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If secrecy is made out of the same stuff that the rest of the world is made out of, then it’s fundamentally visible, which means that secrecy can only fail in the first instance, in the sense that you cannot make something disappear.

— 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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