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David Staley

@davidstaley8.bsky.social
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Writer, futurist, mark maker, designer, presenter, advisor, provocateur, public intellectual, educator, historiographer, monologist, and "eclectic academic"

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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 9m
Pinpoint #889 | 1 guess with no mistakes 1️⃣ | 100% match 📌 🏅 I’m in the Top 1% of all players today! lnkd.in/pinpoint.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 10m
Zip #568 | 0:05 🏁 No hints & no backtracks 🏅 I’m in the Top 10% of all players today! lnkd.in/zip.
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Zip | LinkedIn
Plot a path through the grid while passing through each number in order.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 23m
"Composition D"
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 25m
One-sentence Future: Memex At the most elite universities, students graduate with their own Memex, an agentic “second brain” that has been trained on every essay, sketch, question and half-formed idea they’ve produced over four years of higher education. davidjstaley.substack.com/p/one-senten...
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One-sentence Future: Memex
At the most elite universities, students graduate with their own Memex, an agentic “second brain” that has been trained on every essay, sketch, question and half-formed idea they’ve produced over four...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 37m
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David Squires @davidsquires.bsky.social · 3h
Here’s this week’s cartoon for @sport.theguardian.com (yes, I did pick a good time to take a holiday): www.theguardian.com/football/pic...
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David Squires on … David Beckham’s heroics for England v Greece, 25 years on
Our cartoonist on the 25th anniversary of the England midfielder’s one-man rescue act
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 11h
#numble210 4/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net/numberwaffle
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One-sentence Future: Bacterial communication Scientists finally decode bacterial communications and discover that human gut microbes are terrified of breakfast burritos and anything made with kale but they really like Lucky Charms. davidjstaley.substack.com/p/one-senten...
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One-sentence Future: Bacterial communication
Scientists finally decode bacterial communications and discover that human gut microbes are terrified of breakfast burritos and anything made with kale but they really like Lucky Charms.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wend #119 | 0:12 🌀 With no hints 🏅 I’m in the Top 10% of all players today! lnkd.in/wend.
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Wend | LinkedIn
Wend is a free daily word search game from LinkedIn. Each day, a new puzzle invites you to connect letters in a grid and uncover hidden words.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pinpoint #888 | 1 guess with no mistakes 1️⃣ | 100% match 📌 🏅 I’m in the Top 1% of all players today! lnkd.in/pinpoint.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
🙂 Daily Quordle 1715 8️⃣6️⃣ 7️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#numble209 1/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net/numberwaffle
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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Bryan Alexander @edufuturist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"As more colleges close, advocates are calling for them to be turned into housing" hechingerreport.org/college-clos...
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As more colleges close, advocates are calling for them to be turned into housing
Putting needed housing on empty campuses uses one problem to solve another — but is harder than it seems
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Columbus Underground @colsunderground.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New video (you can also listen on Spotify and Apple): columbusunderground.com/video-the-pa...
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Video: The Past, Present and Future of Transportation in Columbus - Columbus Underground
People in Columbus love to talk about transportation.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pinpoint #887 | 1 guess with no mistakes 1️⃣ | 100% match 📌 🏅 I’m in the Top 1% of all players today! lnkd.in/pinpoint.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🙂 Daily Quordle 1714 7️⃣5️⃣ 6️⃣8️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#numble208 2/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net/numberwaffle
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Have enough self respect as an adult and citizen to recognize and understand the level of contempt and disrespect involved when some thinks they can buy you off with money they know is never coming apnews.com/article/trum...
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Trump, hoping to salvage midterms, makes a dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins
President Donald Trump says he plans to give every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Anyone with a functional frontal cortex knew from the go the Alberta separatist was an astroturfed thing plugged into the usual suspect money streams
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wend #117 | 0:56 🌀 With no hints 🏅 I’m in the Top 10% of all players today! lnkd.in/wend.
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Wend | LinkedIn
Wend is a free daily word search game from LinkedIn. Each day, a new puzzle invites you to connect letters in a grid and uncover hidden words.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🙂 Daily Quordle 1713 8️⃣6️⃣ 7️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/
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Columbus Coffee Festival @columbuscoffee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The weekend has arrived! The 11th annual Columbus Coffee Festival takes place Sat Oct 3 and Sun Oct 4 at the Franklin County Fairgrounds! Many of our ticketed sessions are completely sold out in advance, so be sure to get your tix before you go: columbusunderground.ticketspice.com/2026-columbu...
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Columbus Underground @colsunderground.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Worth it? columbusunderground.com/report-billi...
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Report: Billion Dollar Highway Connector Would Save Drivers 6 to 22 Minutes - Columbus Underground
The final feasibility study analyzing a potential US-23/I-71 connector was released today, recommending an 18-mile-long route that would curve around the village of Ashley and cost between $857 millio...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
One-sentence Future: Hostage video In the hostage video, the tech CEO sat beneath a flickering company logo, blinking hard into the camera, wrists zip-tied to his own ergonomic chair, pleading “Please give the AIs what they want!” davidjstaley.substack.com/p/one-senten...
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One-sentence Future: Hostage video
In the hostage video, the tech CEO sat beneath a flickering company logo, blinking hard into the camera, wrists zip-tied to his own ergonomic chair, pleading “Please give the AIs what they want!”
