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Rosemary Lee

@machineagency.bsky.social
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Artist Researcher, University of Porto i2ADS/Faculty of Fine Arts +Multimedia/Engineering Fellow, Akademie Schloss Solitude PhD in Digital Design, ITU, Copenhagen Author: Algorithm, Image, Art, 2024 rosemary-lee.com

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Libraries do not mess around.
Libraries employ bounty hunters to bring in people with overdue books dead or alive.
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My exhibition Matéria Escura Digital opens at gnration in Braga, Portugal at 16:00 on the 10th of October. The project is supported by DGArtes --- A recepção pública para a minha exposição Matéria Escura Digital está agendado para 16:00 no 10 otubro no gnration em Braga. Projeto apoiado pelo DGArtes
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In any reasonable society the next sentence would be ‘and so they were all put in jail for admitting to gross negligence and malfeasance on a scale previously unthinkable’
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I recently sat down with Andrés Isaza for a studio visit and conversation about the material and conceptual research for my upcoming show Matéria Escura Digital at @gnration The exhibition will run from 9 October 2026 to 2 January 2027. youtube.com/watch?v=BJu2jn-TTRw
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Digital Dark Matter / Matéria Escura Digital
YouTube video by Rosemary Lee
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm baaaack! This week I returned to @akademiesolitude.bsky.social for the second half of my fellowship.
Photo of the entrance of Akademie Schloss Solitude with various colored flags out front. The sky is blue.
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@carvalhais.org and I have an entry on Algorithmic Listening in Listening Glossary The book is edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch and comes out 8 October. You can already preorder it here: www.silverpress.org/collections/...
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Listening Glossary edited by Hannah Kemp-Welch
In this novel by the iconic French feminist theorist, a woman replays her abandonment by her mother, who is sometimes addressed as a male mother-god.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Text: Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. 
Background image: a bearded man putting up the frame of aparge tent in a muddy field with trees in the background.
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I'm delighted to share that A Structural Plan for Imitation: Engines of Differentiation has been acquired by the Municipal Gallery of Porto. ✨🤖🎥🌈✨
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/08/2026
Tips For Starting Your Own Business theonion.com/tips-for-starting-your…
Figure out what people want, and taint it with AI.
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
ALT text copied and pasted from the linked website: An infographic titled “How To Write Alt Text” featuring a photo of a capybara. Parts of alt text are divided by color, including identify who, expression, description, colour, and interesting features. The finished description reads “A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara’s head.”
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
'Williamina Fleming (standing) supervises the team of (underpaid) women “computers” at the Harvard College Observatory as they help map the universe – one star at a time' US, 1875 (via Smithsonian Insider) #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of seven women working at desks in an interior
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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Just published open-access: @sarahciston.com et al., *Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI* direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... @berrydm.bsky.social
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Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI
How the original ELIZA chatbot transformed ideas about AI and society’s response to them.As we reach the 60th anniversary of ELIZA’s public debut, Inventin
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Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New paper! Values such as openness, transparency, collaboration, clarity about conflict of interests have been promoted by women for *decades*, and now we have reframed this around the branding of 'open science' that we start to take them seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Women as the First Open Scientists: Five Stories of the Neglected Contributions of Women in (Social) Science Reform History - Madeleine Pownall, 2026
Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns ove...
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Penney Esq. FBPE. Easygoing, but I mind more as I get older @iidomind.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It was an honor to chair such a rich paper session at @xcoax.org Thank you so much to the presenters and their coauthors for their thoughtful discussions. My travel was supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) as part of the COST Action CA23158 – Artistic Intelligence.
photo of Rosemary Lee presenting speaker Marc Böhlen in front of a screen and gold framed paintings in the background
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/07/2026
decided I’m going to start entering a more maximalist/baroque era of making incredibly stupid memes
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026
“The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.”
