For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it, Thomas Chatterton Williams argues. theatln.tc/9IvAKQvb
Humanities departments seem to be in perpetual crisis, Williams writes: They face low enrollment, the collapse of reading and attention spans, and now Trump-administration funding cuts. In response, many colleges are trying to make the humanities “relevant” by assigning shorter readings or emphasizing their practicality in the face of financial anxieties.
“But such adaptations and compromises only exacerbate perhaps the most insidious threat the humanities face, and one that’s not often discussed,” Williams writes. “As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless,” Williams continues. “Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.”
Therapists say that “therapy-speak” has invaded their patients’ sessions and lives—and it’s making things difficult on everyone, Olga Khazan reports. theatln.tc/dOgWoyQI
“Gaslighting” and “love-bombing” are just two of the terms that couples therapists told Khazan their clients are misusing, typically after seeing descriptions of the ideas on social media. But according to the therapist Terry Real, no phrase is used as frequently as this one: “I’m the spouse of a narcissist.”
“True narcissistic personality disorder is marked by, among other traits, an abnormally high sense of self-importance and a lack of empathy,” Khazan explains. “And in reality, it’s very rare.”
Still, the therapists Khazan spoke with said that their clients seem very sure this unusual diagnosis must apply to their spouse. “People are incredibly confident in these conclusions and are not curious, are not open to discussing them and figuring out if they’re accurate,” another therapist told Khazan. “They’re coming in as the experts.”
“Most of the therapists I spoke with said they are glad that people are learning more about mental health,” Khazan continues. But “before the advent of social media, people picked up these ideas in self-help books, psychoanalysis, and pop culture.” Now, therapists say, too many people are getting sucked into online posts about pop-psych concepts—and they misapply them to their own relationships.
“Spouses’ attempts to diagnose each other can become a problem in couples’ sessions, these therapists said, because they distract focus from the dysfunctional patterns that both members of the couple are likely perpetuating,” Khazan writes. As one therapist told her, these labels can, in effect, say: “I’m not gonna change anything about our relationship. You have to change your personality or change all your behaviors to stay with me.”
But therapy-speak language appears to be here to stay. “‘I’ve got issues,’ which originated decades ago as a psychological euphemism for ‘I’ve got problems,’ is now so much a part of the lexicon that it no longer registers as originating in therapy,” Khazan writes. “Perhaps ‘gaslight’ and ‘narcissist’ are headed there too.”
The upkeep of carbon-steel knives is a huge pain. But according to Tyler Austin Harper, the knives “cultivate habits of mind—patience, focus, and repetition—that the pace and shape of modern life make so hard to develop.”
The knives rust easily, react poorly when exposed to acidic ingredients such as lemons and tomatoes, and lose their shine almost immediately. But, Harper writes, after he brought his first carbon-steel knife home and “used it to slice and dice onions, carrots, and mushrooms for Julia Child’s beef bourguignon, I fell in love with the knife’s balance and humble beauty—and, yes, the fact that it was sharp as hell.”
Carbon-steel knives will not necessarily make you a better cook, and they have largely become relics of the past, Harper continues: “They are noticeably out of place in a food culture that includes fast-casual restaurants, meal boxes by mail, 20-minute ‘weeknight recipes,’ and Silicon Valley–approved meal replacements such as Soylent—and that’s exactly the point.”
For 20 minutes last night, Americans watched Donald Trump speak, “drenched in panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” Tom Nichols argues. theatln.tc/mMLIpITq
“We could take apart Trump’s fake facts, as checkers and pundits will do in the next few days. But perhaps more important than false statements—which for Trump are par for the course—was his demeanor,” Nichols continues. “He vented his hurt feelings without a molecule of empathy or awareness.”
The president’s speech “contained no news, other than an example of his contempt for the U.S. military, whose loyalty he thinks he can purchase with a onetime $1,776 bonus check,” Nichols writes. “This is projection: Trump has shown his willingness to be bought off with gold bars and trinkets, and he may think that the men and women of the armed forces are people of equally low character.”
