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Silky sifaka: 'would love to talk at some point. Could you send me your email?' * * Good 1st half of this MIT Global Humanities' conference today . . . MIT Global Humanities' 2 day conf F 11/12 & 11/13/21 8am ET, free & open. Relevance for CC4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric @WorldUnivAndSch re Humanities in 200 countries languages & re free-to-students' degrees https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Humanities & hiring MIT graduate students & postdocs * * * Marriages +? (Technological Determinism, Abolition, IT Safety) * Bring MIT Professor Graham Jones (a Reed College alumnus too, with its recent rewriting of its foundational required first year Humanities’ focus) ... And how would a Realistic Virtual Harbin Hot Springs as Ethnographic Field Site Dovetail with a Realistic Virtual Earth for Humanities ,especially Humanities-wiki-virtual-world-graphy -wise (like Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy)?

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would love to talk at some point. Could you send me your email?

see email correspondence below with Harvard Professor Martin Puchner ... 


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Good 1st half of this MIT Global Humanities' conference today . . .  


MIT Global Humanities' 2 day conf F 11/12 & 11/13/21 8am ET, free & open. Relevance for CC4 OCW.MIT.EDU -centric @WorldUnivAndSch re Humanities in 200 countries languages & re free-to-students' degrees https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Humanities & hiring MIT graduate students & postdocs



https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1458921729921728547?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1458923318820552735

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1458922954058711052

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1458923208187396100

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1458923132421488676

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1458923412236091421



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Bring MIT Professor Graham Jones (a Reed College alumnus too, with its recent rewriting of its foundational required first year Humanities’ focus) https://anthropology.mit.edu/people/faculty/graham-m-jones into the conversation? Thanks, Scott (https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1458921729921728547?s=20& https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Humanities at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch planned in each of ~200 countries for free-to-students’ online university degrees, in each of their main languages, as well as wiki schools in all 7,139 known living languages)



Me to Everyone (7:03 AM)

Great and thanks. Do you know if there are avatars? I haven’t seen any yet. Thank you!

Hi Martin - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org what’s yours? Thanks, Scott

It seems like, conceptually, a single realistic virtual earth, Google Street View with time slider, that we could all add to too, would add to your project remarkably! Have wondered how even a realistic virtual earth in Google Street View with text in the side bar could also become the source for publishing a text book, like from textbook in the side bar … and here’s a #Hashtag for this -

  https://twitter.com/hashtag/TextBOOKinTheSidebar?src=hashtag_click.



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would love to talk at some point. Could you send me your email?

Dear Martin, 

Thanks, and talking would be great. … What are some good times that we might video chat? (Might you explore teaching on Harvard’s virtual island, Berkman Island in Second Life, for example, or do you have other plans for this? I’ve taught on Harvard’s virtual island in SL for 8 or 9 semesters some years ago).

All the best, Scott



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2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


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Puchner, Martin

7:32 AM (6 hours ago)

to me


Dear Scott,

All very interesting. For the online course, I was thinking of VPAL/HarvardX.

I have quite a few openings on Monday and Tuesday—then I’ll be gone for two weeks, making early December the next option. On Monday, after 3pm would be best, though I could also do before 11. On Tuesday, before noon or between 3-5. Early December is wide open.

Looking forward,

Martin




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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

7:50 AM (6 hours ago)

to Martin


Dear Martin, 

Thanks for your reply. I'm not familiar with VPAL - https://vpal.harvard.edu.

I could video chat on Monday 11/15/21 at 12:00pm PT (3pm ET), or possibly at 7:30 am PT (10:30am ET). Shall I share a Google Meet URL with you?

Looking forward to hearing from you, 

Scott

(Brainstorming-wise, am curious how one could begin to teach in a combination of Google Street View with time slider, with its little Pegman become larger, aka moving toward becoming an artificial human, as an avatar, ... with this project - http://giza.fas.harvard.edu/ - mentioned in the MIT Global Humanities' conference, and regarding the 3D virtual world group buildable of Second Life idea with voice, however not cartoon-esque, and in beginning to build out a realistic virtual earth for architecture and archaeology too, in a single realistic virtual earth for everything - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20earth). 



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Great, Martin ... I like this Google Meet URL - meet.google.com/pmr-uwir-zen (and while it will be interesting when we can head from this URL into Street View with time slider itself, and for research such as with your caves' focus, easily, or for example, here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~ where Actual-Virtual Harbin Hot Springs is my Ethnographic field site, it's still not possible to do this that I know of). Do you think that VPAL might be interested in engaging the Google ecosystem for some of these research questions? CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School seeks to facilitate both STEAM and Humanities' field sites in all ~200 countries, as well as classrooms, with avatar bots, and in something like group buildable Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlowAI, Translate, with realistic Avatar Bots, and even at the cellular and molecular levels, eg for tele-robotic surgery, in the WUaS online teaching hospitals, in the future)? 

Thanks, See you Monday at 3pm ET., 

Scott

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin


(https://comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/speakers/)




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Transcript from the text chat ... 

Rens Bod to Everyone (5:05 AM)

Hi everybody!

Martin Puchner to Everyone (5:21 AM)

can you please allow me to share my screen?

Me to Everyone (6:19 AM)

Bring MIT Professor Graham Jones (a Reed College alumnus too, with its recent rewriting of its foundational required first year Humanities’ focus) https://anthropology.mit.edu/people/faculty/graham-m-jones into the conversation? Thanks, Scott

(https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1458921729921728547?s=20& https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Humanities at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch planned in each of ~200 countries for free-to-students’ online university degrees, in each of their main languages, as well as wiki schools in all 7,139 known living languages)

Mana Kia to Everyone (6:23 AM)

Also for Martin: How to account for the exclusions inherent in “institutions” of storage? How to account for alternative networks of transmission (such as those of women)? Is our account of culture doomed to be elitist in various ways?

Diana Henderson to Everyone (6:25 AM)

I see the seeds too of another conference, pragmatically and pedagogically oriented to the question of how actual curricula, structures shape (or are not commensurate w/) scholarly agendas: thinking about SUTD’s version of great books, its differences & links w/ the Chinese example so vividly sketched, different from Columbia/Chicago model, etc —Thanks so much!

Martin Puchner to Everyone (6:28 AM)

Mana, an excellent point. Institution is actually one one mode of transmission. I look at oral transmission for example. As for the gender dimension: women are crucial in the transmission of culture. It’s one reason, for example, why I’m interested in salons (my example is a chapter focused on Madame Geoffrin).

Me to Everyone (6:29 AM)

Martin, All, brainstorming-wise, how would, in a realistic virtual earth for humanities, we be able to examine your thinking about both cultural evolution and genetic evolution as well, further.  Am thinking Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow … and even with a film to 3D App. Take and Add video of the cave you focus on and begin to engage a humanities’ focused inquiry - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click -

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1448723074086424579?s=20)?

Stephanie Frampton to Everyone (6:30 AM)

I’ll be seeing Grant in meetings this afternoon — I’ll let him know about the conference!

Martin Puchner to Everyone (6:31 AM)

Scott, fascinating. I’m working on an online class. Very interested in virtual reality.

David Damrosch to Everyone (6:32 AM)

In regard to Scott’s digital recommendation, Peter Der Manuelian’s ambitious virtual study-tour of the Egyptian pyramids (at Harvard) would very logically be included here.

Martin Puchner to Everyone (6:32 AM)

Scott, really great. Let’s talk?

Me to Everyone (6:32 AM)

Great< Martin, - sgkmacled@worlduniversityandschool.org … thanks for your fascinating presentation.

Thanks, David … will check it out. Can you suggest an URL? (Is this it - https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/05/harvards-digital-giza-project-allows-scholars-to-explore-egypt-without-leaving-the-country/)?

David Damrosch to Everyone (7:00 AM)

The project’s direct (and very dynamic) website is: http://giza.fas.harvard.edu; Der Manuelian’s email is peter_manuelian@harvard.edu

Martin Puchner to Me (Direct Message) (7:03 AM)

Hi Scott. I

Martin Puchner to Me (Direct Message) (7:03 AM)

would love to talk at some point. Could you send me your email?

Me to Everyone (7:03 AM)

Great and thanks. Do you know if there are avatars? I haven’t seen any yet. Thank you!

Me to Martin Puchner (Direct Message) (7:04 AM)

Hi Martin - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org what’s yours? Thanks, Scott

Me to Martin Puchner (Direct Message) (7:07 AM)

It seems like, conceptually, a single realistic virtual earth, Google Street View with time slider, that we could all add to too, would add to your project remarkably! Have wondered how even a realistic virtual earth in Google Street View with text in the side bar could also become the source for publishing a text book, like from textbook in the side bar … and here’s a #Hashtag for this - https://twitter.com/hashtag/TextBOOKinTheSidebar?src=hashtag_click.

