Saturday, July 25, 2020

Horton Plains National Park, Sri Lanka: Hypothetical news: Coronavirus pandemic is a constructor of LAWs, in all 200 countries, and began meme-wise in newspapers, idea-spheres (institutions, financial markets etc), due to significant lawlessness in US, China, Russia, Europe (but less so) * * * CYC June 1 2020 Newsletter and COVID Plan - Cuttyhunk Yacht Club sailing program in Massachusetts - and planning for the next epidemic in remote locations * * * ACTUAL-VIRTUAL BUSINESS PLAN ( 'retail' in the digital age - i.e. and to get books and computers etc to our WUaS students!) * * My SmartPhone is down ... and it would be great to become an official carrier of the Google Pixel smartphones, like Lego Robotics * Smartphone SAGA in the post script


1- Hypothetical news: Coronavirus pandemic is a constructor of LAWs, in all 200 countries, and began meme-wise in newspapers, idea-spheres (institutions, financial markets etc), due to significant lawlessness in US, China, Russia, Europe (but less so) - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1287139301155680256?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1287142199004520448?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1287142507176894466?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1287143487377256450?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1287150259458543617?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1287150576195649537?s=20



2- & pandemic is developing as way for govts to address this problem creating laws around world including esp new Code (code is law per Lessig) & which CODE includes Google-Apple coronavirus tracing App, & even digital simulations of 'mild' #Covid19 virus https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Law~


https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1287140133494337541?s=20
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1287142023959519232?s=20
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1287142432283361280?s=20
https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1287143309450780672?s=20
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1287149972429758464?s=20
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1287150746811564033?s=20




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CYC June 1 2020 Newsletter and COVID Plan - 
 Cuttyhunk Yacht Club sailing program in Massachusetts - and planning for the next epidemic in remote locations


Scott MacLeod

9:43 AM (3 hours ago)
to Cuttyhunk-Telegraph, Cuttyhunk, cuttyhunk.wright, Al, Gail, youngstew, lynchmarine, Brent, pauladimare, Jon, Charmaine, David, Nicholas, Nicholas, Bob, elmorebee, james, dbillman, Doug, Hilly, dblout, Christine, david.joan184, jenwarr, Robin, Peter, Liz, Sarah, Chris, Chris, me, Grant, John, Chris, Joan, Seymour, Sarah, Janie, Jim, Matt, Peggy, cathy4ford, Duane, ggkidder, Sandy, Scott, pbfroth, loon40

Dear David, Patti, Bee, George, Anna, Captain Dale, Stew, Serena, Mary, Gayle, Lisa, Paula, Seymour, Janie, Johnny, Anne, Cuttyhunkers All, 

Very nice to see you all in the Cuttyhunk Board of Selectmen Town Meeting yesterday. Thanks for responding too to my what if a covid-19 emergency arises, Stew - and that Cuttyhunk is prepared with ventilators on 2 ferries. (A genetic mutation, and rapid spread of new genes, among a group of seniors, would potentially entail the need for new tests even - https://www.projectbaseline.com/study/covid-19/).

Since we spent the first 30 minutes talking about Cuttyhunk preparedness for covid-19, how to go from genetic tests into the Google-Apple coronavirus tracing App into electronic medical records with remarkably high accuracy is a fascinating question, if not for this pandemic, but the next one per Harvard and MIT Prof. of Genetics George Church: 

george church @geochurch · Feb 11
https://link.medium.com/7zL63vauY3    Thanks Ed. Rapid response capabilities needed: molecular diagnostics, vaccines, neutralizing antibodies, and homes easily converted to off-the-grid full-recycling quarantine-biospheres. Not just for this epidemic, but the next one.
https://twitter.com/geochurch/status/1227150486320615424?s=20

Am appreciative too of how many MASK Tweets George Church has posted in recent months. 

Hope to see you all in 'virtual Cuttyhunk' or on actual Cuttyhunk in the next while. 