In effect, “Trump took to the airwaves, pointed his finger, and said: ‘Quiet, piggy,’” Nichols argues. “Even by Trump’s standards, this was an unnerving display of fear.”
Donald Trump is considering announcing onetime bonus checks of $1,776 for many military members, Ashley Parker and Nancy Youssef report. The announcement could be made as early as Trump’s address to the nation this evening, though the White House has not reached a final decision on the timing or even whether to go forward with the plan. theatln.tc/5PIQwfnx
The checks, which would go to every service member from the rank of private to colonel or their equivalents, “come at a moment when Trump’s relationship with the military is particularly complicated,” Parker and Youssef write.
Generals and admirals are notably excluded from receiving the potential bonuses, which could cost roughly $2 billion, one administration official told Parker and Youssef. The money would have to come out of the defense budget, but officials have not said what they would cut in order to pay for the bonuses. The White House has declined to comment on the payments, and the Pentagon referred requests for comment to the White House.
“Trump supporters would almost certainly celebrate the bonuses as yet another sign of a commander in chief who appreciates the men and women of the military,” Parker and Youssef write. “But a more cynical interpretation is that the money, although welcome, would represent an attempt by Trump to buy loyalty.”
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Hong Kong’s response to a recent fire that killed more than 160 people suggests that the city is becoming more authoritarian, Timothy McLaughlin argues—and this will only compound problems that “contributed to last month’s tragedy and that raise the risk of future ones.” theatln.tc/GXObiTeE
When China prepared to assume control of Hong Kong from Britain in 1997, Chinese leaders were concerned that the transition would scare off foreign investors. As a result, these leaders “tried to woo real-estate tycoons and other business elites by giving them key roles overseeing the city’s future governance,” McLaughlin explains. But “as the housing market generated greater wealth for Hong Kong’s tycoons, the construction and real-estate industries achieved growing immunity from regulatory oversight.”
“This dynamic most likely played a key role in last month’s fire,” McLaughlin argues. Hong Kong authorities allege that the construction company that had been renovating the Wang Fuk Court towers for the past year used unsafe materials. “But the city’s authorities, too, bear responsibility,” McLaughlin writes. “They seem to have disregarded warning signs about the multimillion-dollar renovation.”
As part of a criminal investigation into the fire, police have arrested some 20 people, including construction-firm bosses and fire-equipment contractors. “At the same time, however, authorities have stifled public expressions of discontent and suppressed civic-led solutions,” McLaughlin continues.
Meanwhile, as some Hong Kongers still mourned, the city held a “patriots only” legislative election. “Only 32 percent of the city voted, in part because the regime had pre-vetted the candidates, purging older lawmakers from the ballots who had connections to the system that predated Beijing’s clampdown of the city in 2020,” McLaughlin writes. “A new guard of über-nationalists took their place.”
“Both the election and the response to the fire suggest that Hong Kong is moving ever closer to Beijing’s system of repression, which meets crises not with transparency and reform but with threats and censorship,” McLaughlin argues. But “a more authoritarian order almost certainly won’t tackle the deep-seated problems.”
Since launching a military campaign in the Caribbean earlier this year, Donald Trump has made clear what his initial goal is—but whether he has a plan for what happens if Nicolás Maduro falls is an open question, Vivian Salama and Sarah Fitzpatrick report. theatln.tc/9qgcxUMS
The president’s end goal with Venezuela “is to work with a new government to gain access to the country’s oil and rare earth minerals,” Salama and Fitzpatrick write. But what that would mean in terms of leadership—or how to achieve such a goal in the first place—remains a mystery to many officials. “The opacity comes, in part, from Trump’s desire to avoid the pitfalls that came with previous U.S. attempts to plan for the unpredictable and often-chaotic outcomes of regime change in authoritarian nations,” Salama and Fitzpatrick continue.
