WUaS News and Q&A M 9/27/21 recording
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Mentioned Google Health in the WUaS News and Q&A above a fair amount, for a variety of reasons -
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Re: Expression of interest to partner with World University and School
Hi Freedom, Sri, Universitians, All,
I've unsubscribed you from the open Bay Area Stammtisch emailings - meeting on Saturdays at 10:30 am Pacific Time - per your request, Rifai (and which meetings are open, in German and English, and announced here with Google Meet Video URL too -
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1441636551625035782?s=20). (Universitians, please let me know if you'd like me to add you to the Bay Area Stammtisch emailings - and who will become Chancellor of Germany today after 16 years of Angela Merkel?) Following up on developing WUaS in other languages, getting students, and regarding, too, in the Sinhala Language in Sri Lanka - for free-to-students' degrees that are MIT OCW-centric. How best to combine -
Per your interest in Cryptocurrency, Rifai, and All, here again is free money daily -
https://minepi.com/sgkmac - from Stanford Mine Pi (and a possible way to partner regarding World Univ & Sch).) And WUaS is planning, brainstorming-wise, to code for all 7.8 billion people on the planet each a Wikidata Pin #, to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by most of ~200 countries' central banks, via UBI experiments. How best to connect all 7.8 billion people with this - AND as WIKI teachers and learners at WUaS ... beyond hiring WUaS teachers to teach to speakers of all 7,139 known living languages (where more than half of Wikipedia's Wikidata's 300 languages, have less 300 languages, have less than 10 speakers in them), and grow WUaS on the wiki side with communities of people online?
Regards,
Scott
On the PhD degree side, here's my email to Alvian Nur in Indonesia, Larry Viehland, his WUaS faculty advisor, and also John Engelen, a Indonesian colleague I know from Stanford Law, - and Hester Peirce, SEC Commissioner focusing on cryptocurrencies (
https://twitter.com/HesterPeirce/status/1441510989380337664?s=20), just now, where Alvian is matriculating as our WUaS first PhD student in statistics and economics
Dear Aviv, Larry, All,
As our communication develops, how do these sound as directions to head in ...
Super excited to receive the Google Fellowship 2021!! Looking forward to work with mentors from Google.
While the UC Berkeley talk from Alison Post offered some approaches to initial data sets for statistics and economics, I'd think that Google's approaches - as WUaS collaboration grows - would be fascinating.
How is your studying for the TOEFL and GRE tests going?
Cheers, Scott
I wonder if Soundarya Ramesh could even be a graduate student instructor for you from Singapore? Larry? And regarding MIT OCW?"
And here are the MIT OCW courses Alvian sent in in May, as well as a completely separate MIT PhD program pathway in statistics and economics -
Hello Sir, thank you for this email. I'm really looking forward to taking my first year in #WUaSPhDdegrees. I'm interested to take these courses:
thanks
Aviv Alvian Nur, SST
Statistisi Pertama
Seksi Neraca Wilayah dan Analisis Statistik
Badan Pusat Statistik Kota Balikpapan
HP. 0812 1232 3411
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Appreciating coalition politics and its conversation ... as well as Angela Merkel's shaping of the political discourse in Germany
Yay Olaf! What do you think, Peter ? And what kind of coalition will develop as Angela Merkel departs? Cheers, Scott
Peter, 8:05 AM
Well, nothing has been decided yet...it might not even be Olaf as our next chancellor. All depends now on who builds a coalition with whom.
8:09 AM
Have been saving some articles, and this one is germane -
"This time the little ones could set the conditions
Who negotiates from a position of strength, who has to worry about his negotiating mandate? In the upcoming explorations, some things will be different from what was previously known. An analysis."
