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Founder of Platformer, a newsletter on tech platforms and the people they affect, and co-host of the Hard Fork podcast at the New York Times.
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Meta's VR Glasses, far lighter and cheaper than Apple Vision Pro, appear to be a landmark development in virtual reality history.
The Meta VR Glasses, which effectively shrink the Apple Vision Pro into a device that is one-sixth the weight and roughly one-third the price, appear to be a landmark development in the history of virtual reality.
platformer.newsSaid 25 Sept 2026This on korrents
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Spending enough time in San Francisco tends to make people want to start their own company.
No matter how much fun you're having at your W-2 job, spend enough time in San Francisco and you may find yourself itching to build something of your own.
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The Meta VR Glasses, which effectively shrink the Apple Vision Pro into a device that is one-sixth the weight and roughly one-third the price, appear to be a landmark development in the history of virtual reality.
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From one piece What was Hard Fork? 3 beliefs · platformer.news
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NPR listeners have long known what modern podcast listeners only realized more recently - that storytelling often hits way harder when it's delivered by the human voice.
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it's maybe the most important media platform in the world, and also one that journalists have found very difficult to crack.
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Spending enough time in San Francisco tends to make people want to start their own company.Their words
No matter how much fun you're having at your W-2 job, spend enough time in San Francisco and you may find yourself itching to build something of your own.
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From one piece The AI safety vibe shift 3 beliefs · platformer.news
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No one, including safety researchers themselves, is yet confident that superintelligence can be safely controlled.Their words
I believe the researchers who say we are nowhere close to being sure of it - and are quitting, in protest, jobs that would make them rich.
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Public sentiment on AI is shifting steadily toward greater concern about its risks, not less.Their words
But public sentiment around AI is changing rapidly, and it is only really moving in one direction.
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AI companies make for flawed messengers on this subject: they can reasonably be accused of marketing, of blame-shifting, of regulatory capture, and more.
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From one piece The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought 2 beliefs · platformer.news
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But bad as a slowdown might be for their portfolios, the current pace of development might be worse for the rest of us.
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AI model capabilities have already advanced beyond humanity's ability to understand or control them.Their words
Looking at the METR report, it seems clear that AI-model capabilities have already advanced beyond our ability to understand and control them.
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From one piece How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job 3 beliefs · platformer.news
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Universal basic income alone will not address the economic gap created by AI-driven job displacement.Their words
I don't think that universal basic income on its own will address the gap that's widening.
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I actually think the opposite, which is that there are going to be many more software engineers than even the rosiest current predictions, and that software engineers will take over these other jobs: legal, marketing, accounting.
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But I think there have been enough studies now isolating those variables that show that AI is directly responsible for a lot of this job loss.
27 August
From one piece Meta settles with the states over child safety failures 3 beliefs · platformer.news
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It's true that Meta's rivals do largely employ the same cocktail of video formats, recommendation algorithms, and push notifications to continuously derail their users' attention.
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judges and juries have begun to accept the argument that platform design is not covered by either of those, and companies can be punished for harmful features.
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Whether American teenagers should be harassed after 10 p.m. by engagement-baiting push notifications ought to be a matter for Congress, not the social media cartel.
19 August
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Raycast, a launcher app that replaces Spotlight, remains my preferred way to navigate a computer.
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CapacitiesTheir words
You could easily do this with any number of apps, but after three years I still find myself appreciating the simplicity and calm of Capacities.
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RecallTheir words
its Chrome extension provides near-instant text summaries of YouTube videos. Over the past year, I’ve saved myself many hours by dumping podcasts I feel like I should listen to for work into Recall and simply skimming the summaries.
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GlazeTheir words
Sometimes I use Glaze, another app from the maker of Raycast; it excels at design and polish.
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GhosttyTheir words
I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.
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ObsidianTheir words
I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.
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Claude CodeTheir words
Like seemingly everyone else at the end of last year, I began messing around with Claude Code, and have since made a small handful of apps that I really do use all the time.
