The worst thing is to feel that as a photographer I am benefiting from someone else’s tragedy. This idea haunts me. It’s something I have to reckon with every day because I know that if I ever allowed genuine compassion to be overtaken by personal ambition, I will have sold my soul. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person’s predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other; and to that extent, I can accept myself.
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The People's Drones
Is a robot arms race upon us? And is a check on power open-source drones for the masses? Interesting questions.
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It was the American humorist Henry Mencken (1880-1956) who said that ‘Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one,’ words that are if anything more true today and they were then, surrounded as we are by giant media empires and secretive leaders who increasingly prefer to operate behind the handy screen of ‘national security.’ What Mencken meant, loosely translated, is that if you want to have a voice and be heard on the subjects that concern and outrage you, then you might be better off not trusting Rupert Murdoch and his global circus of tits and atrocity to be your spokesman.
Alan Moore, “Going Underground: The Public Gets What the Public Wants (via momentofmoore)
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