By Eckart Lohse, Berlin
https://m.faz.net/aktuell/politik/bundestagswahl/bundestagswahl-und-koalitionen-die-rolle-von-gruenen-und-fdp-17557208.html
Sondierungsgespräche: Diesmal könnten die Kleinen die Bedingungen stellen
https://m.faz.net
Appreciating coalition politics and its conversation ... as well as Angela Merkel's shaping of the political discourse in Germany so remarkably over the past 16 years - highlighting certain actors, and structuring the conversation among constituencies ... All germane for WUaS too. Am curious if she could help with growing Work World University and School now 'that she has some free Time':)
(perhaps after American 🙏 Thanksgiving:)
How are you doing, Peter?
8:20 AM
World Univ & Sch seeks to grow in the Google Workspace for Education now, but am not clear how ... And for both WUaS medical schools and even Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records, this is good news https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1441782707789389825?s=19 and https://twitter.com/GoogleHealth/status/1441477547330506753?s=19 (where Rob Califf MD whom I've met, is former FDA commissioner, and Duke Professor re Standford - Duke's Project Baseline study, and now head of its Verily company, part of the Google / Alphabet nest ...
https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1441782707789389825?s=19
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https://twitter.com/GoogleHealth/status/1441477547330506753?s=19
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Glad WUaS has our first matriculating PhD student in statistics in Indonesia, but not sure how his English is, and how WUaS could collaborate with Google projects for him (as you may have read in email yesterday). Thoughts questions ideas suggestions, Peter?
How is your teaching going - could they benefit from Google machine learning projects for working at Mercedes in Bremen, or in medicine in the Middle East?
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Checking in
Dear T,
When are we going to check in to Harbin together again? Am missing Harbin only a bit, because I still don't think it's safe to head back there (even after receiving 2 email invitations from Deirdre Davis a year or two ago - who might be a kind of managing director - MD - there, sardonically construed even). It was fun to travel there with you in 2012.
How are you, and how are you settling in, world traveler, after your recent trip to the ME? Just shared the following with my younger brother, and my mother, -and since you're a younger brother (of Bill), I'd thought I'd share it with you too. More context in the blog post (and some other recent blog posts too).
Am also wondering where I'm going to live in spring of 2022 when my lease in this 'safe house' north of Berkeley is over ... and as a whistle-blower. Am considering exploring a kind of political asylum - on the east coast, or even in Scotland, Germany, or another German speaking country (since I speak German, and think that ethics, and regarding the nation state, are more intact and are working there, and even enforceable with laws that are effective).
Here's today's WUaS News and Q&A -
Hoping this finds you well and settling into the greater DC area, T! See you over Xmas or New Year, if by some good change, I head back to Pittsburgh to see my mother? That would be wonderful!
Warmly, Scott
Su, Sep 26, 2021
Sandy, Ma, All,
I just added some of this "Please be careful" thread to this blog post -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/09/banyan-tree-stammtisch.html?m=0 - as a heads' up for others too. As scary as spiked vaccines, for example, might be for some, in this society of 330 million in the USA, and a history of somewhat decent legal and medical systems, I think it'll be a long time yet before we find out what actually happened, and who died and why and how, and who made the decisions - let alone that they might be brought to justice, and especially social justice. For example, Ma just mailed me a NYT's article by Ross Douthat from the Sunday, September 19, 2021 NYT, which said that 670,000 people have died from Covid-19 (670 happens too, - coincidentally or not - to be the same number of the house in Canyon 94516 I lived in for about 13 years, after a number change part way through), and the Op Ed also continued, for example, that "Yes, there does seem to be a notable tendency for right-wing talk radio hosts to die of the disease -- " ... which seems to me like these deaths could possibly have been kinds of political killings even! So please be careful (if for example there's also been a major failing of psychiatry and the law too, in the USA, and in many countries around the world, to successfully protect victims, for example, of the intl. illegal sex industry, and its latent culture of violence too), and as a kind of internet ecology' (a concept I'm developing potentially re karma and dharma and ethics, etc.) swings around in a different direction. I just talked with Pin Mazumdar on the phone this evening from the UU Church of Kensington Berkeley, and I think he said the Covid-19 pandemic isn't over yet. He had returned from Madison Wisconsin, driving there with his wife.
