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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 14h
You know the xkcd strip about how all modern internet architecture is eventually built on something a hobbyist maintains for free? Someone went out and found them all. sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026
Q: Many feel you have not addressed the fact your son in law is a white supremacist influencer. What have you said to your family? COLLINS: That's my family OSSOFF: Imagine running for Senate while neo-Nazi propaganda is disseminated to an audience of millions from your home. That's Mike Collins.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
“Many people know that AI is politically unpopular and want to leverage that to boost their own popularity,” Thiel said. “Both Obama and the pope fall into this category. Obama knows the Democrats have no ideas, but they can at least oppose AI.” Obama and the Pope really must boost their Q ratings.
politico.com
Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures
The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
i resent how there's a stable of a couple dozen dudes whose whole thing is 'has a racist blog' & they regularly get mainstream newspaper and magazine profiles. i have trouble keeping track of them all, i'm like 'what did he do again' & check his wikipedia & it's ah, has a racist blog, that's all
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/10/2026
According to sources familiar with the matter, someone made up the numbers entirely, and uhhh,,,,,,,,

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	According to a person with knowledge of the matter, the discrepancy arose from attempts by OpenAI’s own investors to produce a direct comparison with Anthropic’s annualised revenues. The pair calculate the figure in different ways, with Anthropic including the revenue from sales via cloud partners such as AWS and Google Cloud, while OpenAI does not.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 08/10/2026
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Kay Coghill, PhD. @drkalyncoghill.blacksky.team · 08/10/2026
Please support my local abortion fund. I am an abortion doula and on the board. I was also one of the first paid employees after RRFP was solely volunteer-run in my city for 10 years. My comrades are always looking for support!! WE ARE A SAFE HAVEN STATE! www.rrfp.net
rrfp.net
Abortion Funding in Virginia — Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project
The Richmond Reproductive Freedom Project offers direct funding and support for those in need of an abortion as well as advocates for the protection of abortion rights.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is the thing. If AI is supposed to save you time for the things that Really Matter, and reading a book to your baby is not something that Really Matters, then what are you doing? These guys really just want AI to live their lives while they grind Kalshi and Polymarket all day every day.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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.
rollingstone.com
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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Shanna "Read Black Fantasy" Miles @srmilesauthor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"For three decades, Georgia and other states collectively underfunded their historically Black land-grant universities by roughly $13 billion, according to a 2023 federal analysis." www.ajc.com/education/20...
ajc.com
Georgia could owe HBCU $603 million. A team of lawyers intends to collect.
A group is suing the state of Missouri, saying it has underfunded Lincoln University, which could pave the way for more money to other HBCUs, including Fort Valley State.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WHOA. This is big news. Mr. Soliman is a 31-year-old gay man from Egypt who came here at 3 with a green card. He lost his green card after a conviction, but an immigration judge found that he would be persecuted in Egypt and barred sending him there. He's locked in a hotel in Equatorial Guinea now.
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return Ahmed Soliman to the United States, five months after he was expelled to Equatorial Guinea, a country where he has no ties, in a decision that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of others subjected to the Trump administration’s third-country removal scheme.

Arizona District Court Judge John C. Hinderaker, a Trump appointee, ruled that DHS violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment and “must facilitate Plaintiff’s release from custody in Equatorial Guinea and return to the United States and must ensure his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to Equatorial Guinea.”
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I say this having watching The Matrix fresh last night, and going back to John Wick 2 tonight. These are great movies on their face, but if you're a cinema nerd or practical stunt geek Reeves shows you something that you've never seen before and should be impossible fucking quarterly. Legend.
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know saying Keanu Reeves is great in 2026 isn't a brave stance, but what I'm actually saying is that man is not respected ENOUGH. He's one of our most focused and charismatic movie stars and in one genre he's done Citizen Kaine like 19 times. I don't know what else to say.
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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
People gave Keanu Reeves shit back in the day, but outside of being a reportedly amazing human being he also gave us Point Break, Speed, The Matrix series, and all that Wick. The man is an undisputed innovator in action cinema. He helped change the entire language of action cinema MULTIPLE TIMES
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Incarcerated women report rampant sexual abuse by guards and the guards retaliate by spraying them with chemical agents and sending them to the hospital as a warning. Rape culture and brazen misogyny from the highest institution to the lowest.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
DUN DUN DUN -- Fox Business on the September jobs report: "The numbers do not look good. I'm looking at 29,000 jobs added. That is well below expectations for 90,000, and our unemployment rate jumps up to 4.2%. A significant slowdown."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
CNBC on the September jobs report: "A bit of a disappointment. Expecting 90,000, comes in at 29,000. And we see two month revisions down 60,000 ... average hourly earnings -- this is a big miss. Big, big miss. We were expecting up three tenth. This comes in at one tenth."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
CNN on the last jobs report before the midterms: "It came in cold -- surprisingly cold. Job growth weaker than expected, unemployment unexpectedly went up, and paychecks aren't keeping up with prices. This was disappointing all around."
