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susannah glickman

@susglickman.bsky.social
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assistant professor at stony brook university writing about material and ideological infrastructures. semiconductors, the us state, quantum, political economy, sts/history of science

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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
we are hiring a us historian at stony brook! its a great job, please send around and apply apply.interfolio.com/192098
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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 7h
newt taking his window of opportunity to make defense $, will we ever leave the 80s/90s
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mmr @mmr3cords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN ・How sampling moved from expensive hardware into everyday software ・Why free sample libraries changed bedroom production ・How loops became creative building blocks #MusicProduction #Sampling #MusicTechnology youtu.be/WNgIO16oYOg
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How Free Samples Changed Who Gets To Make Music
YouTube video by Monumental Movement
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emma best 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Mxy @emma.best · 29/09/2026
Plot twist: information about two alleged murder plots was ​reportedly found on his laptop www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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ShinyHunters suspect also investigated for alleged murder orders, Dutch media report
A 24-year-old man arrested earlier this week as part of an investigation into ​the hacking group ShinyHunters is also being investigated ‌over allegations that he ordered two murders abroad, Dutch med...
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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do you even sweat, bro?
Ben Williams, head of Emea and Asia private banking, lending and deposits at Goldman Sachs, said clients were “less tolerant” of these assets “not deriving more value for them”.

Family offices allocated 20 per cent of their assets to private equity and private debt in 2025, according to a report by UBS — up from 16 per cent in 2019.