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GPT-5.5 InstantTheir words
And thanks to a paid upgrade, I do tons of simple AI searches in the Raycast window. (I use GPT-5.5 Instant here for the high quality-to-speed ratio.)
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GranolaTheir words
Pedregal is the co-founder and CEO of Granola, which has been my own AI notetaker since shortly after it launched.
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Meta's VR Glasses, far lighter and cheaper than Apple Vision Pro, appear to be a landmark development in virtual reality history.
The Meta VR Glasses, which effectively shrink the Apple Vision Pro into a device that is one-sixth the weight and roughly one-third the price, appear to be a landmark development in the history of virtual reality.
Can Muse make us forget the metaverse? Said 25 Sept 2026
Spending enough time in San Francisco tends to make people want to start their own company.
No matter how much fun you're having at your W-2 job, spend enough time in San Francisco and you may find yourself itching to build something of your own.
What was Hard Fork? Said 18 Sept 2026
YouTube is the most important media platform in the world today.
it's maybe the most important media platform in the world, and also one that journalists have found very difficult to crack.
What was Hard Fork? Said 18 Sept 2026
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Storytelling hits harder when delivered by the human voice.
NPR listeners have long known what modern podcast listeners only realized more recently - that storytelling often hits way harder when it's delivered by the human voice.
What was Hard Fork? Said 18 Sept 2026
AI companies are conflicted messengers when warning about AI safety risks, given their own marketing and regulatory incentives.
AI companies make for flawed messengers on this subject: they can reasonably be accused of marketing, of blame-shifting, of regulatory capture, and more.
The AI safety vibe shift Said 11 Sept 2026
Public sentiment on AI is shifting steadily toward greater concern about its risks, not less.
But public sentiment around AI is changing rapidly, and it is only really moving in one direction.
The AI safety vibe shift Said 11 Sept 2026
No one, including safety researchers themselves, is yet confident that superintelligence can be safely controlled.
I believe the researchers who say we are nowhere close to being sure of it - and are quitting, in protest, jobs that would make them rich.
The AI safety vibe shift Said 11 Sept 2026
AI model capabilities have already advanced beyond humanity's ability to understand or control them.
Looking at the METR report, it seems clear that AI-model capabilities have already advanced beyond our ability to understand and control them.
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought Said 1 Sept 2026
The current pace of AI development is worse for society than a coordinated slowdown would be for investors' portfolios.
But bad as a slowdown might be for their portfolios, the current pace of development might be worse for the rest of us.
The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought Said 1 Sept 2026
AI, not macroeconomic factors like interest rates, is directly responsible for a significant share of current job losses.
But I think there have been enough studies now isolating those variables that show that AI is directly responsible for a lot of this job loss.
How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job Said 28 Aug 2026
AI will increase the number of software engineers needed and let them take over legal, marketing, and accounting work.
I actually think the opposite, which is that there are going to be many more software engineers than even the rosiest current predictions, and that software engineers will take over these other jobs: legal, marketing, accounting.
How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job Said 28 Aug 2026
Universal basic income alone will not address the economic gap created by AI-driven job displacement.
I don't think that universal basic income on its own will address the gap that's widening.
How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job Said 28 Aug 2026
Regulating harmful social media design features for teens should be decided by legislatures, not left to industry agreements.
Whether American teenagers should be harassed after 10 p.m. by engagement-baiting push notifications ought to be a matter for Congress, not the social media cartel.
Meta settles with the states over child safety failures Said 27 Aug 2026
Platform design choices are not shielded by the First Amendment or Section 230, so companies can be held liable for harmful features.
judges and juries have begun to accept the argument that platform design is not covered by either of those, and companies can be punished for harmful features.
Meta settles with the states over child safety failures Said 27 Aug 2026
Social media platforms across the industry rely on similar video formats, recommendation algorithms, and push notifications to keep users engaged as long as possible.
It's true that Meta's rivals do largely employ the same cocktail of video formats, recommendation algorithms, and push notifications to continuously derail their users' attention.
