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Alex DeLuca @alexldeluca21.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New: A Florida county discovered Flock cameras along its roads that officials didn’t know were there. No one has publicly claimed them. Who has operated them — and who has had access to their data — remains a mystery. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Florida county discovers mysterious Flock cameras with no obvious owner
Officials say they don’t know who installed the controversial cameras or how the data was being used. Residents are unnerved.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Earlier this year, Tucker Carlson said that “the defining fact of our lives is that whites around the world are being eliminated.” Journos who don’t watch his show are helping his effort to rebrand so he isn’t a liability for his protege JD Vance’s 2028 run. www.mediamatters.org/jd-vance/tuc...
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Tucker Carlson helped make JD Vance. The VP refuses to condemn his antisemitism.
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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every single year I look at the jungle of maypop fruit in our yard and think.... Surely they can't be as unpleasant as I remember. Surely with such a bounty, I can figure out SOME way to enjoy eating these. Every single year I am proven wrong. Welp. At least the pollinators love them.
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C @spiffyscientist.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Emerging from public social hiatus to celebrate my primary grad school research formally being published on Friday!!
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Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain
Nature Neuroscience - This study shows that the brain arises from two distinct progenitors: one forms the forebrain and midbrain, whereas the other generates the hindbrain. These insights enable...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 21/08/2026
Surprising fact: We are actually NOT seeing more food recalls this year compared with recent years. What we’re seeing is an increase in the number of illnesses caused by contaminated food. This is the largest ever cyclospora outbreak & third-largest foodborne illness outbreak of any kind on record.
Number of food recalls by year
There have been 162 food recalls posted this year by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture.

Chart shows yearly food recall numbers from 2017 to 2026.
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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Trying to find good pull quotes from this article is impossible because every part of it is nuts. Read the whole thing.
.... renamed OS Investigate, ships with 69 prewritten prompts that officers can select, review, or edit, and then submit to the AI. Officers can also input prompts of their own.

The suggested prompts sit in a cache of more than 450 files that WIRED found on Flock’s own website, served by its login pages to anyone who loaded them. The code describes 45 tools at the AI’s disposal, giving it access to plate scans and camera metadata, arrest records, case files, dispatch logs, ballistics results, and commercial databases that contain Social Security numbers, dates of birth, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives and associates. Flock says it is testing the product with a small group of law enforcement partners and describes it as still in development, with capabilities that may not reflect what it eventually sells. A “workup,” in Flock’s terminology, is a one-command background check. It starts with a name and a date of birth and returns what the department’s records and commercial data hold: vehicles, prior listings as a suspect, and, on a second screen, relatives, phone numbers, and online accounts.

19 of the prompts describe hunting for patterns rather than looking up a record. 14 call for no plate, no name, and no description. The officer simply supplies a location, a window of time, and a behavior.

One group of requests asks for vehicles that visited three or more retail locations in a city in three days, or multiple banks in a week, or multiple gas stations between midnight and 5 am.
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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 16/08/2026
uhhhhh
 investigation was originally developed for The New York Times, where it underwent eight months of editing, multiple rounds of fact-checking, and independent replication of the underlying methodology. The piece had a scheduled publication date when requests for comment were sent. It was only after the Times reached out to the subjects of the investigation for routine comment that the Elias Law Group, representing the DCCC and DSCC, sent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the paper not publish. Although the paper's fact-checkers and legal department later cleared the piece before sending out a second round of requests for comment, the Times ultimately decided to kill the piece.3:27
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The piece was subsequently slated for publication at The Bulwark, where it underwent additional fact-checking, data verification, and legal review. When requests for comment were sent to the subjects of the investigation, lawyers representing the Progressive Turnout Project and Mothership Strategies likewise responded with legal letters demanding that the article not run.
From there, publication was repeatedly delayed. The piece cleared successive rounds of legal review. When I asked for a committed publication date after months of delay, The Bulwark conditioned publication on my accepting an extensive rewrite prepared by its editors that, in my assessment, removed key empirical findings without explanation, introduced claims contradicted by the data and fact-checking record, and presented the subjects' legal defenses as my own conclusions. When I declined to publish under those terms, the piece was released back to me.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's increasing clear the primary uses of our surveillance state are not to prevent crime or to track down criminals, but to engage in criminal activity. Nothing about that should be surprising given the elaborate legal structures we have in place to create a culture of impunity in law enforcement.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I know everything feels terrible and doomy but I've been working on surveillance issues for most of my adult life and I have never seen so much energy, momentum, and concrete VICTORIES happening as what we are seeing right now on Flock cameras and facial recognition in venues. Keep. Going.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
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Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
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Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
TL;DR this weekend
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Atlanta News First @atlantanewsfirst.com · 09/07/2026
Greene County deputy arrested, fired after allegedly misusing Flock cameras
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Greene County deputy arrested, fired after allegedly misusing Flock cameras
A Greene County deputy was arrested and fired for allegedly misusing the county’s license plate reader system, the sheriff’s office said Wednesday.
