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৭৩টি মন্তব্য:
I asked copilot what bursts out in the following Mallarme passage
We know, captives of an absolute formula that, of course, there is nothing but what is. However, incontinentiy to put aside, under a pretext, tbe lure, would point up our inconsequence, denying the pleasure that we wish to take: for that beyond is its agent, and its motor might I say were I not loath to operate, in public, the impious dismantling of the fiction and consequently of the literary mechanism, so as to display the principal part or nothing. But, I venerate how, by some flimflam, we project, toward a height both forbidden and thunderous! the conscious lacks in us of what, above, bursts out.
It answered with freshman analysis of the real world and the ideal world that poetry brings to us, which it thought was expected of it.
I said I thought what bursts out is the very literary effect of something bursting out that Mallarme aimed to produce, and that it would be invisible to any AI since it was never referred to.
Copilot said that was a very astute analysis, which again is what would be expected of it.
Basically it's a yes-man packed with cliches.
Matt Taibbi has a post about how the U.S. Government paid internet influencers to put out the party line on the Ukraine war. How many commenters here are sponsored? By whom are they sponsored? How can you tell?
Taibbi writes:
Following just this one group of contractors reveals the United States spent hundreds of millions of dollars on “social media influence” all over the world. In Ukraine, much of the money went to European middlemen who created dummy Internet personalities to sell the war. They put this in writing! Zinc was obligated $1.23 million from the State Department’s Office of Acquisition Management for two contracts, each of which would “identify, train, and engage 25 to 40 social media influencers” who’d “produce and publish their own social media content in line with U.S. Foreign policy objectives.”
Your tax dollars, turned into dummy social media accounts.
https://www.racket.news/p/farewell-to-volodymyr-zelensky-the?publication_id=1042&post_id=158193741&isFreemail=false&r=2ip4z2&triedRedirect=true
AI is very flattering, which is one of the problems that comes with using it to help you edit your writing. I think that Solzhenitsyn said that the yes man is an enemy.
It's amazing to me how many purported lefties on here, based on their comments on the Ukraine war, sound as if they have portraits of Ronald Reagan and George W Bush hanging on the walls of their office. More likely Stephan Bandera though.
Speaking of AI . . .
I asked Grok to write some poems for me.
With spellcheck’s help I typed in Marxist Gras instead of Mardi Gras:
Grok gave me this poem:
Marxist Gras, a red parade,
Class and banners on display.
No kings or beads, just equal cheer,
Comrades march, the day is here!
Purple flags for workers’ might,
Green for fields reclaimed by right,
Gold for dreams of shared delight,
A revolution’s festive sight.
No masquerade of wealth to see,
Just chants for solidarity.
Marxist Gras, both bold and free,
A carnival of equity!
I told Grok I wasn’t a commie pinko, could Grok write me a negative poem for Marxist Gras
This is what Grok came up with:
Marxist Gras, a grim charade,
Dreary banners on parade.
No joy or beads, just forced despair,
Comrades trudge through heavy air.
Purple for control’s tight grip,
Green for fields where freedoms slip,
Gold a lie that’s lost its gleam,
A hollow, bleak, oppressive dream.
No revelry, just chains to see,
A mask of false equality.
Marxist Gras, a joyless spree,
A carnival of misery.
I love both poems.
Happy Mardi Gras!
Bluer than blue…
Gratifyingly, my COVID sourdough starter, named Martha by or youngest (I choose to believe that although he probably doesn't really remember it, he got the name from the gospel story with which I identify so strongly) woke right up over the weekend and I have what should be a really nice loaf in the oven at the moment. A friend whose husband's job moved then to Cairo last summer is staryng with us, and tomorrow is her last evening - she may appreciate some Western bread before she returns home.
Sorry about the typos; apparently my eyes are done for the evening.
What Grok said.
I know we've had italics problems on the blog lately. Hit me today on the hooker thread. I tried typing /i multiple times and it didn't work. How do other people stop the italics nightmare?
