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I don’t much see the point in a touchscreen MacBook if they don’t fold or detach into a tablet/iPad form a-la the Surface. They could have just gone with MacBook Duo 🤷‍♂️

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Would make the price easier to swallow if it was truly multi-purpose and meant traveling with fewer devices overall…

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@manton This is the iOS app BTW. Though I also am not always sure where to put bug reports, generally. The forum?

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@manton Not with the Mac app, and IDK if a micro.blog issue or a NetNewsWire issue, but opening MB RSS in NNW always results in what I suspect is some kind of redirect — making the in app browser immediately have two navigation states.

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I don’t notice any other feeds doing this, so figure to pass along as it’s been around a very long time.

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@manton This is the kind of attention that I wish more people did, given the summary ease with agents lately.

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Probably easy enough to encode in a skill, but I wonder how “ask/sweat the nerdy details” would do in AGENTS.MD 🤔

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@manton Let’s hope that they find a sneaker net model for sharing vibe coded apps.

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Still it’s bonkers how much artisanal apps get held up, when low quality or scam after scam keeps hitting. Feel like it is child’s play for gut identifying “this is total crap” and yet…

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@manton Definitely in the top 2 of ~5 online subs(tacks) I pay for.

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Ben’s built a great bundle, measured takes (especially on tech + markets/politics), and perhaps surprisingly I might even appreciate SharpChina most of them all.

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Andrew’s weekly takes are also great reads on their own.

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@manton At the end of the day all kinds of systems have to do grim estimates like this (value of a soldier in war etc).

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But we wouldn’t want to inhibit self-driving cars, proven safer than humans already, just because some will inevitably have tragedy strike.

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There’s also wide variance in cause and direction. Human directing AI vs. it self directing are very different situations.

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No technology will be perfect, this one will likely have the biggest impact on human longevity than others ever over time with medicine and other things. You can’t have liability so low we never get that future benefit at all.

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The new Apple TV 4K is extremely underwhelming at $299. For that price, could they at least included a cheap FaceTime camera and force third party apps to use the native playback controls? And yet, I seem to have no choice but to get one but to keep my janky LG TV spy-tech running instead 🫠

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@manton * Though that doesn’t count the fact that Linux is extremely AI malleable, as the Omarchy crew is proving. Which is certainly its own big advantage vs. Mac and really is a temptation.

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@manton Did you evaluate any of the Mac mini extension docks that have NVMe slots and plug into thunderbolt?

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I go back and forth on a Linux box vs new daily driver. I think with OCLP 3 hitting with Tahoe support I might be able to hold out until M7 Pros, but Intel’s very long in the tooth (and Homebrew dropping support entirely doesn’t make it easier)

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@manton Blue Texas will be quite the sight when Republicans get a deserved drubbing. I just hope Democrats don’t over-read the room, given their approval is just as low as the GOP: they’re just the only alternative for upset citizens voting the bums out.

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This was Biden’s mistake, who then loaded up with Elizabeth Warren and Bernie staffers… which then got us here. Unfortunately, modern media and primary politics are built to undermine centrism.

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@manton Cookie banners all over again

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@manton I think the Muse VPS being private is the right start. Ultimately, it’s Apple’s game to lose being the preferred device vendor. But I expect it’s likely they will, given they’re going to hobble capabilities to protect the AppStore protection racket.

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The killer app(s) for agents will eventually happen for normies that makes privacy concerns secondary as it always does, and I don’t see it happening first in Siri or whatever Apple locks down and “offers”. Self-writing software is kind of their antithesis.

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@manton Micron says… no ram for you, come again (some multiple of) one year

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Wild that the Crucial brand is now history 😵‍💫

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@manton Before they killed Apollo, which was cold water in the sluggish web-UX hell of their ‘modern’ site, Reddit was becoming my anti-Twitter of sorts.

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The fact that it was opt-in topics-based with moderators usually kept everything from devolving into the political shouting matches that all too often consumes the likes of X, Mastodon, and especially Bluesky.

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@manton Maybe my DNS is bad or something, I can hit manton.org but not manton.micro.blog urls

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@manton That stinks, but damn if the economics of US rail isn’t brutal outside of the NE corridor and other limited spots.

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Anytime I think of taking the Brightline, it’s often not cost competitive vs. splitting Ubers with my friends to go direct. Last mile issues are notable in FL heat, and often boil down to ride sharing.

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Or it’s not that much better than the $5 Tri-Rail which has free parking. I do hope it makes it through somehow.

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@manton The impact on jobs could be large, but they can also be “maybe we should stop trying to make wild predictions on a highly dynamic labor market all the time…” marginalrevolution.com/marginalr…

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As for Anthropic’s self-serving corporate doomerism, my money is on juicing productivity and human longevity rather than infinite paper clips.

