Sunday, May 2, 2021

purple Chinese houses (Collinsia heterophylla): 'Canyon bagpiper Scott MacLeod serenades athletes at Canyon Road and Camino Pablo' * Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~ https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf) Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford ~ https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8 @scottmacleod * * * Virtual Worlds & UBI - Actual >Virtual >#WUaSBlockchainLedger >#SingleCryptocurrency like #PiCryptocurrency #MinePi > mining space re heavy industries with robotics >ONE realistic virtual earth /universe for everything> * * * Ethics of accepting a prize by philosopher Jürgen Habermas - (and a house in Canyon 94516 even)?)

 

'Canyon bagpiper Scott MacLeod serenades athletes at Canyon Road and Camino Pablo'

Bagpiping near home in Canyon 94516 ~ 


Scott MacLeod bagpiping GHB in Moraga see Lamorinda article 5 8 2013 

Africa Mummies Stanford Museum May 2013

Scott MacLeod with back pack straps Asian in background Stanford Arches May 2013

Kevin Carr bagpiping Scott MacLeod listening Stanford May 2013

Scott MacLeod with back pack straps Asian in background Stanford Arches May 2013

Kevin Carr bagpiping with drummer Scott MacLeod listening Stanford May 2013 



Dear Ma, Ed, Tym, Pin, Larry, Sandy, Cindy, Byron, Jim, Mark, All, 

Some pics popped up in Google Photo from which I created some Tweets ... 

Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford, Stanford Univ, Leland Stanford portrait, My GHB piping near Canyon 94516
@scottmacleod


Kevin Carr bagpiping Scott MacLeod listening Stanford May 2013



Leland Stanford portrait Scott MacLeod with tie dye Stanford Museum May 2013



Africa Mummies Stanford Museum May 2013


Scott MacLeod with back pack straps Asian in background Stanford Arches May 2013



Kevin Carr bagpiping with drummer Scott MacLeod listening Stanford May 2013 



(Scott MacLeod bagpiping GHB in Moraga see Lamorinda article 5 8 2013 

Leland Stanford portrait Scott MacLeod with tie dye Stanford Museum May 2013

Africa Mummies Stanford Museum May 2013

Scott MacLeod with back pack straps Asian in background Stanford Arches May 2013

Kevin Carr bagpiping Scott MacLeod listening Stanford May 2013

Kevin Carr bagpiping with drummer Scott MacLeod listening Stanford May 2013)





This lead to my recalling and finding an article about my piping here in Moraga in 2013 - 

(which Canyon neighbor and resident Christine Lavin wrote, and which mentions World University and School) - near my home in Canyon.

Could this lead further to a home in Canyon 94516 even (with Byron & Cindy living about 4 miles away:)? Thanks to the AI selectors of these photos at Google.

Good I think to share these on Twitter TOO - about 'my home in Canyon 94516' 

Warm regards, 
Scott
Canyon blog label, in daily Blog ... 


Have moved onto the Scottish small pipes now, and glad to have produced my first album in December 2020 ~

(and 5 Harbin-inspired books later, with pics of covers, a few poems from which I just read at a MIT Libraries' Open mic - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/pagosa-hot-springs-southern-colorado.html?m=0). 



First found, in searching for article ... 
Yumpu -
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/24776043/moraga-lamorinda-weekly

May 8, 2013 — Chris Lavin has the ... www.lamorindaweekly.com  Wednesday, May 8, 2013 ... 

Canyon bagpiper Scott MacLeod serenades athletes at Canyon Road and Camino Pablo in ...

https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf



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Tweets - 

Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~
https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf)
Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford
~  https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8
@scottmacleod
 
@sgkmacleod
 ~8 years ago 5/1/13 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1388526500761112582?s=20



Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford, Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~
https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf) ~  https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8
@scottmacleod
 
@sgkmacleod
 ~8 years ago 5/1/13 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1388526152482885632?s=20




8 years ago today (May 1, 2013) Stanford University, Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford, Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516, in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~
https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf) - https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8
@scottmacleod
 ~

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1388524651677057027?s=20



Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf)
Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford
~ https://photos.app.goo.gl/9RFtmD2LCxBsi3mt8
@sgkmacleod
 8 years ago 5/1/13 https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Bagpipe_Tutorials
@WorldUnivAndSch
 ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1388527098130694148?s=20


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

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



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

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


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-- 
- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
World Univ & Sch (WUaS) - PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
1) non-profit World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  
2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 

World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 


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Dear Ma, Ed, pin, Tym, Larry, All,


