on an everyday basis.

OH MY F***ING GOD! Sophy Ridge: But these tax cuts will mainly benefit millionaires. Mark Littlewood: "You're not going to like this package if you care more about the poor." Mark Littlewood = director of the pro-Brexit IEA think-tank. (funding?)

MEGATHREAD on all of the developers who have shown their early builds to support Rockstar Games following GTA 6 graphics criticism:

Give this a RT if you think scrapping taxes on the super rich and bankers bonuses whilst cutting benefits for the poorest is NOT the type of Britain you want to live in.

Claudio Ortolina I feel like there’s a lot of bigger company things you don’t really appreciate until you see it done really effectively!

Found it

For the last couple of weeks I’ve been using Apple Music instead of Spotify (in the process of reducing the number of subscriptions I have) and it‘s going really well. I’m not a fan of the stock music app, so I’m using @marvis_music instead.

One of the most sensible takes on ‘cancel culture’ I’ve seen. Sensible, honest, smart. I’m posting the video directly as Times Radio tweeted it with a clickbait and somewhat misleading headline that unintentionally confirmed his point. More of this please.

I was recently on a flight to Charlotte, and when the flight landed two women, one Black one white, got into an argument after bumping into one another in the aisle. When they got off the plane, the white woman turned to the Black woman, red with anger, and called her the n-word.

Elon Musk To Cut Twitter Staff To Single Devoted Hunchback Who Laughs Hysterically At All Of Boss’s Genius Tweets bit.ly/3sn7AZl

For anyone trying to make sense of Musk having Twitter engineers print out their code and show it to Tesla engineers… my view is we don’t need to look far to see what is happening. Elon doesn’t like to pay severance. From my coverage in Tesla’s secret layoffs in The Pragmatic Engineer:

Getting a bit tired of what’s going on with this platform - I’ll step away for a while. If anyone needs to contact me, you can easily find me at claudio-ortolina.org.