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BPD says it's not stuck in the '90s and it was not trying to get it some

The Globe reports Boston Police say somebody hacked their Twitter account over the weekend to send out a tweet reading, in its entirety:

asl#

That anybody would think one of the nation's most social-media-adept police departments would misplace a hashtag and not use something more current such as, oh, "Netflix and chill," in this day and age is kind of amazing.


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Every cop should know the basics.

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a) How do you get Boston City Council to release online for hard of hearing folks, for the Deaf Community, for all folks the Stenographic Record of Public Meetings of Boston City Council?

Or b) how do you get released online the Full Transcript of WGBH Captions from Webcasts/Cablecasts of Public Meetings of Boston City Council? http://main.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/mag/captioning.html

c) How do you get Boston City Clerks Office to release online a table of Roll Call Votes of Boston City Council before the Election Tuesday 3 November 2015 ?

d) How do you get Cambridge City Clerks Office to release online a table of Roll Call Votes of Cambridge City Council before the Election Tuesday 3 November 2015 ?

e) How do you get better technology/software and more knowledgeable people appointed to the Boston City Clerks Office and more knowledgeable people appointed to the 100 or so staff jobs at Boston City Council that Council Communications can be improved for greater civic participation? see pages 352 and 362 at http://www.cityofboston.gov/images_documents/14%20Non-Mayoral%20Departme...

Open to easier scrutiny, open to easier analysis the Communications/Public Documents of the City!

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what?

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How to follow the BPD on twitter.

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This is the tweet, courtesy of @chipgoines . I think BPD just transported back to 1997, onto AOL with a 14.4 modem

IMAGE( https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CRKSwSTUYAANCjl.jpg:large )

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All the cool kids were up to 56.6 :-).

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I'm being funny. I never was on AOL actually.. (see my FB post regarding connecting to IRC 20 years ago this month)

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FYI: every dumb thing I've ever posted on the internet was because I was hacked. The smart stuff was 100% me though.

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I just did and ASL means, "Age, Sex, Location?"

Or as Urban Dictionary states:

What stupid people say on chats to learn who you are and where you live so they can come to your house with a chainsaw and kill you.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=asl

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That's not a hashtag...

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14/f/fl

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Totally not FBI, right?

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