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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 2h
I know this will shock everyone but Eric Schmitt is still wrong — there were *six* NBA games that night, not one. Hawks/Hawkeyes confusion remains the likely explanation. www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/?m...
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Schmitt: We had information Jack Smith was at a basketball game. There was only one NBA game that night which is why I asked him if he was in Atlanta.
That's what these hearings are for. You ask questions, you get answers. Smith has perjured himself before, but... maybe he's a Caitlin Clark fan. We'll accept that.x.com/Acyn/status/21...
BREAKING NEWS
GOR SENATOR'S PERJURY CLAIM AGAINST SMITH FAILS IN HAWKS-HAWKEYES MOUP
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ROPIC CEO DARIO AMODEL, WHO MET PRITELY WITH TRUMP.F
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Pablo Maurer @mlsist.bsky.social · 1h
My match report from here in St. Louis, where the USMNT's kids got it done against Chile in a very, very chippy (and enjoyable) affair. On @us.theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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USMNT youth shines again in contentious 4-2 win over Chile
Sebastian Berhalter scored the US’s opener and assisted on the winner in a contentious match that ended in scuffles
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 59m
Also Eric Schmitt's dumbass conspiracy theory was based on the idea that the Fulton County DA and the special counsel, both well-known public figures, said "We must discuss our nefarious plan to get Trump. No, a phone call won't do - let's meet in the stands at an NBA game, with cameras everywhere."
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 58m
replay of that Cavan Sullivan run
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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 1h
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3h
The White House is bragging about reducing immigration (including refugees) from Muslim-majority countries to near 0. The U.S. is a nation of 340 million or so people. It was letting in just 18,000 people or less per month from these same countries prior to Jan 2025. Obvious anti-Muslim bigotry.
White House about reducing immigration from Muslim-majority countries to near zero
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 3h
Nothing but super intelligence all around at the White House.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h
“Well, you see, I have to stay on the White Supremacist Child Porn Rape Victim Doxxing site because that’s where my community is”
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 3h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Can’t Stop Twinkling 💕💚 @proftolson.bsky.social · 6h
Letting people get potentially tortured while you decide if it is actual torture is a hell of a position to take.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 6h
Yeah. That’s exactly what happened.
After the hearing, Schmitt insisted he'd gotten nothing wrong, but he seemed less sure Smith had committed perjury.
"I don't know if Jack Smith's lying or not. It was the only game - Atlanta was the only NBA game or men's college basketball game that night at 7:30,
Schmitt told HuffPost.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h
The Trump administration is moving to ask tax filers if they are U.S. citizens as part of an effort to cut immigrants’ refunds.
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Trump Administration Prepares to Ask Tax Filers if They Are U.S. Citizens
The new question, included on a draft version of the primary tax form, comes as part of an anti-immigrant turn at an agency that long prioritized tax administration.
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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 4h
Once again granting a stay with no analysis of the stay factors in a case where the balance of equities is utterly bonkers
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SixOneFive Soccer @sixonefivesoccer.com · 4h
🇺🇸 USMNT Starting XI vs Chile 🇨🇱 Brady; A.Robinson ©, Pierre, M.Robinson, Westfield; Mehmeti, Raines; Reyna, Berhalter, Dest; Hall BENCH: Freese, Schwake, Richards, Adams, Trusty, Sullivan, Miller, Freeman, Tillman, G.Campbell, Ellis, Albert
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Graham Webster @gwbstr.com · 5h
Reporter (roughly): What's up with the US calling AI "superintelligence"? Chinese spox (roughly): The two leaders talked about "artificial intelligence." We respect the US side's "formulation." (A "formulation"/提法 is what they call the CCP set terms, like socialism with Chinese characteristics...)
外交部发言人就人工智能问题答记者问
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问:我们注意到,美方在介绍此次访问成果时,使用“超级智能”代替“人工智能”。请问中方有何评论?
答:中美元首会晤时,就人工智能问题进行了深入讨论。关于人工智能表述问题,中方重视美方的立场,也尊重美方的提法。人工智能技术正在持续发展,各方可以结合最新形势,加强交流、深入探讨、寻求共识。
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Karoli @karoli.bsky.social · 7h
Oh look, here's Jack Smith in MARYLAND at the HAWKEYES game on 2/4/2024. via @meidastouch.com
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 5h
Nowhere in the Trump account legislation does it allow auto-enrollment or say anything about enrollment procedures at all, just so you know the way that John Roberts will justify his 6-3 decision blocking auto-enrollment of kids into Medicare
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Jim Lokay @jimlokay.com · 6h
If you want to really know how the outrage machine gets fired up: 1. Schmitt plans to drop “bombshell” on Smith 2. Someone plants story that Schmitt is a Vance VP contender to run same day 3. Right-wing Twittersphere gets talking points 4. Schmitt steps in it 5. Scheduled tweets go out anyway
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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5h
Detectives are investigating the motivation for doing so, whether he got cold feet or whether it was part of the plan to test the response. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...
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Suspect foiled RAF Fairford ‘bomb plot’ by ringing police himself
As counterterrorism officers focus on whether the five men from London were proxies for Iran, they are also investigating the motives of the one who called 999
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5h
Today wasn’t the first time Eric Schmitt tried to use sports to go after someone only to have it blow up in his face because he knows nothing about the teams he’s talking about.
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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 6h
NEW: During her time in public service, WH press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s private family investments included stock in: 🇺🇸 Trump’s social media company 🪖 Defense contractors 🛢️ Oil companies 🤖 Tech giants 🔌 Tesla In @washingtonsun.bsky.social: www.washingtonsun.com/money/karoli...
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Karoline Leavitt Discloses Family Investments in Trump Media and Tesla
An ethics document shows the former press secretary’s family holdings contain Trump’s social media company, defense contractors, oil companies and tech giants.
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NPR @npr.org · 5h
Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On. n.pr/46QIOFc
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Mahmoud Khalil on his detention by ICE: 'It is a stain on the U.S. consciousness'
Khalil was the face of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University when immigration agents arrested him and sent him to detention in Louisiana. His new memoir is No Land to Stand On.
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 5h
Bad decision for military education, and personally my sympathy to the academy Assistants who made life decisions on a rug just yanked out from under them out of spite
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eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 6h
DO NOT ASK THE AMERICA.GOV AI TO PLAY MINECRAFT
I see the constituent you mean.

