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Affordability Crisis: Two Bad Fixes — Mamdani’s Socialism and Trump’s Industrial Policy | National Review Added: Nov 11, 2025
Affordability Crisis: Two Bad Fixes — Mamdani’s Socialism and Trump’s Industrial Policy | National Review
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Troubles Mount for the BBC | National Review Added: Nov 11, 2025
Troubles Mount for the ‘British Biased Corporation’ | National Review
Site: National Review
Amid the resignation of senior BBC officials, the debate on how to save the broadcaster rages on.
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SpaceX Starship Chosen to Lead Humanity’s Return 'To the Moon and Beyond' - Space Coast Daily Added: Nov 11, 2025
SpaceX Starship Chosen to Lead Humanity’s Return 'To the Moon and Beyond' - Space Coast Daily
Site: Space Coast Daily
SpaceX announced major progress in the development of Starship, which has been selected by NASA to return astronauts to the Moon.
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There's only one PC spec I will never compromise on again
Added: Nov 11, 2025There's only one PC spec I will never compromise on again
Site: XDA
Buying a DRAM SSD is priority number one on my next build
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Government Shutdown Ends: Why Nobody Cared This Time | National Review
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Irredentism - Wikipedia Added: Nov 11, 2025
Irredentism - Wikipedia
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The myth of the “pro” laptop
Added: Nov 11, 2025The myth of the “pro” laptop
Site: How-To Geek
When is "pro" really for professionals?
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Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson and the Future of Conservatism - WSJ Added: Nov 11, 2025
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AI Models Form Theory-of-Mind Beliefs - Neuroscience News
Added: Nov 11, 2025AI Models Form Theory-of-Mind Beliefs - Neuroscience News
Site: Neuroscience News
Researchers showed that large language models use a small, specialized subset of parameters to perform Theory-of-Mind reasoning, despite activating their full network for every task.
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There's One Critical Thing You Can Do to Keep Alzheimer's Symptoms at Bay : ScienceAlert
Added: Nov 11, 2025There's One Critical Thing You Can Do to Keep Alzheimer's Symptoms at Bay
Site: ScienceAlert
Deep sleep could forestall the declines in brain health that can eventually lead to Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia.
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John Fetterman blasts Democrats for praising Marjorie Taylor Greene Added: Nov 11, 2025
Fetterman knocks Democrats ‘celebrating crazypants’ Marjorie Taylor Greene
Site: The Hill
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) went after Democrats “celebrating” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who has been at odds with her party in recent weeks, calling her “crazypants.” “MTG is quite lite…
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) went after Democrats “celebrating” Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who has been at odds with her party in recent weeks, calling her “crazypants.” “MTG is quite literally the last person in America that I’m going to take advice — or to, to get their kinds of my leadership and values from. And now, if Democrats are celebrating crazypants like that, then that's on them,” Fetterman, who also has recently been known to buck his party, said on ABC’s “The View" when asked about his vote to reopen the government. Most Democrats have held firm in shutting down the government over expiring ObamaCare tax credits, which blew up the price of many marketplace plans. Greene recently put most of the blame for rising health premiums on her party, claiming Republicans should have earlier reformed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and expiring tax credits. On Monday, the Senate voted to end the government shutdown, which has dragged on for over a month. The upper chamber voted 60-40 on a bill to fund military construction, Veterans Affairs, the Department of Agriculture and the legislative branch through next September and the rest of the government for the next two and a half months. Fetterman was among eight members of his caucus who voted for the bill, which does not feature language to extend the ACA's enhanced health insurance premium subsidies, which are set to expire at the beginning of next year. Sunny Hostin went after Fetterman on "The View" for his vote, which she called a "gamble" on Republicans' willingness to discuss health care. Former White House senior adviser David Axelrod last week said he agreed with Greene's assessment about the Democratic victories in the Nov. 4 elections, which she called “a referendum on not delivering on what November 2024 was about." “Well, I’m in the kind of astonishing position of saying I agree with every word that Marjorie Taylor Greene said,” Axelrod said on CNN to Kaitlan Collins. “I’ve never said those words here, we’re making news right here on your show, Kaitlan.” The Hill has reached out to Greene’s office for comment.
