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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
www.politico.com/news/2025/06... A Florida state judge was lobbying for a seat on the federal bench. After he sided with the president in a defamation case, Donald Trump gave him one.
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A judge sided with Trump. Behind the scenes, he was lobbying for a nomination.
Ed Artau was already meeting with Senate staff about securing a nomination to the federal bench when he sided with Trump in a case, according to a new Senate disclosure obtained by POLITICO.
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
www.wired.com/story/9-urge... Can you get a refund? Actually we know the answer to this one, again compliments of the Trump Mobile terms of use: No, you absolutely cannot.
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9 Urgent Questions About Trump Mobile and the Gold T1 Smartphone
We don’t know much about the new Trump Mobile phone or the company’s data plan, but we sure do have a lot of questions.
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru... "Trump, who returned to office in January, reported $57.35 million from token sales at crypto firm World Liberty Financial. He also reported holding 15.75 billion governance tokens in the venture."
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Trump reports tens of millions in income from crypto ventures
U.S. President Donald Trump filed his first public financial disclosure report of his term on Friday, providing what he said was the latest information about his holdings, including income from his family's foray into cryptocurrencies.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
WIRED readers can have a little update, as a treat
US Northern Command, which oversees military support to nonmilitary authorities in the contiguous 48 states, said Friday that Marines would not conduct “arrests” but are authorized to "temporarily hold" people in "specific circumstances" until police arrive to make a formal arrest. The clarification follows the emergence of a video showing Marines in LA detaining a civilian with plastic handcuffs before awaiting police—the first known instance of such an action during the current deployment.
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hat tip to Bruce Schneier (www.schneier.com) "Researchers have discovered a new way to covertly track Android users. Both Meta and Yandex were using it, but have suddenly stopped now that they have been caught." localmess.github.io
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Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NEW: AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse Users are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT to find out what's real and what's not at the LA protests—and getting inaccurate information. read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:
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AI Chatbots Are Making LA Protest Disinformation Worse
Amid fast-moving events in Los Angeles, users are turning to chatbots like Grok and ChatGPT to find out what's real and what's not—and getting inaccurate information.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/06/2025
NEW: A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...
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Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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The Trump Administration Wants to Create an ‘Office of Remigration’ to Kick Immigrants Out of the Country
"Remigration"—a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations—may soon have a dedicated office following a Trump administration reorganization of the State Department...
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11/05/2025
Small-business owners facing steep China tariffs are laying off staff and withdrawing personal savings, trying to hold on and hoping for a trade deal
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How Tariffs Are Crushing Small Businesses: ‘Nobody in Power Seems to Care’
Owners are laying off staff and withdrawing personal savings, trying to hold on and hoping for a trade deal with China.
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/04/2025
The Trump administration aims to make fossil fuels cheap—so cheap they wouldn’t be worth extracting. “‘Drill, baby, drill’ is nothing short of a myth,” one oil executive has said. www.wired.com/story/trumps...
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Trump’s Policies Are Creating Uncertainty for Fossil Fuel Companies
The Trump administration aims to make fossil fuels cheap—so cheap they wouldn’t be worth extracting. “‘Drill, baby, drill’ is nothing short of a myth,” one oil executive has said.
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
www.npr.org/2025/04/28/n...
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DOGE employees gain accounts on classified networks holding nuclear secrets
Two members of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency were given accounts on classified networks that hold highly guarded details about America's nuclear weapons, two sources tell NPR.
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"... and to seek an exception from the 100 percent reimbursement requirement for the building.” www.wired.com/story/doge-t...
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DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
The documents reveal a DOGE affiliate is attempting to transfer the headquarters of an independent think tank, the United States Institute of Peace, to the government at no cost.
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/03/2025
SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
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Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
www.wired.com/story/signal...
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SignalGate Isn’t About Signal
The Trump cabinet’s shocking leak of its plans to bomb Yemen raises myriad confidentiality and legal issues. The security of the encrypted messaging app Signal is not one of them.
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
Again, we’re excited to be the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage. We hope other publications follow suit in this critical moment. And if you want to support our journalism directly, you can do so by subscribing here. wrd.cm/3DKcKYD
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WIRED Digital Subscription
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
Access to journalism based on public records is more important than ever at this moment, with government websites and records disappearing, DOGE doing its best to operate outside the public’s view, and the National Archive in disarray.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 18/03/2025
We commend @wired.com for dropping its paywall for FOIA-based reporting and hope other news outlets will follow its lead. freedom.press/issues/wired...
Access to public documents is more important than ever. We commend Wired for dropping its paywall for FOIA-based reporting and hope other news outlets will follow its lead.
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WIRED @wired.com · 14/03/2025
SCOOP: These are the 10 DOGE operatives inside the Social Security Administration. The team appears to be among the largest DOGE units deployed to any government agency. This includes a number of young engineers whose presence has not been reported. Read the full story:
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These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration
The team working at the Social Security Administration appears to be among the largest DOGE units deployed to any government agency.
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
NEW: Oversight Dems are demanding Trump agency chiefs reveal where DOGE is implementing AI and for what purposes -- as is legally required -- and also demonstrate that Musk is not abusing his access to sensitive government data to enrich his own companies' AI tools.
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Democrats Demand Answers on DOGE’s Use of AI
Members of the House Oversight Committee sent dozens of requests to federal agencies on Wednesday about their use of AI software—and how Elon Musk could benefit.
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
no like he spent the entire time yapping about “fREe sPeEch” only to create a deep state where no one understands anything
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DOGE Is the Deep State
A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!
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WIRED @wired.com · 06/03/2025
Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
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Pentagon Cuts Threaten Programs That Secure Loose Nukes and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Documents obtained by WIRED show the US Department of Defense is considering cutting up to 75 percent of workers who stop the spread of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
www.wired.com/story/air-mo...
