Reclaiming Local Information Through Collective Power

Communities Act Best When They Perceive Clearly

The Silence Between Us

Across cities and towns, rural roads and suburban corridors, a quiet disintegration has been taking place. It is not as immediately visible as escalating droughts or burning forests, but its consequences are equally profound. The collapse of local journalism, once a cornerstone of democratic culture, has eroded a critical form of connective tissue within and between communities. As newsrooms shutter and trusted messengers disappear, people are left without shared reference points, unable to see or respond to the events that shape their lives. The result is not just a lack of information, but a deepening crisis of coordination. When we cannot locate ourselves within a shared reality, we lose our capacity to act together.

This is not merely a media issue, nor is it a question of nostalgia for the newspapers of old. What we are experiencing is a collapse in our ability to distribute signal, meaningful, timely, and contextually relevant information, across social space. The vacuum left behind has been filled by algorithmic noise, disinformation, and platform-driven content economies that extract attention without restoring understanding. What was once a living, locally attuned process of sensemaking has been replaced by fragmented feeds, polarized narratives, and the increasing sense that no one knows what is happening, or whom to trust. In this environment, not only is it harder to address crises, but even the smallest efforts at collective care begin to unravel.

To meet this challenge, we need more than new media models. We need new ways of being together. This essay proposes a reorientation: from journalism as product to signal as relationship, from centralized broadcasting to decentralized coordination, and from consumer media logic to Power With information infrastructures. Drawing from the theory of Coordination as Power, and using human swarm intelligence as a generative model, we explore the concept of Civic Signal Hubs: modular, community-driven systems that support visibility, coherence, and mutual accountability without reproducing hierarchies. These hubs are not technological solutions, though technology may assist them. They are cultural practices made visible.

Prefigurative politics teaches us that we must build the world we want inside the shell of the collapsing world. Civic Signal Hubs are one expression of this principle. They do not claim to solve the problem of collapsing media ecosystems, but they create conditions for new forms of shared perception to emerge. So let’s explore how this can be done, step by step, thread by thread, until the silence between us begins to sing.

I. The Meta-Crisis as a Crisis of Signal

At its core, the meta-crisis is not one singular catastrophe, but the entanglement of many: ecological collapse, economic precarity, political instability, cultural fragmentation, and the fraying of the social fabric. These crises are not isolated events. They reinforce and accelerate one another, often in nonlinear and unpredictable ways. What makes the meta-crisis particularly difficult to navigate is not only its complexity, but the breakdown of our collective capacity to perceive it with clarity. As a result, our ability to respond effectively, whether through policy, mutual aid, or imagination, is undermined before it even begins.

In systems theory, the concept of "signal" refers to information that carries meaning. A signal is not merely data; but a pattern that invites recognition and action. When a system functions well, signals help its parts stay in sync. In human communities, a signal might be a trusted community bulletin, a spontaneous protest, a warning about water contamination, or an elder’s story about local history. Signals inform, but more importantly, they coordinate. They allow groups to sense themselves as a whole and to act as more than a collection of individuals. When the signal flows freely and reliably, mutual orientation becomes possible. When it is distorted or absent, confusion proliferates.

In the context of the meta-crisis, signal degradation is both a symptom and a cause. Disinformation campaigns, algorithmic sorting, declining local news, and the privatization of digital infrastructure have all contributed to a toxic information environment. Here, signal competes with noise. Attention is captured, but not clarified. Local knowledge becomes inaccessible, and lived experience is flattened by corporate narratives. As a result, communities are unable to map their own realities, let alone coordinate transformative responses. Even when the will to act is present, the infrastructure to connect intention with capacity is missing.

The fragmentation of information is not neutral. It reinforces Power Over dynamics by isolating people and rendering them dependent on external authorities for interpretation. In contrast, healthy signal ecosystems distribute power by enhancing perception, participation, and agency. The decline of local journalism, therefore, is not just a media failure. It is a structural disarmament of communal power. We are left with a profound question: how can we recognize the shape of the world we are in, if the tools we once used to see it have been taken from us?

