We need more DARNELLA FRAZIER.
So much more arresting to do.
This HODGE PODGE will launch with just the cobbled together content as I am in a hurry and a day late.
ENJOY!
Start with these assholes...
Earlier this week, the tiny Canadian town of Lytton, British Columbia, set new all-time high temperature records for Canada three days in a row, including an ungodly high of 121.3 degrees F (49.6 degrees C). Then on Wednesday, wildfires forced the roughly 1000 residents of the town to evacuate, and much of the town burned to the ground in minutes. There are still people unaccounted for. The BBC reports that the heat wave in western Canada has caused 486 deaths in BC alone over the last five days.
The Washington Post reports that, with global warming making forests drier and weather hotter, the annual wildfire season has ceased to be a "season" at all, and the nation is facing a shortage of wildland firefighters. President Biden has announced he will issue bonuses to increase firefighters' wages, and will train members of the National Guard to help fight fires. The bipartisan infrastructure bill also includes funding for hiring, retention, and pay raises for federal firefighters. (Washington Post)
David Roberts lays it out pretty simply: There's no longer any such thing as a "moderate" position on the climate crisis. Doing nothing, or doing very little? THOSE are now extreme positions, in terms of what they'll mean for life on the planet. (Dr. Volts)
After months of fuckery resulting from the rightwing backlash to the 1619 Project, the Board of Trustees for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted Wednesday to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones. Hannah-Jones was hired earlier this year by the Hussman School of Journalism for a prestigious Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism. She passed the tenure review with the full support of the university and the J school, but the Trustees refused to take action on her tenure application for political reasons, because how dare she suggest slavery and its legacy of systemic racism are a lens through which all American history be viewed? So now that's finally settled, to the benefit of the students Hannah-Jones will be working with. (NPR)
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The Court has "failed to justify our enacted policy," he wrote.
By Billy Binion
"A federal judge on Wednesday blocked for the time being a new Florida law that sought to punish large social media businesses like Facebook and Twitter if they remove content or ban politicians," reports the Associated Press: U.S. District Judge Rober...
California Police Officer Plays Taylor Swift Song To Try To Block Video From YouTube
Thelasko shares a report from the BBC: A US police officer played a Taylor Swift song on his phone in a bid to prevent activists who were filming him uploading the video to YouTube. The video platform regularly removes videos that break music copyright ...
After Billionaire Abuse of Retirement Accounts, US Considers New Regulations
U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said last week "he is revisiting proposed legislation that would crack down on the giant tax-free retirement accounts amassed by the ultrawealthy," reports ProPublica, "after a ProPublica story exposed that ...
Meat Grown in Israeli Bioreactors May Be Coming to American Diners
"An Israeli startup wants to replace chicken coops, barns and slaughterhouses with bioreactors to churn out cell-based meat for American diners," reports Bloomberg: Future Meat Technologies Ltd. is in talks with U.S. regulators to start offering its pr...
After China's Crackdown on Bitcoin Mining, It's More Profitable For Everyone Else
Bitcoin mining just became easier and more profitable, reports CNBC: The world has known for months that more than half the world's bitcoin miners would be going dark as China cracked down on mining. Now that it's happened, the bitcoin algorithm has ad...
FSF Prioritizes Creation of a Free-Software eBook Reader, Urges Avoiding DRM eBooks
Since most ebook readers run some version of the kernel Linux (with some even run the GNU/Linux operating system), "This puts ebook readers a few steps closer to freedom than other devices," notes a recent call-to-action in the Free Software Foundation...
Apple Shouldn't Use Privacy and Security To Stave Off Competition, Warns EU Antitrust Head
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Apple Insider: Responding to comments made by Apple CEO Tim Cook in June, European Union competition chief Margrethe Vestager said that Apple shouldn't use privacy and security concerns to stifle competition on t...
Summer Camp For Children Includes Classes on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
A Los Angeles summer camp is offering children as young as 5 "a crash course in all things crypto," reports NBC News: In a sign of the bubbling enthusiasm for digital currencies, the Crypto Kids Camp began Monday in a warehouse in a busy port district....
