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Pro-science, love is love, pro-democracy. Equality and diversity make us better. Reposting does not = agreement

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 6h
32 states permit child marriage. More states allow child marriage and minors to drink alcohol than those that allow access to hormones prescribed by their doctor with the support of their parents. None of it is logical and it's entirely based on moral panic.
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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 6h
It's at $3,592 now. When it gets to $4,592, we'll put in $1K in matching funds.
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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 6h
That only gets her to a little shy of $6K. Not even half. But maybe . . . MAYBE? we can inspire some other folks to offer matching funds for tomorrow. Or just outright donations. Whatever. But I know damn well she needs a morale boost now. So let's do this. PLEASE SHARE WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
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WingsNDNSilver @wingsndnsilver.bsky.social · 6h
Also, we have Renee's emergency here. I talked about it the other day in a longer thread, here: bsky.app/profile/wing.... There was one thing I didn't mention.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There are just 6 spaces left on my bird illustration & mental health zoom w'shop this Sat I'll teach you how: 🪶to draw birds using my simple formula 🧠creative activity incl. drawing alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health. Open to anyone anywhere: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...
My illustrations of 5 British birds: long tailed tit, coal tit, wren, redwing and blackcapMy illustration of a coal titMy illustration of a redwing on a hawthorn branch from my book Making Winter
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Tom Choad @tomablogger.bsky.social · 18h
THANK YOU I know we just went through a viral plague, but the 'black plague' is a bacterium. Penicillin kills it. So there's no sense in freaking out over it. The very serious if not panicky response by Russian authorities points to something scarier and less well understood.
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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Piper @the-pied-piper.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
People are very good at finding and creating meaning when given the bare minimum agency to do so. As evidence, consider that every UBI experiment finds that people on UBI produce more. Our society and global economy is exquisitely structured to deprive the maximum number of people of that agency.
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Greenland sharks reach sexual maturity at 150 years*. They mightn't rebound. They are also truly amazing creatures. There's greenland sharks swimming around that passed underneath Franklin's doomed ships, or that existed when Henry VIII was being a dose *nothing wrong with being a late bloomer
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Humans are such a frustrating species. They are considering a cull of greenland sharks due to pressures on the fishing industry. But as usual, nature isn't the problem, people are. It's just much easier to kill wild animals than to address the tougher issues. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A screenshot of the article:

“If every Greenland shark in Baffin Bay vanished tomorrow, the inshore fishery in Avannaata would still face too many boats working a quota under pressure, rising costs and no alternative employment,” he says. “When margins are narrow, a longstanding nuisance becomes intolerable.”A screenshot of the article:

For some of those fishing these waters, however, the shark is not the leading cause of losing gear. “There are more and more ‘ghost lines’ and they are too heavy to pull up by the machine we use,” Jensen says. Ghost lines are discarded or lost gear that can get entangled with new lines, breaking equipment and trapping marine life.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I still remember getting my first email address as a freshman in college. It was the coolest thing ever and no one was screaming YOU BETTER ADOPT THIS OR WE’RE ALL DEAD.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 05/10/2026
You know a pet peeve of mine? I keep seeing think pieces and videos, even from progressives, about how at some point AI will achieve sentience and be worthy of moral consideration. We can't even give every human on this planet moral consideration.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sunday Scary’s
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Rep. Jermaine Johnson @drjljohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I visited college campuses across South Carolina, and students told me the same thing everywhere: they want to stay and build their lives here. 🎓 Let's build a South Carolina y'all are proud to call home. Tune in to the debate October 6 at 7PM on WIS TV. 📺
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
imagine telling the pope “you’re not even an AI influencer” like that’s a sick burn
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Russians funding our super secret military bunker.
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Dr David Joffe MB BS(Hons), PhD, FRACP @davidjoffe64.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Insomnia in Long Cövid isn't your friend 😔😔 doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me today.... So glad the weekend is almost here 🫩 Etruscan amber pendant in the shape of a monkey, height 4.7 cm. Found in Vetulonia, Italy, dating late 8th/early 7th century BC. 📷 Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana
Small translucent amber figurine carved in the shape of a squatting monkey. The figure has a detailed face with expressive eyes and rests its chin on its hands, appearing thoughtful. It sits atop a rectangular platform supported by four rounded, balloon-like legs.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Cardinal Robert McElroy, less than a mile from the White House on World Day of Migrants: “We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” He told Catholics to fight every dimension of Trump’s war on immigrants.
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Emeline Brule @emeline.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A great exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art: Motherboards, exploring women's contributions to computing history. Lots of textiles work! sjmusart.org/exhibition/m...