(This is a new thing, we didn't see this for the first 20 years on the blog)
(This is a new thing, we didn't see this for the first 20 years on the blog)
My husband, made from sterner stuff than I, goes all over the interwebs, and recently encountered a Bill Maher monologue about, essentially, how everything is crappier now than it used to be. What was the term... "reverse improvement."
Sourdough update: not as much oven spring as the loaf should have had, and would have, if I'd been more patient. (After 4 nights of Houston Rodeo bbq cook-off, I want to go to bed early!) And I brushed a finger across my 500° cocotte and will now be bothered by that all night. But the loaf is still lovely, deep golden brown, smells like heaven.
LLMs are supposed to just select the next word based on which one has higher probability considering the previous words, with a maximum number of words considered in the n sized phrase “window”selected. This probability is based on all the n sized phrases in the training data set, which is why you need so much processing power to train a model.
But there is also lots of manual stuff added to make it work, it is not just a pure calculation, there are lots of human made rules.
As was quoted in various forms earlier, the wonder is not that the bear dances well, but that he dances at all.
Trying to find something tasty to put on left over hot dog buns - best so far is diced Tyson chicken breast and spinach and butter.
Rhhardin, got any Dijon mustard? I think the tang and brightness might be worth it.
Or if you are willing to wait 15 minutes or so, egg salad? (I like the squishy salad on the squishy bread.)
It's amazing to me how many purported lefties on here, based on their comments on the Ukraine war, sound as if they have portraits of Ronald Reagan and George W Bush hanging on the walls of their office.
Woodrow Wilson.
I'm maybe halfway through the Musk Rogan podcast, at the point where they're talking about the challenges of heat shielding a vehicle that has to exit or re-enter the atmosphere. This is after the discussion of DOGE recommendations and, importantly, their blatant mischaracterization in the media. I look forward to the next topic.
"Or if you are willing to wait 15 minutes or so, egg salad?"
Ohh… don't say egg salad on this blog.
Shoot, did I err? I do apologize! Does it make it any better to go British and say "egg mayonnaise"?
The Brits call egg-salad egg-mayonnaise? I did not know that.
I kid. Referencing egg salad is fine. Just don't suggest our hostess eat one.
"How do other people stop the italics nightmare?"
" then some text" works for me. IDK if the inclusion of text is necessary, but some have said it is. But then, what works for me may not work for you. I've lost the ability to delete posts. I've tried everything people have suggested here, but to no avail. No trashcan icon. There are so many variables between people's systems, or your own system over time, it's just a crap shoot.
Well, that didn't work (and I can't delete it!).
"< / i > then some text", but take out the spaces in < / i >
I have no idea how this is going to be rendered. Here goes nothing…
“ Trying to find something tasty to put on left over hot dog buns”
Lobster is good.
What has worked for me, when I see the pacman italics eating up the blog, is to just type in 3 sets of 'close italics', i.e. 'open carat'-'backslash'-'i'-'close carat'. Like the ruby slippers, 3 times in a row seems to be the magic working so far.
When people say "make a long story short" is shorthand for lowering expectation. There's too much pressure to blow people away with a story.
Taibbi and Kirn on tonight are saying this whole kerfuffle smacks of planning and execution. CNN ready to show live-on-TV shock as Trump erupts. Identi-tweets issued moments later from various EU politicians, well-crafted indentical tweets released en-masse. Then immediate meetings with Starmer for Zelensky and pledges of undying support. So...... If all this was coordinated across media and EU government, then why were Macron and Starmer in DC last week, visiting Trump?
Jersey Fled, did you flee to Maine? Lobster is an EXCELLENT suggestion - with melted butter!
Now I'm hungry again. Dang it.
Vis-a-vis Aggie @9:13pm - what the hell, are we in the Truman Show or something?! I have so had it with all this. I'm power-commenting tonight ahead of my personal Lenten moratorium Wednesday but I'm starting to look forward to it!
The key to Italics is the sauce.
"Can't delete with firefox. Can delete with Chrome.
Simple"
I can't delete with iPadOS Safari. Others apparently can.
Not simple.
Egg salad is great if the egg is diced chunky and the goo isn’t runny. Bread and butter chips really doll it up. Crushed red pepper a must.
