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Trump extends TikTok deadline for the second time




Big Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead [404 Media]


A nice and solid mockery of just how badly e/accs derailed their own plans by getting Trump elected. I'll let the subtitle(?) speak for itself:

Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot. They methodically blew off each of their toes with a .50 caliber sniper rifle.


A 32-bit RISC-V processor made using molybdenum disulfide instead of silicon



in reply to Ep1cFac3pa1m

That looks an awful lot like a pandemic mini crash. If you invest in ETF right now, you'll make shit loads of money out of thin air next year.
in reply to Aux

Not sure if serious. Recession is almost certain, and the only fiscal "stimulus" that's likely to come is tax cuts. Will probably turn into a depression. But even the Great Depression had a huge amount of fiscal stimulus and progressive reforms to help get out of it. Not to mention, the crashing of the economy appears to be purposeful:
in reply to 10001110101

Pretty serious. Recessions affect different layers of the economy at different times. First markets crash, but your income and job security stays the same. Then markets plateau, but workers start losing jobs. Finally, markets start to grow again, but you're still living under the bridge.

If you're not a billionaire, this is the best time to invest - you still have a job, but markets are going down rapidly. You won't have cash later on.

in reply to Ep1cFac3pa1m

I usually hate political memes but this is too funny to watch


Marine Le Pen demands that politicians convicted of using their office for crimes be unelectable for life (2013, French with auto-generated subtitles)


A bit of text on this: publicsenat.fr/actualites/poli…

Spread the word! One barely hears about this outside of France.

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What to do if border police ask to search your phone


in reply to ocean

Filen offers 10GB for free, encrypted, no-knowledge, OpenSource, made in the EU
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in reply to schnurrito

Best thing to do is just avoid the states all together, I've done it my whole life and am continuing doing so.


The American Age Is Over - by Jonathan V. Last


No matter what happens, I believe the author is correct. Europe will not trust the US in a long time. Trump actually has managed to destroy the image of America in the entire world, in a few months.
in reply to 1984

This realization may be painful for Americans. But we should know that the rest of the world understands us more clearly than we understand ourselves.


It seems to me most Americans here know what's going on, and understand it well.
But overall I think most Europeans understand USA in a way most Americans don't. We generally understand how USA as a society is sick, sick with selfishness to a degree it's become sociopathic, and for some reason it refuses anything that could help cure it.

50 years ago USA was to many Europeans an ideal to follow. Today it's a warning of what NOT to do.

in reply to Buffalox

"It seems to me most Americans here know what's going on"

1/3 didn't vote and a 1/3 voted for this. so by no definition do most people have a fucking clue.

in reply to dota__2

Actually it's pretty clear a significant portion of the American population is enthusiastic about this. I don't know what is provocative about pointing out that Americans are renowned for their racism, transphobia, and misogyny. This country had literal slaves for 200 years, has only let women vote for less than 100 years, and still pretends the Civil War was about states rights. Open your eyes: this IS what America wants, and who America has decided to become.
in reply to fantoozie

the floor for being enthusiastic about this is voting for it, so your first assertion is flat wrong. that none voting third is too apathetic to care about other people. the saying has been floating around for a while about the 1/3 that wants to kill you while the other third watches.

every country has committed atrocities. inherited sin is stupid. we can acknowledge the errors and systemic issues of our forefathers and move passed them.

in reply to Buffalox

It's easier to understand a society looking in instead of being inside. When you're inside a group it's human nature to portray it as better and defend it. To look past the flaws.



La Collezione Farnesina su Google Arts & Culture





Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’


A Microsoft employee disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary event to protest its use of AI.

“Shame on you,” said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. “You are a war profiteer. Stop using AI for genocide. Stop using AI for genocide in our region. You have blood on your hands. All of Microsoft has blood on its hands. How dare you all celebrate when Microsoft is killing children. Shame on you all.”