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@manton I usually plan and review in Sol medium or high, implement in Terra medium or high for my day job. For personal, I’m a little more frugal but I use that as my own training to understand token efficiency.

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Hopefully the 6 series makes me break out xhigh even less when I feel like I’m in review finding circles.

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@manton I’ve just started to give github.com/DietrichG… a shot, as I find myself often getting in review loops fixing things that aren’t always clear they’re quite worth it.

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Also trying to play with github.com/obra/supe… but not sure if it’s too heavy

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@therivertao enjoy being haunted by Tim Cook tonight 😂

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@manton Guessing the snag is something around volume. The Neo is basically chip leftovers which they presumably want to limit, and they probably sell every Neo they can already.

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So the argument for another low end headless Mac might be a rounding error for the company that can’t be bothered to make an iPhone mini for everyone that really wants a new one.

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Particularly when there isn’t really much great competition/$ for the mini as it is. Even the Beelinks and others are not really much cheaper, so less competitive pressure?

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@manton Our app was seeing a lot of automated activity on our signup flow, and every time I have to navigate Cloudflare I forget where I need to go or get totally turned around between the multiple places needing configuration.

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Had a great time just throwing Codex at their MCP to update blocklists for the Russian group hitting us. Also was able to have it configure a worker to monitor this activity better into our APM.

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(Although configuring the MCP API token permissions was still a bit overwhelming, given paranoia around agents mucking in Cloudflare generally)

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@manton @jlward I think at the end of the day it is just that money talks.

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Apple doesn’t need nVidia (or anyone) for it’s consumer GPUs, but if you want to not be left in the dust on the current state of AI (Apple’s perceptive achilles heel) they’ve got too much IP to ignore.

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@manton Although one thing I keep meaning to look into is Cloudflare’s Moltworker… they are usually stupendous on pricing. Though I need to see how OpenClaw’s project management compares to Hermes, which is where I’m playing at the moment.

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@manton OHV prices still seem fairly low, and unlike Hetzner have inexpensive US-based options. But the $899 Mac mini definitely gets you a lot more hardware, although cloud resiliency is nice aside from waiting out prices (that, in all honesty, may be permanently gone either from RAM or inflation)

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I think if I were going to bite the bullet on any local hardware right now I would try to piggy back off a Steam Machine mostly sitting idle. But I already let my Switch and PS5 sit unplayed, so 2017 iMac it remains :)

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@manton Glad to see. Basically the entire carbon future is a game of India, China, and other developing nations.

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The US trajectory continues to get cleaner, although the ROI on the carbon we produce is much higher than anywhere in terms of economic value.

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RIP Tim, 🍻 to the greatest acting in all of video games!

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$5099 now the minimum buy in for a 128GB Mac, which I guess is on par with a DGX Spark 🫠.

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Not sure if it was actually nerfed or not, but was really hoping the mini would have been able to hit 128GB. Looks like I will continue with my 2017 iMac a while longer, hopefully someone solves 5K Linux soon…

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YA YA YA YA YA 🚕

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Maybe the only thing that can get me more excited than N64 remakes, is a glimmer of Dreamcast (or ideally Saturn) era Sega games… things haven’t been the same since they stopped making hardware.

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The people demand a harder water temple 🤓

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So excited to revisit Ocarina of Time and Starfox 64 (despite the people complaining about another SF64 remake)

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The iPhone as Birth Control: blog.baxendale.dev

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Sacrificing the future is apparently human nature: blog.baxendale.dev

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Freeze it in Carboninte and let Jaba hold on to it for a while: blog.baxendale.dev

","summary":"","url":"https://blog.baxendale.dev/2026/05/04/freeze-it-in-carboninte-and.html","date_published":"2026-05-05T03:03:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeff Baxendale","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F2295.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bax"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-05-05 03:03","date_timestamp":1777950239,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"89597502","content_html":"

Got locked out of work device management and upgraded to Tahoe thinking that would do the trick. Immediately hit all the needless pains of absurd corner radii and inability to quickly find key menu items now that everything has an icon next to it 🫩

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The Olympics rule and I’m done with people hating on the USA: blog.baxendale.dev

","summary":"","url":"https://blog.baxendale.dev/2026/02/24/the-olympics-rule-and-im.html","date_published":"2026-02-25T01:35:08+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeff Baxendale","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F2295.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bax"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-25 01:35","date_timestamp":1771983308,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"84824367","content_html":"

Still buzzing hours and inevitably days later, Jack Hughes of my NJ Devils with the golden goal. Hockey is so good, pitter patter 😎

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WHAT. A. GAME!!! Connor with the save of a lifetime and Jackie Boy with the golden goal!!

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Under-appreciated news, but it seems like the globe has beaten COVID-19 🦠

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Covid has become as unremarkable to most as any other common infection. Over the holiday season, the diseases everyone was talking about in my two home countries—Greece and the United States—were norovirus and the flu.

