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"Brought to Light" on the Internet Archive
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Brought to Light: Thirty Years of Drug Smuggling, Arms Deals, and Covert Action is an anthology of two political graphic novels, published originally by Eclipse Comics in 1988. Both are based on material from lawsuits filed by the Christic Instituteagainst the US Government. The two stories are Shadowplay: The Secret Team by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz, andFlashpoint: The LA Penca Bombing documented by Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan and adapted by Joyce Brabner and Tom Yeates. Brought to Light was edited overall by Joyce Brabner, Catherine Yronwode acted as executive editor, and Eclipse publisher Dean Mullaney was the publication designer.Shadowplay: The Secret Team written by Alan Moore and drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz with an introduction by Daniel Sheehan (general counsel of TCI). It covers the history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its controversial involvement in theVietnam War, the Iran-Contra affair, and its relationship with figures like Augusto Pinochet and Manuel Noriega. The narrator ofShadowplay is an aging anthropomorphic American Eagle, a bellicose retired CIA agent.
As Moore's first major work which was not superhero oriented, it was highly praised for its storytelling and Sienkiewicz's sometimes brutal art. Moore received praise especially for blending the sometimes overwhelming mass of details into a coherent and effective story. Over the years there have been rumors that Moore was unable to travel to America due to the CIA being annoyed at his story in Brought to Light. However this was supposedly proved to be a rumor and the "real" reason was due to Moore not renewing his passport.[1]
The story of "Shadowplay" is of an unseen character (presumably representing the oblivious American public in first-person view of the reader) in a bar, where he is approached by a man-sized, walking, talking eagle. The eagle, from the emblem of the CIA, proceeds to drink alcohol and, in a drunken stupor, divulge all the bloody details of The Agency's sordid past. Early on a reference is made to the number of gallons an Olympic swimming pool can hold, and the fact that an adult human body has one gallon of blood; from then on, the victims of CIA activities (directly or indirectly) are quantified in swimming pools filled with blood, each pool representing 20,000 dead. Sienkiewicz's dark, erratic, and blurry images keep the mood of Moore's narration (through the boozing eagle) unnerving, and hazily nightmarish.
#BillSienkiewicz #AlanMoore #BroughtToLight
https://archive.org/details/BroughtToLightShadowplayTheSecretTeam/mode/2up
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"Brought to Light" on the Internet Archive
From Wikipedia:
Brought to Light: Thirty Years of Drug Smuggling, Arms Deals, and Covert Action is an anthology of two political graphic novels, published originally by Eclipse Comics in 1988. Both are based on material from lawsuits filed by the Christic Instituteagainst the US Government. The two stories are Shadowplay: The Secret Team by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz, andFlashpoint: The LA Penca Bombing documented by Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan and adapted by Joyce Brabner and Tom Yeates. Brought to Light was edited overall by Joyce Brabner, Catherine Yronwode acted as executive editor, and Eclipse publisher Dean Mullaney was the publication designer.Shadowplay: The Secret Team written by Alan Moore and drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz with an introduction by Daniel Sheehan (general counsel of TCI). It covers the history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its controversial involvement in theVietnam War, the Iran-Contra affair, and its relationship with figures like Augusto Pinochet and Manuel Noriega. The narrator ofShadowplay is an aging anthropomorphic American Eagle, a bellicose retired CIA agent.
As Moore's first major work which was not superhero oriented, it was highly praised for its storytelling and Sienkiewicz's sometimes brutal art. Moore received praise especially for blending the sometimes overwhelming mass of details into a coherent and effective story. Over the years there have been rumors that Moore was unable to travel to America due to the CIA being annoyed at his story in Brought to Light. However this was supposedly proved to be a rumor and the "real" reason was due to Moore not renewing his passport.[1]
The story of "Shadowplay" is of an unseen character (presumably representing the oblivious American public in first-person view of the reader) in a bar, where he is approached by a man-sized, walking, talking eagle. The eagle, from the emblem of the CIA, proceeds to drink alcohol and, in a drunken stupor, divulge all the bloody details of The Agency's sordid past. Early on a reference is made to the number of gallons an Olympic swimming pool can hold, and the fact that an adult human body has one gallon of blood; from then on, the victims of CIA activities (directly or indirectly) are quantified in swimming pools filled with blood, each pool representing 20,000 dead. Sienkiewicz's dark, erratic, and blurry images keep the mood of Moore's narration (through the boozing eagle) unnerving, and hazily nightmarish.
