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May 13, 2020

Hawksbill sea turtle: Great family genealogy research, Mark MacLeod, (and especially regarding our forebears' Norman John MacLeod and Isobel MacKenzie, parents of our great great grandfather James Edward McLeod - DNA-wise esp., from before) * * * Regarding

Mark (MacLeod - 1st cousin),
This open MIT conference today at 2:45 pm ET features Mary Teresa Makela Barra the CEO of GM and the president of MIT Rafael Reif (whom WUaS just emailed, and as a consequence WUaS/ I videoconferenced for 30 minutes with the MIT VP /head in the Office of Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma). My father once told me we have some Makela relatives. Could Mary be related to us? Her husband's name is also a Hebrides. Also, Mary's on the Board of Stanford - do you know her?
Here's the Solve at MIT 2020 Closing Plenary Livestream -

At 2:45pm on 5/12, the @SolveMIT closing plenary will feature a fireside chat between MIT President L. Rafael Reif and Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO of General Motors; a performance from cellist Yo-Yo Ma; and the Solve Investor Showcase! https://t.co/CiLlv4tbS2— MIT Media Lab (@medialab) May 11, 2020

https://twitter.com/medialab/status/1259976581772120064?s=20
I just registered for free, and it looks interesting.
Sincerely, Scott
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod = @scottmacleod

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Mark MacLeodMay 12, 2020, 2:16 PM (20 hours ago)

to me, Janie, Jen, Bruce, Sandy

Scott,
With a little digging in Ancestry, I found that Mary Teresa Makela's grandfather was Viktor Wilhelm Stefanus Mäkelä. He was born in Köyliö, Finland in 1887.
Mary Elizabeth MacLeod ('Betty') married Urho Makela in Massachusetts in 1937. Urho's father was Anton Makela who was born in 1879 and emigrated to the US in 1902. He was from Säkkijärvi, Finland which is about a 4 hour drive from Köyliö.
So, are they related? At least in the late 1800s they were not from the same part of Finland.
Today, there are many descendants of Betty and Urho Makela living in the Peabody, MA area. You can find some of them in your DNA match list - Mary Bonczek, Melissa Troisi, Mary Lindmark, Kaitlin DiBuono, 'T.L.' (Trevor Lindmark).

Mark

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And, as to Mary Makela's husband Anthony Barra, his great grandfather was Michele Barra, born 1867 in Turin, Italy.
On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, 1:29:10 PM GMT-2:30, Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:

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Great family genealogy research, Mark, (and especially regarding our forebears' Norman John MacLeod and Isobel MacKenzie, parents of our great great grandfather James Edward McLeod - DNA-wise esp., from before),

Amazing what you found about Mary Teresa Makela Barra (GM's CEO in the MIT Media Lab talk today), - from Ancestry .com! - and about our relatives' Mary Elizabeth MacLeod ('Betty') and husband Urho Makela, where Mary 'Betty' seems to be the granddaughter of James Edward McLeod, who was a Scot, and then tailor on PEI. Thank you.
And regarding GM's CEO Mary Barra's husband, Anthony Barra, - re your 2nd email - here's some speculation: maybe the name of the Isle of Barra, a Hebrides' island, has some roots in Italy. One theory I've heard about the MacCrimmons, hereditary pipers to the Clan MacLeod for about 10 generations (1500 or 1690s - 1825???), was that their last name stems from Cremona, a place in Italy! Lots of ship travel back then! (Interesting to see the paper from a talk I gave at the Clan MacLeod Society Pacific gathering in South SF in 2011 is here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_MacLeod - and see too - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCrimmon_(piping_family))
I haven't been able to 'dig,' or do digital 'research,' as easily as I might like in Ancestry .com. I think it's clunky software. For example, I found recently, Mark, on your family tree, then added, Norman John MacLeod (James Edward McLeod's father per your great new research) to my Ancestry tree, I thought, but then he doesn't appear anywhere on my tree, eg in searches etc. And the same for Isobel MacKenzie, his wife. Something to do with glitchy software I speculate. And the James Edward McLeod I have in my tree doesn't list his being a tailor or on PEI whatsoever.
Avatar bots for our ancestors with genetic information? In a visionary genealogy way, I am curious whether avatar bots of our ancestors, and Mary Barra's ancestors, with our developing genetic information will emerge, and so we can actually see if they have common genes through this new kind of genealogical knowleddge representation - and so we can also even (iteratively) interview or talk with our ancestors, (as new data is added). (Am thinking build-able avatar bots like in the 3D virtual world of Second Life, but realistic ones, like so-called 'artificial humans' aka Samsung Neons, and even regarding Samsung hardware - and eventually too for tele-robotic surgery for the living). Perhaps World Univ & Sch can facilitate some of this re https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click and https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics?src=hashtag_click and esp https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/statu... in Street View in 5 years and for archaeology too -

Church of England to launch a 'Google Maps for graves' w/i five years enabling family historians to search for burial records & locations in an online database -https://t.co/4xn3jpS377 #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics ~— Open Band (Berkeley) (@TheOpenBand) March 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForArchaeology?src=hashtag_click .
I haven't found MIT's GM CEO Mary Teresa Makela Barra here again from today in the MIT video recording yet.

Were any of you able to hear GM's CEO Mary Teresa Makela Barra with MIT President Rafael Reif here early - https://solve.mit.edu/events/solve-at-mit-2020 - although these two speakers don't appear to be available in video recording at this point after their conversation. However Yo-Yo Ma begins here after the recording at 1:06:20.
Your research is inspiring, Mark. Thanks for sharing. (And greetings, Bruce and Jen!)
warm regards, Scott

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Continuing from - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/great-horned-owl-bubo-virginianus-swiss.html ...

Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus): Swiss protests again Coronavirus lies? - "Hundreds of demonstrators are calling for the Corona lie to be clarified and are being fined in many places - they go unpunished in Zurich" * * * Siddartha - a very different mediascape in newspapers - and with regard to all the fear that I think the American newspaper press has generated * Some newspapers - https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/news.html#record - in non-English languages to try out Google Translate with ... and here are ones in French * Regarding our electric bicycle conversation, I also searched on "best electric bicycle 2020" * Having bicycle ridden with the ZAP Motor from around 1994-1999 in SF and if battery life improves dramatically, another ZAP motor could be more sensible than an improved Copenhagen wheel! * A week-long bike trip with an electric bicycle - if it made the heavy bicycling easy? :) (and stay in youth hostels * * * Teaching and learning bagpiping - Scottish small piping * Excellent and traditional March, Strathspey and Reel Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 2 of 8 * Would like to bring this radiance into my piping too, whether it be in the series of notes, or how I appear * * * Searched on "10 short stories you'd like the most" and found these GREAT resources

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Pin (Sid), Tym (and All),

My mother helpfully suggested this article yesterday:

Annals of Medicine
May 11, 2020 Issue
"Why Weren’t We Ready for the Coronavirus?
The U.S. has fared worse than other countries not because it lacked information or funding but because it failed to learn the lessons of the last outbreaks."
By David Quammen
May 4, 2020
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/why-werent-we-ready-for-the-coronavirus

I blogged a bit about this yesterday - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/great-horned-owl-bubo-virginianus-swiss.html - with much more about the coronavirus pandemic in about 50 blog posts in recent months, all in the 'genes' label - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes - in my blog.

My mother interestingly grew up across the street from David Quammen in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Have your read this? It's in audio as well, Pin and All.

Tym, here's an article (use Google Translate) on Saudi Arabia and how things have changed so much with the coronavirus pandemic for oil producing states:

"Saudi Arabia gets the money from the weak"
https://www.welt.de/finanzen/article207891497/Mehrwertsteuer-verdreifacht-Saudi-Arabien-holt-sich-das-Geld-bei-den-Schwachen.html

Since Saudis bought great numbers of Treasury Bonds, and may be doing much less now in this changed situation, am wondering what role a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks - and even distributed via UBI experiments to some high % of 7.5 billion people on the planet - could play a role in Saudi Arabia even? See - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/vernal-hanging-parrot-stanford-law.html in the UBI label -https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI - in blog. Regarding this blog post, could the Stanford Law CodeX Blockchain group help to facilitate the Stanford created "Mine Pi' cryptocurrency in some number of ~200 countries and in their official languages, I wonder?

Regards,
Scotty
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/genes -

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Scott

Thank you for your mail. I enjoyed reading the New Yorker article. I subscribe to New Yorker but must have failed to read it before.

Mmazumdar

Sent from my iPhone

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Thanks so much for your email, Mr. Mazumdar!

With best regards, Scott
P.S.
Here's a related idea for
#AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 billion people on planet -
https://twitter.com/hashtag/AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords?src=hashtag_click.
It would be great if in the next global epidemic if people could get tested and this information stream into their electronic medical record, for rapid response, tracking, testing, and isolation and regarding - in their language:

e.g.
Google - Apple Contact Tracing https://forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2...
-https://apple.com/covid19/contacttracing
-https://wired.com/story/apple-google-contact-tracing-strengths-weaknesses/amp for 7.5 billion people w #UBIexperiments for jobless, beginning with speakers of all 7,117 living languages & in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ~

Google - Apple Contact Tracing https://t.co/BkQTHUotrb
-https://t.co/JsIDlGSWuo
-https://t.co/0G7Z97grJM for 7.5 billion people w #UBIexperiments for jobless, beginning with speakers of all 7,117 living languages & in #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords https://t.co/vPfIrX8DnH ~ https://t.co/6j2GwA9SMY— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) April 21, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1252646043017023489?s=20

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Pin,

For your interest in HHS, and from the Swedish newspaper "Dagens Nyheter" (meaning "Today's News" - https://translate.google.com/ :)

Good news: it looks like Icelands' got this global epidemic under control:
"Iceland close to eradicate corona virus through mass testing: "We don't have much left" " (from Google Translate)
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/island-nara-att-utrota-coronaviruset-via-masstestning-vi-har-inte-sa-mycket-kvar/

I'm not sure if one could read this as Swedish humor :)

"Live. WHO warns against fast road to flock immunity"
https://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/det-nya-coronaviruset-folj-utvecklingen-live-/

Cheers, Scott
For your interest today, Yo Yo Ma will also be playing at this free online MIT Media Lab event at 2:45 pm ET, 11:45 am PT:

This open MIT conference today at 2:45 pm ET features Mary Teresa Makela Barra the CEO of GM and the president of MIT Rafael Reif (who WUaS just emailed, and as a consequence WUaS/ I video conferenced for 30 minutes with the MIT VP /head in the Office of Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma). Also, Mary's on the Board of Stanford.

Here's the Solve at MIT 2020 Closing Plenary Livestream -

At 2:45pm on 5/12, the @SolveMIT closing plenary will feature a fireside chat between MIT President L. Rafael Reif and Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO of General Motors; a performance from cellist Yo-Yo Ma; and the Solve Investor Showcase! https://t.co/CiLlv4tbS2— MIT Media Lab (@medialab) May 11, 2020

https://twitter.com/medialab/status/1259976581772120064?s=20

I just registered for free, and it looks interesting.

Sincerely, Scott
@scottmacleod

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Ma,

Came across this cow & calf in photo at dusk on my walk today, just before a very nice 3-way lookout on a saddle ... nice to see (and the rusty basin is to their left up a hill). After a long uphill walk on nice ecenibg, turned around here. What is cow consciousness, I've been asking myself.

They're aware, and am not sure how much they remember, and herd connection seems to be part of their 'thereness' - as consciousness. Their cattle consciousness is different from bat consciousness, and dog consciousness for ex. Not clear how a scientist would characterize their consciousness (how in their brains bodymind what we could call cobsciousness finds form) ...or if Cows could talk, how they would characterize it from the 'inside.' (Or how I'd characterize this ...) ... so am not sure how to bring the 3rd and 1st person or bodymind (re cows) accounts together, but I'd suggest cow consciousness has parallels with human consciousness.

Their awareness as consciousness is in their vision & other senses - and somehow in cow cognition - but living in fields, and eating grass, and with no language, their consciousness seems staid ... and also not language-centric. What is cow consciousness further, I wonder ... and as a way to think about human consciousness ?

:) And how to explore too connecting with ... ? :)

Love, Scott

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Ma,

In some ways I'm asking 'what is consciousness?' and 'how does consciousness work, biologically, too?' (but not really engaging Yoga perspectives very much at all).

Love, Scott

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http://scottmacleod.com/yoga.htm

San Francisco Bay Area - East Bay Hills

415 480 4577
yogamacflower@gmail.com

World University and Schoo's wiki, 'Yoga,' subject page - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Yoga :) - with an invitation to 'edit this page' and explore yoga.

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What a lovely image at dusk.

I think I’m seeing more during this pandemic; the little things. The details.

Have a good day.

Love, Ma

Cow and Calf at dusk

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Thanks, Ma, - albeit a little difficult to see given low light levels ... so glad you're seeing things anew, and more, in this pandemic ... and details ... So, further, in the asking about cattle awareness or consciousness ...

Am asking what is "cattle consciousness" ... that is, what is it like to be a cattle / cow? Perhaps this means, per your email, what is it like to see like a cattle (singular) and re the details that a cattle might see with awareness and consciousness - both objectively and subjectively (which like the impossibility, at this time, of reconciling the 1st and 3rd person accounts linguistically for humans - or 1st and 3rd bodymind in the case of a cattle, male or female) ... or bringing together a scientific view of a cattle's consciousness with a 'personal' or better 'cattle-centric' account what they are aware of ... (In writing this, am observing newly some linguistic challenges too in exploring these questions philosophically in words :)

Consciousness, philosophically - western, is a mystery ... and re Yoga it's about a kind of oneness with the Seer, big S ... a very different account and contextualizing of ideas and experiences :)

'Consciousness easy and hard problems' (see below, and re Chalmers) - and "What is it like to be a bat?" essay inform some of these questions ... but it's fascinating per your observation that we're seeing new details during this pandemic ... and how would this work regarding becoming conscious in new ways?

