This sounds suspiciously like what a sentient machine about to kill us all would want us to believe...

Because it's better to have consent from your research subjects than it is to watch them secretly and track all their social connections

So you don't think tracking people who tweet about scandal, seeing who's tweeting who and rting who isn't proactive? it's essentially listening to a conversation to find out where someone lives so you can go to their house and rifle through that box of recordings.

I don't think the metaphor here is correct. Gathering phone call snippets out in the world requires a very pro-active behavior on the part of the recorder. The document must be made by the listener, even if it's capturing the speaker's behavior.

I get what you are saying, but Twitter is an open and public forum that is there specifically for people to read it! There is nothing, absolutely nothing private about Twitter. It's like saying I didn't step up to the microphone and shout my opinion and expect that people would study it. Studies like this go on all…

This reminds me quite a bit of a Gawker post from earlier this year:

Studying the ways in which particular social groups behave is a legitimate academic pursuit. And one doesn't have to be black to study issues related to African Americans.

Was there any doubt about using mozzarella?

They Speak Truth....

Bioshock

Our baby overlords do not need weak flesh or fluids when they rule us:

It WAS twins all along...

The first flashforward from LOST blew my mind, even though I sort of suspected it the whole episode (due to very clever writing)

stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself

No. I enjoyed them. I re-watched the entire trilogy a year ago and it was better than I remember compared to the first time I watched it. I just don't think many people grasp the depth of the story. Reading the wikia and understanding the mythos also made it more enjoyable. There was so much going on in the story,…

Absolutely not. I like the original but the sequels were FAR FAR better imo. They kicked so much ass. People are fucking idiots. Cry babies that want the script to be written how it is in their head. Those movies were massive technical achievements for their time and so fucking bad ass when I first saw them. Die in a…

I agree. Not saying either movie was a masterpiece, just never understood all the hatred for them. I also do believe their more tolerable if you consider the theme of the movies.

Filthy casual.

Damn, am I the only one that actually enjoyed the Matrix sequels?