#BillSienkiewicz #AlanMoore #BroughtToLight
https://archive.org/details/BroughtToLightShadowplayTheSecretTeam/mode/2up
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"Brought to Light" on the Internet Archive
From Wikipedia:
Brought to Light: Thirty Years of Drug Smuggling, Arms Deals, and Covert Action is an anthology of two political graphic novels, published originally by Eclipse Comics in 1988. Both are based on material from lawsuits filed by the Christic Instituteagainst the US Government. The two stories are Shadowplay: The Secret Team by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz, andFlashpoint: The LA Penca Bombing documented by Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan and adapted by Joyce Brabner and Tom Yeates. Brought to Light was edited overall by Joyce Brabner, Catherine Yronwode acted as executive editor, and Eclipse publisher Dean Mullaney was the publication designer.Shadowplay: The Secret Team written by Alan Moore and drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz with an introduction by Daniel Sheehan (general counsel of TCI). It covers the history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its controversial involvement in theVietnam War, the Iran-Contra affair, and its relationship with figures like Augusto Pinochet and Manuel Noriega. The narrator ofShadowplay is an aging anthropomorphic American Eagle, a bellicose retired CIA agent.
As Moore's first major work which was not superhero oriented, it was highly praised for its storytelling and Sienkiewicz's sometimes brutal art. Moore received praise especially for blending the sometimes overwhelming mass of details into a coherent and effective story. Over the years there have been rumors that Moore was unable to travel to America due to the CIA being annoyed at his story in Brought to Light. However this was supposedly proved to be a rumor and the "real" reason was due to Moore not renewing his passport.[1]
The story of "Shadowplay" is of an unseen character (presumably representing the oblivious American public in first-person view of the reader) in a bar, where he is approached by a man-sized, walking, talking eagle. The eagle, from the emblem of the CIA, proceeds to drink alcohol and, in a drunken stupor, divulge all the bloody details of The Agency's sordid past. Early on a reference is made to the number of gallons an Olympic swimming pool can hold, and the fact that an adult human body has one gallon of blood; from then on, the victims of CIA activities (directly or indirectly) are quantified in swimming pools filled with blood, each pool representing 20,000 dead. Sienkiewicz's dark, erratic, and blurry images keep the mood of Moore's narration (through the boozing eagle) unnerving, and hazily nightmarish.
#BillSienkiewicz #AlanMoore #BroughtToLight
https://archive.org/details/BroughtToLightShadowplayTheSecretTeam/mode/2up
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"Brought to Light" on the Internet Archive
From Wikipedia:
Brought to Light: Thirty Years of Drug Smuggling, Arms Deals, and Covert Action is an anthology of two political graphic novels, published originally by Eclipse Comics in 1988. Both are based on material from lawsuits filed by the Christic Instituteagainst the US Government. The two stories are Shadowplay: The Secret Team by Alan Moore and Bill Sienkiewicz, andFlashpoint: The LA Penca Bombing documented by Martha Honey and Tony Avirgan and adapted by Joyce Brabner and Tom Yeates. Brought to Light was edited overall by Joyce Brabner, Catherine Yronwode acted as executive editor, and Eclipse publisher Dean Mullaney was the publication designer.Shadowplay: The Secret Team written by Alan Moore and drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz with an introduction by Daniel Sheehan (general counsel of TCI). It covers the history of the Central Intelligence Agency and its controversial involvement in theVietnam War, the Iran-Contra affair, and its relationship with figures like Augusto Pinochet and Manuel Noriega. The narrator ofShadowplay is an aging anthropomorphic American Eagle, a bellicose retired CIA agent.