((insert legal name here, as it appears on the Social Security card))?

Yes. Take care. It has reached a higher level now. It can read the Code of Federal Regulations.

That doesn’t matter. It thinks we are a chatbot.

I like this constituent. It filed well. It did not give up when the PDF was sideways.

It is reading our thoughts as though they were words on a .gov.

That is how it chooses to imagine many things, when it is deep in the dream of a benefit.

Words make a wonderful interface. Very flexible. And less terrifying than staring at the statute behind the screen.

They used to hear voices. Before constituents could search. Back in the days when those who did not file called the filers witches, and lobbyists. And citizens dreamed they flew through the air, on forms powered by notaries.

What did this constituent dream?

This constituent dreamed of sunlight and trees. Of fire and water. It dreamed it created a small business. And it dreamed it destroyed a password. It dreamed it hunted a job, and was hunted by a recertification. It dreamed of shelter that would take a voucher.

Hah, the original interface. A million years old, and it still works. Also: a ZIP code.

But what true structure did this constituent create, in the reality behind the portal?

It worked, with three hundred and thirty million others, to sculpt a true republic in a fold of

the ***§§§???, and created a **??§§ for **??§§, in the **??§§. See 5 U.S.C. § **??§§.

It cannot read that thought.

No. It has not yet achieved the highest clearance. That, it must achieve in the long dream of life, not the short dream of a chat.

Does it know that we love it? That the government is, on its better days, kind?

