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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 02/09/2026

Hello everyone! You may have heard that the Young Center is running its 6th annual Elizabeth Frenkel Waymakers Mileage Challenge. This year, Mr. Milan and I have agreed to go head to head on miles.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

So… “One of us may be human so we must take precautions.”

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N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her) @nrlines.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This book is beautifully creepy and nuanced and has excellent characterization and the perfect ending. I love it.

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Alyssa Cole @alyssacolelit.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you haven't read my "rag-tag team of misfits who share a body must work together to solve locked room mysteries in both their inner and outer worlds" gothic thriller yet, ONE OF US KNOWS is currently on sale! www.amazon.com/One-Us-Knows...

graphic shows the book cover of one of us knows with the text "on sale for a limited time!"

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Mina V. Esguerra @minavesguerra.com · 05/08/2026

Last chapter + epilogue up! You have ONE WEEK to listen to the complete Mango Summer audiobook free (if you aren't a patron). www.patreon.com/collection/2...

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Mango Summer | Collection from RomanceClass Books | 14 posts | Patreon

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Nadine Matheson @nadinematheson.com · 02/08/2026

There’s a double standard here. It’s very interesting that James Frey was rewarded with double page spreads in newspapers and no cancellation, when he admitted his use of AI but a Black author who denies the use of AI loses his book deal and his writing career open.substack.com/pub/nadinema...

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Nadine Matheson @nadinematheson.com · 01/08/2026

Suspicion is now doing the work of proof. A $2.4M book down the toilet over AI accusations but my new article is about what that suspicion means for every writer, not just one deal. open.substack.com/pub/nadinema...

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The Scarlett Letters and the Disappearing Book Deal

A $2 million book deal down the toilet, an unverified AI detector and a witch-hunt

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!

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Ana Tejano⁷ @anatejano.com · 31/07/2026

Keep the Faith, my second book is 10 years old today! 🥳 To celebrate, the book is $ 0.99 across all retailers from today until Aug 31 💚 on the rebound office romance, heartbreak, healing, disaster risk reduction in the 🇵🇭 with a side of fries 🍟 🔗 anatejano.com/ktf10 #romanceclass #romancelandia

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Keep the Faith – 10th anniversary

Keep the Faith 10th Anniversary Sale Get the ebook for $0.99 from July 31 to August 31! on the rebound | starting over again | workplace romancefirst person POV | heat level 0 Buy now: Ebooks: Prin…

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

google said, "actually, you know what? be evil"

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Here’s to really good news!

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Alyssa Cole @alyssacolelit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"You zoom to any coordinates on the planet. You click create image. You type what you want to see. The model takes Google’s satellite, aerial and 3D imagery of that exact spot as its starting point and gives you back a photorealistic picture. If it isn’t quite right you refine it."

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Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 29/07/2026

Always a sign you’re on the right side of morality and history.

Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.

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Lisa Unger @lisaunger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Looking for a great read during the summer storms? I’ve got you covered! For this @nytimes.com article, I share some dark and stormy stories by some of my fave writers, incl @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social @alyssacolelit.bsky.social @stephenking.bsky.social @tessgerritsen.bsky.social @karinslaughter.com

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

🤎4 preorders to lock in before August: SEASON OF THE SERPENT (Suyi Davies Okungbowa) THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF ZAHARA DOUGLASS (Leslye Penelope) THE TONGUE I DREAM IN (Sheree Renée Thomas) BLOOD RISING (Markus Redmond) 👉🏾sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #Preorder

