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Doug Eyman

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Writing and Rhetoric faculty at GMU. Digital Rhetoric, Games/Gaming, Tech Comm. Wine and Chinese tea. Tai chi student.

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Kairos Journal @kairosrtp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#CFP for Kairos' Disputatio docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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2026_CCCC Disputatio CFP
Promotional Material Website CFP Call for Submissions: Disputatio Responds to CCCC On July 24, 2026, the Executive Committee of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE-EC) put in motion th...
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Claims of incipient, dangerous superintelligence are not based in good scientific or engineering practice. Rather, they are narratives based in ideologies of transhumanism, eugenics, and wishful thinking about imagined future digital humans." - @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social
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scott b. weingart @scottbot.net · 22/09/2026
Join my team! Help us figure out how to be as careful stewards of today's born-digital archives of state as we've been for physical archives over the last 200 years. Seeking experience in digital archives/collections/preservation, or related cultural heritage work. Due 10/6. Up to $91k.
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Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States
Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: Commensurate with experience up to $91,080 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Locatio...
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Donnie Johnson Sackey @donniejsackey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE’s De-Chartering of CCCC. Please read and sign. theorganizationformerlyknownascccc.com
CCCC Leadership Response to NCTE's De-Chartering of CCCC
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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Embedded Pedagogies is out! Available freely online through @openbookpublish.bsky.social and for purchase in a variety of different formats. It's a tough time to teach, and it's easy to feel helpless. In this book I argue for an expansive view of teaching and the work it can do in the world.
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tengrrl @tengrrl.com · 22/08/2026
Academic Writing vs. Technical Communication Infographic via WordPress www.tengrrl.com/blog/2026/08/22/aca… August 22, 2026 at 07:56AM
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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 21/08/2026
Opinion | The Crisis in College Composition and Communication The dissolution of the field’s premier organization couldn’t have come at a worse time. By Jason Godfrey and Anne Ruggles Gere: bit.ly/4gtUvWI #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky
A woman's hands typing on a laptop.
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I've been reading around LitRPG books lately, as someone with an interest in game studies/TTRPGs and just finished @chriswarcraft.bsky.social's _Shades of Forever_. Highly recommend! Would love to spend more time in that world.
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Shelton Weech @sheltonweech.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If you’re teaching research methods in Technical Communication and are looking for some great readings, consider taking a look at this book. I have a chapter in here (written with Holly Baker and Suzan Flanagan) mapping the literature review process. wacclearinghouse.org/books/tpc/re...
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Research Practice in Technical and Professional Communication - WAC
Edited by Michelle McMullin, Valerie Smith, and Lisa Melonçon Designed by Mike Palmquist The stories we tell about what happens in the course of our research require more attention. The complications,...
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I found out my favorite craft beer brewpub in Yantai closed, probably due to Qungdao creating a bunch of ‘craft brews’ that were much cheaper (and I’m told most people preferred the super cheap Yantai beer, which is good for what it is - I like it! - but isn’t serious craft beer RIP Blue.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...
The Most Versatile Majors Chart, TOPPED BY ENGLISH and VISUAL&PERFORMING ARTS
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Coalition for Networked Information @cni-org.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The Library Publishing Coalition released a new AI Editorial Policy Guide, designed to help editors and those involved in publishing to develop AI policies for their publishing program: librarypublishing.org/lpc-releases...
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LPC releases new AI Editorial Policy Guide | Library Publishing Coalition
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The Video Game Library 📚 @thevideogamelibrary.org · 06/06/2026
A gorgeous new IP and no release date, so it’s easy to understand why there’s no books on #BloodMessage quite yet…. …but publisher NetEase Games is an industry juggernaut. Learn about their meteoric rise in the world’s biggest gaming market with this book: “China Game: Industrial History”
Japanese book cover for History of China’s Game Industry by Akinori Nakamura. The minimalist white cover features oversized black and red Japanese title characters, the English subtitle “China Game Industrial History,” and a red cube highlighting the rise of companies such as Tencent and NetEase.
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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Absolutely thrilled to have a chapter in this book (alongside other wonderful historical game developers and academics)! Huge congrats to Esther, Nick, and Iain 🎉 Can’t wait to read the book!
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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
This is a good read of the Granta / Commonwealth mess and quite a teachable essay for undergrads, so bookmark for your Fall syllabuses africasacountry.com/2026/05/how-...
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How to read postcolonial writing
The Granta controversy surrounding a Commonwealth Prize-winning story tells us less about AI than about the enduring metropolitan expectation that writing from the South should sound opaque, excessive...
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...
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A dataset of AI-generated podcasts created using NotebookLM
Audio files and transcripts of AI-generated podcasts created using Google's NotebookLM. Four podcasts were created by uploading specific PDFs. Twen...