Love, Scott
'consciousness easy and hard problems'

Hard problem of consciousness
"The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining why and how sentient organisms have qualia [note 1] or phenomenal experiences—how and why it is that some internal states are subjective, felt states, such as heat or pain, rather than merely nonsubjective, unfelt states, as in a thermostat or a toaster.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness

Easy problem of consciousness
" "easy problems" of explaining the ability to discriminate, integrate information, report mental states, focus attention, and so forth.[4] Easy problems are (relatively) easy because all that is required for their solution is to specify a mechanism that can perform the function.[4]"

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Hi Ma,

Are you having a good day?

Pretty good here ...

Good to have emailed President Marcia McNutt of the National Academy of Sciences, Harvard/MIT Prof of Genetics' George Church, and about 30 great science panelists from the weekend - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/galaxy-thank-you-for-your-extraordinary.html?m=0 -

Love, Scott
Cow & calf here, and more here :) -
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/red-trillium-cow-and-calf-what-is-cow.html?m=0 -

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Ma, (and Annie),

Saw 1 cow and a large calf I think ... on a beautiful walk earlier 2 days ago.

Saw 2 cows on hillside, and 2 calves yesterday close by on main dirt road through "Indian Valley" to my east. One calf may have been a bull -after I had walked past it, it seemed to lower its head and take some steps toward me (in a kind of 'pre-charge' position :). I didn't have on a red bandana (coronavirus mask, - only a blue one, which is good against dust too) to take off, and train it to be a bull in a Spanish bullfight when it got bigger :) (am not talking about Ferdinand the Bull here:).

Annie, do young bull calves have charging behavior in their genes? How do male and female calves compare?

I also found a 2nd large tick on me yesterday. I feel them moving & pull them off, unlike the tiny ticks on Cuttyhunk, which are tiny. (I think I've seen 3 ticks in total on mr here in 13 years, and none of them have burrowed into me so far).

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The one to fear if you are looking at mom and her babe is the mom...esp if calf is just newborn. Protective instincts kick in. The calf if he had his head down and coming toward you was probably just curious, but often the calf will approach something and that will worry the mom.
Ribs are healing, but it will be a long time before I forget about them, and my tidal volume may be permanently decreased

>>>>>> > @HarbinBook "The 1st batch of videos, already on YouTube, takes viewers wearing VR headsets to 5 inns" > #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarth ~

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What happened to your ribs? And what happened re loss of tidal volume? Sorry to hear you might have been injured.
And thanks for your insights into cattle, and fearing moms around their very young esp. Found:

Angry Cow protecting newborn calf

https://youtu.be/xNCB4tNzhm0

Tagging a calf with a mad momma cow

https://youtu.be/grVPzyo_z8g

Am gradually learning cow psychology ... cows are curious - how interesting! (In what ways does this parallel human curiosity, and how could it have have evolved?:) Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Exploring the idea of heading to the Rainbow Gathering (if it happens) possibly in Idaho (if there) in the first week of July -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/rainbow-lorikeet-looks-like-us-rainbow.html

Questions of the body - like regarding your ribs (and social theory-wise, or philosophy / thinking wise) - and Yoga (re the email address you replied to are interesting to me), - and even regarding (Brown and related) family questions, and health come to mind; am appreciating the health benefits of Yoga asana, and would like to introduce the benefits of Yoga asana to my possible kids - perhaps ... http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html (yet perhaps further re-construed with kids in mind, and for the benefits of kids) - but also with perhaps slightly different ideas than in much of (Indian) Yoga philosophy, but which Yoga philosophy in America is very curious .

Fond regards, Scotty

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Ann, thanks for your thoughts and words about cows and their calves. Regarding Yoga, and even science with philosophy, this just came into my WUaS email box, and re breathing and technologies for measuring this and regarding the brain too -

"Remote, Automated, and MRI-Compatible Administration of Interoceptive Inspiratory Resistive Loading"

Sebastian W. Rieger, Klaas Enno Stephan & Olivia K. Harrison
https://philpapers.org/rec/RIERAA-2
then found https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.09.869511v1

Will we be able to do such research from home? With home MRIs even? (WUaS students too ... and while visiting a realistic virtual Harbin even, and similar?)

Scotty

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Annie,

Your tidal breathing reference, and my sending you that science paper on brain research, breathing, MRIs and inspiratory processes ... and regarding Yoga too, brings me back to thinking about how breathing works in teaching Yoga, and also increasing one's respiratory processes, through, in a sense, exercises ... pranayama, and asana ...
Yoga heads re consciousness or awareness questions into the now, and breathing is a way to observe in a sense one's calm mind, or even self, directly ... different from studying these processes science-wise.
Thanks again for mentioning cows and calves - and your thinking re being careful around a mama cow who's calf could be at risk.
Warm regards, ScottyMay blog today about some of this :)

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M, May 11, 2020Hi Ma & Ann,

Cows and calves are getting wet today since we're having a pretty steady rain now (somewhat unusually).

May head out with waterproof shoes (I've basically worn Birkenstocks every day this past winter amazingly) and a raincoat, - or do some gentle inverted Yoga poses to bring some activity / opening into my upper body. :) Often Yoga poses have beneficial neurophysiological effects paralleling walking, partly thanks to the movement. I'm preferring walking much these days, although I do a few sitting yoga poses first thing daily (because they're enjoyable).

Variations on these daily:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_position

How are you both doing? And what's the weather like on the ranch? Seeking a partner here to begin a family ... and there's a folk philosophy logic saying - if it looks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it must be a duck ... Moi & ? :)

Warmly, Scott

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Am appreciating how raga heads in some of these directions as well. Ah, India! :)

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Re Cow and calf, see too:

Red trillium: Cow and calf - What is cow consciousness? or cattle awareness? * * * Playing the Scottish small pipes, I'd like to be a kind of space ship that soars down from the atmosphere and with a series of tones transports you the listener to another world. :) * * * Dark Hollow Woods' Park, PA - adding flowers and photos to Google Maps together too which is the idea of ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy * I added a photo of the Harbin Hot Springs' gate house here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg (accessible from ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~) ... and in many ways, this Harvard transcription idea is very related https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/red-trillium-cow-and-calf-what-is-cow.html

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawksbill_sea_turtle
https://www.marineinsight.com/environment/10-endangered-ocean-species-and-marine-animals/

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May 12, 2020

Nembrotha aurea (Nudibranch): Seems like #Coronavirus pandemic has given us back our TIME from the state (Swiss French - use Google Translate in Chrome) - Consuming online newly in revolutionary way! Create a Stanford ethos from '60s-now @WorldUnivAndSch i

Seems like #Coronavirus pandemic has given us back our TIME from the state https://www.letemps.ch/economie/coronavirus-ne-changera-forcement-facon-consommer (Swiss French - use Google Translate in Chrome) Consuming online newly in revolutionary way! Create a Stanford ethos from '60s-now @WorldUnivAndSch is fascinating Q. John Hennessy, Chair of Alphabet, could help! :)

Seems like #Coronavirus pandemic has given us back our TIME from the state https://t.co/YpNd4dL2gK (Swiss French) Consuming online newly in revolutionary way! Create a Stanford ethos from '60s-now @WorldUnivAndSch is fascinating Q. John Hennessy, Chair of Alphabet, could help! :)— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) May 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1260342200136695808?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1260344762491482112?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1260369510793535488?s=20

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... re consumption and production in social theory, as well as re the profound questioning of the American consumerism in the 1960s ...

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Seems like #Coronavirus pandemic has given us back our TIME from the state https://www.letemps.ch/economie/coron... Swiss French @sgkmacleod Consuming online newly in revolutionary way! Create a Stanford ethos from '60s-now at WUaS is fascinating Q. John Hennessy, Chair of Alphabet, could help!:)

Seems like #Coronavirus pandemic has given us back our TIME from the state https://t.co/5zluQbBvFr Swiss French @sgkmacleod Consuming online newly in revolutionary way! Create a Stanford ethos from '60s-now at WUaS is fascinating Q. John Hennessy, Chair of Alphabet, could help!:)— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1260346081226797056?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1260369381885743104?s=20

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Appreciating Anthony Fauci MD's observations:

Watch highlights from Dr. Anthony Fauci's Senate testimony

https://youtu.be/3zDyl2EUTAo

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At about the 1:01:00 hour mark -

#faucitestifies #dranthonyfaucitestifies #faucilive
LIVE: Dr. Anthony Fauci, CDC Dir. Dr. Robert Redfield Testify At Senate Hearing On Coronavirus

https://youtu.be/FeXf9K0wjx0

1:04:00
Admiral Giroir

"pooling samples" of students at different times

Dr. Fauci at 1:06:00 again

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Anthony Fauci MDVideo
Fauci urges cities, states to be prepared to deal with increase in COVID-19 cases as economy reopens
More COVID-19 infections are inevitable as people again start gathering, but how prepared communities are to stamp out those sparks will determine how bad the rebound is, Anthony Fauci told the senators.https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/12/business/fauci-set-testify-before-senate-committee-warn-needless-suffering-death/
*Here’s what Fauci said about college students returning to campus in the fall
“Even at the top speed we’re going, we don’t see a vaccine playing in the ability of individuals to get back to school this term.”https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/12/nation/heres-what-fauci-said-about-college-students-returning-campus-fall/

*Anthony Fauci:
Doctor Fauci disagrees
The US epidemiologist Anthony Fauci is considered the voice of reason in the White House. Now he's supposed to testify about the government's corona mismanagement - a tightrope act.https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2020-05/anthony-fauci-corona-berater-donald-trump-krisenmanagement-usa

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If 80% of Americans Wore Masks, COVID-19 Infections Would Plummet, New Study Says
There’s compelling evidence that Japan, Hong Kong, and other East Asian locales are doing it right and we should really, truly mask up—fast.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/masks-covid-19-infections-would-plummet-new-study-says

https://t.co/bm75HaqodT— george church (@geochurch) May 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1260272493245407232?s=20

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Laughing into the next film
Virtual shortfilms Oberhausen
Virtuelle Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Lächelnd in den nächsten Film
Ein Schmetterling vor psychedelisch gefärbtem Hintergrund
https://taz.de/Virtuelle-Kurzfilmtage-Oberhausen/!5681873/
Fergus Carmichael's ‘Train’
https://vimeo.com/66522856
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Film ~

Laughing into the next film
Virtual shortfilms Oberhausen
Virtuelle Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Lächelnd in den nächsten Film
Ein Schmetterling vor psychedelisch gefärbtem Hintergrundhttps://t.co/L46KKg1zYa
Fergus Carmichael, ‘Train’https://t.co/p0jdYvaQNj https://t.co/pRciW7H2eX~— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) May 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1260300664472662016?s=20

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Virtuelle Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Lächelnd in den nächsten Film
Laughing into the next film
Virtual shortfilms Oberhausen
Ein Schmetterling vor psychedelisch gefärbtem Hintergrund
https://taz.de/Virtuelle-Kurzfilmtage...
Fergus Carmichael, ‘Train’
https://vimeo.com/66522856
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Film~

Virtuelle Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Lächelnd in den nächsten Film
Laughing into the next film
Virtual shortfilms Oberhausen
Ein Schmetterling vor psychedelisch gefärbtem Hintergrundhttps://t.co/j7bK8Nc9vV
Fergus Carmichael, ‘Train’https://t.co/VO5bDrLej1 https://t.co/y9F48UQFHF~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) May 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1260300844060180480?s=20

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Stanford University's Hoover Institute:
Edward Lazear and Niall Ferguson: COVID-19: Today’s Historic Jobs Report
interview with Edward Paul Lazear, Niall Ferguson
Friday, May 8, 2020
https://www.hoover.org/research/edward-lazear-and-niall-ferguson-covid-19-todays-historic-jobs-report

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Stanford Law SVDX newly online ...

WEBINAR: Why Cybercriminals Love WFH and What Boards Should Do About ItMonday, May 11, 202013:00 14:00https://www.svdx.org/calendar/2020/5/11/webinar-duty-of-care-now-and-forevermore-addressing-cybersecurity-and-privacy-for-a-new-normal

My question from the text chat:

Thank you, Antony! Short question: What are the cybersecurity risks in cryptocurrency for Board members per your or Orrick’s thinking? Thank you. Long version: Here’s a question on the horizon: what’s your or Orrick’s view of the cybersecurity risks emergent in a potential single cryptocurrency in all ~200 countries backed by some number of central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 countries)?; I follow MIT Digital Currency Initiative Director Neha Narula in this

If you're not getting the @mitDCI quarterly newsletter, you might want to sign up. Q1 2020 included the work we're doing to monitor and measure the security of proof-of-work!https://t.co/k1hKfoeomH— Neha Narula (@neha) May 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/neha/status/1258795026206859269?s=20
- but also realize that the Stanford-created “Mine Pi” cryptocurrency may become a significant digital currency player. What would you recommend Board members do, hypothetically, if their company was faced with a question of adopting a new single cryptocurrency, with a whole set of cybersecurity risks, for example? Thank you, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)

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Dear Tony,
Thank you again! In a brainstorming way, am curious about both the coding of a single cryptocurrency - in Wikidata's 300 languages (Wikipedia's 'backend'), then for speakers of all 7,117 known living languages (a goal of MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch), then, conceptually, for all 7.5 billion people, each a Wikidata Q-item # or Pin# and then even distributed via UBI experiments (where CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch, of which I'm the founder, donated itself to Wikidata for co-development in 2015).And how would, hypothetically, and risk-wise, a Stanford-coded 'Mine Pi' could come to be adopted by some number of ~200 countries' banks. And in what ways could MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch's planned online law schools' faculty - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School - help to code for this ... a trillion$+ prospect? ... and possibly even listed on the emergent Silicon Valley's long term stock market (which has passed one SEC phase)?
I think the MIT DCI will have worked out the technical and security issues, and some main economic questions, - by the time some nation states' central banks would be ready to adopt it, like the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (post Euro).
When might be some good times to talk? Before or after WUaS Monthly Business Meeting this Saturday? Looking forward to talking about risk questions per your great Stanford Law SVDX session yesterday. (FYI, I'm in communication currently about some of this with both MIT re - http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html?view=sidebar - and Alphabet Chairman John Hennessy, and former President of Stanford, whom I met one of the first times in a Stanford Law SVDX meeting).
Best,
Scott
PSHere's a related brainstorming version of the above, with #hashtags:Actual >Virtual >#WUaSBlockchainLedger >#SingleCryptocurrency like #PiCryptocurrency #MinePi > mining space re heavy industries with robotics >ONE realistic virtual earth /universe for everything> https://twitter.com/akrv1/status/1237908120787189761?s=20 #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse ~

Actual >Virtual >#WUaSBlockchainLedger >#SingleCryptocurrency like #PiCryptocurrency #MinePi > mining space re heavy industries with robotics >ONE realistic virtual earth /universe for everything> https://t.co/AO6HPZNkrp #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse ~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) March 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1240142758553309193?s=20PPSFor your interest today, Yo Yo Ma will also be playing at this free online MIT Media Lab event at 2:45 pm ET, 11:45 am PT:

This open MIT conference today at 2:45 pm ET features Mary Teresa Makela Barra the CEO of GM and the president of MIT Rafael Reif (who WUaS just emailed, and as a consequence WUaS/ I videoconferenced for 30 minutes with the MIT VP /head in the Office of Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma). Also, Mary's on the Board of Stanford.

