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More on Apple’s Fun ‘Rewind’ Video

Lex Friedman (with an embedded video to prove it):

If you reverse the new Apple video that plays in “rewind,” it’s the Think Different ad music, pitched up.

Of course it is.

And, regarding that “◀︎◀︎ REW” button where the “REW” was set in bitmapped Chicago 12” but the “◀︎◀︎” was modern, Craig Hockenberry fixed it:

I pretended to be Susan Kare and fixed it, bottom is the original, top is my interpretation.

Before and after of Craig Hockenberry’s pixel art “◀︎◀︎ REW” button.

'Contradiction' quest walkthrough in Crimson Desert

Crimson Desert's Contradiction quest requires you to answer the steward's questions correctly. These are all the answers for the steward's questions.

Congestion Tolls Fund Fridges to Replace Diesel-Spewing Units in South Bronx

A delivery truck leaves the Hunts Point Produce Market,

Diesel-powered refrigeration units that have long spewed toxins into neighborhoods with some of the country’s highest rates of respiratory ailments are being phased out at the Hunts Point Produce Market. Officials on Wednesday unveiled the first 20 electric-hybrid transport refrigeration units that will eventually replace up to 1,000 diesel-powered pieces of equipment used for cold […]

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Ben Cohen of the WSJ Tours Apple’s Archive of Prototype Hardware

Lots of fun things I’ve never seen before in this 7-minute video. Best not to spoil them.

New Jersey, the Jackass State

By far the dumbest Internet Jackass Day “joke” I’ve seen so far is this one from the official New Jersey state account on Twitter/X, claiming that effective immediately, they’re lifting the statewide ban on self-service gasoline. For those of you who’ve never been there, I swear, you cannot pump your own gas anywhere in the state. It’s so ridiculous that people have a hard time believing it. You have to wait for an attendant, who is generally rude and almost always slow. Back in the day, they were extra slow returning with change when you paid in cash, hoping you’d just give up and leave. I’d rather run out of gas and just abandon my car on the side of the road than buy a single gallon of gas in New Jersey. And yet here’s the official state Twitter account yucking it up like the joke isn’t on them.