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Lara Trump praises John Fetterman for standing up to Dems, Sunny Hostin Added: Nov 11, 2025
Lara Trump praises John Fetterman for standing up to Dems, ‘View’ cohost Sunny Hostin: ‘Reminds me of someone else I know’
Site: New York Post
“He reminds me of someone else I know, his name is Donald J. Trump,” Lara Trump said of Fetterman on Tuesday.
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Why Furious Progressives Probably Can’t Do Anything About Chuck Schumer | National Review
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Are Our Climate Predictions Wrong? The Case of the Missing Plankton Added: Nov 11, 2025
Are Our Climate Predictions Wrong? The Case of the Missing Plankton
Site: SciTechDaily
The ocean’s smallest organisms could hold the biggest clues to Earth’s climate future. The ocean’s tiniest engineers, calcifying plankton, play a vital yet often unnoticed role in regulating Earth’s climate by capturing and recycling carbon. A new review published in Science by an internationa
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Scientists Create Digital Twin of Earth, Accurate to a 1-Kilometer Scale : ScienceAlert
Added: Nov 11, 2025
Scientists Create Digital Twin of Earth, Accurate to a 1-Kilometer Scale
Site: ScienceAlert
Weather forecasting is notoriously wonky - climate modeling even more so.
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Elon Musk Got One-Shotted by an Extremely Mean Tweet
Added: Nov 11, 2025Elon Musk Got One-Shotted by an Extremely Mean Tweet
Site: Futurism
Elon Musk had his personality effortlessly deconstructed by an 87-year-old novelist, and didn't take it well.
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Text to Video: Create Videos from Photos with the New Grok Imagine Tool | Latest News | Patrika English News Added: Nov 11, 2025
Text to Video: Create Videos from Photos with the New Grok Imagine Tool | Latest News | Patrika English News
Site: Patrika News
Elon Musk's company xAI has added a new feature to Grok Imagine AI, allowing users to transform any photo into a short video through animation and motion. This feature is available to both free and premium users. Learn how you can create videos too. - Patrika English News
Grok Imagine AI: xAI, the artificial intelligence company founded by the world's richest man, Elon Musk, has added a new feature to its popular tool, Grok Imagine AI. This tool was already making waves among users for its text-to-image and text-to-video capabilities, but the image-to-video feature is now gaining even more popularity.
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Google Photos launches Nano Banana restyle option, AI templates and more Added: Nov 11, 2025
6 new things you can do with AI in Google Photos
Site: Google
Learn more about new AI tools in Google Photos, including Nano Banana image-generation and more.
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NASA confirms what astronomers suspected for a century about the star Betelgeuse
Site: Earth.com
Astronomers directly imaged a faint companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, solving a decades-old mystery about its strange brightness changes.
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A Word to the Climate Wise - WSJ Added: Nov 11, 2025
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Democratic Shutdown Exposed: The False GOP Blame Game | National Review
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Vance, Heritage and the Case for Conservative ‘Infighting’ - WSJ Added: Nov 11, 2025
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Mamdani Is a Gift, Which Trump Should Unwrap Carefully - WSJ Added: Nov 11, 2025
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x.com/DimaZeniuk/status/1988272272361353373?t=hMNl8Bl6M9Zz6Ovx3w8qww&s=09 Added: Nov 11, 2025
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Baidu just dropped an open-source multimodal AI that it claims beats GPT-5 and Gemini | VentureBeat Added: Nov 11, 2025
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Why Nietzsche Matters in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Communications of the ACM
Added: Nov 11, 2025Why Nietzsche Matters in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – Communications of the ACM
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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President Trump: This is ‘my thing’ - YouTube Added: Nov 11, 2025
President Trump: This is ‘my thing’
Site: YouTube
President Donald Trump sits down with ‘The Ingraham Angle’ to discuss the state of the economy, H-1B visas and more. #foxnews #theingrahamangle #fox #media #...