Here's the Solve at MIT 2020 Closing Plenary Livestream -
https://twitter.com/medialab/status/1259976581772120064?s=20

I just registered for free, and it looks interesting.

Sincerely, Scott
@scottmacleod

Sooo much resources to mine.
Fully autonomous, Heavy industries will be outside Earth.pic.twitter.com/cDeeUUEP1P— Aswin (@akrv1) March 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/akrv1/status/1237908120787189761?s=20

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Nembrotha aurea (Nudibranch): Seems like #Coronavirus pandemic has given us back our TIME from the state (Swiss French - use Google Translate in Chrome) Consuming online newly in revolutionary way! Create a Stanford ethos from '60s-now @WorldUnivAndSch is

Seems like #Coronavirus pandemic has given us back our TIME from the state https://t.co/YpNd4dL2gK (Swiss French) Consuming online newly in revolutionary way! Create a Stanford ethos from '60s-now @WorldUnivAndSch is fascinating Q. John Hennessy, Chair of Alphabet, could help! :)— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) May 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1260342200136695808?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1260344762491482112?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1260369510793535488?s=20

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Seems like #Coronavirus pandemic has given us back our TIME from the state https://www.letemps.ch/economie/coron... Swiss French @sgkmacleod Consuming online newly in revolutionary way! Create a Stanford ethos from '60s-now at WUaS is fascinating Q. John Hennessy, Chair of Alphabet, could help!:)

Seems like #Coronavirus pandemic has given us back our TIME from the state https://t.co/5zluQbBvFr Swiss French @sgkmacleod Consuming online newly in revolutionary way! Create a Stanford ethos from '60s-now at WUaS is fascinating Q. John Hennessy, Chair of Alphabet, could help!:)— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) May 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1260346081226797056?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1260369381885743104?s=20

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Laughing into the next film
Virtual shortfilms Oberhausen
Virtuelle Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Lächelnd in den nächsten Film
Ein Schmetterling vor psychedelisch gefärbtem Hintergrund
https://taz.de/Virtuelle-Kurzfilmtage-Oberhausen/!5681873/
Fergus Carmichael's ‘Train’
https://vimeo.com/66522856
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Film ~

Laughing into the next film
Virtual shortfilms Oberhausen
Virtuelle Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Lächelnd in den nächsten Film
Ein Schmetterling vor psychedelisch gefärbtem Hintergrundhttps://t.co/L46KKg1zYa
Fergus Carmichael, ‘Train’https://t.co/p0jdYvaQNj https://t.co/pRciW7H2eX~— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) May 12, 2020

Virtuelle Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Lächelnd in den nächsten Film
Laughing into the next film
Virtual shortfilms Oberhausen
Ein Schmetterling vor psychedelisch gefärbtem Hintergrundhttps://t.co/j7bK8Nc9vV
Fergus Carmichael, ‘Train’https://t.co/VO5bDrLej1 https://t.co/y9F48UQFHF~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) May 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1260300844060180480?s=20

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If 80% of Americans Wore Masks, COVID-19 Infections Would Plummet, New Study Says
There’s compelling evidence that Japan, Hong Kong, and other East Asian locales are doing it right and we should really, truly mask up—fast.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/masks-covid-19-infections-would-plummet-new-study-says

https://t.co/bm75HaqodT— george church (@geochurch) May 12, 2020

https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1260272493245407232?s=20

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Stanford University's Hoover Institute:
Edward Lazear and Niall Ferguson: COVID-19: Today’s Historic Jobs Report
interview with Edward Paul Lazear, Niall Ferguson
Friday, May 8, 2020
https://www.hoover.org/research/edward-lazear-and-niall-ferguson-covid-19-todays-historic-jobs-report

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Stanford Law SVDX newly online ...

WEBINAR: Why Cybercriminals Love WFH and What Boards Should Do About ItMonday, May 11, 202013:00 14:00https://www.svdx.org/calendar/2020/5/11/webinar-duty-of-care-now-and-forevermore-addressing-cybersecurity-and-privacy-for-a-new-normal

My question from the text chat:

Thank you, Antony! Short question: What are the cybersecurity risks in cryptocurrency for Board members per your or Orrick’s thinking? Thank you. Long version: Here’s a question on the horizon: what’s your or Orrick’s view of the cybersecurity risks emergent in a potential single cryptocurrency in all ~200 countries backed by some number of central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 countries)?; I follow MIT Digital Currency Initiative Director Neha Narula in this

If you're not getting the @mitDCI quarterly newsletter, you might want to sign up. Q1 2020 included the work we're doing to monitor and measure the security of proof-of-work!https://t.co/k1hKfoeomH— Neha Narula (@neha) May 8, 2020

Actual >Virtual >#WUaSBlockchainLedger >#SingleCryptocurrency like #PiCryptocurrency #MinePi > mining space re heavy industries with robotics >ONE realistic virtual earth /universe for everything> https://t.co/AO6HPZNkrp #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualUniverse ~— Languages-World Univ (@sgkmacleod) March 18, 2020

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1240142758553309193?s=20
PPSFor your interest today, Yo Yo Ma will also be playing at this free online MIT Media Lab event at 2:45 pm ET, 11:45 am PT:

This open MIT conference today at 2:45 pm ET features Mary Teresa Makela Barra the CEO of GM and the president of MIT Rafael Reif (who WUaS just emailed, and as a consequence WUaS/ I videoconferenced for 30 minutes with the MIT VP /head in the Office of Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma). Also, Mary's on the Board of Stanford.

Here's the Solve at MIT 2020 Closing Plenary Livestream -
https://twitter.com/medialab/status/1259976581772120064?s=20

I just registered for free, and it looks interesting.

Sincerely, Scott
@scottmacleod

Sooo much resources to mine.
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May 11, 2020

Rainbow lorikeet: Looks like the US Rainbow Gathering could be in Idaho this year July 1-8 ... * * * Thanks, Rory MacLean (author of "The Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail From Istanbul to India" and much else - https://rorymaclean.com/hippie-trail/)! * * Se

Looks like the US Rainbow Gathering could be in Idaho this year July 1-8 ... https://idaho2020gathering.blogspot.com/p/the-dates.html ... https://www.welcomehome.org ... am appreciative that Switzerland reported 100s of Demonstrators against Corona Lies yesterday, and which is the first item in my blog post from yesterday http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/great-horned-owl-bubo-virginianus-swiss.html ...(I realize Germany's protests may have been bigger in recent weeks, if they've been occurring). But am hypothesizing that the coronavirus pandemic 'shelter at home except for essential needs' (in CA and around the world) directives may have addressed other issues in all ~200 nation states; see, the "5 Hypothetical News" items at bottom here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/himalyan-monal-how-are-harbin-hot.html, and the "genes" label posts in recent 2 months.
Cheers, Scott

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Thanks, Rory MacLean (author of "The Magic Bus: On the Hippie Trail From Istanbul to India" and much else - https://rorymaclean.com/hippie-trail/)!
Greetings from the SF Bay Area. I'd like to introduce you to Peter Bothe, in Bremen, since you're in Berlin. (Maybe we could explore, Rory, you becoming a head of Canada World Univ & Sch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Canada in English, French and First Nations' languages esp., but for free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric degrees in official languages, just as Peter may become a head of Germany World Univ & Sch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Germany ; I'll mention Peter in my daily blog post - today's).
Seeking to create some of the traveling you're describing in a realistic virtual earth for hiking and traveling - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking?src=hashtag_click- think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth and for virtual travel in a digital mask in the coronavirus pandemic. And thinking about facilitating even a Realistic Virtual Earth for History - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click - so we'd be able to go on some versions of the Hippie Trail in the 1960s & 70s (http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/hippie%20trail).For example, in 2017 or 2012, visit Harbin gate here virtually ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ & "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, CA, & "amble" around the streets there (accessible from http://bit.ly/HarbinBook) A #RealisticVirtualHarbin for soaking too :) Add PHOTOs to wiki #RealisticVirtualEARTH ~

visit Harbin gate here virtually ~ https://t.co/8F7i8x7dSD ~ & "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, CA, & "amble" around the streets there (accessible from https://t.co/n8B2vpYOY5) A #RealisticVirtualHarbin for soaking too :) Add PHOTOs to wiki #RealisticVirtualEARTH ~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) January 8, 2019

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1082723224071229441?s=20

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Scott MacLeod's Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbinby Scott MacLeodsgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.orgForeword by Nelson H.H. GraburnUC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropologyhttp://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.htmlAcademic Press at World University and Schoolhttp://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
rainbow line

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Scott MacLeod's Naked Harbin Ethnography:
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html
Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
rainbow line

*And you might be interested too in
Today's World Univ & Sch LiveStream (5/11/20) & letter to MIT President Reif, which lead to a 30 minute talk recently w head in MIT Office for Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma: https://youtu.be/XYWHeG434xw(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/)https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html -- http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch - @WUaSPress ~
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1259898089101393925?s=20 https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1259898447928295427?s=20

Today's WUaS LiveStream (5/11/20) & letter to MIT President Reif, which lead to a 30 minute talk recently w Sanjay Sarma in MIT Office for Digital Learning: https://youtu.be/XYWHeG434xw(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/)https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html -- http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch - @WorldUnivAndSch ~
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1259898675712557063?s=20 https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1259899173479972873?s=20
Cheers, Scotthippie trail blog label - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/sea... -- https://www.amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity -

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:43 AM Rory Maclean <wander@rorymaclean.com> wrote:

Coming Down to Earth How are you doing? The pandemic has touched so many of our lives. I hope that you and yours have suffered nothing more than the inconvenience of the lockdown, but of course that’s not the case for all of us.
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Over these homebound weeks, I’ve been looking out of my study window. Beyond the horizon I've imagined launching myself on far flung journeys: trekking Nepal’s high Annapurna trail, savouring spicy breakfast mohinga in rural Burma or paddling a canoe across the dark mirror of a Canadian lake and leaving a trail of twisting whirlpools in my wake. In the coming months, travel restrictions will be eased — both around the block as well as across the continents — and within a year the virologists should have found a Covid-19 vaccine. But there will be more frightening viruses in the coming years, and further epidemics, hence to my mind our future behaviour will change — will need to change — to confront a greater danger.
All my life I have been moved by aeroplanes. At four months old a silver-bellied, three-finned Super Constellation flew me from Vancouver, where I was born, to Toronto, where we would live. A year later I crossed the Atlantic on my mother’s lap in a Bristol Britannia Whispering Giant, the first commercial aircraft to fly non-stop between America and Europe. When I was eight my father took me to Washington DC on a TCA Viscount to gaze at the Wright Brother’s Kitty Hawk Flyer. The Flyer’s historic hop -- man’s first powered, heavier-than-air flight -- had lasted 12 seconds. At twelve years old I shivered above the Arctic in a breezy DC-3. At thirteen I laughed out loud when a float plane lifted me up in a rainbow of spray from the Muskoka lakes. In 1967 I drank my first glass of wine on my first Big Jet, a BOAC Boeing 707, then fell in love with my first stewardess. She wore white gloves, a waisted navy uniform and winged pill box hat.
When I moved to Europe I began to catch aircraft like buses. Twice a year I was carried home by Freddie Laker, PEOPLExpress and on the maiden Virgin Atlantic New York flight. Two dozen times I rattled down the Berlin Air Corridor at 10,000 feet, far below the PanAm 737’s ideal cruising altitude but within range of Soviet anti-aircraft guns. I lost an engine above Rangoon, crossed the Pacific on bankrupt Continental and once had a Qantas jumbo -- designed for 456 passengers -- all to myself (but only from Melbourne to Sydney). I lost a lover in LAX and found another at London Gatwick. My first travel story won a competition and a flight on Concorde, delivering me to JFK an hour before I’d left Heathrow. Above Seattle I dined on ‘a collation of smoked salmon, sevruga caviar and prawn sushi’ and brown-bagged it on an Ilyushin 86 in an ice storm near Minsk. And every aircraft I boarded, from a Fairchilds Pilgrim to the Airbus A380, across tropical tarmac or cattle-like through a docking bay, thrilled me: the click of the seat belt, the start of engines, the surge of power, the hurtle down the runway, the anticipation of the miracle. I have been lucky enough to live through a golden age of flight, the aeroplane lifting me body and soul, enabling me to become a travel writer. It let me feel at home in Toronto, London, Berlin and so many places in-between (on Crete I built my own flying machine, as pictured). Above all, aeroplanes taught me that much more links us than separates us. In the back row of a Boeing I learned that there are no island nations.
Now in our changing age, I realise that we need to limit long-haul air travel while at the same time resisting the temptation to be insular. For as frightening as is the pandemic, it is part of the greater emergency. Both Covid-19 and the climate crisis arise from humanity's callous exploitation of the world. Neither respects national borders. Our control of nature — on which modern life depends — has been exposed as tenuous and fragile. Future, truly catastrophic pandemics, zoonotic mutations and extended stages of global warming will be mitigated only if we can devise a new multilateralism. We need to work together. We need to resist the seduction of simplistic, phobic nationalism so as to ensure that post-Covid-19 society is reordered for the common good.
For me, this is our post-pandemic future. This is our new, coming-down-to-earth responsibility, with the realisation that our security at home depends on cooperation abroad. So I’ll start — once the lockdown lifts — by curtailing my time at 20,000 feet. I accept that I’ll never reach many of my fancied, far afield destinations. You?
Today we all need something to lift our spirits, if not our bodies. If you fancy 28 minutes of pre-pandemic globe-trotting jollity, do check out my just-posted Spectator “Table Talk” podcast on dining on dynamited-fish with a Burmese drug lord, singing a duet with David Bowie in a Berlin lavatory, and how my mother was the inspiration for Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny.
In this “Desert Island Dishes” podcast, I also chat about Russia’s chicken tsar and the food behind the researching and writing of Pravda Ha Ha (now shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award and chosen as a Travel Book of the Year by the Financial Times). I am sorry not to be able to talk about the book in person, as Hay, Edinburgh and many other summer festivals have been cancelled. But in September I will be at the Berlin International Book Festival.
In advance of that, in an attempt to stay in touch with writers and readers at home and abroad, I’ve been writing guest blogs for others’ newsletters and contributed to a Writers’ Way anthology. I’ve drafted the synopsis for the next book. I’ve also become an Arvon 1-1 tutor offering a one-to-one live conversation via Zoom or Skype. At the same time I’m yet to decide whether or not to go ahead with my @WriteInDorset weekend workshop on 20 / 21 June 2020. I haven’t advertised it and so numbers are rather low, and of course we don’t know yet what will be permitted. Hence if you are interested in joining me for two days of tutorials, discussions and exercises — with delicious lunches conjured up by my wife Katrin from local produce (and appropriate social distancing measures) — please drop me a line as soon as possible. Otherwise — due to the lockdown’s unknown exit date — I may have to reschedule it for the autumn. Full details can be found here.
As ever, please don’t hesitate to drop me a line and now, more than ever, take care of yourself.
Rory
www.rorymaclean.com
p.s. if you — like me — are finding it difficult to maintain concentration at the moment, Pravda Ha Ha is also available as an audio book — read by me — at Audible.

