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Angela Misri

@karmicangel.bsky.social
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Journalist, fiction author, assistant professor at TMU, nerdy Kashmiri Canadian. Formerly The Walrus & CBC Radio.

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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Taylor and Francis "carefully selected" these based on my interests... #algorithmfail #glasseels?
A screencapture of an email recommendation.
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This Magazine @thismagazine.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This Magazine is looking for online exclusive stories to be published digitally throughout this coming fall. Have an idea for a news, column, or opinion piece? We'd love to hear your pitch! More info about what and how to pitch at the link below: this.org/contribute/#...
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This Magazine → Contribute to This Magazine
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"... we built a method to measure that heat using satellite data collected over 25 years. We tested it on Antel's data center in Pando, a state-owned facility, and found something never measured before in Uruguay: a heat island visible from space." mailchi.mp/pulitzercent...
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The Journalists Paying Attention to Heat
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"We are admitting a cohort that cannot read at a college level and are pretending otherwise... Offloading tasks to a chatbot does not 'free students up for higher-order work.' It deprives them of building the strength to do any substantial cognitive work at all." www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...
chronicle.com
Opinion | My Students Can’t Read
The generational collapse in literacy is measurable, persistent, and likely to get worse.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
"A recent Stanford study found that employment for 22- to 25-year-old software engineers fell nearly 20% between late 2022 and July 2025, even as hiring for older engineers grew. " via Fast Company register.inc.com/index.php/em...
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FAST COMPANY | AI DECODED
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
“A journalist’s job is to interrogate and find truth ... such as Trump being a felon, racist, and someone who seeks to willfully undermine the will of voters and the rule of law, we commit journalistic malfeasance if we cover him with a neutral framing.” www.cjr.org/analysis/whe...
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When Neutrality Is a Constraint
Journalism in the 1930s failed to communicate the danger of Hitler’s rise. Are we repeating the same mistake now?
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"...some analysts are holding up Builder.ai as a potential case of 'AI washing,' in which companies falsely promote products or services as AI to attract attention and funding." restofworld.org/2025/builder...
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Inside the collapse of Builder.ai: Was it even an AI company?
The implosion of a white-hot startup has employees asking how it all went wrong.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Going through some edits today, and this stood out as totally on brand: "Could Ganesh’s mouse play a bigger role in the plot?"
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three mice are standing on a wooden bench with the word prime video on the bottom right corner
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"Pluralities of professors (close to half) in large public universities affirm that academic standards have declined in recent years and that grade inflation is a serious problem." www.chronicle.com/article/meet...
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Opinion | Meet Students Where They Are? Maybe Not.
Lax standards will void the value of a college education.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I've been thinking about this a lot - is it possible to copyright yourself to protect your individuality being sucked into the LLMS? www.fastcompany.com/91360589/den...
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Denmark wants you to copyright yourself. It might be the only way to stop deepfakes
Copyrighting our faces will be an effective way to effortlessly force platforms to take down deepfakes.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/f... via @techcrunch.com
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Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books | TechCrunch
A federal judge sided with Meta in a lawsuit that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on copyrighted works.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"By automating these decisions, we replace them with references to generalized, previously established, socially constructed imaginaries." mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-decision...
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The Decision Not to Decide
Interfaces, and design of all kinds, exercise decision-making. Decision making is a form of power. What, then, is generative AI for design?
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
"People do not believe journalists try to be fair, balanced or impartial — or do not agree that what we are offering meets those standards. This is their experience, and our defensiveness will not change that." - trustingnews.org/heres-the-pu...
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Here’s the public’s wish list for trust. Let’s get busy.
Reuters Digital News Report share insights into four things the public says they want from journalists.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
"Every year scores of Australians and thousands of others are denied entry to the United States. C.B.P. has full discretion, after all. What is new is the politically motivated deployment of that power to exclude speech that the government does not want to hear." www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...
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How My Reporting on the Columbia Protests Led to My Deportation
As an Australian who wrote about the demonstrations while on campus, I gave my phone a superficial clean before flying to the U.S. I underestimated what I was up against.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“I think many people assume there’s some baseline level of confidentiality there. There’s not. Everything you submit to an AI system at bare minimum goes to the company that’s hosting the AI.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Meta users don’t know their intimate AI chats are out there for all to see
Some people are unwittingly posting their private and sometimes mortifying conversations with the Meta AI chatbot to the world.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“First is using AI for research and investigations,” Zach said. “Number two is internal workflows and processes those like knotty or just robotic parts of everybody’s job… And then the last area of focus is reader experiences.” substack.com/home/post/p-...