Reclaiming the ability to generate and distribute meaningful signal is not a nostalgic project. It is a survival imperative. It is also a deeply political act. In the face of the meta-crisis, the question is not whether people will coordinate, but how, and whether that coordination will be extractive or emancipatory. In the sections that follow, we turn toward a Power With model of signal: one that centers care, trust, and local knowledge as the foundation of new civic infrastructure.

II. Why Power With Is the Missing Ingredient

To understand how we might restore the flow of meaningful signals within and between communities, we need to examine the structures that have prevented it. Much of the existing information infrastructure, whether in journalism, social media, or public policy, has been shaped by models of Power Over. These are systems that centralize control, hoard narrative authority, and determine who gets to speak, who is heard, and who is erased. Even well-meaning efforts to “fix” the information crisis often reproduce these dynamics. They seek to scale solutions, professionalize voices, or moderate content through opaque hierarchies. The result is a familiar pattern: disempowerment disguised as help.

By contrast, Power With describes a coordination pattern based not on domination or extraction, but on mutual recognition, shared capacity, and relational trust. It is emergent rather than imposed, horizontal rather than hierarchical. In a Power With model, information flows are shaped by reciprocity. The goal is not to control narratives, but to create the conditions for many truths to circulate, overlap, and converge into action. When applied to signal infrastructure, this model fosters environments where people are not passive consumers of news but active stewards of collective perception.

The language of Power With comes from liberation movements, trauma-informed care, and cooperative governance. It assumes that knowledge is situated, that no single source holds a monopoly on truth, and that relationships are the foundation of resilience. In practice, Power With information systems require slower processes, deeper listening, and a willingness to remain uncertain long enough to notice what is trying to emerge. This stands in stark contrast to the logics of immediacy, virality, and performative certainty that dominate mainstream media ecosystems.

Moreover, Power With coordination refuses the false binary between expertise and participation. It recognizes that someone sharing lived experience from a flood zone or housing encampment may offer a more vital signal than a professional observer with distance. It also recognizes that truth is often multiple and nonlinear. A healthy information system must hold contradiction, conflict, and nuance without collapsing into polarization. This requires not just technology, but a culture of discernment, a collective muscle we must re-train.

This reorientation is especially urgent in the context of the meta-crisis. As overlapping emergencies increase in intensity, communities will need to become their own signal networks. They will need to surface needs, share updates, assess risks, and remember their stories, not by outsourcing these tasks to institutions, but by learning to hold them together. This is not a romantic vision. It is a hard and necessary shift. And it begins with a refusal to let signal be a commodity any longer. Instead, it becomes a commons, held, tended, and regenerated through Power With.

III. The Civic Signal Hub: A Pattern for Emergence

If Power With is the missing ingredient in our information systems, then the Civic Signal Hub is a pattern for reintroducing it. A Civic Signal Hub is not a singular technology or a physical space, but a living, adaptive structure. It exists wherever people come together to share, interpret, and act upon local signals in a way that sustains mutual visibility and collective agency. Unlike legacy media organizations or content platforms, a Civic Signal Hub is not designed to broadcast from the center. It is designed to weave from the margins, allowing coordination to emerge through a distributed network of relationships.

At its core, a Signal Hub is a community-led infrastructure for sensemaking. This means more than information distribution. It involves practices of witnessing, verifying, amplifying, contextualizing, and remembering. Signal is not simply transmitted; it is metabolized. It becomes part of the local ecosystem, shaping how people perceive themselves, their neighbors, and the dynamics that affect them. These hubs do not speak for a community. They allow the community to speak through itself, using tools and channels appropriate to its own cultural and material context.

Importantly, a Civic Signal Hub is not a brand. It does not require a logo, a domain name, or a formal identity. This protects it from co-option, extractive scaling, and performance pressures. Instead, it operates more like a mycelial network: rooted in place, resilient to disruption, and capable of transmitting meaning across vast distances without centralized control. It is a pattern, not a product. And like all patterns, it can be remixed, adapted, and regenerated wherever it takes hold.

The form a hub takes depends on local context. In some neighborhoods, it might revolve around a printed bulletin and a WhatsApp group. In others, it may be a zine distro at the local library, a community-run server, or a series of kitchen table meetings. What matters is not the medium, but the relational architecture. Who gathers the signal? Who holds it? How is it shared, verified, transformed, and remembered? These are the design questions that define the health and function of the hub.

