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Red-shanked douc: Abolition ~ Regarding Quaker testimonies - SPICES - and abolitionism, I reTweeted - SPICE ~ 'Simplicity Peace Integrity Community Equality' ALL? re #unprogrammedQuakers #Quaker (& #NontheistFriends #NontheistFriend #NtFs) & #Abolitionism? #Abolish #illegalSexIndustryWorldWide in ~200 countries #Abolition #NontheistQuakers #UnitarianUniversalists #WUaSpsychiatry~ (I think part of the idea of abolition is that the buying and selling of people is wrong, ethically, and that the illegal sex industry, or slavery's, networks of violence have been atrocious) . . . Global MIT reparations course takes open learning to new level - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1459333885184118790?s=20" ... not ... wanting to put WUaS at risk regarding planning to code also for 7.8 billion people for a single cryptocurrency backed by most central banks in the world ... and to end poverty via UBI Experiments such as with Stanford Mine Pi - https://minepi.com/sgkmac - for free money daily (with an invitation) . . . * Searched on and found 'reparations' blog posts in this blog, and particularly regarding this Stanford talk (https://basicincome.stanford.edu/events/resurrecting-the-promise-of-forty-acres/) "Resurrecting the Promise of Forty Acres" with William A. Darity Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen (Stanford talk in February 2021 re reparations)* * * Monday Night SCD & Open Band Beginning Again * * * "Beloved Scotland, I Leave Thee Dreich" - a lesson this week? * * Beloved Scotland, I Leave Thee Gloomy Piobaireachd * How to bring together meditation in a sitting pose or on one's back (relaxation response -wise, saying 'one', for example ... http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/arc-steps-to-elicit-relaxation-response.html) but with both arms working playing the Scottish small pipes ... ?

Next: Atlantic spotted dolphin: Google announces "Proud to announce the Digital Future Initiative in Australia - a A$1B commitment in infrastructure, research, and partnerships to help more Australians access the benefits of technology & lead the next wave of global innovations" * Great @sundarpichai Wondering how this can be a model for @WorldUnivAndSch & @WUaSPress in all ~200 countries & in official & main languages, as online best STEM OCW.MIT.EDU -centric major universities, & as #WUaSEducationalServicesStores w Academic Press in 7k langs? * * * Sailing Cuttyhunk Yacht Club Massachusetts, & Fish Dock Marina #OldSailingShips https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sailing * * * Universitians, Video recording of today's WUaS News and Q&A, 11/15/21 - * * * Friends Making friends is hard * Thanks, Jim (Spohrer), Making friends in my experience is easy, in the past, and very, and in many different places
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Abolition ~ 

Dear Nontheist Friends, NtFs, Nontheist Quakers, friends, All, 

The brilliant anthropologist Nick Seaver at Tufts recently shared this picture with me - 
the spice must flow

https://twitter.com/npseaver/status/1459664617173659649?s=20

Regarding Quaker testimonies - SPICES - and abolitionism, I reTweeted -

SPICE ~ 'Simplicity Peace Integrity Community Equality' ALL? re #unprogrammedQuakers #Quaker (& #NontheistFriends #NontheistFriend #NtFs) & #Abolitionism? #Abolish #illegalSexIndustryWorldWide in ~200 countries #Abolition #NontheistQuakers #UnitarianUniversalists #WUaSpsychiatry~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1459673113273069571?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1459944367821451266?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1459943723895181314?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1459944776392790016?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1459944629726375936?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1459944502236352517?s=20



SPICE~S ~ Stewardship too re 100% nonalcoholic version on Sunday morning? & 'Simplicity Peace Integrity Community Equality' ALL? re #unprogrammedQuakers #Quaker Is allspice native to West Indies? (& #NontheistFriend #NtFs) & #Abolitionism ~ #Abolish #illegalSexIndustryWorldWide~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1459946348334092290?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1459946655512334338?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1459947041933574145?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1459946836643385345?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1459946933535985665?s=20


I think part of the idea of abolition is that the buying and selling of people is wrong, ethically, and that the illegal sex industry, or slavery's, networks of violence have been atrocious - atrocity-wise, in so many ways. Even with the role of money-making and commerce in the US slave trade in the centuries prior to the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, abolitionists sought to enact legislation, laws, and change this culture ... and were successful, such that millions of PEOPLE are free today (since the Anti-Slavery Act of Britain in 1833 too).