David Damrosch to Everyone (7:11 AM)

Olga’s presentation brings to mind a fascinating memoir by a teenaged Polynesian, which is perhaps the first book written (or at any rate, translated and published in the USA) by a Polynesian woman: Florence Frisbie’s “Miss Ulysses from Puka-Puka: The autobiography of a South Sea Trader’s Daughter.” For our purposes, note in particular the Homeric framing, based on her sense of herself as a latter-day South Seas Odysseus. She was only 15 when she wrote this, in a mixture of English, Rarotongan, and Pukapukan; it was then translated and edited by her father, and published in 1946. Still going strong at age 85, Frisbie published a new edition in 2016, with a preface emphasizing her hope, first, that her book will inspire other Polynesian writers, and second, will enhance global awareness of the problem of rising sea levels.

Martin Puchner to Me (Direct Message) (7:17 AM)

Great: puchner@fas.harvard.edu. Fascinating ideas. Since I’m probably doing an online course to go along with the project, your ideas are very intriguing. Let’s talk on the phone/zoom?

Olga Blomgren to Everyone (7:19 AM)

Thank you for this wonderful referral to Florence Frisbie!

Me to Martin Puchner (Direct Message) (7:21 AM)

Thanks, and talking would be great, Martin … what are some good times that we might video chat? (Might you explore teaching on Harvard’s virtual island, Berkman Island in Second Life, for example, or do you have other plans for this? I’ve taught on Harvard’s virtual island in SL for 8 or 9 semesters some years ago).

Stephanie Frampton to Everyone (7:21 AM)

I’m afraid I have to go: thank you to these three panelists for wonderful papers! I will see you all tomorrow.

Mana Kia to Everyone (7:41 AM)

Thank you all for your questions and comments. I have to go to teach a class that I could not cancel and will have to miss the third panel. But I will see you tomorrow morning.

Alexander Forte to Everyone (7:42 AM)

Thanks for your great talk, Mana

Wayne deFremery to Everyone (7:45 AM)

Thanks to all the speakers for their fantastic papers! I'm very sorry to miss the last panel but it's closing in on 1am here north of Seoul. I very much look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.

Martin Puchner to Everyone (8:31 AM)

Alexander and Beth, yes I was just thinking that. Error.

Martin Puchner to Everyone (8:32 AM)

Errors; interruption of transmission; changing values; selection biases etc.

Alexander Forte to Everyone (8:34 AM)

For those interested in epistemicide as concept: Boaventura de Sousa Santos' book  Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide

Diana Henderson to Everyone (8:36 AM)

My friends in the NUS Liberal Arts School (which was there before Yale arrived, and still there as Yale leaves) are leaders in the Global Shakespeares Asia-focused (inter-cultural theater) movement, so I am more optimistic about that particular situation!  SUTD is still there even as MIT’s contractual role is over…that one is complicated, but links with these conversations too:)

Me to Everyone (8:46 AM)

Alexander, Tristan, Beth, Satoru, regarding 'epistemicide' as concept, and looking forward, (and perhaps the role of Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism, Richard Rorty’s new book 2021 HUP), am curious what role the information technology age, as condition, or epistemology, might play in shaping questions you are asking in new ways. This would leaving behind pre-modernity (textualism?) approaches to humanities’ questions, as well as modernity, post-modernity (and even advertising discourses) to begin to engage a whole new set of questions and conversation with regards to ‘internetity’?  So, for example, how would one begin to look, Tristan, at forests and fengshui in China, regarding digital texts, objects, digitized legal records, and even in a realistic virtual earth for forestry and humanities in new ways, thanks to new emerging epistemological questions in the information age?

Me to Everyone (8:46 AM)

See, for example, re a realistic virtual earth -https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click - and - 

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1457125136910356481?s=20. Thank you. -Scott

Diana Henderson to Everyone (8:48 AM)

There’s some promising and exciting work in ecotheater, performance-as-practice that may be a reminder that the intersection of the arts with humanities is super important. (They’ve also been centering embodiment and affect….forever?…in practice.)

Martin Puchner to Everyone (8:48 AM)

Very interesting point, Beth Harper. I feel that some recent climate fiction is trying for something that might be called re-enchantment.

Diana Henderson to Everyone (8:50 AM)

Thank you all so much!  A great first day.



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And how would a Realistic Virtual Harbin Hot Springs as Ethnographic Field Site Dovetail with a Realistic Virtual Earth for Humanities ,especially Humanities-wiki-virtual-world-graphy -wise (like Ethno-Wiki-Virtual-World-Graphy)?


Again ... 

Alexander, Tristan, Beth, Satoru, regarding 'epistemicide' as concept, and looking forward, (and perhaps the role of Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism, Richard Rorty’s new book 2021 HUP), am curious what role the information technology age, as condition, or epistemology, might play in shaping questions you are asking in new ways. This would leaving behind pre-modernity (textualism?) approaches to humanities’ questions, as well as modernity, post-modernity (and even advertising discourses) to begin to engage a whole new set of questions and conversation with regards to ‘internetity’?  So, for example, how would one begin to look, Tristan, at forests and fengshui in China, regarding digital texts, objects, digitized legal records, and even in a realistic virtual earth for forestry and humanities in new ways, thanks to new emerging epistemological questions in the information age?


See, for example, re a realistic virtual earth -https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click - and - 

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1457125136910356481?s=20. Thank you. -Scott





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Marriages +? (Technological Determinism, Abolition, IT Safety)

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Sat, Oct 30, 2:55 AM (13 days ago)
to Jim, Jane, John, Pin, Sandy, Claudia, Larry, Mainak, Richard, Ed
Jim, Ed, Ma, Dick, Sid, All,

Appreciating your thinking, Jim, about IT SAFETY. 

With aging reversal genetic drug therapies emerging (if), am seeking for all of us to live a very long time, especially my mother and brother. Condolences that your mother has passed away. My father came back from Belize on a Semester at Sea winter trip with a serious brain injury in 2004 and died in 2007, so am continuing to learn from this and be careful (he was a high achiever and risk taker too) ... As well as to circulate in seeking to begin a family (with a wonderful MD in her mid 20s? whom I connect with naturally), and potentially for 3 or so kids. 

Besides Harbin Ethnography book #2 (potentially writing it in Google Street View with Time Slider, text in the sidebar, and translating it into many languages with translate, and also working on my 2nd Scottish Small Pipes' album, this one of Piobaireachd classical music, and practicing Yoga), Work CC-4 MIT OCW-CENTRIC wiki World University and School's near term goals prior to moving forward with languages' technology (in 2026-2028 per you, but before too) develop daily in blog and monthly in WUaS Monthly Business Meeting - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/Ceropegia%20stapeliiformis%20Minutes%20for%20101621a%20W.html . Glad that the WUaS CORPORATION took a big step forward this past week (below & thank you, Larry). Planning to code for all the people on planet, in all our 7k languages, brainstorming wise is already beginning as you may have read.

Appreciating walks nevertheless in this ongoing time of alienation from the coronavirus pandemic self-quarantine for their connection ... And will also leave smartphone behind at times, along the safe road I live on up to the UU CHURCH OF KENSINGTON, for example, and in state parks, for the benefits of getting out easily and readily (writing to paper for example while walking).

Exploring the possibility of heading to the Harvard Smartphone's Symposium for 11/5/21 and making contact with the Boston Globe for WUaS too, if at all possible. An invitation from Harvard, while living in a 'safe house' - and calling for abolition - would make life less alienating, more safe re my whistle blowing, and open horizons in many ways.

Thanks for your help, Jim!

All the Best,
Scott

Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 


Dear Larry, Ed, Sid, All, 

First tax bill from the CA FTB for the WUaS Corporation received and paid -  

This are the items on the credit card statement, and the first is the convenience fee from OfficialPayments.com - 

Oct 27, 2021 CAFRNCHISTXBRD BUS TAXFE
Bills & utilities, opens menu $65.90

Oct 27, 2021 CAFRNCHISTXBRDBUSENTYTAX    
Bills & utilities, opens menu $2,865.08

Together they total 2,930.98 (which could be re-written as my father's birth date, interestingly ...)