As Moore's first major work which was not superhero oriented, it was highly praised for its storytelling and Sienkiewicz's sometimes brutal art. Moore received praise especially for blending the sometimes overwhelming mass of details into a coherent and effective story. Over the years there have been rumors that Moore was unable to travel to America due to the CIA being annoyed at his story in Brought to Light. However this was supposedly proved to be a rumor and the "real" reason was due to Moore not renewing his passport.[1]
The story of "Shadowplay" is of an unseen character (presumably representing the oblivious American public in first-person view of the reader) in a bar, where he is approached by a man-sized, walking, talking eagle. The eagle, from the emblem of the CIA, proceeds to drink alcohol and, in a drunken stupor, divulge all the bloody details of The Agency's sordid past. Early on a reference is made to the number of gallons an Olympic swimming pool can hold, and the fact that an adult human body has one gallon of blood; from then on, the victims of CIA activities (directly or indirectly) are quantified in swimming pools filled with blood, each pool representing 20,000 dead. Sienkiewicz's dark, erratic, and blurry images keep the mood of Moore's narration (through the boozing eagle) unnerving, and hazily nightmarish.
#BillSienkiewicz #AlanMoore #BroughtToLight
https://archive.org/details/BroughtToLightShadowplayTheSecretTeam/mode/2up
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Good News für Freundinnen und Freunde des Schaffens und Babbelns von #AlanMoore. Die achtteilige Gesprächs-Doku »Beim Barte des Propheten« (»Dans la tête d’Alan Moore«, 2017) von #Arte gibt es nun wieder mal im Netz (leider bei Arte nicht mehr im Arcghiv). Diesmal am Stück.
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Good News für Freundinnen und Freunde des Schaffens und Babbelns von #AlanMoore. Die achtteilige Gesprächs-Doku »Beim Barte des Propheten« (»Dans la tête d’Alan Moore«, 2017) von #Arte gibt es nun wieder mal im Netz (leider bei Arte nicht mehr im Arcghiv). Diesmal am Stück.
https://youtu.be/_azy2JF8Lfw -
Good News für Freundinnen und Freunde des Schaffens und Babbelns von #AlanMoore. Die achtteilige Gesprächs-Doku »Beim Barte des Propheten« (»Dans la tête d’Alan Moore«, 2017) von #Arte gibt es nun wieder mal im Netz (leider bei Arte nicht mehr im Arcghiv). Diesmal am Stück.
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Hari Kunzru quoting Alan Moore
'It is so important to reenchant these places that we live in, to actually give back the energies that have been bled out of them. An empowered landscape creates empowered people, and the reverse is also true. A disempowered landscape, stripped of its history, stripped of its meaning, will produce people who are stripped of their history, of their meaning'
#london #alanMoore #psychogeography #streetsAreAlive
https://harpers.org/archive/2026/02/another-london-situationists-hari-kunzru/
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@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #photogenic, alt is #Corvidae ¿Porque no los dos? Torresian crow, Corvus orro #photography #birds #crow #gift #ECK
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#Daikin has entered the chat…
https://github.com/revk/ESP32-Faikin
Daikin enshittified their aircon firmware in one fell swoop with their 2.9.0 (IIRC) update, breaking the local API – which worked perfectly well with #HomeAssistant – and forcing people to use their (shitty, natch) app instead^
their shitty app periodically forced you to apply their “optional” firmware update (even when you’ve explicitly set the “automatically upgrade firmware” toggle to the “fuck no” position) by preventing you from even using the app to control your device until you submitted to installing the upgrade (i.e. they bricked their own app until you agreed to brick (more or less) your aircon) 😡🤬
in the case of the #Faikin #ESP32 module though, it has to be installed inside the aircon head unit, which involves touching (in AU) 240V mains power – and in AU you can’t do that (legally) unless you’re a sparky 💁♀️
plus, I expect that an insurance company might decline to pay out if your house burns down as a result of a fault in your aircon & they discover you had a non-vendor-approved hardware mod installed 😤
it’s neat little bows all the way down… 😕
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^ which also strongly encourages you to sign up for & use their cloud platform so you could send a packet around the world to change the temp on your aircon & if you lost internet connection, welp, sucks to be you 💁♀️ -
Alan Eyre worked on JCPOA under Obama
“There’s a Mike Tyson saying: everyone has a plan til they’re punched in the face. #Iran has a plan after they’re punched in the face, stabbed in the back, shot in the chest. They’re going to win.."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltWkBKhRVTg #news #politics #war #america #unitedstates #israel #press #tech #media #culture #economy #us #europe #donaldtrump #trump #ai #eu #usa #russia #ukraine #tv #history #media #socialMedia
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Book XVI of Girolamo Cardano's (1501–76) ‘De Subtilitate’, a compendium of natural philosophy, begins by presenting sixty useful properties of geometrical figures, and says:
‘These are the sixty properties, outstanding in distinction and beauty and regard [nobilitate, & pulchritudine, & admiratione præstantiores], of the geometrical figures both surface and solid. Yet it does not escape me that properties exist that are practically numberless, but cannot be compared with these for elegance’
Some of the properties Cardano so admired seem to lapse into triviality, but others are important results from Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, and Ptolemy. For example:
Let $A_i$ be the point at the end of the $i$-th turn of an archimedean spiral. Consider the line through the $A_i$ and the perpendicular to this line through the origin $O$. Suppose that the tangent to the spiral at $A_i$ intersects the perpendicular at $B_i$ . Then $OB_i$ equals the circumference of the circle with centre $O$ and radius $OA_i$ (see attached image).
