Link: “I hope you don't watch this”

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        "html": "<blockquote>\n  <h2><a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQP5HMR9o7A\"></a></h2>\n\n  <p>They say quality over quantity. I say <strong>no quality, no quantity</strong>.</p>\n\n<p>I truly believe that <strong>inspiration is a myth</strong>. Everyone\u2019s always trying to optimize, get better, achieve things, have a happier life\u2026I think <strong>flip that</strong>. Do the opposite.</p>\n\n<p>I was always inspired by my low moments\u2014crying in bed\u2014and realizing I think somebody else wants to <strong>feel this way too</strong>.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>This video by <strong>Chris Hau</strong>, well-known photography YouTuber and \u201cinfluencer\u201d, is brilliantly done. A <em>masterclass</em> in <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/creativity\">#creativity</a>, you might say.</p>",
        "text": "They say quality over quantity. I say no quality, no quantity.\n\nI truly believe that inspiration is a myth. Everyone\u2019s always trying to optimize, get better, achieve things, have a happier life\u2026I think flip that. Do the opposite.\n\nI was always inspired by my low moments\u2014crying in bed\u2014and realizing I think somebody else wants to feel this way too.\n\n\n\nThis video by Chris Hau, well-known photography YouTuber and \u201cinfluencer\u201d, is brilliantly done. A masterclass in #creativity, you might say."
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Still looking for work queue management stuff

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Two Months into Daily Blogging and I Hate It

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    "published": "2025-02-12T18:35:55-08:00",
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        "html": "<p><strong>PSYCH!</strong> \ud83d\ude1c</p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/20241207/daily-blogging-in-2025\">I announced back on December 7</a> I\u2019d be daily blogging throughout 2025, and then <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/20250104/first-four-weeks-of-daily-blogging\">on January 4</a> I offered an initial assessment as to how things were going (as I\u2019d actually started right then and there in December as a trial balloon).</p>\n\n<p>Here\u2019s what I think now, two months in:</p>\n\n<p><strong>I love it! But I wish I\u2019d given myself a \u201cget out of blogging free\u201d card I could use once, perhaps twice a month.</strong></p>\n\n<p>The Good: the imperative that <em>I simply must do it</em> every day solves a ton of scheduling headaches. No need to keep track of when I last posted or when I should post next if it\u2019s every day like clockwork! And the drive to have to do this frequently means I\u2019ve covered a much wider range of topics than I might have otherwise.</p>\n\n<p>The Bad: like I said, I do wish I\u2019d given myself the occasional \u201cout\u201d. Every now and then, when I am ill or extremely tired or life just gets in the way, I\u2019d love to be able to say \u201coh well, better luck next time\u201d instead of having to half-ass cobble something together at the last minute (and I mean <em>literally like 11:59 at night</em> on an occasion or two!).</p>\n\n<p>I think, when this challenge is over, I\u2019ll come up with a system along those lines. Yet the core habits I\u2019m forming now \u2014 <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/writing\">#writing</a> on a daily basis come hell or high water \u2014 will serve me well long into the future.</p>\n\n<p>While I work during the day as a web programmer, I consider myself first and foremost a <strong>web publisher</strong>. This is my calling in life, even if it\u2019s not my principal vocation, and it feels ever more true as time passes. Some day, my career as a programmer may draw to a close. But writing? <strong>I\u2019ll keep doing that until such day the breath leaves my body.</strong></p>",
        "text": "PSYCH! \ud83d\ude1c\n\nI announced back on December 7 I\u2019d be daily blogging throughout 2025, and then on January 4 I offered an initial assessment as to how things were going (as I\u2019d actually started right then and there in December as a trial balloon).\n\nHere\u2019s what I think now, two months in:\n\nI love it! But I wish I\u2019d given myself a \u201cget out of blogging free\u201d card I could use once, perhaps twice a month.\n\nThe Good: the imperative that I simply must do it every day solves a ton of scheduling headaches. No need to keep track of when I last posted or when I should post next if it\u2019s every day like clockwork! And the drive to have to do this frequently means I\u2019ve covered a much wider range of topics than I might have otherwise.\n\nThe Bad: like I said, I do wish I\u2019d given myself the occasional \u201cout\u201d. Every now and then, when I am ill or extremely tired or life just gets in the way, I\u2019d love to be able to say \u201coh well, better luck next time\u201d instead of having to half-ass cobble something together at the last minute (and I mean literally like 11:59 at night on an occasion or two!).\n\nI think, when this challenge is over, I\u2019ll come up with a system along those lines. Yet the core habits I\u2019m forming now \u2014 #writing on a daily basis come hell or high water \u2014 will serve me well long into the future.\n\nWhile I work during the day as a web programmer, I consider myself first and foremost a web publisher. This is my calling in life, even if it\u2019s not my principal vocation, and it feels ever more true as time passes. Some day, my career as a programmer may draw to a close. But writing? I\u2019ll keep doing that until such day the breath leaves my body."
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        "text": "Finally ran out of the August/September batch so time to make some more habanero sauce! This was about one pound of habaneros and made 16 bottles!"
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        "text": "Didn't do much other than the livestream today and prepping a video to publish tomorrow. Oh, and lots and lots of sorting files on my giant stack of hard drives."
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Bitcoin Science

