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Dr. Catherine Wilka

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Climate change, collective action, crafts, and cats. Trying to be on this app more these days. she/her

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10h
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
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DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 6h
In other words, it is the job of scientists to devise experiments that can test their claims, to always be cautious abt what they are claiming, and to critically evaluate the claims of other scientists. By these well-established standards, no serious science is happening behind Anthropic's claims.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 8h
Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 10h
Big Oil walked so Big Tech could run and now the two are joining up to take down democracy. In today's pod, @gilduran.com and @amywestervelt.bsky.social on how corporations warped the information ecosystem and how the tech billionaires broke democracy drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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How Tech Billionaires Broke Democracy | The Spill - Drilled
Carbon credit markets have come under fire for creative climate accounting, fraud, and land use problems. UN Special Rapporteur Elisa Morgera says they have a human rights problem too.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 10h
It's important to remember that the AI doom scenario assumes not only that intelligence is a single well-defined thing, but also that intelligence solves literally every single problem, and that in every conflict overwhelming intelligence always wins. This is just not how anything works.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 09/10/2026
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Star Trek Captain Kirk Gasp
ALT: Star Trek Captain Kirk Gasp
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026
Antichrist Deeply Uncomfortable With Perceived Connection to Peter Thiel “I have never met Peter, I’ve never spoken to him, and I have no desire to be connected to him,” clarified the Son of Perdition. “We do have a lot in common..but I find him deeply off-putting” thehardtimes.net/culture/anti...
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Antichrist Deeply Uncomfortable With Perceived Connection to Peter Thiel
HELL — The Antichrist issued a sweeping denial of any relationship with Peter Thiel this Wednesday following numerous remarks made by the... Continue this tale
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 09/10/2026
A Tennessee appellate court has ruled that the killing of a woman may have been justifiable because she was trans. The court reversed a conviction, stating that the killer could have a new trial because the jury did not know the woman killed was trans. Trans panic in the modern era.
erininthemorning.com
Killing of Woman May Have Been Justifiable Because She Was Trans, Tennessee Court Rules
The case is a bitter reminder of the ways LGBTQ people have had their identities weaponized by the courts in the past, most notoriously through a legal defense tactic known as gay or trans “panic.”
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"the president of the united states says you are a nonperson who should be denied medical care. a major media org says youre probably a mass shooter. the supreme court says you should be forced into 'therapy.' multiple state govts say your genitals must be inspected. esp kids." why numbers drop?
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
these people would say it was "unclear" why more people in germany didnt openly identify as jewish in 1942
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 08/10/2026
Ingrid Carlberg, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said the author was in Iceland “listening to the wind” when the academy reached her to notify her of the win. apnews.com/article/nobe...
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Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in literature
Anne Carson, a Canadian poet and essayist, has won the Nobel Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy recognized her for her bold and inventive work that engages with classical traditions to create ne...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
El Niñissimo! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The Current El Niño Is Already Stronger Than Past Events
Sea surface temperature in the eastern tropical Pacific region monitored for El Nino activity

Chart shows Jan-Dec lines for the 1991-2020 average, 1997, 2015, 2023 and 2026, which flies way high above all the others in a kind of supernatural way. Y-axis is temperature in C, ranging from 30 down to 25.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Forty percent of American Nobel laureates this century in chemistry, medicine and physics have been immigrants, many arriving as students.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).
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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
a little louder for the cheap seats in the back
One of the biggest myths is that men rape by mistake. Like, "Oh, they need consent training." But research is very clear: Sexual violence is not a mistake. It is an intentionally made decision by people who know they don't have consent. They just don't prioritize consent over things like status, power, domination, and sexual gratification.
For my research, I got a certificate of confidentiality from the National Institutes of Health, so my notes couldn't be subpoenaed. One of the reasons I call them perpetrators in my work is because every single person I interviewed confessed in that context. The first question I would ask them was, "When you received that email from Title IX that you were under investigation, did you know what it was about?" Every perpetrator I interviewed said "yes." If sexual assault were a miscommunication, you would be wondering, What have I possibly done wrong? That is not the way that any of them reacted because they knew.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/10/2026
We have published now two full reports both debunking this claim and shining a new light on the climate impacts of companies like NVIDIA and others who insist on this without evidence. Public control won't fix this problem - not at all. ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
a graphic showing the difference bw energy consumption and climate benefit claimsthe rising energy consumption of hyperscalers an increase in greenhouse gas emissions
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The most psychotic possible framing of this archive.is/202609271858...
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
1. They're not "fleeing," they're just pretending they don't live here, as the article itself makes clear. 2. If you live in CA, please vote for Prop 40! Billionaires shouldn't exist and we can live in a world without them if we tax their wealth away 3. They're afraid. That's good.
politico.com
Billionaires are fleeing California. The tax agency is preparing to chase them.
“If I were still controller, I’d have the Franchise Tax Board in a war room right now trying to figure this out,” a former state controller told POLITICO.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Now That's What I Call Cops Vol. XVII
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
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Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Imagine how fucking rotted a person's brain has to be to submit a 50,000 line pull request and not perceive that what you are doing is *incredibly* embarrassing and antisocial. A vibecoder can no longer notice they're greeting people by spraying hot dogshit all over the place.
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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ok I am massively jetlagged so it's time for an astronomy shitpost thread I think, as many do, that the IAU definition of a planet is not great, and that there are not eight planets in the Solar System. Specifically, I believe there are only *four* planets in the solar system.
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 2026 was the warmest September on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. 🔥🔥🔥
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t be “It’s simple math, vote blue no matter who, grow up” and ALSO believe you are fighting fascism by making calculations as to who’s expendable. The world we’re in now demands more from us. More from everyone.
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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.
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The Democrats defend the Kennedy Center but not trans people.
A building.