Thanks & Regards, 
Scott
Please see the purchase that Larry Viehland just made here in the beginning of the WUaS 10/16/21 Minutes for Monthly Business Meeting - 


If you have any questions, please let me know. Thank you



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Jim Spohrer

Oct 30, 2021, 5:34 AM (13 days ago)
to me
Hi Scott,
Thanks for the concise email regarding your goals in life.  Arranged marriages are still common in India, but not sure where else.  Do Quakers do arranged marriages? I need to read more about Quakers.  I grew up in Maine, and the Shakers did not believe they should pro-create (I think), but wonder if they had marriage.  So many questions.  Personally not big on life extension technologies - just don't have the time (pun intended) - but at the end of this video Steve Jurvetson provides some interesting views on why VCs are seeking to invest in it.

I am more an occasional 1-1 emailer, but I try to read all incoming messages - just not always able to respond - hope you understand.  You do so many things, it is sometimes hard for me to follow everything, but I do see you as a "go-getter/kind person" with all you do.  Sometimes it is hard to focus on one goal, but I do hope you find a kind and loving wife, and you take good care of each other.

You may enjoy some of the following - from my reading lists:

Hagel (2021) Journey Beyond Fear: The three pillars of positivity to build your success – recommending this book to young people starting their careers during the pandemic that I mentor – suggesting they invest the time to read this book, and then compare Hagel’s three pillars –  narrative, passion, and platform to Nightingale’s three pillars of advice –  set goals (narrative), service to others (passion), and faith that you can learn to do anything you set your mind to do (platform).

(Fiction) Martha Wells (2017) All Systems Red – robots who are responsible entities (slavery)

Favorite read of 2021
Bregman (2021) Humankind: A Hopeful History  - chapter 3 is especially good, as noted in my blog post.

Reading this week
Mazzucato (2021) Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Froud et al (2018) Foundational Economy

Will keep looking for technologies that can help you on your WUaS mission -  that is a moonshot whose time will come. I can only imagine what it would be like to learn everything from a Cherokee language perspective.  Facebook does great harm when they amplify falsehoods, fear, and anger, but they are gathering datasets that anthropologists may find fascinating.  If Facebook could do less harm, they might make a good ally for cross-cultural learning.  Travel is the best way to learn and appreciate other cultures, and stop fear and hatred.  The pandemic has made travel harder, and fear has grown as a result.

Stay safe.  The next few weeks are super busy for me, and I may not have time to keep up with all incoming emails.  Hope you understand.  Will jump in with thoughts when I can.

Thanks, -Jim


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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Oct 30, 2021, 8:58 AM (13 days ago)
to Jim
Thanks, Jim,

Appreciating the brilliance of your reply, and its kindness especially. Wow! - and knowing you now for around a decade. In my late teens and my twenties too, had thought and talked about (exploring this idea for me too) arranged marriages - but appreciate my mother's thinking about connecting naturally. Hoping to meet and connect with a loving bliss neurophysiology kind friend (perhaps learning from 2 past mutual loves in particular). Am reading your email also as a kind of helpful mentoring.

Aging reversal Genetics' for family along with longevity vaccines would be a fascinating investment; didn't hear about this in the last 5 minutes of the brilliant Jurvetson interview but will check. Am curious about his Estonian roots and regarding Harvard's Jukka-Pekka Onnela's Finnish origin. But I think waiting for an invitation from Harvard (like the CA FTB tax bill) has much merit going forward. 

Thanks for your wide ranging reading & video suggestions ... Fascinating time we live in for sharing ideas - and your engagement with these service oriented readings is an inspiration. Will read further. Helpful ways to focus my bodymind too. Seeking to teach 'Society, information technology and the global university' again - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html.

For the Bay Area Stammtisch last Saturday I talked about 'Technological Determinism' from my and a Castellian perspective - in German and English (below). May do something similar today for this at 10:30am.

Seeking to grow datasets for perhaps Avatar Bots (and re their or WUaS's Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records for 7.8 billion people) but culturally (alternative culture too) re actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' project ... Where people are sharing much of what they are doing thinking feeling their culture in language ... Twitter which is an Ally in your sense (and seems to have coded for some forms of integrity in communication) could be great for WUaS to collaborate further with, since they are in multiple languages, they have a fairly large user base, - and am appreciating the new conversations they're rolling out.

Tea sometime after a hike when things open up?

Friendly regards,
Scott


Here is the video recording of the Sat. 10/23/21, open, conversation-oriented (in German and in English) Bay Area Stammtisch (and related Tweets) - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YE54NkCyOCZjc79qgT4IXon9LSf9_Vjm/view ... 

video from #BayAreaStammtisch Sa 10/23/21 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YE54NkCyOCZjc79qgT4IXon9LSf9_Vjm/view @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress Languages-World Univ: @sgkmacleod @scottmacleod @HarbinBook @TheOpenBand #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM #RealisticVirtualEarth #TechnologicalDeterminism #WUaSTechnologicalDeterminism ~



And below, please find the text (in German and in English) of what I said about 'technological determinism,' from my perspective (rather than Karl Marx's or many other social theorists or philosophers).

Alles Gute, Scott



What is technological determinism?
"Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that assumes that a society's technology determines the development of its social structure and cultural values."
"Der technologische Determinismus ist eine reduktionistische Theorie, die davon ausgeht, dass die Technologie einer Gesellschaft die Entwicklung ihrer sozialen Struktur und ihrer kulturellen Werte bestimmt."


There are two general frameworks and hypotheses that frame these questions, revolving around technological determinism questions - 
Es gibt zwei allgemeine Rahmen und Hypothesen, die diese Fragen umrahmen und sich um Fragen des technologischen Determinismus drehen:

The first says that Technology shapes us through forming information 'structures' in society.
Die erste besagt, dass Technologie uns durch die Bildung von Informationsstrukturen in der Gesellschaft formt

which then shapes our subjectivity.
die dann unsere Subjektivität prägt.

But IT offers different ways of expressing oneself, See for example, Sherry Turkle's - "Life on the Screen"
Aber die IT bietet verschiedene Möglichkeiten, sich auszudrücken, siehe zum Beispiel Sherry Turkle - "Life on the Screen"


And the other version relating to questions of technological determinism
Und die andere Version zu Fragen des technologischen Determinismus

says that people capture technology and can become super people
sagt, dass Menschen Technologie erfassen und Supermenschen werden können

or it gives us more control.
oder es gibt uns mehr Kontrolle.

And the reality is that people are part of society.
Und die Realität ist, dass Menschen Teil der Gesellschaft sind.





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I think he (Karl Marx) didn't trace the rise of individualization that has occurred with the Info Tech revolution
Ich denke, er (Marx) hat den Anstieg der Individualisierung, der mit der Info Tech-Revolution eingetreten ist, nicht verfolgt

that has led to divides and inequality in the rich world
das zu Spaltungen und Ungleichheit in der reichen Welt geführt hat

and his technological determinism, now with globalization, certainly reflects his conflict theory
und sein technologischer Determinismus, jetzt mit der Globalisierung, spiegelt sicherlich seine Konflikttheorie wider




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My argument is:
Mein Argument ist:

(vis-a-vis questions of technological determinism)
(gegenüber Fragen des technologischen Determinismus)


is that it is NOT technology that creates society
ist, dass es NICHT die Technologie ist, die die Gesellschaft erschafft


but the network society wouldn't exist without it
aber die Netzwerkgesellschaft würde ohne sie nicht existieren


Our society is not produced by technology ... but this technology makes possible these new kinds of organization
Unsere Gesellschaft wird nicht durch Technologie produziert ... aber diese Technologie ermöglicht diese neuen Organisationsformen


GLOBALIZATION




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In this course I'm not making a case for technological determinism, but that developments go hand in hand.

In meinem Lehrgang plädiere ich nicht für technologischen Determinismus, sondern dafür, dass Entwicklungen Hand in Hand gehen.





open #BayAreaStammtisch meets on Sats at 10:30am PT - next on 10/023/21 - & is in German & English. Meet URL - meet.google.com/pmr-uwir-zen & while open, one possible theme is 1)  'technological determinism' or 2) 10/16/21 WUaS MBM https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/10/wuas-agenda-news-for-101621wuas-agenda.html w/ OCW.mit.edu ~



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Sat, Oct 30, 1:55 PM (13 days ago)
to Alden, Jane, John, Pin, Sandy, Claudia, Larry, Ed, Mainak, Richard, Jim
Jim, Ma, Dick, Pin, Sandy, Ed, All, 

Thanks so much for your email this morning, Jim, again (which I replied to again earlier today)! A loving bliss neurophysiology life partner with whom to begin a family ... how to find and connect with her ... could perhaps be circulating more, but which isn't entirely easy after 13 years in Canyon 94516, and this year and a half in the coronavirus pandemic self-quarantine  ...  Have added some of this thread here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/dalmor-and-dalbeag-beaches-isle-of.html?m=0 

... along with some email correspondence with my cousin Mark MacLeod re genealogy, planning for 7.8 billion people's genomes (with implications for even aging reversal genetic drug therapies in a single realistic virtual earth for genetics too ) .. 