One administration official Salama and Fitzpatrick spoke with worried that going to war in Venezuela could create a failed state that would lead to a surge of migrants heading northward. Another official told them that even if Maduro were to leave willingly, things in Venezuela “will likely get worse before they get better.”
Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters last week that “prolonged war is definitely not something this president is interested in. He’s been very clear about that.” Less clear, Salama and Fitzpatrick write, is “whether he has any actual plan to avoid it.”
The white-supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes is more powerful than ever—and is “laying the groundwork to go even bigger,” Ali Breland reports. theatln.tc/ENuVrWBm
Breland recently spent five days as a regular viewer of “America First With Nicholas J. Fuentes,” the show at the center of Fuentes’s political project. Across five episodes of the nightly broadcast, Breland watched the 27-year-old speak into a microphone for just shy of 12 hours.
“Since Fuentes appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast at the end of October, Republican leaders have started to ask themselves just how much sway he has over the party,” Breland writes. “Fuentes has built an army of fans, who call themselves ‘Groypers,’ and his style of bigoted trolling has become the lingua franca of the young, ascendant right. Each episode I watched garnered at least 1 million views on Rumble. Fuentes has attracted attention for years, but as he’s quick to remind his audience, he’s operated from the fringes, pounding on the doors of mainstream conservatism and meeting fierce condemnation.”
Fuentes “first began livestreaming in 2017, when he was a freshman at Boston University, and basically hasn’t stopped since,” Breland writes. The current broadcast is, at its core, “very much the same show, with the same racist ideology, that has been amassing followers for Fuentes for years. But he is also clearly in a mode of building, refining … Night after night, I watched Fuentes lay out his strategy for maintaining his momentum.”
“Fuentes has been remarkably consistent about his aims and clear about what he wants his fans to do. As early as 2019, Fuentes spoke to his followers about infiltrating the right by blending in with the rest of the GOP,” Breland writes. “We have to start to build an institution,” he said during one episode. “It can’t just be about me and my personality and me carrying the show.”
The real revelation in the recent interviews with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is not in what she said, but in how Trump’s supporters are spinning it, Jonathan Chait argues. theatln.tc/FrkmbsuU
The white-supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes is more powerful than ever—and is “laying the groundwork to go even bigger,” Ali Breland reports. theatln.tc/6CzaZR2Z
Breland recently spent five days as a regular viewer of “America First With Nicholas J. Fuentes,” the show at the center of Fuentes’s political project. Across five episodes of the nightly broadcast, Breland watched the 27-year-old speak into a microphone for just shy of 12 hours.
“Since Fuentes appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast at the end of October, Republican leaders have started to ask themselves just how much sway he has over the party,” Breland writes. “Fuentes has built an army of fans, who call themselves ‘Groypers,’ and his style of bigoted trolling has become the lingua franca of the young, ascendant right. Each episode I watched garnered at least 1 million views on Rumble. Fuentes has attracted attention for years, but as he’s quick to remind his audience, he’s operated from the fringes, pounding on the doors of mainstream conservatism and meeting fierce condemnation.”
Fuentes “first began livestreaming in 2017, when he was a freshman at Boston University, and basically hasn’t stopped since,” Breland writes. The current broadcast is, at its core, “very much the same show, with the same racist ideology, that has been amassing followers for Fuentes for years. But he is also clearly in a mode of building, refining … Night after night, I watched Fuentes lay out his strategy for maintaining his momentum.”
“Fuentes has been remarkably consistent about his aims and clear about what he wants his fans to do. As early as 2019, Fuentes spoke to his followers about infiltrating the right by blending in with the rest of the GOP,” Breland writes. “We have to start to build an institution,” he said during one episode. “It can’t just be about me and my personality and me carrying the show.”
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For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it, Thomas Chatterton Williams argues. theatln.tc/9IvAKQvb
Humanities departments seem to be in perpetual crisis, Williams writes: They face low enrollment, the collapse of reading and attention spans, and now Trump-administration funding cuts. In response, many colleges are trying to make the humanities “relevant” by assigning shorter readings or emphasizing their practicality in the face of financial anxieties.