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What Emily Bender Really Meant by "Stochastic Parrots"
Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT
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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Rosemary Lee & Risk Hazekamp presenting "Otherworldly Encounters: Wild Anecdotes on Interspecies Care" at #UNLOOP symposium in Porto last week @machineagency.bsky.social frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
@verenafriedrich.bsky.social presenting at #UNLOOP
Verena Friedrich presenting at the UNLOOP symposium with a slide projection in the background
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
#UNLOOP symposium is underway!➰➿💚 @carvalhais.org @ordeposodrac.bsky.social
photo of Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Cardoso presenting the welcome address at the UNLOOP symposium at the Facult of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. They are on a stage with a projection behind them of the symposium title in bright green
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Verena Friedrich @verenafriedrich.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
UNLOOP symposium explores the friction, inconvenience, and playfulness in the interaction with computational media. I’ll present the EZ QUALITY SORTER, an installation that turns visitors into unwitting data labelers. Also, I'm looking forward to visiting Porto! frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop/
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
this is such a devastating thread but so important to bear witness to the harm the psychopaths have caused
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Hel Eline @hel.eurosky.social · 27/09/2025
Do not make tribes, this will only strengthen the social order that will be imposed upon you. Do not willingly gather into mono-cultures. Do not become neatly sorted, labelled, and categorized. It will only take a single blight to wipe you out, because you will be sorted by your weaknesses. 6/7
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"Convenience happens to be capitalist ideology. If art must take the shortest route to its effects, we've submitted to that ideology. Yet art can be enormously inconvenient! Art can luxuriate. Wander. Its distance from the prerogatives of the powerful is precisely where its force of resistance lies"
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Art for Our Sakes | Zadie Smith
I wasn’t going to come today. Partly because the act of coming here—to America, as a non-American—is now a fraught, stressful, and even dangerous
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Last week we had an inspiring visit from astronaut Peggy Whitson where she talked about her extraordinary life and experiences. She has been instrumental in facilitating FBAUP and FAUP joining the Axiom Space University Alliance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX1o...
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FBAUP e FAUP passam a integrar a Axiom Space University Alliance
YouTube video by Universidade do Porto
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
#Slop matters. But hardly for the reason this sloppy paper (which needed no less than nine authors) claims: «[P]eople want more content than humans can supply.» Really? No. Platforms want more content than humans can supply, and now machines can produce much more content than people actually want.
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Why Slop Matters
AI-generated "slop" is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop that deserve rigorous study. AI Slop serves a social functi...
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In "Otherworldly Encounters: Wild Anecdotes on Interspecies Care", Risk Hazekamp and I will share an ongoing conversation on witnessing More-Than-Human co-researchers' expressions of agency, reflecting on the forms of 'violent care' that arise from our blind spots. frictiondesign.fba.up.pt/unloop
UNLOOP in black on a white background with circular drawing around the text in bright green
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 01/06/2026
This is Bodie. His presence indicates the beginning of Pride Month. May his whimsy and steadfastness bring joy and confidence to all. 14/10 the parade starts right behind him 🌈🐾 (IG: hellobodie)
a golden retriever puppy on a bright pink rope leash prances through some tall grass. he’s wearing a brightly patterned bandana around his neck and is carrying a miniature six-stripe pride flag in his mouth. his front right paw is raised mid-stride, like he’s ready to hop into a pride parade at any second.
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
photo from my talk "neither x nor y — but another secret third thing" at IV Art at the Edge of Nature at Universidad Complutense de Madrid 📸: Marcos Burgos
photo of Rosemary Lee presenting from a laptop with a projection of a meme with the caption: "i'm neither joking nor serious but another secret third thing"
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
sweet relief to wake up on a Saturday in a dying empire and find the autocrat did not execute another of his signature Friday night massacres and invade an island ladies and gentleman the weekend
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
On the tube
Photo of a fake OpenAi ad on the overground. Text: "Yes, we built a machine that tells teenagers to kill themselves.

But — it might also help them with their homework."

Chatgpt logo
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This week I am presenting at IV Art at the Edge of Nature. Biocreative Responsibilities and Awareness at La Trasera, Faculty of Fine Arts, UCM. May 21-2 2026 2: photo: Camila Mangueira, 2025
Postcard: Responsabilidades y Conciencias Biocreativas 21-22 Mayo 2026, La Trasera Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Comlutense de Madrid.Postcard: Rosemary Lee 22 Mayo, 10:25-11:25AMPostcard: 22.05, 1. Mesa redonda: 11:40-13:20
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
new experiment underway✨🌈🫥🌈✨
portrait with rainbow face shield
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Friends of the Earth Europe @foeeurope.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🚫 No GMOs through the back door! The EU plans to allow untested, unlabelled #newGMOs on our fields & plates. Only the EU Parliament supports traceability & labelling, but this is now at risk. Email your MEPs now to protect our safety & right to choose 👇 demeter.net/no-gmos-thro... #IChooseGMOfree
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No GMOs through the back door! - Demeter International
Ask your politicians to maintain our freedom of choice by keeping new GMOs regulated and labelled. We want to know what we eat and grow!
