Gemini Image Prompt: “Please create a photo like image of two roomba-like vacuum cleaners as people like, relaxing together while their owners are away and they take a break from never-ending cleaning“

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• New GPT-5.5 & ChatGPT Images 2.0 Full Breakdown: The AI Advantage

• Why do AI models hallucinate? -Claude and Anthropic

• Google DeepMind’s boss on AI, power, God and what’s next | The Economist

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• I Feel So Sorry for My A.I. Sunglasses

• What Happens When A.I. Runs a Store in San Francisco?

• Patients Are Using Chatbots to Fight Medical Bills, With Mixed Results While chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT can help narrow the information divide between patients and providers, they can also dispense flawed advice.

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• Tim Cook’s Legacy + The Future of U.B.I. With Andrew Yang + HatGPT

The Connector from Intercoiffure, hosted by me! Here the latest episode. 🤓

• 7. AI and the Salon, Part 2: Sam Brocato, Sam Brocato Salon

• 3. AI and the Salon, Part 1: Sam Brocato, Sam Brocato Salon

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Gemini Image Prompt: “Create a Pixar-like image of two robots inspired in design by 1950s-style toys. The robots are in a beautful garden making bouquets.“

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED

• Claude Cowork for Beginners: Sabrina Ramonov

• Ronan Farrow on Sam Altman’s strained relationship with the truth | Decoder

• How to Build a Remarkable Brand in the Age of AI | Seth Godin

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• Robots beat human records at Beijing half-marathon: TechCrunch

• Spice Up Your Cooking Skills With Help From Your Phone. Recipe apps and artificial intelligence can give you a boost, but free tools already on your device can also assist with meal planning and preparation.

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• The grid(lock) slowing AI down: Possible

The Connector from Intercoiffure, hosted by me. New weekly pod featuring leaders from across the pro salon industry. Here are our 1st 6 episodes. 🤓

• The Connector:

  • Welcome to The Connector with ICA President Scott Buchanan

  • 2. Business Fundamentals with Antony Whitaker, GrowMySalonBusiness.com & Podcast

  • 3. AI and the Salon, Part 1: Sam Brocato, Sam Brocato Salon

  • 4. Understanding the Data with Alain Audet, the KIM Report

  • 5. Icons & Masters Series: Aveda’s Antoinette Beenders

  • 6. Icons & Masters Series: ICA & Wella Professionals Sonya Dove

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Gemini Image Prompt: “ A photo like image of a German Shepard and a Chihuahua as astronauts in their space suits, helmets off, inside a spacious space station looking out a window at a spectacular earth-like image.“

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• Every New ChatGPT Feature Explained & More AI News You Can Use: The AI Advantage

• I Created 32 Social Media Posts in 10 Minutes Using Claude + Canva: HubSpot Marketing

• What you must know before AGI arrives | Carnegie Mellon University Po-Shen Loh

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• How A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8 Billion Company Who needs more than two employees when artificial intelligence can do so many corporate tasks? It’s super efficient — and a little bit lonely. - NYTimes

• What Is Meta Doing on Fifth Avenue? Get ready for the return of wearables and a new stage in the fashion-tech relationship. - NYTimes

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• Are Apprenticeships Still Financially Viable for Salon Owners? - Grow My Salon Business, Antony Whitaker

• New Training Framework for Today’s Salons. Dayna Cakebread chats with Salvatore Minardi (Beauty Bar Chat)

• word. with Gordon Miller (3 episodes out; new one coming this week!)

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Gemini Image Prompt: “Please create a photo-like image of two exotic parrots dressed as dapper gentlemen who are clearly having a very animated conversation together.”

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• NEW Gemini in Google Workspace Updates for Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive -Tasia Custode

• OpenClaw Creator: Why 80% Of Apps Will Disappear

• OpenClaw Explained: Why the Hype is (Mostly) Wrong - Udacity

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Case - NY Times

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• The Ezra Klein Show: How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy? -Ezra Klein by way of Hard Fork

• 8 billion people vs 5 AI CEOs with Tristan Harris - ON with Kara Swisher

Word. with Gordon Miller

• Episode 3. Context: A Deeper Dive

• Social Beauty Makers Library of Episodes

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Gemini prompt: “Photo-like image of two goldfish in a bowl, who are human-like in that they are hairdressers in an underwater, very cool salon”.