I don’t know what use hot dog buns are. I eat my dogs nestled in fresh 12-grain bread. The hot dog bun is curiously antiquated. An inferior product from a less discriminating time.
If what I've heard is true, that the minerals deal was a Zelenski idea. So, it follows that if he tried to show up/outmaneuver Trump with gamesmanship and grandstanding, it had to come from some influential source, other than Zelenski himself. I mean why would I put at risk the security I'm telling everybody who would listen, I want?
"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle
If you can make an incumbent POTUS (with all the money and the party votes) step aside for a novice politician... the Dems Darkside feels they can do anything at will.
This is a new thing, we didn't see this for the first 20 years on the blog)
Previously, Blogger would not allow you to publish the comment with an unresolved html code.
Taibbi and Kirn on tonight are saying this whole kerfuffle smacks of planning and execution. CNN ready to show live-on-TV shock as Trump erupts. Identi-tweets issued moments later from various EU politicians, well-crafted indentical tweets released en-masse.
Orchestrated for sure. The European politicians and their Deep State allies here are really evil, shitty people.
I think it's desperation. I don't think they persuaded many people who weren't already persuaded and wanting to remain so.
The average American is sick to death of pouring out our blood and treasure for foreigners who hate us. I expect Trump's support to increase after this.
"Previously, Blogger would not allow you to publish the comment with an unresolved html code."
Yeah, it's hard to imagine removing that check was purposeful, but who knows.
Reverse improvement.
"The average American is sick to death of pouring out our blood and treasure for foreigners who hate us."
Some of that treasure never makes it out of the country, it ends up in Uniparty pockets. Of course, they hate us, too.
Reddit: How about some pigeon breast to go on the extra hot dog buns.
I've made this observation before. In the nested-reply-format the runaway italic anomaly did not happen; it only appeared in the chronological-format.
And am I corrected that blogger foisted nested-reply on Althouse unbidden? And am I also correct that runaway-italics cropped up at the same time? That was my impression.
So, my hypothesis is that nested-reply is blogger's preferred format and when they messed with the code to force nested-reply this bug came along for the ride.
I've noticed as of late several liberal retired senior officers are using their rank and service in obviously political posts, a no-no that shouldn't be done, but I'm not certain it's an actual crime. And some are using their rank and service to utter contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense- and others. Which is a clear Violation of UCMJ Article 88. They can say "I'm Mark Kelly and I think President Trump is a poopy head.", but they cannot say "I'm Captain Mark Kelly and I think President Trump is a poopy head." Or have his rank on the letterhead or use his title or anything similar. It's a violation of UCMJ Article 88. All retired personnel know there are some parts of the UCMJ that no longer apply- and other that do. Article 88 is one that applies. I wonder if SECNAV or SECDEF is going to call him on the carpet. Senator Mark Kelly can spout out all the nonsense and contemptuous words he wants. Captain Mark Kelly cannot. His X posts where he identifies as
Captain Mark Kelly
@CaptMarkKelly
and not as
Senator Mark Kelly
are simply dripping with hateful rhetoric towards President Trump and other officials.
they messed with the code to force nested-reply this bug came along for the ride.
They deliberately dropped that protection, who knows why? They still won't let the blog owner block specific commenters, which seems like an even more valuable feature to have.
Disregarding the content, the Unz Review has the best commenting system I've come across in 20 years, but parts of it don't always work, and it becomes very slow when people post lots of videos.
Jamie -- may you have a fruitful Lent. As always, I haven't decided how I'll observe Lent. I'm hoping for the brain blast on Ash Wednesday.
St Croix, everything I post now, here or anywhere, is prewritten in an iPhone Note. I then copy and paste my comment.
St Croix, everything I post now, here or anywhere, is prewritten in an iPhone Note. I then copy and paste my comment.
I’m trying it now.
The "so called" party of women actually hate women,.
Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_
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7h
45 Democratic Senators voted NO on Protecting Women & Girls in Sports.
Never, ever let them gaslight you into thinking Democrats care about 'women's rights'...
I appreciate the suggestion, Rt41Rebel.
