Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

Just when time seemed to have come for poised and serious analyses of #ReceptioGate, its deeper causes and wider implications, a tabloid from Lugano opens up a new front which adds more strange twists to the story (best followed on Twitter, perhaps):
https://www.tio.ch/ticino/attualita/1634529/social-pseudonimi-lugano-facebook-signora

Fully funded PhD opportunity in #linguistics at the University of Basel (Switzerland) -- relevant topics #EnglishLinguistics, #FrenchLinguistics, #GeneralLinguistics, #GermanLinguistics, #RomanceLinguistics, #ItalianLinguistics. and similar. #PhDjobs #PhDOpportunity

Wer sich für die #Geschichte von #Mailboxen und dem frühen Internet interessiert, dem sei das Buch "The Modem World" von Kevin Driscoll empfohlen. Hier meine Rezension: https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-115768

Le soir du 31 décembre, le ciel était rose à #lausanne
Nous sommes le 3 janvier, et il fait gris mais souhaitons que cette nouvelle année soit bonne. J’avoue que j’ai des doutes compte tenu de l’état de ce monde mais bon… Bonne année !

The Grand Hotel Thunerhof was built between 1873 and 1875 to the plans by Paul Adolphe Tièche. The neo-Renaissance hotel building is 60 meters long, 30 meters wide and has a height of 20 meters. It features a spectacular staircase and atrium. The Grand Hotel Thunderhof closed in 1934 and since 1942 the building is used by city administration and the Kunstmuseum Thun. #architecture #atrium #switzerland

Academics trying to get back to work today, after a "restful" Winter break.

#academicmastodon #Academia

Claude Shannon was a rare individual. He never won a Nobel Prize, and was not a well-known scholar like Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman, but with a single groundbreaking paper, he laid the foundation for the entire communication infrastructure underlying the modern information age, making central contributions to math, science & engineering. This paper was written more than 70 years ago.

Who was Claude Shannon? How did he make the impact to the future of our time?

https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-claude-shannons-information-theory-invented-the-future-20201222/

It's not only bloggers and catalogers whose work is often disrespected and exploited without acknowledgment - the same can be said of translators. Here for example is the epigraph that introduces Carla Rossi's edition of "The Book of Hours of Louis De Roucy": an oft-cited excerpt from Eustache Deschamps' poem "Miroir de mariage," in French and English. No source, credit, or bibliographic reference is given other than "Eustache Deschamps, French poet (1346-1406)."

Who authored the English version of these lines - was it the editor Carla Rossi? Apparently not, for the exact same wording can already be found on page 52 of Frédéric Barbier, "Gutenberg's Europe: the book and the invention of Western modernity," Polity Press, 2017 - translated from the French by Jean Birrell.

#receptiogate #translation #poetry #manuscripts

E guets Nöis, liebi Lüüt!
#Idiotikon #schweizerdeutsch

https://arjenwiersma.nl/writeups/emacs/22-years-of-emacs/

#programming #editor #emacs

If someone you're with is wearing a mask, don't ask if they want you to wear one, too. Just put one on.

Masks have become contentious and it's really uncomfortable to be on the side of asking someone to mask. Don't put someone in the position of feeling like they have to give you their personal health history to rationalize their request. Just put a fucking mask on.

#MaskUp #CovidIsAirborne

One can document the access date of a referenced URL with the `urldate` key in #BibLaTeX or the `accessed` field in #CSLJSON. E.g. in BibLaTeX:

@online{pandoc,
title = {Pandoc manual},
url = {https://pandoc.org/MANUAL},
date = {2022},
urldate = {2023-01-03}
}

Not all citation styles make use of this info, but "author-date" styles do. The #Zotero #CSL style database can be filtered for those; pick the one you want here: https://www.zotero.org/styles?format=author-date

Ausschreibung Projektförderung
Die Forschenden können Thema und Rahmen ihrer Forschungsvorhaben frei bestimmen. Offen für alle Disziplinen. Eingabefrist: 01.04.2023
https://sohub.io/m7ih

Call for Project funding
Researchers can determine the nature and topic of their research project independently. Open to all disciplines. Submission deadline: 1 April 2023
https://sohub.io/khb0

Displayed at Melbourne’s ACMI exhibition #zork