Showing posts with label youth hostel. Show all posts
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Friday, October 9, 2026

Straw-Headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus zeylanicus): Sat Oct 9, 2026, and email thread began with"Pt. Reyes National Seashore, at Drakes' Beach, Sat ........ 2026 - NPS & a Realistic Virtual Earth @ WUaS" * * * Gewandhaus Orchester - Symphony_Orchestra_at_World_University_and_School on the HarbinBook TwitterX feed retweeting - Verstärkung für unsere Marketing-Abteilung! Das Gewandhaus * * AND How best to move the needle @WorldUnivAndSch for a #RealisticVirtualEarthFor, a #RVEforRealRealTimeMusicMaking, a #RVEforMusicMaking, a #RVEforSymphonicMusic & re #RealRealTimeJamming, a #RVEforEverything ... * * * Plan then @WorldUnivAndSch for ~1 billion #AvatarAgentEMR #DigitalHealthTwins for immortality? re reasonable speculations?: @GeoChurch on 10/2 @ #HarvardARDD said 90% of people will die, i.e. because FDA approved #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies won't have emerged by 2050???

 


Sat Oct 9, 2026, and email thread began with"Pt. Reyes National Seashore, at Drakes' Beach, Sat ........ 2026 - NPS & a Realistic Virtual Earth @ WUaS" 


Dear National Park Service, (& am leaving Peter Norvig out of this email, although I had included him initially)), AI readers too, All, 

Thank you again for your reply some months ago, and for telling me how the Pt. Reyes National Seashore Drake's Beach 'Ken Patrick' visitor center got its name, and regarding the Black Panthers's Veronza Bowers Jr (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronza_Bowers_Jr.) role in this, and with his Black Panthers' history (who still seems to be alive), and history ... and all regarding WUaS developing a realistic virtual earth for history ... 

Just saw some what LOOKED like bloody paw prints of a bobcat / similar INSIDE only the first working outhouse from the little road there, at Limantour Beach, leading from inside the door to the toilet .... a few Sundays ago ... when I was thinking about taking an outdoors' shower there ... Curious ... what could they mean ??? ... Could it have been a death threat to me too, I wondered (with 2 people sitting a table nearby for example who could have stenciled them in just before I arrived even)? (Bobcats don't typically open an outhouse door, enter it, and walk, leaving bloody paw prints, from the door to the toilet ...)

Could international organized crime be even operating inside the Pt Reyes Seashore ... and re the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, violence, military targeting etc industries internationally and their latent networks of violence ... and operating at Limantour beach too, I wondered, or this crossed my mind ... eg could some 'sex slaves prostitutes' speculatively have even been killed there, as both a possible remote meeting spot and a killing spot > (and with 5 tesla-related death threats to me earlier this year and a gun shot to my vehicle on M May 18, 2026 on Skyline drive too near the chabot space and science center ... spacex too? and even the US space agency ??? ) ... Reported this gunshot to officer B Pyle at the Oakland police department's headquarters on 7th street, as well as the previous 4 death threats, and those 4 threats also to a California State Police Highway Patrol officer, Michael Everett before this. (Was in asylum for 2.5 years before this on the eastern seaboard, with death threats and death attempts there - potentially from i.o.c. in cahoots with chase bank in 100 out of 200 countries, and after fleeing for my life from the sf bay area around August 1, 2022 to the east coast, after further death threats here too ) ... and re possibly i.o.c. involvement in other federal agencies ... US postal service re Canyon 94516 and Pittsburgh PA too ? ... and in seeking a US federal investigation into these too ... and after my father's GKM MD's first subdural hematoma on semester at sea in Belize on 12/30/2004 the day before my birthday +). 

Also some months ago, I was at the Youth Hostel on the road into Limantour beach in the Pt Reyes National Seashore ... and wondered if even international organized crime was playing a role there, and with kids tragically. Thoughts? 

How might a US federal investigation be developing in National Parks in some of these regards ... and also a (Reed College alum too) candace lieber, with a different maiden name (and her kids' father a peter lieber ... may be a reed alum too) and their possibly involvement even in institutionalizing international organized crime in US National Parks tragically, and speculatively?

