Chief TWiT @leo@twit.social

Read this Guardian piece.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/cambridge-analytica-data-leak-global-election-manipulation

It seems increasingly obvious to me that mainstream social media has failed us. It's being weaponized by propagandists in the same way Goebbels used the new medium of radio to manipulate the German populace. You could say the same thing for mainstream media like the 24-hour news channels.

Fleeing to the suburbs of Mastodon and small forums like twit.community seems like burying one's head in the sand, but what else can one do?

I'm packing for CES - we leave tonight. @Lisa already has a cold and I'm desperately trying not to get it.

The plan is for Ant Pruitt and me to rush around the show floor capturing 3-5 minute videos of every booth with something interesting.

We're shooting 4k video on my Sony A7RIV with a 16-35mm lens. The hope is our editors can "pan & zoom" by cropping into our normal 720p posts. The biggest unknown is audio - I'm hoping the Sony Digital shotgun mic will get the job done.

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I just bought a 16 terabyte Seagate Ironwolf NAS drive for $450 (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07SGGWYC1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o09_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) Installing it as we speak in a Synology 1515+ NAS. replacing a 2TB drive. More than doubling the capacity of the NAS. What a world.

I think I must be dreaming.

Up early for the 8:38 Amtrak back home. Funny thing about train travel, it takes a couple of hours more than driving, but it seems to pass faster.

Can you believe it’s 2020?? We live in the future, but we still don’t have flying cars! Happy New Year my fellow Toots!

Hey we've got some custom emojis for the TWiT Social gang:

Happy New Year form the biggest little curry in the world.

Riding on the Amtrak California Zephyr in the High Sierra - Donner Lake into the Summit Tunnel. 🚂

More trains are in our future. We want to ride the Trans-Canada VIA from Vancouver -> Toronto next!

#shotoniphone11

Watch out, here comes Lisa!!

Shoutout to my peeps at Mastodon.social. I've finally gotten around to setting up my own Mastodon instance at https://twit.social thanks to masto.host.

I'm migrating over to @leo in case you want to continue to follow me. I've migrated all my follows, so I'm still seeing your posts. Here's to a federated and open 2020! 🎆

First! 😀 Only. 🤔

Welcome to the new TWiT Mastodon Instance! It's like Twitter but open, federated, and dedicated to TWiT Fans. My new handle is @leo - see you there!

Couple of tips - check your preferences. I turn on the 'advanced web interface.' It lets you open columns like tweet deck. A good way to see more of the activity in the Mastodon communities.