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Sidney Rothstein

@sidneyrothstein.bsky.social
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Political scientist. Author of 𝑅𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟 (tinyurl.com/RePwr). Tech, labor politics, curiosities of capitalism.

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...
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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
one simple trick to make rowing fun to watch www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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Crocodile-inhabited river approved as Brisbane 2032 Olympic rowing venue
International Olympic Committee endorses Australia’s Fitzroy River course while World Rowing and Paddle Worldwide back the regional venue
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Elise Gould @elisegould.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New data alert 🚨 - CEO pay surged in 2025, rising 14% to an average $27.9 million - CEOs are paid 325 times as much as the typical worker in their industry - Between 1978 and 2025, top CEO pay rose 1,316% compared to only a 28% increase for typical workers www.epi.org/blog/ceo-pay... #EconSky
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CEO pay surged in 2025: CEOs are paid 325 times as much as the typical worker
Key findings: CEO pay at the top 350 U.S. firms rose 14.0% in 2025 to an average of $27.9 million. CEOs made 325 times as much as the typical worker in 2025. It hasn’t always been this way. In 1965, C...
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
7. Everyone would be better off. Well maybe not everyone. Jensen Huang would certainly have a very big sad. But is that a bug or a feature? I think the course is clear. The labs _need_ their workers to unionize if they want to save their profit model. AI Labs of the world unite! [finis].
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
כֵּן יְהִי רָצוֹן
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Strong “buy”
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
So much value: "Samsung's operating profit in the January to March quarter jumped about 750% from a year earlier." So much solidarity: "The union said that 23,000 workers who were making less advanced chips for companies like Tesla and Nvidia should not be left behind." www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Samsung strike on hold as workers push for AI bonus
The walkout, which was due to start on Thursday, has been suspended while union members vote on a tentative deal.
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Shame on @wiley.com for extorting authors to feed our work to their AI contractors
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
And everyone says it's toddlers who are bad at sharing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...
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3 Men Are Arrested in $1 Million Lego Theft in California
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Phoebe Cohen @phoebefossil.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Talk alert! Weds, March 4th - @peterbrannen.bsky.social in conversation with me and @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social at Williams College! CO2, geology, AND capitalism. 7:00pm in Wachenheim Room B11, open to the public, books for sale & signing (& cookies) to follow: events.williams.edu/event/the-st...
A square image showing the cover of a book called "the story of CO2 is the story of everything" by Peter Brannen, advertising a talk on March 4th at Williams College from 7-8:30 PM in Bronfman auditorium. Open to the public.
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🚨We're hiring! 🚨 Williams College Department of Political Science is looking for a one-year visiting assistant professor of political science in comparative politics. (Preferred regional focus: Africa and/or South Asia) apply.interfolio.com/181758 Closes Feb 23, 2026
image of williams college nestled in the lush green hills of berkshire county
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Few books have made such an impact on my thinking recently as Brannen's "The Story of CO2." Can't wait to discuss with @peterbrannen.bsky.social on March 4th. Come by if you're in Western Mass, and if you're not, go get yourself this book!
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Carola Westermeier @c-westermeier.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Fantastic opportunity for PhD students working in the fields of political economy and economic sociology to receive valuable feedback and connect to other researchers in their field. Organized by the wonderful PhD students of the @mpifg.bsky.social Send them your abstracts!
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Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
A must read paper on how Big Tech uses start-ups from Spain and Brazil to advance their political interests 👇👇👇
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Out now in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social “Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery” @journals.sagepub.com #polisky journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1/n
first page of "Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery." abstract: As digital technology’s economic importance increases, policymakers pivot to supporting startups – new, small, high-risk firms that produce technological innovation. Tracing the passage of startup policies in Brazil and Spain between 2014 – 2022, this article argues that startup policies do little to reduce peripheral countries’ dependence on the core. In each case, startups advocated for these policies by relying on financial and organizational resources from the giant US-based technology firms known as “Big Tech.” The article makes three contributions to the framework of dependent development. First, it reinforces existing observations that dependence on Big Tech extends beyond the Global South. Second, it revives political analysis of dependency, exploring the political conditions for economic development in the periphery. Lastly, it shows how startups’ political dependence on Big Tech implies important limits on startups’ ability to lead peripheral economies out of dependence on the core.