Thoughts? I may head into the Bear Valley Visitors' Center now and report what seemed to be bloody paw prints a few Sundays ago at Limantour beach ... and as World Univ & Sch continues to grow a worldwide abolition movement and in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet ...

Best, abolitionally, Friendly NtF Quaker and Unitarian U church greetings, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga), thanks, 
Scott
Scott GK MacLeod


And as WUaS seeks to develop 200 law schools in all 200 countries and in their main languages, and 50 law schools in US states too and to protect people - 












- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki,
World University & School (WUaS)  
- USPS US Post Office, PO Box 132, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity
building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages - 





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Further, Dear National Park Service, Officer B Pyle at Oakland Police Headquarters on 7th street (and who said, after I reported the gunshot to my vehicle on M 5/18/26 on Thursday and Friday, that she probably wouldn't go back to van-camp at the spot where the bullet hit my vehicle - (so the car is bullet proof for a certain caliber rifle) - somewhat curiously - why? because it could be a killing spot even?, because it could be a illegal sex crime site?, or because the OPD could be in cahoots even with i.o.c.,??? or because the OPD can't control organized crime (I.T., GPS, and AI etc.)?, or? - and have they found the shooter?), AI readers too, All, 

Greetings, and in growing a WUaS World University and School worldwide abolition movement to protect people (in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet even). How are you? Following up on my previous email ... 

Went in to report the bloody paw-like prints in the outhouse in the Bear Valley Visitor Center ... but there was a volunteer behind the desk, and no Park ranger to be seen there (although was that one walking to the Visitor Center as I left, looking a little nonplussed?) ...

Drove onto Drake's beach, and walked on it ... and passed a couple on the beach ~200 yards south, and he/they had the look of a park employee ... and he was deeply deeply red-faced ... sunburn? or ... knowing of a NPS crime even?

Walked back to the Ken Patrick visitor center, and there was a Park Ranger vehicle there ... one female law enforcement officer got out - but it didn't occur to me to report the bloody paw prints to her ... then the other female  law enforcement officer got out of the driver's seat ... and I decided to report the bloody paw prints to her, officer bray (same last name as a psychopathic sociocultural anthropology instructor at University of California, Santa Barbara, beginning in 2001 ... and I departed UCSB with a master's degree in 2003 - and re also  ... and I spoke I think to her body camera, mentioning you, and that I had emailed many more details ... also mentioning /  wondering if organized crime is operating in this National Park, and that I had left the place with the shower after I saw the bloody paw prints (and had a female prostitute 'cat' been killed even - which these prints might have symbolized?) again near the Limantour beach cold outdoor shower about 3 weeks ago ... and officer bray said 'good idea' to this I think (leaving after seeing the bloody paw prints and not showering then) ... which leads me to wonder whether park law enforcement could be somehow in cahoots with international organized crime in the park somehow ... and re this Limantour beach road, with both its nearby youth hostel AND Limantour beach itself and re the wrongful buying and selling of people, women, kids even ... somehow? Tried to find officer bray again ... to show her the gunshot to my roof from M 5/18/26 ... but also wonder whether if now I'm on her body camera NPS video recording ... Could corrupt NPS law enforcement (with candace and peter lieber communications too??) seek to somehow knock me off tragically ... and having sought US federal protection for my mother and brother, both on the east coast, and myself many many months ago ... How could the US federal government, for example, somehow protect me from NPS law enforcement video camera data in the wrong hands I wonder ? 

Heading down to take a cold shower there soon ... as WUaS continues to grow a worldwide abolition movement (in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University) ... and who knows what my 2025 Toyota Sienna minivan possible cameras will pick up on video this time ... 

World Univ & Sch is growing and is seeking to create a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory and think a forked Google Street View with time slider ... and with US federal government data sources and NPS data sources to populate this in an iterating way, and see too this INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article by Peter Norvig - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - mentioning a #RealisticVirtualEarth for the first time I know of other than WUaS writing about it - to invent history anew, both theory and methods-wise.