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Today's WUaS LiveStream

Here's today's WUaS LiveStream, as well as the letter to MIT President Rafael Reif, which lead to a 30 minute talk recently with a head in the MIT Office for Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma:

WUaS LiveStream M, May 11, 2020 - MIT collaborations as Harvard & MIT go online?
https://youtu.be/XYWHeG434xw
(available from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/)

WUaS LiveStream M, May 11, 2020 - MIT collaborations as Harvard & MIT go online?
due to this coronavirus pandemic

Dear MIT President Rafael Reif - Possible collaboration ideas between MIT and CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School, planned in ~200 countries' official / main languages, and in all 7,117 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning.
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html -

Scott
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/live
- http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch

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WUaS LiveStream M, May 11, 2020 - MIT collaborations as Harvard & MIT go online?
https://youtu.be/XYWHeG434xw

WUaS LiveStream M, May 11, 2020 - MIT collaborations as Harvard & MIT go online?
due to this coronavirus pandemic

Dear MIT President Rafael Reif - Possible collaboration ideas between MIT and CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric wiki World University and School, planned in ~200 countries' official / main languages, and in all 7,117 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning.
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html -

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Today's WUaS LiveStream (5/11/20) & letter to MIT President Reif, which lead to a 30 minute talk recently w head in MIT Office for Digital Learning, Sanjay Sarma:

https://youtu.be/XYWHeG434xw
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/)
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html -
- http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch - @WUaSPress ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1259898089101393925?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1259898447928295427?s=20

Today's WUaS LiveStream (5/11/20) & letter to MIT President Reif, which lead to a 30 minute talk recently w Sanjay Sarma in MIT Office for Digital Learning:
https://youtu.be/XYWHeG434xw
(https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/)
https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html -
- http://youtube.com/WorldUnivandSch - @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1259898675712557063?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1259899173479972873?s=20

https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking?src=hashtag_click
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory?src=hashtag_click

Now how best to head to #VirtualOregon in #1970s re a kind of #OregonVision in a #RealisticVirtualEarth ? - but probably not in a #RealisticVirtualHarbin since this would be in #virtualCalifornia :) ... and in great #realisticvirtualearthforhistory ...https://t.co/f10MhGDd4p ~ pic.twitter.com/WOuJQkKWVr— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) September 24, 2019

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1176616037329981441?s=20

visit Harbin gate here virtually ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ & "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, CA, & "amble" around the streets there (accessible from http://bit.ly/HarbinBook) A #RealisticVirtualHarbin for soaking too :) Add PHOTOs to wiki #RealisticVirtualEARTH ~
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1082723224071229441?s=20

visit Harbin gate here virtually ~ https://t.co/8F7i8x7dSD ~ & "walk" down the road "4 miles" to Middletown, CA, & "amble" around the streets there (accessible from https://t.co/n8B2vpYOY5) A #RealisticVirtualHarbin for soaking too :) Add PHOTOs to wiki #RealisticVirtualEARTH ~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) January 8, 2019

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Great horned owl (Bubo virginianus): Swiss protests again Coronavirus lies? - "Hundreds of demonstrators are calling for the Corona lie to be clarified and are being fined in many places - they go unpunished in Zurich" * * * Siddartha - a very different m

Swiss protests again Coronavirus lies?

"Hundreds of demonstrators are calling for the Corona lie to be clarified and are being fined in many places - they go unpunished in Zurich:
The demonstrations against the Corona emergency law are small in number. What is worrying, however, is the mixture of political protest and absurd theories that are represented there. The reluctant intervention of the police in Zurich is causing criticism."https://www.nzz.ch/zuerich/hunderte-demonstranten-fordern-aufklaerung-der-corona-luege-und-werden-vielerorts-gebuesst-in-zuerich-gehen-sie-straffrei-aus-ld.1555888

Glad protests are happening!

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Pin (Siddartha),

Very nice to talk with you! Thanks for your call. I find a very different mediascape in newspapers (for me when I read the German newspapers online, especially, without machine translation) from around the world - and with regard to all the fear that I think the American newspaper press has generated with regard to these memes ('an element of a culture or system of behavior that may be considered to be passed from one individual to another by nongenetic means, especially imitation').
Here are some newspapers - https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/news.html#record - in non-English languages to try out Google Translate with ... and here are ones in French, (since you know French) I check out at times:
France https://www.lemonde.fr/https://www.lefigaro.fr/http://www.leparisien.fr/https://www.lesechos.fr https://www.humanite.fr https://www.la-croix.com https://www.liberation.fr
Belgiumhttps://www.lesoir.be/( https://www.standaard.be/ )
Canadahttps://www.ledevoir.com/( https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ )https://www.lapresse.ca/
Switzerlandhttps://lecourrier.ch https://www.letemps.ch/I also check out this Bangladeshi newspaper in English -
https://www.thedailystar.net/

Regarding our electric bicycle conversation, I also searched on "best electric bicycle 2020" - and not one mentions the Copenhagen wheel
- https://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/a22132137/best-electric-bikes/would probably head for something like this Most Versatile Ebike
Yamaha Wabash E-Bike in some years, or the Copenhagen wheel for any bicycle- https://www.wired.com/gallery/best-electric-bikes/- https://electricbikereview.com/best-electric-bikes/- https://www.cyclingweekly.com/group-tests/best-electric-bikes-need-know-e-bikes-322613
then found - with some information - https://cleantechnica.com/2020/02/08/the-copenhagen-wheel-an-honest-follow-up/
This is helpful too and suggests waiting - DEKRA eBike Review Superpedestrian Copenhagen Wheel
https://youtu.be/u-bbG-xxa20
Having bicycle ridden with the ZAP Motor from around 1994-1999 in SF as I mentioned, and if battery life improves dramatically, another ZAP motor could be more sensible than an improved Copenhagen wheel! :
https://electricscooterparts.com/zapelectricbicycleparts.html
Am in waiting mode.
Do you think you'd ever go on a week-long bike trip with an electric bicycle - if it made the heavy bicycling easy? :) (and stay in youth hostels along the way, if we could charge the batteries there! - in and around Bangalore for example - https://www.hihostels.com/hostels/youth-hostel-bangalore )
It was a treat to talk with you, Pin! Thanks!
Warm regards, ScottEnglish Country Dancing at home? like Dance Scottish at home #hashtag - - https://twitter.com/hashtag/DanceScottishAtHome?src=hashtag_click- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com

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Teaching and learning bagpiping - Scottish small piping

Hi Taylor,

Good lesson, and good piping. Glad the middle drone, a fifth, is coming along. (Let's consider working on 79th Farewell to Gibraltar as a four part march a bit further too before we move on to the CoP Blue Tutor Vol 3 in some weeks - if that might interest you. It may have gotten short shrift, - and 4 part marches are key to Scottish piping .... and the lyrical ones are a 'jaunt':) Just sent you an invoice. See you next week!
Regards, Scott

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Hi Taylor,

Making the series of notes in any given bar distinct per the sheet music notation is kind of what I mean by "bumper car" approach, as a metaphor for playing differently, that is creating quite distinct rhythms in each bar, in each sets of notes. For great and inspiring piping rhythms, I come back to Stuart Liddell's 2010 - https://youtu.be/ZuvMePr82y8 ...
You'll find here both of the following - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials (one of the Highland Laddie's now has a broken link) -
Highland Laddie World pipe band championship 2008https://youtu.be/8oRE9IKJUHs
79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - Loch Norman Highland Games 2009
https://youtu.be/ynf_Qk_tJIc
I was listening to these for the "bumper car" idea, and could hear it a bit too in these. The bumper car gliding in Highland Laddie using 1-e-and-a would the '1-e,' and the bumping would be 2 notes in the 'and-a' ... What do you think?
And by contrast, this "79th ..." is more rounded
79th's Farewell to Gibraltar - USNA/RMC Kunta Kinte Memorial Performance 2013
https://youtu.be/F8VuGIa4vCs
- and much less what I have in mind (and echoes a little what I hear in your piping as well). These may both be a bit fast too for learning, but worth listening to for sure.
Also, here are the strathspey and reel, on practice chanter and a bit slower than the above
The Inverness Rant (For Jo)
https://youtu.be/ZyFLgYNvb1Y

Piper of Drummond - 6 Scots
https://youtu.be/3SHgt7BuWIg
Check out other Youtubes for all of these :)
which I may add to https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials( https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes )
(Also, eventually, a fuller bag makes sense for steadiness of drones and chanter sounds tuning-wise, but exploring soft bag can be useful too regarding not over-blowing).
Cheers, Scott

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Taylor,

I updated this with the tunes below: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials
Cheers, Scott

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Taylor,

Here's Stuart again playing excellently (and traditionally) a March, Strathspey and Reel

Stuart Liddell - Lunchtime Recital 2010: 2 of 8https://youtu.be/DVNss8QVXv8
Good for getting the 'differential programing' of strathspeys and reels re our Inverness Rant and Piper of Drummond,
Try Beats Per Minute Tap - aka BPM Tap - to explore the tempo of these tunes as examples. I newly get 123 for the strathspey and 84 for the reel :)https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ignacemaes.bpmtap&hl=en_US
Scott
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Hi Ma,

Am glad Christine is doing fine, after her injury recently.
I finished listening to my March 10, 2020 lesson (video recording) with Connor Sinclair last night, the last 15 minutes - it took a while - and these recorded lessons are so helpful and informative in many, many ways. I was playing the tune Calum Beag - and am glad he said afterward 1) that's 'really great' about my playing this (and I thought I played it pretty well too), 2) and that he also played Calum Beag at very end of this lesson which gives me further confidence re playing with this (on my B flat chanter), and his modeling re my playing, - and I also learn confidence in our conversation (I have high standards internalized, perfectionism-wise, so I try not to be too hard on myself per Guidelines for Practicing a Musical Instrument - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm). While he's won all these highest achieving piping prizes, - he's a great piper (in my lessons too) - we also have a connection re what I'll call 'confidence' - and this comes through in the video recordings too. And I also heard further how my pipes sound in recording, and also heard how I play ... re what comes across (I want to keep my mouth closed, for ex., and I also, I like it when I'm kind of beaming, and appreciative and supportive of him, in our conversation ... and would like to bring this radiance into my piping too, whether it be in the series of notes, or how I appear) ... all as a basis for further learning and growing. Now how to change the sound of my pipes significantly for recordings, for learning and innovation (e.g. I hear a kind of cello like sound, metaphorically, when I play, but I don't hear this in this Calum Beag recording) - whether that be through using a different microphone, different recording software (eg so experimenting not using Skype video ... or changing something else, blowing, adjusting reeds etc? )
And oh to create recordings for all students in my big WUaS project with individual tutorials with my big project's eventual faculty - for later learning for students ... could be invaluable). I could see how having recordings of all the school situations / classes / tutorials / music lessons I've had in my life could be invaluable. ... and which would be a brand new modality for learning ... there's so much detail in these lessons. Time to lesson to the remaining 3 video recordings in full.
Seeking to play more today ... and as I navigate my own feelings and experiences with practicing, daily playing and learning, etc ... and even to explore further learning with flourishing, innovative (not rote) approaches ... am a little isolated here (and even more so with coronavirus pandemic) ... and practicing has long had an isolating aspect to it for me too ... so it could be great to connect with a friend, and for her to come out here?
What are you up to today? And how are you?
Love, Scott

