The largest supplier by volume was Monsanto. Agent Orange ravaged through South Vietnam destroying 20% of the jungles. And civilians and soldiers on both sides got sprayed with it too, mostly by accident.
- You don't have to tell the story. - Agent found me, 12 years old. I go and audition for Family Matters.
Uh, you can get the inspiration from. Now, I call it Agents Anonymous- ... for, for reasons. - Agents Anonymous. - And- - Oh, it's so funny on so many levels. I'm sorry, go ahead. - Yeah. And there was this one guy who, who talked to me. He's like, "I run this design agency, and we, we never had custom software. And
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other sets of tools that we've given other names to. And so that's... Now, of course, that spectrum, the important thing is that as you get to the right of that spectrum, whereas the agency of the system goes up, it is no longer just about persuading it to do things. It's a bidirectional relationship, what Richard Watson would call a mutual vulnerable knowing. So the idea is that on the right side of that spectrum, when systems reach the higher levels of agency, the idea is
some of them won't get enough work to do. And if they don't get enough work to do, they demotivate everybody else by their mere agencies ever accessed private user messages in the past?
you tend to have elections swinging back and forth. Agenda control doesn't come from positive attention, it comes from conflict.
There's a signal that you chose to send and that they will receive or not receive. So when we think about the agency, the freedom that each of us have, we have the freedom to decide who we're going to show up for and what's the story that's built in. So back to this Uber driver, if you want to make a living driving a car and meeting
fighting, you know, c celebrations, gatherings, I would drink. I would drink, but it wasn't a weekly. It wasn't a weekly or daily thing, but I've always agent. They call security, call the police.
everyone we've talked to at various federal agencies has told us that when the president gave this directive in middle of February for federal agencies to declassify evidence of non-human intelligent life and UAP, only a few engaged with it. They only gave a small percent of what they have.
CIA and NSA and you know, probably DIA and NGA, all of these intelligence agencies, of which there are many, not just the CIA, were able to get that information to the president in that exact moment and make that strike and decapitate the leadership that has been in power since 1979. When they talk
biological and chemical weapons. So the fact that in March of 2025, the ODNI, the assessment of all intelligence agencies, said Iran is not working on a nuclear weapon. And then, after the strike in June of the same year, where we dropped bunker busters in in Fordow, further obliterating their nuclear enrichment capability and obliterating
we want is for the voters' desires to be expressed. What we want is a clear agenda, a clear vision for a better future. And let me tell you something, okay? After my experience hands-on with some of these campaigns all around the country, I have begun to realize something.
people. At no point is that an argument that centers voters and their concerns. agenda is is hearkening back to like the '90s Democratic Party. It's very interesting that they, you know, present
but going along with the direction that it was going in and in fact working with it, right? Encouraging it, backing its agenda. And now he's left and he's been destroyed by it, right? He's been pushed out of public life as despite, you know, sort of small, as he says 91% of the time he votes for the Republican party
Third, I want to abolish ICE. Maybe it's just because I've actually worked in the bowels of government having to run an agency, but when an agency runs amok like amok that way, they can't be reformed or retrained. I think we just need to start from scratch. And then lastly, I just think very differently about what our responsibilities are when it comes to foreign policy. I don't want my foreign policy dictated to me by a
it's over, but we are all really concerned about our future agency. Like I don't think these tools are powerful enough yet. Like I think it's giving these tools in Silicon Valley, it's buying too much into the narrative to say uh we're all automatons. Like you know, I I think from a culture standpoint of
They've been feeling quite unhappy about it. There is presence of law enforcement agencies especially in densely populated areas increased security patrols and this is because there has been an anticipation of some sort of uh possible unrest that uh could have happened and that's why the law enforcement agencies
agentic stuff and all of that.
agenda, to-do list, project management app, an app like Notion for creating dashboards, database apps, various forms of cloud storage
agenda within an existing regulatory framework and enhance, accelerate environmental protection-- it's more data rich.
agenda that that inspired this scientific lab to say we need to get data into the hands of people who can actually do something about it.
Agent Smith, so infinitely copied information.
agenda, then that's something that is really, really practically helpful, I think.
agent. It's almost it's just a very small ATM card is a way to think of it.
agency-- to just say, hey, there are plenty of agencies just like yours that are still prioritizing the public's right to know.
agenda in their in their in their system. So that was part of the off the off the declaration today. The impact
agency. How would you describe that, D/CAL?
Agenda bonus tip-- so most agendas are organized by topics.
agents are just bad guys doing bad things all the time.
Agency is perhaps one thing, but there's all kinds of social dynamics as well.
agencies, development is not about someone else somewhere else.
agents, creativity, Cat Person.
Agency costs, you know the story there.
agencies. So we're always looking for good recommendations.
agenda, strictly speaking accuracy of perception is not.
agencies up to the White House, especially, President Obama had to think-- he made the call, I don't care about who argues on TV.
agencies in their area so that they can actually address any local issues.
agencies' attempt to detain people, which is not illegal.
agents there and our agents called us to a meeting and they said, "Congratulations. You worked so hard to
agents. We went to Sundance with that movie and the movie sold for half a million dollars. And we said, "Oh
Agents of political power to and understanding of religion as expressing
agency which basically made all the spam that you get. And, you know, they they had, it's your fault. Yeah. I was like,
agency and uh perhaps put a uh a mini settlement on on the moon and there is a
agency's development of a new uh 10year vision for how to get our arms around
agenda and he was incredibly uh proficient at it and I think often
agency that spends the most money doing this is usaid which about which a great deal has
ageny the power to design is in the wrong hands so to explain this a bit better I'm going to give you a one
agencies, all these great designers, all these great marketing people, all these great business people have done all these really interesting things
agency, all of these things, we felt have their own merit and are important.