This approach draws from and contributes to existing traditions: mutual aid networks, oral storytelling, feminist collectives, Indigenous knowledge systems, and free/libre open-source movements. Each of these practices teaches that trust is the first infrastructure. Before you can coordinate effectively, you must be able to hear and be heard. You must know who to turn to when something changes. And you must feel that your voice matters, not because it is amplified by scale, but because it is embedded in the fabric of your community.

In this way, Civic Signal Hubs do not compete with traditional journalism. They fill the void left behind, and often operate adjacent to or in collaboration with grassroots media workers. But unlike institutional media, they do not seek neutrality. They seek accountability. They do not claim authority from objectivity, but from participation. And most importantly, they do not attempt to scale up. They scale across, linking through trust, reciprocity, and federated connection. That interlinking becomes the scaffolding for a new information ecology, one built not on extraction or performance, but on shared stewardship of signal as a commons.

IV. Anatomy of a Signal Hub

To bring the idea of a Civic Signal Hub into practice, we must move from metaphor to structure. Although each hub will necessarily reflect the distinct needs, culture, and rhythms of its locality, there are core components that make the model function. These elements are not rigid requirements. They are dynamic functions that, when present in some form, allow the flow of Power With coordination to emerge and sustain itself. Think of them less as a checklist and more as a constellation: loosely held, deeply interconnected, and adaptable to change.

1. People as Sensors

In traditional media systems, the role of “reporter” is separated from the community, positioned as an external observer. A Civic Signal Hub inverts this assumption. Everyone in a community is a sensor. Everyone is a potential signaler. When individuals are trusted to notice, articulate, and share what they experience, whether that’s a broken water line, a police checkpoint, a sudden change in the weather, or an emergent act of care, then the system becomes alert, flexible, and self-aware.

This model draws on the principles of swarm intelligence, which shows that large groups of agents following simple rules can adapt to complex environments without centralized control (Couzin et al., 2005). When people are empowered to surface signal without waiting for permission, a living network forms. That network doesn’t require everyone to agree or move in unison. It requires only enough mutual awareness for local coordination to occur.

Training community members in trauma-informed communication, witnessing, and consensual sharing helps strengthen this sensory layer. Initiatives like City Bureau’s Documenters Program exemplify this practice by paying residents to attend and record public meetings, turning observation into communal intelligence.

2. Distributed Channels, Not Centralized Platforms

Most digital information today flows through centralized, corporate platforms designed for profit. These platforms distort signal by privileging engagement over accuracy, speed over context, and spectacle over care. Signal Hubs resist this model by relying on decentralized, community-controlled channels. These may include low-tech methods, bulletin boards, zines, community radio, kitchen conversations, as well as free and open-source tools like Signal, Mastodon, or Scuttlebutt.

What matters is that communication flows through relationships of trust, not systems of surveillance or algorithmic control. In many cases, analog channels can be more resilient than digital ones. A flyer in a mosque or laundromat can carry more local signal than a post on a platform already saturated with noise. The goal is not technological sophistication, but appropriate scale and contextual fit.

Channels should be redundant and layered. One-to-one, small group, and broadcast forms of communication should all exist in tension and balance. And critically, these channels must be co-designed with the people who use them, not imposed by outside technologists.

3. Thread-Based Knowledge, Not Content Production

In a Civic Signal Hub, knowledge does not appear as polished articles or final products. It emerges as threads, open-ended, evolving containers of context. These threads might include updates about a mutual aid project, shifts in public transportation access, environmental monitoring, or the collective memory of past events. Each thread is co-authored, revisable, and openly held by the community.

This pattern borrows from wiki cultures, zine traditions, and oral storytelling. The idea is not to “cover” a story, but to carry it, allowing new voices to weave into the thread as conditions change. Tools like Etherpad or Cryptpad can support collaborative editing, while printed newsletters and public displays help anchor threads in physical space.

In this model, curation becomes a form of care. Instead of gatekeeping, curators practice signal stewardship, gathering threads, fact-checking with compassion, and inviting participation without centralizing control. The aim is not editorial authority, but collective coherence.