“But such adaptations and compromises only exacerbate perhaps the most insidious threat the humanities face, and one that’s not often discussed,” Williams writes. “As a humanities professor myself, the biggest danger I see to the discipline is the growing perception, fueled by the ubiquity of large language models, that knowledge is cheap—a resource whose procurement ought to be easy and frictionless,” Williams continues. “Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.”
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Therapists say that “therapy-speak” has invaded their patients’ sessions and lives—and it’s making things difficult on everyone, Olga Khazan reports. theatln.tc/dOgWoyQI
“Gaslighting” and “love-bombing” are just two of the terms that couples therapists told Khazan their clients are misusing, typically after seeing descriptions of the ideas on social media. But according to the therapist Terry Real, no phrase is used as frequently as this one: “I’m the spouse of a narcissist.”
“True narcissistic personality disorder is marked by, among other traits, an abnormally high sense of self-importance and a lack of empathy,” Khazan explains. “And in reality, it’s very rare.”
Still, the therapists Khazan spoke with said that their clients seem very sure this unusual diagnosis must apply to their spouse. “People are incredibly confident in these conclusions and are not curious, are not open to discussing them and figuring out if they’re accurate,” another therapist told Khazan. “They’re coming in as the experts.”
“Most of the therapists I spoke with said they are glad that people are learning more about mental health,” Khazan continues. But “before the advent of social media, people picked up these ideas in self-help books, psychoanalysis, and pop culture.” Now, therapists say, too many people are getting sucked into online posts about pop-psych concepts—and they misapply them to their own relationships.
“Spouses’ attempts to diagnose each other can become a problem in couples’ sessions, these therapists said, because they distract focus from the dysfunctional patterns that both members of the couple are likely perpetuating,” Khazan writes. As one therapist told her, these labels can, in effect, say: “I’m not gonna change anything about our relationship. You have to change your personality or change all your behaviors to stay with me.”
But therapy-speak language appears to be here to stay. “‘I’ve got issues,’ which originated decades ago as a psychological euphemism for ‘I’ve got problems,’ is now so much a part of the lexicon that it no longer registers as originating in therapy,” Khazan writes. “Perhaps ‘gaslight’ and ‘narcissist’ are headed there too.”
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The upkeep of carbon-steel knives is a huge pain. But according to Tyler Austin Harper, the knives “cultivate habits of mind—patience, focus, and repetition—that the pace and shape of modern life make so hard to develop.”
The knives rust easily, react poorly when exposed to acidic ingredients such as lemons and tomatoes, and lose their shine almost immediately. But, Harper writes, after he brought his first carbon-steel knife home and “used it to slice and dice onions, carrots, and mushrooms for Julia Child’s beef bourguignon, I fell in love with the knife’s balance and humble beauty—and, yes, the fact that it was sharp as hell.”
Carbon-steel knives will not necessarily make you a better cook, and they have largely become relics of the past, Harper continues: “They are noticeably out of place in a food culture that includes fast-casual restaurants, meal boxes by mail, 20-minute ‘weeknight recipes,’ and Silicon Valley–approved meal replacements such as Soylent—and that’s exactly the point.”
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For 20 minutes last night, Americans watched Donald Trump speak, “drenched in panic as he tried to bully an entire nation into admitting he’s doing a great job,” Tom Nichols argues. theatln.tc/mMLIpITq
“We could take apart Trump’s fake facts, as checkers and pundits will do in the next few days. But perhaps more important than false statements—which for Trump are par for the course—was his demeanor,” Nichols continues. “He vented his hurt feelings without a molecule of empathy or awareness.”
The president’s speech “contained no news, other than an example of his contempt for the U.S. military, whose loyalty he thinks he can purchase with a onetime $1,776 bonus check,” Nichols writes. “This is projection: Trump has shown his willingness to be bought off with gold bars and trinkets, and he may think that the men and women of the armed forces are people of equally low character.”