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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
it might be cool to learn something from this so we don't repeat the same mistakes
Sure, I suppose it is feminine-coded to not want a senate candidate who allegedly twisted an ex-girlfriend’s arm and shoved her into a bedroom and “held the door closed from the other side so she couldn’t get out, telling her to remain there until she was ‘calm.’” I guess it’s pretty girly to hear another ex describe him showing up at her house engaging in behavior she described as “reckless” and “unsettling” and imagining that there’s much more where that came from. Women sure are silly that way. Platner’s implosion is the natural culmination of a campaign motivated by a warped sense of masculinity, one that told voters to give their trust to a candidate who had done nothing to earn it. It has revealed that, for some progressives, the important markers of a candidate who displays “positive masculinity” are primarily aesthetic, with little concern for whether or not the man in question actually lives the values he presents. Platner and his team had so thoroughly convinced journalists, commentators and voters that they had outsmarted the trappings of traditional masculinity, only to come crashing down as a result of it.
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:
A screenshot of Rachel Dratch from SNL. She's a white woman with short dark hair and blue eyes, and she's making an awkward expression that implies, "Sorry I have to tell you this and ruin your good time. But also I'm kind of not sorry about it." I've added a subtitle that reads, "That's AI."
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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Long shot, but does anyone know what this creature in the surf on the beach at Hatteras, NC could be? Maybe an inch long, and I think the wiggly fringe was a membrane rather than undulating legs. I put it on iNaturalist a week ago and all I got was "yup that's in Animalia." #marinebiology
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Lucy Bellwood @lubellwoo.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Happy #makeaterriblecomicday I had to draw this.
Lucy lies in bed noodling on her phone, hears an ominous noise, and sits up cautiously. “Hello?” We see an indignant raccoon sitting in her office chair yelling “Bitch, you live like this?!” The desk is littered in old tea bags, piles of paper, books, bottles of ink, and, inexplicably, a hacksaw.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
folks, they’re calling the tarp “the white flag of surrender”
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Some really crazy cases in here - cop looked up ex-girlfriend and family in Flock 100+ times - cop stalked wife giving "test" as reason - cop searched one plate 395 times in 10 months; was later fired Cops keep getting arrested for using Flock to stalk people www.404media.co/cops-keep-ge...
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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Ro Salarian @rosalarian.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
AI isn't the only reason they're building data centers. They need a place to store the information they got from digitally stalking you. And physically stalking you via flock cameras. And actually, this goes back to AI, because that's powering their stalking. This is fucking horrifying.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 28/05/2026
My team uncovered that foreign enemies are targeting U.S. servicemembers in war zones by buying their location data. The threat to national security posed by data brokers has never been more clear. We need to dismantle the surveillance advertising industry.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/05/2026
NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 20/05/2026
Let's make billionaires pay their fair share and find out
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/05/2026
If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)
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Support Alex's Emergency Relocation + Next Steps on Give In May
Alex is leaving the US after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by Trump's USCIS.
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 05/05/2026
Un-shockingly a common form of police abusing mass surveillance systems is using ALPR camera networks to keep tabs on their current partners, exes, & even strangers. ij.org/police-have-...
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Police Have Reportedly Used License Plate Readers to Stalk Romantic Interests at Least 14 Times in Recent Years  - Institute for Justice
Across the United States, communities are rethinking their use of Flock cameras and other automated license plate reader (ALPR) systems, and in many cases ending […]
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Georgia Recorder @georgiarecorder.com · 25/04/2026
Two years after pro-Palestine protests rocked Emory University’s campus, three professors filed a complaint against the institution, alleging wrongful arrests and prosecution, negligence and a breach of free expression policies by the university.
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Three current professors sue Emory University over April 2024 arrests at campus protest • Georgia Recorder
Two years after pro-Palestine protests rocked Emory University’s campus, three professors filed a complaint against the institution, alleging wrongful arrests and prosecution, negligence and a breach ...
