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Carbon Shift (Reuters)

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"Calls for UK to create first all-hydrogen bus town"

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"The world already safeguards 15% of its land and 7% of the ocean. But, for the sake of our health and prosperity, we must do more. Indeed, there is increasing agreement among countries that we need to return half the planet to nature and use the other half responsibly, and that we should start by protecting at least 30% of it by 2030"

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Lots of problems are caused by civilization itself

"@ProSyn

Our relationship with nature is broken, says @Enric_Sala of @NG_PristineSeas. And that has brought us into closer and more frequent contact with viruses that can spread from animals to people"

"@KarlreMarks

She lived through the Spanish Flu and Covid 19 with everything in between. What a story.

BBC: 'Oldest woman in Spain' beats coronavirus at 113"

"@KenzoShibata

Thinking about people who think Nader gave us Bush and have never forgiven Nader, but have forgiven Bush"

"@businessinsider

Facebook's head of AI says Elon Musk 'has no idea what he is talking about'"

A-A! Let's not get mad. I know Italian karate. Watch out

Oh yeah? You Italian?

Do you like gabagol?

No? What kind of Italian are you, if you don't like gabagol? You must be confused.

Someone circulated the "R was now above 1 in DE" news few weeks ago. I checked for that week, untrue.

Yes, but your tone is in arrears, jerkoff. This talk needs to come from a place of caution, not "they said don't dance, but I want to dance!" ala Kevin Bacon in Footloose.

"But many others say, we need to return to normal, reopen"

"@skdh

For the past days I have seen a lot of stories saying Covid cases have dramatically increased in Germany after easing lockdown restrictions. I don't know where that myth comes from. Look at the data. Nothing like that has happened (yet)"

"@DougSaunders

In France, itā€™s currently possible for a woman simultaneously to be fined ā‚¬165 for being in public with a face covering and ā‚¬135 for being in public without a face covering"

That's not why. If you are really looking for something, you need to look for an inherent trait that goes way back. What is a major diff between man and woman historically? Having to carry and care for a child. That would be it; caring for offspring would drastically reorient risk/reward calculus, safety of the child would be paramount. If there is anything inherently better with women around COVID crisis fighting, it has to be this.

If you are really looking for a reason to qualify this (true) leadership success.

"@ProSyn

Why Women Make Better Crisis Leaders: By the time a woman reaches the heights of corporate or political power, she is likely to have overcome massive hurdles... "

I work through directories. Any new concept, small project becomes a directory, all work is there. Every supporting material also goes into dir. Once done, a tutorial is created out of the subject, PDF books get archived or pdftk'd into PDF booklets also get archived. Then the directory is deleted.

There is only one dir active at one time, and maybe one future project dir. That's it.

"@alexandrapullin

I wonder whether a side effect of lockdown will be a general exodus of families from London to leafier surrounds. More working from home means the commuting isn't such an factor, bigger gardens, more house for your money, etc"

Cool pic (from here). A scifi stock photo apparently, not a movie, or a book.

Noise cancelling; take the sound wave, invert it and play on top of existing sound. Is it that simple?

Emperor penguins in Antarctica took an unintentional selfie

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The market will regulate itself bro.. Consumer will benefit.. like a win-win yo.

"Frontier's own chart, below, shows the company's estimate of the profitability of its current fiber assets. Note that the company itself estimates that by 2031 the revenues from fiber would exceed costs and thus deliver increases in profit. Note also that for the first five years, the company would lose money on fiber. Fiber has high upfront costs (like a house), but it pays off handsomely over time. The inability to capitalize on superior investment opportunities because they take too long to mature is the very definition of dysfunctional short-termism. ...

The revelations from Frontier's bankruptcy filings don't end there. Equally important is how Frontier cultivated, maintained, and abused its monopolies. ISPs like Frontier know exactly where they have monopolies, and therefore know exactly who has no choice and therefore is not worth spending money on.

Frontier's documents reveal that the company treats its status as the monopoly provider of high-speed Internet access for 1.6 million households as a uniquely identifiable asset. Frontier wants investors to know that it can precisely demarcate its monopoly territories because it wants to show investors where it can get money (to repay its debt and get out of bankruptcy) by charging a captive audience more and delivering less.