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        "html": "<p><img src=\"https://coffeebucks.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/elsalvador5.png\" alt=\"El Salvador Bitcoin Adoption\" /></p>\n\n<p>Bitcoin failed.  J.P. Koning notes in <a href=\"https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-end-of-el-salvadors-bitcoin.html\">The end of El Salvador\u2019s bitcoin payments experiment</a>:</p>\n\n<pre><code>But here was a government that was going to champion the stuff, nullifying all of the headwinds against bitcoin in one stroke! The government meddling hypothesis would be put to test.\n\nThe Salvadoran government used a combination of sticks and carrots to kick-start adoption. First, let's list the carrots. The capital gains tax on bitcoin was set to zero to remove the hassle of buying stuff with bitcoin. The government also built a bitcoin payments app, Chivo, for all El Salvadoreans to use. (Chivo also supports U.S. dollar payments.) Anyone who downloaded Chivo and transacted with bitcoin would receive a $30 bitcoin bonus\u2014that's a lot of money in El Salvador. Gas stations offered $0.20 off of a gallon of gas for customers who paid with the app. People could also use Chivo to pay their taxes with bitcoin.\n\nThe biggest carrot was zero-transaction fees. Any payment conducted with Chivo was free, as was converting bitcoins held in the Chivo app into U.S. dollars and withdrawing cash at Chivo ATMs. These Chivo ATMs were rolled out across El Salvador and in the U.S., too, to encourage the nascent U.S.-to-El Salvador bitcoin remittance route. Bitcoin ATMs are usually incredibly pricey to use, but in El Salvador the government would eat all the transaction fees. What a fantastic deal.\n\nAs for the stick, Bukele introduced a forced-tender rule. Beginning in 2021, businesses were required to accept the orange coin or be punished. This was costly for them to comply with. They would have to update point of sale software, signage, train employees, and set up new processes for handling bitcoins post-sale.\n\nBy all rights, this combination of sticks and carrots should have led to a flourishing of bitcoin payments. But it didn't.\n</code></pre>\n\n\n<p>Koning concludes:</p>\n\n<pre><code>The saddest thing about El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is that all sorts of time and resources have been wasted. El Salvador is not a rich country. The money spent on building and operating Chivo, compliance by businesses, bitcoin signage, and subsidies could have been better deployed on more important things like health and education.  One hopes that other countries learn from this experience and avoid going down the same route that El Salvador did.\n</code></pre>",
        "text": "Bitcoin failed.  J.P. Koning notes in The end of El Salvador\u2019s bitcoin payments experiment:\n\nBut here was a government that was going to champion the stuff, nullifying all of the headwinds against bitcoin in one stroke! The government meddling hypothesis would be put to test.\n\nThe Salvadoran government used a combination of sticks and carrots to kick-start adoption. First, let's list the carrots. The capital gains tax on bitcoin was set to zero to remove the hassle of buying stuff with bitcoin. The government also built a bitcoin payments app, Chivo, for all El Salvadoreans to use. (Chivo also supports U.S. dollar payments.) Anyone who downloaded Chivo and transacted with bitcoin would receive a $30 bitcoin bonus\u2014that's a lot of money in El Salvador. Gas stations offered $0.20 off of a gallon of gas for customers who paid with the app. People could also use Chivo to pay their taxes with bitcoin.\n\nThe biggest carrot was zero-transaction fees. Any payment conducted with Chivo was free, as was converting bitcoins held in the Chivo app into U.S. dollars and withdrawing cash at Chivo ATMs. These Chivo ATMs were rolled out across El Salvador and in the U.S., too, to encourage the nascent U.S.-to-El Salvador bitcoin remittance route. Bitcoin ATMs are usually incredibly pricey to use, but in El Salvador the government would eat all the transaction fees. What a fantastic deal.\n\nAs for the stick, Bukele introduced a forced-tender rule. Beginning in 2021, businesses were required to accept the orange coin or be punished. This was costly for them to comply with. They would have to update point of sale software, signage, train employees, and set up new processes for handling bitcoins post-sale.\n\nBy all rights, this combination of sticks and carrots should have led to a flourishing of bitcoin payments. But it didn't.\n\n\n\nKoning concludes:\n\nThe saddest thing about El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is that all sorts of time and resources have been wasted. El Salvador is not a rich country. The money spent on building and operating Chivo, compliance by businesses, bitcoin signage, and subsidies could have been better deployed on more important things like health and education.  One hopes that other countries learn from this experience and avoid going down the same route that El Salvador did."
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at Bedrosians Tile & Stone