Sources at Microsoft tell The Verge that shortly after Aboussad was ushered out of Microsoft’s event, she sent an email to a number of email distribution lists that contain hundreds or thousands of Microsoft employees. Here is Aboussad’s email in full:


archive.today link

in reply to Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In

Holy shit, I remember playing NationStates as a youngling, and I think I read the book too? Idk, it's been 20 years.


Walmart is considering buying TikTok, sources say




Bloomberg: That Smashing Sound Is Piggy Banks Around the World


cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/60387575

Viktor Shvets of Macquarie points out that in 2023, the US exported more than $300 billion in information and communications technology and business services, yielding a net surplus of $120 billion. US royalty and license fees (mostly tech) reached a net surplus of $90 billion, while financial services generated a surplus of $63 billion. “Expanding the scope of the trade war will be inflammatory,” he says, “but it seems the EU (and Canada) might have decided that one can only negotiate with the US from a position of strength, and services are the US’ Achilles heel.”

https://archive.is/20250404052001/https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-04-04/tariffs-fallout-that-smashing-sound-is-piggy-banks-around-the-world




'Google AI presented my April Fools' story as real news'


Every year, journalist Ben Black publishes a playful fake story on his community news site Cwmbran Life for April Fools' Day.

Since 2018 the 48-year-old has spun yarns including a Hollywood-style sign on a mountain to a nudist cold-water swimming club at a lake.

In 2020, Mr Black published a fake story claiming Cwmbran had been recognised by Guinness World Records for having the most roundabouts per square kilometre.

Despite altering the wording of his article that afternoon, when he searched for it on 1 April he said he was "shocked" and "worried" to find the false information being used by Google's AI tool and presented as real information.




EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network


European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against X, including a fine that could exceed $1 billion, according to a New York Times report yesterday.

The European Commission determined last year that Elon Musk's social network violated the Digital Services Act. Regulators are now in the process of determining what punishment to impose.

"The penalties are set to include a fine and demands for product changes," the NYT report said, attributing the information to "four people with knowledge of the plans." The penalty is expected to be issued this summer and would be the first one under the new EU law.

"European authorities have been weighing how large a fine to issue X as they consider the risks of further antagonizing [President] Trump amid wider trans-Atlantic disputes over trade, tariffs and the war in Ukraine," the NYT report said. "The fine could surpass $1 billion, one person said, as regulators seek to make an example of X to deter other companies from violating the law, the Digital Services Act."

in reply to fyzzlefry

Get back to me when they spell Billion with a T



Tech CEOs who grinned behind Trump at inauguration lose billions in wake of tariffs


Tech billionaires who cozied up to Donald Trump were some of the biggest losers - shedding billions in net worth and values of their companies - in Thursday’s stock market losses as Wall Street reacted to the president’s tariff plan.

Meta stock was down 8.96 percent, Amazon was down 8.98 percent, Google had fallen 3.92 percent, while Apple had plunged over 9 percent. White House adviser Elon Musk also felt the pain, with Tesla sliding 5.47 percent.

The losses came as Wall Street saw a historically bad day on Thursday after Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on nearly every U.S. trade partner. The Dow Jones saw a point drop that ranked in the top five worst of all time, while the NASDAQ suffered its largest one-day point drop in that market’s history. The S&P 500 also saw its biggest one-day drop since March 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

#USA


Dallas Rabbi Who Spread False Hamas Rape Claims Arrested for Child Molestation


A Dallas zionist rabbi who publicly spread false claims about Hamas raping Israeli women on October 7 has been arrested for sexually abusing a teenage boy.

Rabbi Yizhak Meir Sabo, 43, was charged with indecency with a child, according to Dallas County jail records. Authorities arrested him on April 1 and set his bail at $100,000. The reports surfaced on March 27, prompting the Akiba Yavneh Academy to place him on administrative leave.

According to an affidavit, Sabo repeatedly pulled down a male student’s pants and touched his genitals. The abuse allegedly occurred while the student was in grades 9-12. Sabo also watched the student shower and gave him inappropriate “massages,” the report states.