I'm a writer and I work on my computer. So I tried it with Microsoft Word on my Mac. When I pasted it here, the italics disappeared. I was like, "ooh, that's not going to work." And it didn't.
That's literally 3 massive tech companies that have to play nice, by the way. Apple (Mac), Microsoft (Word), and Google (Blogger). I'm sure they get along better than 3 countries in the Balkans. They get along like USA, Mexico, and Canada.
Trump causes italics havoc on the Althouse blog, news at 11.
Chris was one of the Democrats who met with Z before the Trump meeting to advise Z to blow up the meeting. Democrats ARE the enemy.
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
In 2014, Senator Chris Murphy bragged about the United States successfully overthrowing Ukraine's government:
"I think it was our role, including sanctions and threats of sanctions, that forced, in part, Yanukovych from office."
"We have not sat on the sidelines. We have been very much involved. Members of the Senate have been there. Members of the State Department have been on the Square."
"The Obama administration passed sanctions. The Senate was prepared to pass its own set of sanctions, and as I've said, I think that the clear position of the United States has, in part, been what has helped lead to this change in regime."
"If, ultimately, this is a peaceful transition to a new government in Ukraine, it will be the U.S. on the streets of Ukraine who will be seen as a great friend in helping make that transition happen."
"There is a U.S. interest here. We are in the middle of negotiating a new trade agreement with Europe. To my state, it's enormously important. We do 40% of our trade in Connecticut with Europe."
"If Ukraine is part of the EU and thus is part of this new trade agreement with the United States, that could result in billions of dollars in new economic opportunities for the U.S."
"So, we do have an economic interest in Ukraine being a part of the EU, and we shouldn't be shy about making that interest clear."
https://x.com/i/status/1896618136293744884
Another weird thing is that I used to be able to preview my posts, which I always did. And now I can't do that anymore. So I'm publishing blind, so to speak.
AlinaInMiami 🌺
@alinainmiami
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8h
It’s bizarre that we need to have a law for the protection of women and girls and even more bizarre is watching Democrats voting against it yet here we are.
Althouse has asked us a couple of times to not use italics. But that's the best way to wall off somebody's comments when you are responding to them.
We had a change under Blogger where your replies to somebody else's post would go under their post. That was nice, I thought, but Althouse didn't like it.
Among other problems, if you looked at a post individually, it wasn't sorted that way, it was time sorted by when it was published. And so it was confusing, who was responding to whom.
So Zelenskyy was getting small contract help from the Office of Management and Budgets to promote Ukraine and Musk has received monstrous government payments amounting to $38 billion but nary a word about that from Matt Tiabbi - but then Matt took payments direct from Musk to promote the the new right-lean of Xitter.
"Another weird thing is that I used to be able to preview my posts, which I always did. And now I can't do that anymore. So I'm publishing blind, so to speak."
The preview function hasn't worked for me for, quite literally, years, so I don't miss it. I could preview the post, but I could not edit the preview. It simply didn't work. So if I detected an error, I had to write the whole post from scratch (again, iPadOS Safari). It's not that big a loss, though. You can always proof read your post before hitting publish.
"So I tried it with Microsoft Word on my Mac. When I pasted it here, the italics disappeared. I was like, "ooh, that's not going to work." And it didn't."
Did you use the html code for italics < i > < / i > in the word document?
Chris Murphy is a pig.
I am understanding more and more "our" complicity in the Ukrainian war. I sure hope Trump can extricate us.
X has been so good lately!!!
Joey Meugniot
@realjoeymUS
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17h
How did we go from “Trump is going to start WWWIII”…
…to now being angry that Trump is trying to stop WWIII from happening?
And explain it to me like I’m a five year old.
Did you use the html code for italics < i > < / i > in the word document?
No, I just used the italics button.
It makes no sense to use html code in a word document and bring it here. It's the same problem. If I screw up the html code in the word document, it will come in here screwed up.
Jaq: "It's amazing to me how many purported lefties on here, based on their comments on the Ukraine war, sound as if they have portraits of Ronald Reagan and George W Bush hanging on the walls of their office."
