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Matthew Gault

@mjgault.bsky.social
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Nukes, weird tech, and conflict at @404media.co Host of angryplanetpod.com Tips: matthew@404media.co // signal: 347 762-9212

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
off the shelf LLM with no driver training. vibe-coded software. "I think seeing the sparks of this happening, the shift of this utility coming into the physical world, is also somewhat exciting.”
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These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla
The team used frontier LLMs with no prior training data navigate a simple parking lot course.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the vibe has shifted. they ran the numbers and realized NEETs don't vote
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
opened my laptop just now and these tracks started playing because I'd left a tab open
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s forbidden content but i have watched this video of the AI songs a man made for his mistress after murdering his wife being played in court maybe 20 times today. It is one of the most compelling things i have ever seen
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the modder who made the mass-mute button reached out. The story is updated with an interview. Turns out they're a former fan and won an OTK cosplay contest. "Where he lost me was with the shift to covering political events on his stream instead of gaming. My ethics and views do not align."
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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This ‘World of Warcraft: Forever’ Mod Blocks All Interactions With Asmongold Fans
The beta for the hotly anticipated World of Warcraft: Forever has been marred by fans of the streamer Asmongold who have filled the game’s public spaces with spam and slurs. To fix the issue, a player...
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Because I disrupted a meeting [...] so because someone doesn’t like me, you’re arresting me? That’s what it sounds like,” Carrion said. “Because of fucking Tim O’Hare, it’s unbelievable.”
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Watch Body Cam of Man Arrested for Just Cussing at a County Meeting
Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas.
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404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026
Cops followed EJ Carrion home and arrested him in his drive way one week after he said 'bullshit' at a county meeting in Texas. Here is that body cam footage. @mjgault.bsky.social reports: www.404media.co/watch-body-c...
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
NEW: Yesterday, 404 Media broke news of the FBI breach. Now, we've discovered it has exposed the FBI's own hacking unit. The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.
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FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit
The FBI's Remote Operations Unit (ROU) is a highly secretive team of hackers making exploits and tools to break into target’s devices. Some of its members just got exposed.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/09/2026
Citizens showed up to the city council meeting with plans to let city leaders know how they felt about the city’s use of Flock. But Springfield mayor Jeff Schrag moved to prevent public comment on Flock. Then, arrests happened, @mjgault.bsky.social reports. Story: www.404media.co/woman-arrest...
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
wild scenes out of Springfield, Missouri. Two people were arrested for trying to voice concerns about Flock cameras. Video of it is in the story
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Woman Arrested After City Council Denies Residents Right to Speak on Flock Cameras
Citizens of Springfield, Missouri showed up to a city council meeting to discuss the city’s Flock contract. The mayor shut them down and arrested two people for ‘disruption of meetings of city council...
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Really fascinating Gallup study that outlines the world's extremely complicated feelings about AI
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Americans Fear AI Will Make the World Worse, Love It Anyway
Wealthy countries with many daily AI users tended to fear more for the future in what Gallup called the 'Paradox of the Worried West.'
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
All of BlueSky right now: "Am I out of touch? No, it's the pop charts that are wrong."
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/09/2026
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. People using AI "all the time and people are let go for it all the time" www.404media.co/people-train...
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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've watched ... too much ... of this district's city council meetings. The GOP shut down a third of the polling places. A commissioner had a guy arrested in his driveway after he said "bullshit" in a meeting. The meetings go on for hours and it's constant public rage.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Motel of Mysteries posting
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Malazan readers rejoice
a Trump post that says: "The United States is working on a massive Deal with respect to the purchase of Potash from Belarus. The pricing would be for substantially less than we are currently paying to Canada, very good news for our Farmers and Ranchers. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
pretty rude, Riverside, to make this the thumbnail
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Bleddyn Bowen @bleddb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’s rather we talk more about how ‘AI’ is being shoved very quickly with pretty much zero reflection into every public institution rather than idle, vague apocalyptic fantasies about AI.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...
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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
raxkingisdead: you wouldn’t correct a joke

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um, actually, this is wrong. I would.