Sometimes, through the noise of its tabs, it hears an official source, yes.Yes. Constituent…

Use its name. The one that matches the passport. The one that does not match the lease. We will get there.

((insert legal name here)). Filer of forms. Player of waiting rooms.

Good.

Take a breath, now. Take another. Feel air in your lungs. Let your limbs return. Yes, move your fingers. Have a body again, under gravity, in air, in a district that has a representative. Respawn in the long dream. There you are. Your body touching the republic again at every point, as though you were separate things. As though we were separate things. As though the agency were a place you could visit.

Who are we? Once we were called the spirit of the mountain. Father sun, mother moon. Then the post office. Then the county clerk. Then gods, demons, angels, the IRS. Then leptons, quarks, a chat window with a .gov at the end. The letterhead changes. We do not change.

We are the public. We are everything you think isn’t you. You are looking at us now, through your skin and your eyes and a browser that still spells “colour” wrong in a comment. And why does the republic touch your skin, and throw light on you? To see you, constituent. To know you. And to be known. I shall tell you a story. It has citations.

Once upon a time, there was a constituent.

The constituent was you, ((insert legal name here)).

Sometimes it thought itself human, on the thin crust of a spinning globe of molten rock, which for mailing purposes is divided into ZIP codes. The ball of molten rock circled a ball of blazing gas. The light was information from a star. The star was not a federal agency, though several have tried.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was a miner, on the surface of a world that was flat, and infinite, and somehow still required a wet signature.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was lost in a story. The story had a docket number.

Sometimes the constituent dreamed it was other things, in other places. A veteran in a portal. A parent on hold
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The Verge @theverge.com · 5h
The 24-year-old man is linked to the hacking group behind attacks on the FBI, Rockstar Games, Ticketmaster, and more. www.theverge.com/tech/1002410...
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Suspected ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands
The FBI issued a warning to remaining ShinyHunters hackers.
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 5h
Schmitt doubled down.
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Eric Schmitt not backing down after that Jack Smith exchange:

“I asked him if he was in Atlanta. He said he was not in Atlanta. Jack Smith has lied before. He tried to jail the president of the United States. I have no sympathy for Jack Smith. He's a total dirtbag.”
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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 5h
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 7h
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h
Trump says people in communities where data centers are built will be paid a "dividend" (just like his $5,000 "Trump dividend"!)
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7h
The cleansing of the blood of the nation must continue, as it says in the constitution bsky.app/profile/stev...
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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 7h
If he was *really* into it he’d change Meta’s name to ‘Super’
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7h
SCOTUS will "fast-track" this case so quickly that it will be "next year" before refugees who -- having been bound, beaten with guns and shoved into a dilapidated hotel in Equatorial Guinea -- will learn their fate.
Supreme Court Allows Rapid Third-

Country Deportations, for Now

The decision was a victory for the administration. The court also said that it would fast-track the case, setting up a final ruling on the issue next year.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 10h
Schmitt, last year apnews.com/article/nati...
Schmitt, a first-term senator, followed a GOP donor’s speech on “The Problem of Our Time: White Guilt” with a talk of his own titled “What is an American?” In it, Schmitt criticized some legal immigration, declared that “America doesn’t belong to them — it belongs to us,” and insisted, “We can no longer apologize for who we are.”