More later, abolitionally, Yogically (re karma intentional action, dharma righteousness law, samsara the wheel of life Yoga-wise), Friendly NtF Quaker and UU church greetings, best wishes, 
Scott



and re Harbin Hot Springs' history which I talked with C.... when we met at the Drake's Beach visitor center and I learned of the Black Panther's history too -





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Dear National Park Service, (and Peter Norvig, Google AI Director, and Stanford Distinguished Education Fellow), all, 

Greetings from Stinson Beach Park (a US federal park, having been both a state of CA and Marin county park in the past, management-wise too, I think).

Just blogged about these 2 emails I sent you yesterday (and much more) here -

Friday, October 9, 2026
Straw-Headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus zeylanicus): Sat Oct 9, 2026, and email thread began with"Pt. Reyes National Seashore, at Drakes' Beach, Sat ........ 2026 - NPS & a Realistic Virtual Earth @ WUaS" * * * Gewandhaus Orchester - Symphony_Orchestra_at_World_University_and_School on the HarbinBook TwitterX feed retweeting - Verstärkung für unsere Marketing-Abteilung! Das Gewandhaus * * * Plan then @WorldUnivAndSch for ~1 billion #AvatarAgentEMR #DigitalHealthTwins for immortality? re reasonable speculations?: @GeoChurch on 10/2 @ #HarvardARDD said 90% of people will die, i.e. because FDA approved #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies won't have emerged by 2050???


How best to proceed with a #RealisticVirtualEarthFor a #RVEforEverything, a #RVEforPaleontology & a #RVEforArchaeology, a  #RVEforAnthropology, including also a  #RVEforMusicMaking &  #RVEforSymphonicMusic & re real real time music making, and see blog post above too in these regards re Gewandhaus Orchester - Symphony_Orchestra_at_World_University_and_School and a virtual Harbin Hot Springs as STEM and ethnographic field site? How to make some headway with real real time music making online, and potentially for all 7.9 billion people from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University -  even?

All the best, thanks, regards, 
Scott 
Scott GK MacLeod

Friday, October 9, 2026
Straw-Headed Bulbul

On Fri, Oct 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM Scott Gordon MacLeod <president@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:



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Greetings from the Bear Valley Visitor Center at PRNS. 


Thanks so much for your email again, and for reminding me about not posting or broadcasting your name(s) - especially after the M 5/18/26 gunshot, near the chabot space and science center in Oakland, to my vehicle (which could also have been another precipitating action for my and WUaS Academic Medical Center moving forward into a newly safe, vacant, with property deed 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon, 94516, and after Ed Smyth MD (KP NorCal), and John Sargent MD (Tufts Medical Center, in Cambridge, MA), sought to precipitate this initially beginning in around March of 2022), and regarding the multiple death threats in recent years to me for example, and since you may be in positions to help protect against such, 

I've removed your names from this F 10/9/26 "Straw-Headed Bulbul (Pycnonotus zeylanicus): Sat Oct 9, 2026, and email thread began with"Pt. Reyes National Seashore, at Drakes' Beach, Sat ........ 2026 - NPS & a Realistic Virtual Earth @ WUaS ..." blog post too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/10/straw-headed-bulbul-pycnonotus.html. And i've also added this - 


Wir suchen Verstärkung für unsere Marketing-Abteilung!

Das Gewandhaus zu Leipzig sucht zum 1. FEB 2027 eine/-n Projektmanager/-in Marketing (m/w/d) in Vollzeit und unbefristet. 

📅 Bewerbungsschluss: 22. OKT 2026



What might be the best way to reach out further to the US federal government for a realistic virtual earth for paleontology, for archaeology, for anthropology, for evolutionary biology, and a RVE for everything with National Park Service data too - and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy? 