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    "published": "2025-02-07T10:30:00-08:00",
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        "text": "The cats wanted to hang out on the couch with me for my very long work day"
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Link: Say Goodbye to Abe Lincoln

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        "html": "<blockquote>\n  <h2><a href=\"https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5135530-trump-directs-treasury-to-stop-making-pennies/\"></a></h2>\n\n  <p>The cost of making a penny was nearly 3.7 cents in Fiscal Year 2024 and the coin has cost above face value to make for 19 consecutive fiscal years, according to the U.S. Mint\u2019s annual report. Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has been tasked by Trump with cutting waste in the U.S., targeted the penny in a post on X last month.</p>\n\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>In the grand scheme of things, this doesn\u2019t seem like a big deal to me. I can\u2019t remember the last time I actually <em>used</em> a penny\u2026they just sort of accumulate. The least value I tend to reach for is a dime. Other than the loss of seeing President Lincoln\u2019s profile on a copper, I won\u2019t miss the humble penny.</p>\n\n<p>That being said\u2026this seems like a pretty goofy thing to make like it\u2019s a huge win for \u201cDOGE\u201d. But at this point it goes without saying: we\u2019re not dealing with serious people here. <strong>They are all clowns of the tallest order.</strong> And either way, 1\u00a2 coins are inconsequential compared to the assault on our fundamental democratic freedoms and way of life.</p>",
        "text": "The cost of making a penny was nearly 3.7 cents in Fiscal Year 2024 and the coin has cost above face value to make for 19 consecutive fiscal years, according to the U.S. Mint\u2019s annual report. Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has been tasked by Trump with cutting waste in the U.S., targeted the penny in a post on X last month.\n\n\n\nIn the grand scheme of things, this doesn\u2019t seem like a big deal to me. I can\u2019t remember the last time I actually used a penny\u2026they just sort of accumulate. The least value I tend to reach for is a dime. Other than the loss of seeing President Lincoln\u2019s profile on a copper, I won\u2019t miss the humble penny.\n\nThat being said\u2026this seems like a pretty goofy thing to make like it\u2019s a huge win for \u201cDOGE\u201d. But at this point it goes without saying: we\u2019re not dealing with serious people here. They are all clowns of the tallest order. And either way, 1\u00a2 coins are inconsequential compared to the assault on our fundamental democratic freedoms and way of life."
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    "summary": "\ud83d\udcd7 Want to read Relationality: How Moving from Transactional to Transformational Relationships Can Reshape Our Lonely World by David Jay ISBN: 9798889840541",
    "url": "https://martymcgui.re/2025/02/09/223529/",
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    "published": "2025-02-06T17:15:00-08:00",
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    "content": {
        "text": "The siding crew came today to finish the siding on the rooftop patio!"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "Aaron Parecki",
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Hey Slop Leaders

