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Edouard Machery

@edouardmachery.bsky.social
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History and Philosophy of Science, Cognitive Science,Experimental Philosophy, distinguished Prof at Pitt, Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 1h
Like every other semester my local @npr.org radio is raising $, and like every other semester I am on the fence (well, really almost on one side of the fence)! Local journalism is extremely important, and my local radio does that reasonably well. I listen to some programs
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 4h
Caligula. Totally unfit to be president.
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mleroi.bsky.social @mleroi.bsky.social · 7h
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Israeli authorities have demolished properties belonging to a Palestinian citizen of Israel, who rescued 30 Israelis from the Nova music festival during the ...
Israeli authorities have demolished properties belonging to a Palestinian citizen of Israel, who rescued 30 Israelis from the Nova music festival during the ...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10h
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How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel
A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h
Incredible — this anti-Zionist rabbi who was arrested for protesting Israel and is now at risk of being deported by Trump's ICE is being held in detention on the grounds that he's a "flight risk." This was the same justification used to hold Mahmoud Khalil and op-ed writer Rümeysa Öztürk:
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 4h
Grift all the time in every way
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 10h
More than 100 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody over the past three years, as prisoners' rights organisations warn of systematic torture, starvation, medical neglect and increasingly harsh detention conditions.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 4h
Two more years of this idiocy and madness and corruption and cruelty and…. The dems must impeach him. No way around it. Investigate his family. Go after his support in business and the media (Ellison, musk…) and the courts. Start undoing every thing we can undo now.
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JCMartinofBA @jcmartinofba.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The war in Gaza didn't start on October 7, 2023. It started in 1948 when Israel ethnic cleansed 750,000 Palestinians out of Palestine.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 4h
French high school students showing us how it’s done. Let’s be ready for November if Trump tries to steal the election. We might need to be in the streets to save democracy.
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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 9h
Anyone who refers to Donald Trump as “President” and not by the highly accepted newer and more accurate term “Convicted Felon and Adjudicated Rapist” is THE ENEMY.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 4h
A country destroying itself. All in the name of white supremacy and xenophobia.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 4h
Now they are coming for Pitt! Fight fight fight. Don’t compromise. What a much if BS - between racism and hatred of universities.
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Vance: Pitt Under Investigation For Possible Fraud
Vice President JD Vance said the University of Pittsburgh is one of nine elite universities being probed by the federal government.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h
My gosh. Mike Huckabee's top aide: —Covered up an embassy report on Israeli killings of 9 Americans —Fabricated Orwellian reports on Israeli settler violence & the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" to make it sound good for Israel —Questioned staff on whether they were “pro-Israel” or “pro-Hamas”
In late March, at the height of the Iran war, Israel quietly approved more settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank than it ever had at one time.
Staff members at the United States Embassy in Jerusalem saw the move as potentially flouting one of President Trump's explicit red lines for Israel - no annexation of the West Bank - and drafted an urgent report intended for policy makers in Washington.
That memo never reached Washington. It was quashed by David Milstein, a top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee, according to three U.S. officials briefed on the process.
This was no isolated incident.
Since taking up his post in April 2025, Mr. Milstein, 36, has repeatedly suppressed or significantly revised embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to a dozen people who work with or interact with Mr. Milstein in both Jerusalem and Washington:
• As settler violence in the West Bank surged in the spring, for instance, he stymied embassy reporting suggesting that the Israeli government was failing to take action, according to the three officials. Instead the embassy sent a cable to Washington, viewed by The New York Times, praising Israel for "cracking down" on the attacks.
• When members of Congress pushed for accountability over the killings of nine Palestinian Americans by Israeli settlers and security forces, he suppressed a detailed report that the embassy staff had written, effectively stonewalling lawmakers' efforts to gain information, according to multiple officials briefed on the matter.Mr. Milstein rewrote the cable to declare GHF's operation a success while overlooking the mass casualties, according to people who saw the cable and were briefed on the editing process.
Troubled by glaring discrepancies between news coverage and the embassy's official reports, White House and State Department officials seeking a clearer picture of events bypassed standard channels at least twice to communicate directly with embassy staff, according to two officials briefed on the outreach and an internal communication from late this summer seen by The Times.
Veteran American diplomats said that withholding or twisting the information sent to Washington should raise serious concerns.
"The embassy ought to tell Washington everything — the good, the bad and the ugly," said Dan Kurtzer, who was the U.S. ambassador to Israel under President George W. Bush. "If they're not doing so, they are damaging the policy-making process and possibly undermining the president's policies."