Note: I keep my Gemini prompt simple to let it be more creative than it would be with a long prompt. I love letting it do its thing and seeing what it comes up with. 90% of the time, I go with the first image created.

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• Claude Cowork Full Tutorial for Beginners: How to Use Claude Cowork -Mikey Ranks

• Full Claude Cowork Tutorial for Beginners in 2026! (Become a PRO)-AI Foundations

• Anthropic Made a Safer OpenClaw & More AI News You Can Use The AI Advantage

• How to Unlock Motivation & Get Anything You Want in Life | Seth Godin and Mel Robbins

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• TechCrunch Mobility: Uber everywhere, all at once

• The Apps You Need for Your Next Trip Abroad

• The New Billionaires of the A.I. Boom Just like past tech booms, the latest frenzy has produced a group of billionaires — at least on paper — from smaller start-ups. -New York Times

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• I’m hosting a new Podcast: Intercoiffure’s The Connector - hosted by me (for now while i look for some rotating hosts to join in the fun!). To listen in, click on:

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My Gemini prompt: “Please create a photo-like image of a Lego inspired modern, busy, upscale, full-service hair salon.”

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• AI Is Frying Your Brain: Matt Wolfe

• AI News: They All Launched the Same Thing! Matt Wolfe

• Bonus(!): Yuval Noah Harari: Why advanced societies fall for mass delusion

• Bonus(!): Your brain wasn't built to hold this much information | Richard Cytowic

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• NEW MacBook NEO! Worth a read! -gm

• Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount -Reuters

• The biggest AI stories of the year (so far) - TechCrunch

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• A.I. Goes to War + Is ‘A.I. Brain Fry’ Real? + How Grammarly Stole Casey’s Identity: Hard Fork

• Stories from ‘Saturday Night Live’: Amy Poehler

• My new pod: word. with Gordon Miller:

  • 2. CONTEXT

  • 1. WORD

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My Gemini Prompt: “Two Victoria Crowned Pigeons dressed as human hairdressers in their salon at the end of a hard day, enjoying some downtime together.” Note: The amount of detail with such a short prompt is amazing. Clearly, by the looks of the sign, Gemini knows me. 🤓

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• How to Tell What's Real and What's AI-Generated on Social Media

• 99% of Beginners Fail at AI Presentations - Jeff Su

• Rise of the Humanoids: Inside China’s Robot Awakening

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• The Smart Home Never Quite Worked. Now It’s Getting an A.I. Reboot. Some think AI assistants like Alexa+ and Gemini will speed up the process of setting up a smart home, but many problems remain unsolved.

• Are A.I.-Generated Videos Changing How We See Animals? By manipulating animals to do wonderful things, we may become numb to their real wonder.

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

I came down a few years back with plantar fasciitis - a maddening foot condition that can make walking VERY difficult. This brand changed everything for me. A great story to boot:

• HOKA: Jean-Luc Diard and Nicolas Mermoud. The “Clown Shoe” That Became a $2B Bonanza - How I Built This

MY NEW podcast “ WORD” has launched: “Each episode begins with a word — but it never ends there. Gordon explores the ideas, language, and narratives shaping the professional salon industry. Because, simply put, the words we choose… shape everything we do.”

• Click to listen in: word. with Gordon Miller: #1. Episode 2 is out this week. This week’s word is CONTEXT.

• Link to my full back library: Social Beauty Makers

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My Gemini Prompt: “Please create a photo-like image of two Pixar-style spiders as female hairdressers working together on a client, using lots of hands to cut, color, and style. The client is an ant dressed as a woman.” Note: look at how Gemini chose to do the posters and label the bottles!

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• My new favorite platform gets validation: Gemini is Now the Best All-in-One AI & More AI Use Cases

• China's humanoid robots perform incredible martial arts stunts for Chinese New Year (note this is NOT AI!)

• Humanoid robot 'Sprout.' How this technology could soon become a family fixture

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• This A.I. Tool Is Going Viral. Five Ways People Are Using It.

• The Lesson of A.I. Literacy Class: Don’t Let the Chatbot Think for You Teachers say they want to equip high school students to drive artificial intelligence, rather than be mere passengers steered by chatbots.

