Red kite: Interesting that Harbin Hot Springs says it's open now - . . . Yet the stay-at-home California directive due to Covid-19 quarantine is still in effect ... * * * Is Live View in Google Maps on the Google Pixel 3a smartphone a kind of ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy? * * * One thing that seems missing from the Covid-19 epidemic news' and medicine conversation (with very little genes' testing focus in the US, and re the threat of a SARS, for example) of the past 6 months or so, is how a pandemic can be politicized - from an academic conversation analysis (ie Berkeley, Michigan, Harvard, MIT, Stanford from the 1960s' forward). Perhaps academics and intellectuals learned how to politicize this Covid-19 pandemic from this academic discourse of the past 50 years or so * * How to riffingly characterize a new covid-19 culture we're living through ?

 

Interesting that Harbin Hot Springs says it's open now - 

Welcome back to this sacred land and water...

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We Are Currently Open

Our hearts and prayers are with our friends, neighbors and first responders in Sonoma and Napa Counties during this tragic fire event and recovery. Harbin is currently open. Before planning your visit, please read the information below regarding road closures and air quality. (10/6/20)

See details below.

https://harbin.org

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Yet the stay-at-home California directive due to Covid-19 quarantine is still in effect ... 

All individuals living in the State of California are currently ordered to stay home or at their place of residence, except for permitted work, local shopping or other permitted errands, or as otherwise authorized (including in the Questions & Answers below).

On March 19, 2020, an Executive Order (PDF) and Public Health Order (PDF) directed all Californians to stay home except to go to an essential job or to shop for essential needs.

https://covid19.ca.gov/stay-home-except-for-essential-needs/

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Is Live View in Google Maps on the Google Pixel 3a smartphone a kind of ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy?

When I open Maps, and click on the little compass rose Live View icon, I first see:

"Allow Maps to take pictures and record video?"

"While using this app"

"Only this time"

"Deny" 

then: 

"Point your camera at buildings and signs across the street"

And Live View will start sending photos and data (and possibly video) back to Google Maps, potentially adding such images to Google Earth from all of us using this application. This is partly what I have in mind by ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy as method, and as social theory too. 

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So instead of wiki-adding a photo or video to Google Street View from your smartphone, or building a virtual world of your home or field site in Second Life, Sansar, with their avatar bots, or Minecraft (re its Lego scale) or similar, or adding text in a new way to the side bar of Google Street View re images in Street View - all examples of approaches to ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - Google Live View seems potentially able to automate some of this processes, and even with machine learning. Cool. 

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This is just a beginning 'how to' to using Live View, I think ...

How to use Live View in Google Maps | Pixel

https://youtu.be/GL29sA9w5M0

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More here ... 

Android 11 Pixel Feature Drop brings AR location sharing in Google Maps Live View

Abner Li - Sep. 8th 2020 10:16 am PT @technacity

https://9to5google.com/2020/09/08/android-11-pixel-feature-drop/

AND

Google Maps can use Live View AR to calibrate your current location, orientation

Abner Li - Jul. 14th 2020 9:37 am PT @technacity

https://9to5google.com/2020/07/14/google-maps-live-view-calibrate/

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Google Cardboard wouldn't work very well around bath tubs and water for inserting one's smartphone and visiting virtual Harbin Hot Springs, or other hot springs virtually, because the cardboard could 'melt' easily, and regarding - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/10/spicebush-swallowtail.html! 

Glad to have seen other choices besides Cardboard as I visited this Onsen on my Pixel Smartphone - 

竹取亭円山 有馬温泉湯めぐりVR https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI

Check this video out on a Google Pixel 3a smartphone or similar (iPhone too?), and you'll be able to see how to GET Google Cardboard or other similar digital masks.

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One thing that seems missing from the Covid-19 epidemic news' and medicine conversation (with very little genes' testing focus in the US, and re the threat of a SARS, for example) of the past 6 months or so, is how a pandemic can be politicized - from an academic conversation analysis (ie Berkeley, Michigan, Harvard, MIT, Stanford from the 1960s' forward). Perhaps academics and intellectuals learned how to politicize this Covid-19 pandemic from this academic discourse of the past 50 years or so. 

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How to riffingly characterize a new covid-19 culture we're living through ?

... could this be one way, and very riffingly (and also for the record re this US election debate): 

Here's the livestream for the vice presidential debate happening now: https://cnn.com/politics/live-news/vp-debate-coverage-fact-check-10-07-20/index.html … - To Political Science https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Political_Science … 

@WorldUnivAndSch - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (& WUaS Languages: 

@sgkmacleod) & @HarbinBook &  #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics re #covid19 ?

Here's the livestream for the vice presidential debate happening now: https://t.co/TA4zbDnzWc - To Political Science https://t.co/4evPwIFz8K @WorldUnivAndSch - https://t.co/iVYHvbZbli (& WUaS Languages: @sgkmacleod) & @HarbinBook & #RealisticVirtualEarthForGenetics re #covid19 ?

— Scott_GK_MacLeod_WUaS_worlduniversityandschool.org (@scottmacleod) October 8, 2020

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1314011737486573568?s=20

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