“You want to have at least the opportunity to sweat as many of your assets as you can in a risk-efficient way,” Williams added. “And it’s inefficient to have an asset that you can’t sweat.”
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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Inevitably, we’ll get PE funds with NAV loans backed by portfolio holdings and then wealthy individuals taking out NAV loans on their stakes in the same fund, right?
The bank will generally lend between 25 and 35 per cent of the assets’ value for NAV loans, Williams said — well below the 40 to 60 per cent loan-to-value that banks typically offer for art loans, another class of illiquid assets the rich borrow against. Loan terms tend to be two to three years and are commonly renewed.
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virtualwitness.bsky.social @virtualwitness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The "regional mega-special economic zones" currently being promoted by the government to foster the semiconductor industry are raising alarms across labor, environmental, and energy sectors. sharps.or.kr/statement/?q...
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[사후보도자료]수신 : 제 언론사발신 : 반도체 산업의 정의로운 전환을 위한 공동행동문의 : 공동집행위원장 (반올림 이종란 010-8799-1302, 기후정의동맹 해미 010-2415-5083)제목 : [사후보도자료] 노동기본권 파괴, 삼성・SK 특혜 '메가특구법' 즉각 철회하라!- 메가특구법 철회 촉구 기후・노동・시민사회・정당 기자회견"노동자를 짓밟는 메...
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virtualwitness.bsky.social @virtualwitness.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Although tax breaks and subcontractors and partner companies played a crucial role in semiconductor production and profit generation, the profits were shared exclusively to Samsung’s full-time employees. Samsung’s case warrants critical assessment rather than praise or emulation.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026
A massive Microsoft data centre was fined after a drone investigation revealed the use of illegally operating gas turbines -->> www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Megan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
For @lpeblog.bsky.social I wrote about why "bring your own power" is a false solution to the problem of datacenter energy demand and why municipalization (public ownership and control) of regional transmission organizations is necessary to protect ratepayers and accelerate decarbonization.
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The Neoliberal Grid is in Crisis
To protect customers from rising electricity prices, public officials are urging data center developers to supply their own power. But this approach risks privatizing the power grid…
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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Exciting to hear (via chips communities united) that taiwan micron workers are going for profit sharing arrangements already won by Samsung and SK hynix t-pec.org/what-you-nee...
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What You Need to Know About the Potential Strike at Micron Taiwan – 共力研究社 TPEC
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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Exciting to hear (via chips communities united) that taiwan micron workers are going for profit sharing arrangements already won by Samsung and SK hynix t-pec.org/what-you-nee...
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What You Need to Know About the Potential Strike at Micron Taiwan – 共力研究社 TPEC
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North Dakota Monitor @northdakotamonitor.com · 22/09/2026
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public. Via @stateline.org buff.ly/0Go0na5
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Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species • North Dakota Monitor
The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public.…
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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
they let milken out of jail and the financial innovation has skyrocketed
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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
things at Apollo seem good! 👍
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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
TIL private credit has spawned a new type of fund vehicle, a hybrid of CLOs and collateralized fund obligations (CFOs), which Moody's is calling multicredit fund vehicles (MCFVs). www.moodys.com/research/Pri...
MCFVs hold – both directly and indirectly – a hybrid pool of investments that can include asset-backed whole loan assets, corporate loans and bonds, and real assets. Meanwhile, CLOs directly own corporate loans, and CFOs hold primarily pools of fund interests with exposure to private equity investments.
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Niall Roe @niallroe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
C. S. Peirce, echoing recent comments by Terrence Tao and other mathematicians on the use of AI to solve Navier-Stokes (except Peirce is writing in 1903):
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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exxon's planning for 2.5-3°C of warming by 2050. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Exxon raises 2050 global emissions forecast, sees slower coal decline
The world is at risk of falling behind in efforts to reduce carbon emissions by 2050, ExxonMobil said in its annual energy outlook published on Thursday, as ​the burning of coal could decline at a slo...
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org · 17/09/2026
In my new Expert Voices column @science.org, I argue that the Trump admin's science strategy (as written in Kratsios' Science: A Golden Age)--which gives more authority & funding to the private sector to direct the research enterprise--will harm science, and further erode its public accountability.
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Escaping a downward spiral for science and public accountability
In late July, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), released Science—A Golden Age, setting forth a strategy to revitalize US research and innova...
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 17/09/2026
‘The facility has been fully leased to Anviran LLC, a Meta subsidiary, under a $6.6 billion, 20-year contract, according to a CleanSpark presentation. It’s the first junk-bond offering tied to a Meta data center, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.‘ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Meta-Tied Data Center Taps US Junk Bonds for the First Time
CleanSpark Inc. is seeking to borrow roughly $2.23 billion through a debut junk-bond offering to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure tied to Meta Platforms Inc..
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Krista Langlois @cestmoilanglois.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A wild stat from this news story I edited: The maximum amount of plastic recorded in a chick was 67.4 grams, made up of 644 individual plastic fragments. That’s the equivalent of an average American human man walking around with 9.86 kilograms *** or 21.7 pounds*** of plastic in his stomach (!)
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The Florida Trib @thefloridatrib.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Florida is leaving mentally ill defendants to languish in county jails for months after judges order their transfer to psychiatric hospitals, according to a new lawsuit. At least 3 people died waiting for transfer. floridatrib.org/2026/09/16/f...
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Florida has left mentally-ill defendants in jail for months past legal limits, lawsuit says
At least three people died, and the psychiatric conditions of others deteriorated, while waiting for transfer to state hospitals
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UCU Scotland @ucuscotland.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
5 week strike at Edinburgh University at start of new academic term. Incl UCU branch co-president quote: “...UCU members are prepared to take action for our colleagues and our students – want to safeguard students’ education not just for five weeks in autumn but for the future." #StopTheCuts #SaveHE
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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.pionline.com/institutiona...
The Lockheed Martin lawsuit, like similar lawsuits alleging ERISA violations by purchasing annuity contracts from Athene, claim that the insurer is riskier in part because of its ties to Apollo. The original court filing cites Athene as a “private-equity controlled insurance company with a highly risky offshore structure.”
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"For many U.S. scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the agency they know and loved died on 10 September."
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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
at least some people read malm seriously
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 14/09/2026
Data center spills 5K gallons of diesel into New Jersey Meadowlands gothamist.com/news/data-ce...
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Data center spills 5K gallons of diesel into New Jersey Meadowlands
The spill affected a tributary of the Hackensack River. Authorities say cleanup is underway.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I don't know if Matt Levine's theory about what's behind recent calls for AI regulation is correct. But it does sound plausible! www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Generative AI is dangerous to humans, not in the Asimovian way the Anthropic creeps are carping on about, but in the way that it is literally poisoning our air and water www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
we are hiring a us historian at stony brook! its a great job, please send around and apply apply.interfolio.com/192098
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Climate changes are killing California's gray whales. www.scientificamerican.com/article/gray...
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Gray whales are washing up dead on the West Coast. The reason is alarming
Up and down the Pacific coast, dead gray whales are mysteriously washing ashore—and scientists think they know why
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10/09/2026
Some folks will claim that this is hyperbolic, but what I wish people would understand is that tech initiatives like this serve as a means of eroding consent and lower the barrier for the persistent capture of people’s image, voice, data, or whatever else a gadget can glean.
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Apple's New Siri Recap Turns Every Apple Watch Into a Mass Surveillance Nightmare
Apple's always-listening AI feature promises neat summaries of your daily conversations, but it forces everyone around you into a nonconsensual recording experiment.
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Sam Biddle @sambiddle.com · 08/09/2026
Contract documents I obtained show that OpenAI and Google aren't simply selling a product, but working hand in hand with the Pentagon, advising the U.S. military on AI usage and risks, military AI strategy, and even receiving briefings on "operational missions." theintercept.com/2026/09/08/m...
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AI Giants Work Hand-in-Hand With the Pentagon, Contracts Reveal
The Intercept sued to obtain records that reveal an intimate relationship between the military and OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI.
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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
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Duncan Lamont @duncanlamont2.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today's weird (and geeky) rabbit hole: does it surprise you that there is less dispersion in views among professional forecasters today than at most points in the past 34 years? Top charts: upper/lower quartile for 10yr growth/infl Bottom charts: interquartile range - very low!
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susannah glickman @susglickman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Do I know any Battelle heads?
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 13/08/2026
NEW: Brooklyn Cyclones concessions workers have been getting stiffed on some of their paychecks this season, as tips disappeared under new management, according to interviews and records obtained by The City Reporter. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/13/b...
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Brooklyn Cyclones Withheld Tips From Concessions Workers, Records Show
Federal and state laws require that all tips go to workers, but for weeks this season, young fast food workers at Maimonides Park were only paid an hourly wage.
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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Masters of the universe have long critiqued market indices’ rising concentration to the Magnificent Seven of tech giants as their valuations have soared. Apollo Global chief Marc Rowan offered the starkest missive.