The fact that Frontierā€”and its competitorsā€”treat monopolies as a bankable asset would seem a sign that there should be some oversight"

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"@kaitlancollins

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said this morning that almost 40 percent of households earning less than $40,000/year (as of February) lost their jobs in March"

"[FCs] are scalable so you can have them small enough for a cellphone tower or large enough for a building. In the U.S., fuel-cell forklifts have already become a commercial product and are replacing battery-electric forklifts in warehouses across the country. Theyā€™re really attractive in warehouses operating 24 hours a day because they can refill in a matter of minutes"

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Commercial Steel Production for the First Time w H2

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Dude talent sources in econ must be bone dry. This is the second time I asked a simple ques to a prof and dude's like wanna do research wit on any future topic?

That could be the best veal steak fillet I've ever made

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"@CaFCP

Thereā€™s an ongoing joke in the California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) office that whatever situation Keith Malone walks into, heā€™ll eventually find a connection with somebody.

'Three degrees of Keith they call me,' Malone says as he chuckles down the phone. And theyā€™re not wrong. Malone is well known in the fuel cell and hydrogen space for his work with the CaFCP ā€“ an industry/government collaboration aimed at expanding the market for fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) to help create a cleaner, more energy-diverse future with zero emission vehicles.

'It started on my first day on the job with the partnershipā€™s communications team,' Malone tells H2 View as he continues his story.

'I went to a conference with my colleagues and I dropped by the booth of one of our members and there was a friend of mine from high school. We were surprised to see each other and what was more surprising was the fact that this friend worked closely with the CaFCP.'

'From then began this series of coincidences where I was seeing people that I knew or had a fairly strong connection to. It kind of blew people away, and the joke ā€˜three degrees of Keithā€™ was born.'

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That drummer is lovin that jam

It's like someone says DON'T DANCE! Then it's like

Saw on Fox News, fem anchor says "they say dont touch your face", and she goes ahead touches her face -- SUCH CUTE defiance. ARE YOU A CHILD???

Dana Perino is it?? And I thought she was one of the smart ones.

This is what codes do to people. You start acting stupid. Get off code.

Found code for ODE, it's in buttf-ed Maple, commercial shit pkg, keeps code in binary shit format. Trial software is bodondadonk huge, no thanks. There is a "player" version, that only views shit, I install. Wont recog files I have, mws extension. I change extension, it thinks it is a corrupted version, recovers them, now I have somewhat legible "worksheet".

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That is f--ing crazy

"@Rainmaker1973

The story of Joan Murray, who survived a 4,500 meter fall when her main parachute failed while skydiving. She landed in a fire ant mound where numerous venomous stings caused an adrenaline rush to keep her heart beating long enough for doctors to assist"

Nope. It's not Adam Back.

It sure as shit not that mo...ka Craig Wright.

Keep lookin šŸ¤™šŸ¤™šŸ¤™

#satoshi

"@h2_view

Despite the #coronavirus pandemic, #hydrogen #fuelcell manufacturer @ProtonMotor has reported a successful start to the year with a record quarter"

print ('Death rate', np.round((2 / 61.0)*100.0),'%')

Death rate 3.0 %

Wut? Supermoon?

Polo & Pan - Bakara #music

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Be cerebral, act girly.. or don't. Or don't be cerebral.. who cares? It's ok either way.

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"@esa

New evidence has been found of watery plumes on #Jupiterā€™s moon #Europa in a recent study investigating 20-year-old data from NASA's Galileo mission. This is very exciting for our #Juice mission, being prepared for launch in 2022"

"Unix and Adversarial Interoperability: The ā€˜One Weird Antitrust Trickā€™ That Defined Computing"

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Interesting.

US always has to insert that commerc shit in there somewhere.

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Goldcucks think with their precious gold, there is no centralized printing. Wrong. The reason gold came into being as money was precisely because it could be printed! By the king! Gold became what it is because it could be dug (printed) only someone with lots of resources who could employ people at mines, to unearth this rare looking metal that was hard to fake that made it a perfect currency -- for a while.

There is always printing. With no printing, there is deflation. But now that we figured out printing other currencies and back it with governments and/or trust networks, gold and similar items today become side-shows, commodities but can never form the basis of a currency, let alone a world currency.

I maintain that any digital currency continually needs to expand its monetary base, ideally print the money into everyone's account, weekly or monthly, as a form of digital basic income. It will generate little inflation, reduce the incentive to store / stash etc. and devalue curr shifting some wealth from rich to poor. The excess doesn't even need to be inflationary, new, inventive ways of lending can be formed, the excess can flow to businesses as credit, creates growth, more goods chasing more money = little inflation.

Interesting times.