Am wondering how this home of mine in Canyon 94516 could become a vibrant World Univ & Sch multimedia center as well - to help grow WUaS in offering online Wiki schools, and free-to-students' online degrees, in ~200 countries and 7,139 living languages, in a project-able interactive single realistic virtual earth: 

Could its shop become digital virtual STEAM field sites and classrooms for music-making, hospital-'teachnologies,' brain science (begin to look inside the brain FROM the inside) and at the cellular and atomic levels too, and so much more related to the physical world made digital, the actual earth, transposed virtually and made interactive and learnable in new ways (see the #realisticvirtualearth for ... links here worlduniversityandschool.org) with Google Street View with time slider, Maps, Earth, TensorFlowAI translate+? Here's the idea of capturing a room in 3D -https://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/heres-an-actual-3d-indoor-map-of-a-room-captured-with-googles-project-tango-phone/amp/ . And now how to project this, for ex., inside the shop at 670 Ridgecrest Road?

Just got a haircut recently, and went over yesterday near Canyon 94516 to the Valle Vista Staging Area for a hike, and took these related pics - https://photos.app.goo.gl/sehQ8PVnQbTBo2NHA. Could one even project these pics of the head I think of the Upper San Leandro Reservoir into the shop at 670 Ridgecrest Rd Canyon CA (or your living room) with slightly moving water to be able to revisit this walk, and do field work too, ie naturalist, artistic, photographic etc ?

Here's another way to think about it - by entering into the art itself in the Louvre

Again, thanks to Google AI for these pics too:
'Highland bagpiping near my home in Canyon 94516 in the town of Moraga by an orchard (with a newspaper article about this ~https://lamorindaweekly.com/archive/issue0705/pdf/issue0705.pdf)
Kevin Carr bagpiping at Stanford
@sgkmacleod
@WorldUnivAndSch ~ '

Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions re moving back into a safe, 'cleaned-up' Canyon 94516?

Happy Greek Easter! :)
Scott



Upper San Leandro Reservoir from hike on May 1, 2021 (~2 miles from Canyon 94516), and before & after haircut pics -

Happy early Mother's Day (and Happy Easter in Greece, Russia & similar:)



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Dear Dear Ma, Ed, Pin, Tym, Larry, All,

Blogged about all of this thread here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/purple-chinese-houses-collinsia.html?m=0 - including about A) the ethics of rejecting (or accepting) a prize, in this case philosopher Habermas rejecting a 225,000 Euro prize from the UAE (re Friendly Quaker conscientious objection thinking too) - & could 670 Ridgecrest Canyon 94516 become a kind of prize even ? - and about
B) a single cryptocurrency to alleviate poverty thanks to UBI Experiments among 7.8 billion people, and more.


WUaS is also seeking to grow with Google ...  in addition potentially to growing with edX, and especially MIT (beyond OCW.mit.edu), and possibly with Stanford too, and here's a good NYT's article from senior legal counsel Kent Walker in these regards - 



"Google’s Plan for the Future of Work: Privacy Robots and Balloon Walls
The company that helped popularize open office plans and lavish employee perks is trying to reinvent office spaces to cope with workplace sensibilities changed by the pandemic."


Appreciating Google AI thinking also in a variety of ways.

Warm regards, Scott 


Is Google AI therefore a philosophy company too - ? :)
SEE
'Philosophy' Blues'vlog label in daily blog too ~
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/philosophy?m=0 ... And the Harvard Philosophy Whitehead lectures ending Friday were great ... See my questions regarding redirecting metaphysics in blog POST on that day :) 



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Virtual Worlds & UBI 


SEC's Hester Peirce on #EarthDay mentioning "#MiningTechniques" at 1:12. #StanfordMinePi Coin may be one of the best at this too - & even regarding possible #WUaSUBIexperiments to alleviate poverty among all 7.8 billion people in 200 countries for ex: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~

https://twitter.com/HesterPeirce/status/1385410886353969159?s=20


https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1388928143457538055?s=20


https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1388926278225457153?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1388925987757248512?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1388927922916913154?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1388928793163702274?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1388928975280373768?s=20


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Sri Lanka WUaS

Thu, Apr 22, 10:09 AM (10 days ago)

to me


Hi !

Hope everyone is doing good. These links will be interesting.

https://www.facebook.com/nasdaily/videos/the-secret-bitcoin-billionaire/267912324832663/

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/i-started-with-nothing-says-man-who-shook-art-world

https://www.metapurse.fund/investments.html

Regards,

Rifai

SL WUaS


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Hi Sri, 

Great to hear from you - and great outreach.