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Being Photogenic Isn’t Easy - WSJ Added: Nov 11, 2025
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Breaking my Linux install taught me more about computers than Windows ever did
Added: Nov 11, 2025
Breaking my Linux install taught me more about computers than Windows ever did
Site: XDA
I learned a lot in a few months.
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Shalom, y’all: Jewish country music singer mixes Torah with Texas twang | The Times of Israel
Added: Nov 11, 2025Shalom, y’all: Jewish country music singer mixes Torah with Texas twang | The Times of Israel
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Trump administration declares CFPB funding illegal - POLITICO Added: Nov 11, 2025
Trump administration declares CFPB funding illegal
Site: POLITICO
The decision, disclosed in a court filing, puts the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on track to shut down in ‘early 2026’ when its remaining cash runs out.
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New book sheds light on human and machine intelligence Added: Nov 11, 2025
New book sheds light on human and machine intelligence
A single brain cell cannot think by itself, but when it's connected with millions of other cells, that network is capable of everything from deciding what's for dinner to contemplating the origins of the universe.
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Listen To Pando, The World's Largest Living Tree, As It Roars And Eerily Rumbles | IFLScience
Added: Nov 11, 2025Listen To One Of The World's Largest Living Organisms As It Eerily Rumbles
Site: IFLScience
It might be among the oldest living organisms on Earth, too.
A few years ago, an “acoustic portrait” of Pando — a vast clonal aspen colony in the USA — was released to raise awareness of this astonishing tree and the threats it faces. Recordings of humpback whale songs released as records in the 1960s helped turn public opinion in most of the world against whaling and save not just humpbacks but many whale species from extinction. Inspired by this success, an acoustic technician undertook a similar project with a tree colony larger than an entire pod of whales: the quaking aspen ( Populus tremuloides ) known as Pando. At an Acoustical Society of America conference in May 2023, Jeff Rice and Lance Oditt from Friends of Pando presented what they call Pando’s “acoustic portrait”. You can hear these sounds in the Spotify Player embed below. Located in Utah's Sevier County, Pando consists of approximately 47,000 interconnected aspen stems, all genetically identical, forming a single clonal organism. This extraordinary system functions as one entity, with every stem changing color and shedding its leaves in perfect unison. Although they look like individual trees, these stems are connected at the root. They capture nutrients and produce leaves together, proving they are more than just clones; they are actually components of the same organism, which will live and die together. ⓘ IFLScience is not responsible for content shared from external sites. This gigantic organism is believed to be ancient, with one DNA analysis suggesting it started forming between 16,000 and 80,000 years ago. It covers 43 hectares (106 acres) and weighs 6,000 tonnes (13 million pounds), making it the largest tree on the planet. Rice originally recorded Pando’s leaves rustling for the New York Times Magazine in 2018, and in 2022 returned to capture it from more angles, including its root systems, thought to reach depths of 27 meters (90 feet). Despite being in the ground, not water, Rice realized after a thunderstorm he could hear a deep roar that he thinks comes from the roots using a hydrophone. “The sounds are beautiful and interesting, but from a practical standpoint, natural sounds can be used to document the health of an environment,” Rice said in a statement. “They are a record of the local biodiversity, and they provide a baseline that can be measured against environmental change.” Rice and Oditt have not conclusively demonstrated that the sound they are picking up from the Earth Pando grows in comes from the roots. However, the experiments the pair conducted, such as banging on one branch and listening for vibrations near another, support the idea. “It’s similar to two cans connected by a string,” Rice said. “Except there are 47,000 cans connected by a huge root system.” “Pando challenges our basic understanding of the world,” Rice said. “The idea that this giant forest could be a single organism defies our concept of the individual. Its vastness humbles our sense of space.” “While it started as art, we see enormous potential for use in science. Wind, converted to vibration (sound) and traveling the root system, could also reveal the inner workings of Pando’s vast hidden hydraulic system in a nondestructive manner,” said Oditt. By tracing the way sound moves through the vast system, the pair hopes to locate insect colonies and learn the depth of the roots and how water is dispersed through Pando. Nevertheless, the original aim continues as well. Friends of Pando like to point out that many errors are common in reporting about their beloved tree. These range from describing it as the largest living organism (a prize claimed, at least by area, by the "Humongous Fungus" ) to exaggerating or understating threats it faces. As they note, both are very unhelpful to efforts to protect it. The sounds were first played publicly at the 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in 2023. An earlier version of this article was published in May 2023.