Meta settles with the states over child safety failures Said 27 Aug 2026
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Uses GPT-5.5 Instant
And thanks to a paid upgrade, I do tons of simple AI searches in the Raycast window. (I use GPT-5.5 Instant here for the high quality-to-speed ratio.)
platformer.news 19 Aug 2026
Uses Claude Code
Like seemingly everyone else at the end of last year, I began messing around with Claude Code, and have since made a small handful of apps that I really do use all the time.
platformer.news 19 Aug 2026
Uses Obsidian
I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.
platformer.news 19 Aug 2026
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Uses Ghostty
I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.
platformer.news 19 Aug 2026
Liked Glaze
Sometimes I use Glaze, another app from the maker of Raycast; it excels at design and polish.
platformer.news 19 Aug 2026
Uses Recall
its Chrome extension provides near-instant text summaries of YouTube videos. Over the past year, I’ve saved myself many hours by dumping podcasts I feel like I should listen to for work into Recall and simply skimming the summaries.
platformer.news 19 Aug 2026
Liked Capacities
You could easily do this with any number of apps, but after three years I still find myself appreciating the simplicity and calm of Capacities.
platformer.news 19 Aug 2026
Loved Raycast
Raycast, a launcher app that replaces Spotlight, remains my preferred way to navigate a computer.
platformer.news 19 Aug 2026
Uses Granola
Pedregal is the co-founder and CEO of Granola, which has been my own AI notetaker since shortly after it launched.
platformer.news 30 Jul 2026
Recommends Design Lobster
Ben Strak's short and sweet Monday newsletter offers weekly inspiration to designers and anyone else curious about the world around them. A good example of how newsletters thrive on the authentic curiosity of the people who write them.
platformer.substack.com 16 Jan 2024
Recommends Supervised
Longtime tech reporter Matt Lynley offers an uncommonly technical assessment of new AI developments in his newsletter Supervised. Original reporting and a fast cadence help this one stand out from other AI newsletters.
platformer.substack.com 16 Jan 2024
Loved Search Engine
It's a deeply humane project that also manages to be formally inventive; I never feel like I'm in surer hands as a podcast listener than when Vogt is telling me about what he has learned.
platformer.substack.com 16 Jan 2024
Recommends Newcomer
Eric Newcomer is the rare Substack journalist who thrives on breaking news. His dispatches from Silicon Valley and beyond have the knowing voice of a veteran observer, but with the open-mindedness that defines a great reporter. The accompanying podcast is also well worth a listen.
platformer.substack.com 16 Jan 2024
Recommends Communiqué
David Adeleke's dispatches from the African tech scene introduce me to companies and entrepreneurs who are as fascinating as they are unfamiliar. The sharp analysis and quality-over-quantity approach to newslettering makes it stand out.
platformer.substack.com 16 Jan 2024
Recommends Big Technology
Alex Kantrowitz's weekly dispatches on the tech industry show off a genuine curiosity and knack for putting events in their broader context. The accompanying podcast, which features an eclectic mix of newsmakers and journalists, is well worth a listen.
platformer.substack.com 16 Jan 2024
Recommends The Pragmatic Engineer
Gergely brings an incredible amount of reporting depth to every edition of this newsletter about the nuts and bolts of building technology. A must-read for the tech rank-and-file and their managers.
platformer.substack.com 16 Jan 2024
Loved User Mag
Taylor Lorenz is my personal internet culture queen, and I simply follow wherever she leads.
platformer.substack.com 16 Jan 2024
Recommends The Long Game
Molly Knight has enviable access to the Los Angeles Dodgers, and she uses it to write deeply humane, beautifully written explorations of sports and fandom. A newsletter that belongs in the inbox of any baseball fan.
platformer.substack.com 16 Jan 2024
Mixed on AI pin
I tried out Humane's long-awaited new AI pin. While there are some undoubtedly novel new features in its interfaces, I think "AI hardware" may turn out to be a dead end
x.com 10 Nov 2023
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I suggest using a text-to-image generator like DALL-E 3. However you feel about synthetic media, the pace of improvement is readily apparent from a single prompt
x.com 24 Oct 2023
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Newsletter Platformer The newsletter they founded, on tech platforms and their consequences. Has a feed.