It all makes sense if you remember this one simple rule: For the left, "peace" (like "democracy") means "the people we wanted to win, won."
Silly Trump uses the plain English meaning of the word. So unsophisticated.
JSM
JSM
On the run-on italics and bold, my observation is that it's not correct to say the check for missing tags in comments was removed. I'm pretty sure it's still there however it looks to my old school programmer eyes that somehow the end tag check is not looking specifically for "/ letter" and will accept it with the slash *following* the letter. No browser will process that as an end tag, of course, so the formatting runs until the browser finds an appropriate ending tag. As to why now and not before, I suspect that in the nested comments code, end tags or some other kind of 'cancel formatting' tag is automatically inserted between comments. That might have been done in the old chronological format as well. The other explanation is that with the number of people commenting using various devices it's becoming more common to typo the ending tag than it was when using a real keyboard. Combine that with a mis-coded end tag check and you get more occurrences of run-on formatting. (This isn't the only blog with a run-on formatting problem in the comments. Whatever AofSHQ uses for comments has the same issue.)
I'm pretty sure I get a trashcan in Edge but I haven't seen a preview function in the comments here for a long time.
"It makes no sense to use html code in a word document and bring it here. It's the same problem. If I screw up the html code in the word document, it will come in here screwed up."
It's the only way it's going to work.
Forget it. Just be grateful this internet backwater is still here in any form…
"Forget it. Just be grateful this internet backwater is still here in any form…"
Well, it's fun to try and solve problems, but sure.
Yesterday the wife was listening to that CNN press corps woman battling with the press secretary. YouTubers must get in trouble for redistributing video, so there’s only video of a still photo…how is any if that worth an investment of time?
…it also struck me yesterday- all these media faces Ann and you guys bring up, people nobody has ever heard of yet there’s still an element of respect for them for some reason. It reminded me of finance in the dotcom era when big B rounds were going to ‘we have the best team’ companies, basically a cobbled together batch of english majors and a coder or two who used a chunk of their A round to buy fancy headshots…
https://www.steynonline.com/15081/give-war-a-chance
"egg mayonnaise" is not egg salad. It is a boiled egg cut in half with a dollop of mayonnaise or salad cream on it. At least my experience.
Today's pic - Blue On Black...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMCfSjF_vSg
I just had a GFI for Trump to use on tonight’s non-SOTU address:
“My first term taught me that I need to be 110% legal in everything I do. It occurred to me that, if I do anything that causes the deaths of Russian soldiers, I am making an illegal war on Russia.
“Therefore, tonight I ask you, the Congress, to exercise your constitutional prerogative and declare war on the Russian Federation.
“If you do so, I will faithfully prosecute the war to victory. Ukraine and the other countries menaces by Russia will have no better friend than me.
“If you reject the motion to declare war, then I cannot violate my constitutional duty, and I will cease all activities that foreseeably lead to the death of Russian troops.
“Congresswoman Green will be initiating the resolution tonight. Let me know what you all decide.”
Mic drop.
JSM
Sorry Mr. Mosby, but that's not the way to do it. It sounds like Trump is calling for war with Russia. The message should be, "Tonight, I am opening up travel to Ukraine for any American who wants to go fight on the front lines against Russia. I'm sure Zelensky will be happy to have you. Unfortunately, the law prevents me from allowing you to travel internationally with weapons, so you'll have to travel unarmed and get whatever Zelensky obtains from the UK and France. God speed."
What rehajm said at 4:47.
Original Mike agrees, and mentions solving problems.
Do you mean italics issues, or geopolitical ones? It can't be denied that among the commenters are some brilliant minds who should have gone into statesmanship.
Statespersonship?
FTR I still get the trashcan icon on my comments, and have avoided italics as much as possible.
My list of really cool religious movies to watch during Lent.
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
Insanely great movie about a woman who hears the voice of God, and does what He tells her to do. Namely, drive all the English out of France. And the religious leaders are all, "girl, you're cracked, you can't even read." And she's all big eyes and innocent, and they're all ugly and demon-looking. And probably, she is delusional. I mean, she's got to be. Right? Right? This silent movie will blow your mind with its passion and intensity. One of the finest works of art I’ve ever seen.