More (much) here, Mark, genealogy-wise esp, and regarding the names of these beaches on the Isle of Lewis Scotland, that begin this post -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/dalmor-and-dalbeag-beaches-isle-of.html

In piping, Ceol Mor ('music big' in Scots' Gaelic) is the classical bagpiping music, Piobaireachd, and Ceol Beag (music little') ... all with different accent marks, and spelling too ... and again Ceol Beag is the Light Music (in a Quaker sense too, somehow, regarding your Dad? :) ... Just found these beaches, with related names (to these two forms of piping) on the Isle of Lewis (but which are not a new 3rd form or genre of piping I'm seeking to create called "Piobaireachding the Blues" :) ... and these names remind me a lot of places in JRR Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings'" trilogy ... and am learning just a bit more of Scots' Gaelic in all of this, but haven't been able to look inside my own bodymind, deeply, Yoga-wise, to SEE how these words are newly encoded in my genes, or even the structure of language in our genetics ... may go Tao-ist-ly (wu wei, or non-action, in meditation, too) deeper :) :)

Regards, Scott :)

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/dalmor-and-dalbeag-beaches-isle-of.html

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/SGKMacLeod%20family%20history?m=0 -


A bit 'out there' but enjoy :~0:)

Living in a 'safe house' and potentially seeking asylum in the spring (regarding perpetrators, offenders, purveyors of the illegal sex industry worldwide, and their latent networks of violence ... and where is law enforcement in all of this, and now with information technologies in 'internetity' which comes after modernity and post-modernity and advertising discourse ... as a condition, or discourse (or culture or milieu or context, all anthropologically too) in social science that's informing many aspects of our subjectivity I hypothesize :) 

Warmly, 
Scott


-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 


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Jim,


Thanks again for your emails.

One further thought per you last paragraph or so re cultural data sources for large numbers of individuals for their own Avatar Bots even ...

The idea for a realistic virtual earth for Anthropology with realistic avatars representing real people ( at times) ...fantastical too - eventually perhaps becoming free digital avatar agents even, possibly which code could inform robots too (but also as digital twins for tele-robotic surgery per Avatar Bot Electronic Medical Records) is ...

1
One where we can add video of people speaking and acting, making art or designing computer chips etc ... And code would transpose this into Avatar Bots ... So potentially we could have all 1.3 Billion people in India each their own further build-able  avatars (with adding more video of an avatar (think in Street View with Time Slider too - as Pegman' grows ) ... And think group build-able cartoon-esque Second Life too with its avatar templates ... and group build-able islands and water and hair and sandboxes for playing with building ... Where avatar Bots also have 'voice' (where you and I' and can speak with each other from anywhere we are in the world) ... But with what other already cultural existing  data sources, and where will this data be stored ? Twitter, Google's ?  

2
And re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy ...with Harbin folks even (and anyone) building realistic virtual Harbin/earth in Street View with Time Slider, in whatever ways they code or create (much more open platform than sort of easily group build able   SL) and decades into the future  ... I don't know if Twitter's feeds or profiles could inform very well historical thinking for eventual, speaking, communicating avatars ...but it could be a possible starting place ... And with something similar from Gmail and (closed now) G Plus perhaps ... If an individual agreed they wanted initial scripts for their talking avatars to, continuously developing, and informing their own realistic Avatar's neural developments  ... With a language focus ... 

Thanks,
Scott

As I closed my 5th UC BERKELEY ANTHRO TALK last December - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/12/doubledays-hummingbird-cynanthus.html?m=1 (see slides) I'd like brainstorming-wise to bring Sunheart who died last autumn 'alive' and talking again in avatar Bot form :)


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Dear Jim, Ma, Dick, Pin, Sandy, Ed, Alden, All, 

Thanks again for your helpful and insightful emails recently so much, Jim, and regarding what you're reading too - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/dalmor-and-dalbeag-beaches-isle-of.html (part way down).

Thanks to your sharing the readings, I got and have read first chapter of Richard Rorty's new book last night at Barnes and Nobles -

Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
Richard Rorty
Edited by Eduardo Mendieta
Foreword by Robert B. Brandom

Gives me new ideas about that American philosophy of pragmatism - re religion (my major at Reed) in the first chapter, which philosophy of pragmatism Rorty rewrote significantly, and where Rorty may have transformed philosophy itself profoundly itself. It's a pumpkin from a book (and Happy Halloween), and I will share a pic later. :)

Am planning to further develop my Harvard Smartphones, Wearables & Health Symposium's 1 slide presentation for F 11/5/21 - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/uluru.html - (and submit it by tomorrow's deadline).


Am wondering too if this Fitness Tracker Smart Watch (which I've mentioned to all of you re blood pressure measures) measures Oxygen levels in the blood per HMS Herb Benson MDs' 1972 book 'The Relaxation Response' ... OR COULD IT? AND IN THE HARBIN WARM POOL ... ?

Arrives by Fri, Nov 19
1 item
Fitness Tracker Smart Watch, Waterproof Heart Rate Monitor Blood Pressure Pedometer Calorie Counting Fitness Watch Band for Android&IOS System
$10.65 


Also thanks to you, Jim, I ordered -
Arrives by Wed, Dec 1
1 item
Signal Blocking Bag Anti-Tracking Anti-Spying Anti Radiation Key Pouch Signal Blocker Jammer Signal Shielding Wallet Case Faraday Bag for Cell Phone Privacy Protection and Car Key (Black)
~$10

(I've sometimes wondered too about the radiation from Smartphones - experiencing something in these regards - such that I keep this phone and the last one in the other room when I sleep ... But I may use this bag on my person now when I get it. Thanks!)


Regarding the Fitness Tracker Smart Watch, I wonder whether such a device could eventually add aging reversal genetic drug therapies to our bodies through watch-to-skin contact ... (and I've blogged one other time about this, but haven't found this yet).

Some new thoughts I just found about how aging reversal genetic therapies might work, which I just found, from George Church (is he a genius, like Richard Rorty ... where it's very difficult to say what 'genius' is ... :)
'Gene Therapy Targeting Diseases Of Aging | Prof George Church Interview Series Episode 2'

Abolition-ally, in Friendly UU ways, too, yours, 
Scott

video from #BayAreaStammtisch 10/30/21 - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1y7we6hiGa42fd--PCfVBt3EARBegakP2/view - @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress @sgkmacleod @scottmacleod @HarbinBook @TheOpenBand w/ http://OCW.mit.edu 'Society, Info Tech & Global University,' in German http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html #WUaSTechnologicalDeterminism ~




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Just found the video recordings of these 1996 Richard Rorty lectures in Italy that may inform this new Harvard Univ Press 2021 book (and Stanford Prof Rorty died in 2007) - 

Richard Rorty - Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism (Part 1)
https://youtu.be/ekRIojfqpaQ
9 hours 30 minutes

Richard Rorty - Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism (Part 2)
https://youtu.be/f4XJtemOhf4
3 hours


Questioning authority, remember the - 'Question Authority' bumper sticker - in these regards ... re his (and George Church's too) Pragmatism and Anti-Authoritarianism ... are fascinating widespread 'memes' - replicating cultural units - out of the 1960s and 1970s, both of which may have been informative for these thinkers ... (you, too, JIm? ... and others in this email?:)



-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com




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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

Nov 6, 2021, 7:42 PM (6 days ago)

to Jim, Alden, Low, Alex, Barbara, David, Bob, Joan, Susan, Henry, Grant, Greg, George, Nancy, George, Hugh, Heather, Iulian, Matt, Peter, Larry, Jim, Ann, Cathy, Jane, John, Pin, Sandy, Claudia, Larry, Ed, Mainak, Richard, Stuart, Nancy, Mike, Susan, Taylor, Ken, Annelise, Ann, Peter, Bruce, Henry, Marc, David, Elliott, edsmythmd, Charles, David, Caleb, Hal, John, Jen, Katie, lillianbthomas, Nanette, Dorota, Cliona, Robin, Bill


Dear Jim, Ed, Ma, Alden, Sandy, All,

Lovely evening at the UU CHURCH OF KENSINGTON on this wee hill with a bench where I often come  ... And thanks, Jim, for the email about tracking - "If you carry a smartphone, you are being tracked, ..." 