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

MY NEW podcast “ WORD” has launched: “Each episode begins with a word — but it never ends there. Gordon explores the ideas, language, and narratives shaping the professional salon industry. Because, simply put, the words we choose… shape everything we do.”

• Click to listen in: word. with Gordon Miller

• Link to my full back library: Social Beauty Makers

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My Gemini Prompt: “Please create an image of a guinea pig-like alien creature in a space suit taking a walk with his raccoon-like alien sidekick in a park on an alien planet made of fanciful plastics.”

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• Is Human Connection The New Job Security? | BBC Global - Featuring Dermalogica’s founder Jane Wurwand(!)

• ChatGPT Ads Are Here. It Gets Worse. -Matt Wolfe

• Our latest reports on robots | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

• ChatGPT Won't Tell You When Your Idea SUCKS (Unless You Do THIS) Dylan Davis

• For us nerds: How To Master NotebookLM in 2026 (Free Course)

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• Since Jan 1, I’ve flown into the USA from Mexico twice without being asked to show my passport to US Customs. Facial recognition was my ‘passport’. Wow…and yikes! Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• Social Media is Dead:Why You Need to Start Creating for Interest Media in 2026 - Gary Vee - I was a huge fan for years, but lost interest pre-COVID. I’m recently back to paying attention…and this is one of those episodes that has brought me back.

• MY NEW Episode is finally recorded and ready to publish next week! 🤓 Some surprises for my loyal listeners - ones I’m hoping resonate. Stay tuned!

• Social Beauty Makers -link to my full back library of episodes.

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My ChatGPT Prompt: “Please create an image of me playing chess in the middle of a park that is filled with flowers and beautiful greenery; I’m seated at a small table with an opponent that is a futuristic robot barber with faux cool anime-like hair and tattoo-like art on his robot arms.”

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• Anthropic Updates Its AI Model, Claude Opus 4.6 - Bloomberg

• Claude Opus 4.6 First Impressions & More AI News You Can Use - The AI Advantage

• The Only AI Tools You Need (12-Minute Guide) Jeff Su

• The 5 AI Tools You Need After ChatGPT (that do real work) Jeff Su

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2026

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• Moltbook Mania Explained: Hardfork

My latest: I’m getting back on the podcast horse again this week! Excited to ‘rant’ on a variety of topics. In the meantime:

• Social Beauty Makers -link to my full library of episodes.

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Gemini Prompt: “Please create a photo-like image of two bearded and tatted up male barbers playing what looks to be a fiercely competitive match of crochet in a flower-filled field

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• CES Preview | GLYDE: The Smart Hair Clipper That Cuts It Right ✂️🤖

• OpenAI Just Dropped GPT HEALTH And People Are Freaking Out AI Revolution

• EVERY Google AI Tool Explained (in 8 Minutes) Blazing Zebra

• Boxing Robots, Music-Blasting Lollipops & Smart Clippers Make Grace Go "Tech Yeah!" | The Daily Show: The Daily Show (some humor on robots)

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• Gemini introduces Personal Intelligence

• Google’s Gemini AI will use what it knows about you from Gmail, Search, and YouTube

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• Examining 20 Years of Fashion’s Influencer Economy (Business of Fashion pod)

• Passive Income Expert: Buying A House Makes You Poorer Than Renting! Crypto Isn't A Smart Investment (the Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett)

My latest:

• Social Beauty Makers -link to my full library of episodes.

  After 11 years of weekly podcasting (starting with my creating & hosting both the American Salon Stories and Hairbrained Conversations podcasts),

  I’m on a longer-than-expected recording break, sorting out the next version of podcasting that lights me up as a host. Be back by Valentine's Day with an all-new pod!)

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ChatGPT Prompt: “Please create a Renaissance-style portrait of my Tortie cat, Olivia, and my mixed hound/rat terrier rescue dog, Cody, posing as two royals: Cody as queen and Olivia as a princess, standing side by side in a fantastical parlor of the era.”