Bloomberg: "Fed Says It Will Begin Buying Corporate-Debt ETFs"

"@Rainmaker1973

A dive in the Pacific Ocean of plastic: how diver Rich Horner filmed himself swimming through a sea of plastic waste in 2018, at one of Baliā€™s iconic dive sites, Manta Point"

Bernie Sanders, WaPo

#tbtv

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Haha. Found a doc "Development of Virtual Blade Model for Modelling Helicopter Rotor in OpenFOAM", it says "Unclassified" at the top.

Well thx ppl at Oz gov. The info can be helpful.

OpenFOAM - I hear good things abt it, for aerodynamics simulation, CFD.

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"Gen 3 [ammonia generation] technology is based on the electroreduction of N2 to ammonia by direct or mediated means. The H-B process is no longer required; instead, the reaction is driven by electrochemical reduction and the H source is water.

There are several modes of this process being actively researched:

eNRR in which an electrocatalyst enables direct electron and proton addition to the N2 molecule; and indirect or mediated mechanisms in which a redox mediator such as Li+ is first reduced and then, via a series of reactions, ammonia is produced and the mediator is regenerated"

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"@GavinNewsom

NEW: Without federal support, states will be forced to make impossible decisions.

Todayā€”CA, OR, WA, NV, CO, and our legislative leaders have joined together to ask the federal government for $1 trillion to protect our schools, public health, and public safety services"

"Instead of forwarding the wind power to Bavaria, farmers in North Friesland prefer to convert it to hydrogen in the wind farm and use it as fuel for their cars and buses"

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Great idea

Haaretz: "U.S. pulling Patriot missile batteries out of Saudi Arabia amid oil dispute"

The equiv hardware with bitch batteries weigh at least 3 times as much, and I see warnings like "can only be charged 3000 times" etc. This tech is obscenely inferior.

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This bad boy right here. 1600 Watts for 8 hrs on 1.1 gallon fuel, weighs 20 kg. Until there is a renewable fuel equivalent for good price, for any heavy duty work, I'd deploy this.

Reuters: "Hong Kong police arrest more than 200 as pro-democracy protests return"

"@fuelcellsworks

Leipzig Will Soon be Able to Heat with #Hydrogen Thanks to Siemens Award-Winning Turbines for their planned thermal power station in LĆ¶ĆŸnig"

"@tixhonjm

Rotterdam Boosts Hydrogen Economy with New Infrastructure"

So true. Hal Finney, "Satoshi" wasn't all that great... Make way for the new generation #NANO

"@fuelcellsworks

Arup Explores Future Potential of Hydrogen with Scottish Government--@ArupGroup & project partner E4tech, will carry out assessment of Scotlandā€™s strengths, assets & factors that will shape #hydrogen development across the country"

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"@iLikeBeerOk

I have to say that I wanted to take some money off a well known crypto wallet and the BTC fee was Ā£3.50 so I converted it to NANO and sent it for free. And it was instant. So impressed with @nano"

"@ProtonMotor

With the help of our Proton Motor fuelcells, the largest hydrogen power plant in Germany is being built in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern'

šŸ˜†šŸ˜† Sounds pretty bad when u say it like that, but I wonder if it's that scary. Liberal scaremongering?

"The New Trump App Is a Death Star of Fake Newsā€”and It Reaches More People Than Daytime Cable News.

President Trumpā€™s campaign manager has called what heā€™s built a 'juggernaut' and is likening his digital infrastructure to a Death Star. In reality, what he's built is a trap.

And users are encouraged by a points system to share all of this content with their networks for real-world benefits such as discounts on store merchandise or a picture with the president. The Trump App is providing news, entertainment, and the dopamine rush of earning points and acknowledgement. Itā€™s Candy Crush, but for politics"

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Little psyop on twitter trends? Something fishy going on here...

"@Rainmaker1973

Researchers have built an artificial version of a chloroplast, the photosynthetic structures inside plant cells. It uses sunlight and a laboratory-designed chemical pathway to turn COā‚‚ into sugar"

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Most of what is pure info based can be commodatized. Forget this wanky stuff. Do more basic science, math, and build stuff.

NYT: "The Results Are In for the Sharing Economy. They Are Ugly."

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"Zoologists Discover First-Known Animal That Doesnā€™t Breathe Oxygen"

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"@LegionHoops

SHAQ on the NBA season: 'I think we should scrap the season. Everybody go home, get healthy, come back next year... any team that wins this year, there's an asterisk.'"