It's an interesting question, by the way, by whom and why, Jim (besides the operators of machine learning (at Google Maps, Nozama, the federal government, CA law enforcement, fire depts., the American Automobile Assoc., taxis, in different ways etc... which also may well change through time, as individuals, identities, and organizations etc ) Electronic Shield bag you suggested getting Jim still hasn't arrived yet ... And I decided to explore walking this evening again with smartphone on ... And make inferences about possible tracking etc ... A few inferences came to mind about possibles ... (And the other evening I turned phone off and walked here ... With other inferences ... And wonder about an signal emitter in smartphone even when powered off) ...re electronic shield bag ...

What is going on with this? Why aren't the American people resistant (20 months into the Coronavirus pandemic, now worn down a bit .? And which identities ? ...) and with all kinds of potential abuses of these GPS issues possible? Could the international illegal s x industry be further facilitated, or digging its heels in ... Hell ya popped up ... Due to the profit, and with their latent networks of violence, especially in the international space)?

Just had a Topical group piping lesson at 5 am PT, noon for Stuart Liddell in Argyllshire Scotland 11pm for one student in Australia ... New networks forming ... (What identity do these 6 Piobaireachd learning folks aggregate around, besides Piping and Piobaireachd )? And what's going on in 'the murder capital of Europe' (I've recently heard it called, Glasgow with the Climate Change conference CoP26 (college of Piping CoP tutor books????) or the meeting of many many countries' armed SERVICES' even too ?) ...and where Russia and China did not join in but India was there ... And were some scores somehow being settled too among soldiers and officer types even speculatively)? I've heard Scotland politically called conservative with a small 'c' when studying at the University of Edinburgh School of Celtic and Scottish Studies in 2003-04 for a year, and I had long hair for another full year studying in Edinburgh again in 77-78 at Fettes College... And speculatively I wonder whether this Conference of Parties CoP Climate Change conference could also be a gathering time for high up military types ... Now with new IT maturing (machine learning and AI, in the interest of nation states ) ... MACHINE LEARNING law enforcement with electronic medical records of vaccination ? ... What are European Union identities doing with machine learning law enforcement and military objectives for example separate from the big companies in the US in relation to Uniformed services here in USA re identity too?

Living Vin a 'safe house,' for whistle blowing about re Canyon 94516 by calling the police twice, & ABOUT Stanford, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Law, the SF QUAKER Meeting, Reed, Harbin, and not seeking to be a victim ... May be seeking asylum in Europe in the spring of 2022 ... And continue to call for abolition of the illegal sex industry internationally at WUaS  ... with the former clerk of the SF Quaker Meeting in the mid-2010s (who them moved east with his family to Philadelphia ...   still posting as his Twitter header "End Child Detention" ... 

https://twitter.com/chrismsf/status/1455980551177900034. .. 

 But this may be too entrenched ... 

And Nancy Pelosi's weekly email still repeatedly saying "Build Back Stronger ..." -  and could this refer to the illegal sex industry internationally based in SF, and even out of a network at the SF Quaker Meeting ? Other countries operate very differently from California as Nation state etc

Abolition-ally yours, and find regards, Scott 


Glad to have participated in this 5am-2pm Harvard Smartphone's Symposium yesterday -

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/andersons-mountain-crown.html - but with a pretty heavy dose of identity coming through too. Thinking Harvard Profs Tim Smith MD and JP ONNELA, directors, did a good job in this 3rd Annual conference ... Although I don't think I'm much further along with planning for brain research studies from the Harbin warm pool with Wearables into Avatar Bots Electronic Medical Records ... But maybe Harvard can help with science of these studies ... :)


Nevertheless, I did make a giant step today in developing my Ethnographic book and research ... With the Tweets at bottom - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/owens-peak-wilderness_02004565726.html?m=0

- but which need to be planned for re protecting people from being tracked in our new world of AI AND machine learning potentially with Google Street View with Time Slider 

Thanks again for your emails Jim and Ed I'm this thread and please all stay safe! 

Fond regards, Scott



-- 

- Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 




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Jim Spohrer

Sat, Nov 6, 8:26 PM (6 days ago)
to me
Stay safe. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Nov 6, 2021, at 7:42 PM, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:


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You too, Jim!

Am recognizing the safety in the ongoing generation or creation of networks, and am hoping (Hooping) all my emails are going through in these regards especially, network neutrality-wise, and free-speech-wise, but as Lacan writes, something to the effect of "the letter always reaches its addressee." Will check anon ... Hoping you're staying safe as well ... you sounded like you were feeling a little unsafe by staying in all the time, as you wrote not long ago ... If you'd like to connect on the phone, please let me know. By reaching out to friends via this email earlier, and sharing information, it allows them to potentially form further their information networks, network, piece together mis-leading news etc. ... and stay safe themselves. In some ways, I am applying network society thinking (re the course I teach) with regards to Rorty's "Pragmatism and Anti-authoritarianism ...

I got an email today that said the following had arrived a day late to the Canyon 94516 post office presumably since it came after the USPO there closed today, and the physical address was my old 670 Ridgecrest address there ... not sure how a Walmart driver or similar would know to deliver it to the PO for example, or what kinds of 'clean up' are going on in Canyon for that matter, in that I haven't talked with my friend Ed Smyth MD, a retired Kaiser Permanente physician apparently , and a little bit surprisingly; hope he's doing alright (he had said on a walk this spring that he had a severe mental illness, but I wondered whether this was for other purposes, so I'm not sure how he's coping with retirement, for example). Thanks for suggesting the electronic shield bag technology ... and regarding my Harvard 1 slide presentation yesterday (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/andersons-mountain-crown.html), I'll begin to check out the waterproof-ness of some of their Smart Watches in these regards ... 

Arrives by Fri, Nov 5
1 item
Sierra Pacific Fleece Quarter-Zip Pullover 3051 Charcoal L
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sierra-Pacific-Adult-Anti-Pill-Fleece-Quarter-Zip-Pullover-3051/108720010?athbdg=L1100

Arrives by Fri, Nov 19
1 item
Fitness Tracker Smart Watch, Waterproof Heart Rate Monitor Blood Pressure Pedometer Calorie Counting Fitness Watch Band for Android&IOS System

Arrives by Wed, Dec 1
1 item
Signal Blocking Bag Anti-Tracking Anti-Spying Anti Radiation Key Pouch Signal Blocker Jammer Signal Shielding Wallet Case Faraday Bag for Cell Phone Privacy Protection and Car Key (Black)

Hoping Harbin and northern California are getting cleaned up too, regarding the illegal sex industry, and among various religious identity ethnicities differentially somehow ... How to effect a culture change is something I asked at the bottom of my email to  Unitarians and Cuttyhunk friends as you may have read the other day (below). 

"It's kind of momentous that the WUaS Corporation seems to be getting going ... and would like to prevent becoming a victim ... and by significantly lessening the illegal sex industry intl. and their latent networks of violence ... not only with law enforcement but also with culture change ... (religion works in many ways ... but how to bring say the religious abolitionism of Friends / Quakers and Unitarian Universalists now to the illegal sex industry is an interesting question, and with the emergence of information technologies esp.?)"


Best wishes, abolition-ally yours, and please stay safe, Jim, 
Scott




Dear F/friends, Ma, Sandy, Rev. David Herndon Unitarian Us Minister Betsy, John (am leaving Betsy's Family Tabor email address out of this group email, per her request), Cuttyhunkers, Musical Friends, All, 

Just shared the email below with friend (who went to Quaker Sidwell Friends' high school in DC) David Thurston from Cuttyhunk ... and who is back in the DC Area in the winter ... Like Unitarians, Quakers played a very significant role in the Abolition movement in the US 

Am calling for abolition (of the illegal sex industry, and its latent networks of violence too) regarding developing the WUaS Corporation further, where it just got and paid its very first tax bill from the CA FTB ... after incorporating in CA in 2017 (it's an amazing opportunity to have this for profit general stock company in CA interoperating with the World Univ & Sch 501 c 3 nonprofit, and related CA nonprofit legal entities - so 3 legal entities together currently organized via WUaS Monthly Business Meeting, loosely conducted in the Manner of Friends Quakers) ... since I'm living in a 'safe house' and may be seeking asylum in the spring regarding the same whistle-blowing ... . Am calling for abolition  as a 'good' Quaker / Friend following on Friends' significant contributions to abolishing slavery ... in 1833 with the Anti-Slavery Act in Britain, and with the Emancipation Proclamation, for example in 1862 ... with Friends being deeply involved with the Abolition movement up to the Civil War ... 



Scott MacLeod

6:35 PM (23 minutes ago)
to David
Hi David, 

You called just as the Stanford Law CodeX online meeting would be otherwise occurring, and which I attend ... and Roland Vogl, its director, sometimes even sounds like you ... but I don't think I'll join this CodeX again until mid-December per last week's CodeX's announcement ... Have you somehow been in communication (re timing of your call)? ... Such Interesting timing ... 