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US State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program Researchers Say Paid for Itself
The initiative helped pressure the Chinese government to clean up the air in Beijing and was later expanded to dozens of cities around the world. Now, it’s been abruptly halted.
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/03/2025
Trying to wrap your mind around what's happened this week (it's Wednesday)? Same... So for our clarity (and possibly yours) we're resharing some WIRED scoops in this refresher thread, starting with business leaders paying millions of dollars to dine with President Donald Trump.
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People Are Paying Millions to Dine With Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago
Business leaders are paying as much as $5 million to meet one-on-one with the president at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1 million apiece to dine with him in a gro...
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
SCOOP: Some of the DOGE staffers are drawing salaries from the agencies they are cutting. We got some new details: www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
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Some DOGE Staffers Are Drawing Six-Figure Government Salaries
Engineers and executives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing healthy taxpayer-funded salaries—sometimes from the very agencies they are cutting.
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
www.wired.com/story/starli...
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Elon Musk’s Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online
A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
The Trump Administration has made a big deal about the emergency waivers it created for "lifesaving" aid work. But these waivers are not working as intended. Even the most critical work—Ebola outbreak containment, treating babies with AIDS—is halted. My latest: www.wired.com/story/the-us...
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The USAID Emergency Waivers Aren’t Working, From Ebola to AIDS
Elon Musk claims he mistakenly fired Ebola prevention workers, then quickly fixed the error. But Ebola programs are still in tatters, along with other livesaving efforts like AIDS treatments for child...
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
www.wired.com/story/doge-w...
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The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think
What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
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Paresh Dave @peard33.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits
Elon Musk claims to have found rampant fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation.
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Hi, white guy here, married to a Black woman for the last 25 years, not for strategic reasons but because she's awesome. I'm here to say this article is dumb and bad and not worthy of the ink the NYT gave it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/m...
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As a White Man, Can I Date Women of Color to Advance My Antiracism? (Gift Article)
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on interracial dating as a sociopolitical strategy.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/02/2025
Last night, we broke the news that the top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its election security work and is reviewing everything it has done to help state and local officials secure their elections for the past eight years. wrd.cm/3QkfGh3
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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Yes. But they are missing that much of this has to be performative. That’s what Trump is great at and Dems are awful at. You can’t just tell voters , you have to know how to sell voters. Trump gives sales pitches, Dems show charts. One goes viral. The other is ignored and forgotten
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
"Any serious attempt to treat the US like a business would involve increasing revenues. So where are the taxes? And why demolish the CFPB, which has paid out over $20 billion to US citizens—shareholders, if you will—through its enforcement actions?" www.wired.com/story/doge-e...
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DOGE’s Race to the Bottom
Elon Musk’s takeover of US government agencies has happened at remarkable speeds. That’s the point.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Elon Musk’s staffers have taken an additional $7.4 million this week in expenses, bringing the total to $14.4 million.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Valor Danielle Sassoon, Acting U.S. attorney for SDNY - refuses to drop Adams charges and resigns John Keller, Acting head of DOJ Public Integrity Section - refuses and resigns Kevin Driscoll, Acting head of DOJ Criminal Division - refuses and resigns www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
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Top federal prosecutor in N.Y. resigns after refusing to drop Adams charges
Two top prosecutors in Washington also resigned over the DOJ order to dismiss corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Interesting: the State Department’s procurement forecast detailing a $400 million order for "armored Tesla" has now been edited to "armored electric vehicles." The document shows the edit was made tonight at 9:12 p.m. -- after it was highlighted in reports
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
NEW: The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings—some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators.
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The GSA Plans to Sell Hundreds of Its Federal Government Buildings
The General Services Administration, staffed at its upper levels by Elon Musk associates, plans to sell 500-plus buildings—some of which house government agencies and the offices of US senators.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/02/2025
Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.
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State Dept. Plans $400 Million Purchase of Armored Tesla Cybertrucks
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
ICYMI — Trump’s DC prosecutor Ed Martin dropped charges against 1/6 insurrection defendant Jose Padilla of CLEVELAND, TENNESSEE Padilla’s defense attorney at the time? Ed Martin. 🤔 www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently referenced the “disruption” of DOGE’s cost-cutting initiatives and said, “whatever is good for America will be good for Americans and very good for Palantir.” The company has made billions in government contracts. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Former Palantir and Elon Musk Associates Are Taking Over Key Government IT Roles
The chief information officers of at least three major government agencies have been replaced by Silicon Valley executives, including from Palantir and Elon Musk's SpaceX.
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is cool. I remember reading that article and wondering if anyone pays attention outside of us nerds. They do!
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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Delivering Malware Through Abandoned Amazon S3 Buckets - Schneier on Security
Here’s a supply-chain attack just waiting to happen. A group of researchers searched for, and then registered, abandoned Amazon S3 buckets for about $400. These buckets contained software libraries th...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Reporter: You cited $50 million worth of condoms sent to Gaza as fraud, but fact-checking showed it was actually Gaza in Mozambique for HIV prevention. Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect. Nobody is gonna bat 1000. (Eric Trump repeated this lie last night on Fox News.)
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING: Federal workers filed a new lawsuit against Elon Musk, DOGE, and OPM, alleging DOGE's data access is an illegal privacy violation: www.wired.com/story/govern...
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Federal Workers Launch New Lawsuit to Fight DOGE’s Data Access
The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed the complaint on behalf of US federal workers, arguing that DOGE’s data access is illegal and should be cut off.
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skywayman.bsky.social @skywayman.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is bigger than you think it is.
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