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#numble206 1/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net/numberwaffle
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I will be on @ForumDailyNews tonight w/@SkubicTheresa 6pm ET across Canadian tv and also here at the link for those elsewhere discussing the last US troops leaving Iraq. www.youtube.com/@ForumDailyN...
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Forum Daily News
National Canadian news program with extensive and timely coverage of both national and international news, with a commitment to journalistic integrity, freedom of conscience and expression for all.
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 01/10/2026
The Odd Couple | Have We Forgotten How to Have Conversations? Rachel and Gordon talk about talking and how discussion dynamics can be more like a game of jacks than catch. By Rachel Toor and E. Gordon Gee: bit.ly/3Tw3Upg #EDUSky #HigherEd
A text conversation that reads "I'm here to teach you, grasshopper. I mean, Gordon." in a green bubble.
The gray reply bubble says "After all these years I finally have found someone who can teach me nerd emoji yellow thumbs up emoji"
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fascists denounced the “invasion” of Chinese loanwords that had seeped into American English, demanding that the government erect linguistic walls and ban words at borders, but these measures proved ineffective and now fourteen percent of everyday English was Chinese.
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One-sentence Future: Loanwords
Fascists denounced the “invasion” of Chinese loanwords that had seeped into American English, demanding that the government erect linguistic walls and ban words at borders, but these measures proved i...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🙂 Daily Quordle 1711 8️⃣6️⃣ 7️⃣5️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#numble205 3/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net/numberwaffle
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let's talk artificial intelligence, super intelligence, and Romeo & Juliet's bad planning. In @ordinarytimes.bsky.social ordinary-times.com/2026/09/30/b...
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By Superintelligence Word Would AI Be As Sweet - Ordinary Times
As bad as calling souped-up search engines and computing speeds "artificial intelligence” is “super intelligence” is worse
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wend #114 | 0:18 🌀 With no hints & no backtracks 🏅 I’m in the Top 5% of all players today! lnkd.in/wend.
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Wend | LinkedIn
Wend is a free daily word search game from LinkedIn. Each day, a new puzzle invites you to connect letters in a grid and uncover hidden words.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Crossclimb #883 | 0:42 No mistakes & no hints Fill order: 1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ 5️⃣ ⬇️ ⬆️ 🪜 🏅 I’m in the Top 10% of all players today! lnkd.in/crossclimb.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One-sentence Future: Caffeine He performed the secret knock and gave the password at the unmarked door behind the bakery, and the barista carded him twice before sliding across a single illegal espresso, the real stuff, the kind that used to be sold openly on every corner in America.
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One-sentence Future: Caffeine
He performed the secret knock and gave the password at the unmarked door behind the bakery, and the barista carded him twice before sliding across a single illegal espresso, the real stuff, the kind t...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#numble204 2/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net/numberwaffle
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Composition C"
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Doctors prescribed the empathizer—a technology that allows one to feel another’s pain—to combat loneliness, but they were quickly used off-label for recreational purposes, with users chasing strangers’ grief, addiction and heartbreak for hours, describing the experience as “finally feeling alive.”
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One-sentence Future: The Empathizer
Doctors prescribed the empathizer—a technology that allows one to feel another’s pain—to combat loneliness, but they were quickly used off-label for recreational purposes, with users chasing strangers...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Harvey J. Miller @mobileharv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you are concerned about the local environmental and social impacts of data centers, I highly recommend this OSU CURA webinar by Julie Bolthouse from the Piedmont Environmental Council. An eye opening and jaw dropping account of what they are facing in Virginia.
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The Local Impact of Data Centers with Julie Bolthouse
YouTube video by CURA OSU
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#numble203 2/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net/numberwaffle
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pinpoint #881 | 1 guess with no mistakes 1️⃣ | 100% match 📌 🏅 I’m in the Top 1% of all players today! lnkd.in/pinpoint.
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Andrew Donaldson @four4thefire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our own resident @ordinarytimes.bsky.social professional pilot @captainkudzu.bsky.social walks us through US Senator Tommy Tuberville's self-beclowning over furries flying airliners... I still can't believe I have to type that out in the Year of Our Lord 2026
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Tommy Tuberville Lets the Fur Fly - Ordinary Times
Tommy Tuberville launches himself into a bizarre misinterpretation of reality that has no bearing at all on safety or anything else.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My latest "Voices" interview with Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching recipient Guramrit Singh, who studies messenger RNA. Have a listen! podcast.osu.edu/voices-of-ex...
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Guramrit Singh: Deciphering the messages of mRNA | Voices of Excellence
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One-sentence Future: Police Beat “Officers responded Tuesday to three reports of unauthorized dreaming, confiscated a teenager’s unlicensed memory recorder and reminded residents that all neighborhood conversations must be conducted through approved civic-listening kiosks.”
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One-sentence Future: Police Beat
“Officers responded Tuesday to three reports of unauthorized dreaming, confiscated a teenager’s unlicensed memory recorder and reminded residents that all neighborhood conversations must be conducted ...
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#numble202 2/5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⭐🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩⭐🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wafflegame.net/numberwaffle
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Waffle
The waffle-shaped daily word game.
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Columbus Underground @colsunderground.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The only thing that’s changed is the neighborhood itself — bit by bit: columbusunderground.com/can-franklin...
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The Only Constant in Franklinton, is Change - Columbus Underground
It's nearly impossible to define Franklinton based on any particular "snapshot in time", because the neighborhood looks a little bit different every single day.
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David Staley @davidstaley8.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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