#USA
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Yemen is Acting Responsibly to Stop Genocide and the US is Bombing Them for It


in reply to ocean

Why wouldn't you when it's clear the US/isntreal are the biggest state terrorists on the planet?
in reply to Bloomcole

Maybe, because od Propaganda by US? Movies, etc.

People in the US often dont even know what war crimes US do. They just live there and suffer their own life which is hard enough in the US


in reply to vegeta

Can courts please not "make an example" out of anyone?

Just fine all of these companies that violate the DSA billions.

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Trump extends deadline for TikTok deal


Archive: archive.is/2025.04.04-180436/f…

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that extends the deadline for ByteDance, the Chinese owner of TikTok, to divest the hugely popular video-sharing app and avoid a nationwide ban in the US.

Trump said on his Truth Social platform that he was extending the deadline, which had been Saturday, by 75 days. He said the extension was designed to allow US companies trying to acquire TikTok more time to finalise a deal.

“The Deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed, which is why I am signing an Executive Order to keep TikTok up and running for an additional 75 days,” Trump wrote.

He said his administration hoped to “continue working in Good Faith with China” who he said were unhappy with the tariffs that he had imposed on imports from the country. Beijing needs to approve any divestment of TikTok, and will have control over who retains control of the critical algorithm.

“We do not want TikTok to ‘go dark’. We look forward to working with TikTok and China to close the Deal,” Trump added.

This is a developing story



Unpacking of Capitalist Contradictions and the Dawn of Multipolarity


Trump's 34% tariff gambit against China is the latest convulsion of a capitalist system in decay. For four decades, neoliberal orthodoxy gutted the US industrial base, outsourcing production to low-wage markets to maximize shareholder profits. The result is a financialized economy where Wall Street thrives while the real economy lies in ruins. Tariffs, sold as economic populism, are a naive attempt to reindustrialize the economy. However, this policy cannot work without massive public investment in factories, worker training, or supply chain sovereignty. All the tariffs can accomplish is to inflate consumer prices while enriching the same oligarchs who lobbied for outsourcing. The US now finds itself in a middle of a massive contradiction: protectionism requires a productive base, yet capitalists long ago abandoned production for speculation.

The US corporate aristocracy, living off cheap overseas labor and deregulated profit extraction, rejects the long-term industrial policy needed to revive manufacturing. Why? Because reinvesting in domestic production would require taxing capital, regulating markets, and empowering labor. All such policies would be anathema to the billionaire class. Meanwhile, the working majority, promised a renaissance of industrial dignity, will only see higher prices and stagnant wages. What we're really seeing here is class struggle masked as trade policy.

China's calculated response of export controls on key rare earth along with the reciprocal 34% tariffs reveals a strategic depth absent in the US. China is able to seamlessly coordinate industrial policy, resource control, and geopolitical aims. China made massive investments into making itself an essential global producer of rare earths which are vital for semiconductors, weapons, and green tech. Now, China is able to weaponize the very supply chains that western capitalism outsourced. Where the US sees trade as a ledger of deficits, China sees it as a battlefield of material dependencies.

The most likely outcome of the tariff war will be further erosion of dollar hegemony. The US pushes nations to look for alternatives by weaponizing the dollar and extracting seigniorage. At the same time, China's BRICS+ alliances and Belt and Road infrastructure offer a pragmatic path forward for countries that wish to retain their sovereignty.

The trade war is a symptom of capitalism's systemic crisis. As the multipolar world emerges, western workers will bear the brunt of new economic realities unless they are able to seize the means of production. The tariffs are mere tremors, the earthquake will come when labor finally rejects the logic of capital altogether.

in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆

i went to a bougie cocktail party of well educated americans last week and the consensus for the first thorium reactor being chinese was nothing but concern; i get the feeling that it's going to take generations for american labor to reject capitalism in its current form when its engineerings & scientists are so thoroughly marinated in pro-american-capitalist propaganda.
in reply to eldavi

There's a Lenin quote how every society is three hot meals away from chaos. If there's a huge crash like the great depression, that could disabuse people of their delusions in a hurry.