Met a Stanford graduate student at Limantour Beach, doing PhD field work with a co-student I think, named Lauren Ward (with a BS in ecology from UC Davis) in the Kabir Peay laboratory, doing evolutionary biology field work on legumes and possibly nitrogen fixing, as well as symbiotic, mutualistic and parasitic species interactions, a few weeks ago ... and spoke with her about a Realistic Virtual Earth for this too. She seemed interested, but her professor Kabir Peay as PI, wasn't of help on the digital side of things, re a realistic virtual earth for her biology work in PRNS too. What might be the best way to reach out further to the US federal government for a realistic virtual earth for evolutionary biology, and a RVE for everything, with Pt Reyes National Seashore, and National Park Service data too - and for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy? 

(I've been inquiring also regarding the University of Californias and especially UC Davis about how international organized crime might be operating in these universities tragically, and as World Univ & Sch continues to grow a worldwide abolition movement, and to abolish the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex, drugs, violence, car theft, military targeting etc industries internationally and their latent networks of violence; is the National Park Service part of the US uniformed armed services, or US law enforcement, in some ways even?)

I'll let you know if I infer any further indications of possible i.o.c. or similar, re the "bloody paw prints"  too, in PRNS or similar, with a group of three diverse young men at NPS Stinson Beach 3 benches near the showers, one of them kind of 'roaring' at me this morning, as I was playing my Scottish Small Pipes there (the son of a NPS employee, I wondered, and re my emails to you yesterday?).

Will add my last 2 emails to you too without your names here further - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/10/straw-headed-bulbul-pycnonotus.html - and regarding the gunshot to my vehicle, the multiple death threats in the SF Bay Area (before and after I fled for my life to the east coast), and a murderous run through attempt of me in Pittsburgh, sadly, by a craven psychopath swiss-french or Lebanese epfl soldier??? cmu undergraduate student at the time, and death threats too from i.o.c. I post e.g. re chase bank's shauna mcnally in chase bank shadyside pittsburgh, who spoke the murder word to me, and while in asylum on the eastern seaboard for 2 1/2 years. 

Seeking to continue to grow World University and School safely, and from Canyon 94516, and as WUaS grows a worldwide abolition movement to protect people e.g. from i.o.c, and with US federal law working with state of CA law and CA county law in new ways effectively. 

Thanks so much, abolition, and kind regards,
Scott 
Scott GK MacLeod

Sat 10/9/26 - 







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Gewandhaus - Symphony_Orchestra_at_World_University_and_School retweeting - Verstärkung für unsere Marketing-Abteilung! Das Gewandhaus 





Retweeting - 

Wir suchen Verstärkung für unsere Marketing-Abteilung!

Das Gewandhaus zu Leipzig sucht zum 1. FEB 2027 eine/-n Projektmanager/-in Marketing (m/w/d) in Vollzeit und unbefristet. 

📅 Bewerbungsschluss: 22. OKT 2026








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AND 

How best to move the needle @WorldUnivAndSch for a #RealisticVirtualEarthFor, a #RVEforRealRealTimeMusicMaking, a #RVEforMusicMaking, a #RVEforSymphonicMusic & re #RealRealTimeJamming, a #RVEforEverything, & see 10/9/26 blog post https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/10/straw-headed-bulbul-pycnonotus.html re #GewandhausOrchester -

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2109009414321795480

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2109009910784729375

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2109010091253088377

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2109010328222937294

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2109010743308026245

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2109023145709678697

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2109023257290817767




Retweeting -

Wir suchen Verstärkung für unsere Marketing-Abteilung!

Das Gewandhaus zu Leipzig sucht zum 1. FEB 2027 eine/-n Projektmanager/-in Marketing (m/w/d) in Vollzeit und unbefristet. 

📅 Bewerbungsschluss: 22. OKT 2026



 



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Plan then @WorldUnivAndSch for ~1 billion #AvatarAgentEMR #DigitalHealthTwins for immortality? re reasonable speculations?: @GeoChurch on 10/2 @ #HarvardARDD said 90% of people will die, i.e. because FDA approved #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies won't have emerged by 2050???