Passenger Added To Jeff Bezos' Planned Spaceflight Would Be the Oldest Person In Space
Pioneering pilot Wally Funk, who was denied being an astronaut because of her gender, is joining Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on an upcoming space voyage by his rocket startup, Blue Origin. Fortune reports: The nation's first female Federal Aviation Admin...
REvil Ransomware Hits 200 Companies In MSP Supply-Chain Attack
A massive REvil ransomware attack affects multiple managed service providers and their clients through a reported Kaseya supply-chain attack. Bleeping Computer reports: Starting this afternoon, the REvil ransomware gang targeted approximately eight lar...
"A federal judge on Wednesday blocked for the time being a new Florida law that sought to punish large social media businesses like Facebook and Twitter if they remove content or ban politicians," reports the Associated Press: U.S. District Judge Rober...
California Police Officer Plays Taylor Swift Song To Try To Block Video From YouTube
Thelasko shares a report from the BBC: A US police officer played a Taylor Swift song on his phone in a bid to prevent activists who were filming him uploading the video to YouTube. The video platform regularly removes videos that break music copyright ...
After Billionaire Abuse of Retirement Accounts, US Considers New Regulations
U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said last week "he is revisiting proposed legislation that would crack down on the giant tax-free retirement accounts amassed by the ultrawealthy," reports ProPublica, "after a ProPublica story exposed that ...
Meat Grown in Israeli Bioreactors May Be Coming to American Diners
"An Israeli startup wants to replace chicken coops, barns and slaughterhouses with bioreactors to churn out cell-based meat for American diners," reports Bloomberg: Future Meat Technologies Ltd. is in talks with U.S. regulators to start offering its pr...
After China's Crackdown on Bitcoin Mining, It's More Profitable For Everyone Else
Bitcoin mining just became easier and more profitable, reports CNBC: The world has known for months that more than half the world's bitcoin miners would be going dark as China cracked down on mining. Now that it's happened, the bitcoin algorithm has ad...
FSF Prioritizes Creation of a Free-Software eBook Reader, Urges Avoiding DRM eBooks
Since most ebook readers run some version of the kernel Linux (with some even run the GNU/Linux operating system), "This puts ebook readers a few steps closer to freedom than other devices," notes a recent call-to-action in the Free Software Foundation...
Apple Shouldn't Use Privacy and Security To Stave Off Competition, Warns EU Antitrust Head
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Apple Insider: Responding to comments made by Apple CEO Tim Cook in June, European Union competition chief Margrethe Vestager said that Apple shouldn't use privacy and security concerns to stifle competition on t...
Summer Camp For Children Includes Classes on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies
A Los Angeles summer camp is offering children as young as 5 "a crash course in all things crypto," reports NBC News: In a sign of the bubbling enthusiasm for digital currencies, the Crypto Kids Camp began Monday in a warehouse in a busy port district....
Passenger Added To Jeff Bezos' Planned Spaceflight Would Be the Oldest Person In Space
Pioneering pilot Wally Funk, who was denied being an astronaut because of her gender, is joining Amazon founder Jeff Bezos on an upcoming space voyage by his rocket startup, Blue Origin. Fortune reports: The nation's first female Federal Aviation Admin...
REvil Ransomware Hits 200 Companies In MSP Supply-Chain Attack
A massive REvil ransomware attack affects multiple managed service providers and their clients through a reported Kaseya supply-chain attack. Bleeping Computer reports: Starting this afternoon, the REvil ransomware gang targeted approximately eight lar...
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Gov. Ron DeSantis Signs Florida Mandate to Survey College Students' Views...Because He's Worried About 'Indoctrination'
If conservatives like DeSantis have nothing else, they have the nerve. Florida's new 'viewpoint diversity' mandate is pure hypocrisy.
Listen: You can either complain about student “indoctrination,” or you can monitor the thoughts and views of students through government decree—unless you’re Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, in which case, your own hypocrisy is your greatest weapon and you can do both.