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How a Five-Person AI Team Is Powering Innovation at The New York Times: In Conversation with Zach Seward
Plus: Join us at New York University for a Live Podcast Recording, June 3!
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"...we are heading towards a place where not only are image and video [AI] generations likely to be good enough to fool most people, but that those capabilities will be widely available and, thanks to open models, very hard to regulate or control." www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-recent...
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The recent history of AI in 32 otters
Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
As the CJC hands out millions to ‘Canadian’ media under the federal Online News Act, our Indigenous newsroom is left behind indiginews.com/first-person... via @indiginews.bsky.social
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Why you won’t see IndigiNews among those sharing in the $100M Google news fund
As the CJC hands out millions to ‘Canadian’ media under the federal Online News Act, our Indigenous newsroom is left behind
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"To come up with a good AI policy for a university ... one first has to have an idea of which skills and formative experiences they are prepared to lose for the sake of AI use, and which ones they will fight to retain." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Opinion | What I Learned Serving on My University’s AI Committee
What I learned serving on a university AI committee.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This is why our student newsroom at OTR is filled with plant life! “According to a 2020 study, researchers found that 27% of participants saw a significant reduction of pulse rate when staring at a small plant on their desk" www.fastcompany.com/91334123/wha...
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How bringing nature into your workspace can jump-start productivity
On average, people spend 90% of their time indoors. Adding nature-inspired touches to your work environment can do wonders for your health.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"These fraudsters — sometimes called ghost students, Pell runners, or straw students — are hitting the system’s central application portal at an alarming rate."
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Is Your Online Student a Bot?
As AI gets better, online education becomes more vulnerable to fraud. Just ask instructors in California.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
via @thestar.com & @andytakagi.bsky.social #TTC track diversions for streetcars comin' in slow just in time for summer www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-s...
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Nicole Blanchett, PhD @nicoleblanchett.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Check out my latest with lead author @karmicangel.bsky.social — and see how discussions on AI ethics in newsrooms may not be keeping up with practice
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Nicole Blanchett, PhD @nicoleblanchett.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
New and open access from @karmicangel.bsky.social me and April Lindgren - re. how AI is being used & how AI ethics guidelines are being developed (or not) in Canadian newsrooms #journalsim #AI www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom
The burgeoning use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) to create journalistic products is challenging the ethical standards in Canadian newsrooms and calling into question the efficacy of existing no...
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A public inquiry cleared former MP Han Dong’s name, but the cloud of foreign meddling still looms over candidates of Chinese descent. thelocal.to/don-valley-n...
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“Everybody is Terrified of Getting the Label”—Why the Spectre of Chinese Interference Hangs Over Don Valley North | The Local
A public inquiry cleared former MP Han Dong’s name, but the cloud of foreign meddling still looms over candidates of Chinese descent.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
23andMe has declared bankruptcy - delete all your data ASAP: wapo.st/4kUsBEF
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Column | Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now
The genetic information company declared bankruptcy on Sunday, and California’s attorney general has issued a privacy “consumer alert.”
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"...if Singh can’t convince Canadians his party represents more than a protest vote, it never will." via @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/with-the-ndp...
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With the NDP Dropping in the Polls, What’s Left for the Left? | The Walrus
Jagmeet Singh is running out of time—and so is his party
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
#APPLY The ‘Friends of Canadian Media’ Scholarship will be awarded annually to a student who demonstrates a strong enthusiasm for politics and a solid comprehension of journalism’s role in a thriving democracy. rtdnacanada.com/rtdnf-launch...
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The First :10 Seconds – RTDNA Canada
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Right now, the fine print on how Twitter/FB/Insta are using your social media data is more transparent than how Musk will use your social insurance data, America.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
AI generated works of art may be eligible to win awards at state fairs, but they are not protected under American copyright law, according to new guidance issued by the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) on Wednesday. www.digitaltrends.com/computing/us...
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The U.S. finally put its foot down on AI image copyright
The US Copyright Office has released new guidance on what protections AI generated art may enjoy, and there aren't many.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A geographer explains how maps’ place names, such as the Gulf of Mexico and Denali, are decided www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
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Can Trump Just Order New Names for Denali and the Gulf of Mexico?