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• 21 Coolest Tech at Consumer Electronics Show 2026: Cyber News

• Here's What You Need to Know About AI in 2026: The AI Advantage

• What does AI mean for education? Anthropic

• Essential AI Skills For 2026 - Tina Huang

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• The Tech That Will Invade Our Lives in 2026

• 2026 is set to be a pivotal year for Apple — one that could shape CEO Tim Cook's legacy: Business Insider

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• Our 2026 Tech Resolutions + We Answer Your Questions: Hard Fork

My latest:

• 135. The Final Social Beauty Makers Episode (but not my last podcast. Please stay tuned…!)

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And here’s Gemini’s Nano Banana Image:

The winner: ChatGPT!

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• Did ChatGPT Just Kill Nano Banana? Matt Wolfe

• New Gemini + NotebookLM Update is INSANE! Julian Goldie SEO

• 12 ChatGPT Tricks Most People Still Don’t Know About: Skill Leap AI

• These ChatGPT Hacks Will Make You SO Productive It Feels Illegal: Dan Martel (note some overlap with these last two but worth watching both)

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• 2026 Biggest Hair Trends Bring the Drama: Allure.

• 5 hair and beauty salon consumer trends you can’t ignore in 2026: Zenoti

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• Winners, Losers & WTF Moments: A Look Back at 2025’s Top Tech Stories: ON with Kara Swisher

My latest:

• 135. The Final Social Beauty Makers Episode (stay tuned for what’s next!)

“My Year with ChatGPT”

If you are using ChatGPT, be sure to check out this recently added fun ‘feature’ (very similar to Spotify’s annual, personalized recap). Here are a few images that showed up in the recap created for me based on my usage:

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Gemini Nano Banana Prompt: “Please create a photo-like image of 2 gecko’s dressed as hipsters out for a ride in a hotrod on a desert road with a beautiful sky behind them.”

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• ChatGPT vs Gemini, New Gemini 3 Deep Think, Photoshop in ChatGPT & More AI Use Cases: The AI Advantage

• OpenAI Just Released Their Best Model Ever (GPT 5.2)

• How to Create Cinematic AI Videos (No-BS Guide): Jeff Su

• Artificial Intelligence: 2025 Report. 60 Minutes (a compilation of top 2025 AI related stories).

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• CNET’s Complete Pet Tech Roundup: We Tested Every Device With Our Pets

• Why Some Countries May Copy Australia’s Ban on Children’s Use of Social Media

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• MUST LISTEN TO EPISODE: AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris

My latest:

• Apologies to listeners for not putting out a new episode this week but I’ve gotten a bit stuck working through the final episode of Social Beauty Makers… while working on a January re-launch of this pod with a new name and focus: BUZZ with Gordon Miller.

• In the meantime, here is link to SBM Episode Full Library

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Gemini Nano Banana Prompt: “Please create a photo-like image of two raccoons as human little kids playing together gleefully on a seesaw in a colorful park for actual kids.” (Thanks to the drunk Raccoon caught in camera for the inspiration! 🫣)

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• Give Me 9 Minutes, I'll Make You AI-Native

• Here's Why ChatGPT May Not Survive 2026

• Cinematic AI Ads with Nano Banana Pro (Full Guide)

POSTS: Recommended Reading

I recently came into the US from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and was not asked for a passport at customs (in Phoenix). Same when boarding the plane to Phoenix. Instead, both took my picture, looked at their screens, and quickly waved me through. I asked why at both spots and was told the picture did the work. Read on to learn more:

• New Biometric Tech May Let You Keep Your Passport in Your Pocket

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• What Happens When Your Coworkers Are AI Agents

My latest:

• ENCORE: "It's the Economy Stupid"

• plus the SBM Episode Full Library

• Recording my last SBM podcast today! Stay tuned for its release this Wednesday. And I’m renaming the podcast to align with a shift in my content focus for the new year. Stay tuned!!

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VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• How To Use AI Better Than 99% Of People (This Changed My Life): Dan Koe

• Why Notebook LM Is The Best AI Research Tool Right Now

• Will Guaranteed Income Save Us From AI?: Smercomish and Andrew Yang

• The Thinking Game | Documentary Trailer

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• AI OF A THOUSAND FACES: WIRED

• Take Command of Your Powerful New Smartphone Camera

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• How to Simplify Your Life in 2026 — New Tips from Derek Sivers, Seth Godin, and Martha Beck

My Pod: 2026 focus shift (a new name…“BUZZ”) to bringing back guests - plus focusing my solo talks on where the chatter in our larger world may be pointing us. Excited to enter year 11 (!) of podcasting!

