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Gareth Morgan Consultancy

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Provide DCF and computer science advice, support and training to primary schools across Wales. Creator of The Digital Learning Den platform. www.headinthecloud.wales

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Lane Moore @hellolanemoore.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Everyone thought my pervert glasses were rapey, so I made an equally perverted ~animal necklace~ that secretly films women, so people can still be rapey, but even more covertly! I could do anything with my life and I do THIS!"
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel praises evil. Peter Thiel hates democracy. Peter Thiel founded Palantir. Peter Thiel owns JD Vance. Peter Thiel is the most powerful billionaire in the United States. Peter Thiel can’t stop talking about the “Antichrist.” Find out why. Read “The Nerd Reich”
Perfect with photos of teal and Judy Vance. Quote from Peter Teal if you’re evil, you’re actually kind of good because at least you’re getting something done.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A large study of Khan Academy’s math tutor program found no extra benefits from AI. “Seeking help with one’s own confusion remained a choice, and most students declined it most of the time.” #aitutor hechingerreport.org/proof-points...
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Students didn't get answers from Khanmigo. They didn't want its questions, either
A large study of Khan Academy’s math program found no extra benefits from AI
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here: "ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Straight from OpenAI's Brockman and Microsoft's Nadella - 'doom loop' for the entire web [as they vacuum up and substitute the work of journalism and threaten their economic foundations]. /2
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Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in human history"... "more and more substitutive..." /1
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 17/09/2026
It's very easy for media to find pro-AI teachers willing to speak in public, but harder to find skeptics. Teachers, like workers in other industries, know that expressing caution in public can harm their career. In private though, only 16% of BCTF teachers think that AI helps students.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest thoughts on the generative AI 'inevitability' narrative. #generativeAI #education #Wales #schools #learning #DCF #curriculumforwales www.headinthecloud.wales/2026/09/gene...
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Is Generative AI in the Classroom, Inevitable?
My latest post looking at the idea of gen AI inevitability in the classroom & how tech companies & governments shape the inevitability narrative.
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Some thoughts about the generative AI 'inevitability' narrative. www.headinthecloud.wales/2026/09/gene...
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Is Generative AI in the Classroom Inevitable?
My latest post looking at the idea of gen AI inevitability in the classroom & how tech companies & governments shape the inevitability narrative.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 11/09/2026
It’s the hot new thing in tech, and it’s where all the jobs are. Students who don’t learn to use it fall behind. That’s the narrative AI companies are pitching, but according to NYT reporter Natasha Singer, it’s also how the tech industry has built its influence in classrooms for the past 15 years.
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Schools are catching on to Big Tech’s playbook
Do schools have “collective amnesia” about tech’s education push?
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
My latest blog post on Wales' PISA 2025 results. Looks at how previous ministers have reacted to the poor PISA results (back to 2009) and on impact and accountability. www.headinthecloud.wales/2026/09/pisa...
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PISA Results 2025 - Wales
My thoughts around the PISA 2025 results for Wales and my thoughts about accountability and measuring impact.
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Really interesting programme and interview. My jaw dropped at the 31% of learners, who took the PISA test, who were below Level 2 in reading. Lev 2 being what the OECD class as the baseline of proficiency in reading to be able to participate in society. In 2015 it was 16%. In England it is 16% now.
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
After another set of disappointing PISA results for Wales, Anna Brychan, education minister says, "these results are not where we want them to be" and that "they reinforce what we knew already and highlight our need to improve standards of reading and maths, as a priority." It sounded very familiar.
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #curriculumforwales #cfw
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Wales' Pisa test results fall further behind rest of UK
Three-yearly maths, reading and science test results show continued "downward trend", says OECD.
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Although the UK performed well overall, the rankings varied significantly again, with results showing England, where the curriculum is significantly different, pulling consistently ahead of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Interesting that the BBC points out....
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England up in reading, maths and science rankings as Scotland and Wales dip
The latest Pisa report also warned of a global decline in teenagers' reading skills.
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Pause AI in BC Schools @aicaution.ca · 07/09/2026
You can be a programmer, write your own software from scratch, use open-source software to learn a language, video call your friends across the globe, cook food in a microwave, but if you don't use LLMs you're a "Luddite" apparently?
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Why NYC’s AI Moratorium Is An Incredibly Smart Move substack.com/@jaredcooney...
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Why NYC’s AI Moratorium Is An Incredibly Smart Move
Cognitive Offloading vs Cognitive Outsourcing
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 30/08/2026
The Lake Ontario/Lake America thing is a profoundly stupid version of it, but in millions of other subtler ways, we are force fed American values and American ideas about the world, because American companies like Google control the internet.