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The only thing left is to get to the true bottom of it, as both the CIA and FBI consider the lab leak to be the leading theory at this point. And if that is true, those responsible should not be allowed to escape accountability.

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The greatest female entrepreneur knew a thing or two about playing hardball: blog.baxendale.dev

","summary":"Listening in on the Acquired.fm episode on Epic Systems and the extraordinary story of Judy Faulkner, a pioneering figure in the technology industry. What a history lesson this turned out to be!","url":"https://blog.baxendale.dev/2026/02/04/the-greatest-female-entrepreneur-knew.html","date_published":"2026-02-04T17:32:59+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeff Baxendale","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F2295.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bax"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-04 17:32","date_timestamp":1770226379,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"83374997","content_html":"

All dogs go to heaven: blog.baxendale.dev

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Another brick in the wall \"\" : blog.baxendale.dev

","summary":"","url":"https://blog.baxendale.dev/2026/01/31/another-brick-in-the-wall.html","date_published":"2026-01-31T17:24:52+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeff Baxendale","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F2295.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bax"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-31 17:24","date_timestamp":1769880292,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"83235951","content_html":"

“Claude, take the wheel,” just incredible (and, against car dealerships, extremely feel-good 🥛)

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Amusing segment during ATP.fm this week about blocking macOS Tahoe upgrade notifications. You basically need to hack around it with an MDM profile. Clever, if annoying.

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Yet not nearly as annoying given the fact that my iMac is not even eligible for Tahoe and I still get nagged to upgrade 🤡

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You don't win friends with Salad: blog.baxendale.dev

","summary":"Despite significant attention on veganism, the percentage of American vegans has remained steady at 1% over the past 30 years, highlighting a lack of widespread dietary shift.","url":"https://blog.baxendale.dev/2026/01/21/you-dont-win-friends-with.html","date_published":"2026-01-21T16:45:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeff Baxendale","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F2295.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bax"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-21 16:45","date_timestamp":1769013924,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82340037","content_html":"Yesterday was a weird one, in that what started as a standard Saturday afternoon down at the beach playing volleyball ended with a scary call to 911 for a young woman struggling to stay upright and conscious. Apparently she had been sitting there for a while, so I wonder what took the people with her so lo... blog.baxendale.dev","summary":"","url":"https://blog.baxendale.dev/2026/01/18/yesterday-was-a-weird-one.html","date_published":"2026-01-18T19:33:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeff Baxendale","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F2295.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bax"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-18 19:33","date_timestamp":1768764820,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82225140","content_html":"I enjoy all of Fabien’s deep dives digging through id Software lore and tech, but particularly this one attempting to fire up the original QuakeWorld and Gamespy 3D in our year 2026.\n\n\"With the Quake PC finished, the game I was the most eager to finally discover was naturally QuakeWorld. Being thirty years late to the game (literally), would any of that still run on my precious 233MHz relic? Let’s find out.\"\n\nI can’t begin to count the hours that my friends and I dumped into playing via QSpy and MPlayer after school on my 233 MHZ AMD-K6! Or times I sat through nVidia’s “Bringing 3D To the Wooooorld” ... blog.baxendale.dev","summary":"","url":"https://blog.baxendale.dev/2026/01/16/i-enjoy-all-of-fabiens.html","date_published":"2026-01-16T22:41:26+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeff Baxendale","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F2295.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bax"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-16 22:41","date_timestamp":1768603286,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"81176635","content_html":"

🎮 Finally beat God of War: Ragnarok tonight. Man does the Santa Monica studio really know how to put together an incredible narrative. And it still looks amazing today on PS5 in 4K.

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Really hope that the next game is set in Egypt, would be another great pantheon to explore… and probably destroy in some way 😂

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New Years 2026 🍾: blog.baxendale.dev

","summary":"At 40, a desire for personal change prompts a commitment to reduce social media use, limit alcohol consumption, improve sleep habits, create an indie app, and focus more on thoughtful writing.","url":"https://blog.baxendale.dev/2025/12/31/new-years.html","date_published":"2026-01-01T01:40:36+00:00","author":{"name":"Jeff Baxendale","url":"","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Favatars.micro.blog%2Favatars%2F2025%2F22%2F2295.jpg","_microblog":{"username":"bax"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-01-01 01:40","date_timestamp":1767231636,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":true,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"78717681","content_html":"

Good news is everywhere today, we just need to pay attention 🥹

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A three-year-old boy has astounded doctors with his progress after becoming the first person in the world with his devastating disease to receive a ground-breaking gene therapy.

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In the most severe cases, patients with the disease usually die before the age of 20. The effects are sometimes described as a type of childhood dementia.

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In a world first, medical staff in Manchester have tried to halt the disease by altering Oliver’s cells using gene therapy.

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This is just the tip of the iceberg in biological sciences 😎

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