Check out the conversation between Neha and Hester here - https://mitbitcoinexpo.org/ - if you can find it, and other videos. 

https://twitter.com/neha/status/1378346595582939138?s=20

Neha is the Director of the MIT DCI Digital Currency Initiative, and Hester is a key regulator and lawyer, working with new SEC Chair Gensler:   

Hester talks much of a token focus per your - https://www.metapurse.fund/investments.html - but I don't see a token focus with 'Stanford Mine Pi Coin' cryptocurrency. 

I searched on 
'stanford mine pi cryptocurrency us federal reserve tokens' - and found - 


and this from the Stanford Graduate School of Business GSB - which may be some theory behind "Pi"
https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/gsb/files/fin_11_19_cong.pdf

Am still thinking that Stanford Mine Pi Coin' may become adopted by the US central bank, the European Central Bank, and many of the other 200 countries' central banks, with the other 10000s of cryptocurrencies, becoming like numismatics.

Cheers, Scott



The MIT Bitcoin Expo, put on by the
@MITBitcoinClub, is a must watch if you have any interest in Bitcoin or other digital assets.
Live this weekend but also available asynchronously!
https://twitter.com/neha/status/1378346595582939138?s=20
Scott



-- 
- Scott MacLeod - Founder & President  
- World University and School

- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. 


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Sri Lanka WUaS

Mon, Apr 26, 8:11 AM (6 days ago)
to me
Hi !

Thanks for the share. The future of cryptocurrencies might be Digital Yuan.


Regards,

Rifai


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Hi Rifai, 


Thank you. Am curious how Stanford Mine Pi Coin will combine with other countries' cryptocurrencies, and in their languages! Mentioned this re Tagalog language and the Phillipines in the Minutes from March Monthly Business Meeting here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/synchiropus-splendidus-32021-wuas_1.html. 

Regards, Scott 


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Sri Lanka WUaS

Tue, Apr 27, 8:14 AM (5 days ago)
to me
Hi !

It will depend whether the coin will be standalone or be a part of an exchange. Pi might become a good alt coin.

Regards,

Rifai


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Hi Rifai, 


I'm wondering, as you've possibly read, whether Stanford Mine Pi Coin might become listed on the emerging long term Silicon Valley stock exchange, in these regards - and thus be listed on an American exchange. The emerging long term Silicon Valley stock exchange has recently been cleared by the Security and Exchange to become the 14th US stock exchange - 
"Silicon Valley-Backed Venture Cleared to Become 14th U.S. Stock Exchange: 
Long-Term Stock Exchange, which could appeal to tech startups, wins SEC approval"

Regards, Scott

World Univ & Sch's Monthly Business Meeting (MBM) 4/17/21 WUaS MBM Minutes, just completed today, touch on this too 


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Hi !

I was referring to crypto exchanges like Coinbase which happens to be on NASDAQ now. Also the concept of stock tokens.

You can check on these links too:


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Hi Rifai, 


Thanks for keeping me in the loop (other loops). 

I've searched on tokens and Stanford Mine Pi Coin, but nothing has come up. I'm keeping my eye also on Hester Peirce (sp?) and similar Federal Researve regulators ... who seemed to be speaking the language of tokens with MIT DCI director Neha Narula in that interview ... So let's see how and where Stanford Law and Pi head, and how Stanford Mine Pi Coin develops. I continue to mine Pi daily (thanks to Tanya S, a WUaS Bachelor's degree student with a Business Major, who may graduate soon if the WUaS-edX develops toward legal documents soon too, and you). Thank you.

Regards, Scott


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Info WorldUniversity <info@worlduniversityandschool.org>

11:44 AM (1 hour ago)

to Sri


Rifai, 


here's Hester Peirce with some earth day thoughts - https://twitter.com/HesterPeirce/status/1385410886353969159?s=20 - and she mentions "mining techniques" at about 1minute 30 seconds, which are one unique and remarkable aspect of digital currencies. Stanford Mine Pi Coin may be one of the best, (eg anticipating technology developments, countries' legal and IT infrastructure issues, security aspect) at this too - and even regarding possible UBI experiments to alleviate poverty among all 7.8 billion people in 200 countries for example. What do you think? 


Regards, Scott


SEC's Hester Peirce on #EarthDay mentioning "#MiningTechniques" at 1:12. #StanfordMinePi Coin may be one of the best at this too - & even regarding possible #WUaSUBIexperiments to alleviate poverty among all 7.8 billion people in 200 countries for ex: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States ~


https://twitter.com/HesterPeirce/status/1385410886353969159?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1388926278225457153?s=20

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1388925987757248512?s=20




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What significant here about cryptocurrencies, and their related blockchain ledgers here, is the role they could play, for example, in mining outer space and even robotically in a realistic virtual universe - as one integrated system even. 


