Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Collared kingfisher: Democratic Debates 1 & 2 * * * Hi @neha @PeterMcCormack what are your thoughts - re Central Banks of India and Bangladesh - and re a large 'field site' to test a single #cryptocurrency backed by 1-2 central banks in Bangladesh & India with #UBI experiments? (@mazumdarp, Sid & Harvard MD Prof Marti), UBI experiments would serve as a way to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by many central banks


Hi M, 

How was your day? And how was the debate ? 

Methinks I'm leaning toward in this order - 

Andrew Yang - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Yang
Pete Buttigieg - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Buttigieg (and possibly as a running mate with Elizabeth Warren)


- after this 2nd Democratic Debate (2 - https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/democratic-debate-july-31-2019/index.html), and also think Joe Biden could be most likely to beat the current president, and is among the smartest and most accomplished. 

They're all really smart, but Biden is very smart as a politician, in my experience, and especially re image-making (which is a key point for Manuel Castells in the current book by him that I'm reading "Communication Power" and with which I agree; if elections are like horse races, per Castells too, I think Biden could most likely and masterfully win this one in 2020). I also appreciate his vast experience in the Obama administration as VP, closest to the office of the presidency of all these candidates. And I don't think he would waffle out over 4 or 8 years as I wondered about on Cuttyhunk with you and Peg. What do you think? He also knows the language of these debates, and these politics re presidential politics. And having been Obama's VP, I think he would successfully work against racism - and to "heal the racial divide" per a question I just heard in the debates. I agree too with Andrew Yang re both UBI and technology and re risk to jobs, and health care too, but I think the way he presents his ideas are as outliers, and too far from Biden's and many center. Andrew is also thinking about the future re information technology in more sensible ways than the rest of them. I like too Elizabeth Warren's re-framing re the big picture, and feistiness (reminding me a bit of Dad even). Hopefully the democratic candidate for president will synthesize the best of all of these idea generators. (These candidates are all pretty strong - time to narrow the field? Glad too we have so many candidates of color! Congratulations, America!:).

Now who will win the Democratic nomination? Probably none of the above ... 

I also hope any Dem president might develop a single cryptocurrency with block chain for all 7.5 billion people, and explore doing this with Universal Basic Income experiments in all ~200 countries -

Adrift by-the-wind sailor (Velella): Full house for Hamilton (musical) on a Wednesday afternoon Orpheum SF ... Color conscious cast * * * Could E.W. come to office in 2020 running policy-wise on a single cryptocurrency backed by some number of ~200 countries' central banks - and even Universal Basic Income experiments (on a BANK Card - as 'product,' - e.g. the 'debit cards' mentioned here "Will ‘basic income’ become the California norm? Stockton starts $500 no-strings payments" ... https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article226280230.html - or for those who have them, on smart phones) - in the same way Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. banking system in the US, . And re Castells

 - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/04/adrift-by-wind-sailor-velella-full.html.

I found this evening's debate slightly more engaged than last evening's. 

Could be emailing this to Alden, Sandy, David T, John K, Pin M, and more friends, but may just blog it instead, and thus engage in a unique kind of "communication power" per Castells. :)

(And I'll be content in my own world with developing, as president, professor and founder, wiki MIT OCW-centric World University and School in ~200 countries and 7111 known living languages - potentially creating 2.2. million jobs (in the US and in all ~200 countries' languages, and re diversity as well) - and also my actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic project, bagpiping, and beginning a family).

What do you think now after the debates, M? Who do you think would be your current 'picks' as well?

L, Scott

Here are the two Democratic Debates' links from CNN which should have recordings of them soon - 






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August 1, 2019 

M, 

And what did you think of the debates? Just noticed that Google Education's Brendan Chan is moving to Indiana to volunteer for the Buttigieg campaign - https://twitter.com/EduBrendan/status/1156928478844817410 - leading me to wonder about a new facet of these Presidential candidates' debates, i.e. how Google's IT, or social media, could be focused to help specific candidates.  Brendan was a World Univ & Sch contact at Google (where WUaS is in Google Education), and probably knows its infrastructure well. On his Twitter feed, he also seems to focusing this morning on Buttigieg image-making. Wondering if some Google folks are also volunteering for Elizabeth Warren's campaign. Would still lean toward a Warren - Buttigieg ticket, but think Biden is more masterful and potentially a better viable candidate to win in 2020 ... You? 

I also think that Warren as first woman president in the US would be great, and would be a further expression of the American dream. Methinks Elizabeth Warren would benefit from a further image-making focus; I think Biden is doing well in this sphere.  


L, Scott





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Hi Neha, Peter, Pin (Sid), Marti, Janie, and the Mazumdars,

Thanks for your recent excellent interview on Bitcoin+, Peter and Neha - https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/bitcoin-security-and-ethics-with-neha-narula - https://twitter.com/neha/status/1152270084477468672 and https://twitter.com/PeterMcCormack/status/1149660711984877568.

I'm writing to introduce you to one another. Neha Narula is the director of the MIT DCI, Peter McCormack studies and is a journalist about BitCoin + and similar, Sid (Pin), and Sid's sister Marti (Maitreyi) is a Harvard Professor of Neurology http://www.childrenshospital.org/directory/physicians/m/maitreyi-mazumdar with a research focus on children and infants in Bangladesh (and her twin brother is in State Department Foreign Service Officer in Sri Lanka). The Mazumdar parents came from West Bengal in 1962 to study for Ph.D.s at Cornell. And Pin (Sid) is my best friend from high school, Shady Side Academy, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (I'm also the founder and president of wiki CC-4 MIT OpenCourseWare-centric World University and School, and planned online in each of all ~200 countries' official languages as major online universities - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and with planned law schools, medical schools, online computer science departments, and planned too in each of all 7,111 known living languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages).

Hi @neha @PeterMcCormack what are your thoughts re
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/nicobar-pigeon-am-curious-how-neha.html
& http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/north-sentinel-island-india-with-regard.html?m=0  -
about a large 'field site' to test a single #cryptocurrency backed by 1-2 central banks in Bangladesh & India with #UBI experiments? (@mazumdarp, Sid & Harvard MD Prof Marti)

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1156751083596726272

UBI experiments would serve as a way to distribute a single cryptocurrency backed by many central banks.

Central Bank of India -
https://www.centralbankofindia.co.in/english/home.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_of_India

Central Bank of Bangladesh -
https://www.bb.org.bd/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_Bank


Neha and Marti, have you met each other re your being based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at MIT and Harvard?

Best regards, Scott

Scott MacLeod - https://twitter.com/scottmacleod

World Univ and Sch Twitter - http://twitter.com/WorldUnivandSch

Languages - World Univ - http://twitter.com/sgkmacleod

WUaS Press - https://twitter.com/WUaSPress

“Naked Harbin Ethnography” book (in Academic Press at WUaS) - http://twitter.com/HarbinBook

(OpenBand (Berkeley) - https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand )


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Am including Wikidata's Lydia Pintscher @nightrose in this related Tweet:

Hi
@neha

@PeterMcCormack
 what are your thoughts re
(link: http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/north-sentinel-island-india-with-regard.html?m=0) scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/07/north-… -
 (link: https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1156281267563847680) twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSc…
about a large 'field site' to test a single #cryptocurrency backed by 1-2 central banks in Bangladesh & India with #UBI exps? (
@nightrose

@mazumdarp
 Pin & Marti MD Harvard Prof)

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1156688747519344640









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