DeSantis hates Critical Race Theory—but that’s not what this is about because what DeSantis actually hates is leftist “indoctrination” in general—but that’s also not what this is about because what DeSantis and right-wingers across the nation really hate is the thought that conservatism is dying with current and future generations, and they believe their oppressive precious ideology deserves to thrive. This is why two weeks after banning public schools from teaching CRT, DeSantis is taking his progressive paranoia-infused power play to a new level by forcing public universities to assess “viewpoint diversity” on campus through an annual survey developed by the State Board of Education to monitor whether or not schools are pushing students towards the devil’s liberalism, which, in the Republican mind, is determined by the number of students who love Fox News and MAGA apparel more than they love porn and frat parties (I’m guessing).
From the Washington Post:
Although the Florida law does not address penalties for schools where the survey finds low levels of “intellectual freedom” and “viewpoint diversity,” DeSantis has hinted at the potential for budget cuts at universities that do not pass muster.
The bill defines those two terms as the exposure to — and encouragement or exploration of — “a variety of ideological and political perspectives.”
“We want our universities to be focused on critical thinking and academic rigor. We do not want them as basically hotbeds for stale ideology,” DeSantis said at a news conference Tuesday. “That’s not worth tax dollars and not something we’re going to be supporting moving forward.”
DeSantis’s office reiterated Thursday that the bill does not address funding and the governor’s comment was “an expression of his firmly-held opinion that taxpayer-funded schools, colleges and universities should be places for education — not indoctrination.”
A few things:
First of all—bullshit.
Let’s not pretend that if conservatism represented the dominant ideology on college campuses, DeSantis would give a shit about “viewpoint diversity.” If there was a Trump poster and a “build that wall” banner across the door frames of every dorm room in the state, Florida Republicans would be satisfied that the youth are headed in the right direction and the only survey students would be asked to take is one that determines how many Kid Rock homecoming invitations is too many.
Secondly—bullshit.
I’m to believe that DeSantis wants schools to be “focused on critical thinking” like he didn’t just go to war with an academic study that focuses on critical exploration of social dynamics in law and other institutions? If only there existed some critical component to studying a subject like—oh, I don’t know—race, which could be properly assessed in theory.
Third—bull-fucking-shit!
So you’re telling me DeSantis—the guy who chose the first day of Pride month to sign a transgender sports ban, proposed legislation that would make it open season on shooting unruly protesters and, of course, stays trying to make it harder for Black people to vote—isn’t planning to defund schools based on the survey, he just kind of hinted around defunding for shits and giggles?
Anyway, I’m not the only person who sees this white nonsense for what it is.
More from the Post:
A federation of unions that serve teachers in Florida said the bill signed this week was somewhat moot and potentially dangerous.
“Such a survey creates opportunities for political manipulation and could have a chilling effect on intellectual and academic freedom,” the Florida Education Association said. “Students already have the right to free speech on campus. All viewpoints can be expressed freely and openly.”
Another critic accused DeSantis of manufacturing the viewpoint issue to fit his political agenda.
“Once again, Governor Ron DeSantis is focusing on nonexistent issues rather than confronting the real problems facing everyday Floridians following a deadly global pandemic and years of neglect from Republican leadership in our state,” said Josh Weierbach, executive director of the liberal organization Florida Watch.
Still, proponents of the legislation insist its intentions are innocent. According to the Post, the bill states that the survey will merely consider the extent to which “competing ideas and perspectives are presented” and ensure that college students “feel free to express their beliefs and viewpoints on campus and in the classroom.”
But here’s where the ultimate display of caucasity comes in.
The legislation also bans faculty from “shielding” students from free speech by limiting their “access to, or observation of, ideas and opinions that they may find uncomfortable, unwelcome, disagreeable, or offensive.”
BITCH, YOU JUST BANNED CRITICAL RACE THEORY BECAUSE IT HURTS WHITE FEELINGS!