"@Noahpinion

The U.S. has 4.2% of the world's population, but 28.5% of the world's confirmed coronavirus deaths"

Ninja eel

Da fuq?

They even had a guy in jail while some were in the bunker... Perfect modern setup. Like Toffler says

Nor was it only energy and work that were concentrated. Writing in the British social science journal New Society, Stan Cohen has pointed out that, with minor exceptions, prior to industrialism "the poor were kept at home or with relatives; criminals were fined, whipped or banished from one settlement to another; the insane were kept in their families, or supported by the community, if they were poor." All these groups were, in short, dispersed throughout the community.

Industrialism revolutionized the situation. The early nineteenth century, in fact, has been called the time of the Great Incarcerationsā€”when criminals were rounded up and concentrated in prisons, the mentally ill rounded up and concentrated in "lunatic asylums," and children rounded up and concentrated in schools, exactly as workers were concentrated in factories.

The show Lost was abt hunter-gatherer life, the island is our "early ideal", and when the main characters left the island to go back to their previous lives, outside, temporarily, later in the series they were miserable.

But modernity was imposed on them once before in the island, when they discovered that bunker. They obtained some creature comforts there, could shover, shave and have readily available food, but they had to press the stupid button. What is that like? Work!! Modernity!! Bullshit job!

dumbass

"@Gizmodo

After screaming about discrimination, ex-Google engineer James Damore silently asks court to dismiss lawsuit"

Portable panels charged portable camp light in 3 hours.

So if we could cut CO2 emissions in half we'd fix the problem (granted we fix methane, and that freaky SF6 thing).

Demirel, Green Energy and Technology: "The burning of fossil fuels produces around 21.3 Gigatons of carbon dioxide per year, and natural processes can only absorb about half of that amount, so there is a net increase of 10.65 billion tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide per year"

"@nicholaspaul26

I spent a rusted decade in American industry. The culture at most of those firms is completely out of phase with the values common to sharp young people (and proud of it). Best thing I ever did was hit the eject button. Firms disintegrate when generations can't integrate"

"@otherchrislee

I was talking to one of the top software sales recruiting firms in #sanfrancisco and they said 60% of the roles they were hiring for in SF are on freeze or canceled and theyā€™ve had to lay off 30% of their recruiters. I.e itā€™s now hitting white collar, college educated jobs"

"@allsmallbiznews

The big white collar layoffs will come in October. Discreetly after the time requirements for PPP loans expire"

Thought leaders should not think at cultural level of course. Cultural thinking is for morons (and regular ppl who are morons on much of politics which is a craft, a trade).

Politicians play this game a lot (part of what I call 'closing'). Do not lose hope on democracy however; ppl vote on very general things, and their well-being is one of them, if econ goes bad, they die, that is reptilian. Fight or flight trumps culture.

Maybe Reps decided the outcome of COVID can be politically damaging, so it was time to press some buttons to create cultural divisions, to change the focus, shift blame. What better way to do that then to rekindle some culture codes? If there is cultural tug-of-war between prohibition and "freedom", you just reframe the COVID situation around staying-at-home, working-not-working around prohibition-freedom axis, and you got yourself a nice little bruhaha.

In terms of effectiveness the hierarchy in the brain goes 1) reptilian brain 2) culture codes 3) intellect. You press a button at the second level, intellect will be overtaken.

Rapaille, The Culture Code: "Life is tension. Everything we experience in life lies somewhere on an axis between two extremes. One cannot truly know pleasure without knowing pain. One cannot legitimately feel joy without having felt sorrow. The degree to which we feel an experience depends on where that experience lies on the axis (a little painful, overwhelmingly joyful, and so on)...

Similar tensions define cultures. Every culture is composed of an endless number of archetypes and of the tensions between each archetype and an opposing one. For example, one of the primary tensions in the American culture is the one between freedom and prohibition. We consider freedom an inalienable right. We have fought numerous wars to protect it, and our citizens are willing to die to maintain it. At the same time, however, our culture is very strongly inclined toward prohibition. We believe we shouldnā€™t drink too much, play too much, or exhibit too much wealth. While the axis itself never changes, where a culture stands on a particular axis varies from era to era. At various times in our history, for example, our culture has found itself in different places on the freedomā€“prohibition axis (leaning heavily toward prohibition in the 1920s and far in the opposite direction during the late 1960s and early 1970s), but the opposing force was always evident (bootleggers in the 1920s, the Silent Majority in the latter period). This tension is a constant in our culture and it helps make our culture what it is"

Due to prohibition-freedom culture tug-of-war probably.