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    "published": "2025-02-08T13:17:13-08:00",
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        "html": "<p>Hey Thought Leaders\u2122, here\u2019s the <em>bare minimum</em> you could do to start meeting the <strong>#</strong><a href=\"https://indieweb.social/tags/ProCraft\">ProCraft</a> movement half-way\u2026</p>\n\n<p>\u2026Not even half-way really, but it would be a promising start.</p>\n\n<p>Just admit your <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/generativeai\">#generativeAI</a> slop tools are simply that: tools. <em>Optional tools.</em> \u201cSome people might find them helpful some of the time depending on the use case\u201d is an argument I could at least respect, even if we still have a <em>mountain</em> of ethical dilemmas to wade through.</p>\n\n<p>But <strong>cut the crap</strong> with the frankly insane rhetoric about how this is \u201cthe future of everything\u201d and will \u201crevolutionize the globe\u201d and has ushered in a \u201cnew age\u201d and everyone has to get on board or be \u201cleft behind\u201d as if we in the growing <strong>#</strong>ProCraft movement might as well still be riding around in buggies and listening to gramophones. And definitely, definitely don\u2019t spout blatantly wackadoo <strong>#</strong>AntiCraft statements like <a href=\"https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/\">people who compose and perform music don\u2019t actually enjoy composing and performing music</a>.</p>\n\n<p>You don\u2019t sound like smart people. <strong>You don\u2019t.</strong> You sound like fucking psychopaths. And we\u2019re pretty damn tired of it.</p>\n\n<p>So <em>please</em>, for the love of god, <strong>dial down the hype machine like 98%</strong>, and let\u2019s have a civilized conversation. Because if you\u2019re not willing to do that, if you\u2019re going to go out on talk shows or head conferences and tell the gullible masses that \u201cAGI is nearly here\u201d and that <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/20250123/marc-benioff-artificial-slave-labor\">we\u2019d all better get used to working alongside an \u201cAI workforce\u201d chatting with \u201cAI agents\u201d all day</a>, either one of two things is true:</p>\n\n<ol><li>You\u2019re a lunatic, or</li>\n  <li>You\u2019re a carnival barker.</li>\n</ol><p><strong>Either way, shame on you.</strong></p>",
        "text": "Hey Thought Leaders\u2122, here\u2019s the bare minimum you could do to start meeting the #ProCraft movement half-way\u2026\n\n\u2026Not even half-way really, but it would be a promising start.\n\nJust admit your #generativeAI slop tools are simply that: tools. Optional tools. \u201cSome people might find them helpful some of the time depending on the use case\u201d is an argument I could at least respect, even if we still have a mountain of ethical dilemmas to wade through.\n\nBut cut the crap with the frankly insane rhetoric about how this is \u201cthe future of everything\u201d and will \u201crevolutionize the globe\u201d and has ushered in a \u201cnew age\u201d and everyone has to get on board or be \u201cleft behind\u201d as if we in the growing #ProCraft movement might as well still be riding around in buggies and listening to gramophones. And definitely, definitely don\u2019t spout blatantly wackadoo #AntiCraft statements like people who compose and perform music don\u2019t actually enjoy composing and performing music.\n\nYou don\u2019t sound like smart people. You don\u2019t. You sound like fucking psychopaths. And we\u2019re pretty damn tired of it.\n\nSo please, for the love of god, dial down the hype machine like 98%, and let\u2019s have a civilized conversation. Because if you\u2019re not willing to do that, if you\u2019re going to go out on talk shows or head conferences and tell the gullible masses that \u201cAGI is nearly here\u201d and that we\u2019d all better get used to working alongside an \u201cAI workforce\u201d chatting with \u201cAI agents\u201d all day, either one of two things is true:\n\nYou\u2019re a lunatic, or\n  You\u2019re a carnival barker.\nEither way, shame on you."
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    "url": "https://gregorlove.com/2025/02/its-a-tron-legacy/",
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        "text": "\ud83c\udfb6 It\u2019s a TRON: Legacy soundtrack kinda day.",
        "html": "<p>\ud83c\udfb6 It\u2019s a <a href=\"https://album.link/i/1543824814\">TRON: Legacy soundtrack</a> kinda day.</p>"
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    "author": {
        "type": "card",
        "name": "gRegor Morrill",
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at Migration On Williams

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    "published": "2025-02-06T10:38:44-0500",
    "url": "https://martymcgui.re/2025/02/06/103844/",
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        "text": "Heydon says to thank your transsisters and drop your stinkin\u2019 binary thinkin'.\nhttps://briefs.video/videos/why-is-everything-binary/",
        "html": "<p>Heydon says to thank your transsisters and drop your stinkin\u2019 binary thinkin'.</p>\n<p><a href=\"https://briefs.video/videos/why-is-everything-binary/\">https://briefs.video/videos/why-is-everything-binary/</a></p>"
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Upcoming show: Wolfie’s Hangout 2-Year Celebration

