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"I STARTED FEELING LIKE A SOCIOPATH": DRONE OPERATOR

June 2013

What we're reading: Activism

(James Bridle's 'Drone Shadown 002, photographed in Istanbul)

"I STARTED FEELING LIKE A SOCIOPATH": DRONE OPERATOR
In a filmed interview, former US drone operator Brandon Bryant, 27, said that during the course of his work he “lost respect for life” and started feeling like a “sociopath”.

More on the faces behind the drones in this article, titled "Drone Pilots: 'Overpaid, Underworked, and Bored'

And Dronestagram's James Bridle is exhibiting in Washington.

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