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Ma, Nice to talk, and happy Mother's day here too!
Thanks for suggesting:
Annals of Medicine May 11, 2020 Issue
"Why Weren’t We Ready for the Coronavirus?
The U.S. has fared worse than other countries not because it lacked information or funding but because it failed to learn the lessons of the last outbreaks."
By David Quammen
May 4, 2020https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/why-werent-we-ready-for-the-coronavirus
It looks like I'll be able to read this!
Interesting that you grew across the street from David Quammen in Cincinnati!
"Natural Acts" by Quammen is the name of the book you gave me decades ago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Quammen - and you'll find his others mentioned here too, including Song of the Dodo.
HIs web site highlights others - https://www.davidquammen.com .
I looked up his very first book (1970), with half an eye to see in what ways he might have been influenced by the 1960s and early 70s (or if he was a hippy somehow), and indeed - https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re... - its focus in on race relations. This was during the height of the Vietnam War, and Gary Trudeau, also a student at Yale around this time, was publishing his Doonesbury comic strip). Quammen's protagonist, a Yale student named John Scully (and Quammen, again, wrote this when he was a Yale student too) goes to Chicago for the summer and lives in a Black neighborhood, and writes a novel about this. Interesting :) ... which I learned in this Kirkus Book Review - https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re... - and I wonder if the 'vague grey outfit' here could even be somehow the Religious Society of Friends/ Quakers :) Good to have published a first novel as one graduates from Yale as an undergraduate! :)
Short Stories
Then I searched on "10 short stories you'd like the most" and found these GREAT resources -

Best Short Stories and Collections Everyone Should Read
https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-short-stories

50 great short stories everyone should read
With the age of the 'viral short story' upon us, here are fifty groundbreaking pieces - classic and modern - that also deserve to be liked and shared by all.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2019/short-stories-everyone-should-read/

National short story prize
Top 10 contemporary short stories
Ahead of 2017’s National short story prize, Jon McGregor reluctantly chooses ‘swoony’ work from recent years showing some of the ways to write them well
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/13/top-10-contemporary-short-stories

30 of the Best Short Stories You Can Read for Free
https://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifestyle/30-the-best-short-stories-you-can-read-for-free.html

Also found "German Idealist Philosophy" (1997) - which I may check out - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160152.German_Idealist_Philosophy
Thanks for mentioning Quammen, his New Yorker article, as well as short stories! Want to share these lists with your short story class tomorrow? :)
Love, Scott

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Harvard University
@Harvard
A great horned owl took up residence in a man-made nest at the
@ArnoldArboretum, providing ornithologists with a rare window into a season’s nesting process, from egg-laying in early February to fledging in late April: https://arboretum.harvard.edu/life-in-the-landscape-great-horned-owls/

A great horned owl took up residence in a man-made nest at the @ArnoldArboretum, providing ornithologists with a rare window into a season’s nesting process, from egg-laying in early February to fledging in late April: https://t.co/oZwzQ5DuDP pic.twitter.com/y1e6MtBoNP— Harvard University (@Harvard) May 9, 2020

https://twitter.com/Harvard/status/1259211929962283008?s=20

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May 9, 2020

Vernal hanging parrot: Stanford Law CodeX a) Linguistics, machine learning and Law, b) Online contracts, - and principles for individual data ownership? c) CodeX Blockchain Group, and blockchain for digital currencies? * * * Sri Lankan matriculating und

Dear Roland, Masha, Ludwig, and Stanford CodeX Fellows, (and Paul and Markus, presenters in the previous week),
Thanks for your great presentations at Stanfrod Law CodeX - https://law.stanford.edu/2020/05/06/codex-meeting-may-7th-2020/ (and the week before too - https://law.stanford.edu/2020/04/29/codex-meeting-april-30th-2020/). I didn't note down the RegTrax Stanford CodeX Fellows' emails, and couldn't find them, so could you possibly please forward this email to them, Roland?
I'm following up with the questions I asked, or wanted to ask in email, and to network further (and regarding MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch's planned on line law schools in ~200 countries' official languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School - and see the 8 beginning ones here too 1/3rd the way down). For example, I think Ludwig, and Paul and Markus, would have something possibly significant to explore together. (But both your 5/7/20 and your 4/30/20 presentations aren't online yet on the Stanford Law CodeX Youtube video channel - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48E61C121CAD0E1B ... but may be eventually).
Here are the questions I asked, or wanted to ask in email, in the CodeX text chat: 1Masha: Thank you, Masha ! If you had access to Google’s AI, and GNMT - Google Neural Machine Translation, in what ways could you develop a successful approach to the changing meaning of words over time? Could you easily bring your system together with GNMT or Google AI, for example, (in the Netherlands and in Dutch and English, initially)? - Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org) 
For example, I searched on "How does GNMT handle the change in meaning of words over time?"and found:
"Data from side-by-side evaluations, where human raters compare the quality of translations for a given source sentence. Scores range from 0 to 6, with 0 meaning “completely nonsense translation”, and 6 meaning “perfect translation." " - https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/09/a-neural-network-for-machine.html ... Would this help, Masha, in conjunction with the torture word example - and in legal, and law court, situations, in your work - and especially if you could bring your system together with GNMT?

2Ludwig: I wonder if principles for individual data ownership could play a role in Court Correct's development, Ludwig, and per Paul's and Markus's previous weeks' presentation, and their Harvard Law JOLT paper, about which I blogged here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/lesser-white-fronted-goose-legal.html. And could Markus and Paul's Prifina be on the horizon in the British Isles as a collaboration possibility, Ludwig?
3Stanford CodeX Fellows: Thanks, and fascinating. Brainstorming-wise, how might RegTrax or Stanford Law regulate Stanford created “Mine Pi” with block chain, - and potentially in all ~200 countries’ official main languages’ legal systems (so, coming after the Euro in 19 out of 28 countries, and the international dollar)? Thanks, Scott (sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org) (And what role would central banks play, if a single cryptocurrency emerges, backed by some number of central banks, and thus blockchain?)
I wanted to see if I could infer something new related to digital currencies blockchain ledgers, compared with these helpful characterizations of blockchain ledger, from a few years ago, (not focusing on digital currencies), with these principles - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/gold-dust-day-gecko-blockchain-ledger.html -and using a Vermont house as an example- http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/10/feather-stars-blockchainforeducation.html(in the blockchain label in my blog). Digital currency scale questions come to mind.

Numismatics' coins as an example for the ongoing hacking and creativity in the creation of digital cryptocurrencies - as an example - even as the state, that is central banks' law, will likely seek to regulate a cryptocurrency with block chain (in my opinion - and perhaps building on the Euro, and the US dollar?).
In LinkedIn:
Thanks for your great Stanford Law CodeX presentation yesterday, Michael Schmitz, and all! Here are some of my questions from the session:

Brainstorming-wise, how might RegTrax or Stanford Law regulate Stanford-created “Mine Pi” with block chain, - and potentially in all ~200 countries’ official main languages’ legal systems (so, coming after the Euro in 19 out of 28 countries, and the international dollar)? (And what role would central banks play, if a single cryptocurrency emerges, backed by some number of central banks, and thus blockchain?) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/blockchain = #cryptocurrency #blockchain #cryptocurrencies

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6663966081146851328/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_codex-meeting-may-7th-2020-activity-6664626703966576640-7IKi
And as I messaged Paul this morning in LinkedIn: Hello Paul, I found Ludwig Bull's presentation - the middle one - very relevant to your project. More in an email to you all. (I think it will appear on the Stanford Law CodeX Youtube channel in a week or two). Here are some further thoughts and questions about your project as well - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/lesser-white-fronted-goose-legal.html (with CodeX's Youtube channel too, where your presentation isn't yet posted). Regards, Scott (scottmacleod.com worlduniversityandschool.org)

https://law.stanford.edu/2020/05/06/codex-meeting-may-7th-2020/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ludwig-bull/
Email: m.medvedeva@rug.nl  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masha-medvedeva/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JudgyLinguist  Paper: https://rdcu.be/b3vpD
https://www.linkedin.com/in/masha-medvedeva/

https://twitter.com/neha/status/1258795026206859269?s=20

Hello Paul, I found Ludwig Bull's presentation - the middle one - very relevant to your project. More in an email to you all. (I think it will appear on the Stanford Law CodeX Youtube channel in a week or two). Here are some further thoughts and questions about your project as well - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/lesser-white-fronted-goose-legal.html (with CodeX's Youtube channel too, where your presentation isn't yet posted). Regards, Scott (scottmacleod.com worlduniversityandschool.org)

On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 8:32 AM Roland Vogl <rvogl@law.stanford.edu> wrote:

Hi Everyone,
Our next CodeX group meeting is today (May 7), from 1.30p to 2.30p PT via Zoom link below. Please note that this meeting is *virtual only,* and that all speakers will present remotely.

Our guests will be:
Masha Medvedeva, PhD candidate, University of Groningen. Ms. Medvedeva discusses her research, which is focused on automatic prediction of court decisions using machine learning. Her discussion uses the European Court of Human Rights as an example and demonstrates the potential and limitations of various machine learning methods.

Ludwig Bull, CEO, CourtCorrect. CourtCorrect tells users what's in the terms and conditions and contracts that people tend to automatically accept, as well as helps users keep their contracts all in one place, and keep track of what they've signed.
CodeX Fellows Michael Schmitz and Riyanka Roy Choudhury, and Reuben Youngblom, members, CodeX Blockchain Group. The group's RegTrax seeks to open avenues for communication and learning among policymakers, technologists, and academics through discussion forums and educational repositories.

See you then!

Roland

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Meeting ID: 586 446 628

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/586446628

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Great, Rifai! (and Partha, Peter and Larry),

Thanks, - am following up currently in some of these regards too with MIT President Rafael Reif, and potentially regarding Google Sites too. This email was sent to MIT President Rafael Reif - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - and, as a consequence, was very glad to have a 30 minute Zoom video conference on F May 1 with the head of the MIT Office for Digital Learning ,Sanjay Sarma, with a CMU Master's degree, and UC Berkeley Ph.D. and an undergraduate degree from an IIT in India, but WUaS is still seeking a way forward with something like MIT OCW into MITx on the edX platform which we can BPPE license and WASC accredit upon. This didn't emerge in conversation with Sanjay; will it emerge on some sort of open Google Platform, due to the MIT OCW's Creative Commons' 4 licensing? Well, in this email to Google's Head of Open Source, Edd Wilder-James - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/passion-flower-sword-billed-hummingbird.html - I'm exploring this further.

Further Google collaborations is what I'd wish for, for WUaS, since WUaS is already in Google for Education (this info@world... email address is in Google for Education / G Suite, for ex.) and in so many ways - see letter to Edd.

Rifai, would you like to join in on a WUaS Livestream conversation on a Monday at 10am PT, or at another more convenient time for you, since you're in Sri Lanka, about growing WUaS?

I would invite you from here
https://studio.golightstream.com/projects/5e725b40dc69de55ac1cbc83
and it would stream and be recorded to WUaS's new Youtube Livestream channel -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/ /live (which I am working linking here - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch).

I'd be interested too in exploring, brainstorming-wise, questions about your thoughts about how a project manager might work out of Colombo or similar, Sri Lanka. It wouldn't be like going to the Google office in Mountain View, CA, or in Sri Lanka if there is one, but hopefully much via Google software, as well as regarding WUaS's online bookstore, computer store, robotics' store, hospital technologies' store, for students and learners, but eventually with on-the-ground stores ... and perhaps all also in a single realistic virtual earth for everything - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarth?src=hashtag_click (think Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlow AI, Translate and with avatar bots / species / individuals, and group build-able like Second Life, but realistic, not cartoonesque) - including architectural design, business development, - as well as for languages - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLanguages?src=hashtag_click - and countries too.

I just re-Tweeted your new Tweet - https://twitter.com/NVidyalaya/status/1256877509930516486?s=20 - here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch.
Regards, Scott
Related blog entry - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/east-india-rosebay-expression-of.html -
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/WWUaSPress
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/

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Hi !

Good to know the progress. I prefer to be connected with WUaS in a passive manner for now, working on web related activities before moving to ground work. I can begin with localisation of content (in Sinhala), e-bookstore (I was a an admin sometime ago), genealogy including Y-DNA and mtDNA (I know my ancestry to a great extent and know to trace my distance relatives). Gradually with other tasks initially guiding on the local arena.
You can go ahead with the meeting and keep me subscribed to the minutes. The above mentioned can be done remotely. Thanks for the share.
Regards,
Rifai

Nidahas Vidyalaya - Freedom College

Sri Lanka

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Hello Rifai, (Partha and Peter),

Thanks again for your email - and our information sharing. And greetings in Sri Lanka. For your information, and as introductions, brainstorming-wise, Peter is in Bremen, Germany, and may head Germany World University and School, in German, with time. WUaS is seeking 500 German Abitur (the high achieving Gymnasium high school diploma in Germany) English-speaking German students this autumn, if possible. Partha knows governments in both countries. Let's leave Larry Viehland off these email threads please (per his request). In these regards, I'm curious in what ways you, Rifai, or Nidahas Vidyalaya, could find 200 high achieving Sri Lankan matriculating undergraduate students for this autumn who speak English, who would complete a 4 year free-to-students' Bachelor's degree, which is MIT OCW-centric.
Sharing at World Univ & Sch is predicated on CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare, where this Creative Commons' license allows for 1) sharing, 2) adapting, but 3) non-commercially. And when WUaS says we're developing from MIT OCW, WUaS adds these further licensing clarifications -
a) MIT is not affiliated with, and does not endorse, World University and School b) MIT does not offer credit to WUaS students, and c) All MIT OpenCourseWare materials are available for free through http://ocw.mit.edu )
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/
- and thus gets to use the MIT name! MIT OCW in its 4 languages is a gold mine! There are approximately 2,400 undergraduate and graduate level courses in English in MIT OCW. You can find these licensing clarifications also in the WUaS MIT OpenCourseWare Daily News - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1257484405582503936?s=20 - which posts automatically.
Brainstorming-wise, further, and regarding creating faculty positions in Sri Lanka in Sinhala at Sri Lanka WUaS - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka - and in the Sinhala language - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Sinhala_language - WUaS will take, conceptually, a MIT OCW into MITx (on the edX platform) approach, where there are now 205 courses. So one of the questions I have, as we continue this conversation, is how you might find faculty to help translate MIT OCW into MITx in Sinhala.
WUaS bookstores are an educational service for our students, and wiki Universitians, and may find their way on-the-ground parallelling Starbucks in Sri Lanka (including with food).
If WUaS can get started on the edX platform for this autumn, and find ~200 Sri Lankan English speaking high achieving students (what would this high school exam be in Sri Lanka? .... it would be as if a Sri Lankan 17 year old was applying to Stanford or MIT on-the-ground in the USA), WUaS plans to seek reimbursement from departments of education in Sri Lankan provinces, or similar, and herein is partly how WUaS seeks to begin to hire Sri Lankan faculty, for example, to develop courses in Sinhala. (Also, with your Nidaha Vidyalaya's domain name, please keep in mind WUaS plans, if possible, to begin an online Sri Lanka at WUaS law school, and per - https://www.desaram.com/BlogArticles/overview-of-sri-lankas-legal-regime.php - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Sri_Lanka - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_law_schools_in_Sri_Lanka).
CC-4 MIT OCW wiki World Univ & Sch is also a service, and seeks to build especially out of MIT"s Computer Science and STEM strengths - science, technology, engineering, and mathematics - and in Sinhala. And WUaS also seeks as a service to build a Sinhala language WUaS wiki community of teachers and learners on our open wikis (far beyond academics). There's much creative potential on WUaS's wiki side in Sinhala, but people may need information (Youtubes) about how to wiki teach and wiki learn, as well as ways to creating this online culture. And from this culture, may come many more high achieving and creative students - in English first, then Sinhala and Tamil + !
Friendly regards, Scott- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/east-india-rosebay-expression-of.html -