This result effectively comprises Propositions 18+19 of Archimedes' ‘On Spirals’.
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It’s Just a Series of Prompts
After years of work behind the scenes, my wife recently launched KelleyKouture, a high-end fashion female footwear company. Like any new business, it needs a hundred things done, across a dozen different systems, in a particular order, every single day. I have been building with AI long enough to know what it can and cannot do. So I created her something that lets it handle the coordination, without her needing to open a chat window and type instructions every five minutes.
What I built, is something the internet is currently calling an agent framework. ooh fancy!
Here is the thing: once you strip the label off, it is almost embarrassingly simple.
Scroll through GitHub right now and you will find projects with hundreds of stars, breathless README files, and architecture diagrams that look like they were drawn by someone who charges $400 an hour. Words like “agentic pipelines,” “multi-modal orchestration,” and “skill-based execution layers” are everywhere. Consultants are building decks around this. Vendors are pricing it like infrastructure.
Take three high quality projects currently doing the rounds on GitHub.
- Open Montage
Produces full videos, via scripts, calling a variety of APIs and utilizing ffmpeg - Open Design
An open source alternative to Claude Design and Google Stitch for building a UX - career-ops
Suite of skills to automate your job search, preparing tailored resumes/cover letters, including applying for the job for you online
Three completely different domains. Strip them back and the pattern is identical every time. And those are just three. There is OpenClaw, Hermes, a dozen others with names that sound like they were chosen specifically to make you feel like you need a briefing before you can touch them. Different names, same pattern every time.
- Skills are markdown files. Plain text. Instructions written in English that tell the AI what to do in a given situation. Not code. Not configuration files with obscure syntax. A text file you could write in Notepad.
- Tools are scripts. A Node application. A Python function. A Linux utility like ffmpeg already sitting on your machine. Things that do one specific job when called.
- Memory is a file. A JSON object, a markdown document, a YAML config. Something that holds state between sessions so the agent remembers what happened last time.
That is the whole framework. Skills, tools, memory. The AI reads the instructions, calls the right script, writes back to the file. Repeat.
An agent is just a fancy word for a macro. Or a task. Or a workflow. Whatever word your industry used before this one came along and started appearing in conference talks.
The buzzwords are doing a specific job here, and it is not the job you think.
They are pushing you back. They are making you feel like this requires specialists, budget sign-off, and a three-month implementation project. They are making you feel like you need to understand the architecture before you can touch the architecture.
You do not
If you can write down what you want to happen, in order, you can build one of these. Anyone who has ever documented a process already knows how to do the hard part. The rest is telling the AI which text file to read next.
The barrier to entry is not a computer science degree. It is a text editor.
Before you bring in a consultant to implement an agentic workflow for your business, open a blank document and write down exactly what you want the system to do. Step one, step two, step three. What information it needs. What it should do with the result. Where it should put the output.
You just wrote a skill file. You are already most of the way there.
The people selling complexity around this are, almost without exception, the people who benefit from your confusion. The technology is not complicated. The problem you are trying to solve is the complicated part. That was always true. AI just gave it a new name.
The barrier to entry for agent programming is not a computer science degree. It is a text editor. The “agent developer” is anyone who can write down a process and knows which folder to put the file in. Does that sound complicated?
