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Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionQuite a nice presentation on cybernetics by Tom O'Brien. Serves as a great introduction into the topic.<a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticSocialism</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticEconomics</a><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/221-unifying-marxism-cyernetics/id530114975?i=1000721529685" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/221-unifying-marxism-cyernetics/id530114975?i=1000721529685</a>

Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionDeze week hielden we onze 13e sessie waarbij we de People's Republic of Walmart af hebben gerond.<a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticEconomics</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticSocialism</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHHtX4qeTMk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHHtX4qeTMk</a>

SciPunkIn Cyberpunk: Edgerunners (2022), a ragtag crew of edgerunners spends time braindancing at Lizzie's Bar, a popular spot in Night City. Braindances are immersive simulations that let users experience someone else's memories, including their physical sensations, emotions, and even thoughts. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/scifi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/anime?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anime</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cybernetics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/david?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#david</a> martinez <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/falco?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#falco</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pilar?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pilar</a>

Bryant McGillKybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital IntelligenceREAD ARTICLE HERE: <a href="https://bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/07/kybernetik-anthropology-colonial.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/07/kybernetik-anthropology-colonial.html</a>Nature Was the First Colonizer.What we call <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transhumanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#transhumanism</a> today? Nature already prototyped it through affordances.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Posthumanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Posthumanism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MediaTheory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Semiotics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Semiotics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sovereignty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Symbolic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Symbolic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Systems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ethics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Colonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Colonization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anthropology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anthropology</a>

Kathy ReidHere's a lovely piece by my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ANU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ANU</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> colleague, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@theEllamo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@theEllamo</a> which talks about my <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TokenWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TokenWars</a> talk, and how it's related to concepts like <a href="https://aus.social/tags/PeakToken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PeakToken</a> and the value of human-generated <a href="https://aus.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#data</a> as the internet becomes polluted by <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a>-generated slop. There's a video link here to the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TokenWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TokenWars</a> talk, if you haven't seen it already. Thanks, Ella! <a href="https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2025/06/19/token-wars/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://cybernetics.anu.edu.au/news/2025/06/19/token-wars/</a>

hex<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NerdPing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NerdPing</a>: which of you weirdos are in to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> (in the sense of the field of study).I've been reading Jon Walker's VSM guide and listening to General Intellect Unit and I keep finding valuable things.

transform-socialSome quotes from the text:"The goal is always to optimize the fulfillment of needs while keeping decisions and data as local as possible.""Or in complex system lingo: The constraints are slightly different, which might result in the systems sliding into different attractor states.""We can make use of the ideas of cybernetics if and when they seem useful to solve a problem, but they don't force us to act or think in a given way."<a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/optimization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#optimization</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a>

transform-socialI wrote down some reflections on the complex anarchism symposium I attended in May and the talk I gave there about anarcho-communist economics. The text covers discussions around the question of which concepts and tools should be discarded as too central or too dominant in the anarchist context and which structures and tools are required to adequately handle complex systems in a non-hierarchical way.<a href="https://transform-social.org/en/texts/complexity/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://transform-social.org/en/texts/complexity/</a><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anarchism</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Economics</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ComplexSystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComplexSystems</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a>

Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionWhat is labour time calculation? Accessible introduction by <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ida_zeitoekonomie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ida_zeitoekonomie</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticSocialism</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticEconomics</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuHm1_7EgPQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuHm1_7EgPQ</a>

doboprobodyne<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@Di4na" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Di4na</a> <a href="https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@bert_hubert</a> Ahh, roger, thank you! That's a really useful explanation; yes, I see why slapOS in and of itself won't cut the mustard. Gosh, I can see why we need this capability from a strategic/geopolitical point of view. Indeed not just Europe; any competent government should want to make sure feedback-loops were set up so that they did not inadvertently lose "digital sovereignty" in such a manner here illustrated.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#capitalism</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/controlTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#controlTheory</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/geopolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#geopolitics</a>

Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionStarted a new starter pack on cybernetic communists with currently myself and <a href="https://mastodon.social/@ida_zeitoekonomie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ida_zeitoekonomie</a> I can't add <a href="https://mastodon.social/@cibcom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@cibcom</a> as they restricted discoverability and cannot be added.If you know more accounts or would like to be added, let me know!<a href="https://fedidevs.com/s/NTk2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fedidevs.com/s/NTk2/</a><a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticSocialism</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticEconomics</a>

