Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org
Associate professor of digital humanities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professeur associé en humanités numériques, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
Joined Nov 2022
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@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.
Michael Piotrowski
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Very good summary (in German) of #Receptiogate, including some new statements and thoughtful commentary in the context of Swiss academia and funding practices:
Peter Kidd has published Part IV: The RECEPTIO-Rossi Affair IV: My “Accusations”
https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-iv-my.html
Michael Piotrowski
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If you took time off for holiday celebrations you may have missed the juicy #AcademicScandal that is being unravelled by Peter Kidd et Al in social media. Deals with #Medieval #Manuscript but that's only the surface.
#RECEPTIO #RECEPTIOgate
Reading list:
1. https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html?m=1
2. https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-i-staff.html?m=1
3. https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-part-ii.html?m=1
4. https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-receptio-rossi-affair-iii-my.html?m=1
Michael Piotrowski
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#6 in the year-end musical retrospective is another tune with my transatlantic band, The Calm Rads: "Only One (Song for Heather)".
One of our more upbeat, rocking numbers, sort of in the direction of 70s rock.
Free to stream and download on SoundCloud.
Some recording and final mixing done in #ardour.
Michael Piotrowski
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#5 in the year-end musical retrospective: "A Spring Romance".
I'm really pleased with how this one turned out, and I think it does have something happy and spring-like to it.
Free to stream and download on SoundCloud.
Made with #ardour.
Michael Piotrowski
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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:
“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
Michael Piotrowski
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Also, remember that #Elsevier owns #Mendeley, which it uses to collect data on you. #Zotero is #OpenSource and not run a by an EvilCorp.
See this blog by @eikofried and Robin Kok on Elsevier's #data extraction and collection practices.
Lots of reasons to ditch anything to do with Elsevier.
#OpenScience #OpenAccess #research
https://eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-hotel-elsevier-you-can-check-out-any-time-you-like-not/
Michael Piotrowski
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Very interesting and provocative article (not sure I agree with conclusions, but they are worth considering seriously).
https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2023/1/267976-the-end-of-programming/fulltext#comments
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A propos of the #Kidd / #Rossi #plagiarism case and for the record: there are hundreds of #scholarly #blogs, some hosted by academic publishers and archived by national libraries, publishing important and useful work, often ahead of publication in peer-reviewed venues. These blogs are a valid form of scholarly output and merit attention, attribution, citation and respect. @Mareike2405 @dehypotheses
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
@CerstinMahlow As we’re speaking, astronauts are examining one of these alien communication systems. Its functioning is still a mystery, though.
@hasmis Both the extreme left and the extreme right in Germany love Putin. And a significant part of the center just wants to get back to business as usual (emphasis on “business”) and sees no problem with China either 🤷♂️
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.
@hasmis It’s actually less of a left/right thing, but that only makes it worse: essentially all German parties seem to be hell bent on making the country dependent on dictators and dubious regimes, all the while pontificating about “values.”
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
@toxomat @erik_kwakkel First, we’ll see how well the lessons from this other famous case involving a titularprofessor have been learned…
@ChristophKappes A list of some highlights, yes.
Associate professor of digital humanities, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Professeur associé en humanités numériques, Université de Lausanne, Suisse
Joined Nov 2022