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It Takes Time to Remember

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        "html": "<p>Memory is such a funny thing. When you try to harken back to a past moment in time\u2014perhaps a portion of your childhood, or halcyon days spent with a lover, or a special outing with friend\u2014it\u2019s likely you don\u2019t simply remember those precise events as they unfolded, but rather how you may have <em>felt about them</em> in a more recent timeframe. In other words, you remember your remembering, and that remembering may have also remembered a previous remembering\u2026and so on. If we aren\u2019t careful, we can find ourselves having built up an elaborate edifice of sequenced memories.</p>\n\n<p>That\u2019s one of the magical things about discovering old letters, or diary entries, or cards, or photographs, or videos. They can spark a fresh remembering, helping you enter back into that distant world without so much baggage and a flood of preconceived notions. Of course, those sorts of artifacts are never the <em>whole</em> picture\u2026they are inevitably missing a great deal of long-forgotten truths.</p>\n\n<p>Sometimes it\u2019s enough just to <strong>stop remembering</strong> for a while. Close the door on some past events, let them air out and breathe. Time passes, you change and grow, and then when you decide you\u2019re ready to revisit those events, you\u2019ll have forgotten some of the more recent rememberings and you can access a more objective view of how you originally felt\u2026what you originally experienced. In a way, it\u2019s a type of <a href=\"https://jaredwhite.com/tag/mindfulness\">#mindfulness</a> exercise.</p>\n\n<p>Of course for those truly traumatic moments we don\u2019t ever wish to remember, perhaps it\u2019s best to leave the door closed permanently. But there may be other hard &amp; difficult times for which, after we\u2019ve cast aside those sequences of successive <em>frustrating</em> rememberings, we\u2019re ready to take on a back-to-basics approach.</p>\n\n<p>I\u2019ve never been a very nostalgic person. I typically spend little effort delving into my own distant past, into my family\u2019s past. But as I\u2019ve been doing that a fair degree lately, while clearing out old boxes of memorabilia, photographs, and writings, I\u2019ve been pleasantly surprised at how much it has helped expand and <em>retexture</em> my life\u2019s story.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Memory is such a funny thing.</strong></p>",
        "text": "Memory is such a funny thing. When you try to harken back to a past moment in time\u2014perhaps a portion of your childhood, or halcyon days spent with a lover, or a special outing with friend\u2014it\u2019s likely you don\u2019t simply remember those precise events as they unfolded, but rather how you may have felt about them in a more recent timeframe. In other words, you remember your remembering, and that remembering may have also remembered a previous remembering\u2026and so on. If we aren\u2019t careful, we can find ourselves having built up an elaborate edifice of sequenced memories.\n\nThat\u2019s one of the magical things about discovering old letters, or diary entries, or cards, or photographs, or videos. They can spark a fresh remembering, helping you enter back into that distant world without so much baggage and a flood of preconceived notions. Of course, those sorts of artifacts are never the whole picture\u2026they are inevitably missing a great deal of long-forgotten truths.\n\nSometimes it\u2019s enough just to stop remembering for a while. Close the door on some past events, let them air out and breathe. Time passes, you change and grow, and then when you decide you\u2019re ready to revisit those events, you\u2019ll have forgotten some of the more recent rememberings and you can access a more objective view of how you originally felt\u2026what you originally experienced. In a way, it\u2019s a type of #mindfulness exercise.\n\nOf course for those truly traumatic moments we don\u2019t ever wish to remember, perhaps it\u2019s best to leave the door closed permanently. But there may be other hard & difficult times for which, after we\u2019ve cast aside those sequences of successive frustrating rememberings, we\u2019re ready to take on a back-to-basics approach.\n\nI\u2019ve never been a very nostalgic person. I typically spend little effort delving into my own distant past, into my family\u2019s past. But as I\u2019ve been doing that a fair degree lately, while clearing out old boxes of memorabilia, photographs, and writings, I\u2019ve been pleasantly surprised at how much it has helped expand and retexture my life\u2019s story.\n\nMemory is such a funny thing."
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        "text": "They're so close to being done painting! Finally taking all the tape and paper up and it's looking so good in here!"
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        "text": "Spent most of the day on specs, including a massive review of the iGov OAuth profile"
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