AnthonyIt suddenly struck me the other day that generative AI used in government and media has a very Memoirs Found in a Bathtub quality about it. One of the premises of Lem's (amazing) novel is that paper disintegrates for unknown reasons, leaving very few hard records of anything. The book is a mock diary of a person who lived through the disorienting chaos that ensued. <a href="https://buc.ci?t=ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=generativeai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=llm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LLM</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=dev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dev</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=stanislawlem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StanislawLem</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=scifi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a> <a href="https://buc.ci?t=cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a>

Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionNieuwste sessie van onze Cybernetische Economie themagroep staat online. Vandaag behandelen we hoofdstukken 7 en 8 van de People's Republic of Walmart.<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbxmLeekpQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgbxmLeekpQ</a><a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticSocialism</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticEconomics</a>

Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionOur cybernetic reading group had its penultimate session on The People's Republic of Walmart today, and I started of my notes with "I don't *want* to hate this book, but we're running out of pages" 😅Recording coming up soon (in Dutch)<a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticSocialism</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticEconomics</a>

Katika Kühnreich<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@tante</a> …and they are trying to bring back <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> with <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a> …While <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/nuclearenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nuclearenergy</a> is not <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossil</a> it not <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/green" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#green</a> at all - but <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colonial</a> , <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/deadly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#deadly</a> & totally unfair because, like in AI, the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/profits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#profits</a> are being privatised, the costs are hitting the whole <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#society</a> & the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#planet</a>But from the point of view of someone believing in <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> or one of its <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TESCREAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TESCREAL</a> grandchildren it is great - because in cybernetics EVERY problem will be solved in "the future" by "technology"

🌈 breaking ranks. 🇺🇦"The major problems in the world are the differences in how nature works and how people think." -- Gregory Bateson<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Bateson</a><a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/systemicChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#systemicChange</a>

Technoetic Arts JournalDulmini Perera's text "Orders of change: Mary Catherine Bateson on ecological thinking, narrative practices and attending to worlds in transformation" was recently made open access. Enjoy it at Intellect Discover: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00119_1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1386/tear_00119_1</a>The article highlights MC Bateson's cybernetic practice of working with narratives in order to cultivate better understandings and responses to change at the level of both societies and individuals.<a href="https://mas.to/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/creativepractice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#creativepractice</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openaccess</a>

doboprobodyne<a href="https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@jalefkowit</a> It's an interesting point you highlight because I've never thought of things through that paradigm. Now that I see it, I realise I'm hoping to transition to <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/openBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openBSD</a> because I believe of mainstream operating systems, it probably has the best <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DX</a>.In this particular case, I believe that the developers exploit that in order to optimise for what might be called <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#security</a> which impresses me.I realise it's probably an outlier in this regard!<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/developerExperience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#developerExperience</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/quality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quality</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/systemArchitecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#systemArchitecture</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/complexSystemsTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#complexSystemsTheory</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/qualityAssurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#qualityAssurance</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Deming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Deming</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Shuart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Shuart</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#design</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#software</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coding</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/softwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwareEngineering</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/abstraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#abstraction</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/electricalEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#electricalEngineering</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HDL</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/VHDL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VHDL</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/theresNoSuchThingAsSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#theresNoSuchThingAsSoftware</a>

SciPunkBattle Angel Alita (1993) <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/battleangelalita?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#battleangelalita</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/90s?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#90s</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cyberpunk?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cyberpunk</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/anime?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#anime</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/1990s?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#1990s</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/scifi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scifi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cyborg?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cyborg</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/gunnm?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gunnm</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/cybernetics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cybernetics</a>

Emil Jacobs - CollectifissionVandaag hield de themagroep Cybernetische Economie haar maandelijkse sessie en bespraken we hoofdstukken 4, 5 en 6 van de People's Republic of Walmart.Deze keer heb ik een rudimentaire tijdindex toegevoegd 🙂<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3AKyQg6NOQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3AKyQg6NOQ</a><a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/Cybernetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cybernetics</a> <a href="https://greennuclear.online/tags/CyberneticSocialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CyberneticSocialism</a>

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