Warm regards, Scott







More information about COVID-19 from Rob Califf per CYC email recnetly: 
Covid-19: Physical distancing of at least one metre is linked to large reduction in infection
https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1268248353554329600?s=20


With regards to COVID-19 and summer warm weather, here's a Twitter post from a Duke University MD / Professor, who is also the head of Google's Duke's Stanford's Verily's Project Baseline (regarding rapid response, tracking and testing even?) and former FDA commissioner: 


Robert M Califf @califf001
Important message from NIH.  We need to keep our resolve & use our most effective tool: social distancing.  Will Warm Weather Slow Spread of Novel Coronavirus?
https://twitter.com/califf001/status/1268202977946267648?s=20


What emergency planning is there for a so-called second wave of local coronavirus infections? Could this be combined with Google's Stanford's Duke's Verily's Project Baseline (regarding rapid response, tracking and testing even?) Thank you.


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- Scott MacLeod





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WUaS Educational Services' Store


Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

11:53 AM (1 hour ago)
to Edward, Marisol, sorenjuuljorgensen, Roland, John, Hank, Larry, Govind, Kyle, tito, Juan, Jayni, Yuping-CASPA, Iulian, Julian, Peter, Scott, vejeta, Yuping-CASPA, Koh, Info, Govind, Scott, Markus, David, Meeting, Scott, Sri, india, Rohit, Nidahas, Rohit, nidahasvidyalaya
Dear Larry, Govind, Julian, Kyle, Jayni, Tito, Juan, Yuping, Rifai, Rohit, Peter, Soren, Roland, John, Hank, All, 

ACTUAL-VIRTUAL BUSINESS PLAN ( 'retail' in the digital age - i.e. and to get books and computers etc to our WUaS students!)

An Actual-Virtual business plan in all ~200 countries' languages at WUaS Educational Services' Store - and way beyond WUaS officially carrying Lego robotics? Start with Google Pixel smartphones? 

My SmartPhone is down ... and it would be great to become an official carrier of the Google Pixel smartphones, like Lego Robotics - and especially in planning for all ~200 countries' official and main languages, both online and on-the-ground. See yesterday's phone SAGA in the post script below. 

So SmartPhone is down here, and the new one comes in a week. Since my smartphone (an old Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone) died yesterday morning, I may have to head to get a Google Pixel 3a smartphone, and then see at the same time if an upgrade to the Google Pixel 4a smartphone (due in October 2020 - if only my current old smartphone could have lasted until then!) becomes somehow available, and FOR something like Google DayDream digital masks and augmented reality generation from home, and virtual reality, and even in a SINGLE realistic virtual earth as STEM field sites and as classrooms, for law, too - 
REALISTIC VIRTUAL EARTH FOR LAW - 
https://twitter.com/hashtag/RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw?src=hashtag_click ! SmartPhones are so central to life these days!

So, become an official VIRTUAL carrier of Google Pixel 4a phones (for augmented reality in what comes after Google DayDream masks for a realistic virtual earth?), like being an official carrier of Lego Robotics (but not yet a reseller!) ONLINE first - and then move to on-the-ground WUaS Educational Service Stores? As you can see here re WUaS carrying Lego robotics - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - people in other countries have to find a Lego distributor in that country; see the Lego store-finder link here. Let Google and Lego figure out distribution ON-the-GROUND in all ~200 countries' languages at first (and later WUaS can help?).

(WUaS ALSO seeks to leverage our two 2 WUaS LEGAL entities' wings - and in all 200 countries and in all 7,117 known living languages - and there's amazing leverage potential here too). 

So, how to get Lego Robotics and Google Pixel 4a phones to rural Sri Lankan WUaS students, and rural Indian WUaS students - somewhat like getting a Google Pixel 3a phone here where I live in rural America (in the woods in Canyon 94516, 25 minutes from Berkeley - SEE phone SAGA below)? VIRTUALLY first from web sites to secure shipping destinations (in America, Sri Lanka, Romania, Malaysia, India +)

Am seeking to keep this line from the Desiderata in mind in these regards as well:
"Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time." (https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html)

Am wondering if, with John Hennessy as Chairman of Alphabet, and Sundar Pichai as CEO of Google, whether they could help with the VIRTUAL  WUaS Educational Services' Stores carrying Google Pixel phones in all of Google's countries - and whether they could even help WUaS build the platform, and with TensorFlow machine learning as well? 