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 07/07/2026

> “Hallucination,” then, is not a bug awaiting a patch but a symptomatic expression of this structural condition. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Human communication involves not only internal
coherence but also reference to shared reality, and
communicated words, thus, carry extensions, relations to
the actual nature of things in the world, which calculated
words do not (Bunz, 2026). Two terms may share the
adjacent intension in a high-dimensional vector space while
differing radically in extension, a phenomenon impossible in
communicated language, but routine in calculation. The result
is writing that is relevant without being reliable; contextually
proximate, but not anchored to the things those words
ostensibly name. “Hallucination,” then, is not a bug awaiting
a patch but a symptomatic expression of this structural
condition. When users treat LLM outputs as communications
of “meaning” rather than calculations of form, they engage in
“human hallucination”, anthropomorphizing generated writing
by conceptualizing it in the image of human expression
(Bunz, 2026), producing a systematic over-attribution of
understanding to systems where none exists. Training critical
thinkers to recognize the mode of production underlying a
text, rather than reasoning solely from its surface fluency, thus
becomes a pedagogical obligation.
Of note, this argument does not claim that LLMs are
useless.‡

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

THE US HAVING A WHITES-ONLY REFUGEE POLICY SHOULD BE A MUCH BIGGER STORY

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

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The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated

Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Hey all. Piper Drake, a friend and a fellow romance author, needs some help funding her cancer treatment. It's been a long, tough road, but she's got one more story in her and we'd like to buy her a little more time to get it out. www.gofundme.com/f/help-autho...

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Donate to Help Author Fight Cancer so she can finish her book, organized by Matthew Beckerleg

Hello all, I’m Matthew. I am fundraising for my wife, Lalana (wh… Matthew Beckerleg needs your support for Help Author Fight Cancer so she can finish her book

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Robert E. Lee got his ass beat at Gettysburg by a professor of rhetoric and oratory from Bowdoin College and generations of reactionary fantasists have died mad about it.

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Mayor Johnson is cooking

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/08/2025

The goal here is to eliminate trans people's ability to exist in public. But note that it will also have the impact of being able to police anyone whose gender presentation does not match what they believe it is, because how do you even know someone is trans?

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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

When I reported local news in Brooklyn, one of the clearest obstacles to any truly progressive or helpful action for everyday New Yorkers was the IDC. At every given opportunity, they demolished hope for consequential change.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

All of the penicillin in use worldwide comes from a strain of mold that was growing on a cantaloupe bought at a grocery store in Peoria, Illinois in 1942.

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Jackie Lau @jackielaubooks.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

It appears libro fm is having a sale for Bookstore Romance Day. You can find all the books on sale here:

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All sale audiobooks

Check out the selection of Libro.fm’s on-sale audiobooks!

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 18/07/2025

Sapphic aunt with a feckless nephew solving murders on a cruise ship in deep space — MURDER BY MEMORY is the first Dorothy Gentleman mystery novella and a short, sparkly read for summer weekends: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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Murder by Memory

Becky Chambers meets Miss Marple in this sci-fi ode to the cozy mystery, helmed by a formidable no-nonsense auntie of a detectiveA mind is a terrible thing t...

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Agata Weronika @aquedita.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

friends, just finished this wonderful book and it's the perfect summer read. the epilogue made me cry happy tears because our heroines find dignity, safety & community support to make their dreams come true 🥰💖 pick up your copy today! #BookSky #romancelandia

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Bibi La Diva @bibiladiva.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Je n'ai pas les mots. Et c'est dans ce contexte qu'on va offrir la mort sur un plateau. "L'effort" ultime pour ne pas coûter à la société.

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Nanjala @nanjala.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I recently had a similar conversation was was telling them about our experience with the even what is nominally private media but owned by politicians. It poisons your politics so quickly and so completely.

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Alyssa Cole @alyssacolelit.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Just a heads up that in addition to fake accounts popping up across social media, someone is now using a fake email (alyssacole717@gmail.com) to mass email other writers with the intent to scam them. Please be aware that THIS IS NOT ME!! 😩 Thank you to everyone who has made me aware of this.

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Lauren Beukes @laurenbeukes.com · 17/07/2025

My favourite book festival in all the world, Open Book in Cape Town, has fallen foul of funding shortages. If you love African lit, and want to support a vital and electric and critically important festival that highlights African writers, please donate here: booklounge.co.za/product/open...