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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 18/05/2026
tell your doctor not to use AI notes
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Trustfnd @trustfnd.com · 18/05/2026
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This week was commencement for us and we had a great bunch of grads at all levels - these students, with their drives, passions, critical engagements with the world keep me feeling at least a tiny bit optimistic about the future. Congrats to all the 2026 grads out there!
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
I find a lot of interesting stuff appears to published on the Verge, but they embed Twitter/X posts that grab my data when I view them. Can they not just take a screenshot? Seems like that would be less work and not also support the Nazi site.
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Pleased to note the release of my colleague McKinley Green's new book, At Risk: Rhetoric, Deviance, and the Politics of HIV Prevention. He does great work - highly recommend! ohiostatepress.org/books/titles...
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At Risk: Rhetoric, Deviance, and the Politics of HIV Prevention
Advances a rhetoric of deviance to show how young people with HIV defy public health recommendations in favor of their own risk mitigation strategies informed by structural inequities.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/05/2026
A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.
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Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
🧑‍🎓CALL FOR EDITORS📷 The editorial board of Press Start is currently seeking to recruit new editors to join our team! 🌟 Please see the next post in the thread for more details. Applicants must be current graduate/postgraduate students or have graduated within the past year.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Fynde somebodye who doth love thee as much as universityes love replacinge regular forms and phone calls wyth a complicated and buggy software program that will be chaunged everye fyve yeares
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Mark J. Rozell @markjrozell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
GenAI is polluting the scholarly record and the best way (currently) to prevent the damage is to not use it (bc too many authors don’t vet the sources, putting additional labor on editors).
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
A bit late to the party, but was delighted to find that my colleague Vivek Narayana was the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He's doing really amazing work, which I was introduced to in _After_, which he describes as a 'reinvention or rewiring' of the Rāmāyaṇa. Highly recommend!
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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart. medium.com/nightingale/...
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Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization
How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This is a great, evocative description of genAI. Whole thread is a very worthwhile read (and it starts with a reference to Steven Harnad; I didn't know about his actual work, but he figures prominently in the early days of digital online publication - so an interesting crossing of interests).
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We have a new post up at our blog/book project, Publishing Digital Scholarship, on genAI's pernicious effects: the erosion of trust in the scholarly enterprise: digital-scholarship.ghost.io/ai-and-journ...
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AI and Journal Editing: The Erosion of Trust
Generative AI is eroding trust between authors, editors, and reviewers. Journal editors may want to change their citation policies in an unexpected way to ensure scholarly publishing remains a trustwo...
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 24/03/2026
What does it mean to live where every promise of transformation has stalled but never quite ended? Following a holoparasitic plant through centuries of human-plant encounters, Yadong Li explores political depression on China's interior frontier, where futures feel suspended but not closed.
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Tracing the Unfinished: Human–Plant Encounters and Their Echoes in China’s Interior Frontier
In a town on the edge of a desert, a holoparasitic plant threads together memories of hardship, dreams of prosperity, and the feeling that development has come to a halt. Following centuries of human–...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16/03/2026
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Britt A @balloonleap.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Wahoo! New pub in DHQ with Alan Arce, @grahamhjensen.bsky.social, and @raysiemens.bsky.social! Avail in 3 languages 🤯 Multilingualism as Infrastructural Imperative: Language Diversity in Digital Knowledge Commons [EN] dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/20/1/000...
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Dustin’s book project started as a footnote in his dissertation but it’s clear that it’s also connected to his own lived history (the places he lived and knew); both I think important elements of the synchronicity of research. #4c26
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Excited to be at the CCCC Research Network Forum, where I get to hear works in progress - a snapshot of where the field is going. Starting the day with a keynote from Dustin Edwards. #4c26
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
On anthropomorphizing language about AI, I'm pleased to say that this paper with @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman is finally out in the world! firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... >>
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De-anthropomorphizing “AI”: From wishful mnemonics to accurate nomenclature | First Monday
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Joshua Barsczewski @joshuabarsczewski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I almost wish I hadn't edited this book so I could read it again for the first time because, dear LORDT, there's been few weeks in my career more taxing than this one (yes, I know it's only Tuesday). I need it now
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Started watching the Time Bandits series (having been irredemably warped by watching the original film when I was..young-ish. Ok, not *that* young, but much younger than I am now), and it is really fantastic. Maybe later I'll say why.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.
Two copies of a black, white and red book cover. The cover reads
UNCORRECTED PROOF
NOT For SALE