Israeli-German philosopher's part in Buchenwald ceremony cancelled under Israeli pressure


Under pressure from the Israeli government, a speech by Israeli-German philosopher Omri Boehm at an event marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany was cancelled.

In a statement on X, Israel's embassy to Germany described the decision to invite Boehm to the event as "a blatant insult" to the remembrance of the victims of the Holocaust. As reasons, they cited his comparison of the Holocaust to the Palestinian Nakba and his description of Yad Vashem as "an instrument of political manipulation."



Oil prices crumble as Saudi Arabia throws in the towel on restricting supply


Oil prices continued their free fall on Friday as the market absorbed a double whammy of shocks after US President Donald Trump announced sweeping global tariffs and the Opec+ alliance decided to massively increase crude production.

The price of Brent, the international benchmark, has dropped more than 11 percent in two days, plunging from $74 per barrel at the beginning of this week to about $66 per barrel. The drop has put crude prices at their lowest levels since 2021.

The sell-off shows how Trump’s trade war is already unleashing secondary effects on the Middle East.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Trumpers gonna be like "See daddy knows best cause oil is cheaper" eye roll
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lemmy - Collegamento all'originale
geneva_convenience
It was useful against global warming


China hits back hard at ‘bullying’ Trump tariffs as global recession fears grow


China has hit back hard against Donald Trump’s “bullying” tariffs, raising fears that the escalating trade war could trigger a global recession and prompting fresh turmoil in financial markets.

Beijing retaliated on Friday with punitive 34% additional tariffs on all goods imported from the US – mirroring the US decision and exacerbating a sell-off on global stock markets.

Almost $5tn (£4tn) has been wiped off the value of global stock markets since Trump’s Rose Garden address on Wednesday evening, analysts calculated.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Walmart's low low price are in trouble with these tariffs!

Hopefully the government bails out the Waltons so they can keep trickling down on us.



Euro-Med Monitor: Israel’s brutality in Gaza surpasses all recent forms of terrorism


Palestinian Territory – The nature of Israel’scrimes in the Gaza Strip must be denounced, particularly the crimes’ horrifying scope, methodical execution, and wide-ranging effects, which surpass those of armed groups like ISIS.

Israeli occupation forces detonated a robot today (Thursday 3 April 2025) rigged with tonnes of explosives in the heart of the densely populated Shuja’iyya neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City.

The explosion occurred in an area packed with displaced civilians, though there was no military necessity and no combat activity in the vicinity.

This act embodies the conduct of existing terrorist organisations, even surpassing them in brutality and disregard for human life, and bears no resemblance to the conduct of a state bound by international law, regardless of any attempts to distort or evade it.

in reply to geneva_convenience

One would fucking hope humanity stops topping itself in these areas...


For funnsies I like to look at Fox "News" just to get their perspective


So, Trump is playing his old dog whistle and blaming the ~~jews~~ ~~muslims~~ ~~europeans~~ ~~mainstream media~~, trans community for all that's wrong in the world by telling states they must follow his orders. Why did he dismantle the Dept. of Education in favour of state's right to choose?

How is education a state level topic, but the inclusion of trans athletes a federal (or presidential) issue?



Euro-Med Monitor: Israel’s brutality in Gaza surpasses all recent forms of terrorism


Palestinian Territory – The nature of Israel’scrimes in the Gaza Strip must be denounced, particularly the crimes’ horrifying scope, methodical execution, and wide-ranging effects, which surpass those of armed groups like ISIS.

Israeli occupation forces detonated a robot today (Thursday 3 April 2025) rigged with tonnes of explosives in the heart of the densely populated Shuja’iyya neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City.

The explosion occurred in an area packed with displaced civilians, though there was no military necessity and no combat activity in the vicinity.