See my Neha Narula and MIT mining space and block chain ledger blog posts  ... 


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 ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240142242221867009?s=20



Sooo much resources to mine.

Fully autonomous, Heavy industries will be outside Earth.

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



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and the image again here (re Neha Narula and Arvin's MIT presentations esp.) - 


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 ~

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1240142242221867009?s=20



and in a related vein - 


Glad to learn Aswin in this MIT Symposium - at about 4:40:00 - that your amazing robotics' facility and for blockchain is your DANCE FLOOR ...


https://youtu.be/OcSYWWuO6rU


In ... 

Tunguska Russia Asteroid (1908) & Cheljabinsk (2013) meteorite fragments: Glad to learn Aswin in this MIT Symposium - at about 4:40:00 - that your amazing robotics' facility and for blockchain is your DANCE FLOOR ... Thnx Aswin, Renita, @Neha & MIT for the Blockchain with Robotics Systems Symposium! (on Wed, Dec. 5, '18) Aswin how could we best develop your research & Martian wind https://twitter.com/akrv1/status/1071184799522586625 in Google StreetView w/ time slider/#RealisticVirtualEarth building from Sara Falcone's space robot & lattice, Am curious how best to move Scratch with Lego WeDo2 robotics into developing #RealisticVirtualEarth, perhaps building from Sara Falcone's space robot and lattice examples, Autonomy, Agency, Avatar Agency re #Robotics & Cars #Airplanes will be newly explorable in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego #RealisticVirtualEarth with BLOCKCHAIN - & re #UniversalBasicIncome too - Think Google StreetView with TIME SLIDER / Earth, Coding for SmartHub in Lego WeDo2 Robotics INTO Google StreetView w time slider/Earth & at cellular & atomic levels (batteries/computer chip) >learning by play & engineering in #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego with BLOCKCHAIN

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2018/12/tunguska-russia-asteroid-1908.html


and, see, too - 

https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2020/03/asteroid-actual-virtual-blockchain.html



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Rifai, 

With regards to a virtual world aspect and UBI - and a single cryptocurrency with block chain and mining space, here are some related ideas: 

1 #DigitalCurrency in <200 countries w 1 #RealisticVirtualUniverse >https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/purple-chinese-houses-collinsia.html like #StanfordMinePi #PiCryptocurrency w #WUaSBlockchainLedger >mining space re heavy industries with #WUaSRobotics >1 #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego for ALL

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1389020268513816583?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1389061899854094343?s=20

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


https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1389062226477084674?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1389062443091984387?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1389062594204377088?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1389062709052727302?s=20




200 countries w 1 #DigitalCurrency in 1 #RealisticVirtualUniverse >https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/purple-chinese-houses-collinsia.html like #StanfordMinePi #WUaSBlockchainLedger dist. via #WUaSUBIexperiments for 7.8 billion people to end poverty >1 #ActualVirtual #PhysicalDigital #RealisticVirtualEarthForRobotics for ALL

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1389021346324168705?s=20

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1389063166177415170?s=20

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1389063630440722433?s=20

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1389062895003074562?s=20

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1389063750242553856?s=20

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1389063535070646273?s=20


Scott





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Ethics of accepting a prize by philosopher Jürgen Habermas: 


Habermas first accepted a prize of $225,000 Euros (which word 'prize' was translated from the German by Google Translate as price) from a UAE Sheik, Mohammed bin Zayed, and later Habermas declined it, due to 

"to human rights violations and the poor democratization in the Emirates" ... and the

"very close connection between the institution that awards these prizes in Abu Dhabi and the existing political system was not sufficiently clear to him."


The role of a large sum of prize money and conscientious objection (in a Quaker sense too) of it is fascinating to me here, since morals and ethics, based on newly learned knowledge, seem to be informing philosopher Habermas' decision - and in the context of a EU country, Germany, and an Arab country, UAE - and between these languages, and ethical and legitimizing 'systems' and histories, too. Am not a professional philosopher, as I observed in my questions at the close of a recent series of Harvard Philosophy talks - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/04/african-grass-owl-harvard-philosophy.html - but thinking about the implications of where money comes from and what it symbolizes, and even 'buys' seems relevant here. 