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maybe because defending everything about a super small minority of the population is not worth losing to fascists
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@dhookstead

Did we cancel D-Day because of a little rough weather? No. Play the damn game.

Readers added context

D-Day was delayed by a day because of the weather
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Seven Machina Rasmussen @toomanyspectra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
sorry i guess i didn’t realize doing a bunch of ketamine and emailing the pope was a valid avenue of research
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"?
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The Labor Radio Podcast Network @laborradionet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Want to save the world? Start by unionizing your workplace "We are living in a pivotal moment in labor history," Cole Rockarts writes in their new book Fired Up About Unions. "At a time when corporations have more power, profit, and political influence than ever before, workers are leading inspir
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Want to save the world? Start by unionizing your workplace
"We are living in a pivotal moment in labor history," Cole Rockarts writes in their new book Fired Up About Unions. "At a time when corporations have more power, profit, and political influence than ever before, workers are leading inspiring union organizing campaigns and taking on bosses to win big… Their struggles reveal that everyday people can unite, change their conditions, and build better workplaces and a better world." In this episode of Working People, we speak with a panel of labor organizers across the USA and Canada about why labor unions are more important now than ever, and how workers organizing collectively can change their workplaces, their lives, and the world. Panelists include: Hassan Husseini of the Public Service Alliance of Canada and Labor for Palestine - Canada; Tina Oh of SEIU Local 2 in Hallifax, Canada; Alex Raymond of Teamsters 322 in Virginia, USA, and Cole Rockarts, veteran labor educator and organizer and author of the new book Fired Up About Unions. Additional links/info: Cole Rockarts, Between the Lines Press, Fired Up About Unions Featured Music: Jules Taylor, Working People Theme Song Credits: Audio Post-Production: Jules Taylor
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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There are reasons other than net take-home pay that generations of American parents steered their kids toward college. I don't see how "go into construction!" is helpful unless paired with more robust worker protections and a true safety net, especially in right to work states.
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mothman the wanderer @gnostichippie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this thread is dead-on: "join the trades" is bait. the goal is for white collar jobs to go to dumb and lazy failchild morons instead of someone worthier
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Oh retractionwatch.com/2026/10/02/p...
David Ho, a climate scientist at the University of Hawaii, responded to our request for comment on the paper by saying he was not interested in reading it. “I’m sorry, but I’d rather keep my brain cells,” he said.
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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit
David Ellison • @ellisonskyd... 2h
What once was the peak, is now just the beginning.
Paramount and Warner Bros. shaped over a century of culture. By combining them, we aren't rewriting history — we're equipping these iconic studios with a more powerful engine. Together, we are Skydance: a creative-first ho Show
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
newsom you raggedy bitch you will never be president
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
pervert governor
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 01/10/2026
“what is the information diet of politicians” is an increasingly urgent question
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I think this is right, and, if you've been paying any attention since the neo-Nazis occupied Berkeley a decade ago, if not... the de-segregation of American schools... it should be obvious that the culture war issue of "higher education versus reactionary whites" cannot be won by any concession
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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Always always read a @sarahkendzior.bsky.social post … otherwise you’ll miss out on the wisdom of things like this ⬇️ sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...
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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A “perfect storm” scenario — as described by the San Francisco Bay Conservation & Development Commission — is generally as follows: 1. El Niño 2. King tides 3. Strong waves & wind 2 of 3 conditions will be met at Thanksgiving & Christmas. A storm at the same time is a “really scary possibility.”
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California will see extreme weather events on Thanksgiving and Christmas
King tides in California will be extremely high during the Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks. A simultaneous storm could wreak havoc on transportation and push the tides to record territory.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 29/09/2026
Don’t ask an elected official if they “believe” in climate change, it’s not a religion. Don’t ask if they think it’s serious: it is. Ask them what matters most: what are they doing about it? Excellent application here, 10/10 no notes 👏⬇️👏
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There used to be an entire office in Congress that was staffed and funded in order to give specialist advice to lawmakers and it was killed in the 90s and no one cares to bring it back because everyone is about slopulism and appealing to social media personalities with premade followings.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There are plenty of people capable of advising on AI with deep technical background (Senators might try, I dunno, reaching into the vast pool of knowledge which are the STATE UNIVERSITIES FUNDED FOR THIS EXACT PURPOSE), but since those people aren't cool on twitter, they won't.
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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Related to this (and as seen by Sanders getting his AI advice from Big Yuds of HP fanflic/sex crime fame), no one anywhere in politics wants to get their technical advice from someone who isn't big on Twitter or insanely rich (and ideally both).
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