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
i don't like that platner guy because a) nazi tattoo & b) if a genuine progressive was revealed to have a regretted nazi tattoo somehow they would be subjected to relentless attacks over it from places that're suspiciously quiet about platner. i consider that telling
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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
ALPRs and Minneapolis’ Growing Discriminatory Surveillance Dragnet Automatic License Plate Readers, an extremely invasive form of public surveillance, have been around for decades, but lately they have been becoming more prevalent. New investigative piece contributed by @lcamanderson.bsky.social.
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ALPRs and Minneapolis’ Growing Discriminatory Surveillance Dragnet - UNICORN RIOT
Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs), an extremely invasive form of public surveillance, have been around for decades, but lately they have been becoming more prevalent.
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DeFlock Redmond @deflock-redmond.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
#DeFlock announces a National Week of Action against ALPRs! "The problem is bigger than #Flock Safety. Now is the time to say no to ALPRs, no matter the company." ▪️ Surveillance is never safety ▪️ Surveillance isn't inevitable ▪️ These cameras can come down Sign up for updates! #surveillance #alpr
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Safety Without Surveillance | DeFlock
Mass surveillance doesn't equal safety. Join the movement to dismantle automated license plate readers in our communities.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 17/04/2026
ATL: we’re outside Flock HQ telling Flock and the entire police tech industry that surveillance will never bring us safety! @deflockatlanta.org @atldemsoc.bsky.social @conmijente.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social @18millionrising.bsky.social
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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Unbelievable... Come on Dunwoody, get your shit together.
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Atlanta Civic Circle @atlantaciviccircle.org · 14/04/2026
DeFlock Emory Coalition demands university remove Flock license-plate cameras The DeFlock Emory Coalition said it has identified 10 Flock cameras on Emory property.
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DeFlock Emory Coalition demands university remove Flock license-plate cameras
The DeFlock Emory Coalition said it has identified 10 Flock cameras on Emory property.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine
Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. [alt text from NASA]
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/04/2026
"The real threat is a slow, comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing. Not a dramatic collapse. Not Skynet. Just a generation of researchers who can produce results but can't produce understanding."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/04/2026
Artemis II lifts off
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Gabriella Veytsel @gabriella-veytsel.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This is my old team. The "rabies team will be down to just one person with the clinical expertise to advise state and local officials, and the pox virus team will have none." A disservice to our best scientists, the health departments that rely on them, and the country.
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Kat La Ronde @katlaronde.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
I’m not a mom, but I’ve noticed that “wine mom” and “Patagonia wearing mom” and “moms pushing strollers” are cited as people who aren’t expected to take political action, or even to hold strong opinions. You all had moms, why do you think so little of her? Because she made you eat veggies? Grow up.
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Theresa Gaffney @theresagaff.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Breaking: A U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care. www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/j...
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Judge will rule against Kennedy’s declaration on gender-affirming care
A U.S. district judge said he will vacate a declaration by Kennedy that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care.
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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Oh HELL no. Watch the video for some really dystopian footage of them "tracking crime even before it happens." And at the end of the video they mention that they're considering adding drones.
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𖤐 Glitch Coyote 𖤐 🏳️‍⚧️🏜️🌵🏜️ @voiddog.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Given the obvious portents for Republicans, seems that this election is going to be riddled with fake Democrats and the billionaires that fund them.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/02/2026
Heads up folks: @thetnholler.bsky.social posted an AI-generated video this morning that was a deepfake of the captain of the U.S. women’s hockey team, and they seem to be promoting it as if it’s a real video. So watch out for that and don’t spread fakes.
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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The Furby Organ guy is going to Eurovision! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLB...
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THE FURBY ORGAN, A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MADE FROM FURBIES
YouTube video by LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER
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None Gender Left Beef @robot-wren.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Help keep @atlpresscollective.com open! Their reporting on Flock and Cop City have been invaluable for informing people around me. An outlet who's honest and trustworthy, and tonally professional enough that I can share it with less leftist people without being immediately dismissed.
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Hannah Riley Fernandez @hannahcrileyy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
yall, Atlanta Community Press Collective is running out of $. we’ve sued for public records when no one else would. we covered Cop City from the ground for years. we train and pay local freelancers. we publish work other outlets wouldn’t touch. if this reporting means anything to you, PLEASE donate
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/02/2026
GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
was honored to go on OnPoint today to talk about AI-powered surveillance: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...
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Inside the AI surveillance state
From your online browsing habits to traffic cameras on your commute, data about you is everywhere. And with AI, companies can gather, store and share detailed information about you faster than ever.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
my two asks for electeds (reasonable ones, imo): 1) what can you demand in this current budget fight to free the hundreds of kids in DHS concentration camps? 2) will you pledge to dismantle DHS, abolish the paramilitaries, and close the concentration camps for good, once democrats are in power?
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