I Know Where I'm Going
Michael Powell is unusual in that he gave Emeric Pressburger, his screenwriter, so much credit for his art. If you watch their films, you know why. Powell is a visual genius; Pressburger is the idea man. The two artists made at least three films about female passion: sexual passion, artistic passion, and religious passion. The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus are probably their most famous works. But I think this quiet film is the best of the trio.
Our hero is so willful, so human. She is determined to marry her fiancé, who is rich. That’s her plan, that’s what she wants her life to be. And she’s getting more and more upset because all her plans are not working out.
In The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus, passion is dangerous. In this movie, it’s denying your passion that is dangerous. You deny it and restrain it and control it and your damn passion is still there, still causing problems. She almost kills three people because she’s having a crazy battle trying to bottle up her emotions and keep them from ruining her plans.
This movie has a sneaky and wonderful bit of theology at its center. Provocative and fascinating, I think this is one of the greatest religious films ever made. And what’s amazing and wonderful is how quiet and subtle it is about God.
The Passion of the Christ
Powerful film about the Crucifixion of Jesus. I often watch it during Holy Week. It makes me cry every time. I wish Mel Gibson had shown a lot more of the happy and peaceful scenes after the Resurrection. To focus on Good Friday and cut Easter short is, I think, an artistic mistake. Also I think Gibson should have added a scene when Jesus talks about his upcoming execution. “The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life--only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” In other words, Jesus wasn’t a helpless person who was murdered by the state. He was the Christ who sacrificed himself to save humanity. Christians understand this, and so they appreciate this movie.
After Death
Amazing doc. The filmmakers are trying to document what happens to us when we die. Lots of interviews with doctors, including a cardiologist and a neurologist. People who die describe their out-of-body experiences and all the things they saw or heard. A surprising number of people in the movie wrote books, most of them New York Times bestsellers.
None of the people seemed crazy at all. Just very honest and open about what happened to them and what they saw. Very thought-provoking film. Movie mentioned that Plato recounted a similar experience in Republic and Paul mentions a similar experience he had in Acts.
Lots of talk about heartbeats and brain activity. And everybody’s experience is unique, apparently, but there are also a lot of commonalities and shared experiences. The movie doesn’t prove there’s life after death, of course, but it does offer quite a bit of evidence for it.
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Hacksaw Ridge
Exodus: Gods and Kings Brilliant movie about the wrath of God. And it’s a super-realistic epic, in the style of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. The whole second half of the movie I’m going, wow, wow. I just love the parting of the Red Sea, how grounded in the world it is, how realistic. Scott took some liberties with Biblical text, which annoys a lot of people (very low rating at IMDB). But he’s captured the heart of the story. It made me weep.
The Name of the Rose
Cry, the Beloved Country This movie just blew me away. Made me cry. Completely awesome portrayal of South Africa in the 1940's. This is the best Richard Harris acting I've ever seen. He plays the racist father of a liberal son. His son is killed by a "native." When he hears the news, Harris' performance is on another world. He conveys his shock at his son's death, while at the same time conveying all the privilege of his status in a racist society. He has trouble getting his brain around the fact that his son is dead, and that a black man killed him. Later, Harris refuses to shake the hand of another black man who was paying his respects at the funeral. James Earl Jones' performance is almost as good, as a rural preacher searching for his lost son. It's a different, atypical performance for Jones--he plays a humble man who is prone to cry whenever a kindness is shown him. This is a seemingly tiny film about two men, but it serves as a much larger parable about race and racism, what it means to be a Christian, and fathers and sons. It is a thought-provoking, moving, and incredibly subtle movie. It's not so much a movie about race, as a movie about humanity. Brilliant.
Ordet Dreyer is famous for The Passion of Joan of Arc, the most inspired religious film ever made, and in my opinion the greatest film of the silent era. That film is astounding. In comparison, Ordet is rather ordinary. It resembles a Bergman black and white film, with very serious people and no humor whatsoever. Yet this movie is highly watchable in its own right. It’s a stark and somber movie about birth, death, and God.
any random episode of The Chosen
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