How To touchscreen-toggle a virtual keyboard in Linux Mint
A brief tutorial to enable touch-screen toggling of the virtual keyboard in Linux Mint.
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Guest Post: AI says it’s time to return to the office
Let’s come together and seize the opportunity to rebuild, reconnect, and reignite our passion and drive in the office. Let’s make the most of our time and talents by collaborating in person and making a lasting impact on our company and our community.
Getting started with Mastodon x WordPress
If you have a WordPress blog and a Mastodon account, the three things you’re going to want to do are verify your identity, embed toots, and syndicate your blog on the fedirverse. This post briefly describes how to do all three.
Testing ActivityPub syndication
If Mastodon replaces Twitter as the rising microblogging platform, the “super-RSS” ActivityPub protocol it uses re-opens the window for blogging. I know this instance is advertising to the fediverse and is discoverable on Mastodon, but I need to test whether new posts syndicate.
On viral quick-fixes for the logistics crisis
At the height of the West Coast logistics crisis, a dot-com logistics made certain allegations and policy demands in a thread that went viral. I investigated and found that it suggested a number of useless and damaging quick-fixes which had no relation to the crisis.
“By What Authority?” Trigonometry of EO 13769 at the Border
When CBP started removing refugees, immigrants and non-immigrants pursuant to a “Muslim Ban”, I went looking for the legal authority.
And found that CBP didn’t know either.
On the constitutionality of a religious test for immigration
I have found two ways in which Trump’s ban on Muslim visitors could be enacted. The first is a constitutional amendment, the second is a declaration of war. (Well that aged poorly. -ed)
Uncle Sam hunts Purple Squirrels too
In 2011, in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, Wharton School’s Peter Cappelli torpedoed the “skills gap” excuse for high unemployment. “With an abundance of workers to choose from, employers are demanding more of job candidates than ever before.
Minitel (1979-2012): its past and our future
2012 is the year that Europe shuts down its proto-Internets. First, the BBC announced that teletex was getting the axe and today France is shutting down the Minitel x.25 network. These technologies, both started in the late 1970s, were ahead of their times and, in many ways, may still be.
On the revisionist history of British microcomputers
Small errors of history presented in this Guardian article sum up to a government directed, top-down history of diffusion, learning & innovation. In any history of the British adoption of microcomputers, Sinclair should earn top billing for popular influence over the BBC/Acorn.
"citizenship is not a birthright"
American birthright citizenship does not derive from a “misinterpretation” of the 14th amendment. It is, instead, an American legal principle with a nearly unbroken tradition dating to the earliest days of republic.
Social Network Structure of Network Neutrality
A qualitative study using Social Network Analysis to investigate the social relations and the political economy of Network Neutrality.
An Iterative Process for Dictionary Construction
Drawing inspiration from General Inquirer (1966) and KWIC, this post proposes an iterative hybrid of available methods in a quest for a more flexible and robust machine-assisted content analysis system.
Classic Shell Scripting: the history of wf.sh
A short bibliography of the famous wf.sh from 1986:
“Given a text file and an integer K, you are to print the K most common words in the file (and the number of their occurrences) in decreasing frequency.”
Catastrophic Frequencies
A longitudinal study of keyword frequencies in New York Times between 2001 and 2008 supported the hypothesized typologies of catastrophic myths. Patterns of occurrence are consistent between natural and man-made disasters.
Governor Vetos POLB/LA Trucker’s Right to Unionize
At YearlyKos I got the opportunity to ask some Teamsters reps about the the un-organized drayage operations that serve the … More Governor Vetos POLB/LA Trucker’s Right to Unionize