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“For months, Anthropic has been hosting private meetings like this one, shuttling in dozens of religious scholars from across the world, papering them with nondisclosure agreements and demanding that key aspects of many conversations remain confidential.“ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
nytimes.com
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
calmatters.org
Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?
California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 02/10/2026
This is the dodgiest and most-desperate thing I’ve seen in the bubble so far. Amazon selling their chips to a group of investors and leasing them back - an off balance sheet arrangement done in plain sight. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. And they’ll probably buy more!
Amazon is seeking to offload about $8bn of advanced Nvidia chips to external investors through a new vehicle aimed at strengthening its balance sheet, according to people familiar with the matter.
The Seattle-based cloud giant has held talks with investors in recent weeks to gauge interest in the deal, which would allow the company to spin off thousands of Grace Blackwell chips it is deploying in data centres across the US into a special-purpose vehicle.
Amazon will then lease the advanced AI chips back from the SPV, which would tap outside investors through debt issuance. By unloading the expensive semiconductors to investors, the company could adopt a more asset-light approach to its balance sheet.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Covid damage is cumulative. The part that “feels like a cold or flu” isn’t the long term damage, and every time you allow your body to catch covid it piles more on the “maybe long covid will take effect this time” load. I think most people don’t know they already have long covid.
healthcare.utah.edu
Brain Fog After COVID-19? Long COVID May Be the Cause
Still struggling with forgetfulness, trouble focusing, or mental fatigue months after COVID-19? Learn why brain fog is a common symptom of long COVID.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I contend that people would be more afraid of it if long covid symptoms presented uniformly. of the irl people I KNOW OF covid gave 1 cardiac issues, 1 got MCAS, 1 Bell’s palsy, 1 lost sense of smell, 1 has bilateral tremors, & 1 became narcoleptic. no fucking thanks. I’m as disabled as I wish to be
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
“Mayor Brandon Johnson's office confirmed it was contacted by OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT, to inform the city that the company’s technology accessed information from an online ‘public facing’ database.”
nbcchicago.com
AI technology probed city databases, Chicago officials confirm
At least one major AI company’s technology targeted the city of Chicago’s computer systems, officials say
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These are stunning
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
These sweeping statements about more work being like software engineering that people realize and “all service work can be automated” immediately hits me as 1) a claim that can be tested and 2) one that hasn’t been sufficiently tested. But they all just blithely accept it.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s also really clear to me this week that the people telling us that AI will transform work…haven’t seen a lot of jobs where people work.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The tweet that immediately came to mind:
We're a modest company with modest goals:
1: sell a quality product at a fair price
2: drain the world's oceans so we can find and kill god
6:19 PM • Oct 21, 2014 • Twitter for iPhone
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Bryan Grantham @bryanmgrantham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Taps the sign
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
wrong. It's more likely Cursor + GitHub Copilot, the latter of which disappeared in roughly June 2026 with the end of customer subsidies, and the former will disappear some time in the next year because Elon owns them bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Other fun facts from the story: 1. nearly a quarter of Anthropic's 2025 revenues came from two customers 2. These numbers *include* the revenue share from Amazon/Google selling their models.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...
Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump is touting a diesel export ban and Goldman Sachs has produced a note to say why it’s a bad idea. Initially US diesel drops by $0.25 a gallon during the week of the ban, but that then pushes gas prices ⬆️ After the ban, global prices would still be higher due to lost US refinery output.
goldman Research
Sacns
Commodities Research
26 September 2026 | 11:50AM EDT
OIL ANALYST
Modeling Potential US Diesel Export Restrictions
Daan Struyven
draw five conclusions.
on US diesel prices as inventories build. We estimate that, initially while storage
under 4% of the current $6.5/gallon.
Texandra Paulu
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Goldman Sachs & Co. LLO
Yulia Zhestkova Grigsby
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production can mean downward pressure on gasoline production, i.e. upward
• Third, restrictions on US diesel exports would add upward pressure on ex-US
with prices elsewhere, including Europe, putting upward pressure on US diesel
• Gasoline markets are tightening rapidly.
would tighten ex-US gasoline markets.