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I link to my recent letter to Wales' Education Minister with two proposals on learners use of generative AI, and moving forward with the Digital Competence Framework (DCF). Any thoughts? drive.proton.me/urls/R6D4Q4H... #DCF #generativeai #ai #Wales #education #primaryschool #welshgovernment #uk
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Generative AI and DCF Proposals - Letter to the Welsh Government's Education Minister
A copy of the email I sent to the Welsh Government's Education Minister with my proposals for generative AI and the Digital Competence Framework.
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Oldman Teeps @oldmanteeps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Any tech company that changes “LAKE ONTARIO” to anything else, should be taxed into oblivion by the Canadian government. No exceptions.
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Gareth @gartmor.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Using a VPN it’s interesting to see how Google presents its results of a simple search for “Lake Ontario”, in three different countries - UK, Canada and the US. #lakeontario #US #Canada #googlesearch
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yep, leave me behind….. #BookSky
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 26/08/2026
zuck sucks and I think it would be a really nice thing for the internet if this company completely collapsed
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Mark Zuckerberg had a bold plan to replace Meta staff with AI. Here’s how it imploded.
To make its workforce “AI native,” Meta explored slashing the size of many teams across the company by as much as 60% in two waves, internal documents show. Staff revolted - and hours before a big lay...
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Big news, but it would have been nice to see Zuck and his cronies squirm in court, trying to defend the indefensible. I guess the changes to the platforms will mean less profits? What a shame 😁 Time to sell more of those 'pervert glasses', Zuck! 😎🤮 www.the-independent.com/tech/meta-in...
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Meta agrees to dramatically change Instagram and Facebook to settle court case
Agreement represents the largest ever Big Tech settlement, and will force Meta to introduce sweeping restrictions on its platforms
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lots of fantastic quotes in here. I was drawn to this particular one: 1/3 "Those who work in ed tech promise that it will liberate teachers and create one-to-one learning experiences for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. Certainly, AI teaching will be cheaper than teaching assistants.
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Rob Williams @robw40.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@gartmor.bsky.social Sort of makes my point…
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Rob Williams @robw40.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Another bi-product, I think, could be the erosion of teacher professionalism & agency. The creative craft of pedagogical expertise continually diluted, as tools of convenience are preferred. Fundamentally, it goes back to the core purpose of schools - creating learners who can think critically?
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Rob Williams @robw40.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Really interesting, thanks, Gareth! Very well put & entirely valid. Many of us are concerned that AI is being rolled out in our children’s lives with little research into the effects - benefits or detriments. The ‘process’ of learning sacrificed for ‘outcome’, with little thought of consequences 1/2
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I link to my recent letter to Wales' Education Minister with two proposals on learners use of generative AI, and moving forward with the Digital Competence Framework (DCF). Any thoughts? drive.proton.me/urls/R6D4Q4H... #DCF #generativeai #ai #Wales #education #primaryschool #welshgovernment #uk
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Generative AI and DCF Proposals - Letter to the Welsh Government's Education Minister
A copy of the email I sent to the Welsh Government's Education Minister with my proposals for generative AI and the Digital Competence Framework.
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Woke up, made coffee, and sat at my laptop where companies gathered and shared information about my news consumption, entertainment preferences, shopping habits, and more. When I left the house, my departure time was recorded by my smart lock and my doorbell camera captured what I was wearing. 🧵
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Purchase with Purpose @purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🚨No more doomscrolling or Instagram Stories? A Meta trial loss could end the social media we know in a case where states seek $200B in damages. Evidence includes testimony from a whistleblower, who says that Zuckerberg knew real teen harm rates were 100-400 times higher than the public figures.
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Zuckerberg Knew. A Whistleblower Has the Emails to Prove It.
Meta whistleblower Arturo Béjar testifies that internal data showed teen harm rates 400x higher than what the company told the public.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/08/2026
I agree that the tech backlash has a lot to do with the fact that Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on giving us cool things - and has trained us to assume that tech products that *seem* cool are probably secretly evil. I wrote about this last year:
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I Just Want a Cute Robot Lamp That Isn't Evil
Apple's engineers have figured out how to design a robot lamp so adorable that everyone I've shown the video to says they'd die for it. By studying how to translate human expression into the movement...
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
We're gonna do it, aren't we? We're actually gonna do it. We're gonna let greedy rich cunts cook the planet and suck it dry of energy and water just so bots can send emails to other bots. Un-fucking-believable.