In effect, “Trump took to the airwaves, pointed his finger, and said: ‘Quiet, piggy,’” Nichols argues. “Even by Trump’s standards, this was an unnerving display of fear.”
Read more: theatln.tc/mMLIpITq
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Donald Trump is considering announcing onetime bonus checks of $1,776 for many military members, Ashley Parker and Nancy Youssef report. The announcement could be made as early as Trump’s address to the nation this evening, though the White House has not reached a final decision on the timing or even whether to go forward with the plan. theatln.tc/5PIQwfnx
The checks, which would go to every service member from the rank of private to colonel or their equivalents, “come at a moment when Trump’s relationship with the military is particularly complicated,” Parker and Youssef write.
Generals and admirals are notably excluded from receiving the potential bonuses, which could cost roughly $2 billion, one administration official told Parker and Youssef. The money would have to come out of the defense budget, but officials have not said what they would cut in order to pay for the bonuses. The White House has declined to comment on the payments, and the Pentagon referred requests for comment to the White House.
“Trump supporters would almost certainly celebrate the bonuses as yet another sign of a commander in chief who appreciates the men and women of the military,” Parker and Youssef write. “But a more cynical interpretation is that the money, although welcome, would represent an attempt by Trump to buy loyalty.”
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Hong Kong’s response to a recent fire that killed more than 160 people suggests that the city is becoming more authoritarian, Timothy McLaughlin argues—and this will only compound problems that “contributed to last month’s tragedy and that raise the risk of future ones.” theatln.tc/GXObiTeE
When China prepared to assume control of Hong Kong from Britain in 1997, Chinese leaders were concerned that the transition would scare off foreign investors. As a result, these leaders “tried to woo real-estate tycoons and other business elites by giving them key roles overseeing the city’s future governance,” McLaughlin explains. But “as the housing market generated greater wealth for Hong Kong’s tycoons, the construction and real-estate industries achieved growing immunity from regulatory oversight.”
“This dynamic most likely played a key role in last month’s fire,” McLaughlin argues. Hong Kong authorities allege that the construction company that had been renovating the Wang Fuk Court towers for the past year used unsafe materials. “But the city’s authorities, too, bear responsibility,” McLaughlin writes. “They seem to have disregarded warning signs about the multimillion-dollar renovation.”
As part of a criminal investigation into the fire, police have arrested some 20 people, including construction-firm bosses and fire-equipment contractors. “At the same time, however, authorities have stifled public expressions of discontent and suppressed civic-led solutions,” McLaughlin continues.
Meanwhile, as some Hong Kongers still mourned, the city held a “patriots only” legislative election. “Only 32 percent of the city voted, in part because the regime had pre-vetted the candidates, purging older lawmakers from the ballots who had connections to the system that predated Beijing’s clampdown of the city in 2020,” McLaughlin writes. “A new guard of über-nationalists took their place.”
“Both the election and the response to the fire suggest that Hong Kong is moving ever closer to Beijing’s system of repression, which meets crises not with transparency and reform but with threats and censorship,” McLaughlin argues. But “a more authoritarian order almost certainly won’t tackle the deep-seated problems.”
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Since launching a military campaign in the Caribbean earlier this year, Donald Trump has made clear what his initial goal is—but whether he has a plan for what happens if Nicolás Maduro falls is an open question, Vivian Salama and Sarah Fitzpatrick report. theatln.tc/9qgcxUMS
The president’s end goal with Venezuela “is to work with a new government to gain access to the country’s oil and rare earth minerals,” Salama and Fitzpatrick write. But what that would mean in terms of leadership—or how to achieve such a goal in the first place—remains a mystery to many officials. “The opacity comes, in part, from Trump’s desire to avoid the pitfalls that came with previous U.S. attempts to plan for the unpredictable and often-chaotic outcomes of regime change in authoritarian nations,” Salama and Fitzpatrick continue.
