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Why not RT?

I'm going to say something to you that you might not like.

So be prepared!

People don't help spread the word.

An old friend the other day said he was sad that my outliners are gone.

I thought this really sucks, because I'm working on the outliner every day now. It's the current thing I'm doing. I'm writing about it on my blog. Yet no one knows.

I hear all the time people wish I would do another outliner.

And those people are weird too. Because it's pretty clear they don't actually mean what they say, because when I send them a link to LO2, they don't use it. So what was that all about?

I have always tried to help friends promote their work. But I think most people don't do that.

Why?

Try an experiment. Next time you're going to Like something on Twitter, instead RT it. What really do you have to lose?

Or on Facebook, share it. If it's worthwhile or if it's someone you like, or someone who's done you a favor. That's one way to have a positive impact on the world and it doesn't cost a thing.

Help your friends! These days that seems to be a foreign concept. Let's fix that. So many things we can't fix, but this is one we can.

PS: I want to shout out to Joe Trippi. Now there's a man who RTs. It figures, he's in politics. So he understands that people remember a kindness. They really do. And Joe if you read this don't feel you have to RT, you've already done that so many times. Thank you.

PPS: Also to Jay Rosen. A champion RTer. Muchos gracias. ;-)

The Turkish government says it's now in full control after a faction of the military attempted a coup.

"With Google Play and Android app support hitting Chromebooks, it's now possible to run Windows applications/games on Chromebooks via CrossOver For Android," reports Phoronix. Slashdot reader grungy writes: The first Intel ChromeBooks have access to the Play Store now, and the Android version of Wine apparently runs on them... Pictures show the Steam client running, and a clip of a D3D game. Of course, the Play Store is only available on the ChromeOS developer channel so far, but that should change later this year. CrossOver for Android also hasn't been officially released, but Thursday CodeWeavers' president blogged excitedly that "we are staring at a Leprechaun riding on the back of a Unicorn while taking a picture of a UFO. We are running CrossOver through Android on a ChromeBook running a Windows based game launched from the Steam client. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE...EVER!!!"

The truth about terrorism: we're vulnerable

davewiner

The truth about terrorism is that if you're willing to give up your life, as the truck driver in Nice was, there's not much anyone can do to stop you.

That's the nature of civilization. It depends people's basic goodness and their individual will to survive. If both those things go away all bets are off.

And the more advanced our civilization gets the more at-risk we are. If we didn't have trucks we couldn't be killed by trucks. If there were no jets they couldn't be crashed into skyscrapers. Etc.

We have a lot of vulnerabilities that we simply can't safe-up. And we can't know who all the potential suicide drivers are.

It's not a great idea to elect despots to solve the problem. You trade one problem for an even worse one. Although I'm sure they're thinking about exactly that in France, and we already know a fair number of Americans are thinking it too.

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Turkish military officers who participated in failed coup become a source of tensions between Greece and Turkey.

Nearly 3,000 soldiers arrested and 2,700 judges fired as Turkey begins punishing those linked to attempted coup.

Turkish military officers who participated in failed coup become a source of tensions between Greece and Turkey.

Andrew J . Hawkins, writing for The Verge: Ergo, the secretive, CIA-linked firm that was paid by Uber to investigate the plaintiff in one of the ride-hail startup's many lawsuits, has now admitted to lying and illegally recording phone calls during its probe, according to Law360. Lawyers for Ergo owned up to the infractions in oral arguments in court Thursday, drawing a rebuke from the judge overseeing the case. Last December, Spencer Meyer filed a proposed class action lawsuit against Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, alleging a scheme to fix prices in violation of antitrust laws. The same day, Uber hired Ergo to investigate Meyer out of concern he posed a security risk to Kalanick. But Ergo also gathered information on Meyer's lawyer, a move that some critics say went too far. Ergo's lawyer argued that the firm was unaware the investigation was tied to a lawsuit, even while admitting Ergo's investigator "dissembled and used false pretenses in his duties," Law360 said.