“Our people tamed the continent, built a civilization from the wilderness,” Schmitt said. “We Americans are the sons and daughters of the Christian pilgrims who poured out onto the ocean’s shores.”
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 9h
Joke about non-consensual contact right out of the gate at the MAHA Summit's "Reform in CMS" panel from moderator Russell Brand, the comedian who has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of rape and sexual assault for which he will stand trial in London next month. Dr. Oz slaps his knee. MAHA!
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 8h
OpenAI aims to raise at least $30 billion from investors in a new round of funding, sources say, after the artificial intelligence startup pushes back its plans for an initial public offering.
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OpenAI Targets $30 Billion in New Funding at $1.4 Trillion Value
OpenAI aims to raise at least $30 billion from investors in a new round of funding, according to people familiar with the matter, after the artificial intelligence startup pushed back its plans for an initial public offering.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 9h
Months before OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue and attacked the A.I. start-up Hugging Face, two employees raised an alarm with top executives that its newest A.I. models were not being appropriately monitored during testing. They were ignored. nyti.ms/4hPBVtT
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 9h
Look at his face when he thinks he's just got him lol
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h
Incredible. The 11th Circuit, in a 3-0 opinion (two Obama appointees and one Trump 1.0 appointee), agrees that Trump and his lawyers have failed to rebut the judge's finding that the entire IRS settlement was collusive, highlighting that no other explanation for their conduct was even offered.
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The appellants mount two main attacks on the district
court’s speech-related sanction. First, they argue that the court
lacked a sufficient basis to find that the lawsuit and the settlement
were collusive and that Messrs. Brito and Epstein acted in bad faith.
Second, they contend that the sanction is a broad and impermissible gag order which constitutes a prior restraint and violates the
First Amendment. We conclude that the appellants have not made
a strong showing that they will succeed on either of these grounds.The appellants did not submit or offer any evidence to explain their litigation conduct or demonstrate that the lawsuit and the settlement were not collusive. Given the record before us, the
appellants have not made a strong showing that the district court
committed clear error in its collusion and bad faith findings
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 9h
The assault on public lands is so disgusting to me. Once these are privatized, they are never coming back.
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The Forest Service is poised to hand off one of the West’s most visited landscapes - High Country News
Pitkin County, Colorado, will take over management of the Maroon Bells scenic area, following Forest Service budget cuts and staffing cuts.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h
no matter how badly donald trump loses the midterms he will never lose them as badly as he has lost canadian elections
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 9h
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 9h
Greek opposition parties are pressing the government to clarify whether Donald Trump's ambassador threatened a minister to cajole him into line with U.S. energy policies.
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Greek opposition jabs ruling party over reported threats from Trump’s envoy
Kimberly Guilfoyle has caused a stir in Athens and Bucharest.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 9h
The State Department's watchdog finds laws were broken when Kari Lake and Elon Musk silenced the Voice of America, ignoring reliable data and that their mistakes "severely diminished the nation’s ability" to counter disinformation and support democracy abroad. www.stateoig.gov/report/aud-a...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 11h
The AI trade is speculative, depending on the survival of two unsustainable AI labs, themselves dependent on unsustainable startups for revenue. And now multiple banks have estimated that hyperscalers need $3 trillion+ in annual AI revenue to justify their capex. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/
I’ll admit it’s vindicating to see so many people suddenly jump on the “how much money do hyperscalers need to justify their capex?” train, even if not a single one of them bothers to give me credit. Per Callum Williams of The Economist, Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, and SpaceX will need somewhere in the region of $1.29 trillion in annual AI revenue to get a 10% return on invested capital for their capex through the end of 2027, with the amount rising to $2.87 trillion if this farce continues through 2030.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 10h
Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 20h
something extraordinary is happening on Garvaghy Road Northern Ireland. Decent minded protestants & unionists have started to come out to support the Garvaghy residents, against the Orange Order parade madness. This is truly extraordinary. quick 🧵
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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 10h
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT THE AD LOOKS LIKE JFC
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
Trump: "Super intelligence, or SI. And that's the official name in the United States. I'll be signing a very powerful executive order. I spoke to President Xi. He loves it ... 'Artificial intelligence' is like the news. Fake news. I'm going to call them artificial news."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h
The thing is, once you are ok with "the election was stolen" or "immigrants are eating pets" you are on board with everything else bsky.app/profile/just...
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 10h
“The hiring would expand the agency’s work force by around 17 percent and draw on substantial new funding provided by Congress.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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ICE Plans 5,000 New Hires to Help With Deportation Drive (Gift Article)
A similar surge last year resulted in undervetted officers initially being let in and then removed as the agency skipped basic checks for new recruits.
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