As I wondered in this blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/giant-panda.html - 
"And as I wrote my mother recently, if Stanford might be practicing a kind of modern day slavry or slavery - "Abolition-ally, could one write a very contemporary ethnography of Stanford regarding some of these questions ... And who might the slavers be? Scary stuff? " ... and I also found it interesting this WUaS MIT OCW Daily News (for which I'm very glad WUaS has this free daily newspaper, but I don't actually know who posts the pictures or the articles) -

Global MIT reparations course takes open learning to new level -

per

Global MIT reparations course takes open learning to new level


And could this blog post, and these sentences, even be a form of 'thin description,' anthropologically, regarding MIT Professor Alex Forte's
post in text chat, in yesterday's and the day before, MIT Comparative Global Humanities' conference which I attended? 

"Regarding 'thick' vs. 'thin' anthropological description in the cases of literary practice (and the categorization of writing practices as 'literature of x'), see https://arcade.stanford.edu/content/race-thick-and-thin"


As we may know (but when?), Quakers only added the Stewardship word to SPICES - as values too - in a sense, and which may inform World Univ & Sch moving ahead ... fairly recently in Friends' 350 year history, re SPICE .. which may have referred also to Quaker's focus on economics too, and re ethics or morality of money, in abolition regarding the abolition of slavery over the past 250 or 350 years. (Socially responsible mutual funds, since the 1970s, for example, are an outgrowth of Quaker thinking, I'd suggest). 

Am hoping such Friendly testimonies will also inform potentially WUaS facilitating distributing a single cryptocurrency, backed by most countries' central banks, in most of ~200 countries, to end poverty via UBI Experiments. If the WUaS Corporation can have the good fortune to even be able to list for example Stanford Mine Pi, as this, on the new Silicon Valley long-term stock exchange, in planning to code for all 7.8 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata Pin# , that would continue this trajectory of Friends' thinking. If WUaS can also plan coding-wise, re artificial intelligence and machine learning, to abolish the illegal sex industry internationally and other  forms of crime, this will help and may free millions of more people.  

And all re these two 'seed' websites (for the WUaS Press - not of counterfeit money:) ... and the WUaS Corporation, and after taking last week with a rep from the CA franchise tax board, for the first time, since incorporating in 2017) - 

Friendly greetings, 
Scott

MIT Global Humanities' 2 day conference posts (and with some about abolition too, and more)
Day 1

Day 2


AND here are some pics from 'safe house' (I've been living in since Oct 2020) and of friend Ed and myself, from a year ago today  that popped up earlier from Google Photo - 

'A year ago today, about 9 months into the #nonSARSCoV2 #nonEpidemic re #genes #WUaSgenetics #WUaSgenes ~ #Covid19pandemic re #memes #ReplicatingCulturalUnits idea #WUaSmemes (from ~3/1/21? & 1.5 months after moving into #SafeHouse @scottmacleod @sgkmacleod) w friend #EdSmythMD ~'




... With the 'safe house' words in it publicly here too.

NtF Friendly greetings, Scott


Nontheist Friends (atheist Quakers?)




Searched on and found 'reparations' blog posts in this blog, and particularly regarding this Stanford talk (https://basicincome.stanford.edu/events/resurrecting-the-promise-of-forty-acres/)

"Resurrecting the Promise of Forty Acres"

with William A. Darity Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021 | 4:00-5:15PM PT

Resurrecting the Promise of Forty Acres

Advanced Registration is Required: RSVP here

Join William A. Darity Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen as they discuss the message of their book From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. The authors


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See, too, regarding 'reparations': 

Desolation Wilderness: Reparations webinar "Resurrecting the Promise of Forty Acres" - Stanford Basic Income * * * Ranking Digital Rights Launches the 2020 RDR Corporate Accountability Index - event on 2/24/21 * * * Haight Ashbury and Yoga teaching in 1990s? * * * California frontier? - 2 surfers - as birds on California coast south of SF

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/desolation-wilderness-reparations.html


Sri Lankan elephant: WUaS MBM Agenda for 6/19/21 AND - I get this Google blogspot ONBOARDING URL "https://www.blogger.com/u/1/onboarding#" ... interestingly ... and which could be a great thing for WUaS too! * * * 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/06/sri-lankan-elephant.html


Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum): Quaker George Fox University in Oregon and possible CC-4 MIT OCW-centric free-to-students' World University and School online PhDs * * * 'UBI Experiment for WUaS' from Sri Lanka World University and School head - regarding cryptocurrencies ... will 'Stanford Mine Pi' digital currency be adopted and backed by most of ~200 countries' central banks, in their languages, and the rest become like numismatics? * * * UBI Experiment for WUaS

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/blackcurrant-ribes-nigrum-quaker-george.html




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Monday Night SCD & Open Band Beginning Again


Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com>

Thu, Nov 11, 7:18 AM (3 days ago)

to Patti, stuart, Taylor, Heather, Bruce, Barbara, Edward, Dick, Janie, Claudia, Sioux


Hi Patti, All,

In calling for abolition of the illegal sex industry internationally, following on the abolition of (slavery), - both with their networks of violence, and at Work World University and School, which is planning to code for all the people on the planet (each a Wikidata Pin#), I'm glad to write that WUaS talked yesterday for the first time since incorporating in 2017 with a person, R.M. in the CA franchise tax board. WUaS received and was able to pay a first tax bill for $2930.98 for 2018, '19, '20 last week in these regards. The goal of an abolitionist movement is to protect people, innocent people, minors, victims, and WUaS seeks to further facilitate online - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Psychiatry and with an upcoming new

 'psychiatric services' web site (thanks, Patti, for this name) in these regards too - in a 200 countries and in all 7139 known living languages.


Am concerned about your mental health with your use of the 'delusional' word, and wonder if 

this might be a projection (or transference), psychiatrically; Also, a 'replicating cultural unit', so a replicating ... meme ... Word (like 'Covid-19' or 'sexual predator', and am wondering what's up and how you are doing? Am wondering if the dramatic turn in American history and world history post the coronavirus pandemic is somehow affecting you, given this unfamiliar language from you. Am wondering too whether you need support or something else ☺️?

As I emailed my mother this morning -

Hi Ma, 

Just a quick note regarding Abolition movement ... How best to grow it? ... given Patti's harmful note (which might not have been Patti writing), and re WUaS Corporation having communicated momentously with the CA FTB and its R.M. yesterday? 

Love, Scott

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/beluga-whale.html



As a conscientious objector (CO) in a good Quaker or non-theistic Quaker f/Friendly, sense, am going to hold off from coming to Open Band until at least the new year even as a kind of whistle blowing protest. Am living in a 'safe house' and potentially seeking asylum in the spring, on the east coast or Europe or? ... for whistle blowing, and calling the Moraga police about 670 Ridgecrest Rd Canyon twice last summer, as well as whistle blowing about ethical wrong doing at Stanford, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Law, The SF QUAKER MEETING, Reed, Harbin (and regarding the illegal sex industry tragically) ... And am not seeking to become a victim.

Am not wanting to put WUaS at risk regarding planning to code also for 7.8 billion people for a single cryptocurrency backed by most central banks in the world ... and to end poverty via UBI Experiments such as with Stanford Mine Pi - https://minepi.com/sgkmac - for free money daily (with an invitation).

Am thinking abolition will come from within people culturally, just like with the abolition of slavery, where most People in the world say slavery is wrong ... and laws and language help to sustain this.

Wishing you all the Best,

Scott

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1458138108336115718


PS

I am sending you 1π! Pi is a new digital currency developed by Stanford PhDs, with over 23 million members worldwide. To claim your Pi, follow this link https://minepi.com/sgkmac and use my username (sgkmac) as your invitation code.


- 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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Patti, All, 

Some people near where my mother lives have died from Covid-19, from what I heard, now that I think about it. 

Am deeply sad at times for the loss of life during the whole past 18 months or the Covid-19 or coronavirus pandemic,

Scott

PS

Am not sure if I'll compose a new rock blues' Piobaireachd lament in these regards or not - 

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/dahlia-creating-piobaireachding-blues.html ... but as an idea in memoriam nevertheless.


My condolences again to you on the loss of your friend in Austria!



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Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com>

Tue, Nov 9, 3:28 PM (5 days ago)

to Patti, stuart, Taylor, Heather, Bruce, Barbara, Edward, Dick, Janie, Claudia, Sioux


Hi Patti, 

My deepest condolences on the loss of your friend in Austria. 

And thanks too for your concern. I have made good use of psychiatric services at various times in my life, so I know whereof I speak too, and I can assure you I am fine, just grieving a bit as well, and for the 5 million, one estimate, who have died, in some ~200 countries, during the coronavirus pandemic, but not epidemic. 'm glad to write however that no one I've known personally, that I can think of presently, has died. Thanks for your emails.