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
In 30 years of teaching and school support and training, I’ve never felt the need to write to our education minister. Today I emailed her outlining two proposals around our learners use of generative AI and a way forward for an updated DCF. I’ll share the details soon. #dcf #edtech #Wales
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 11/08/2026
Saying AI bans are impossible is like saying smoking bans are & will cause more smoking because banning makes it cool, for those who don't remember the nonsense people said back then. Banning 🚬 ads (the real thing that made it look cool) was one of the coolest things we did. Ditto for smoking bans.
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Orion Kidder @orionkidder.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"AI is inevitable" is what an "AI" salesman tells you to get you buy into "AI."
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Luther M. Siler @infinitefreetime.com · 05/08/2026
The only moral imperative involving schools and AI is keeping AI out of the schools entirely.
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Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas has banned people using Meta's Ray-Ban video glasses... but they're not the only ones—and the list is growing
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Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears
Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at all
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Illinois Families for Public Schools @ilfps.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Prioritize kids over computers! We’re calling on Chicago School Board candidates to commit to a "Pledge to Protect Human-Centered Education”—22 have signed on so far. Full Pledge, candidates who have committed, and why we must protect human-centered education in CPS: www.ilfps.org/pledge_prote...
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Text: Chicago Board of Ed Candidate Commitment
PLEDGE TO PROTECT HUMAN-CENTERED EDUCATION
--Three-year moratorium on generative AI
--Chief Privacy Officer for district
--Screentime limits for all grades
--No collection of biometric data
kids >> computers
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Sigaret box with a sigaret stick out with “AI" on it. On the box it says:      Using this puts you at risk of:
Misinformation
Violating copyright
Plagiarising
Exploitation of workers
Deskilling yourself
Spreading stereotypes
Contributing to pollution
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My latest post about a proposed hyper-scale data centre which is in my locality and the highlighting the urgent need for critical AI literacy for our learners. #hyperscaledatacentres #wales #education #dcf #generativeAI #AI #criticalAIliteracy www.headinthecloud.wales/2026/08/seei...
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Seeing The Scale Of A Hyper-Scale Data Centre in My Own Backyard
A post looking at a proposed hyper-scale situated relatively near to my home and highlighting the need for critical AI literacy for learners.
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
New blog: Looking at a Substack post from Dr Jared Horvath. EdTech hype cycles and high cost, low-medium learner impact. Also a look at a recent DfE report which makes several references to little long-term evidence for most EdTech solutions. www.headinthecloud.wales/2026/07/stra...
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Strategies That Almost Certainly Generate Better Results For Far Less Cost
A post on the lack of quality evidence of learning outcomes in many EdTech solutions & are there more proven cost effective ways to improve learning.
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Tuta @tuta.com · 29/07/2026
We're excited to announce that we've joined the @digitalsme.eu 🎉 Together, we will bring #Digital #Sovereignty to Europe and beyond! 🇪🇺 🌎 It's amazing to see how European companies unite to bring #DigitalSovereignty to the world. Let's change the internet for the better! 💪 🇪🇺
Logos of new members of the EU Digital SME Alliance, including Tuta
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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 20/07/2026
A new Prime Minister is a fresh opportunity to stand up to Big Tech. We must break the excessive power that a handful of US companies have over our lives. We've joined with partner organisations to end this dependency and unlock British innovation. Read ➡️ www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/...
Dear Prime Minister, You have inherited an economy that has been quietly wired to serve a handful of dominant US-based technology firms. You also have the rare opportunity to tap into the public mood by curbing their excessive power over the economy and our lives. A critical break with the UK’s current relationship with dominant Big Tech and AI monopolies is core to a successful premiership. The abuse of structural and market power of a small number of Big Tech companies is a root cause of many of the problems the UK public face: huge potential losses in tax receipts because of firms avoiding paying their fair share in taxes, an economy that feels increasingly out of reach for most, the extraction of value hindering real growth and innovation, and meaningful climate action being undermined. Our call to you is not for an anti-tech response, but an anti-monopoly one. Such a position would help unlock the British innovation and growth that these monopolies are currently suppressing.Use public procurement as an industrial-strategy tool.

You have duly spoken about bringing "good growth in every postcode." We share that ambition, however a different kind of growth cannot take root while a handful of Big Tech monopolies sit astride the digital economy, extracting value from our communities, returning it to shareholders while harming the environment. Fair competition is therefore not just beneficial to consumers, but one of the essential drivers of long-term growth and the improvement of living-standards. We would welcome the chance to discuss these points further, and to support you in turning it into policy.
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Gareth Morgan Consultancy @gmconsultancy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
www.headinthecloud.wales/2026/06/unde... #Google #generativeAI #GeminiGuidedLearning #AI #Gemini
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Underwhelmed By Google Gemini 'Guided Learning' Feature
A post critically looking at the learner impact of Google's Gemini Guided Learning tool and the author's first impressions in using it.
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