Main room of the exhibition, showing video art and a standalone sculpture seemingly extended by a wall mounted pattern made of electric cables.Amor Muñoz
Born 1979, Mexico City, Mexico
Lives and works in Mexico City
Polyptych MR4 (First period), 2010/2013
Canvas, screen printing, embroidery with cotton thread, and worker documents
MR4-Maquila Region 4, 2010/2013
Video and sound
Produced by Nestor Jimenez
Courtesy of the artist
Taking the form of a mobile factory for the manufacture of electronic textile artworks, Amor Muñoz's Maquila Region 4, or MR4, project sought to make visible the individual women workers who are routinely obscured through the process of outsourced manufacturing,
Muñoz would bike her nomadic project through economically disadvantaged areas of Mexico and offer residents a chance to work for US minimum wage-$8.00 per hour at the time of the project, compared to the standard rate of $1.20 per hour in Mexico-embroider conductive thread into artisanal fabrics to create fully functioning circuit panels. The electronic textiles brought together the main exports of maquilas (factories along the US-Mexico border that offer raw materials and cheap labor for export), textiles, and electronics, while the accompanying time cards are physical reflections of the individual maquila workers who would otherwise remain anonymous.Marilou Schultz
Born 1954, Leupp, Arizona (Navajo Nation)
Lives and works in Mesa, Arizona
Replica of a Chip, 1994
Wool mounted on wood
Courtesy of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Silicon Valley's Fairchild Semiconductor operated an assembly plant on the Navajo Nation in Shiprock, New Mexico, from 1965 through 1975. During its operations, the Shiprock facility employed primarily Navajo women. The company's promotional materials characterized these women as particularly adept for assembly work due to their
"nimble fingers," honed through generations of intricate jewelry and textile work.
In 1980, another Silicon Valley giant, Intel, expanded its operations to New Mexico.
In honor of the relationship between Silicon Valley technology and Indigenous women weavers, Intel commissioned artist Marilou Schultz to weave a replica of one of its microchips. The commission was technically demanding, requiring substantial experimentation and skill to reproduce the chip's asymmetrical patterns and varied colors. The experience inspired Schultz to continue exploring new technologies through weaving, creating textiles of digital graphs, QR codes, and other microchips. Intel gifted Schultz's Replica of a Chip to the American Indian Science and Engineering Society during its 1994 conference, "Weaving Tradition and Technology, held in San José.Analia Saban
Born 1980, Buenos Aires, Argentina Lives and works in Los Angeles, California
Flowchart (Painting Gesture), 2025
Oil stick on encaustic paint on panel
Museum purchase with funds provided by Tad Freese and Brook Hartzell, Geraldine and Marco Magarelli, Karen Hillenberg, Yvonne and Mike Nevens, Daniela Barone and Matt Reiferson, and the Collection Committee, 2026.04.01
Analia Saban makes visible the hidden infrastructures of the digital age by rendering them through the techniques and materials of older technologies. Using a Jacquard loom, Saban weaves patterns of computer chips and cooling fans from copper wire and linen yarn for her "Copper Tapestries" series. Her "Motherboards" series comprises circuit boards coated in thick printer's ink that paradoxically brings out the boards' intricate surfaces.
Her most recent series, "Flowcharts, continues her concern with the dichotomy between the hand and the machine but expands beyond hardware to uncover the manual work behind artificial intelligence. On a panel covered with white encaustic made of beeswax, resin, and pigment, and layered with black oil stick, Saban has carved a flowchart with instructions for depicting gesture. Her graphic instructions parallel the inputs that structure machine learning-_-from the manual labeling of data fed into training algorithms, to the prompts users enter into generative artificial intelligence tools to produce text, images, and other outputs.
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This thread is great. Image: four people in a small boat in beautiful blue water pass by a very chill shark, seen from above.
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Some prehistoric bling for #FindsFriday 3 stone and 5 decorated glass beads found with the burial of a young Iron Age woman at Langton Herring now in #DorsetMuseum They may originally have been worn individually as amulets or together as a necklace (as shown here) 😍 📷 Sept 2026 #Durotriges
Eight circular beads of different size, 3 of stone and 5 of glass, threaded together for display in a museum case
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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Dr. Jorts, MD @alexandrajordanmd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The first non-Catholic church in Rome built post-Unification was St Paul’s Inside the Walls, and it features an apse mosaic with the faces of 19th century political figures as saints:
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NPR @npr.org · 03/10/2026
The famed, Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States. n.pr/3VNx83v
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Theaster Gates bets on fine china
The famed, Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
All of this. I also want to add that, in my research, I found that a lot of “inconsistencies” in a victim’s story actually came from gender bias affecting investigators’ record keeping and interview methods.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TIRED: Defund the police WIRED: Defund the police widows and orphans
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What do you call the feeling of melancholy when something that would have been a huge scandal in any other administration breaks on a near daily basis?