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Heat Leakage From North Pole Of Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus Indicates Its Ocean Is Ancient, Boosting Prospects For Life | IFLScience
Added: Nov 11, 2025
Enceladus’s North Pole Is Leaking Heat, Indicating Its Ocean Is Ancient And Boosting Prospects For Life
Site: IFLScience
One of the major objections to the prospects for life inside this exceptional moon now has less power.
Heat is escaping from Saturn’s moon Enceladus at its north pole, as well as the south, a reanalysis of data from the Cassini spacecraft reveals. This discovery suggests the moon is in rough energy balance, which in turn increases the chance that its subsurface ocean is a long-term feature, not a temporary aberration. If so, one of the major obstacles to life flourishing beneath the icy surface – and perhaps escaping through its geysers for us to collect – may be removed. The discovery that Enceladus has a subsurface ocean, with geysers that spew ice particles into space, hit the planetary science world like a thunderbolt in 2005. Decades before, the discovery of an ocean inside Europa had sparked hopes that life might flourish there, but also major doubts about our capacity to reach it for testing. Enceladus’s ocean might be coming to us, such that Cassini flew through the geyser’s output, which would allow a future mission to collect the output and test the chemistry for signs of life. Since then, hundreds of papers have been published on the prospect. Many have pointed to optimistic signs, including phosphates and complex organic molecules in the ocean, but some have sounded notes of caution. Perhaps the biggest challenge to the prospects for life in an Enceladean ocean is the possibility that the moon’s innards have not been liquid for long, making new evidence on that score particularly crucial. "Enceladus is a key target in the search for life outside Earth, and understanding the long-term availability of its energy is key to determining whether it can support life," said lead author Dr Georgina Miles of the Southwest Research Institute in a statement. Key to this question is whether Enceladus is in thermal balance, in other words, if the heat it absorbs and releases match up. Thermal balance would indicate a sustainable state that might be very old. On the other hand, if more heat is either being absorbed or escaping, then the small moon must be heating up or cooling down. Its current circumstances, apparently suited to life beneath the surface, would then be likely to be new; potentially too new to give time for life to appear. Cassini detected considerable heat escaping from Enceladus’s south polar region, where large “ tiger stripes ” break the insulating shell. Nevertheless, at an estimated 19 gigawatts, this was still less than the moon was absorbing. Unless heat was escaping elsewhere, it would not be in thermal balance; many planetary scientists suspected this was the case. However, reanalysis of Cassini’s observations of Enceladus’s north polar region in 2005 and 2015 shows the region is 7 ° C (12 ° F) warmer than anticipated. The measurement dates were picked because they coincide with winter and summer for the region as its hemisphere shifts in line with Saturn’s. Such consistent extra heat across seasons almost certainly comes from below, indicating that Enceladus radiates not only from its southern polar region, but from the north as well. The heat loss is just 46 milliwatts per square meter; not enough to be useful to any future Enceladus mission, and much less than in the south polar region. Across the polar region, it equals 1.7 GW. Nevertheless, this does indicate some geological activity is occurring. Moreover, if this is typical of the entire surface of Enceladus outside the south polar region, it would release about 35 GW, coincidentally about what Italy gets from solar panels on a sunny day. Adding in the 19 GW already observed to escape from the south polar region provides a total of 54 GW. With the energy generated inside Enceladus thought to be between 50 and 55 GW, thermal balance looks very plausible indeed. The heat escaping from Enceladus closely matches the best estimates for how much heat is created by the tidal flexing of other objects' gravitational fields. Image credit: University of Oxford/NASA/JPL-CalTech/Space Science Institute "Understanding how much heat Enceladus is losing on a global level is crucial to knowing whether it can support life," said corresponding author Dr Carly Howett of the University of Oxford. "It is really