Let’s also not act like “viewpoint diversity” isn’t the only kind of push for diversity that Republicans are willing to get behind and wouldn’t fight tooth and nail.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/06/26/1959252/wikimedia-bans-admin-of-wikipedia-croatia-for-pushing-radical-agenda
Wikimedia Bans Admin of Wikipedia Croatia For Pushing Radical Agenda (therecord.media)
- Claiming that Hitler attacked Poland and started World War II after the Poles committed genocide against Germans.
- Redefining a World War II concentration camp as a labor camp...
- Pushing opinions that EU decision-making endangers Croatia's sovereignty.
- Claiming that the EU had used propaganda to trick Croatian citizens into joining the European Union...
Since 2013 the dubious edits had been spotted by users and the Croatian press, according to the article — but other Croatian Wikipedia editors failed, multiple times, to wrest away control of the site's moderation.
"The Wikimedia Foundation got involved last year after it was discovered that the administrator of Croatian Wikipedia had been using sockpuppet accounts to manipulate discussions and staff elections on the site..."The Wikimedia Foundation's report on the abuses of this team also points to possibly similar far-right-based editing on Wikipedia's Serbian version as well. This is the second major Wikipedia scandal in the past year. In September 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation said it found and banned a public relations firm that had created and used a network of sockpuppet accounts to edit the site on behalf of some of its customers.
https://boingboing.net/2021/06/26/green-mans-tunnel-is-a-legendary-site-among-seekers-of-haunted-places.html
Green Man's Tunnel is a legendary site among seekers of haunted places
The abandoned railroad tunnel in Pittsburgh known as "Green Man's Tunnel" is a legendary site among seekers of haunted places. This tunnel in South Park Township is said to be haunted by the spirit of Raymond Robinson, nicknamed the "Green Man" or "Charlie No-Face." Whether or not this tunnel is truly haunted by his spirit is up to you to decide, but the backstory behind this urban legend is true.
When Raymond Robinson (October 29, 1910 – June 11, 1985) was 8 years old, he climbed a pole to reach for a bird's nest on the Morado Bridge, outside of Beaver Falls. He touched an electrical line and was left severely disfigured by the shock. Robinson lost his eyes, nose, and right arm.
From Wikipedia:
Robinson was struck by cars multiple times during his walks, but this didn't stop him. The night was the only time that he could find some peace from the judgment of others. It saddens me to think about how people were cruel to Robinson, and how the only time he felt comfortable enough to leave his house was after dark. Robinson died at the age of 74, and ever since he has been the center of the "Green Man's Tunnel" urban legend.Because of his appearance, he rarely ventured out during the day. However, at night, he went for long walks on a quiet stretch of State Route 351, feeling his way along with a walking stick. Groups of locals regularly gathered to search for him walking along the road. Robinson usually hid from his curious neighbors, but would sometimes exchange a short conversation or a photograph for beer or cigarettes. Some were friendly, others cruel, but none of his encounters deterred Robinson from his nightly walks
https://yro.slashdot.org/story/21/06/27/0351237/french-engineer-claims-hes-solved-the-zodiac-killers-final-code
French Engineer Claims He's Solved the Zodiac Killer's Final Code (msn.com)
But Mr. Ziraoui said he had a sudden thought. The code-crackers who had solved the [earlier] 340-character cipher in December had been able to do so by identifying the encryption key, which they had put into the public domain when announcing their breakthrough. What if the killer used that same encryption key for the two remaining ciphers? So he said he applied it to the 32-character cipher, which the killer had included in a letter as the key to the location of a bomb set to go off at a school in the fall of 1970. (It never did, even though police failed to crack the code.) That produced a sequence of random letters from the alphabet. Mr. Ziraoui said he then worked through a half-dozen steps including letter-to-number substitutions, identifying coordinates in numbers and using a code-breaking program he created to crunch jumbles of letters into coherent words...
After two weeks of intense code-cracking, he deciphered the sentence, "LABOR DAY FIND 45.069 NORT 58.719 WEST." The message referred to coordinates based on the earth's magnetic field, not the more familiar geographic coordinates. The sequence zeroed in on a location near a school in South Lake Tahoe, a city in California referred to in another postcard believed to have been sent by the Zodiac killer in 1971.