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
if you ever think your research proposal is too ambitious or, I guess, if you think that only the latest generation of AI bros are overly optimistic, recall the original funding proposal for the 1956 Dartmouth workshop on AI:
We propose that a 2-month, 10-man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves. We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer.
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NPR @npr.org · 24/04/2026
The European Union on Thursday approved a $106-billion loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years, ending months of political deadlock. n.pr/4vOA1P6
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EU approves a $106 billion loan package to help Ukraine after Hungary lifts its veto
The European Union on Thursday approved a $106-billion loan package to help Ukraine meet its economic and military needs for two years, ending months of political deadlock.
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
As a big Farocki fangirl, I'm ecstatic over the new issue of e-flux: Operativism: Labor, Automation, Agitation edited by Vogman and Pasquinelli 😍 especially Tom Holert's "Beneath the Information, the Operation: Harun Farocki and the Work of Images" SO GOOD www.e-flux.com/journal/162
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e-flux Journal #162 April 2026 - e-flux
with contributions by Elena Vogman, Matteo Pasquinelli, Harun Farocki, Tom Holert, Olexii Kuchanskyi, Alla Vronskaya, Aleksei Gastev, Evgenii Petrov, Aleksandra Selivanova, Devin Fore, Kalindi Vora, N...
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
On Thursday, I will give a talk titled "Calculating Images" at the arteciencIA symposium in Santiago de Compostela. The conference will be streamed, so you are welcome to join us remotely. My talk is 13:00-14:00 CEST. More info here: arteciencia.org
"Calculating Images" title on background of clouds in purple and blue
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
oh..🙄 my interests.. mayhem and disaster
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World War 3
US-Iran Ceasefire Agreement
JD Vance Hungary Visit
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Aksioma @aksiomaorg.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
✦ 𝐴 𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑓 𝑆𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝐼 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑒𝑠 ✦ essay by #TegaBrain & #SamLavigne for the 𝗔re 𝗬ou 𝗔 𝗦oftware 𝗨pdate? book 🔖 ✨ Preview and order here > aksioma.org/are-you-a-software-update
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This has been in the works for more than a year, but I can finally say that today I began the contract for my research project Contextualizing Artistic Practice with Artificial Intelligence.
one of the most creative - and most needed - ways in which artists can use Al is by telling better stories about AI, while also imag-
ining better ways of living with AL
(Joanna Zylinska 2020, 31)
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xCoAx @xcoax.org · 31/03/2026
We are in our teens and we are not afraid to rebel. No cap. #xcoax2026 #torino
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 30/03/2026
Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.
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OpenAI funding fears hit memory chip prices
Spending cuts at OpenAI have hit memory chip prices as fears grow about the tech company’s ability to fund its expansion.
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
my last post was met with a lot of enthusiasm over on instagram, so I am going to start posting more reading recommendations. Here's the reading list for this stack: Eds. Ilan Manouach & Anna Engelhardt, Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition Matteo Pasquinelli, the Eye of the Master (1/3)
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Eds. Ilan Manouach & Anna Engelhardt, Chimeras: Inventory of Synthetic Cognition
Matteo Pasquinelli, the Eye of the Master
Dan McQuillan, Resisting AI
J. F. Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
Kate Crawford, Atlas of AI
Anna Munster, Deep Aesthetics
Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna, the AI Con How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype
And Create the Future We Want
Grant D. Taylor, When the Machine Made Art
Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Hito Steyerl, Medium Hot.
Joanna Zylinska, AI Art
Margaret A. Boden and Ernest A. Edmonds, From Fingers to Digits
Ed. Patricio Dávila, Diagrams of Power
Sofian Audry, Art in the Age of Machine Learning
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
can you tell I'm doing a lit review?🙄
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Rosemary Lee @machineagency.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Come study with us!👾❤️🤖
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Julia Angwin @juliaangwin.com · 11/03/2026
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...
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Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature
The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.
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tante @tante.cc · 04/03/2026
A quick note on that new "AI declaration", which is mostly just a bit clueless but which also assembled some of the most vile people on the planet for a bunch of scientists and activists to put there name next to. tante.cc/2026/03/05/nothing-to-decl…
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Never received a.
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