mokka-facereadings

  • From Brian Reverman’s Mask Around the World video, the narrator mentions the idea of masks used to celebrate the coming of seasons. The arrival of seasons is a concept so familiar in my head that I completely neglected how special it is in some cultures. It’s also interesting to see masks almost try to portray something that isn’t tangible and become wearable.
  • “Asians and African-Americans are a 100 times more likely to be misidentified than white men” In John Oliver’s video, he mentions this extremely alarming fact about failures that exist within the technology of facial recognition. Not only that, but they struggle to identify between a male and a female. When this system is used in ways that it wasn’t designed to be used, the public is surely in danger. It worries me that people may use this technology in serious situations while misunderstanding its accuracies, resulting in harming an innocent.