I knew that Gillian Anderson would be amazing as Media but nothing prepared me for that - I was out and out giddy as I was watching her scene.

V-neck sweaters are definitely out - don't listen to the douchebros in this article. Crew neck is where it is at.

Oh man - they are so much better than wolf parade and vampire weekend.
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Are we seeing the birth of the new Dawes? It sunk Hyden now lets see if we can bring down O'Neal!

Also I think album is good too.

and more knees for sure - I didn't see a single one.

Speaking of Baths (I don't know how they are really related but I always kind of put them on the same type of mixes) Bonobo's new album is quite stellar.

Hey at least its not Oedipal…

So the problem is that you have to have some objective standards for your normative judgements otherwise your "bad" falls prey to the same issues that you addressed with my descriptors. If you're making moral calls on technology (which I think as we've discussed doesn't have sentience) then you yourself are making a…

I think I could agree with you as long as we could change the language from bad to beneficial to humanity or detrimental to humanity.

I just think that morals are difficult enough when you are dealing with the vast complexity that is just humanity that we can't be presuming those same kind of issues on inert creations. I think that this conversation would be better dealt with if we talked about our own thoughts on how ethics and morals in general…

Yes but outside of creating something with sentience nothing has inherent 'badness' or 'goodness'. It only has what the 'creator' or 'user' gives it. A handgun that lies underground and slowly rusts has no 'badness' inherent. It has potential to be used for bad purposes but it isn't itself bad. I don't know how you…

Once upon a time, I thought I gave a shit about this comment and then I realized I didn't.

I have to agree with you there. Like I said I don't agree with everything he said in the article it just captured some sentiments that I've been mulling over on my own about sci-fi.

I don't know how technology can be bad in and of itself when it requires some sort of human interaction even if its just for its creation. You can argue it was only created for "bad" but arguing that its bad seems like arguing that a wall is bad. A wall has no intrinsic qualities other than being a wall - its how we…

I don't believe I accused the book of being completely anti-tech I just think didn't he handled aspects of it as deftly as he could have. There were times when he did a great job of getting into - like you said - privacy and ideology especially when it comes to these big tech companies who claim to be all about…

I mean he definitely has his head up his own ass far too often but I would argue that he can write a good and interesting sentence at times. And explore some interesting topics. I won't write him off completely but he's also not nearly as good as he thinks he is.

I don't think the article suggests that tech isn't to blame, but that human flaw of jealousy and insecurity has existed throughout all of human history and to suggest, as the episode does, that if you just didn't have the tech you wouldn't have the issue, is just rash and foolhardy. And ultimately makes for some bad…

I mean your avatar right now is of Fry so are you pretending to be a comic book character/TV character or just using that to obfuscate your identity online?
I agree with you actually, I just think Black Mirror suffers from being a bit too heavy handed and trying to force the point not through its character development…

I tried to like your first comment. Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Despite the fawning over it it just kind of sits there and does the same thing over and over and not in any way I find interesting.