Gene-wise, WUaS may seek to code for all 7. 5 billion people on the planet - so all 22 million people in Sri Lanka - and come into conversation with WikiTrees' mission for example, and thus take a big data approach to our matriculating students' registration / signing on / matriculation at https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University.
- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States- https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages -

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch
- World University and School- http://worlduniversityandschool.org - http://scottmacleod.com

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May 8, 2020

Giam Kanching (Hopea subalata): "Join a network of almost 600 Old Fettesians on Fettes Community," Biggest busy-ness is the writing of a daily blog post, I suppose - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/se... - with much envisioning of MIT O

Dear Andrew (friend in the Fettes Pipe Band), Yuen Lok (my study mate), and George (my Kimmerghame Housemaster),
Blogged about this today a bit: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/giam-kanching-hopea-subalata-join.html
Yuen Lok, in seeking out the natural item for this blog post today, I cam across the endangered Giam Kanching (Hopea subalata) tree in Malaysia. Do you know this tree? This forest? This nature center?
This video is quite interesting, and well done, although I don't speak Malaysian, and translation here isn't yet available: Giam Kanching (Hopea Subalata)
https://youtu.be/cFhbgPPX_28
With very best wishes, Scott

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Have you joined this emerging Fettes' Community - https://fettescommunity.org/directory? Am appreciating the possibility for posting updates - and re networking. (I teach about the Network Society and Information Technology - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - in these regards as well).
Sincerely, Scott (Gordon)
- http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

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Fettes College

Dear ScottWe are very excited that almost 600 Old Fettesians are now registered on our new online portal, exclusively for members of the Fettes community, which launched last week.Why don’t you join them today at fettescommunity.org .Once registered you will be able to access:A directory of other usersA calendar of eventsExclusive contentPhoto albumsCareer networking and mentoring opportunities A jobs board Groups AND, towards the end of the year, access to the newly digitised and searchable archive of Old Fettesian Newsletters and Fettesian Magazines.

What is your 'Peer Year'?On registration you will be asked to enter your 'Peer Year'. Your 'Peer Year' is the year that connects you with your contemporaries during your time at school. If you arrived in or before 1970 your 'Peer Year' will be your start year and if you arrived after 1970 your 'Peer Year' is your leaving year.If you left early you might prefer to enter a 'Peer Year' that matches your contemporaries.You will also be able to connect with others via the portal and contribute to the Fettes Community feed by commenting on posts or by posting yourself. Please do get involved and help us create a vibrant and thriving digital community.You can sign on with LinkedIn, Facebook or Google, or you can register with an email address and password. Fettes Community is currently open to Old Fettesians and former staff. We plan to launch to parents, past and present, senior pupils and current staff later this year. We are very grateful to Ryan Li (Gl 2010-2015) and his family for providing the financial support to make this possible. Their commitment to this project will help us keep the Fettes community connected for years to come.Download the appFettes Community is also available to download as an app on the Apple Store and Google Play Store.IOS DeviceStep 1: Go to the Apple StoreStep 2: Search for 'Graduway Community' and download the appStep 3: Open the 'Graduway Community' app and select 'Fettes College' as your institutionStep 4: Sign in/RegisterDownload the IOS App hereAndroid DeviceStep 1: Go to the Google Play StoreStep 2: Search for 'Fettes Community' and download the appStep 3: Sign in/RegisterDownload the Android App hereIf you have any queries about signing up to the portal or are having trouble logging in, please get in touch with us by emailing fettes.community@fettes.com.Publicly available content now on fettes.com Finally, just a reminder that, as part of the transition towards launching this new Fettes Community portal, publicly available content, such as news and sadly departed announcements, is now on fettes.com/familyforlife.With best wishes

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>9:59 AM (2 hours ago)

to Andrew, Yuen, yuenlok.mok, George, George, George

Dear Andrew (friend in the Fettes Pipe Band), Yuen Lok (my study mate), and George (my Kimmerghame Housemaster),

Have you joined this emerging Fettes' Community - https://fettescommunity.org/directory? Am appreciating the possibility for posting updates - and re networking. (I teach about the Network Society and Information Technology - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html - in these regards as well).
Sincerely, Scott (Gordon)
- http://scottmacleod.com/piping.htm

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/
https://twitter.com/WWUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com

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Andrew Lownie10:05 AM (2 hours ago)

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Dear Scott,
Very good to hear from you. I tried to sign up but had difficult but will try again.
Impressed by your World University initiative. It must be doing well now.
Best wishes, Andrew

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>10:10 AM (2 hours ago)

to Andrew

Dear Andrew,
Thank you for your support!

I had some difficultly signing up, - after initial successful sign in. I assume they're iterating their software.

World Univ & Sch isn't doing well yet, but am seeking further collaboration with MIT per - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - and 2 other recent blog posts there.
Seeking to matriculate online undergraduate students from the British Isles for free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch Bachelor degrees this autumn - and from Fettes?

Best wishes, Scott

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>10:12 AM (2 hours ago)

to yuenlok.mok, George, Andrew

Dear Andrew, Yuen Lok, and George,
Thank you for your email reply, Andrew!
I had some difficultly signing up too with this Fettes community web platform, - after initial successful sign in. I assume they're iterating their software.
World Univ & Sch isn't doing well yet, but am seeking further collaboration with MIT per - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - and 2 other recent blog posts there. Seeking to matriculate online undergraduate students from the British Isles for free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch Bachelor degrees this autumn - and from Fettes?
Best wishes, Scott

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yuen-lok-mok-b9772b38/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-lownie-64868620/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottgkmacleod/

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com

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Dear Scott,
Very exciting developments. Are you still playing pipes?

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>10:20 AM (2 hours ago)

to Andrew

Dear Andrew,

Yes, but now the Scottish small pipes, and am working on my first album, tentatively entitled 'Honey in the Bag' - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html . Am also both giving SSP lessons on Skype, as well as taking lessons with Connor Sinclair at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow (who recently won the Glen Fiddich and the Northern Meeting at around age 23:).
Do you ever find your way to playing your practice chanter in London (since the GHB could be rather loud there in a town house!:)?
Cheers,
Scott

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com

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Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@gmail.com>10:24 AM (2 hours ago)

to yuenlok.mok, George, Andrew

Andrew subsequently enquired if I'm still playing the pipes:

Yes, but now the Scottish small pipes, and am working on my first album, tentatively entitled 'Honey in the Bag' - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/western-honey-bee-re-my-upcoming-honey.html . Am also both giving SSP lessons on Skype, as well as taking lessons with Connor Sinclair at the National Piping Centre in Glasgow (who recently won the Glen Fiddich and the Northern Meeting at around age 23:).

Andrew: do you ever find your way to playing your practice chanter in London (since the GHB could be rather loud there in a town house!:)? Am waiting for real, real time music making on the web (and maybe World Univ & Sch's Music School can help facilitate this further - and regarding a Google platform - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Music:). Music-making at Fettes was fun - and there was a lot of it.
Cheers, Scott

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com

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Andrew Lownie10:26 AM (2 hours ago)

to me

Dear Scott,
Very impressive cv.
My son learnt for a while and I leant with him but I was terrible and – as you say the neighbours complained.

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Dear Andrew,

I hope your son might pick up the pipes again, if that would be enjoyable - and with you? Is he still boxing as well?
Best regards, ScottScottish small pipes are playable in a town house! - - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes - and use the same fingering as GHB!

-- - Scott MacLeod- http://scottmacleod.com

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Andrew Lownie10:33 AM (1 hour ago)

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Dear Scott,
He’s stopped boxing but writes about it for boxing magazines. He’s currently Editor in Chief of Edinburgh University student paper.
Have you children?

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Impressive that your son is Editor in Chief of Edinburgh University student paper. (Let's stay in touch about the WUaS Universitian - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/The_%22Universitian%22_Newspaper_at_WUaS - planned in all ~200 countries' official / main langauges, and with some machine translation).
I began this WUaS Newspaper - The MIT OpenCourseWare Daily - some years ago in the free Paper.li - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1257484405582503936?s=20 - and now it posts daily to WUaS on Twitter with, importantly, the MIT OCW licensing clarifications, that WUaS is building upon. AMAZING > the name, the daily posting, the images, and the contacts and #hashtags, and while I think it's partly AI generated, I also think there's a person behind this, and I don't know who! :)
Brainstorming-wise, start a Paper.li for your publishing endeavors? For the Edinburgh University student newspaper?
Not yet! But I'm still seeking to ... with ???

Cheers, Scott Am reading many newspapers these days online, in the coronavirus pandemic, Andrew - and Google Translate is making reading many non-English papers accessible - the Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, and Dutch ones, for example - https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/news.html#record - but many other German newspapers especially (since I know German - and to improve my German as well; the media landscape too in German papers is much more (Goethe-?) grounded in reason, in my experience, than online USA papers! ).

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Andrew Lownie10:50 AM (1 hour ago)

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Gosh you are busy. Best wishes, Andrew

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Biggest busy-ness is the writing of a daily blog post, I suppose - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/bagpiping - with much envisioning of MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, planned in ~200 countries' official languages, and in all 7,117 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning. Hoping to create many academic faculty and staff careers, as well as 2.2 million jobs (as big as Walmart?) in all ~200 countries, on the bookstore/ computer store /robotics' store /hospital technologies' distribution center side of things - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html?view=sidebar.

ScottMore about piping here at times - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand - and Scottish Country Dancing / music-making (in Berkeley - where I play in Open Band for SCD when we're not in the middle of global virus epidemic!).

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https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokok_Giam_Kanching

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopea

https://sciencing.com/endangered-plants-malaysia-6402091.html

http://www.earthsendangered.com/search-regions3.asp?mp=1&search=1&sgroup=allgroups&ID=201

Giam Kanching (Hopea Subalata)

https://youtu.be/cFhbgPPX_28

Amiruddin Alauddin

A documentary in the Malay language about one of the most rarest tree ("Hopea Subalata" or "Giam/Merawan Kanching" - Scientific name / or known as in the Malay language) which can ONLY be found in the forests of Peninsular Malaysia, no where else in the world. It is now categorized in the "Endangered Specie".

A documentary project done by my wife in Malaysia.

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May 7, 2020

Geissorhiza ovata: "Hot spring inns invite #onsen lovers to go virtual as #coronavirus halts tourism" @HarbinBook "The 1st batch of videos, already on YouTube, takes viewers wearing VR headsets to 5 inns" > #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarth *

"Hot spring inns invite #onsen lovers to go virtual as #coronavirus halts tourism" https://youtu.be/AFrTTMbQx1o
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2020/05/05/national/hot-spring-inns-onsen-virtual-coronavirus-tourism/
@HarbinBook "The 1st batch of videos, already on YouTube, takes viewers wearing VR headsets to 5 inns" > #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarth ~

Hot spring inns invite #onsen lovers to go virtual as #coronavirus halts tourism https://t.co/aRZKjXehmC https://t.co/abgNHNT17C @HarbinBook The 1st batch of videos, already on YouTube, takes viewers wearing VR headsets to 5 inns> #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarth ~— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) May 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1257804487550308352?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1257805687788204033?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1257806180589555713?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1257807385990594560?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1257808243503464449?s=20

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The 1st batch of 5 Hot Springs' inns' videos takes #onsen lovers wearing VR headsets for #VirtualSoaking - https://www.youtube. com/results?search_query=%23有馬温泉湯めぐりVR - #coronavirus halts #tourism
@HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking ~

The 1st batch of 5 Hot Springs' inns' videos takes #onsen lovers wearing VR headsets for #VirtualSoaking - https://t.co/b9obmRs4rA. com/results?search_query=%23有馬温泉湯めぐりVR - #coronavirus halts #tourism @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking ~— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) May 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1258072321169874944?s=20

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The 1st batch of 5 Hot Springs' inns' videos takes #onsen lovers wearing VR headsets for #VirtualSoaking > https://www.youtube. com/results?search_query=%23有馬温泉湯めぐりVR - #coronavirus halts #tourism
@HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking ~

The 1st batch of 5 Hot Springs' inns' videos takes #onsen lovers wearing VR headsets for #VirtualSoaking > https://t.co/LYDiJfb6zW. com/results?search_query=%23有馬温泉湯めぐりVR - #coronavirus halts #tourism @HarbinBook #RealisticVirtualHarbin #RealisticVirtualEarthForSoaking ~ https://t.co/bSsoLTgxKS— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) May 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1258073245367992320?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1258079579622658048?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1258080606061162498?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1258081757137481728?s=20

#奥みょうばん山荘 #硫黄泉 #温泉 #onsen #別府温泉 ♨️ pic.twitter.com/aI8VPDOzVi— あゆみ (@onsen0428) April 27, 2020

https://twitter.com/onsen0428/status/1254789381237268485?s=20

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Further ideas for a realistic virtual earth, virtual hot springs (now how to begin to do brain research with these Japanese beginnings), and poetry (my most recent poem, beginning with some lines by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, and about both consciousness as well as Harbin Hot Springs:) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/geissorhiza-ovata-hot-spring-inns.html -Would like to explore brain research with brainwave headsets from home, and visual research too, with this first video - https://youtu.be/AFrTTMbQx1o - and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy wise, and further with creating a realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs for ethnographic and brain research in mind as well. :)--

- https://youtu.be/AFrTTMbQx1o -

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Further ideas for #VirtualHotSprings in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth How to begin to do brain research w these Japanese beginnings https://youtu.be/AFrTTMbQx1o & #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy >https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... & in creating #RealisticVirtualHarbin for ethnographic & brain research?