Am curious where your interest in religion plays out today for you, since you have a Divinity degree (MA) from Boston University. Am wondering about the possibility of moving into Canyon 94516 in the spring again, if it were to become safe, and what the role of religion could play even ... and regarding the email I sent to you earlier on Tu Nov 2, 2021, regarding even good Quakerism, or even Christianity there somehow ...  (and a change of culture there) ...

In continuing to call for abolition (of the illegal sex industry, following on the abolition of slavery), and - so sorry you lost your brother Zach a few years ago - Am seeking not to become a victim in my whistleblowing ... and think the latent culture of violence of the illegal sex industry is a risk, in the SF Bay Area, in Canyon 94516, and in northern California too ... east coast, and west coast too ... on Cuttyhunk even for example ... sadly ... (and how to make Cuttyhunk safe and good again, is a question I've been asking myself, ... and in calling for abolition, and after visiting Cuttyhunk this past summer ... I think the law can help ... if a new abolition law were to develop ... and realize you have some interesting angles on the law).

Having been both assaulted in the SF Quaker Meeting, sexually, ... and possibly regarding maintaining the illegal sex industry out of the SF Quaker Meeting, sadly and tragically and with kids - and accosted sexually in the UU Church of Pgh on a recent Xmas eve (by a David Dorley ... ) ... after whistleblowing by calling the police in Canyon 94516 last summer, then moving out, and whistle-blowing also at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Law, the SF Quaker Meeting, Reed College and other organizations ... I think after the past 18 months of Covid-19 pandemic, and the deaths of so many people since then (here's the head of the WHO - 

https://twitter.com/GordonBrown - former prime minister in Britain), and the development of electronic medical records related to vaccinations that new approaches to abolition and legally too may have emerged ... to be seen ...

Thinking in terms of protecting (by calling for abolition) students, and wiki universitians, at World Univ & Sch (at WUaS), and in the WUaS Corporation .. all 7.8 billion people, with emerging machine learning and artificial intelligence ... and even regarding distributing   a single cryptocurrency too, to end poverty worldwide ... as WUaS plans brainstorming-wise to code for all 7.8 billion people on the planet, in all ~200 countries, and speakers of all 7, 139 known living languages (and for a single cryptocurrency to end poverty) ...  each a Wikidata Q-item # ... am thinking that some paths for coding for abolition with online information technologies and AI may be emerging and helpful  ... 

Living in a safe house, and exploring seeking asylum in the spring ... on the east coast, in Europe or possibly Australia ... Thoughts, questions, ideas, suggestions?


Abolition-ally yours, 
Scott

PS
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PPS
See, Minute 5 here, about Abolition, for example - 

Minutes for 10/16/21 World Univ & Sch & WUaS Corporation open Monthly Business Meeting 

Fondly, Scott


If you're around in the DC area over Xmas, would you like to get together somewhere on the East Coast ... in Pgh or DC or similar? 

It's kind of momentous that the WUaS Corporation seems to be getting going ... and would like to prevent becoming a victim ... and by significantly lessening the illegal sex industry intl. and their latent networks of violence ... not only with law enforcement but also with culture change ... (religion works in many ways ... but how to bring say the religious abolitionism of Friends / Quakers and Unitarian Universalists now to the illegal sex industry is an interesting question, and with the emergence of information technologies esp.?)


-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 



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Thanks Scott for the update. 

I am more a 1-1 emailer than a phone call person.  When I do send to many people, I usually Bcc them all.

Regarding mail, have you signed up for "informed delivery"?  It is a free service, and you get an image scan of the outside of mail heading to you, and then you can check if it arrives safely later that same day.  Highly recommend you get it, and monitor for any differences.

Aluminum foil or any conductor works to shield your smartphone from tracking by cell-towers which are everywhere these days.  In case of an emergency, we are always glad to have the cell towers everywhere.  However, when not an emergency, you are sharing your location and movement datasets with organizations that you may not wish to know where you are.  It is a personal choice item, since most people are not very concerned about this.

Fortunately, I get out a couple times a day for hiking.  On this morning's early hike (4:45-5:15am) saw Orion's belt clearly in the western sky.  My wife and son (31 years old) go on afternoon hikes with me, and we have lively discussions about many topics.  Also, I have many email discussions each day, following up on ISSIP business mostly.  Later today, I am giving a zoom talk to an entrepreneurship master class at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand. Enjoy mentoring early career people, and finding out what's on their minds.  Continuing to make progress on my next book, "Service in the AI Era" - so all good here.  If anything, maybe a little too "busy" !

Thanks, -Jim



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Sun, Nov 7, 7:01 AM (5 days ago)
to Jim
Hi Jim,

Thanks for the update. Glad you seem to be doing well. In calling for abolition of the illegal and harming sex industry (following on the abolition of slavery), I continue to see the many decades it took to pass the anti-slavery act in Britain in 1833, and the Emancipation Proclamation in the US IN 1862, and how many millions of people are free as a consequence. Recognizing the role that Friends played in questioning the commerce aspects of slavery too, am appreciative of how World University and School may be able to bring such abolition thinking to our AI, machine learning, and in all 200 countries, their main languages, and potentially for all 7.8 billion people on planet, 
to protect people from kinds of slavery, and perhaps change the culture. Hoping WUaS can contribute to ending poverty with UBI EXPERIMENTS via a single cryptocurrency backed by most central banks, in WUaS planning for wiki teachers and learners in all 7139 living languages, each a Wikidata Pin # - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University. Your networks around entrepreneurialism are important and impressive.

Sincerely, Scott


Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com



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Jim Spohrer

Sun, Nov 7, 8:11 AM (5 days ago)
to me
Thanks Scott.

Don't know much about the sex industry, other than it is huge.  What is legal and illegal seems to vary by country.  However, similar to your interest in life extension, I know precious little about these topics. 

On the topic of CBDC - that is something that I have a growing interest in, as it seems that is the key to UBI, with everyone getting a bank account and investment in stock market, etc. becoming much more straightforward for everyone.  CBDC/UBI relates to my primary interest - service science and the study of service system entities, which are responsible entities (people, businesses, nations) learning to invest more systematically in becoming "better" future versions of themselves.  Service Innovation Roadmaps (SIRs) can help entities learn to co-invest better.

Hope you are enjoying the crisp autumn air on safe walks when you have a chance.

Thanks, -Jim
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Dear Jim, 

Thanks again for your email. I know a bit about CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, and that the market for slaves was huge too, tragically, inhumanely, and ethically wrong too, prior to the Civil War in the US. Appreciating your focus on safety, and will explore aluminum foil and in walking up with a smartphone off to the UU Church of Kensington, for example. Glad your mother got involved with Unitarians, and sorry that she's passed away - with "the angels" now, I think you wrote. (Nontheist Quaker) Friendly-informed World Univ & Sch is in some ways a Quaker 'leading,' which may be why it's still growing with tiny steps all these 14-15 years after its beginnings. It was very much Quaker 'leadings' too that lead to the abolition of slavery in 1862 in the USA, and the anti-slavery act in 1833 in Britain before that ... in part, in my reading of history. Appreciating the role that law can potentially play in abolishing the illegal sex industry, and I think that World Univ & Sch may be able to help with this in all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages and legal languages, and not only with IT and via the law - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School. My mother is also a Unitarian, and Unitarians were also deeply involved in the abolition movement in New England in particular. I think religion may be one possible successful strategy in the abolition of the illegal sex industry today in the USA and Europe, Africa and Asia. If a cryptocurrency like Stanford Mine Pi, made legal by the SEC and the Federal Reserve, for example, can help, AI-wise, machine learning-wise, and IT-wise, with American prosperity, and ending poverty around the world among all 7.8 billion people (while in conjunction with people-to-people teaching and learning, for free universal education), WUaS is glad to be of service, and service science-wise. Hoping you're doing alright. 