A geographer explains how maps’ place names, such as the Gulf of Mexico and Denali, are decided
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
How NOT to use AI ethically or well: "The automated fraud detection system generated nearly 63,000 cases between 2013 and 2015 in which Michigan residents were accused of fraud, about 70 percent of which would later be found to be false." www.fastcompany.com/91265363/sta...
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States are turning their public benefits systems over to AI. The results have often led to ‘immense suffering’
A recent report released by TechTonic Justice found that most public benefits systems are riddled with AI.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The best part of being a kids author is talking about books and writing with classrooms full of excited students. #thankfulgratefulblessed
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Four Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black Scholars - deadline is March 31 www.torontomu.ca/graduate/pos...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships for Black Scholars
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Starbucks proves it was never really a ‘third place’ Starbucks surprised many with its new code of conduct for customers. www.fastcompany.com/91262321/sta...
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Starbucks proves it was never really a 'third place'
Starbucks surprised many with its new code of conduct for customers. Turns out it was a luxury brand all along.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
"Instead of scanning women’s faces for distress, Lucknow had built a system to detect potential perpetrators’ physical movements—a surveillance network that could track patterns of stalking, harassment, and assault in real time." www.theplankmag.com/ai-safe-city...
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The AI Eyes That Refuse To See | The Plank
Under India’s Safe City programme, Lucknow spent nearly a 100 crores from the Nirbhaya Fund on AI cameras. We find the truth between algorithm and action.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
#nerdalert How to Fix the Passive Voice (and when it's ok to use it) wordsmarts.com/fix-passive-...
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How To Fix the Passive Voice
Do you remember teachers imploring you to avoid the passive voice at all costs? The active voice is usually preferable, but there are exceptions. Learn when and how to use both to improve your writing...
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Doctors Say AI Is Introducing Slop Into Patient Care gizmodo.com/doctors-say-...
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Doctors Say AI Is Introducing Slop Into Patient Care
Early testing demonstrates results that could be disastrous for patients.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
"In 2024, Ye is a rapper who put hate into the world so he could rap about being condemned for it." www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen... This one's going into my examples of great features for my students.
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Column | The pain of giving up on Ye
Ye has spent the past decade bending his career arc in a seemingly impossible direction: toward cultural irrelevance.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
As a lawsuit unfolds over the dish’s origins, it’s time to ask: has its popularity done more harm than good for Indian cuisine? www.thejuggernaut.com/butter-chick...
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The Butter Chicken Effect | The Juggernaut
As a lawsuit unfolds over the dish’s origins, it’s time to ask: has its popularity done more harm than good for Indian cuisine?
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
"He’s cut off in mid-sentence as a bunny hops top speed straight at us, barely touching the ground, that's how fast she's going, closely followed by a lumbering zombie in a jean skirt, closely followed by a screeching hamster." #AmWriting #TalesFromTheApocalypse
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
"Journalism’s fight against disinformation risks irrelevance if it fails to consider how the human mind processes and reacts to both falsehoods and facts." www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/gett...
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
It's been a hard two weeks, but we're coming out the other side thankful for our friends and family and all their support.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
"People worry about bias creeping into AI. But what if you add bias on purpose? Thanks to Google, we know where that leads: Black Vikings and female popes." www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/17/1...
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The 8 worst technology failures of 2024
Vertical farms, woke AI, and 23andMe made our annual list of failed tech.
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Mike Reilley @mikereilley.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I've set up a starter pack of journalism trainers, innovators and all-around cool kids on Bluesky. Find them here: go.bsky.app/Dvq5mRC
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Always fun to chat with the CBC Books folks about a good mystery (or three!) www.cbc.ca/radio/thenex...
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved www.wired.com/story/the-ai...
wired.com
The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired
A local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved.
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Angela Misri @karmicangel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Fierce debates, heated referendums, and lasting controversies marked Newfoundland and Labrador’s path to Confederation. Discover the full story in the latest episode of Canadian Time Machine. 🎧 Listen: lnkfi.re/canadian-tim...
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Canadian Time Machine
Welcome to Canadian Time Machine, a podcast series where each episode marks a key anniversary in Canadian history. This podcast draws connections between past and present, allowing everyone, from hi...
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