Further ideas for #VirtualHotSprings in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth How to begin to do brain research w these Japanese beginnings https://t.co/Twfib3tD0F & #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy >https://t.co/SCffkdlnN0 & in creating #RealisticVirtualHarbin for ethnographic & brain research?— Scott_MacLeod_WUaS (@scottmacleod) May 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1258483481618726912?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1258483932976173056?s=20

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Further ideas for #VirtualHotSprings in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth How to begin to do #BrainResearch w these Japanese beginnings https://youtu.be/AFrTTMbQx1o & #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy >https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/20... & in creating #RealisticVirtualHarbin for ethnographic & #MindResearch?

Further ideas for #VirtualHotSprings in 1 #RealisticVirtualEarth How to begin to do #BrainResearch w these Japanese beginnings https://t.co/aRZKjXehmC & #EthnoWikiVirtualWorldGraphy >https://t.co/Rv2BkABMWT & in creating #RealisticVirtualHarbin for ethnographic & #MindResearch?— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) May 7, 2020

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1258485330744762375?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1258485782311956480?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1258486444869341184?s=20

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Thank you, Paul!
Paul Jolly
- http://www.barclaypressbookstore.com/All-Books/When-an-atheist-says-Bless-you.html
- https://www.fernwoodpress.com/2018/11/26/why-ice-cream-trucks-play-christmas-songs

World Univ & Sch is growing, but still isn't financially operational. But this is also opening ways to further exploring collaborations with Google beyond Google for Education, and further new MIT exploratory collaborations, for example. If you know of Quaker or other 18 year olds who might be interested in a free-to-students' online Bachelor program, as WUaS licenses with the state of California's BPPE and probably WASC senior, please let me know.

Glad to see both the links you and Joann posted were Quaker (Barclay Press, and she with a George Fox University Master's Degree) - and seemingly Oregon based! Impressive turnout as well! Was glad too to see a number of friends - and some from even the 1980s - in Multnomah Monthly Meeting in Portland, OR, and at Pendle Hill, I think - as well as from AFSC SF! When were you head of fundraising at Pendle Hill? Thanks for both of your sometimes hippy-informed, or countercultural in a sense :) poetry, and creativity!

Do you know Anselm Hollo's 'Lost Original' poem -
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/sarus-crane-rilke-damage-poet-anselm.html
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/02/pacific-temperate-rainforests.html
(And do you or Joann know what his 'Rilke damage' in this poem refers to?)

And have you or Joann read with, or worked with, Kim Stafford, who's Oregon's poet laureate, and a Professor at Lewis & Clark (as was his father):
Kim Stafford on Haiku in the Columbia River Gorge
"Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford on Haiku"
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/leptopoma-snail-johannes-passion-by-js.html
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/04/orange-peel-doris-acanthodoris-lutea.html

Here's a recent poem I wrote, beginning with some lines by Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, and about both consciousness as well as Harbin Hot Springs:
Chameleon vision: Poem ~ "To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual reality"https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/11/chameleon-vision-poem-to-dance-or-pools.html :)

Am hoping you're doing well as the coronavirus pandemic proceeds, and California begins to open again.

Friendly cheers,
Scott
- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/poetry -
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html -
(Am hoping too our WUaS Press will eventually emerge out of the Google platform, and for machine translation too - in addition to online and on-the-ground bookstores / computer stores / robotics' stores and hospital technologies' stores - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/15-planned-wuas-revenue-streams-both.html) Cheers, Scott

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Dear Alan,
Thanks for your email. Yes, a professional WUaS website - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - update is long due (12 years?).
I noticed this Boston University epidemiologist professor Ellie Murray uses Google Sites:
"Epidemiologists: there is going to be a pandemic if we don’t act now with test/trace/isolate + adequate protective equipment for essential personnel + social distancing as a last resort.

Economists: we did only the social distancing part & it didn’t work, you’re all liars!"

Epidemiologists: there is going to be a pandemic if we don’t act now with test/trace/isolate + adequate protective equipment for essential personnel + social distancing as a last resort.

Economists: we did only the social distancing part & it didn’t work, you’re all liars!— Ellie Murray (@EpiEllie) May 5, 2020

https://twitter.com/EpiEllie/status/1257699083793375238?s=20
And WUaS's all languages' focus suggests that Google Sites would be the best platform - initially for the approximately ~100 languages in Google Translate, and also as official languages in ~200 nation states.
Yes, this email was sent to MIT President Rafael Reif - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2020/04/dear-mit-president-rafael-reif-possible.html - and, as a consequence, was very glad to have a 30 minute Zoom video conference around May 1 with the head of the MIT Office for Digital Learning Sanjay Sarma, with a CMU Master's degree, but WUaS is still seeking a way forward with something like MIT OCW into MITx on the edX platform which we can BPPE license and WASC accredit upon. This didn't emerge in conversation with Sanjay; will it emerge on some sort of open Google Platform, due to the MIT OCW's Creative Commons' 4 licensing? Well, in this email to Google's Head of Open Source, Edd Wilder-James (with mention of updating website the 5th item) - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/passion-flower-sword-billed-hummingbird.html - nothing has emerged yet. Alas!
Further Google collaborations is what I'd wish for, for WUaS, since WUaS is already in Google for Education (this email address is in Google for Education / G Suite, for ex.) and in so many ways - see letter to Edd.
Would you like to join in on a Monday at 1pm ET, 10am PT, WUaS video conference about WUaS growing WUaS?
I would invite you from herehttps://studio.golightstream.com/projects/5e725b40dc69de55ac1cbc83
and it would stream and be recorded to WUaS's new Youtube Livestream channel -https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdURAADdLc9ctxnbismtXzQ/ /live (and not here - https://www.youtube.com/user/WorldUnivandSch). It would be great to talk about some of your great ideas that could further help our outreach.
Greetings to Sadie (and Chris Michaels), glad you and she are both doing well, and congratulations on all your developments with film-making and videography!
All the Best, Scott
Ideas are growing in both blogs - see the 'global university' labels, and on this Twitter feeds as well:https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/

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Alan,

Has Roberto worked with Google Sites (since WUaS is in Google for Education / G Suite), and in another language, like Spanish or Italian, for example - if you happen to know?
Regards, Scott

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May 6, 2020, Wednesday
Alan,

Thanks, - am following up currently in some of these regards too with MIT President Rafael Reif, and potentially regarding Google Sites too.
I'll send you an invitation from LightStream on Monday at 1pm your time, and let's talk about World Univ & Sch - your questions, for example. I'd be interested too in exploring, brainstorming-wise, questions about your thoughts about how a project manager might work out of Pittsburgh. It's wouldn't be like going to the Google office near Penn and Fifth, but hopefully much via Google software, as well as regarding online bookstore, computer store, robotics' store, hospital technologies' store, for students and learners, but eventually with on-the-ground stores ... and perhaps all also in a single realistic virtual earth for everything including architectural design, business development, - as well as for atmospheric science re reversing global warming.
Sincerely, Scott
Am following up with these folks, and the Chair of the WUaS Board as well:

MIT Media Lab @medialab 6m
“Our mentality is: Keep telling us what you need and we'll keep trying to figure out creative solutions.” @MindHandHeart talks to Kyle Filipe at @MIT_ISTnews about the Institute’s technical response to Covid-19.
https://twitter.com/medialab/status/1258133438722441216?s=20
Retweeted here - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch -
More about Kyle Filipe here, as well as Mark Silis, Vice President for Information Systems and Technology, whom I learned about in the first article:
3 Questions: Kyle Filipe on moving MIT online amid the Covid-19 pandemicDirector of IT support services for MIT Information Systems and Technology describes how his unit mobilized to prepare the MIT community for our new virtual landscape.
http://news.mit.edu/2020/3-questions-moving-mit-online-amid-covid-19-pandemic-0505 https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylefilipe
Vice President for Information Systems and Technology Mark Silis http://news.mit.edu/2019/mark-silis-vice-president-information-systems-technology-0305

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Lesser white-fronted goose: Legal Principles for Data Ownership? Harvard Law JOLT journal - "My Data, My Terms: A Proposal for Personal Data Use Licenses," In what ways could WUaS law faculty teach about such data and intellectual property licenses, and e

Edifying to attend Stanford Law CodeX session last week - https://law.stanford.edu/2020/04/29/codex-meeting-april-30th-2020/ - and learn of Paul Jurcys and Markus Lampinen's work "to help people take back control of their data, by building tools for consumers and developers to create new value from that data."

(See, too: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/geissorhiza-stanford-codexgroupmeetings.html).

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Found too this paper the wrote in the Harvard Law JOLT journal -

My Data, My Terms: A Proposal for Personal Data Use LicensesPaul Jurcys, Chris Donewald, Jure Globocnik, Markus LampinenMarch 05, 2020
NOTES
https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/my-data-my-terms

which paper also suggests:

"There is also no other legal principle or theory that would per se justify the allocation of exclusive property rights over data.[17]"

Probably would build on the GDPR and CCPA per their paper:

"The European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)[4] and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)[5] are the most aggressive legislative acts aiming to improve how companies manage their customers’ data. Both the GDPR and the CCPA set forth a number of new or expanded rights for individuals."

In what ways could WUaS faculty further create such legal principles?

And in what ways could people take back ownership of their personal data, from corporations or governments in all ~200 countries' official languages, - and in 2 or 3 mouse clicks?

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And in what ways could WUaS law faculty teach about such data and intellectual property licenses, and emergent Legal Principles for Data Ownership in each of all ~200 countries?

Am wondering too, brainstorming-wise, how a Google would structure this information technologically - and re the distributed-ness of the internet and TCP IP, and what precedents there might be ? In what ways would the blockchain ledger play a role ?

And how might such data licenses #datalicenses work with a single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger in some number of ~200 countries and their official languages, and backed by their central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states)?

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These are the initial questions I asked of them in my email to these Stanford Law CodeX presenters:

"Markus & Paul - Fantastic! In what ways might you plan for all 7.5 billion people - and possibly brainstorming-wise regarding Universal Basic Income experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency for most of all, again, 7.5 billion people - “to help people take back control of their data, by building tools for consumers and developers to create new value from that data? " (Thank you - will email you).

Here are some case examples for your thinking - aAm curious to learn further how you conceive, for example, of electronic medical health records in all ~200 countries, as an example for "people taking back control of their data" - eg re #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords?src=hashtag_click ... bAlso with your travel data thinking, re "people taking back control of their data" - what about people, hypothetically, traveling virtually in a single realistic virtual earth - eg traveling through Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, with TensorFlow, Translate and with avatar bots - and sheer amount of data? - in the future? - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking?src=hashtag_click - cAnd combine personal data with data centering around a single digital currency with block chain ledger, and add travel data all within a realistic virtual earth?
Markus Lampinen: markus@prifina.com & https://twitter.com/mmlampinen paul@prifina.com
Looking forward to learning your thoughts about this, and to staying in touch - and potentially via Stanford Law CodeX ... and emergent online law schools, exploratorily. Thank you again for your edifying presentations.
Thank you all so much, Scott
PSAnd in a related vein, in the middle of this coronavirus pandemic, who would own the following data (and with regard too to #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords in some of ~200 countries' official languages, I wonder; are EU electronic medical records region-wide between any of all 28 EU countries?)
Google/Apple contact tracing app analyzed
https://faz.net/podcasts/f-a-z-podcast-fuer-deutschland/f-a-z-podcast-fuer-deutschland-containment-scouts-auf-der-jagd-nach-infizierten-16749252.html so people could again travel safely, with a basis in medical science, preventing #covid19 viral infection? #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 bil people #WikiTree #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenealogy ?https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1255955645699780608?s=20"

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/geissorhiza-stanford-codexgroupmeetings.html -

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Glad then to have seen Paul Jurcys post this in LinkedIn on Monday, May 4, 2020 -

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6660787879507304449/
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We - Markus Lampinen and I - are very much looking forward to speaking at CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics meeting this Thursday.

We will present our work on building user-held, user-centric data privacy tools and focus more on the personal data licenses. Our proposal for personal data licenses was previously published at Harvard's JOLT (https://lnkd.in/gxsz3hK)

Join us this Thursday (30 April) at 1.30 pm PST: https://lnkd.in/ggTH7s4 (meeting ID: 586446628)

Jouko, Kimmo, Valto, Chris, Jure, Sara, Michael, Dan, Dooter, Begoña, Marcelo, Roland, Shannon, Roland, Ciprian, Feola, Mary, Tadas, Tyler, Anci, Lei, Mallika, Michael, Johannes, Marketa, Søren, Tomi, Markus

# #personaldata #dataprivacy #ccpa #gdpr #data #privacy #usercentricdata #dataprotection #datalicenses Prifina - Liberty. Equality. Data.

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The video of their presentation may appear on the Stanford Law CodeX Youtube video channel - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48E61C121CAD0E1B ...

Join us for a virtual CodeX Meeting tomorrow at 1:30PM PT (via zoom), ft:

- Arlindo Eira Filho (Nexilis)
- @SarahEliMattern (@SavvySuit)
- @mmlampinen & @pjurcys (@MyPrifina)https://law.stanford.edu/2020/04/29/c... …

Join us for a virtual CodeX Meeting tomorrow at 1:30PM PT (via zoom), ft:

- Arlindo Eira Filho (Nexilis)
- @SarahEliMattern (@SavvySuit)
-@mmlampinen & @pjurcys (@MyPrifina)https://t.co/h5OC7w8gFH— CodeX Stanford (@CodeXStanford) April 29, 2020

https://twitter.com/CodeXStanford/status/1255620418108416000?s=20

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Super excited that @HarvardJOLT has published our proposal for personal data licenses.