“We basically have levered the retirement system of the country to Nvidia,” he said on a February 2025 earnings call.

Less than two years later, Rowan’s firm is part of a bold $500bn-plus plan to leverage investors’ portfolios to Nvidia, alongside a who’s who in finance including Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 09/08/2026
UK taxpayer subsidies more than doubled in the last financial year, new analysis has shown, as the government took advantage of post-Brexit freedoms to hand out more support to energy projects ft.trib.al/gh8tzos
Sizewell A and B nuclear power stations to the left, with construction equipment and fencing at the Sizewell C site. Three people jog past the construction area.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...
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Exclusive: US military asks troops for ‘creative and unconventional’ ideas to punish Iran | CNN Politics
The request from a senior officer at the US military command carrying out President Donald Trump’s war with Iran came in an email: We need ideas.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 03/08/2026
Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo was fatally shot on June 14 by a hitman. Bravo had been investigating U.S. strikes on three Ecuadorian boats in which 36 passengers survived, many of them recounting alleged torture by American gunmen in U.S. military uniforms aboard a U.S.-flagged patrol ship.
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“Zero Accountability”: Ecuadorian Prosecutor Assassinated While Investigating U.S. Boat Strikes
U.S. boat strikes across the Caribbean and eastern Pacific have killed at least 221 people since September, while the Trump administration has provided no evidence linking the vessels or their passeng...
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alan yuhas @ayuhas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
hundreds of ancient geoglyphs found in the Amazon www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/w...
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Archaeologists Find Hundreds of Ancient Glyphs in the Amazon (Gift Article)
The geometric earthwork structures, carved into the ground with embankments and ditches, are in some cases more than 2,500 years old, researchers said.
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Guy Berger @econberger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
3/ I didn't include it in the prior chart, but health insurance costs are growing at their fastest rate in almost two decades - that's probably at least a partial explanation for acceleration non-wage benefit costs.
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
“While states deploy security-driven industrial policies and tools to nurture indigenous military tech capacity, venture capital firms, asset managers and private equity increasingly shape the priorities and production strategies of defense firms.” phenomenalworld.org/analysis/def...
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Alfredo Saad-Filho & Jack Taggart | Defense Dividends
The interpenetration of private finance and the military
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 28/07/2026
Who said it couldn't get any worse: 12% of London properties originally intended for private sale sold in bulk deals this past year. Housing as an asset class, it's coming home.
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Investors snap up bundles of UK properties as housebuilders offer discounts
Bulk buyers win double-digit reductions while cautious consumers stay on sidelines
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Gothamist @gothamist.com · 26/07/2026
Will Mamdani ‘stop the chop?’ Helicopter foes look to mayor to quiet the skies. gothamist.com/news/will-ma...
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Will Mamdani ‘stop the chop?’ Helicopter foes look to mayor to quiet the skies.
Helicopter foes cast the aircraft as vehicles of the elite.
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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
it is stunning to me that there isn't more uniform anger at the situation with UAW across the labor movement, because it doesn't matter whose damn side you're on, the notion that a government appointed bureaucrat can run your labor union is an existential threat to free and democratic unions
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Detroit News obtained a recording of a call between Shawn Fain and Neil Barofsky, the federal monitor, in which Barofsky criticizes UAW's statement calling for a ceasefire and, among other things, tells Fain to read an NYT column by Bret Stephens.
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Phone call audio sheds new light on tension between UAW's Fain, monitor | Exclusive
UAW President Shawn Fain has pointed to the 2023 phone call as evidence that Barofsky has a "political grudge" against him and is abusing his power.
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