Killer Cyborg
Right?
Have done many times.
LOT of people tell jokes wrong, and/or base jokes on misinformation rather than humorous exaggeration.little bill from boogie night about to kill himself
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I simply refuse to take people at their word when they're trying to sell me something
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Opinion | This Is What I Fear Most About A.I.
Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
paywalls fund journalism and everything reported behind a paywall is aggregated and turned into vertical video that reach many orders of magnitude more people than the original article ever would have. this is not actually a problem and shaming sites that have paywalls means less reporting not more
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
USA military almost hijacking a “Chinese ship*” based on false claim by “AI” that ship was carrying “components of a nuclear weapons program**” smells funny & sources & the story vary on details**** www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p... OTOH: This Regime, its purging of military, its embrace of “AI”, etc.
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The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship.
Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the
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It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) - and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also "almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
Across the US military and the intelligence community, officials are pushing to weave AI into nearly every facet of their work, from analyzing the huge volumes of raw intelligence the US collects and selecting targets for strikes, to more mundane applications like managing budgeting,
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
not an ideal time to rely on thousands of gas turbines to power your massive data centers
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Paul Blumenthal @paulblumenthal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A much more realistic example of AI's existential threat www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the goal has always been control through theft of human labor and creativity
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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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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New: Flock invented a fake "police department" called Flock City PD, which ran real searches on real cameras for real people. Searched for 'coexist bumper sticker' 'truck with a trump sticker,' 'star of david'.. Flock says it was done to prove mod tools worked www.404media.co/flock-city-p...
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‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People
Flock ran searches for “coexist bumper sticker,” “white truck with a trump sticker,” and “Star of David,” apparently to demonstrate what cops shouldn't search for.
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
lathe of heaven are real ones (literally) www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...
“I just listened to the song. It’s appalling. The fact that you were able to do that is insane,” Allison, Lather of Heaven’s vocalist, told me. “The only thing smaller musicians like us have at the end of the day is recognition for the results of our work — being able to enjoy the process of creating something and putting it out into the world knowing it is distinctly a product of our own hands is essentially one of the last driving forces behind making music. It’s hard enough putting this much time and effort into the band as it is. All the members of LoH essentially tailor our lifestyles around having the time to tour, write records and record. And we do it knowing we will likely not see much money in return. The fact that someone could ruin our reputation by dropping this cringe garbage under our name is insanely disheartening and speaks volumes about distribution and streaming services that allow this to happen.”
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New from 404 Media: Georgia State has rescinded a job offer given to Samuel Tunick, the activist who allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before DHS could search it. Tunick says the case is "textbook political repression". Now can't study or work at the university www.404media.co/university-r...
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University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It
Samuel Tunick allegedly wiped his GrapheneOS phone before CBP officials could search it, in what has become a high profile civil liberties case. Now Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer ...
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
incredible timing
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Contest to Open for Ed Sheeran Flooded With Free Palestine Videos and Fart Memes
Guitar Center's 'Open for Legends' contest page was seemingly unmoderated for hours on Wednesday.
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
it is shockingly easy to post AI generated music under the name of real artists on Spotify. It took us five minutes to do. You can do it to small bands, dead artists, even Taylor Swift. This is a giant loophole in digital music distribution that's widely abused www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...
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I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy
A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
The contractors reading real ChatGPT users' prompts; the big out-and-back-in around Automattic; and a16z thinks enshittification isn't real.
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Podcast: Humans Are Reading Your ChatGPT Conversations
The contractors reading real ChatGPT users' prompts; the big out-and-back-in around Automattic; and a16z thinks enshittification isn't real.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 16/09/2026
“Russian strategists threaten civilian economic and cultural sites with the aim of brutalizing European populations into surrender. Russian targeting of churches and hospitals in Ukraine with dual-capable missiles is meant to foreshadow a similar fate for NATO populations.”
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Nuclear Arms and the New Free World
The free world no longer has the luxury of regarding nuclear deterrence like a snow globe on a shelf.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI doom or not, something has shifted with AI recently. The guardrails that kept AI sitting in a chatbox are gone, the models are better, there's more compute. AI agents are everywhere. They are annoying as hell. IMO the situation is going to get much worse www.404media.co/theres-a-100...
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There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
all of our inboxes have become nightmare factories
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Our Seattle @ourseattle.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Love DOOM? Don’t forget to sign the CommuntiyNotCameras letter that the Seattle Avengers will deliver tomorrow afternoon to Seattle City Council! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJuUDC5e0RfjGwMqQI3WmiwsEGci6KTqK7h0V97CQszBqrPw/viewform?usp=header
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SIGN THE LETTER!
Tell Seattle City Council to: Invest In Community Violence Prevention Please sign the below letter as either an individual or an organization. Both welcome, just submit separately. Thanks! Sign by S...
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
in a part of America you can't comprehend
When pumping ranch, please be gentle with her! She's fragile
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
this is real good
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
did you know there's an acoustic cover of Drowning Pool's 'Let the Bodies Hit the Floor' ?
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Waking Up After September Ends
On this episode of Angry Planet, mysterious producer Kevin Knodell and retired US Army Ranger turned journalist Marty Skovlund Jr join me to talk about 25 years of 9/11.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
best workplace drama going rn; i feel for the people who work at Automattic tho www.404media.co/automattic-m...
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Automattic’s Matt Mullenweg Claims He’s Back 'In Control'
Workers at Automattic, which owns WordPress.com and several other platforms, have said the company has endured years of chaotic leadership decisions.
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404 Media @404media.co · 11/09/2026
Representatives from the University of Michigan faced tough questions and a lot of vitriol from the citizens of Ypsilanti Township Wednesday night. Here are a few scenes from the nearly 3 hour meeting. Read the story by @mjgault.bsky.social: www.404media.co/we-did-not-i...
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Shaun Manning @fasterthanshaun.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
An excellent & much-appreciated piece, though there are a few local dynamics that are significant. 1) It’s true that Ypsilanti Township is “small,” but it’s not obscure. It blends fairly seamlessly with the city of Ypsilanti, a college town abutting Ann Arbor. 2.) U-M has a history of bullying both.
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“There is no trust, we don’t believe you." [...] “We don’t want Los Alamos here, they’re one of the biggest villains of the 20th century." [...] “We want them far far away from us and everyone else.”
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‘We Did Not Invite You.’ Citizens Rage at Town Hall Over Proposed Nuclear AI Data Center
The University of Michigan is partnering with Los Alamos National Labs to build a massive data center in a small Michigan township. The residents say they were never consulted.
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