This act embodies the conduct of existing terrorist organisations, even surpassing them in brutality and disregard for human life, and bears no resemblance to the conduct of a state bound by international law, regardless of any attempts to distort or evade it.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Wonder if any of the dudes who did the October attack regret their actions now? 🤔
in reply to DontMakeMoreBabies

They thrive on hate and war and wanted Israel to strike back, so no, I think they are quite happy with what's going on.
in reply to Naich

You mean they peacefully demonstrated for a two state solution and were subsequently shot and had no other method of recourse than armed resistance?

Yeah they love dying. They love getting oppressed and killed by American bombs and have never done anything like accepting a two state solution. or accepting ceasefire for a permanent solution to the conflict only for it to be violated by Israel and America

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in reply to geneva_convenience

They also murdered and kidnapped hundreds of innocent people, so they can fuck off as well as the ones currently doing the murdering and kidnapping. They can both fuck off.
in reply to Naich

The group fighting against their own genocide and the group doing the genocide are the same"
in reply to DontMakeMoreBabies

Me: Here is evidence you are wrong. Hamas is provable trying to reach a peaceful solution and only Israel is an obstacle to peace

You: "October 9/11?!!!"



The Rise of Fluid Intelligence | The Atlantic


Deep down, Sam Altman and François Chollet share the same dream. They want to build AI models that achieve “artificial general intelligence,” or AGI—matching or exceeding the capabilities of the human mind. The difference between these two men is that Altman has suggested that his company, OpenAI, has practically built the technology already. Chollet, a French computer scientist and one of the industry’s sharpest skeptics, has said that notion is “absolutely clown shoes.”

When I spoke with him earlier this year, Chollet told me that AI companies have long been “intellectually lazy” in suggesting that their machines are on the path to a kind of supreme knowledge. At this point, those claims are based largely on the programs’ ability to pass specific tests (such as the LSAT, Advanced Placement Biology, and even an introductory sommelier exam). Chatbots may be impressive. But in Chollet’s reckoning, they’re not genuinely intelligent.

Chollet, like Altman and other tech barons, envisions AI models that can solve any problem imaginable: disease, climate change, poverty, interstellar travel. A bot needn’t be remotely “intelligent” to do your job. But for the technology to fulfill even a fraction of the industry’s aspirations—to become a researcher “akin to Einstein,” as Chollet put it to me—AI models must move beyond imitating basic tasks, or even assembling complex research reports, and display some ingenuity.

https://archive.is/M11gQ



Agricoltura, zootecnia e cultura nella fiera di San Giorgio a Caselette (To) Domenica 13 aprile 2025


Domenica 13 aprile a Caselette agricoltura, zootecnia e cultura si fonderanno in un interessante mix in occasione della Fiera di San Giorgio. La manifestazione, organizzata dall’amministrazione comunale e patrocinata dalla Città metropolitana di Torino, si aprirà alle 9,30 e proporrà una mostra della meccanizzazione agricola, con l’esposizione di trattori, attrezzature e prodotti del settore primario. I prodotti a km 0 saranno proposti dalle aziende aderenti al circuito “Campagna Amica” della Coldiretti. È anche prevista un’asta di vitelle di razza Pezzata Rossa italiana dall’elevato valore genetico, che è in programma a partire dalle 21 di sabato 12 aprile nel piazzale Sandro Dogliotti. La fiera storica si aprirà alle 10 di domenica 13 aprile nell’area La Piota, dove sarà possibile pranzare tra le 12 e le 14. L’ottava edizione della Mostra Regionale di bovini di razza Pezzata Rossa Italiana inizierà alle 11, con l’organizzazione curata dall’ARA, l’Associazione Regionale Allevatori, che proporrà la sfilata e la valutazione morfologica dei capi in concorso a cura del giudice ufficiale. Le premiazioni dei capi sono in programma nel pomeriggio. Non mancheranno intrattenimenti musicali, giochi per bambini e una dimostrazione di caseificazione. La fiera e la mostra zootecnica si chiuderanno alle 18,30 e in serata i coltivatori di Caselette si ritroveranno per la cena in un ristorante locale, con prenotazione al numero telefonico 338-9656901.