One administration official Salama and Fitzpatrick spoke with worried that going to war in Venezuela could create a failed state that would lead to a surge of migrants heading northward. Another official told them that even if Maduro were to leave willingly, things in Venezuela “will likely get worse before they get better.”
Meanwhile, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters last week that “prolonged war is definitely not something this president is interested in. He’s been very clear about that.” Less clear, Salama and Fitzpatrick write, is “whether he has any actual plan to avoid it.”
Read more: theatln.tc/9qgcxUMS
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The white-supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes is more powerful than ever—and is “laying the groundwork to go even bigger,” Ali Breland reports. theatln.tc/ENuVrWBm
Breland recently spent five days as a regular viewer of “America First With Nicholas J. Fuentes,” the show at the center of Fuentes’s political project. Across five episodes of the nightly broadcast, Breland watched the 27-year-old speak into a microphone for just shy of 12 hours.
“Since Fuentes appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast at the end of October, Republican leaders have started to ask themselves just how much sway he has over the party,” Breland writes. “Fuentes has built an army of fans, who call themselves ‘Groypers,’ and his style of bigoted trolling has become the lingua franca of the young, ascendant right. Each episode I watched garnered at least 1 million views on Rumble. Fuentes has attracted attention for years, but as he’s quick to remind his audience, he’s operated from the fringes, pounding on the doors of mainstream conservatism and meeting fierce condemnation.”
Fuentes “first began livestreaming in 2017, when he was a freshman at Boston University, and basically hasn’t stopped since,” Breland writes. The current broadcast is, at its core, “very much the same show, with the same racist ideology, that has been amassing followers for Fuentes for years. But he is also clearly in a mode of building, refining … Night after night, I watched Fuentes lay out his strategy for maintaining his momentum.”
“Fuentes has been remarkably consistent about his aims and clear about what he wants his fans to do. As early as 2019, Fuentes spoke to his followers about infiltrating the right by blending in with the rest of the GOP,” Breland writes. “We have to start to build an institution,” he said during one episode. “It can’t just be about me and my personality and me carrying the show.”
Read more: theatln.tc/ENuVrWBm
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The real revelation in the recent interviews with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is not in what she said, but in how Trump’s supporters are spinning it, Jonathan Chait argues. theatln.tc/FrkmbsuU
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The white-supremacist influencer Nick Fuentes is more powerful than ever—and is “laying the groundwork to go even bigger,” Ali Breland reports. theatln.tc/6CzaZR2Z
Breland recently spent five days as a regular viewer of “America First With Nicholas J. Fuentes,” the show at the center of Fuentes’s political project. Across five episodes of the nightly broadcast, Breland watched the 27-year-old speak into a microphone for just shy of 12 hours.
“Since Fuentes appeared on Tucker Carlson’s podcast at the end of October, Republican leaders have started to ask themselves just how much sway he has over the party,” Breland writes. “Fuentes has built an army of fans, who call themselves ‘Groypers,’ and his style of bigoted trolling has become the lingua franca of the young, ascendant right. Each episode I watched garnered at least 1 million views on Rumble. Fuentes has attracted attention for years, but as he’s quick to remind his audience, he’s operated from the fringes, pounding on the doors of mainstream conservatism and meeting fierce condemnation.”
Fuentes “first began livestreaming in 2017, when he was a freshman at Boston University, and basically hasn’t stopped since,” Breland writes. The current broadcast is, at its core, “very much the same show, with the same racist ideology, that has been amassing followers for Fuentes for years. But he is also clearly in a mode of building, refining … Night after night, I watched Fuentes lay out his strategy for maintaining his momentum.”
“Fuentes has been remarkably consistent about his aims and clear about what he wants his fans to do. As early as 2019, Fuentes spoke to his followers about infiltrating the right by blending in with the rest of the GOP,” Breland writes. “We have to start to build an institution,” he said during one episode. “It can’t just be about me and my personality and me carrying the show.”
Read more at the link: theatln.tc/6CzaZR2Z
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