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The masked YouTuber finally revealed what he looks like last night, putting a face to the biggest creator in the Minecraft world. Dream’s in-game exploits have been a sensation on YouTube in recent years. Here’s Julia Alexander writing last year about the server shared by Dream and his friends:

Some quick takeaways now that it’s available:

“Hundreds of Twitter employees have fled since June,” according to Insider’s sources. That’s just over a month after Twitter agreed to sell the company to Musk — or, about as long as it’d take a highly qualified engineer to find a new job.

The company is going to start giving creators a share of ad revenue when commercials play between YouTube Shorts. The platform’s relatively generous payments are a large part of its rich creator culture, and now we’ll find out if they’re enough to lure short-form creators away from TikTok.

–Figma CEO Dylan Field, in the unenviable position of having to reflect on an old tweet.

The app was released on this day 10 years ago... and immediately became a laughingstock, leading to multiple people getting canned and a public apology from Tim Cook.

If you pay Twitter, at least. The latest feature to join the Twitter Blue subscription is early access to the redesigned Spaces tab on iOS, which includes support for tuning into podcasts.

Apple’s tiny connector was announced in 2012 alongside the iPhone 5. It was a genuinely revolutionary port: tiny, reversible, and super easy to use, setting the stage for the existence of USB-C today. Unfortunately, USB-C’s ubiquity makes it so much better, and as the Lightning cable turns 10... we can’t wait to see it go away.

Billy Mitchell, famously the “villain” of the documentary King of Kong, has been wracked by cheating allegations in recent years, including in a new report out this week. It’s not that Mitchell isn’t really good at Donkey Kong, it’s that he might be really good at the wrong version of it: the emulated version, instead of the arcade version, as the report alleges.

A moment from the Cook/Ive/Laurene Powell Jobs conversation at Code has been stuck in my head since Wednesday night, and I was finally able to revisit the video recording this morning. While discussing car design, Powell Jobs gestures to two people beside her on stage and says: