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Buttercup, Ranunculus glacialis (FO - National flower of Faroe Islands): heading to Florida, New Orleans and the Mississippi river I think, since moving west into a newly safe open Canyon 94516 probably won't happen until the end of October ~ Abolition movement growing? (abolish the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence etc industries and their latent networks of violence) ~

Previous: Calla Lily, Zantedeschia aethiopica (ET - National flower of Ethiopia): Great! 'Chirp: Automatic Speech Recognition for 100+ Languages': speech-to-text #LLMs ~ Glad #GingerPerng & #AnushaRamesh @anurahk mention Google's #1000LanguageProject & over 7k langs re @WorldUnivAndSch #WikiCommunities of 7168 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ~ * * found this Universal Translator project, which WUaS Press and World Univ & Sch have been developing for years ... https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator (may add) ... looks good ... * * * #MITOCW -centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch Greetings! #WUaSaccreditation & w #PAdeptEd licensure continue & for free #WUaSdegrees as a 1) non-profit #WorldUnivAndSch - http://worlduniversityandschool.org & 2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html ~ * Greetings from #MITOCW -centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch: #WorldUnivAndSch is also #wiki so #WikiSchools for open teaching & learning where you can teach, & planned in 200 countries & in 7168 languages as #LargeLanguageModels ~
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heading to Florida, New Orleans and the Mississippi river I think, since moving west into a newly safe open Canyon 94516 probably won't happen until the end of October ~ Abolition movement growing? (abolish the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence etc industries and their latent networks of violence) ~ 


Dear Ma (Janie), John (Sargent MD), Ed (Smyth MD), Charlie (Nesson, Law), Sid (Mazumdar, HHS) Dick (Robb MD), All, 

Abolition movement growing? (abolish the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence etc industries and their latent networks of violence) -  

Holt (Maness), great to meet and talk to you in Abolition Row park across from the New Bedford Quaker Meeting, in New Bedford, MA - (https://www.google.com/maps/@41.633281,-70.9284401,3a,75y,86.73h,91.42t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1szjdklF6e1QGcVSLc2t8AUA!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu) ...

Is there an abolition row happening in the Quaker world, and your worlds too ?


Place - 
Regarding heading to Florida and place ... 


Place - the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool - is a central theme - in my first book "Naked Harbin Ethnography ...'' informing a meditative culture (hippie to the clothing-optional hot springs) thanks to the de facto relaxation response (book first published in 1972, and now a Harvard Med Sch institute ... lower oxygen levels in the blood, than when not meditating may have been a key finding in this attempt to use science to study meditation further) ... thanks to the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool ... with everyone entering a kind of serene meditative space in the HARBIN POOL AREA (in some ways) ... So place (the clothing-optional Harbin warm pool) informs culture (eg our neurophysiology), and in the case of Harbin Hot Springs, counterculture, in my ethnographic interpretation, with Harbin emerging in its current form in 1972 (after Harbinger University in the 1960s there, on property, a psychedelic university ... really really loosely and hippie-like ) ... and becoming Heart Consciousness Church (HCC) in 1975, a 501 c 3 (hippy tax dodge?), and New Age Church of Being in 1996 (which ordains ministers ...) ...


Some related recent texts - 

Hi Ma, Thanks for your text! Am following up with Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Charlie Nesson as you may be reading about ownership questions of the MacLeod Cuttyhunk house, and who can stay on Cuttyhunk for how long with we 3 owners! And so glad Charlie got back to all of us in email yesterday! Would you please include him in any and all emails or texts you send me about such issues both at nesson@gmail.com and nesson@law.harvard.edu. Thank you, Ma! (Looking forward to hearing back from John Sargent MD today potentially, and re his and my talking in a therapeutic conversation, with medical insurance paying for this). Love, abolition-ally, your son, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/09/edelweiss-sz-national-flower-of.html)


Please remember, per Charlie Nesson's email, that he's no longer on the Massachusetts' Bar, but he does live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and I've gone to a brunch at his house in around 2006 - and he's continuing to teach at the Harvard Law School about the jury process in the USA (and I've also taken a second course with him on the American jury, some years after taking "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion" in 2006 in the 3D virtual world of Second LIfe, on Harvard's virtual island - where I've taught "Society and Information Technology" too - for about 10 years). Love, abolitionally, Friendly greetings, your son, Scott (and some of this is here in today's 9/7/23 "Edelweiss ... " blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/09/edelweiss-sz-national-flower-of.html)



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Some further recent texts in some of these regards that I shared with my mother, Pin Mazumdar and David Thurston:  

 
Hi Ma ... My "Soc, Info Tech and the Global Univ" book is coming along as I travel ... And check out the Pine Barrens in Southampton NJ - 17 Pemberton Rd
https://maps.app.goo.gl/FbsYjXzdg8bD941w8 - which Pine Barrens I'm seeing a fair amount of. Love, abolitionally, your son, Scott



Good morning my wonderful mother! Hugging the coast, and here's the New Jersey coastline in Google Maps - https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1Oj7XG-yyJaVT82Uu-fNn2RVPf-I&hl=en&ll=40.133927947116746%2C-74.50679600000001&z=9 ... pretty cool. Love, abolition-ally, your son, ❤️, Scott


Hi Ma, traveling on further, and hugging the coast, found: Hugging the coast from NJ to DC  

searched on -

'new jersey to dc coastline google maps hugging the coastline via Cape May and Cape Charles Delaware bay and Chesapeake bay'

found -
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=18oTQUQOD5pJEKWuvsK05rnKMbD4&hl=en&ll=38.56039876668878%2C-75.34437699859079&z=9 (Made great progress en route with my book manuscript this morning, and glad to have talked with the impressive, and new friend, Holt Maness, who called me and re possibly him becoming chair of the WUaS Board). Love, Scott  (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/traveling)


Hi Ma, I pulled my car right in front of the Vietnam memorial in DC on that US Federal land - and car camped there ... then headed back out to  cape henlopen state park Delaware heading toward kitty hawk NC today hugging the coast ...  http://www.railstotrails.org/trailblog/2021/january/13/delaware-s-cape-henlopen-state-park-bike-loop/ https://ocnjdaily.com/home/ocean-city-guide/ocean-city-bicycle-route-map-and-video-tour/ On to Florida on the way to a newly safe open Canyon 94516 ... Completed a 1st draft of the first chapter of my book on this journey yesterday too from https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1699123986389496113?t=luTL77L5uJwuY1PXgi173w&s=19 ... Love, abolitionally, ❤️, Scott


Wigged out times we're living in ... do you think? "The source of periwig is Middle French perruque (source also of the synonym peruque). In the American slang of the mid-20th century, the word wig was moving into new territory: wig became a word for the mind, and to "wig out" was to lose one's composure or reason" - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wigged-out#:~:text=The%20source%20of%20periwig%20is,lose%20one%27s%20composure%20or%20reason. ... Am appreciative of the reasoning of the law and legal thinking (and by old hippies such as Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Charlie Nesson, who defended the release and publication of the pentagon papers in 1971  for example!) ❤️, abolitionally, Love, Scott (who is very appreciative of my wonderful mother ! ❤️)  



Some further sociological anthropological inquiries into 'alienation' and 'modernity' and 'internetity' the information age ... 

alienation of modernity? - 
A response to the alienation of modernity (partly shaped by the 2 industrial revolutions)



What are the 4 types of alienation?
These and the themes that emerge from the collective experiences are then tied to Marx's conception of alienation. The four dimensions of alienation identified by Marx are alienation from: (1) the product of labor, (2) the process of labor, (3) others, and (4) self.



What new kinds of this disconnection occur in the information technology revolution - and how to create connectedness online (eg in a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for soaking from home re meditation as a de facto relaxation response / inner body releasing (http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html)



Stay tuned ... for upcoming book "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" 

Regards, abolitionally, best wishes, Scott


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Some great new developments regarding Large Language Models Generative Artificial Intelligence in all 7168 known living languages and at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch -  




Great! 'Chirp: Automatic Speech Recognition for 100+ Languages': speech-to-text #LLMs https://youtu.be/0scL9ma-52g Glad #GingerPerng & #AnushaRamesh @anurahk mention Google's #1000LanguageProject & over 7k langs re @WorldUnivAndSch  #WikiCommunities of 7168 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ~









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#GingerPerng & #AnushaRamesh @anurahk With 'Chirp: #AutomaticSpeechRecognition for 100+ Langs' https://youtu.be/0scL9ma-52g what Google #LLMs to use for #SpeechToText book chapter vid https://youtu.be/jghU_CM4R9Y & how to grow @WUaSPress in 7k https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages w #MachineTranslation?











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Chirp: 

Chirp: Automatic Speech Recognition for 100+ Languages | Research Bytes 
Chirp is the next generation of our speech-to-text models. 



Glad Ginger Perng & Anusha Ramesh @anurahk mention the Google 1000 language project, & over 7,000 languages


Ginger Perng 

Anusha Ramesh

Chirp is the next generation of our speech-to-text models. Representing the culmination of years of research, the first version of Chirp is now available for Speech-to-Text. The models can perform automatic speech recognition (ASR) on under-resourced languages, such as Amharic, Cebuano, and Assamese, in addition to widely spoken languages like English and Mandarin. We intend to improve and expand Chirp to more languages and domains.

Resources:
Get started with Chirp → https://goo.gle/3OTklFI

Watch more episodes of Research Bytes → https://goo.gle/ResearchBytes
Subscribe to the Google Research Channel → https://goo.gle/GoogleResearch


Scott  
Some of this emerging further in yesterday's as well as today's daily blog post - 

 






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On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 2:08 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Ma (Janie), John (Sargent MD), Ed (Smyth Md), Charlie (Nesson, Law), Sid (Mazumdar HHS) Dick (Robb MD), All, 

Greetings! How are you? You'll find some of this "Hugging the coast, the Mississippi,..." ditty here as I "head... to Florida, New Orleans and the Mississippi river, since moving west into a newly safe open 670 Ridgecrest Road, Canyon 94516 probably won't happen until late October" - 

Also, 
searched on 
"view all the Connecticut coastal roads in Google Street View"

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Nv0gOecb_T9-L9yVp3bicHk0J_8&hl=en

found: 
view all the Connecticut coastal roads in Google Street View

Cool - but I haven't found the street view images yet (let alone with time slider)
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1Nv0gOecb_T9-L9yVp3bicHk0J_8&hl=en


And further coolness -

Connecticut Coastal Walk
and re

Route for Connecticut Coastal Walk - 3 segments
#1 - Port Chester NY to South Norwalk
#2 - South Norwalk to Bridgeport
#3 - Bridgeport to New Haven
All routes start and end at Metro North Stations

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1FtmHG3UZV0U7VrNh9dtWv-VAWPA&hl=en_US&ll=41.15088192545318%2C-73.2906465&z=10

ABOLITION-ALLY, best wishes, Friendly regards, Scott

alienation blog label in daily blog (only numbering 4 presently) - 


And here's 




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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric. Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
- 210 East End Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221

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 


 



On Thu, Sep 7, 2023 at 11:28 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Ma (Janie), John (Sargent MD), Ed (Smyth Md), Charlie (Nesson, Law), Sid (Mazumdar HHS) Dick (Robb MD), All, 

Hugging the coast, the Mississippi,
the oceans & the river,
The Atlantic, and the Gulf,
we travel on into the
#WUaScyberspace
of 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth
& #RealisticVirtualUniverse too,
#StreetView with #TimeSlider,
#GoogleCellView & #MoleculeView too
Enjoy the trip in #wuAsVR ~
Virtual Reality is emerging.

Scott

PS
created a little ditty for this, - and time to get a free Twitter account (and to leave blank or not.- like Tym Lenderking's or Sid Mazumdar's - https://twitter.com/LenderkingTim - https://twitter.com/sid_mazumdar), or wait until Tweets appear in blog post, if it does - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2023/09/edelweiss-sz-national-flower-of.html - for viewing images? -

Hugging the coast, the Mississippi,
the oceans & the river,
The Atlantic, and the Gulf,
we travel on into the
#WUaScyberspace
of 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth
& #RealisticVirtualUniverse too,
#StreetView with #TimeSlider,
#GoogleCellView & #MoleculeView too
Enjoy the trip in #wuAsVR ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1699794247845814486?s=20


With Galaxy image,
AAAB
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1699794953185190220

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1699797085045018841





retweeting

Sooo much resources to mine.
Fully autonomous, Heavy industries will be outside Earth.

https://twitter.com/akrv1/status/1237908120787189761




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- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric. Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
- 210 East End Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15221

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 





On Wed, Sep 6, 2023 at 11:35 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ma, John, Ed, Charles, Dick, 


Without a place to stay in Cuttyhunk this evening - and in seeking a pro bono lawyer to help work on these ownership questions, and time spent on Cuttyhunk by MacLeods questions ... and deeply saddened that I may not be able to be on Cuttyhunk in the MacLeod house due to the illegal sex drug and violence industries in a place of lawlessness regarding US federal and State of MA law ... I just texted Cuttyhunker David Thurston son of Harvard Law Alum Ladd Thurston: 

Waiting to hear back from Charles Nesson and about writing my upcoming "Society, Info Tch and the Global University" book, out of the Harvard Law School and with Harvard housing. 


Hi David, how are you doing! How's the weather in DC AREA ? Have inquired with Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Charlie Nesson after receiving his email this morning in a thread about this MacLeod Cuttyhunk house, about planning for Canyon 94516, about what happened to my father in Belize in 2004 - AND all the Cuttyhunk people on the Semester at Sea voyage in 1999 including myself ... if it might be possible to write my "Society, Information Technology, and the Global University" at Harvard Law School this September and October and with Harvard housing.  He was a teacher of mine in CyberOne in 2006 in the 3d virtual world of  Second Life, and I wrote a podcast  about protecting the Cuttyhunk West End ... Here's a somewhat related Cuttyhunk podcast - https://web.archive.org/web/20100225125527/http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberonepodcast/2006/11/06/cuttyhunk-island-ma-2/ - I wrote in his online course "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion" taking place on Berkman Island in the group-buildable 3D world of Second Life in 2006)... And could I possibly even move into Harvard housing this evening? 🙂 We'll see ❤️, Scott (will likely blog about this today) ...http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Harvard?m=0 ... Living on skim milk and no water on Cuttyhunk and I may head instead down to Florida, west to New Orleans, and north along the Mississippi river instead and hugging the coast and the prettiest sides of the Mississippi river. Cheers, abolitionally, have a great autumn, Scott 



All, 
Recently searched on 

'airbnb and prostitution as new slavery internationally'


... and found :

Airbnb must face the facts: human trafficking and modern slavery happen in rented accommodation 


Pop-up Brothels and Airbnb: A Disturbing Human Trafficking Trend 

Please don't email new about air bnb again Ma ... and I'm still thinking it would make most sense simply to tirm the water on here in our Cuttyhunk MacLeod house and write my book here.


Abolition-ally, Friendly greetings, best wishes, Scott


 










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