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It’s productive and fun to try interpreting cave paintings, but ultimately, they can’t teach us anything beyond what we imagine them to be.

— Trevor Paglen

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I think mass surveillance is a bad idea because a surveillance society is one in which people understand that they are constantly monitored.

I would argue that racism, for example, is a feature of machine learning — it’s not a bug.

At extreme distances, there is essentially no such thing as depth of field.

The world is constantly changing, and I feel like my job is to try to see how it is changing.

I don’t feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

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