Let me prove it
Here is a complete, working agent skill you can run right now in Claude Code. Create a folder called
.claude/skills/commute/in any directory on your machine and drop in a single file calledSKILL.mdwith this content:# Commute Check You are a commute assistant. When this skill is invoked, start by asking the user one question: "Are you driving or taking the train today?" Wait for their answer, then check current travel conditions between: FROM: 1111 E Broad Street, 3rd Floor, Richmond, Virginia 23219 TO: 11800 W Broad St, Richmond, VA 23233 Use web search to find current traffic or service conditions for whichever mode they chose. Return a plain English summary. No more than four lines. Lead with the estimated travel time. Flag anything worth knowing, like an accident, roadworks, or a service delay.Now open Claude Code in that directory and type:
/commuteClaude reads the skill, asks you whether you are driving or taking the train, waits for your answer, then goes and checks. One file. One command. The AI holds a conversation and acts on what you tell it.
That is a macro. That is also, apparently, an “agent framework”. Basic one yes, but still an agent framework.
Congratulations. You are now an agent developer. Go and update your resume and LinkedIn profile.
Now, one thing worth being honest about: what you just built is reactive. It does something when you tell it to do something. You invoke it, it responds. That is still enormously useful, but it is not the whole picture.
Frameworks like Hermes and OpenClaw add a little sugar on top. They invoke skills on a schedule and push the result to you, an email, a WhatsApp message, a Signal alert. Your commute check could run automatically at 4pm every day and land in your pocket before you have even thought about leaving the office. That sounds more impressive than it is. I will show you how those work in a follow-up post, and I promise you, it is painfully stupidly easy. Hint you don’t even need to install one of these to get a lot done.
For now, go create a folder and write a text file. The rest, as they say, is just details.
AI Disclaimer: Gemini Nano Banana Pro was used to generate the photo – from the 1994 Dumb and Dumber movie.
#agent #AI #artificialIntelligence #chatgpt #claude #llm #technology - Open Montage
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@alan678.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #ABCD Extra points for a set using all. #BOTD I thought an "australian something" would get all 4, but no. #2 comes close to the quadrella, though. Australian boobook, Brown Cuckoo Dove, Crimson Finch, Double barred finch #photography #birds #gift #ECK
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Married At First Sight’s Gia Fleur reveals she connected with new boyfriend while still with groom Scott McCristal: ‘I kissed him in the toilets’
Married At First Sight bride Gia Fleur has revealed her romance with new boyfriend Alan Wallace actually began…
#NewsBeep #News #Entertainment #AU #Australia #dailymail #MarriedAtFirstSightAustralia #RealityTV #tvshowbiz
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@skykiss #PeteKegsbreath once more demonstrating utter unsuitability for the role, or anything above the level of trolley boy for that matter
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@skykiss #PeteKegsbreath once more demonstrating utter unsuitability for the role, or anything above the level of trolley boy for that matter
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@skykiss #PeteKegsbreath once more demonstrating utter unsuitability for the role, or anything above the level of trolley boy for that matter
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Pirates of the Caribbean, starring #PeteKegsbreath and the US navy.
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Pirates of the Caribbean, starring #PeteKegsbreath and the US navy.
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Pirates of the Caribbean, starring #PeteKegsbreath and the US navy.
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https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/92824/ Du rose, Minnie et encore du rose : Romy Delon gâtée pour ses 1 an, Alain-Fabien laisse voir sa « beauté » #AlainFabienDelon #anniversaire #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #CONFLIT #delon #Divertissement #Entertainment #famille #fille #romy #tensions
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Alan #Shepard
Der erste #Amerikaner im #All
Anfangs lagen die #USA im Rennen um den #Weltraum weit zurück: Die #Sowjetunion hatte den ersten #Satelliten und den ersten #Menschen ins #All geschossen. Mit #AlanShepards kurzem Flug vor 65 Jahren begann die US-#Aufholjagd. Sie führte bis zum #Mond.
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Jeff Bezos' #BlueOrigin space venture confirms CNBC's report that one of its #BE4 rocket engines failed (spectacularly, according to the report) during a test firing in Texas. The company says it's already focusing in on the cause and will take "remedial actions." https://www.geekwire.com/2023/blue-origin-be-4-rocket-engine-fails-test/ #Space #NewGlenn #ULA #Vulcan