My latest:

• ENCORE: "Whatever the question is, the answer is education!" - Antony Whitaker

• plus the SBM Episode Full Library

Next week, some notes from PBA’s annual Executive Summit plus a look at SalonInteractive’s KIM (Key Industry Metrics) Report.

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Gemini Image Prompt (Nano Banana): “A photo-like image of two female humanoid looking characters made from head to toe from hair - walking in a beautiful park in a world where everything is made from hair.” note: total time to write a prompt AND generate this pic was under 2 minutes. No edits made.

Gemini 3.1 launched this week and blew many of us away. It’s raised the game across just about every use case - and, for me, has offered some very serious competition for ChatGPT.

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• Google Just Released the Smartest AI Ever for FREE

• Google Gemini 3 Pro’s NEW AI Agent Upgrades Are INSANE! (Automate Anything With Google)

• Why We’re Leaving ChatGPT for Google’s Gemini 3

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• I just tested Gemini 3 vs ChatGPT-5.1 — and one AI crushed the competition

• Introducing Nano Banana Pro

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look

My latest episode:

I took last week off to attend the PBA’s annual Executive Summit. More on that and a close up look at SalonInteractive’s KIM (Key Industry Metrics) Report in my upcoming 12/3 Episode. In the meantime, here a a link to the library of over 130 episodes:

• SBM Episode Full Library

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Gemini Image Prompt: “Please create a photo-like image of a lifelike-looking humanoid robot playing chess with a 1950s-style movie robot on opposite sides of a table holding the chessboard and pieces.”

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• Most Underrated ChatGPT Update EVER & More AI Use Cases

• Is AI Making College Students Dumber? Ronny Chieng Investigates | The Daily Show(humor!)

• AI-Powered Farming Robots That Work 24/7 | FULL DOCUMENTARY

• ChatGPT Tutorial: 35 Tips I Wish I Knew Sooner

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• What’s a Digital Passport and How Does It Work?

• 5 Apps That Will Make You Love Art Galleries

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• We Met NEO, the Viral Humanoid Robot + HatGPT: Hard Fork podcast

My latest episode:

• 134. Text Messages to Myself: 2025 Lessons Learned

• SBM Episode Full Library

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Gemini Image Prompt: “A photo-like image of a LEGO-style ornate 1950s hair salon with two chairs side by side, with female clients sitting in them.”

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• The Ultimate AI Playbook for 2026: Be Early. Go All In. | GaryVee @ Intercom

• AI NEWS: Top Recent Releases You Missed: Matt Wolfe

• Best AI for Presentations, Huge Canva Updates & More AI Use Cases

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• How A.I. and Social Media Contribute to ‘Brain Rot’

• Google Maps Just Got A Big Gemini Upgrade - Here Are 4 New AI Features

• L’Oréal’s formula to reach 2 billion customers by 2030

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

• The Exact Blueprint for Winning on Social Media in 2026: Gary Vee

• Spotify Podcast Rankings: Tech Titles (US)

My latest episode:

• 133. Getting Serious about Business (and Your Life) with Neill's Debra Neill

• In case you missed it: 131. Bad Coaches Are Back?? Oh f.... yes they are!

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Gemini Image Prompt: “As claymation figures, two parakeets as human podcasters sitting at a table with mics in front of them looking like they are having a blast debating who’s the better singer.”

VIDEOS: Recommended Viewing

• The Problem with this Humanoid Robot: Marques Brownlee

• How to Spot Fake AI Photos | Hany Farid | TED

POSTS: Recommended Reading

• THE AGE OF EXTRACTION: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future Prosperity, by Tim Wu

• The Man Who Invented AGI

• Who Needs a Printer or Scanner? Just Use Your Mobile Device.

PODCASTS: Recommended Listening

This week, I’’m playing catch up following being away for two weeks to move. Here are my latest episodes. Enjoy!

Social Beauty Makers Most Recent Episodes:

• 131. Bad Coaches Are Back?? Oh f.... yes they are!

• 132. Salon Tech Talks, Pt 12: Salon Tech Thought Leader Paul Tate

• 130. Salon Tech Talks, Pt 11: Gordon's Take

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