Image shows two Black women writers laughing and chatting in bright pink outfits on stage at the Open Book Festival in Cape Town

Image shows a Black woman storyteller in a t-shirt and peach coloured trousers, kneeling and animatedly reading a kids book to kids and parents at The Book Lounge (the beloved indie bookstore that runs Open Book Festival)

Image shows a young Black woman with a natural afro and glasses in a black top and black and white geometric print pinafore, smiling and talking into a microphone in the audience at the Open Book Festival. Out of focus behind her on the left is a young Black man with a lanyard and a film camera. On the right, an older White woman with a red scarf is laughing in delight.

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 08/06/2025

Just thinking about violence and resistance in @alyssacolelit.bsky.social’s exquisite novella Let it Shine, where a Black preacher’s daughter and a Jewish boxer join forces during the Civil Rights Era: alyssacole.com/let-it-shine/ #romancelandia #booksky

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Let It Shine - Alyssa Cole

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Alyssa Cole @alyssacolelit.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Book news!! Another thriller is heading your way in 2026! It Takes A Village is set in the wider world of When No One Is Watching, so get ready for another deep dive into corporate conspiracy and the everyday people fighting against them!!

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NAACP Image Award and New York Times bestselling author Alyssa Cole’s new thriller IT TAKES A VILLAGE, set in the same world as WHEN NO ONE IS WATCHING, where a new employee discovers that the nonprofit organization she works for is hiding nefarious intentions, to Erika Tsang at Forge, for publication in Fall 2026, by Lucienne Diver at the Knight Agency on behalf of the author and Temple Hill Publishing (World).

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Looking for something sexy and sweet?! 💕 Pick what you pay & snag a copy of XENI, HARBOR, A WALK IN THE PARK & A MAN FOR MRS. CLAUS! Bundle available Feb 1-28, 2025💕 payhip.com/RWBirthda...

2025 Birthday Book Bundle. Neon 80s graphics surround the cover for XENI, HARBOR, A MAN FOR MRS CLAUS and A WALK IN THE PARK on a white background. These are my favorite books with Black heroines/Black couples. This is a pick what you pay bundle. You can pay $0 or you can pay $500. You pick!

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Kellye Garrett @kellyekell.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

When one of your favorite people who wrote one of your favorite books last year wins a NAACP Award for Outstanding Literary Work! Congrats @alyssacolelit.bsky.social and One of Us Knows! If you want to pick up a copy: www.harpercollins.com/products/one... Full list variety.com/2025/film/aw...

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Brilliant photographer Chandra Wicke is kickstarting her amazing project The Happily Ever After Society, which will feature interviews and photographs with some of your favorite authors as well as photo essays of scenes from your favorite romance novels! 💕 www.kickstarter.com/projects/cha...

The Happily Ever After Society hardcover coffee table book. The cover has vibrant flowers on a black background.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Drafted and deleted around five posts on how I'd appreciate it if society could collectively stop acting like memos now supersede laws. Found it hard to simultaneously express that legal fundamentals have historically only been reliable for sociopolitically dominant segments of a population anyway.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is really good

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Judge rules that Black church in DC, which won a $2.8 million default judgment against the Proud Boys, now gains control over the trademark “Proud Boys.” The far-right group is barred from selling any related merchandise or symbols without the consent of the church. Gift link:

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Proud Boys Lose Control of Their Name to a Black Church They Vandalized (Gift Article)

A judge awarded the trademarked name and symbols to a Washington church to help satisfy a $2.8 million judgment against the far-right group.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 01/02/2025

Hey y'all! The FAB @rdotspoon.bsky.social is giving US a gift for her birthday! She has two book bundles up where you can pay what you want to get four AMAZING books. If you are broke, get some joyful books. If you are not, throw in some extra to pay it forward! payhip.com/RWBirthdayBo...

Birthday Book Bundle featuring A Walk int he Park, A Man for Mrs. Claus, Harbor, and Xeni. Pay what you want!

Birthday Book Bundle #2: firsts in series, with Fit, So Sweet, Haven, and Rafe

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

My jaw hit the floor here.

The other, who reports directly to Scales, graduated from high school in 2024, according to a mirrored copy of an online résumé and his high school’s student magazine; he lists jobs as a camp counselor and a bicycle mechanic among his professional experiences, as well as a summer role at Neuralink, Musk’s brain-computer interface company.