Thanks, Scott


Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)

Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS

Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS

Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School



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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 



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Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@gmail.com

Sun, Nov 7, 10:12 AM (5 days ago)
to Alden, Low, Alex, Barbara, David, Bob, Joan, Susan, Henry, Grant, Greg, George, Nancy, George, Hugh, Heather, Iulian, Matt, Peter, Larry, Jim, Ann, Cathy, Jane, John, Pin, Sandy, Claudia, Larry, Ed, Mainak, Richard, Stuart, Nancy, Mike, Susan, Taylor, Ken, Annelise, Ann, Peter, Bruce, Henry, Marc, David, Elliott, edsmythmd, David, Caleb, Hal, John, Jen, Katie, lillianbthomas, Nanette, Dorota, Cliona, Robin, Bill, Jim
Dear Jim, Ed, Ma, Alden, Sandy, Larry, Sid, Unitarians, Quakers, Cuttyhunkers, All,

Thanks to Jim again for his emails this morning, and your knowledge about and interest in IT safety (with a MIT BS in physics, and a Yale PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence). I also removed Charles Field from this email thread per his request; hoping we'll see each other on Cuttyhunk island next summer (if we can successfully grow the abolition of the illegal sex industry movement, and end its creation of victims with its latent networks of violence; I'm continuing to seek to not become a victim, in calling for its abolition, and having called the police last summer in Canyon 94516 twice, and having whistle-blown about the SF Quaker Meeting, Stanford, Berkeley, Berkeley Law, Reed College, & Harbin Hot Springs +; how to 'clean up' by abolition the illegal sex industry isn't so obvious, however, and culturally especially - as an anthropologist). So I was a bit surprised to read, Jim, in your most recent email this morning your - "Don't know much about the sex industry, other than it is huge" ... to which I replied: 

"Thanks again for your email. I know a bit about CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, and that the market for slaves was huge too, tragically, inhumanely, and ethically wrong too, prior to the Civil War in the US. Appreciating your focus on safety, and will explore aluminum foil and in walking up with a smartphone off to the UU Church of Kensington, for example. Glad your mother got involved with Unitarians, and sorry that she's passed away - with "the angels" now, I think you wrote. (Nontheist Quaker) Friendly-informed World Univ & Sch is in some ways a Quaker 'leading,' which may be why it's still growing with tiny steps all these 14-15 years after its beginnings. It was very much Quaker 'leadings' too that lead to the abolition of slavery in 1862 in the USA, and the anti-slavery act in 1833 in Britain before that ... in part, in my reading of history. Appreciating the role that law can potentially play in abolishing the illegal sex industry, and I think that World Univ & Sch may be able to help with this in all ~200 countries and in their official and main languages and legal languages, and not only with IT and via the law - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School. My mother is also a Unitarian, and Unitarians were also deeply involved in the abolition movement in New England in particular. I think religion may be one possible successful strategy in the abolition of the illegal sex industry today in the USA and Europe, Africa and Asia, but only one among many. And if a cryptocurrency like Stanford Mine Pi, made legal by the SEC and the Federal Reserve to come after the US dollar, for example, can help, AI-wise, machine learning-wise, and IT-wise, with American prosperity, and ending poverty around the world among all 7.8 billion people too (while in conjunction with people-to-people teaching and learning, for free universal education), WUaS is glad to be of service, and service science-wise. Hoping you're doing alright. 

Thanks, Scott"

Am not entirely clear what to do, for example, regarding Cuttyhunk, with potentially ('scofflaw'?) AirBNB rental thinking in the air, in these regards. More of a progressive federal law enforcement presence on Cuttyhunk, distributed across the island? Is there a legal and regulatory opportunity with regards to the abolition here ... that could benefit states' bottom lines significantly in all of this too? Nation states' too? All ~200 countries and regarding online law schools in them?

Could one make the argument that it was Christianity that was the most successful religion in the abolition of slavery? Could the same be true with abolishing the illegal sex industry as slavry (or slavery)?

Friendly regards, sincerely, and abolition-ally yours, Scott 


Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)

Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS

Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS

Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School




-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 



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Hi Scott, Yes, my mother Arlene was Unitarian.  When she visited here, I think the San Jose church she attended had been built around a live oak tree, which was kind of neat.  Not sure, but that is what I recall - it was quite a while back.  Great the WUaS can play a role in abolition, as Quaker's did for making slavery illegal in the USA.  Just got back from an afternoon walk with my wife Diane, and son (31) Adam, and now have to get busy on my next presentation. Thanks, -Jim



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Hi Jim, 


Thanks for the update. You're walk sounds great. My parents, as I think I've written to you before, met and married in the UU Church of Cincinnati, in 1957. But as a Friend, who in retrospect justice-wise should have done due diligence legally about the SF QUAKERs and Meeting, and the UU Church of Palo Alto, and having been assaulted in the SF QUAKER Meeting (as I was whistle blowing), and accosted in the UU Church of Pgh, both sexually, haven't been able to do due diligence successfully about another related group. Glad my mother finds meaning in Unitarians. Not sure how I'll meet and connect with a life partner and friend, with whom to begin a family, but continue to circulate, cautiously and safely. (I think I've shared some of these things with you before). Glad World University and School may be able to further abolition of various aspects of crime, but this will take time and care. Please stay safe.

Abolition-ally yours, Scott


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Jim Spohrer

Nov 7, 2021, 2:31 PM (5 days ago)

to me


Hi Scott, Yes, you mentioned you are looking for a life partner.  As people get older, and do not meet a life partner through everyday social interactions, it seems that arranged marriages and match-making services become a more favored option.  However, I have no real experience on this topic, just something I imagine would make sense.  Thanks, -Jim



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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>

Nov 7, 2021, 2:57 PM (5 days ago)

to Jim


Hi Jim, 

Thanks and glad you found a partner with whom to begin a family. As I may have mentioned, I've explored the idea of arranged marriages when I was in my teens and twenties, but since this didn't happen, I am appreciating my mother's suggestion of circulation to connect naturally, and would do so perhaps in Europe in the spring, if I seek asylum there (due to my whistle blowing). Here's where we've communicated last about arranged marriages - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/dalmor-and-dalbeag-beaches-isle-of.html. Women relate differently from California compared with say, Europe (where I've lived four separate years, for 3 1/2 years) or in school contexts, say at Reed College or at Quaker Pendle Hill center for Study and Contemplation (in which contexts I've met two of the most wonderful mutual loves, albeit in our 20s). Glad you are doing well in this coronavirus pandemic self-quarantine and significant turn in American history.

As I think I have mentioned before too, meeting a MD, AND possibly someone like the 2 women I've mentioned above and before, ... and possibly in the context of Harvard Medical School residents, brainstorming-wise, could have much merit. I was born in Cambridge MA so there would some cultural and place familiarities in these regards too. Natural attraction has much merit and while a ophthalmologist 

...(a med-20s' E.K.? or ??? but not the woman we've talked about),  could share circles with family friends, Harvard Professor Emeritus Dick Robb MD, ophthalmologist (since I was a baby) . . . . Am not that drawn to her here . . . . Perhaps, however, meeting new MDs in her circle could make much sense, if I was living or visiting the Boston area with the possibility of moving there in the spring, for example. Living in a 'safe house' and seeking not to become a victim, as I continue whistle blowing about ethical and legal wrong doing, and for the abolition of the illegal sex industry. Getting World University and School off the ground financially with this ethical issue while coding for 7.8 billion people each a Wikidata Pin #, and for free universal education, people to people, and wiki, and UBI EXPERIMENTS to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed up by central banks in most nation states could be great. 

Congratulations on your retirement, Jim!

Thanks, Scott

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/10/dalmor-and-dalbeag-beaches-isle-of.html




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Hi Jim,

You give new meaning to the 'cut to the chase' idea, Jim, language-wise. As you may have read, I'm exploring Plan B - and thanks 🙏 so much. I've thought about hacking my daily Stanford Mine Pi free money App re UBI EXPERIMENTS with the new Google Pay App on the recent Android 12 update ... With voice ... "OK Google, please interoperate Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency with Google Pay, on this Android phone" ... But Google Voice is not up to this hack yet, and instead said "Here's what I found on the Web." So I still can't buy anything with the ~2300 Pi coin that I now have. Am not sure to whom "I" refers to either. Am wondering too whether, if it were possible to move into 670 Ridgecrest Canyon CA again, and with (a med-20s' E.K.? or ??? but not the woman we've talked about), whether we could convert (concert) the shop with Kaiser Permanente Health's help into a virtual ophthalmology clinic, and for tele-robotic virtual eye surgery too, as well as an 3D -infinite-D immersion Multimedia studio to do field work for Harbin Hot Springs' Ethnographic research, with soaking, as well as travel anywhere in the world, in history too (re time slider). 4 'MIT Media Lab Light Bulb' projectors, one in each corner - is the initial idea (and think planetarium. Might benefit from a cooling system in hot summers. Then we both might be able to work from home, and raise a family and share much of the daily aspects of life together too.

Thanks so much for your email,

Scott 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/MIT




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Hi Jim, All,

Following up here on yesterday's emails. 