Mr. Milstein also questioned several colleagues on whether they were "pro-Israel" or "pro-Hamas," according to four officials, who found the question inappropriate and said it made some people fearful of speaking freely.
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Nick Zautra @zautra.bsky.social · 7h
🚨 Calling philosophers of science with interest in non-academic careers 🚨 The @philsci.bsky.social will be hosting a virtual "Testimonies and Town Hall" on Wednesday, October 21st. I'll also be hosting an Interest Group Lunch on Non-Academic Careers at the PSA 2026 on 11/20. Sign-up links below!
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 8h
I also wanted to remind people about the Danish dude who wrote the trial protocol, as he has said some truly wild things (I had a “debate” with him about RFK Jr) 🎢 OK, hold on tight, it’s a wild ride First, in the face of massive criticism of his protocol by ethicists, this is what he said…
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 8h
Another one. And many, many more. Trump Jr, Eric, General Michael Flynn and Trump lawyer Jesse Binnall are all Republika Srbska regulars and the US media still hasn't picked up on it. How do I know? Just talk to some journalists in Sarajevo, you can learn a lot. www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-...
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Photo shows top Trump aide's daughter with pro-Russia politician in Bosnia
Katie Wiles is a partner at the political lobbying firm Continental Strategy. A spokesperson for the firm acknowledged to CBS News that Wiles had taken the trip to Republika Srpska but on business for...
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 6h
Thanks Trump thanks rfk
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 8h
Criticism is good, boycotts better
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 9h
pogroms and muders of palestinians by israeli settlers with the support of the iof are happening everyday. if you work with any israeli institution you are supporting it. Boycott this country.
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Man, 44, shot dead by 'Israeli' fire during olive harvest
Ali Hassan Yasser al-Bazari was killed while harvesting olives when a group of 'Israeli' settlers tried to force farmers off of their land
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Israel marks the 3rd anniversary of the October 7th attack by terrorising hundreds of thousands of people. Hani Mahmoud reports
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13h
The @lrb.co.uk out here publishing smut again, apparently
Anne Carson has been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 'for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature!'
You can read 52 of her essays and poems in the
LRB archive.

Labeled as Adult Content by bsky mod service
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 12h
It’s simply unimaginable that CDC Director Dr. Erica Schwartz has just bowed to RFK Jr. and approved funding for an utterly unethical clinical trial that will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine in Guinea Bissau. It is to be conducted by researchers accused of academic misconduct.
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
After trial, an Ecuadorean judge declares 32 sailors on ships that were attacked by the US Navy—which accused them of being drug traffickers—innocent on all charges, finding that there was no material evidence to support the accusations against them.
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Jueza de Ecuador declara inocentes a 32 tripulantes de barcos bombardeados por EE.UU.
Una jueza de Ecuador declaró inocentes a 32 tripulantes de dos embarcaciones bombardeadas por EE.UU. Es el primero de tres juicios que involucran a 88 personas.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@markgerretsen.bsky.social This photos is 18 years old in Palestine. It didn’t start on October 7th. ( Mohamad Safa)
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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 19h
How Israel's relentless killing of over 1000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2025 can be called a "ceasefire" is beyond me- its brainwashing. Aljazeera noted: Israel attacked Gaza on 325 of the past 361 days, leaving only 36 days with no reported attacks, deaths or injuries.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 13h
Great choice. I heard her speak last year. What a presence.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 22h
I learnt a French word I’m afraid it might be slightly suggestive. Most French words are…
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Stephen "Steve" Winchell 🇵🇸 @sawinchell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The genocide in Palestine has been the defining political and cultural event of my lifetime. Get on the right side or shut the fuck up
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FreePalestine @savesjarrah.bsky.social · 22h
#OccupiedWestBank, 7 Oct 2026 #israeli occupation forces abduct Palestinian Wissam Bakir after storming his home in the city of Qalqilya, in the occupied West Bank. #NetanyahuWarCriminal #Boycottisrael #TrumpWarCriminal #BoycottUSA #israel Enemy of Humanity
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 23h
CDC moving forward with “wholly unethical trial” in African babies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They are hellbent to destroy universities. Either by sheer racism or by hatred of higher ed. Or both ofc.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former @bardcollege.bsky.social President and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, Leon Botstein, has finally resigned all his college positions after emails emerge in which he asked Epstein if a trafficked woman was “for me.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
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Leon Botstein, Former Bard President With Epstein Ties, Resigns From College Positions
Leon Botstein had already retired from the presidency of the liberal arts college this spring, after emails showed he had maintained a longtime friendship with Jeffrey Epstein.