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions?

Sincerely, Scott


PS
Yesterday's smartphone SAGA in the post script.: 
So SmartPhone is down here, and the new one comes in about a week. Since my smartphone (an old Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone) died yesterday morning, I may have to head to get a Google Pixel 3a smartphone, and then see at the same time if an upgrade to the Google Pixel 4a smartphone (due out in October - if only my current old smartphone could have lasted until then!) becomes somehow available! For something like Google DayDream digital masks and augmented reality generation from home, and virtual reality, and a realistic virtual earth! Phones are central to life these days!

Phone seemed to die around 6am in the morning - and the Samsung logo was on the screen. My old phone is some 8 years old. So what to do? Having weeks' ago identified the Google Pixel 4a as the next phone I want, and checked T-Mobile's website (where it seemed I could purchase this), I went to T-Mobile store (since T-Mobile is my carrier) in Oakland near Lake Merritt, and they didn't have it, and when they called other stores, none had it either. (They suggested checking out Best Buy and Target). I went to Walmart for other shopping - and they didn't have it either. The T-Mobile store also suggested ordering it online, but later I couldn't. (I didn't have a phone to call the free 800 number, and I didn't have a workable FaceTime video App to talk with them - digital catch-22).  

So, Best Buy, like T-Mobile, like Target didn't have it in-store, and T-Mobile's VIRTUAL-store doesn't work without calling a free 1 800 - - -  - - - - telephone number to place order, and my phone is broken, (or with FaceTime, which App doesn't work for me, like many Apple software Apps for me ... re my non-functioning Apple ID). 

Why couldn't I find it physically in-store anywhere - and in the SF Bay Area? Perhaps Google releases these Pixela value smartphones carefully VIRTUALLY for a variety of reasons, including security (physically and VIRTUALLY), and through a trusted VIRTUAL retailer (Amazon) for them. 

Then it occurred to me to try Amazon - and for learning purposes too for the WUaS Educational Services' Store - and since I would much prefer to have bought this phone from WUaS Educational Services' Store in the big picture anyway (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0852WY8CR/). And I could buy it from efficient VIRTUAL Amazon - and for less than $400 which is a value price in the USA - but I had to ship it to a friend's address, probably because where I live in Canyon 94516 even with its own US post office, isn't secure for shipping a smartphone, and Amazon's software anticipated this glitch, and I could efficiently have my upcoming phone shipped to my friend's house arriving in 7-10 days! O my - 10 days without a phone (and not so efficient of Amazon either!)! 

And why has this situation evolved for Google to distribute their phones in this way? (Possibly lack of trust in physical in-store retailers - albeit Target had the much more expensive Google Pixel 4 phone in-store).

Was my smartphone somehow locked by Samsung remotely at the end of its approximately 8 year life? And can I get the photos and text messages off it, like getting Harbin field work data off my dead previous Treo smartphone - with a new kind of digital archaeology even ? Here at the bottom of yesterday's blog post are the messages I was texting to 4 friends/ family while out on a walk. Could these messages even have had something to do with my "dead" smartphone? Who knows? 

Begin with the VIRTUAL in all 200 countries as one irons out the postal systems/languages/currencies, and then develop on-the-ground cafes / bookstores / computer stores / robotics' stores building out of Google's Starbuck's store placement regarding I.T. software? OR first the virtual in some countries, and first the actual/physical in some countries?  

Warm regards, Scott



The Google Pixel 3A gets a great CNET review here (8.2/10):

Google Pixel 3A review:
Google's cheaper Pixel 4 alternative has a great camera
July 17, 2020 3:02 p.m.

3 months until the Google Pixel 4a smartphone, probably for $399 too comes out. 





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