4. Federated Interlinking, Not Centralized Scaling

Civic Signal Hubs are most powerful when they remain small and specific, but not isolated. Through federated connections, hubs can share signals laterally, linking across neighborhoods, regions, and movements without giving up autonomy. Protocols like ActivityPub (used by Mastodon and others) enable this connection. But federation is more than a technical feature. It is a relational ethic.

To federate is to remain rooted in one’s local context while opening to resonance elsewhere. It is to share what is meaningful without surrendering control. It is also to listen sideways, receiving threads from other places and adapting them to one’s own terrain.

Networks like the Indigenous Environmental Network exemplify this approach. Their communications are not centrally dictated. They emerge from local struggles and are woven into collective clarity through shared protocols of solidarity, translation, and consent.

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Each component; the sensors, the channels, the threads, and the mesh, works together to form a living system. Even in minimal form, coordination becomes possible without hierarchy when they are present. The hub does not replace professional media. It grows in the cracks left by its collapse. And what it builds, instead of audience or market share, is mutual clarity, the capacity to know what matters, when it matters, and who is moving with you.

V. Prototyping the Hub: How to Start

Starting a Civic Signal Hub does not require funding, formal training, or institutional permission. It requires trust, attentiveness, and a commitment to mutual coordination. In the context of collapsing local journalism and widespread institutional distrust, the value of simply beginning, imperfectly, relationally, with those around you, cannot be overstated. The goal is not to launch a polished media project. The goal is to restore the connective tissues of local life through a Power With approach that treats information as a commons and signal as a shared responsibility.

Here is a step-by-step guide to help communities prototype their own Civic Signal Hubs, adapted to your context, your culture, and your capacity.

Step 1: Start with Listening

Before creating new channels or content, spend time listening. What kinds of information do people in your area feel they lack? What signals do they already trust? Who do they turn to when something important happens? This listening process builds the foundation of relevance and avoids replicating the disconnects of extractive media.

Toolkits like People’s Action Community Organizing Guide and Beautiful Trouble’s Tactics offer techniques for relational mapping, listening sessions, and trust-building strategies rooted in movement culture. Start small: host a conversation in a park or café. Map the informal channels already in use.

Step 2: Build a Low-Tech Signal Loop

Use what's already available. Choose one or two communication methods that match your community’s habits. These could be SMS lists, group chats, posters in laundromats, or hand-distributed flyers. Avoid centralizing; fragmented and federated is often more resilient.

Free tools like Signal (for encrypted group chats), Canva (for print flyers), or Radio Garden (to explore grassroots radio setups) are useful. But even more powerful is word-of-mouth, especially when it is relational and consistent.

Choose one small thread to carry together. Maybe it’s updates on local mutual aid efforts, tenant organizing meetings, or environmental concerns. Keep it light and local. Focus on signal density, not volume.

Step 3: Form a Steward Circle

Every hub needs caretakers, but not managers. Form a small, transparent circle of signal stewards, people who hold threads, verify stories, and invite others in. Rotate responsibilities often. Avoid centralizing power by practicing shared leadership, horizontal facilitation, and consensus-based decision-making.

Groups like The Hum and Nonviolent Communication offer frameworks and trainings for relational governance, conflict transformation, and stewarding shared processes. The circle’s job is not to control content but to nourish relationships and deepen collective discernment.

Step 4: Weave Signal Into Place

Embed your hub within existing local rhythms. Co-locate with food pantries, community centers, religious institutions, or cultural festivals. Set up a bulletin board in a place of trust. Distribute zines alongside free groceries. Invite signal into spaces where people already gather, rather than trying to pull people into new spaces.

Collaborate with other place-based projects. A Civic Signal Hub is strengthened when it intersects with mutual aid pods, co-op farms, tool libraries, disaster response teams, or landback efforts. Signal does not live in isolation; it feeds and is fed by other forms of coordination.

Step 5: Connect Laterally, Not Upward

As your hub stabilizes, connect with other hubs in neighboring areas or parallel movements. Use federated tools like Mastodon, Element (a decentralized chat platform), or Disroot to form lateral bonds of trust and information exchange. Share learnings, support each other during emergencies, and co-develop shared protocols.

