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@andy_matuschak

Persistent eeriness: I "catch" clocks at exactly 9:41 more often than I "should". I don't look at clocks that often! But every time I do, my dumb brain thinks "you're living in an Apple-designed simulation!!!" engadget.com/2014-04-14-why I'm sure it's just Baader-Meinhoff—but funny.

Why 9:41 AM is always the time displayed on iPhones and iPads | Engadget

If you've ever paid close attention to Apple's advertising materials, you may or may not have noticed that the time depicted on Apple's products is always 9:41 AM. Apple's affinity for 9:41 AM is...

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@andy_matuschak

Makes me wonder if other people with a particularly salient clock time in their lives notice the same thing.

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Happens to me with July 17 too, because of the original iCal icon.

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Oh, nice! I don't have that date in my head the same way, so of course I don't notice it. Minds are so silly.

4:53 PM · Jun 6, 2021Twitter Web App