Hi Craig, Brooklyn St House Friends, Reedies, Reed College community folks, All,These attached pictures just popped up today in Google Photo on my smartphone, And I thought you might enjoy seeing them ... How are you all doing?Thanks Craigly for text messaging yesterday morning out of the blue from Anacortes, Washington, and sharing your beautiful garden picture with artichokes, corn and poppies from last summer (which garden is thriving - thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and time at home for gardening & physical movement even )! :)The pictures are rom March 2008 on a visit to Reed College (and eastern Oregon near La Grande I think to visit family)Oregon 'hippy communities' in first half of 1980s ~3 cooperatives?1Alpha Farm -The Alpha Bit bookstore-cafe in Mapleton, Oregon, 200+ acre Alpha Farm's 'satellite' in this 'big city' (where Alpha's doing the mail route, and carpentry, helped with financial sustainability) ... And seems still to be a co-op intentional community, as institution even or organization ...Looks like Alpha Farm is still happening in the Intentional Community directory - https://www.ic.org/directory/alpha-farm/ - and which began around 1973 using secular 'Quaker' decision making re Friends' monthly business meeting I think Founded by Caroline Estes and 3 other hippies leaving the Philadelphia Quaker world22202 SE Brooklyn Street House, Portland, Oregon, w Betsy from next door! -Reed House (mostly with Reed student communards, & a nice bicycle ride away through winter rideable Portland to campus at 3303 SE Woodstock Blvd !:) -(where I lived on and off for at least 2 and a half years - while also (twice - but not from the Brooklyn House the first time) hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, studying in Munich for 13 months, working in Mart & Ella Pool's anthroposophical Estonian farm-in-a-back-yard garden and in a native species' Cyclamen Nursery in Beaverton, and re some of our involvement in the Cathedral Forest Action Group, carrying out nonviolent civil disobedience to save Oregon old growth forest, and re involvement in the community of Multnomah Monthly Meeting (where I was active in Quaker Meetings both in Portland, Oregon and in Munich, Germany)3People's Food Coop -(which is also still going), and still kinda beautiful, and a market for alternative networks of goods and organic food stuff - which are significant alternative economies!)Interested in online free PhD degrees (7 year average time to completion)? Know of friends interested in online free-to-students' Bachelor degrees (4 year avg time to completion)?A bit of news !CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & SchIs Now PARTNERING with edX (FOUNDED by MIT and HARVARD), and seeking to offer PhDs beginning this autumn too! - and WUaS also uses a (non-theist) f/Friendly Monthly Business Meeting process, loosely conducted in the manner of Quakers, and has for nearly a decade :) ... WUaS isn't structured legally like a cooperative in the USA (but is 3 legal entities here ... but may explore becoming structured further as a cooperative in the US and other countries regarding distributing a single cryptocurrency such as the "Stanford Mine Pi" digital currency - and even to alleviate poverty among all 7. 8 billion people! ~ https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI :) WUaS will be free for matriculating students for online accrediting Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD and IB high school degrees potentially and in all 200 countries (per Olympics) and in their main and official languages, - and in all 7,117 known living languages as wiki schools -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/ wiki/Subjects - for open teaching and learning (which are free to use, and freely editable or teachable / learnable to / from:). WUaS is seeking to become the online MIT / Harvard / Stanford / Oxbridge of the internet in remarkable flourishing and visionary ways, learning- and fun & very creatively knowledge generation-wise ... And flourishing re wiki people to people teaching and learning too ;) ... & partly in 1 single realistic virtual earth for everything and see related #HashTags here -
Eureka! HUGE further step toward a #RealisticVirtualEarth with #TimeSlider in #GoogleStreetView Ecosystem - & with WIKI crowdsourcing of data w #ML! For #EWVWG of#RealisticVirtualHarbin w#RealisticVirtualEarthForLego&#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics ~https://t.co/BTMqgBYeLo~ https://t.co/V0SwrQ5t7E
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/ 1325115359515439104?s=19 - including at the cellular and molecular levels (think Google Street View with time slider / Tensorflow for AI / Translate for languages and with realistic avatar bots and group build-ability). Would love to 'reed' :) your news ... Here's my 2020 Season's Greetings' letter again ~ http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/twinpods- 123120-see-122320-too-seasons. html?m=0 ... & 2019 too Yay for flourishing cultures of learning ... and both excellent MIT-centric, as well as wiki open about areas we love and can wiki- teach or learn uniquely about.Sending love, ScottSeeking to teach "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" again in 2021 (open, and free - for you if interested) ... and perhaps in conjunction with matriculating undergraduate students at World Univ & Sch ~5 Harbin-inspired books -
~Light, Float, Sit, #Watsu ~#Virtually '21 ~http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg
~To the Dance or the Pools? in #wuAsVR '19
~Winding Road Rainbow '18
~Haiku-ish & Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry '17
~#NakedHarbinEthnography '16
http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity ~
@WUaSPress
http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
~Light, Float, Sit, #Watsu ~#Virtually'21 ~https://t.co/8F7i8x7dSD
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) March 2, 2021
~To the Dance or the Pools? in #wuAsVR'19
~Winding Road Rainbow '18
~Haiku-ish & Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry '17
~#NakedHarbinEthnography'16https://t.co/gyZpRfwu4u ~ @WUaSPresshttps://t.co/n8B2vpYOY5 ~
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/ 1366814117034557440?s=20
& 1 Scottish Small Pipes' album - and an emerging Academic Press planned in 7117 known living languages with machine translation ~
*Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ #Virtually '21
*Honey in the Bag '20 (#ScottishSmallPipes' album)
*To the Dance or the Pools? in #wuAsVR '19
*Winding Road Rainbow '18
*Haiku-ish & Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry '17