Reporting and argument on how the large platforms are run and what their decisions do to the people using them. Now runs other writers alongside them; only their own posts appear in the list here.
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- The states come for OpenAI 15 Oct 2026 Will the approach that beat Meta in New Mexico work against ChatGPT?
- X’s reverse eternal September 14 Oct 2026 Why the onetime global town square now feels more like a clubhouse
- Does intelligence need a hard cap? 7 Oct 2026 Calls for a new kind of slowdown were the talk of The Curve. PLUS: Slinking back to X
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- OpenAI connects the Dots 30 Sept 2026 With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents
- Can Muse make us forget the metaverse? 25 Sept 2026 Meta has a new vision to sell, but it may be getting ahead of itself. (The VR Glasses are amazing, though)
- Muse is having a moment 23 Sept 2026 Are consumer agents the future — or a mirage?
- What was Hard Fork? 18 Sept 2026 Saying goodbye to some old friends — and hello to Machine Gods
- The AI safety vibe shift 11 Sept 2026 Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about
- The AI warnings are coming from inside the lab 9 Sept 2026 Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them
- Google gets away with it 4 Sept 2026 A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'
- The Hugging Face attack was worse than we thought 1 Sept 2026 The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?
- How AI agents "radicalized" a top Meta exec into quitting her job 28 Aug 2026 Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it
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x.com @CaseyNewton Still posting, alongside Bluesky.
The older short-form account, still in use alongside Bluesky and carrying much the same posts.
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- Just hit a new @Waymo high score ... it arrived three streets and 610 feet from me Post your high scores in the comments 14 Oct 2026
- At least for the tech crowd, X seems to be experiencing a kind of 'reverse eternal September' where the user base thins out, making it feel more like a clubhouse 14 Oct 2026
- Sharing our latest evals from the Machine Gods lab 13 Oct 2026
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- Smart of Google to lean into vibe-coding in the Play Store ... it's the sort of thing that makes Apple super uncomfortable but that nerds love 13 Oct 2026 zdnet.com
- "A full report with additional safety evaluations will be available soon" — just what you want to hear from Meta on a day that it claims to have reached the frontier of AI 12 Oct 2026 research.meta.ai
- It seems strange that the tools we have for creating synthetic media are much more restrictive about what we can create than the platform that host and distribute the resulting material. My column on YouTube opening its doors to deepfakes today: 15 Nov 2023
- New from me: Etsy secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares, and some employees aren’t happy. A story about content moderation in wartime: 14 Nov 2023 platformer.news
- It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, FTC Chair Lina Khan on regulating AI, open vs. closed development, and when she's going to get around to suing X. PLUS: We build our first GPTs, and Kevin talks to one of the ApeFest attendees who got his eyes burned 10 Nov 2023 nytimes.com
- I tried out Humane's long-awaited new AI pin. While there are some undoubtedly novel new features in its interfaces, I think "AI hardware" may turn out to be a dead end 10 Nov 2023 platformer.news
- From people to servers, Elon Musk is borrowing from across his empire to build Grok. @ZoeSchiffer and I report: 8 Nov 2023
- I wrote about the experience of building a custom GPT (in my case, a copy editor) and how OpenAI is paving a path toward powerful AI agents, for better and for worse 7 Nov 2023 platformer.news
- It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, my trip to the White House and the debate over how to regulate AI. Then, copyright expert Rebecca Tushnet on whether artists have a fighting chance against image generators training on their work. And finally: HatGPT 3 Nov 2023 nytimes.com
- I wrote about the argument that this week’s AI regulations represent “regulatory capture” and make the case that if even Elon Musk is asking the government to do something, we have every right to mandate a little transparency. 3 Nov 2023
