Cerstin Mahlow @CerstinMahlow@qoto.org

My email password was hacked again and that's the third time I’ve had to rename my cat.

#StanisławLem ist schon erstaunlich relevant (Summa technologiae [1964] 1981, s. 66).

For those of you who are as eager to read more about the #Receptiogate affair as I am, here is today’s news instalment, a 5th post by the duped blogger, addressing the issue of plagiarism. As entertaining as this is in all its absurdity, at the heart it is a truly sad and disturbing situation, of course. To be continued, no doubt.

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-v.html

I could do boring catch-up things today or I could see how much German I remember and try to make my way through the latest #ReceptioGate news 🤔 https://www.kath.ch/newsd/receptiogate-der-heilige-stephanus-koennte-einer-zuercher-professorin-zum-verhaengnis-werden/

If you haven't been following the story of the RECEPTIO "research centre" and publisher. it can only be described as what in Ireland we call GUBU - grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented.

#ReceptioGate

There’s an absolutely astonishing story brewing in the medieval manuscripts world of a Potemkin Village scholarly institute built out of plagiarism and stock photos. I can scarcely do it justice except to link to Peter Kidd’s thorough deconstruction of #receptio #receptiogate

Part 1: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.html

Part 2: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-ii.html

Part 3: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-iii-my.html

Part 4: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-iv-my.html

Part 5: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-v.html

#RECEPTIOgate update: statement from the University of Zurich (in German)
https://www.kath.ch/newsd/carla-rossi-ist-nach-wie-vor-titularprofessorin-uni-zuerich-kuendigt-untersuchung-an/

@Marphurius vielen Dank. Ich fragte mich schon die ganze Zeit, ob @SNF_ch auf dem Laufenden ist und ob es eine Position von ihnen zu #carlarossi gibt #receptiogate

Very good summary (in German) of #Receptiogate, including some new statements and thoughtful commentary in the context of Swiss academia and funding practices:

https://www.kath.ch/newsd/receptiogate-der-heilige-stephanus-koennte-einer-zuercher-professorin-zum-verhaengnis-werden/

@Marphurius #Rossi seems to say that the stock photos on the #Receptio pages are due to a technical problem. That doesn't seem credible to me. Among other things, #Kidd posted a link showing pages that have recently been deleted from reception.eu: https://web.archive.org/web/diff/20221130193323/20221225114026/https://www.receptio.eu/operationalstaff There I find an image of myself, clearly a photomontage that I never knew anything about.

I’m a W, how about you?

I'm delighted to report that MIT and the W3C have reached an agreement and that the W3C will kick off 2023 with funds and assets.

Many thanks for all your support and to all those who worked towards reaching an agreement. Enjoy the holidays!
https://mastodon.social/@robin/109524929231432913

“Beyond Word Processing: The Online Text System” (1979-10-03)

Very interesting memo by David Casseres on what what could perhaps be called “NLS-style text editing” in the context of Jef Raskin’s original Macintosh project (i.e., before Steve Jobs took over).

https://archive.org/details/Apple_Mac_Selected_Papers_1980/page/n110/mode/1up

#HistoryOfComputing #InteractiveEditing #Writing

Peter Kidd has published a first summary of yesterday’s discoveries about Carla #Rossi and her activities: “The RECEPTIO-Rossi Affair, Part I: The Staff.”

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.html

We live in a benighted age where not everyone cares about vim and emacs, but among those who do, I believe there is a generational divide. If you have an opinion and an age, please respond:

Virtual hug

@CerstinMahlow As we’re speaking, astronauts are examining one of these alien communication systems. Its functioning is still a mystery, though.

The first test flight took us to Ursus minor. Alien life form is remarkably similar to the terrestrial Ursus arctos, except for size. Friendly, but hungry.

Peter Kidd has updated his blog post in the light of the latest developments in the #Rossi affair.

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

For the latest #Receptiogate news, see this update from Peter Kidd: https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.html