Chip

@ChipRoberson
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2 Following
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CEO of Brandle (Enterprise Social Media Goverance), dog, wine and scotch lover, backsliding cyclist, news junkie. Husband, father, and grandfather.
12” of new snow above Lake Tahoe yesterday. Nice but ready for Spring.
https://mastodon.social/media/RdX-M0Q1yjD0DjjzDCE
There's been some discussion about adding an option to hide public follower/following pages. I wanna gauge if that's worth spending time on: https://www.strawpoll.me/15477773
Would you like an option to hide your following/followers pages? (Even if you might still appear as followee/follower on other people'...

Vote Now! [Yes] [No]

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear?
https://mastodon.social/media/6HQXhoX7qn160XserhA

Dozens of local TV news anchors were forced to recite a speech about 'false news' controlling 'exactly what people think

http://www.businessinsider.com/sinclair-news-anchors-false-news-controlling-what-people-think-2018-4

BOOST

Dozens of local TV news anchors were forced to recite a speech about 'false news' controlling 'exactly what people think'

Deadspin created a compilation of the local anchors reading the script, and the combined effect is really weird, and worth watching.

I wrote a super simple bot that boosts anything from a hashtag. The poor man's group feature. https://github.com/Gargron/boost-bot
GitHub - Gargron/boost-bot: Mastodon bot that boosts all local toots with a chosen hashtag.

Mastodon bot that boosts all local toots with a chosen hashtag. - Gargron/boost-bot

GitHub
DSS 55 carrier lock on Mars Odyssey
Frequency: 8.4073GHz
Signal strength: -102dBm
IDLE OFF 1 MCD3
Is it #Fediverse or #Federverse? Inquiring minds want to know.
Mark Zuckerberg rejects U.K. request to answer questions about Facebook’s data privacy

Mark Zuckerberg has ignored calls to appear before a U.K. Parliament Committee for questioning over the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal. The Facebook cofounder and CEO will instead send…

VentureBeat
Facebook Has Had Countless Privacy Scandals. But This One Is Different.

It’s a moment that forces us, collectively, to step back and think about what we sacrificed for a more convenient and connected world.