- I asked Arati Prabhakar, director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, how the federal government was thinking about the debate in AI between open-source and closed models. Here’s what she told me 1 Nov 2023
- It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, we discuss the states’ lawsuit against Meta over child safety. Then, YouTube legend @MKBHD joins us to discuss how to succeed there in 2023. And finally, we use DALL-E 3 to make HOT DADS. 27 Oct 2023 nytimes.com
- One year after Elon Musk let that sink in, an elegy for the platform that was — and some notes on the one that is poised to succeed it. With @ZoeSchiffer 27 Oct 2023
- Let’s talk about the big new lawsuit against Meta over child safety. 25 Oct 2023
- At a time when the pace of AI development feels hard to grasp, I suggest using a text-to-image generator like DALL-E 3. However you feel about synthetic media, the pace of improvement is readily apparent from a single prompt 24 Oct 2023 platformer.news
- It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, three new ways of understanding AI models. THEN: who's the real techno-optimist?? And finally, how we're using AI to read ancient scrolls 👀 20 Oct 2023 nytimes.com
- I wrote about Discord’s fascinating experiment in trying to rehabilitate wayward teenage trolls. It’s a welcome reminder that trust and safety teams can innovate ➡️ 20 Oct 2023
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- X seems to be experiencing a kind of 'reverse eternal September' where the user base thins out, making it feel more like a clubhouse. (Hopefully it will continue to thin out! But in the meantime this may explain why some are slinking back) 14 Oct 2026 platformer.news
- At an important AI conference called The Curve this weekend, the big new idea for making AI safe was to put a hard cap on intelligence. I wrote about the debate: 7 Oct 2026 platformer.news
- Going live on Instagram at noon ET with Kevin to discuss OpenAI Dots and take your questions! 2 Oct 2026
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- Meta glasses: too perverted for Amsterdam 2 Oct 2026
- I spent some time with OpenAI's new agent, Dots, and it's ... pretty good??? 30 Sept 2026 platformer.news
- However skeptical I am about Muse as a consumer product, I have to admit that the VR Glasses are a real achievement. Some thoughts on Meta Connect 25 Sept 2026 platformer.news
- I'm skeptical about Muse 23 Sept 2026 platformer.news
- Getting my associate’s degree in regulatory arbitrage from Horowitz Andreessen Academy 22 Sept 2026
- Probably the worst job in a video game is being the henchman in the stealth tutorial whose job is it to stand motionless looking over a railing, waiting for someone to sneak up behind you so they can knock you out with one button. I don't envy that guy 21 Sept 2026
- Terrifying 18 Sept 2026
- On the eve of our final episode, wrote a farewell to Hard Fork and a few thoughts about what we're doing with Machine Gods 18 Sept 2026 platformer.news
- This is Machine Gods! A new podcast from Kevin and me, in partnership with the legends at NPR. New episodes in October! Links to follow the show here — the trailer is already up 16 Sept 2026 machinegods.fm
- I wrote about the AI safety vibe shift. It's been a long time in coming: 11 Sept 2026 platformer.news
- Gang I'm not going to be able to get to this story. Does anybody else want it 9 Sept 2026
- I wrote about why the AI labs make for lousy messengers about AI safety — and about why we should take them seriously anyway 9 Sept 2026 platformer.news
- Excited to put all my money into Jack Dorsey Uninsured National Trust Bank 8 Sept 2026
- UBS becomes the first bank to ask prospective employees: can you type into a box? 6 Sept 2026
- We devoted the entire (penultimate!) episode of Hard Fork to METR's investigation of the Hugging Face attack, and before I even woke up @deepa.bsky.social has scooped a *second*, previously unknown rogue OpenAI agent swarm attack 4 Sept 2026 reuters.com
- Wrote about how you can lose three massive antitrust cases in a row and more than double your value anyway 4 Sept 2026 platformer.news
- It's cool how you can lose two different antitrust lawsuits and still not have to make any structural changes to your business at all 2 Sept 2026 nytimes.com
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- Why No One Can Look Away From Elizabeth Holmes 16 Oct 2026
- What’s a Hard Fork? 27 Sept 2022
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