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Kindra Cotton @kindracotton.com · 28/09/2026
Third person arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, as police say hanging was staged Eric Clark, 45, charged with murder as autopsy concludes Fortune was dead days before body discovered in tree: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Third person arrested in death of Tasia Fortune, as police say hanging was staged
Eric Clark, 45, charged with murder as autopsy concludes Fortune was dead days before body discovered in tree
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 28/09/2026
www.reddit.com/r/Alabama/s/...
reddit.com
From the Alabama community on Reddit: Right-wing 1819 "news" must pay Bruce Pettway $7 million in defamation case
Explore this post and more from the Alabama community
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Mike Gianella @mikegianella.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
something grimly amusing about the concept of “traditional” families is that the deliberate erosion of the institutional strength of the American worker has mostly destroyed this yet there’s an entire political movement adamantly pretending this isn’t the case.
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
thank u pennsylvania very cool
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/09/2026
reading this, it does seem as if “rationalism” is an elaborate intellectual architecture designed primarily to support the idea that if you were born white, male and clever then you are the genetic elite and entitled to rule.
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What a surprise, the organizers of the covid cautious dyke bar hated the article, rejected its framing, and is defending their covid cautious patrons and performers. Anyone who joined in on the viral harassment campaign started by Jesse Singal wanna say oops or…? recorder.com/2026/09/24/g...
Current and former owners of Last Ditch could not be reached by phone, email or social media. However, Last Ditch did share on Instagram that the Globe story allegedly misconstrued statements from Noire, and urged community members to stop harassing Noire.
"It is neither productive, progressive, nor valiant to attack a Black patron. He has been a collaborator and performer of Last Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his mind about accountability and repair from the bar," the Last Ditch statement reads. "There are so many misconceptions due to the disorganization of the Globe article. He did not call for the bar to be firebombed. Further, he did not disparage the owner for being homeless.
"As a result of this abysmal journalism, he has been getting additional threats, slurs, harassment, and is being reported to the police over something he did not do," Last Ditch continued. "This is not supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is, at its core, anti-Blackness hysteria."
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Dr. Jennifer Krueckeberg @jkrueckeberg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is much more than a question of authenticity. What we see is the weaponisation of AI to discredit non-white intellect. There is an agenda behind this. Just look at the media circus. The witch hunt against Thélyson Orélien was sparked by a "random" X post.
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
londondaily.com
Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Orion Rummler @oriion.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
From a Texas prison, she built a menopause support network from scraps of paper. Please read the story of Kwaneta Harris and the women behind bars coming together to support each other, by the unparalleled @candicenorwood.bsky.social
19thnews.org
In a Texas prison, Kwaneta cultivated a menopause support network from scraps of paper
The incarcerated population is getting older, but correctional facilities lag in menopause care. Kwaneta Harris is working to fill the gaps in women's prisons.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Fresh off setting a $70 billion pile of cash on fire with temu second life for LinkedIn perverts, and then more billions on pervert glasses, Zuckerberg sets even more absolute mountains if cash with pervert tomagatchis, the tomagachi for perverts
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Chernobyl Odinsdottir @eightpointvalkyrie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I haven't been near 4Chan in damned near a decade now, and I don't really have a finger on the pulse of the culture over there any more. But from what I can recall, if even /pol/ thinks you've gone too far with blaming minorities, you may need to rethink your strategy.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ten years of relentlessly hateful, comically elitist anti-democratic politics across the white people world, helpfully summarised. The wrong people are talking, the wrong people are deciding and it’s harming the careers of important people who actually matter. Smithers! Release the hounds
The incident fits a broader pattern in the discourse around 'free speech' and 'cancel culture': whatever comes from the top down is freedom; whatever comes from the bottom up is bullying and censorship. When Macklemore is dropped at the behest of the billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft, it's an exercise of the freedom of businesses to 'demonstrate their values' by deciding whom to platform. But when Ed Sheeran's fans decide not to buy tickets to his performances, or even demand refunds, it's bullying, mob behaviour. Since most people are not billionaires and do not own stadiums, they can exercise meaningful power only collectively. The collective exercise of power must therefore be demonised.
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Wrestlenomics @wrestlenomics.com · 23/09/2026
AUDIO: In Her Own Words: An Exclusive interview with Janel Grant | Pollock & Thurston Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0Jbh... Video version on YouTube at 10 am ET.
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