"Why did staying inside, masks become such a hot topic of debate in US?"

That trip is 4200 km long. It used 9160.8kWh, a Nexo tank being 210 kWh, that's like 43 tanks.

"[Solar / H2 boat Energy Observer] made a trip from St. Petersburg in Russia to Spitsbergen in Norway on August 10th. During the 24-day jaunt, the boat produced 9,160.8kWh of energy, 52 percent of which came from the sun... Of the total power, 59 percent propelled the boat, with the remaining 41 percent going to life support" Link, Link

"@LaurentLessard

'The cubic model' for forecasting COVID-19 deaths has been in the news lately.

Cubics (and polynomials in general) are a very bad choice of model for this situation. Let's talk about why. 1/n

Cubics are functions that look like: f(x) = a + b x + c xĀ² + d xĀ³ 'Fitting a cubic model' means choosing (a,b,c,d) so that f(x) is approximately equal to the deaths on day x for the data you've got. The hope is that this f could then be used to predict future deaths.

A key property of cubics (and polynomials in general) is that they grow really fast when x is large. Depending on whether d>0 or d<0 in the expression for f(x), you will get f(x) going to plus or minus infinity, respectively, as x gets larger.

This feature makes cubics an inappropriate model, because we expect the number of deaths to eventually settle down to zero. Cubics can NEVER do this. So no matter what cubic we use, its future predictions will eventually be nonsensical. It's just a matter of when'"

Power, Watts, mAh, etc

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It is well-known now he is one of the founders of rock'n roll and Elvis was copying him.

Little Richard RIP.

"@jmnippy

Thatā€™s why he had let the whole industry know that one time"

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Eeeww but priv sector is the only source of innovation bro...

"Frontierā€™s Bankruptcy Reveals Why Big ISPs Choose to Deny Fiber to So Much of America"

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Thank you planktons

"But did you know that most of the oxygen you breathe comes from organisms in the ocean?

Thatā€™s rightā€”more than half of the oxygen you breathe comes from marine photosynthesizers, like phytoplankton and seaweed. Both use carbon dioxide, water and energy from the sun to make food for themselves, releasing oxygen in the process"

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Way to go GW! Medical knowledge helped the founding of US. How'bout that?

"George Washington's military genius is undisputed. Yet American independence must be partially attributed to a strategy for which history has given the infamous general little credit: his controversial medical actions. Traditionally, the Battle of Saratoga is credited with tipping the revolutionary scales. Yet the health of the Continental regulars involved in battle was a product of the ambitious initiative Washington began earlier that year ... On the 6th of January 1777, George Washington wrote to Dr. William Shippen Jr., ordering him to inoculate all of the forces that came through Philadelphia"

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Now whenever I see the letters VW I think of that stupid Ryan Reynolds movie Van Wilders

K.. VW isnt completely gone.

"[T]ruck manufacturer Scania, owned by Volkswagen, has developed a fuel cell garbage truck with funding help from the EUā€™s Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking, and has recently delivered a fuel cell truck in Norway for a grocery chain operations"

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Unemployment, as the reverse of employment-population ratio. Calculated as the civilian labor force currently employed against the total working-age population. Jumped to 23.8%.

2020-03-01    20.745325
2020-04-01    23.874394

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The Guardian: "Planet of the Humans, whose executive producer and chief promoter is Michael Moore, now has more than 6 million views on YouTube. The film does not deny climate science. But it promotes the discredited myths that deniers have used for years to justify their position"

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"Stocks hit weekly highs as markets shrug off dismal U.S. jobs data"

šŸ˜†šŸ˜†šŸ˜† Kung-fu virus. I like this one. I think I am going to use it.

"Resolution being voted on by San Antonio City Council this morning labels terms 'Chinese Virus' and 'Kung Fu Virus' as hate speech"

Open sourcing the trace app; good idea.

"Trace Together is an app by the Singapore government that has already been installed by 620,000 people. This contact tracing app can identify people who have come within 2 metres of COVID-19 positive patient for at least half an hour using wireless Bluetooth technology.

In a bid to fight the global coronavirus pandemic, the Singapore government is now making the code for this app open-source"

The pic is hysterical

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Non-farm payrolls YoY

2020-03-01  151572   0.858386
2020-04-01  131072 -12.904340

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Defected Radio Show - Monki #music

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