So yesterday, Michael Lissack posted harassing tweets aimed at a woman graduate student (not tagging her deliberately). He used her history of dealing with mental illness against her and continued to harangue her and others.
So I sent a email.
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I noticed he’s recently been inducted into the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IACSYS). So I wrote to them and pointed out his problematic behavior. And I got a response, which to be honest, can be described as tepid at best. See screenshots.
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I’m not surprised at this response and was willing to let it go but then, a couple of hours later, I got this email.
So not only did they not care about my email, they also leaked it to the person being complained against who has now sent a direct threat as an email.
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The whole lot of them.
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Ha ha is it really an academy if it doesn’t have ML these days? 😉
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I went to the web page for that society and it really looks like the worst kind of old boys club
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From the site I am no closer to understanding what they even do. "What about systems science and cybernetics?" just links to a garishly formatted list of names (in a single page PDF). 😨
I guess I should have read the fine print: “Systems science and cybernetics abounds in "celebrities"... If you know these authors, you already make some cybersystemics without knowing it.”… not that this clears anything up?
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looks to be purely a group of folks patting each other on the back
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