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Dr. Jorts, MD @alexandrajordanmd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
YAAASSSSSS!!!! MUTHAFUCKIN RENAISSANCE REKINDLED!!!!
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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 02/10/2026
This is also the time of year every coffee shop makes 'scary' lattes by putting charcoal in them. If you take birth control by mouth, that shit will not work when there's charcoal in your stomach.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Neiman Marcus closed its downtown Dallas flagship on Wednesday. The store played a notable role in the history of desegregation in Dallas. Previously, Black shoppers across the US could enter department stores, but they weren't allowed to try on clothes without adhering to certain conditions. 🧵
A notice about the Neiman Marcus store opening in downtown Dallas.An old photo of the Dallas flagship.
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K.C. Clyburn, Author @kccomplainsalot.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
buy @mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social's book! www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...
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Let This Radicalize You
Doing Justice: The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The richest 0.1% of Americans have more than doubled their immense wealth since 2019 — per WSJ.
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Crystal Frasier @amazonchique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every time some pundit claims that no one would work if their basic needs were met, I think about how, after he retired, my dad would just show up at estate sales with his truck and offer to help folks take their furniture home because he just wanted to keep busy and be around people.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And I just want talk about what happens when abortion and birth control are not available: women die. Let’s take a gander at: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview....
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Achievements in Public Health, 1900-1999: Healthier Mothers and Babies
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I don't think this line got as much coverage as it should have.
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JD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’
A New Chapter in Vance’s Effort to Police Who’s American JD Vance...
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"GenAI is here, so I'm going to teach my students how to use it well." Are educators who choose to do this aware that they're complicit in exploiting and traumatizing data labellers in Global Majority countries? I guess they would have willingly enslaved people 200 years ago.
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
There is now a correct version of this post bsky.app/profile/audr...
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Darby Lyons @darbylyons.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"In theory, Texas’s abortion bans contain exceptions for medical emergencies. In practice, hospitals discourage doctors from providing abortion care even when patients have serious complications, because...they are afraid of violating the ban and incurring legal consequences."
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Swarna Podila (she/her) @skpodila.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I know @ericksoen.bsky.social is talking about this in the context of bike bus and agency, but “go where you’re loved” is a great motto to live by in general ❤️❤️ Choose your family, friends, your people where you’re loved for you who are and are given the space to grow and be better. #monktoberfest
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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 24/08/2026
The world urgently needs binding rules for the use of AI in warfare ... yesterday was already too late. "A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/w...
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A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.
An attack by what Ukrainian officials said was a Russian drone with an Nvidia chip presages a dystopian future of weaponry untethered to humans.
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s always a good time to re-share this.
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Kari Dru @karidru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What I have learned: long and weighty are only good when you are invited in. If you can enjoy the scenery, or crave pub food, or laugh at the funny thing, and ponder what you know, then you're WITH the protagonist. If you're waiting to see what happens, then you aren't. That's when there's drag.
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ACLU of South Carolina @aclusc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
...It’s a dark day for the arts, artistic expression, and the First Amendment. It is not a great day in South Carolina." - ACLU-SC Political Strategist Matthew Butler
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ACLU of South Carolina @aclusc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Something is rotten in the state of SC. By a split vote, in a rushed meeting, with no public discussion and no opportunity to face the public, the Arts Commission board voted to deny funding to two organizations that produce art by and about LGBTQ people... www.postandcourier.com/columbia/new...
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SC Arts Commission denies funding for LGBTQ+ groups after delaying decision for months
The vote stems from a previous decision to delay funding the two LGBTQ+ organizations and ask both groups to re-prove their artistic merit.
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m 54 and I honestly think this is as joyful now as it was when I was 4, in 1976:
A ripe Conner/horse chestnut/buckeye in my hand yesterday, ready to peel
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Feeling the squeeze after paying your rent today? There’s a way for you and millions of other tenants to fight back against skyrocketing rental housing costs: tenant unions. @taraghuveer.bsky.social explains what they are, how they work, and how you can start your own.
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What Your Landlord Doesn’t Want You to Know (ft. Tara Raghuveer)
Are you sick and tired of dealing with soaring rent and crumbling buildings? Do you want to level the playing field betw
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