We foresee a future of user-held data, where each individual “activate” her personal data and get superior value from it http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/my...…
@LALawyer1979 @mmlampinen #myAI #datalicense

Super excited that @HarvardJOLT has published our proposal for personal data licenses.

We foresee a future of user-held data, where each individual “activate” her personal data and get superior value from it https://t.co/bobGzNW8GA @LALawyer1979 @mmlampinen #myAI #datalicense— Paulius Jurcys (@pjurcys) March 6, 2020

https://twitter.com/pjurcys/status/1235958025367633926?s=20

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Paulius Jurcys @pjurcys · May 1 An insightful quote of the day (from public comments submitted in the process of drafting #CCPA Regulations): @LookerData @BarbGS10 #dataprivacy @jahven @mmlampinen @MyPrifina

An insightful quote of the day (from public comments submitted in the process of drafting #CCPA Regulations): @LookerData @BarbGS10 #dataprivacy @jahven @mmlampinen @MyPrifina pic.twitter.com/C1PIs4uSYd— Paulius Jurcys (@pjurcys) May 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/pjurcys/status/1256220729508536324?s=20

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Searched on
'Principles for Data Ownership Manuel Castells' (since I'm a Castellian, and teach a course on the Network Society and Information Technology):

Found (but not more)
Manuel Castells Principles for Data Ownership,” Decision Support Systems 15 (4): 267–84
https://issuu.com/gfbertini/docs/the_network_society_a_cross_cultural_perspective

May 11, 2011 - Manuel Castells is the Wallis Annenberg Chair Professor of ... Principles for Data Ownership,” Decision Support Systems 15 (4): 267–84.

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then searched on

'Legal Principles for Data Ownership'

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Why not One Big Database? Principles for Data Ownership
June 1994 http://web.mit.edu/smadnick/www/wp2/1994-03-SWP%233695.pdf

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0167923694000424

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REGULATING DATA AS PROPERTY: A NEW CONSTRUCT FOR MOVING FORWARD
JEFFREY RITTER AND ANNA MAYER †https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1320&context=dltr

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CIGI Papers No. 187 — September 2018
Data Ownership
Teresa Scassahttps://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/documents/Paper%20no.187_2.pdf

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Principles of Registry Ethics, Data Ownership, and Privacyhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK208620/

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Data Ownership - Health and Human Services -
https://ori.hhs.gov/education/products/n_illinois_u/datamanagement/dotopic.html

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Manuel Castells – Communication Powerhttps://mediaecologies.wordpress.com/...

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Castells' focus on ownership in his 2009/2013 book "Communication Power" is mostly about enormous media companies, and their networks in the information technology revolution.

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Dear Roland, Arlindo, Eli, Markus, and Paul, (and MIguel - who also is interested in questions of justice - and All CodeX presenters from the previous week),

Thanks so much for Stanford Law CodeX on Thursday, and your excellent presentations - https://law.stanford.edu/2020/04/29/codex-meeting-april-30th-2020/. I've included my questions below. In developing CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, and since MIT has neither a Law School (nor a Medical School), and thus no Law or Medicine CC-4 licensed OpenCourseWare, WUaS seeks to emerge if possible from Stanford Law, (and Stanford Medicine), - and potentially in all ~200 countries' official / main languages for major online universities, as well as even law courses, if helpful, in all 7,117 known living languages. Thus, I ask the following in these World Univ & Sch contexts, and regarding growing these CodeX legal networks:

1"Thank you, Arlindo! As a merchant banker, are you seeing anything on the horizon about Universal Basic Income experiments, and especially to distribute a single worldwide cryptocurrency (backed by some number of central banks in all ~200 countries) as (where “Nexilis is one of Brazil's first broad-spectrum legal asset firms, integrating technology, finance …”) ?

sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org is my email address. And where MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch is planning online universities in each of ~200 countries’ official / main languages, and wiki schools in all 7,117 known living languages (and then build from there to code for all 7.5 billion people re Universal Basic Income experiments - and to distribute a single cryptocurrency). Looking forward to communication further, Arlindo!

WUaS is exploring planning for coding for people / students in all ~200 countries, with our WUaS Law Schools too, speakers in all 7,117 known living languages - and then for all 7.5 billion people each a Wikidata Q-item number (or related PIN# number), to explore distributing a single cryptocurrency backed by some numbers of of ~200 countries' central banks, and distributed via Universal Basic Income experiments - to alleviate poverty. This would be something that would come after the Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states, and after the US dollar, a de facto international currency (see UBI here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/UBI).
2Eili, - Great! In building access-to-justice software and products for the private bar, are you exploring any pro bono law students’ learning opportunities? And in what ways, hypothetically, could such interns apprentice with licensed attorneys? Thank you, Eli!
Am curious about developing a WUaS online Law School in Florida, and potentially in all 50 US states, and not only in all ~200 countries' official languages (See this Oregon example ... https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/saffron-how-to-begin-iran-law-school-at.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/09/rocky-mountain-national-park-re-online.html) - Eli Mattern: Twitter: @SarahEliMattern
3Markus & Paul - Fantastic! In what ways might you plan for all 7.5 billion people - and possibly brainstorming-wise regarding Universal Basic Income experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency for most of all, again, 7.5 billion people - “to help people take back control of their data, by building tools for consumers and developers to create new value from that data? " (Thank you - will email you).
Here are some case examples for your thinking - aAm curious to learn further how you conceive, for example, of electronic medical health records in all ~200 countries, as an example for "people taking back control of their data" - eg re #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords?src=hashtag_click ... bAlso with your travel data thinking, re "people taking back control of their data" - what about people, hypothetically, traveling virtually in a single realistic virtual earth - eg traveling through Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, with TensorFlow, Translate and with avatar bots - and sheer amount of data? - in the future? - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking?src=hashtag_click - cAnd combine personal data with data centering around a single digital currency with block chain ledger, and add travel data all within a realistic virtual earth?
Markus Lampinen https://twitter.com/mmlampinen
Looking forward to learning your thoughts about this, and to staying in touch - and potentially via Stanford Law CodeX ... and emergent online law schools, exploratorily. Thank you again for your edifying presentations.
Thank you all so much, Scott

PSAnd in a related vein, in the middle of this coronavirus pandemic, who would own the following data (and with regard too to #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords in some of ~200 countries' official languages, I wonder; are EU electronic medical records region-wide between any of all 28 EU countries?)

Google/Apple contact tracing app analyzed
https://faz.net/podcasts/f-a-z-podcast-fuer-deutschland/f-a-z-podcast-fuer-deutschland-containment-scouts-auf-der-jagd-nach-infizierten-16749252.html so people could again travel safely, with a basis in medical science, preventing #covid19 viral infection? #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 bil people #WikiTree #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenealogy ?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1255955645699780608?s=20

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 9:14 AM Roland Vogl <rvogl@law.stanford.edu> wrote:

Hi Everyone,
Our next CodeX group meeting is today (Apr 30), from 1.30p to 2.30p PT via Zoom link below. Please note that this meeting is *virtual only,* and that all speakers will present remotely.

Our guests will be:
Arlindo Eira Filho, Founder & CEO, Nexilis Intellectual & Financial Capital. Nexilis is one of Brazil's first broad-spectrum legal asset firms, integrating technology, finance, and business insights to create a market for six classes of legal assets - including mass and high-stakes litigation.
Eli Mattern, CEO & General Counsel, SavvySuit, a software development company that builds access-to-justice software and products for the private bar. Its Pro Bono Matters empowers attorneys to search online for pro bono opportunities posted by their local legal aid organizations.
Markus Lampinen, CEO, and Paul Jurcys, Co-founder, Prifina. Prifina aims to help people take back control of their data, by building tools for consumers and developers to create new value from that data.

See you then!

Roland

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Lesser white-fronted goose: Legal Principles for Data Ownership? In what ways could WUaS law faculty teach about such data and intellectual property licenses, and emergent Legal Principles for Data Ownership in each of all ~200 countries?

Edifying to attend Stanford Law CodeX session last week - https://law.stanford.edu/2020/04/29/codex-meeting-april-30th-2020/ - and learn of Paul Jurcys and Markus Lampinen's work "to help people take back control of their data, by building tools for consumers and developers to create new value from that data."

(See, too: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/geissorhiza-stanford-codexgroupmeetings.html).

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Found too this paper the wrote in the Harvard JOLT journal -

My Data, My Terms: A Proposal for Personal Data Use LicensesPaul Jurcys, Chris Donewald, Jure Globocnik, Markus LampinenMarch 05, 2020
NOTES
https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/my-data-my-terms

which paper also suggests:

"There is also no other legal principle or theory that would per se justify the allocation of exclusive property rights over data.[17]"

Probably would build on the GDPR and CCPA per their paper:

"The European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)[4] and the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”)[5] are the most aggressive legislative acts aiming to improve how companies manage their customers’ data. Both the GDPR and the CCPA set forth a number of new or expanded rights for individuals."

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And in what ways could WUaS law faculty teach about such data and intellectual property licenses, and emergent Legal Principles for Data Ownership in each of all ~200 countries?

Am wondering too, brainstorming-wise, how a Google would structure this information technologically - and re the distributed-ness of the internet and TCP IP, and what precedents there might be ? In what ways would the blockchain ledger play a role ?

And how might such data licenses #datalicenses work with a single cryptocurrency with blockchain ledger in some number of ~200 countries and their official languages, and backed by their central banks (post Euro in 19 out of 28 nation states)?

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These are the initial questions I asked of them in my email to all these Stanford Law CodeX presenters:

"Markus & Paul - Fantastic! In what ways might you plan for all 7.5 billion people - and possibly brainstorming-wise regarding Universal Basic Income experiments to distribute a single cryptocurrency for most of all, again, 7.5 billion people - “to help people take back control of their data, by building tools for consumers and developers to create new value from that data? " (Thank you - will email you).

Here are some case examples for your thinking - aAm curious to learn further how you conceive, for example, of electronic medical health records in all ~200 countries, as an example for "people taking back control of their data" - eg re #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords ... https://twitter.com/hashtag/AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords?src=hashtag_click ... bAlso with your travel data thinking, re "people taking back control of their data" - what about people, hypothetically, traveling virtually in a single realistic virtual earth - eg traveling through Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, with TensorFlow, Translate and with avatar bots - and sheer amount of data? - in the future? - https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking?src=hashtag_click - cAnd combine personal data with data centering around a single digital currency with block chain ledger, and add travel data all within a realistic virtual earth?
Markus Lampinen: markus@prifina.com & https://twitter.com/mmlampinen paul@prifina.com
Looking forward to learning your thoughts about this, and to staying in touch - and potentially via Stanford Law CodeX ... and emergent online law schools, exploratorily. Thank you again for your edifying presentations.
Thank you all so much, Scott
PSAnd in a related vein, in the middle of this coronavirus pandemic, who would own the following data (and with regard too to #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords in some of ~200 countries' official languages, I wonder; are EU electronic medical records region-wide between any of all 28 EU countries?)
Google/Apple contact tracing app analyzed
https://faz.net/podcasts/f-a-z-podcast-fuer-deutschland/f-a-z-podcast-fuer-deutschland-containment-scouts-auf-der-jagd-nach-infizierten-16749252.html so people could again travel safely, with a basis in medical science, preventing #covid19 viral infection? #AvatarBotElectronicMedicalRecords for all 7.5 bil people #WikiTree #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenealogy ?
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1255955645699780608?s=20"

- https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/05/geissorhiza-stanford-codexgroupmeetings.html -

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Glad then to have seen Paul Jurcys post this in LinkedIn on Monday, May 4, 2020 -

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6660787879507304449/
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Status is reachable Paulius Jurcys, Ph.D.
• 1stCo-Founder at Prifina - Liberty. Equality. Data.1w • Edited • 1 week ago
We - Markus Lampinen and I - are very much looking forward to speaking at CodeX, The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics meeting this Thursday.

We will present our work on building user-held, user-centric data privacy tools and focus more on the personal data licenses. Our proposal for personal data licenses was previously published at Harvard's JOLT (https://lnkd.in/gxsz3hK)

Join us this Thursday (30 April) at 1.30 pm PST: https://lnkd.in/ggTH7s4 (meeting ID: 586446628)

Jouko, Kimmo, Valto, Chris, Jure, Sara, Michael, Dan, Dooter, Begoña, Marcelo, Roland, Shannon, Roland, Ciprian, Feola, Mary, Tadas, Tyler, Anci, Lei, Mallika, Michael, Johannes, Marketa, Søren, Tomi, Markus

# #personaldata #dataprivacy #ccpa #gdpr #data #privacy #usercentricdata #dataprotection #datalicenses Prifina - Liberty. Equality. Data.

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The video of their presentation may appear on the Stanford Law CodeX Youtube video channel - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL48E61C121CAD0E1B ...

Join us for a virtual CodeX Meeting tomorrow at 1:30PM PT (via zoom), ft:

- Arlindo Eira Filho (Nexilis)
- @SarahEliMattern (@SavvySuit)
- @mmlampinen & @pjurcys (@MyPrifina)https://law.stanford.edu/2020/04/29/c... …

Join us for a virtual CodeX Meeting tomorrow at 1:30PM PT (via zoom), ft:

- Arlindo Eira Filho (Nexilis)
- @SarahEliMattern (@SavvySuit)
-@mmlampinen & @pjurcys (@MyPrifina)https://t.co/h5OC7w8gFH— CodeX Stanford (@CodeXStanford) April 29, 2020

Super excited that @HarvardJOLT has published our proposal for personal data licenses.

We foresee a future of user-held data, where each individual “activate” her personal data and get superior value from it https://t.co/bobGzNW8GA @LALawyer1979 @mmlampinen #myAI #datalicense— Paulius Jurcys (@pjurcys) March 6, 2020

An insightful quote of the day (from public comments submitted in the process of drafting #CCPA Regulations): @LookerData @BarbGS10 #dataprivacy @jahven @mmlampinen @MyPrifina pic.twitter.com/C1PIs4uSYd— Paulius Jurcys (@pjurcys) May 1, 2020

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