Thinking of you - per the 2 younger brother potential warnings I've heard directly from 2 people who won't be involved in World Univ & Sch.
Love, and abolition-ally yours, Scott
(Please remember too that that 2nd dose of the Pfizer vaccine may have damaged the far left of my left eye ... and possibly due to lack of testing by the FDA, and therefore to experimenting somehow on humans, with echoes of law breaking from the 1940s, tragically again). Please be careful ... it would be great, if aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerge, if we could all be talking together long into the future.
AND ... this morning, M. Sep 27, 2021
Hi Ma,
Nice to hear your human voice at the beginning of our conversation with your warmth - 'hi' - and at its close too, with your understanding and compassion - 'I really hope you have a good week' (recognizing perhaps that my whistle-blowing is stressful). We are living in strange times, with this fabricated alienating coronavirus pandemic, and having lived in 'sick Canyon' renting from mentally ill, psychiatrically sick former landlord t.w. - and among Canyon related sickness, relating to, hypothetically, a very old culture of perpetrators, offenders, purveyors, drug dealers, scofflaws, outlaws, racists (learned of a hanging tree, for ex., a mile down the road, from Jono in a trailer, a few years before he died) ... and probably most anything sick under the sun people can think up. Similar illegal sex industry and psychiatric issues with the SF Quaker Meeting and possibly all of Pacific Yearly Meeting (Quaker) + with a big plus ... And California still hasn't gotten its act together, I think, there in Canyon, ... but maybe it is doing so in this time of Covid-19 pandemic change (having had that (a) telephone hearing with a California judge about health insurance before I moved out of Canyon, for example, in the spring of 2020) ... To be seen ...
I'd prefer to continue to live on the west coast or east coast of the USA - since my actual virtual Harbin Ethnography project is somehow similarly both amazingly wondrous, and alienating (re Harbin's potential latent culture of violence - and since Sunheart, friend and informant, died there last autumn 2020), ... and my Harbin projects' meditation focus, and soaking in the warm pool with people, esp affords deep centering (actually and virtually) - and not somehow go into a curious whistle-blown political asylum in Germany or Scotland for example, but a lot depends on California's ability to clean up its act, and as I continue to call for abolition of the illegal sex industry, (following on the abolition of slavery).
One other item from our conversation ... re the NYT article on academic tenure you mentioned falling asleep over :) ... and the many World Univ & Sch considerations about this complex issue include not only about faculty so people in 200 countries' major online planned universities, and their many languages' cultures, but also the possibility of aging reversal genetic drug therapies making tenure for 3 centuries for example seem to me untenable or unviable at this point. Further research needed.
So it was really nice to hear your connection
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in voice ... which I'm seeking more of ... and perhaps in finding a talking friend and possibly a long term partner with whom to begin a family. Returning some to The Desiderata, but also to family - you, and Sandy (but about whom I'm concerned too regarding possibly the illegal s x trade in New England ... And these recent mentions of a younger brother dying, or not doing well after a vaccine), so until he possibly cleans up his act, it's not easy to talk with him. And regarding these possible 'political killings' mentioned in the NYT Ross Douthat article due the Covid-19 pandemic disease diagnosis, of conservative talk show hosts - which is further alienating to me. Change is possible, through teaching even - and at World University and School ... But this is a long process. I'd think as an aside that Angela Merkel could well help facilitate growing World Univ & Sch as a conversation re her shaping the political discourse in Germany so remarkably over the past 16 years - highlighting certain actors, and structuring the conversation among constituencies ... All germane for WUaS.
So, developing a human voice in World University and School, and in my own life, in somewhat alienated SF Bay Area (with so many people deeply retreated in their homes and languages, and not really with much of a constructive civil discourse possibility in the air) leaves a lot of opportunities for this very diverse work world we're now moving more deeply into.
Love, Scott
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