exciting that this new result supports Enceladus's long-term sustainability, a crucial component for life to develop." Thermal balance relies on the rest of Enceladus radiating heat at similar rates per unit area to the north polar region, and that hasn’t been confirmed. Nevertheless, the prospects for balance now look much higher than before. The work also provided an estimate of the thickness of the ice above the ocean at the north pole and elsewhere: 20-23 kilometers (12-14 miles) and 25-28 kilometers (16-17 miles) respectively, in between previous estimates made with different methods. Why thermal imbalance was suspected As with Europa, and many other moons now known or suspected to have internal oceans, Enceladus is stretched and squeezed by the changing gravitational tugs of its planet and larger neighboring moons. This process generates heat, which is sufficient to melt some of its internal ice, while the outer shell insulates the relatively warm ocean from the cold of space, like ice on a winter pond. However, changing dynamics amongst Saturn’s moons, and the varying eccentricity of Enceladus’s orbit, mean that the amount of heat generated changes over tens of millions of years. Therefore, some planetary scientists have proposed that, during periods of lower heat production, Enceladus may have frozen solid. Unless life could survive eons trapped in ice, only to recover when the ocean was restored, there might be little time for it to appear and flourish during phases when the ocean existed. The study is published in Science Advances.
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What if Tamagotchi-Like Toys Were Really Alive? These Researchers Just Made It Happen Added: Nov 11, 2025
What if Tamagotchi-Like Toys Were Really Alive? These Researchers Just Made It Happen
Site: Gizmodo
SquidKid is a small bioreactor housing real, glowing bacteria for children to nurture and raise.
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Startup builds device that generates power of 800 lightning bolts: 'More power than Tokyo, New York, Shanghai, and Dubai combined'
Added: Nov 11, 2025Startup builds device that shoots power of 800 lightning bolts: 'More power than Tokyo, New York, Shanghai, and Dubai combined'
Site: The Cool Down
The TITAN device by Fuse Energy Technology consumes more power than Tokyo, New York, Shanghai, and Dubai combined.
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Bill Maher, Cheryl Hines attack the left, say Democrats just want to ‘cut you off’
Site: New York Post
Comedian Bill Maher and actress Cheryl Hines, the wife of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., agreed that the political left is intolerant of them even though they aren’…
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Cheryl Hines Says Democrats Have Been 'Mean' to Her
Added: Nov 11, 2025Cheryl Hines Calls Democrats 'Mean' & Says Republicans Have Been Nothing but Nice
Site: CafeMom.com
Someone get her a new definition of "kind."
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Trump v the BBC: What are the hurdles for his legal argument? - BBC News Added: Nov 11, 2025
Trump vs the BBC: What hurdles might the president's legal argument face? - BBC News
Site: BBC News
If he were to bring a defamation case in Florida, experts say he would need to prove three major components.
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Palantir CEO Says This 1 Type of Elite College Grad Is 'Effed' Added: Nov 11, 2025
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Roland's New Tech Uses "Neural Sampling" to Make Any Sound Morph Into Another in Real Time - EDM
Added: Nov 12, 2025Roland's New Tech Uses "Neural Sampling" to Make Any Sound Morph Into Another in Real Time
Site: EDM
Roland Future Design Lab and Neutone have joined forces to introduce the innovate Project LYDIA, which learns the tonal qualities of any sound and applies them to another in real time.
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Google Image Result Added: Nov 12, 2025
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Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt Briefs Members of the Media, Nov. 12, 2025
Site: YouTube
The White House
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Vice President JD Vance Delivers Remarks at the Make America Healthy Again Summit
Site: YouTube
Washington, DC
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DOJ Launches FULL INVESTIGATION Into TPUSA Antifa RIOT, Media Says Mostly Peaceful | Timcast IRL
Site: YouTube
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