An excited Mr. Ziraoui said he immediately turned to Z13, which supposedly revealed the killer's name, using the same encryption key and various cipher-cracking techniques. [The mostly un-coded letter includes a sentence which says "My name is _____," followed by a 13-character cipher.] After about an hour, Mr. Ziraoui said he came up with "KAYR," which he realized resembled the last name of Lawrence Kaye, a salesman and career criminal living in South Lake Tahoe who had been a suspect in the case. Mr. Kaye, who also used the pseudonym Kane, died in 2010.
The typo was similar to ones found in previous ciphers, he noticed, likely errors made by the killer when encoding the message. The result that was so close to Mr. Kaye's name and the South Lake Tahoe location were too much to be a coincidence, he thought. Mr. Kaye had been the subject of a report by Harvey Hines, a now-deceased police detective, who was convinced he was the Zodiac killer but was unable to convince his superiors. Around 2 a.m. on Jan. 3, an exhausted but elated Mr. Ziraoui posted a message entitled "Z13 — My Name is KAYE" on a 50,000-member Reddit forum dedicated to the Zodiac Killer.
The message was deleted within 30 minutes.
"Sorry, I've removed this one as part of a sort of general policy against Z13 solution posts," the forum's moderator wrote, arguing that the cipher was too short to be solvable.
Diwang Valdez for The New York Times |
Are Black Creators Really on
‘Strike’ From TikTok?
A
viral campaign aims to draw attention to the ways social platforms compensate
users
In a TikTok video from June 18, Erick Louis, a 21-year-old content creator and dancer in Orlando, Fla., nods and bounces along to Megan Thee Stallion’s latest single. “If y’all do the dance pls tag me 🙄,” he captioned the video. “It’s my first dance on Tik tok and I don’t need nobody stealing/not crediting.”
But the joke is, there is no dance. Seconds later, with his lips pursed, Mr. Louis flips two middle fingers at the camera and walks away. “SIKE,” the caption reads. “THIS APP WOULD BE NOTHIN WITHOUT BLK PEOPLE.”
By Thursday, the video had racked up 127,700 likes on TikTok and had spread rapidly on Twitter. “Yt people have no idea what to do with this sound because a black person hasn’t made a dance to it yet,” read one viral tweet.
Megan Thee Stallion’s song lays out dance instructions plainly in the lyrics: Place your hands on your knees and twerk. But compilations of TikTok users fumbling — holding hands, moving their hips from side to side, waving their arms above their heads — have gone viral over the past week.
Some tweets suggested that Black creators on TikTok had seemingly agreed not to choreograph a dance to the song, which would force non-Black users to come up with dances on their own and prove how essential Black creators are to the platform. Many Black creators have created videos to the song and there is a popular non-dance trend related to the audio, but the message was clear.
“Black people carry the app,” Mr. Louis said. He posted his video to articulate sentiments he has seen circulating in the Black online creator community. The strike itself is not a true strike or boycott. Black users, including Mr. Louis, are still posting to the app. It’s more of a symbolic awareness campaign that consists of an agreement not to dance to Megan Thee Stallion’s song.
“Similar to the ways off the app Black folks have always had to galvanize and riot and protest to get their voices heard, that same dynamic is displayed on TikTok,” he said. “We’re being forced to collectively protest.”
The music video for Megan Thee Stallion’s single makes a similar point. It begins with the rapper calling a politician, alluding to the outrage spurred by “WAP,” her flamboyant single with Cardi B, released last summer. “The women that you accidentally trying to step on, are everybody that you depend on,” Megan Thee Stallion says. “They treat your diseases, they cook your meals, they haul your trash, they drive your ambulances, they guard you while you sleep.”
Essential workers are portrayed by Black women in the music video — as garbage collectors, grocery store workers, office staff, waitresses, police officers, surgeons and nurses — underlining the idea that the labor of women of color supports the economy.