Family friend Dick Robb MD had a stroke 4-5 years ago, and my mother said 3-4 weeks ago that he's having a difficult time (he's in his mid-late 80s). While, VERY speculatively, I could hope that George Church - both at Harvard Medical School - could be going over to Brookline to try out new aging reversal genetic drug therapies, emerging at a snail's pace from research on dogs at UMass Medical School (by Broad Institute's Elinor Karlsson - who is attractive psychologically to me) ... and that they are working, minusculely, Dick and his daughter, Erica Robb Thaler MD an ENT (Otorhinolaryngology) at UPenn (https://www.pennmedicine.org/providers/profile/erica-thaler), are the only ones who could know Dr. McCoskey VERY well, since I don't think Maitreyi Mazumdar MD (https://www.childrenshospital.org/directory/physicians/m/maitreyi-mazumdar) also in HMS would know Dr. McCoskey that well if at all. I also don't think Dick would forward my email to Dr McCoskey MD either, if she might be a student of his, as ophthalmologists, (- and she having been 1st in her Harvard Medical School class). Am also, as I wrote, not that drawn to the more recent picture of her. Arranged marriage thinking is one cultural approach to having kids, still practiced in India and other cultures and countries, more than in the USA (in unstudied opinion) but psychiatry is another cultural approach (with more nods to science than anthropology) ... And Lacanian psychoanalytic psychiatry is another cultural approach with fewer nods to science than psychiatry (I'd argue for this in an academic paper in psychiatry as a science). That written, besides connecting naturally - which doesn't appear to be happening with Dr. (a med-20s' E.K.? or ??? but not the woman we've talked about),  - I draw some insights (re psychoanalytic psychiatry) from its thinking re pairing in the sometimes observed parallel between a wife or husband seeking a partner like their parent of the opposite sex. I was struck by how much Maitreyi's husband looks like Mainak Mazumdar, her and Pin's father (whom I know from Pittsburgh and India). And I'm struck, for example, by how much Dick Robb's oldest son, Henry Robb (very old friend) 'married' his mother, Lucy Robb, in marrying Cliona Burke Robb -

https://twitter.com/henry_robb1/status/1395812582582325250 (2nd from right). But it isn't easy to study this scientifically and psychiatrically even given the remarkable advances in image recognition with machine learning.

In my learning from my past far reaching mutual loves, both 23 yo, or around this (when I was in my 20s too), and bursting with fertility in their radiance, for one, and who had a spark for me, and both fair haired, it wouldn't surprise me if I connected with and married someone like my mother but in her mid 20s re fertility, 

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1452660684022374400?s=20 with her dark brown hair and some Scottish identity features too, or especially like Anke or Susan. Need the circulate more ! And perhaps by exploring the idea of a tea party, I could meet someone else in the Boston area, born there even (like me) in a once a month Sunday afternoon tea. (Am also, psychologically struck by the 'Ycleptance' idea of same and different here - http://scottmacleod.com/JohnMoneyConceptsOfDeterminism.html

- re 'Pairbonding' per John Money's thinking. These ideas replace some aspects of psychoanalytic psychiatry, Pavlovian and Skinnerian thinking too, as you may read).

Thanks for your help, Jim!

Abolition-ally yours,

Scott



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Hi Scott, I have zero experience as a matchmaker - so be cautious taking my advice. However,  I doubt the average 20-30 years old is going to be able to fully appreciate your intellectual depth, and ability to connect disparate areas with passion, and not conform to traditional day-to-day logics.  That said, finding a true life companion is a great goal to focus on.  A goal is "the progressive realization of a worthy ideal."  Hope you are following the advice of Earl Nightingale, and his 30 day challenge.  Stay focussed on your goal, think about it every morning and night, and while you are working on it, be of service to others and good things will surely come your way.  WUaS is also a great goal - and I think by 2028 the AI technology will exist to help you realize it more fully.  You will become empowered by AI capabilities for language translation and matching learning materials to learners, and even certifying that learners know what they set out to learn.   Today, YouTube, Wikipedia, GitHub, and Kaggle are the four best learning platforms that are freely available that I know of and use regularly.   Would love to see "good luck" following you safely everywhere as you achieve your important life goals.  Think about your primary goal, while serving others - that is all it takes for most of us.  "The human mind is the last unexplored continent on Earth."  Thanks, -Jim



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Dear Jim, Ed, Peter Norvig, Ma, Alden, Sandy, Larry, Sid, Unitarians, Quakers, Cuttyhunkers, All,


Jim, thanks so much for our recent emails, possibly a Sunday afternoon tea at 4pm Eastern Time, for meeting people! (Are all these emails actually from you? Some don't sound like they're from you).

And was that former 670 Ridgecrest Rd Canyon 94516 landlord mentally ill t.w. who pulled yesterday smoothly into the parking lot, in a somewhat familiar white pickup (but without the 'w designs' or sim. logo behind the driver's door) at Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve along Skyline Drive, about a mile from the Skyline-Pinehurst Road entrance to Canyon 84516 (3 miles down the road), where I stopped to go to the restroom, after picking up my mail in the  Canyon 94516, with a 4th duplicate WUaS Corporation CA Franchise Tax Board tax bill (having paid ~$3,000 on the first one about a week ago), and picked up some other mail items, including the early-arriving electronic shield bag for smartphones that you encouraged me to get (since I'm living in a safe house' and head over 2 the Canyon PO about once a week)? I didn't stop to actually see if it was potentially criminal mentally ill predator offender t.w. - re even a kind of potential 'w's last stand' per George Custer in 1876 even? Could he know someone who has access to Google Maps and my GPS location at any given time (having experienced a number of curious seemingly Google Maps and Pandora Music Streaming GPS related events along Skyline Blvd, including what I'm calling a 'non-creditable death threat' ... and which friend Ed Smyth MD actual checked out ) ?

While I think that the 3 of them ... w, l.w., and d.t. ... would go to any lengths to protect their 670 Ridgecrest 1.5 acres, even with criminal track records pages long, I left Canyon having called the local Moraga police twice whistleblowing there too ... and am living in a 'safe house' and potentially seeking asylum on the east coast or in Europe or ... in the spring of 2022 ... but I think that without abolition of the illegal sex industry internationally, and its latent illegal networks of violence, I probably won't be safe anywhere ... given time ... unless both law enforcement practices change (re w. for example) ... and cultural practices too.  Thanks Jim for saying too that the sex industry is huge (which didn't sound like you, for example) ... and thanks Sandy (my brother) for saying on Cuttyhunk around August 30th when we were talking that you will allow that the sex industry exists, ... (first I've heard you say this, actually, Sandy) .. 

Am seeking not to become a vicim of crime gangs ... and hence am seeking to grow an abolition movement of the illegal sex industry ...

Heading off to get car maintenance done tomorrow, and as I've written before, . . .  - ... and could anyone criminal who possibly can GPS my location on Skyline Drive and share this information with a criminal t.w. on turf around Canyon 94516, also share information about my location with Toyota Palo Alto, or with d.t. to share with a possible student of his at Toyota Palo Alto? Could Community Colleges and Car Dealerships also have access to Google Maps' GPS locations of individuals in this particular 'Pandora's box' of security regarding distributed digital technologies?

The WUaS Corporation is making progress, tiny step after tiny step - and although I can't say WUaS is glad to have received 4 tax bills from the CA FTB - there does seem to be the beginnings of a communication emerging, and I'll follow up on this 4th bill with Diana Ramirez, in a local state senator representatives office, which I went into in person the other day, and with the first 3 tax bills (two of which were duplicates in one way or another). 

Hoping you all are doing well as the non-SARS CoV2 non-epidemic self-quarantine eases a little ... glad Open Band will play for Scottish Country Dancing beginning Monday for the 1st time in about 20 months - 

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1458138108336115718?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1458163140407951361?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1458162328193486853?s=20

which you'll also find here in this blog post today - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/dahlia-creating-piobaireachding-blues.html - and regarding creating a new bagpiping genre I'm calling "Piobaireachd rocking the blues' ... 

Friendly regards, and abolition-ally yours, Scott


Hoping both law and culture can come to play much further significant roles in abolition (and following on the anti-slavery act of 1833 in Britain, and the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 in the USA for example ... )

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Law

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/culture


Could the potential persons who might have access to non-Google GPS and my location be located at a country club (involved speculatively even in the illegal sex industry) not far from Pinehurst, Skyline Blvd, Shepherd's Canyon, and Manzanita, on Manzanita I think (https://hills.caclubs.com/public/directions ???)? Whistle-blowing here further in order to not become a victim ... Please stay safe all, and please abolish the illegal sex industry. 

Friendly regards, Scott

See, for example, Minute 5 here in the World Univ & Sch Minutes - 

https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2021/10/minutes-for-101621-world-univ-sch-wuas.html




-- 

- Scott GK MacLeod  

Founder, President, CEO & Professor

World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 

1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html


(o) 415 480 4577 - sgkmacleod@worlduniversiryandschool.org 

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 






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