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Interesting Things on the Internet: April 21st 2025 Edition

• Olivetti’s Ivrea: How an Italian Tech Giant Built the World’s Most Progressive Company Town. An excellent (although a fair bit seems lifted verbatim from this piece in the Guardian) exploration of how Olivetti tried to build (and succeeded for a while) a better sort of company town in Ivrea. Ever since I visited an exhibition on Olivetti and Ivrea at the end of my time in Torino I've been interested in the civic and social side of Olivetti. Also worth a read is this catalogue from a 1952 MoMA exhibition on Olivetti.
• Five levels of note-taking in meetings. Most of the time I manage at least level 1, and often somewhere between levels 3 and 4.
• Short Mastodon thread from Christopher Neugebauer on the problems with open-source licences.
• The Algorithmic Anarchist: 2nd Edition. This is excellent.
• It’s Time For Democrats To Get More Annoying "Better than spending all this money on telling people what good stuff we would do for them if we were in power, we could just show them, by doing good stuff. We should live our values, not just endlessly reiterate them." This is about the US elections, but applies just as much to the UK.