Avoid scaling through formalization. Instead, replicate through storytelling. Host a skillshare. Write a zine about your process. Visit another town and help them start their own. As each node emerges, a larger meshwork forms, not through expansion, but through resonance.

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These steps are simple, but powerful. They rebuild what has been lost, not as a restoration of old media forms, but as the birth of new civic infrastructure rooted in relational signal. In the next section, we will explore the real-world examples that are already bringing this vision into being.

VI. Examples in the World

To ground the concept of Civic Signal Hubs in reality, it is useful to look at projects already embodying Power With coordination in their approach to information, connection, and community stewardship. These examples show how diverse contexts can adapt the pattern in ways that fit their own culture, needs, and challenges.

1. City Bureau, Chicago, Illinois

City Bureau is a community-driven news organization that reimagines journalism as a civic practice rooted in shared stewardship of information. Their Documenters Program invites residents, especially from marginalized neighborhoods, to attend public meetings and report back using an open-source platform. This practice shifts the role of “observer” from external experts to embedded participants, empowering local voices to surface signals that traditional media often miss or ignore.

City Bureau exemplifies Power With by fostering relationships of trust between reporters, residents, and institutions. The organization operates transparently, with a strong emphasis on collaborative governance and equitable compensation. It does not claim to replace traditional media but supplements it by building a network of civic sensors and amplifiers. Importantly, City Bureau resists scaling in the conventional sense, choosing instead to seed similar projects in other cities that adapt the model to local conditions.

Resources:

• City Bureau:

https://www.citybureau.org/

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• Documenters Program:

https://www.documenters.org/

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2. La Voz de los de Abajo (The Voice of the Underserved) , Mexico City, Mexico

La Voz de los de Abajo is a grassroots community radio and communication network operating in several neighborhoods of Mexico City. It functions as a Civic Signal Hub by centering the voices of those frequently marginalized in mainstream media, informal workers, immigrants, and indigenous communities. The network is coordinated through assemblies where participants decide what stories matter, how to broadcast them, and how to sustain the station collectively.

This project exemplifies a Power With approach by refusing commercial sponsorships or political affiliations. Instead, it relies on donations, volunteer work, and a federated network of micro-stations. Its technology remains accessible and community-managed, combining analog FM broadcasts with digital streams and local printed newsletters. La Voz de los de Abajo demonstrates how signal hubs can be culturally grounded, technologically diverse, and oriented towards mutual aid.

Resources:

• Radio La Voz de los de Abajo:

https://radiolavozdelosdeabajo.net/

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• Indigenous Environmental Network (similar federated communication approach):

https://www.ienearth.org/

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Both projects illustrate key aspects of Civic Signal Hubs: the decentralization of sensing and reporting, the prioritization of trust and relationships, and the commitment to localized, context-sensitive coordination. Their successes underline that the model is not theoretical but actively shaping new ways for communities to reclaim their informational commons.

As communities face intensifying crises, these examples offer not only inspiration but practical lessons. The next section will address common challenges encountered when prototyping Civic Signal Hubs and suggest strategies for sustaining them over time.

VII. Challenges and Sustaining the Hub

Launching a Civic Signal Hub is an inspiring endeavor, but it comes with real challenges. These difficulties test the commitment of the community and the flexibility of the model. Understanding common obstacles ahead of time allows hubs to adapt and endure without slipping into harmful dynamics of Power Over. Here, we explore several key challenges and suggest practical approaches to sustain the hub’s health over time.

1. Avoiding Centralization and Power Accumulation

One of the greatest risks in any community project is the concentration of decision-making or control in the hands of a few. This often happens unintentionally as projects grow or face crises. For Civic Signal Hubs, which are explicitly designed to embody Power With coordination, vigilance against this tendency is essential.

Rotating roles frequently and developing transparent processes for stewardship are effective strategies. Employing consensus or modified consensus decision-making helps ensure all voices are heard without needing a single “leader.” Tools and frameworks such as Sociocracy and Holacracy offer practical guidance for distributed governance without hierarchy. Ultimately, the goal is to embed accountability within the relationships themselves, so power is not vested in positions but shared through mutual responsibility.