SECOND SIGHT: HOW THE WONDER AND VISION OF
BLACK MEDIAMAKERS
PUSH AMERICA
TOWARD FREEDOM

SARAH J. JACKSON

My light brownish hand with chipped purple glitter nail polish holds the books
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 22/01/2026
The videos can be watched in any order and are intended for normal people, not experts -- there is so much confusion and misunderstanding out there. (For instance, I'm sending it to my students and non-academic friends). I've also included a very extensive reference list. Please share these widely!
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All about AI
All about AI video series Supporting documentation Professor Andrew Perfors January 2026 Hello! Welcome to the list of references and supporting resources for my “All about AI” video series on Youtu...
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Victor Navarro-Remesal @vthewanderer.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
A thread on ZEN AND SLOW GAMES (MIT Press, 2026)
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 18/01/2026
For all those involved in drafting so-called AI guidelines, but being overwhelmed with nonsense, this is a lifesaver. Great work by Dagmar and Ariel! Resisting Enchantment and Determinism: How to critically engage with AI university guidelines. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
The list of most relevant themes we identified is:
1. Rhetoric of inevitability and technological determinism: presenting the adoption and use of 
(generative) AI as a fait accompli.
2. Exaggerated narratives: overstating the general capabilities of the technology, or leaving out that 
certain seemingly impressive capabilities can only be achieved under very specific experimental 
conditions.
3. Spurious comparison to human intelligence or Anthropomorphism: presenting AI as if it thinks or 
reason like a human.
4. Ethics and critical washing: presenting AI as being ethically or critically examined but doing so only 
superficially and inconsequentially.
5. Wishful thinking and uncertain feasibility: assuming desired outcomes or functionality despite lacking 
realistic evidence they can be achieved.
6. GenAI is presented as indispensable: portraying AI as essential even when simpler or non-AI solutions 
are sufficient.
7. Unrealistic and ill-defined conditions: formulating requirements for adoption and use that are 
functionally impossible or too demanding to be met, psychologically implausible to follow, or set 
unclear boundaries for acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, which could easily create 
inconsistencies. 
8. Resources as propaganda: resources for students, faculty, and other stakeholders are made available 
but only for incentivizing different degrees of use of genAI.
9. AI Overkill: Substitution or replacement of tasks for which the technology was not designed; from 
tutoring to teaching to research, everything must be now with AI, even if it is not adequate.
Due to space limitations, rather than discussing all of the themes superficially, this essay addresses only the 
first four, which, in our view, are the most critical and the most urgently in need of critical scrutiny. T
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I'm pleased to announce the release of issue 30.2 of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric Technology, and Pedagogy. kairos.technorhetoric.net We'll be celebrating our thirtieth anniversary in the fall (how is it possible that I've been an editor for 30 years???)
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Issue 30.2 (Spring 2026) - Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy.
Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy is the premier online, peer-reviewed journal in computers and writing.
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
From #MLA26 session on AI and the ‘typed self’ - Matthew Parfitt: GenAI is an answering machine, while humans *question* - we need to foreground teaching how to question (and sustain the questioning). Whole session has been fantastic.
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
@writerethink.bsky.social Just saw your recorded presentation for #MLA26 - really great examples and presentation and hope your call to focus on experience and intentionality when teaching writing gets wide circulation.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 10/01/2026
Useful: I’ve been looking for a good, plain-language source to help students understand that artificial neural nets are very limited representations of actual human brains news.mit.edu/2022/neural-...
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Study urges caution when comparing neural networks to the brain
Neuroscientists often use neural networks to model the kind of tasks the brain performs, in hopes that the models could suggest new hypotheses regarding how the brain itself performs those tasks. But ...
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Doug Eyman @kairosdoug.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Happy to announce the publication of _Composing with AI_, a new open access online anthology on teaching writing with and in the age of AI. Co-edited with my colleague Nupoor Ranade (CMU), this collection’s authors look at a broad range of issues and applications: ccdigitalpress.org/composing-wi...
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Composing with AI
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Open Access Tracking Project @oatp.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026
UKSG webinar: The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? Feb 05, 2026, noon (GMT) | UKSG www.uksg.org/events/free-uksg-webin…
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FREE UKSG webinar: The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? - UKSG
This is a fantastic opportunity to listen to expert speakers with no travelling required. This is a free webinar - Please note that advance registration is required. This webinar will be recorded and all registrants will receive a link to the recording after the session.
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Chris Gardiner @chrisgardiner.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.
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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
And now, Writing Game Histories (2026) with cover art (courtesy of @murthynikhil.bsky.social’s Syphilisation) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
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