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I love the little UFO icon that Dropbox uses for files it can’t show a thumbnail for.

I’ve been listening to Darknet Diaries a lot lately; it’s fascinating. Jack Rhysider is kind of like Kai Ryssdal for the internet underworld.

At 3:22 in “La Isla Bonita”, Madonna sings the McDonalds “I’m lovin’ it” riff, 17 years before McDonalds built an ad campaign around those notes.

That is some seriously subliminal, long-game product placement.

Ideal project: to be handed some really ugly UI, like RISC OS or Irix, and the brief is “you have complete freedom to fix this.”

“We are on the cusp of deepfakes becoming a big problem…and I think it’s an underestimated problem. [It’s just] another way for people to never be confronted with contrary evidence because…everything can be made up.”

—Preet Bharara, How Close Are We to Criminal Charges for Donald Trump?

96% of US users opted out of app tracking in iOS 14.5.

Good.

Did not realize until Dan Moren pointed it out that macOS includes a tiny (and somewhat buried) museum of Apple hardware.

Remember these guys?

Longtime Apple users might recall that macOS has had an icon museum for quite some time—if you cracked open your System file back in the 68K/PPC days, you’d find a trove of tiny 32×32 depictions of Apple’s other machines.