*Naked Harbin Ethnography '16
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ AcademicPress.html @WUaSPress ~
*Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ #Virtually'21
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) March 2, 2021
*Honey in the Bag '20 (#ScottishSmallPipes' album)
*To the Dance or the Pools? in #wuAsVR'19
*Winding Road Rainbow '18
*Haiku-ish & Other Loving Hippy Harbin Poetry '17
*Naked Harbin Ethnography '16https://t.co/lXdSBzZisL@WUaSPress ~
--- Scott MacLeod - Founder, President & Professor- World University and School- 415 480 4577- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.PSCraig's and my textings from yesterday :) - thanks Craigly for texting!Craig -The gym roofs at Reed collapsed in the snow last month. My heart breaks as I remember being thereScott -Hi Craig - sounds dramatic, and it's where Carla teaches ... The Performing Arts Center could be a model for a rebuild? Time for Reed perhaps to go 'virtual' re gym though? Could the impoverished MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch collaborate in this I wonder? (But Reed seems to have a number of serious ethical issues, about which I've whistle blown in the past year or two ... and I've asked to be off their mailing lists ... Hope they come to observe the law). How are you? -ScottReed College label in daily blog -Craig -Life is good.Scott -Good to hear :) & okay isolation-wise in the coronavirus pandemic?Craig -My work didn't change much and I love it. How are you?Scott -Congratulations after many years again on becoming a doctor!Ongoing creative time here, a little too isolated, seeking life partner, but pretty good :) How are you otherwise ?Craig -Best garden ever thanks to COVID last year and will be even better this yearScott -Craig -PicScott -Glad to read ... All organic, biodynamic especially, - heirloom varieties too? Hi to Pat ️Artichokes in early March in WA? You have a green thumb indeed :)Or is your great garden picture from midsummer 2020 with corn and poppies too?Craig -Last summer!Scott -Twitter'sWorld Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch
Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod
WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress
Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod
“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook
OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand
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Alpha Bit bookstorecafe in Mapleton Oregon March 2008.jpg
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SE Brooklyn Street and SE 21st near 2202 Brooklyn St where I lived in a Reed House in early 1980s.jpg
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Cedar tree Diane planted at 2202 Brooklyn St where I lived in a Reed House in early 1980s.jpg
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PEOPLE s Food Coop on 21st SE St Portland Oregon close to Brooklyn St house in 2008.jpg
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Betsy s house w blooming plum or cherry tree next door to 2202 Brooklyn St where I lived in a Reed House in early 1980s
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Betsy under cedar in front of 2202 Brooklyn St where I lived in a Reed House in early 1980s.jpg
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Artichokes Poppies Corn garden pic from Craig Thom in text message 3 6 2021
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Axolotl https://t.co/NuYVhAViMF w bird = https://t.co/clO3q8Awkq ReaderMeter/status/1357492535510265857?s=19 Could this be a #PokemonGo? #WUaSaugmentedReality#WUaSgaming#WUaSgeneticEngineeringRevolution ~#RealisticVirtualEarthForSpecies#WUaSgenetics ~https://t.co/KtMqE6YFMP ~
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) March 4, 2021
Thrilled to announce the first successful hybridization between a bird and an axolotl.
— Dario Taraborelli (@ReaderMeter) February 5, 2021
Northern Red Bishop, Fort Mason. pic.twitter.com/zVb8rSA5zU
Want a full time biotech job to revive the Woolly Mammoth and eventually restore the species to the northern wild?
— Stewart Brand (@stewartbrand) March 3, 2021
We're hiring. Details at the link and below.https://t.co/1SDsT3onbOpic.twitter.com/bkCKs6Eief
@jsherkow of @UIllinoisLaw explores the efficacy of regulatory sandbox policies in the context of public health in a forthcoming @UIllLRev article. https://t.co/QfRd51MqgY
— The Regulatory Review (@TheRegReview) March 5, 2021
"It all started with a map. It was five years ago today that a small team of bright-eyed individuals—it must have been 35 of us—ran with that idea to form Niantic and explore what could be possible when combining a map with augmented reality. ...
What remains at the heart of why we do what we do is our belief that technology—augmented reality, specifically—can make a profound positive impact on the world. We create moments and memories, augmenting the world around us in ways that encourage exploration, exercise, and social interaction."
from John Hanke's 2020 Niantic letter -
https://nianticlabs.com/blog/
https://twitter.com/johnhanke/
Some further Pokemon Go Youtubes ...
I know him through Nontheist Friends / Quaker circles -
want to see a sabre-toothed cat, and a giant ground sloth. (And a mammoth, and mastodon, and dire wolf - and, from more recently, an elephant bird, a moa, a Stellar's sea cow, & a host of Aussie & S Am marsupials. We live an impoverished biosphere & are spending it down more.
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A WUaS Game #WUaSgaming in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth re #ActualVirtual#RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology#RealisticVirtualEarthForLego#RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics Would seek to build on #PokemonGo with #GoogleStreetView with #TimeSlider Find an artifact = catch a Pokemon https://t.co/PC1vXP3GJy
— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) February 26, 2021
Could we be advancing with #VR#VirtualReality#WUaSvirtualReality#AR#AugmentedReality#WUaSaugmentedReality#wuAsVR but not yet for #VirtualSoaking in #RealisticVirtualHarbin@HarbinBook in bathtub #GoogleCardboard in #GoogleStreetView w #TimeSlider re #WUaS@WorldUnivAndSch ? https://t.co/RwDlOXJO9p
— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) March 7, 2021
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Upload VR Tweet about Google Cardboard closing -
Google continued its pull out from VR this week, officially removing all Cardboard VR listings.
— UploadVR (@UploadVR) March 5, 2021
RIP.https://t.co/OKhzSRs6cvpic.twitter.com/s7nFhqJJQY
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