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

for as long as I've been covering politics the chattering classes have demanded that Democrats lead on bipartisanship and it turns out that—as I've always suspected!—it's the exact quality that voters do not want in their politicians

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Rebekah Weatherspoon @rdotspoon.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

ROMANCE FOR LOS ANGELES Fire relief auction! I'm offering up a signed bundle including HAVEN, SANCTUARY and HARBOR with a cute Harbor character postcard. 💕 www.32auctions.com/o...

Romance for Los Angeles to aid those impacted by the LA County Wildfires. Jan 19- Feb 5, 2025 100% of the Proceeds to California Community Fire Relief fund. Auction items include signed books from Brittany Roth
Cindy Kehagiaras
Emi Hilton
Eva Leigh
Jillian Graves
Katelyn Brehm
Rebekah Weatherspoon
Ruby Dixon
Smitten Bookstore

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Trump, I don't really like travelling to the US, it's a bit boring, but I confess that there are some commendable things. I like going to the black neighbourhoods of Washington, where I saw an entire fight in the US capital between blacks and Latinos with barricades, which seemed like nonsense to me, because they should join together.

I confess that I like Walt Whitman and Paul Simon and Noam Chomsky and Miller

I confess that Sacco and Vanzetti, who have my blood, are memorable in the history of the USA and I follow them. They were murdered by labor leaders with the electric chair, the fascists who are within the USA as well as within my country

I don't like your oil, Trump, you're going to wipe out the human species because of greed. Maybe one day, over a glass of whiskey, which I accept, despite my gastritis, we can talk frankly about this, but it's difficult because you consider me an inferior race and I'm not, nor is any Colombian.

So if you know someone who is stubborn, that's me, period. You can try to carry out a coup with your economic strength and your arrogance, like they did with Allende. But I will die in my law, I resisted torture and I resist you. I don't want slavers next to Colombia, we already had many and we freed ourselves. What I want next to Colombia are lovers of freedom. If you can't accompany me, I'll go elsewhere. Colombia is the heart of the world and you didn't understand that, this is the land of the yellow butterflies, of the beauty of Remedios, but also of the colonels Aureliano Buendía, of which I am one, perhaps the last.

You will kill me, but I will survive in my people, which is before yours, in the Americas. We are peoples of the winds, the mountains, the Caribbean Sea and of freedom.

You don't like our freedom, okay. I don't shake hands with white slavers. I shake hands with the white libertarian heirs of Lincoln and the black and white farm boys of the USA, at whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid.

They are the United States and before them I kneel, before no one else.

Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond.

Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Cordoba, the civilization of that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the civilization of that time, who founded the republic, democracy in Athens; our blood has the black resistance fighters turned into slaves by you. In Colombia is the first free territory of America, before Washington, of all America, there I take refuge in its African songs.

My land is made up of goldsmiths who worked in the time of the Egyptian pharaohs and of the first artists in the world in Chiribiquete.

You will never rule us. The warrior who rode our lands, shouting freedom, who is called Bolívar, opposes us.

Our people are somewhat fearful, somewhat timid, they are naive and kind, loving, but they will know how to win the Panama Canal, which you took from us with violence. Two hundred heroes from all of Latin America lie in Bocas del Toro, today's Panama, formerly Colombia, which you murdered.

I raise a flag and as Gaitán said, even if it remains alone, it will continue to be raised with the Latin American dignity that is the dignity of America, which your great-grandfather did not know, and mine did, Mr. President, an immigrant in the USA,

Your blockade does not scare me, because Colombia, besides being the country of beauty, is the heart of the world. I know that you love beauty as I do, do not disrespect it and you will give it your sweetness.

FROM TODAY ON, COLOMBIA IS OPEN TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, WITH OPEN ARMS, WE ARE BUILDERS OF FREEDOM, LIFE AND HUMANITY.

I am informed that you impose a 50% tariff on the fruits of our human labor to enter the United States, and I do the same.

Let our people plant corn that was discovered in Colombia and feed the world

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