Black creators’ concerns run deeper than simply obtaining dance credits or more brand deals. “We are being exploited, and that’s the core issue Black folks have always had in terms of labor,” Mr. Louis said. “These millions of likes, that should all translate to something. How do we get real money, power and proper compensation we deserve?”
According to Li Jin, the founder of Atelier, a venture firm that invests in the creator economy, these tensions stem from systemic inequalities in the online creator industry. “The issue here is ownership,” she said. “The worker class is disenfranchised and does not have ownership over the means of creation and distribution.”
More creators, especially those from marginalized groups, are looking at the skyrocketing valuations of technology companies and reconsidering their relationships with certain platforms.
“People realize these tech companies are worth so much, they’re valued so highly, and the tech C.E.O.s and employees are gaining so much wealth,” Ms. Jin said. “But the platform participants, the creators, have been left out of this equation. There’s an undertone of economic inequality, which broadly is the issue of our time.”
“My hope is that we realize this is an entire class of work that didn’t previously exist,” she added. “If we don’t offer this class of workers protections and rights, they’re going to become increasingly disenfranchised.”
Kaelyn Kastle, 24, a Black content creator and member of the Collab Crib, said she wasn’t participating in the strike, but supports what it represents. “The strike is to send a message. The business models of these apps, they have us out here overworking and being underpaid,” she said. “We’re working long hours but at the end of the day we’re still making little to nothing, and we Black creators are making even less.”
Ms. Kastle said that many of her peers who want to participate in a strike can’t because of the dip in engagement it may generate. “When you’re working on these apps, they’re funding most of your life, so your back is against the wall,” she said. “If you don’t post for a day or two, you’ll open your Creator Fund like, ‘Wow, I haven’t made any money.’”
A spokesperson from TikTok said in a statement: “We care deeply about the experience of Black creators on our platform and we continue to work every day to create a supportive environment for our community while also instilling a culture where honoring and crediting creators for their creative contributions is the norm.” The statement cited a recent blog post outlining the company’s work with the Black creator community.
Even before the strike, dance trends on TikTok were declining, and the trends associated with many top audios have not included dances. The trend most popularly associated with Megan Thee Stallion’s song, for instance, is not dance related.
Top creators like Charli D’Amelio and Michael Le have transitioned away from dancing toward more vlogging and YouTube-style content. As the pandemic wanes, average users are also spending more time outside their homes creating a more diverse range of content.
“The shift away from dance takes even more of the megaphone away from these Black creators,” said Kwasi Ohene-Adu, the founder of Groovetime, a platform for creators to own and monetize their dances. “Those big people on TikTok have gained the popularity from Black creators’ dances, now they’re transitioning away and Black creators are left high and dry.”
Many people who work with Black content creators hope that the strike can open a conversation about equity and payment.
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Email providers can scan for spam and malicious links and attachments, often looking for patterns. [...] You may see lots of ads in your email inbox, but that doesn't necessarily mean your email provider is using the content of your messages to target you with marketing messages. For instance, like Google, Microsoft says that it refrains from using your email content for ad targeting. But it does target ads to consumers in Outlook, along with MSN, and other websites and apps. The data to do that come from partnering with third-party providers, plus your browsing activity and search history on Bing and Microsoft Edge, as well as information you've given the company, such as your gender, country, and date of birth.
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PANDEMIC
THE WEEKLY PANDEMIC REPORT
If you prefer your data in a visual format, here's the current map from COVID Exit Strategy, using data from the CDC and the COVID Tracking Project.
I want to add this link to the weekly report. It's important to remember:
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1983 - Is Coronavirus more contagious and more deadly than the flu? YES.
ALSO... I am seeing a big discrepancy between the Johns Hopkins data in death totals and WORLDOMETER data, which aggregates data from many more sources. Could this be the slow down due to the change in how the CDC obtains the data, having it filter first through Health and Human Services department.
United States
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Deaths:
Recovered:
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2107.10 - 10:10
- Days ago = 2199 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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