2. Maintaining Trust and Managing Conflict

Trust is the backbone of any Power With coordination. However, conflict is inevitable in dynamic groups, especially those dealing with complex social issues and diverse perspectives. How a hub manages conflict can determine its longevity.

Building a culture of restorative practices and nonviolent communication supports healthier conflict resolution. Training in emotional literacy and active listening is invaluable. Resources like the Center for Nonviolent Communication provide accessible tools for fostering empathetic dialogue. Regular check-ins and feedback loops create space for airing grievances before festering into divisions. When trust fractures, repairing it becomes a shared project, not a burden for a single individual or subgroup.

3. Balancing Openness with Information Integrity

Civic Signal Hubs depend on community participation, which means signals come from many sources and vary in quality. While openness encourages diverse contributions, it can also introduce misinformation or conflicting narratives. The challenge is to nurture a culture where discernment is practiced collectively, not imposed top-down.

Signal stewardship involves verifying facts compassionately and contextualizing different perspectives rather than policing or silencing. Approaches like peer review, crowd validation, and community fact-checking can be adapted. Platforms like LocalWiki demonstrate how transparency and collaborative editing help maintain accuracy. Importantly, hubs must resist the temptation to mimic corporate moderation models and emphasize relational accountability and education.

4. Ensuring Sustainability Without Formal Funding

Most Civic Signal Hubs start without significant financial resources. Sustaining activity over time requires creative approaches that do not replicate capitalist or hierarchical logics. This might mean mutual aid economies, barter, shared resources, volunteer time, or cooperative funding.

Exploring models like Fiscal Sponsorship or partnerships with aligned local organizations can provide administrative support without compromising autonomy. Some hubs have experimented with time banking or solidarity funds to reward contributions and cover expenses. Importantly, community ownership of resources, rather than dependence on external donors or grants, helps maintain Power With coordination.

5. Adapting to Technological Challenges and Digital Exclusion

While digital tools can amplify Civic Signal Hubs, they can also exclude community members who lack access or digital literacy. Designing inclusive communication systems means combining high-tech and low-tech methods, respecting local realities.

Workshops to build digital skills, community-run tech support, and investment in offline communication (flyers, phone trees, physical meetings) create multiple access points. Projects like [The Village] (

https://www.thevillage.community/

) focus on blending digital and analog approaches to reach broad participation. The choice of tools must always be community-led and context-aware.

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Understanding and anticipating these challenges is part of the ongoing process of learning and adaptation within Civic Signal Hubs. Each obstacle also represents an opportunity to deepen Power With coordination and strengthen community resilience. The journey is neither linear nor easy, but the stakes, restoring trust, reclaiming signal, and rebuilding mutual care, are too high to ignore.

VIII. Conclusion

The urgency of our global meta-crisis, marked by ecological collapse, social fragmentation, and information decay, demands new forms of coordination grounded in care and mutual responsibility. Civic Signal Hubs offer a tangible path forward, embodying Power With principles that resist the old hierarchies of control and extraction. By decentralizing sensing and storytelling, these hubs reclaim the capacity for communities to perceive their world clearly, respond adaptively, and act collectively without reproducing power over.

At its heart, the Civic Signal Hub is a form of biocentric governance in practice. It acknowledges that human wellbeing is inseparable from the health of our ecosystems and the webs of relationship that sustain life. By treating signal as a commons, shared, stewarded, and relationally embedded, these hubs align information flows with the rhythms of community and nature rather than market logics. This alignment is not merely a technical fix; it is an ethical and political reorientation toward stewardship over domination.

Building and sustaining Civic Signal Hubs is urgent and ongoing work. It asks us to prioritize local care, trust, and relational accountability while cultivating federated networks of solidarity and exchange. Rather than scaling upward to centralized power, the future lies in replication, resonance, and the viral spread of ethical coordination. Each hub, no matter how small, contributes to a larger ecosystem of mutual aid and democratic presence.

In a time when disinformation fuels division and institutional trust crumbles, Civic Signal Hubs stand as beacons of hope, showing that together, communities can weave new fabrics of connection and resilience. They remind us that power is not a zero-sum game. Power With coordination invites us to co-create worlds where stewardship, respect, and shared care are not revolutionary ideals but everyday realities.

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