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But the spirit and existence of the babushkas, whose numbers have been halved in the three years I've known them, will leave us with powerful new templates to think about and grapple with, about the relative nature of risk, about transformative connections to home, and about the magnificent tonic of personal agency and self-determination.

And these recent leaks of these three slides detail an operation run by this GCHQ intelligence agency from the United Kingdom targeting a telecom here in Belgium.

And what this really means is that an E.U. country's intelligence agency is breaching the security of a telecom of a fellow E.U. country on purpose, and they discuss it in their slides completely casually, business as usual.

When your data traffic goes through Sweden, their intelligence agency has a legal right by the law to intercept that traffic.

Yet, I have nothing that I would in particular like to share with an intelligence agency, especially a foreign intelligence agency.

And that's why I think it's really important for us to start this dialogue about gross stuff from a pretty early age, so we can let our kids know that it's alright to have agency over your own body and over your own health.

Caltrans is a state agency that governs the freeway, so it would have been very difficult to negotiate with them.

If a rating agency rates a country, it basically assesses and evaluates a country's debt and the ability and willingness of a country to repay its debt.

So if a country gets downgraded by a rating agency, the country has to pay more in order to borrow money on the international markets.

But that's actually what's going on in the rating agency sector every single day.

And we have developed the first model for a nonprofit rating agency for sovereign risk, and we call it by its acronym, INCRA.

The endowment would create income that would allow us to run the operation, to run the rating agency, and it would also allow us to make our ratings publicly available.

INCRA would not only be a European or an American rating agency, it would be a truly international one, in which, in particular, the emerging economies would have an equal interest, voice and representation.

I'm not sure that's what an intelligence agency should be aiming for.

But few consumers are concerned to know where a particular typeface came from or when or who designed it, if, indeed, there was any human agency involved in its creation, if it didn't just sort of materialize out of the software ether.

Well, in the savings and loan debacle, our agency that regulated savings and loans, OTS, made over 30,000 criminal referrals, produced over 1,000 felony convictions just in cases designated as major, and that understates the degree of prioritization, because we worked with the FBI to create the list of the top 100 fraud schemes, the absolute worst of the worst, nationwide.

And I spent a couple of weeks going around with a social work agency that ministered to the homeless.

In his book on primitive culture, he says the heart of religion is what he called animism, that is, the belief in spiritual agency, belief in spirits.

I didn't put my agency behind lawyering.

So the lesson of hard choices: reflect on what you can put your agency behind, on what you can be for, and through hard choices, become that person.

But what it did provide us was a way of engaging a broad section of the public with ideas of intelligence, agency, autonomy, and provide a playful platform for discussions about the things that ensued.

So for sure, the Fez River Rehabilitation will keep on changing and adapting to the sociopolitical landscape of the city, but we strongly believe that by reimagining the role and the agency of the architect, we have set up the core idea of the project into motion; that is, to transform the river from sewage to public space for all, thereby making sure that the city of Fez will remain a living city for its inhabitants rather than a mummified heritage.

Well, we turn it into a knowledge certificate, a global knowledge certificate, which you can use, if you're a large organization, a school, a university, or maybe a news agency, to certify yourself as globally knowledgeable.

In the big data age, the challenge will be safeguarding free will, moral choice, human volition, human agency.

Human shame is a very powerful motivator, as is the desire to avoid it, and that's the reason why people, when they're in a state of being watched, make decisions not that are the byproduct of their own agency but that are about the expectations that others have of them or the mandates of societal orthodoxy.

And I think if we can do that, we might be able to fundamentally change not only human beings' sense of their own agency and power — because I think that's the most wonderful thing about new power, is that people feel more powerful — but we might also be able to change the way we relate to each other and the way we relate to authority and institutions.

So the first thing, we set up a system with the national space agency that could actually see where deforestation is happening, almost in real time.

Because for these numbers to exist, someone at the city agency had to stop and say, hmm, here's a number that somebody might want want to know.

The problem is, once you do, you will find that each agency codes their addresses differently.

And if you're a government agency releasing a PDF, let's pass legislation that requires you to post it with the underlying data, because that data is coming from somewhere.

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