If somehow I could come into possession of the Canyon 94516 home I refer to before, legally and legitimately, I think this could very well improve the ethics of Canyon, and be consistent ethics-wise for me, and even re my conscientious objection in a variety of (Friendly Quaker-informed) situations too. Ethics and money have moral implications, and even regarding the 'international illegal sex industry' for example - and possibly regarding Canyon 94516. How to significantly lessen such crime and criminality is an interesting question too, and conscientious objection could be one approach, and removing perpetrators from the scenes of the crimes could be another. 

Having lived and studied in Germany for a year (1981-82), and been active in an unprogrammed Quaker Meeting there, am appreciative of the role of conscientious objection there too (eg Die Weise Rose - aka 'The White Rose') - and with regard to learning from its history, and good German ethics in general - and about money-issues too. 


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Here's the article as translated by Google Translate - 

Jürgen Habermas: 
German philosopher does not want to accept the Arab book price

Jürgen Habermas was supposed to receive the highly endowed Sheikh Zayed Book Award at the end of May. After researching the "Spiegel" he now refrains from doing so.


Jürgen Habermas:
German philosopher does not want to accept the Arab book price
Jürgen Habermas was supposed to receive the highly endowed Sheikh Zayed Book Award at the end of May. After researching the "Spiegel" he now refrains from doing so.
May 2, 2021, 4:39 p.m.Source: ZEIT ONLINE, jos 51 comments
 HEAR ARTICLE
Juergen Habermas
"A wrong decision that I am correcting here": Jürgen Habermas has changed his attitude towards an upcoming honor. © Simela Pantartzi / dpa

The German philosopher Jürgen Habermas does not want to be honored after all: Habermas should actually have received the Sheikh Zayed Book Award at the end of May, an extremely high endowed award with 225,000 euros, but also extremely debatable thanks to its patron Mohammed bin Zayed. Bin Zayed is the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and one, if not the most influential person in the United Arab Emirates.

In an article published on Sunday text had mirror pointed to human rights violations and the poor democratization in the Emirates. According to a checklist by the non-governmental organization Freedom House, the country only achieved 17 points on a democratization scale of a maximum of 100 points. Habermas himself is quoted as follows in the Spiegel article: "Of course I was suspicious and I found out about the institution and the award winners before I accepted the award," he writes. He received his information largely from Juergen Boos, the director of the Frankfurt Book Fair, and also a member of the scientific committee of the Sheik Zayed Book Award.


In a second report on Sunday afternoon, Der Spiegel documented Habermas' change of heart: "I have declared my willingness to accept this year's Sheikh Zayed Book Award. That was a wrong decision, which I am here to correct." The very close connection between the institution that awards these prizes in Abu Dhabi and the existing political system was not sufficiently clear to him.


According to the news magazine, Habermas initially stated that he had "familiarized himself with the last four winners in my category" and that he had "not found a fly in the ointment". Der Spiegel also points out that Habermas implicitly mentioned the Palestinian author Salma Khadra Jayyusi, the Arabists Suzanne and Jaroslav Stetkevych, the Paris Institute du monde arabe and the Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf. However, despite clear demand, he did not mention the "cultural personality" of 2015, Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the lyrically ambitious and hard-handed Emir of Dubai



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Again, 

Dear Dear Ma, Ed, Pin, Tym, Larry, All,

Blogged about all of this thread here - http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/05/purple-chinese-houses-collinsia.html?m=0 - including about A) the ethics of rejecting (or accepting) a prize, in this case philosopher Habermas rejecting a 225,000 Euro prize from the UAE (re Friendly Quaker conscientious objection thinking too) - & could 670 Ridgecrest Canyon 94516 become a kind of prize even ? - and about
B) a single cryptocurrency to alleviate poverty thanks to UBI Experiments among 7.8 billion people, and more.


WUaS is also seeking to grow with Google ...  in addition potentially to growing with edX, and especially MIT (beyond OCW.mit.edu), and possibly with Stanford too, and here's a good NYT's article from senior legal counsel Kent Walker in these regards - 



"Google’s Plan for the Future of Work: Privacy Robots and Balloon Walls
The company that helped popularize open office plans and lavish employee perks is trying to reinvent office spaces to cope with workplace sensibilities changed by the pandemic."


Appreciating Google AI thinking also in a variety of ways.

Warm regards, Scott 


Is Google AI therefore a philosophy company too - ? :)
SEE
'Philosophy' Blues'vlog label in daily blog too ~
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/philosophy?m=0 ... And the Harvard Philosophy Whitehead lectures ending Friday were great ... See my questions regarding redirecting metaphysics in blog POST on that day :) 








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