Sul versante culturale, di particolare interesse la possibilità di visitare nel pomeriggio, tra le 14,30 e le 18, la Villa Romana di Caselette e l’area naturalistica di Primavalle. Le visite ai resti delle ville romane di Caselette e Almese si svolgono da aprile ad ottobre, sono gratuite e sono condotte da un archeologo supportato dai volontari dell’associazione ArCA-Arte, Archeologia e cultura ad Almese, con il patrocinio dei Comuni di Almese e Caselette, in collaborazione con Fondazione Magnetto, Finder spa, Univoca, Tesori d’arte e cultura alpina e Soprintendenza archeologica belle arti e paesaggio per la Città metropolitana di Torino. Le visite propongono un’immersione nell’archeologia per conoscere la storia e la cultura locali nel contesto della romanità in Valle di Susa. Le ville di Almese e Caselette, risalenti al I secolo dopo Cristo, sono tra i più importanti complessi residenziali extraurbani di epoca romana in Piemonte. Tutte le informazioni per prenotare le visite sono disponibili nel sito Internet www.arcalmese.it



DNC Chair Ken Martin Launches “People's Cabinet” to Fiercely Counter Trump Administration Chaos and Lies


The case for doing this was laid out in this article


Fiera Agricola Valsangone, sabato 12 e domenica 13 aprile a Giaveno (To)


La Fiera Agricola Valsangone torna sabato 12 e domenica 13 aprile a Giaveno, in borgata Buffa. L’evento, giunto alla quarta edizione e patrocinato dalla Città metropolitana di Torino, celebra le tradizioni rurali del territorio ed è un’occasione per scoprire la ricchezza dell’agricoltura, della zootecnia e delle produzioni locali. A Giaveno i visitatori potranno apprezzare un’ampia selezione di eccellenze gastronomiche e artigianali del territorio, l’esposizione di animali da allevamento con le dimostrazioni pratiche, l’esposizione di macchine e attrezzature per l’agricoltura, le rievocazioni delle tradizioni lavorative di un tempo, con dimostrazioni dal vivo, e della transumanza.

Laboratori e seminari offriranno occasioni di approfondimento su tematiche legate all’agricoltura sostenibile, all’innovazione e alle pratiche agricole tradizionali. Torneranno anche gli show cooking con i prodotti tipici locali e la cascina didattica per i bambini, con esperienze interattive e didattiche. Sarà attivo un servizio di ristorazione e bar, per consentire ai visitatori di gustare piatti tipici e ristorarsi in un ambiente accogliente. L’ingresso alla fiera è gratuito e aperto a tutti, dai professionisti del settore agli appassionati, alle famiglie che vogliono scoprire e vivere le tradizioni rurali.
Per ulteriori informazioni si può scrivere a info@fieraagricolavalsangone.it, chiamare il numero telefonico 389-5315270 o consultare il sito Internet www.fieraagricolavalsangone.it



Key 7 October "mass rapes" witness denounced as liar by Israeli reporter


An Israeli man who claimed to have heroically rescued hundreds of people from Hamas fighters on 7 October 2023 has been exposed as an outright liar who made up stories “from beginning to end.”

The debunking of Rami Davidian’s fabrications by a high-profile mainstream Israeli journalist is highly significant.

Davidian, who was a star witness in Sheryl Sandberg’s 7 October atrocity propaganda film Screams Before Silence, also claimed to have seen dozens of dead victims of alleged rapes on that day, some with objects inserted into their genitals.

in reply to geneva_convenience

Biden will go to his demented grave retelling the lie no matter how much of a lie it is
in reply to TacoButtPlug

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” - Top Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels



Army Planners Are Weighing Force Reductions of Up to 90,000 Active-Duty Soldiers


#USA


390 Million Faces: Clearview AI's Secret $750,000 Attempt To Buy Your Mugshot


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