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Rafael Grohmann @grohmannrafael.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Workers Governing Technologies: Collective Strategies Across Contexts. In-person workshop in Toronto on Sep 25 and 26 with 20 speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Spain and US Registration link and full schedule: www.eventbrite.ca/e/workers-go...
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 07/05/2025
A few things cooler than AI by Andy J. Pizza
Drawings of a few things cooler than AI such as owls, clouds, Stars, dreams, birds, snails, a child's drawing, peanut butter and jelly a hug, the ocean and a cool rock
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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
"UC Berkeley’s Labor Center launches a new data tool, an inventory of union contracts, to empower labor in negotiating AI and emerging technologies. It provides crucial insights for unions to secure worker protections and shape the future of work." lngfrm.net/uc-berkeley-...
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UC Berkeley Unveils AI Labor Bargaining Tool - LNGFRM
UC Berkeley's Labor Center launches a new data tool, an inventory of union contracts, to empower labor in negotiating AI and emerging technologies. It provides crucial insights for unions to secure wo...
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Arianna Tassinari @aritassinari.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4). 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/1024...
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Good week to re-up this report by @ocampomar.bsky.social and @ips-dc.org: Following Massachusetts' Fair Share Amendment (tax on millionaires), did the millionaires leave en masse as they had threatened? No, the millionaires stayed -- and tax revenue increased! ips-dc.org/report-wealt...
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Wealth Expands After Higher State Taxes on High-Income Earners - Institute for Policy Studies
Wealth Expands After Higher State Taxes on High-Income Earners
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
One more piece of (really) good evidence that AI domination of all that is well and good is not a fait accompli. Workers can fight back and decide how AI is governed. New work out by @grohmannrafael.bsky.social @guiaoquadrado.bsky.social and André Campos Rocha: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Worker-led AI governance: Hollywood writers' strikes and the worker power
This article theorizes worker-led AI governance through the 2023 Hollywood writers' strike, arguing that workers can shape the governance of generative AI from below. Drawing on the power resources...
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SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics @sasemeeting.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
In Montréal for SASE 2025 – or nearby? 🇨🇦 Join us Thursday, July 10 for free public sessions at the Palais des Congrès – no badge needed. Global scholars, union leaders & policymakers discuss labor, social economy & policy innovation. #SASE2025 #Montreal #PublicSessions
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UNI Global Union @uniglobalunion.org · 23/05/2025
Read more about the first-ever content moderator global union alliance here: uniglobalunion.org/news/moderat...
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Content moderators launch first-ever global alliance, demand safe working conditions and accountability from tech giants
Content moderators have formed the first-ever global trade union alliance to fight for living wages, safe conditions and union representation.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19/05/2025
Microsoft fired 6,000 Seattle locals this week so they can set more money on fire for AI and Semafor doesn't think that's worth mentioning despite running with this headline
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
‘U is for Union!’: Sesame Workshop Workers Win NLRB Election Organizing with the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 153, workers endured aggressive anti-union actions on the part of management in order to secure Thursday's win.
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‘U is for Union!’: Sesame Workshop Workers Win NLRB Election
Organizing with the Office and Professional Employees International Union Local 153, workers endured aggressive anti-union actions on the part of management in order to secure Thursday's win.
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
At Middlebury College, admin introduces deep budget cuts -- faculty vote (94%!) to walkout in protest ✊ Cuts include: 🔪 faculty/staff housing 🔪health insurance 🔪retirement (All while increasing undergraduate enrollment (i.e., speedup)) www.addisonindependent.com/2025/05/05/c...
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College faculty plan walkout amid budget cuts | Addison Independent
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Mass's Fair Share Amendment is one of the most successful policies I've seen in the recent past (it increases funding for child care, ed, health, transit by taxing millionaires) But more millionaires is still a huge policy failure www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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Report: Number of millionaires in Mass. has actually gone up since new tax took effect
Since the Fair Share Amendment, or the so-called “millionaires tax,” passed in 2022, Massachusetts has seen an increase in high earners.
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
👀 sciencebusiness.net/news/researc...
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Serbia’s academics outraged over limits to research, disappointed by EU response
Academics in Serbia are up in arms over a sudden move by the government to limit the time university lecturers can spend on research. Previously allowed to spend 20 hours a week on research, they will...
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I guess I'm actually proud to be so bad at social media that I did this whole thread to promote my article but forgot to post a link. Anyway, the article is open access, and you can find it here: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Life in Common @arthursmid.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector Link to open access paper: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... cc @civictechallies.bsky.social @civictechguide.bsky.social

Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector

Author: Sidney A. Rothstein




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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Apply for the LaborTech Annual Awards, deadline June 1 2025. Welcoming submissions for monographs, graduate student papers and *social justice awards* which invite tech workers, labor organisers, activists, designers and others! @labortech.bsky.social labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
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Labor Tech
Labor Tech Research Network - A collection of leading experts on technology and work with a commitment to feminism, anti-racism, and social justice
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
To what extent can tech workers mobilize as part of the broader working class? This is the question I take up in my new paper "Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector" -- just out in Work in the Global Economy 1/n
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
seatbelts
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Virginia Doellgast @vdoellgast.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
New paper in HRMJ: Unions help make remote work more fair - based on research in the US, Canada, and Germany: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Here we go: every single @thedigradio.bsky.social guest on Bluesky go.bsky.app/4T6xwZf
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SASE | The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics @sasemeeting.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
For SASE members who may be interested: MPIfG is accepting apps for its Visiting Researchers Program (Winter 2025/26). 2–12 mo stays in Cologne for researchers in econ soc & political econ. Apply by April 30 → sase.org/career-oppor... #AcademicJobs #SASE
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Career Opportunity: MPIfG Visiting Researchers Program - SASE
Career Opportunity for SASE Members: MPIfG Visiting Researchers Program The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG) in Cologne is currently accepting applications for its Visiting Rese...
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Dani @danidelamedias.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Today, in Istanbul’s Maltepe district, over 2.2 million citizens, according to organizers—took to the streets, demanding democracy, justice, and freedom in the face of Erdoğan’s increasingly authoritarian rule.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Pretty soon we will all be talking about CoreWeave the same way we were all talking about Countrywide Financial back in 2008. on.ft.com/426yoOG
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Eight odd things in CoreWeave’s IPO prospectus
A data centre field of dreams, or the WeWork of the AI bubble?
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Everyone everywhere should be protesting the egregious violation of the rule of law in the administration's detention of Mahmoud Khalil. Especially if you are faculty and Jewish -- since this is being done in our name -- please consider signing this open letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Not In Our Name
Sign the Statement March 11, 2025 Not in our name. We are Jewish professors, staff members, and students from universities across the United States. We hold various views about Israel and Palestine...
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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We’re beyond thrilled to launch the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy If you’re a fellow political economist annoyed by all-male rooms & gendered comments— join us & share! 🗓️ 22-25 Sept, 2025 in Cologne 🚨 Apply by 25 Apr, 2025 www.mpifg.de/1343511/2025...
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
are they coming to save us apnews.com/article/cali...
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Rare video captures super pod of 2,000 dolphins breaching and playing off California coast
A California boat captain has captured rare video of a super pod of more than 2,000 dolphins off the coast of Monterey Bay.
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Find comrades as hard core as the pigeons out there eating the rock salt off my driveway
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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
in 2017 when Trump first took office, Tech workers pushed bosses to speak out against him. 2025 is different; bosses are quick to fire and tamp down revolts. what it means to #resist inside Big Tech is more subtle now w/ @kateconger.com @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/t...
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With Tampons and Code, Silicon Valley Workers Quietly Protest Tech’s Rightward Shift
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Come for the Dank Gramsci shoutout, stay for the "complex unity structured in dominance"
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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Find me an occupation with better propaganda than paleontology
drawing from kids book of paleontologists marching into the field. text says "bones. bones. we look for bones."drawing from kids book of paleontologists assembling t rex skeleton. text says "we put the teeth in the head bones and the head bones on the neck bones."
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Lea Elsässer @leaelsaesser.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Please spread the word! 👇 We are happy to announce that the next conference of the political economy section of the German Political Science association will take place @uni-mainz in September 2025. Join us to discuss "Political Economy Transformation in Hard Times" Submission deadline February 15
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David Pinzur @davidpinzur.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Very happy for this article with @tomduterme.bsky.social to be out in the world. It's also the most straightforward title I've ever written: it does what it says on the tin!! Hope it will offer useful clarity for anyone reading or writing about these concepts.
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Market devices and infrastructures: how they differ and why it matters
This article seeks to clarify the relationship between market studies research associated with the notions of ‘market devices’ and ‘market infrastructures.’ The relation between these terms has rem...
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