Happy music-making!

Wishing You the best,

Scott

http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/11/dahlia-creating-piobaireachding-blues.html




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"Beloved Scotland, I Leave Thee Dreich" - a lesson this week?


"Beloved Scotland, I Leave Thee Dreich" - a lesson this week?


Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>

12:45 PM (1 hour ago)

to stuart


Dear Stuart, 

I hope this email finds you well. Thanks for 'The Lament for the Old Sword' Topical. I'm wondering if I can teach, as a consequence, "Beloved Scotland, I Leave Thee Dreich" to Taylor this week, in some ways as you taught "The Lament..." To this end, I'd also like to record "Beloved Scotland ... " in A, like your recording (but I wish I played virtuosically:), for Taylor to learn from, and play with on his SSP with A chanter, and as a way to begin my 2nd piping album, after all, and also for me to learn Piobaireachd further. Any chance we could schedule a lesson this week sometime? (I paid for two when I signed up for the Topical). And when we meet, I'll ask again if Taylor can join your Topicals every 4 weeks please. 

For my upcoming album, I think I'll create a new bandcamp site, something like this - 

https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/track/out-of-the-air-j-scott-gk-macleod


... so possibly 

ScottMacLeodPiobaireachdScottishSmallPipesBagpiping.bandcamp.com


Appreciating your great teaching, your kindness, and your thinking and piping, Stuart!

Let's stay in touch too about your becoming potentially a first faculty member at World Univ & Sch ... Taylor could be a great help in these regards, and as he said in our last lesson, from Georgia (near Florida), he's not doing anything much these days (having moved to Georgia about a year ago, into a nice, large house, with wife and first baby). 

(I don't know how aging reversal genetic drug therapies are going to develop, but will we be able to continue piping, and teaching, brainstorming-wise, over the years and decades ... and centuries even? ... ahead ... if ... ?:)

Musical cheers,

Scott

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


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes




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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


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

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


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 


- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 




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Beloved Scotland, I Leave Thee Gloomy Piobaireachd


Scott MacLeod <musicalmacflower@gmail.com>

1:37 PM (49 minutes ago)

to Taylor


Taylor, 

How to bring together

meditation in a sitting pose or on one's back (relaxation response -wise, saying 'one', for example ...  http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2008/09/arc-steps-to-elicit-relaxation-response.html)

but with both arms working playing the Scottish small pipes, where I am particularly interested in bringing together how Angela and Victor teach meditation in Greece or in a workshop around the world face-to-face in person  ... 


... and while there are some videos of them teaching herein - http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html - no immediate blog posts come to mind. 


and with ~ 

... and while I enjoy teaching meditation, inspired in part by A&V, so perhaps these 'Hippy Anjali Yoga Notations' are a starting place too in these regards ... 

... with meditation newly as chanting Piobaireachd in a sense (so via Cantaireachd), and while piping, 

... but in particular regarding Stuart Liddell 'one-ing' and with his perfectly steady drones, as a remarkable feedback loop re meditation and the bodymind, from breathing to brain steadiness, with related harmony generating processes, both in the inner body, as well as musical-tones' wise ?

Seeking to send you a version of "Beloved Scotland ... " on my new album's website in A, and for learning, and playing with (as I begin my new album) ...

And here are the very beginnings of my next album - https://scottmacleodpiobaireachdscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ :)


Cheers, Scott

PS

As I just wrote to Stuart - 

... For my upcoming album, I think I'll create a new bandcamp site, something like this - 

https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/track/out-of-the-air-j-scott-gk-macleod


... so possibly 

ScottMacLeodPiobaireachdScottishSmallPipesBagpiping.bandcamp.com


Appreciating your great teaching, your kindness, and your thinking and piping, Stuart!

Let's stay in touch too about your becoming potentially a first faculty member at World Univ & Sch ... Taylor could be a great help in these regards, and as he said in our last lesson, from Georgia (near Florida), he's not doing anything much these days (having moved to Georgia about a year ago, into a nice, large house, with wife and first baby). 

(I don't know how aging reversal genetic drug therapies are going to develop, but will we be able to continue piping, and teaching, brainstorming-wise, over the years and decades ... and centuries even? ... ahead ... if ... ?:)

Musical cheers,

Scott

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


https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials

https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes

















https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-shanked_douc

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pygathrix_nemaeus

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