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ande91.bsky.social @ande91.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you are able to see this film it's important. NAZA, a documentary created by Israeli whistleblowers exposes how Netanyahu & the IDF relied on ruthless AI targeting systems, that created "kill lists" to eliminate Palestinians. Netanyahu is trying to revoke citizenship of the Israeli filmmakers
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Palestinians reflect as they mark three years since the beginning of Israel's genocide in Gaza - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Palestinians reflect as they mark three years since the beginning of Israel's genocide in Gaza
<article data-history-node-id="448982" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinians-reflect-they-mark-three-years-beginning-israels-genocide" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinians-reflect-they-mark-three-years-beginning-israels-genocide" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Palestinians reflect as they mark three years since the beginning of Israel's genocide in Gaza</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Three years of genocide have left Palestinians in Gaza reflecting on lives transformed by displacement, loss and destruction.</p> <p>For those displaced from Beit Hanoun, the years have meant homes destroyed, children unable to attend school, families separated and loved ones killed.</p> <p>At least 74,000 Palestinians, including 21,500 children, have been killed since 7 October 2023, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The true toll is likely higher, with thousands still missing or buried under rubble.</p> <p>Around 80% of buildings in Gaza have been damaged, according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics.</p> <p>As another winter approaches, 1.65 million Palestinians are expected to face the cold in damaged buildings or worn-out tents.</p> <p>For Palestinians marking three years of war, many say they are left asking what remains of the lives they once knew.</p> <blockquote class="twitter-video" data-status="hidden"> <p dir="ltr" lang="en">After three years of genocide in Gaza, displaced Palestinians reflect on what remains of the lives they once knew. At least 74,000 Palestinians have been killed since 7 October 2023, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, with thousands more missing. https://t.co/2zSagbCUXJ</p> — Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) <a href="https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/2107871356196942063?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Planning casually about ethnic cleansing. This is is the face of Israel. Boycott that country.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
israelpalestinenews.org/id-rather-di...
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A Palestinian teen’s 10-month nightmare in Israeli jail
Zaid described the beatings. “It hurt so much I couldn’t breathe, and it’s then that I told them what they wanted to hear," - that he had been throwing stones
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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In memory of: Raida Iyad Saleh Ghaben / رائده اياد صالح غبن Age: 27 We will not forget you.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 08/10/2026
We need to see this moving, folks. Ahmed is a Palestinian student facing ongoing precarity. Help him survive & get legal help so he can support himself for the first time in three years. We owe this responsibility. 143/407 by Sunday: chuffed.org/project/ahmedf
An artistic graphic, the background a colorful abstract painting. The text is in three artistic fonts. Title: Ahmed is facing state violence. Subtitle: help him survive. Link: chuffed.org/project/ahmedf.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bari Weiss is disgusting
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The editorial board of the Philadelphia @inquirer.com becomes the first at a major newspaper to endorse (sorta) Trump's impeachment. share.inquirer.com/BnINC5 "A clear and present danger to the republic... the case against Trump is strong... the time has come to again contemplate his impeachment."
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The Case for Impeachment: What would the founders do? | Editorial
The list of the president’s high crimes and misdemeanors is breathtaking.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
From our partners at Palestinian Youth Movement: THREE YEARS OF GENOCIDE. MARCH FOR PALESTINE.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 07/10/2026
Looks like the Democratic candidate for US Senate in South Carolina, Annie Andrews, is pro-sports bans and pro-surgery bans for youth, which include top surgery and which have even been interpreted to include blocker and hormone implants. She's the latest anti-trans dem.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Israeli settlers and the IOF commemorate October 7 by committing a pogrom, killing a Palestinian and attacking French journalists. A usual day in the occupied territories. Boycott Israel.
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CAIR Condemns Israeli Killing of Palestinian During Settler Raid in West Bank, Settler Attack on French Journalists
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the killing of a Palestinian man by Israeli troops after extremist...
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Josh McDermott @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
New work by @msaddler.bsky.social with a striking finding: a wide range of human perceptual thresholds are replicated in a neural network optimized for real-world auditory tasks. Suggests that thresholds are determined by linear separability in task-optimized representations.
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𝔫𝔬𝔯𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔠𝔯𝔬𝔰𝔦𝔰𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔯 🏳️‍⚧️ @neurosismancer.gay · 07/10/2026
YOOOO LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO
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NYC moves to spend nearly $9M of gender-affirming care fund for minors
The funding is part of a $15 million investment announced in June as major hospitals retreated from providing such care.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s all grift with these people. All grift all the time.
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Who knew hegseth was a constructive empiricist?
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Fox host says he 'hasn't washed hands in 10 years'
Harvard and Princeton graduate Pete Hegseth says germs don't exist because he can't see them.
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