Plan then @WorldUnivAndSch for ~1 billion #AvatarAgentEMR #DigitalHealthTwins for immortality? re reasonable speculations?: @GeoChurch on 10/2 @ #HarvardARDD said 90% of people will die, i.e. because FDA approved #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies won't have emerged by 2050???
https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2108611917778751743

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2108611828028977440

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2108611673309516046

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2108612389482672261

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2108612745084162272






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interesting: @GeoChurch at #HarvardARDD suggested 90% of people will die 


reasonable speculations?: @GeoChurch on 10/2 @ #HarvardARDD suggested 90% of people will die, ie because #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies FDA approved won't have emerged by 2050, I think (?) Plan then for 800 million (~1B) #AvatarAgentEMR #DigitalHealthTwins for immortality?



retweeting 



AND 

reasonable speculations?: @GeoChurch on 10/2 @ #HarvardARDD suggested 90% of people will die, ie because #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies FDA approved won't have emerged by 2050, I think (?) Plan then for 800,000 million #AvatarAgentEMR #DigitalHealthTwins for immortality?




retweeting 




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interesting: @GeoChurch yesterday at #HarvardARDD suggested 90% of people will die, ie because #ExtremeLongevity #GeneticDrugTherapies FDA approved won't have emerged by 2050 (or before), I think Plan then for 800,000 million #AvatarAgentEMR #DigitalHealthTwins for immortality?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2106426743644971441

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2106427106947391830

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2105391029411287174

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2106427007223435485










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https://www.fws.gov/media/straw-headed-bulbul-pycnonotus-zeylanicus-michael-mk-khorcc-20




https://singaporebirds.com/species/straw-headed-bulbul




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw-headed_bulbul

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pycnonotus_zeylanicus

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Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Indian elephant: 'Undoing Caste - Visuality' - Stanford's Center for South Asia M March 2, 2026 * * * Age of AI: Agentic AI and the Future of Legal Practice

 

'Undoing Caste - Visuality' - Stanford's Center for South Asia M March 2, 2026 


Dear Santosh, and Usha, (and please forward to Santosh, if this email address doesn't work - the web site for Ambedkar University Delhi isn't working presently),

Greetings (from MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School), and in seeking further to create a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForHistory #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory, #ForArtHistory too (#hashtags on #TwitterX and #LinkedIN sometimes too), and to eventually hire faculty to give extraordinary and excellent talks like Yours, Santosh! (And nice to meet you, Usha, indirectly, I think, - I was sitting directly behind you in this talk live-streamed from India).

Thanks for your extraordinary and subtle 'Undoing Caste - Visuality' talk, and round-table discussion yesterday Tu March 3, 2026 at Stanford, Santosh.


As I wrote to my best friend from high school in Pittsburgh (at SSA, from the late 1970s), Pin/Sid Mazumdar (born in Kolkata, India) whose parents like my father taught at the University of Pittsburgh for decades, where you studied for you PhD, Usha (do you know the Mazumdars?:) - 


Pin, Ma, Ed, (ai readers), Extraordinary, extraordinary  connecting art history! talk and round table discussion by Santhosh from New Delhi at Stanford with mostly (Hindu) & Indian Stanford graduate students in the room ... So connecting, so intelligent, erudite, excellent, with Indian elephant (as Art shadow) behind Santosh as he talked -
 https://sgs.stanford.edu/events/undoing-caste-visuality-talk-santhosh-sadanandan

https://events.stanford.edu/event/undoing-caste-visuality-talk-by-santhosh-sadanandan

Event sponsor: Center for South Asia 

Undoing Caste - Visuality
is the title of the paper

Enjoyed talking with Indian grad student 'Shaila' (sp?) ... How to historicize 'caste-sight' re India's 22 scheduled and ~424 languages by one count in undoing caste since Gandhi ? I asked her ... She said Hinduism is the majority religion (in a very diverse country for religion) ... Wow ~ enlightened and connecting :) time to Yoga meditate further, Scott (Pin, Ma, the director of the Center for South Asia, Usha Iyer, from India has her PhD from U Pitt - where some of our parents taught:) ... Appreciating much Hindu networks and community and minds:)

Scott

More about free World University and School here, and would love to learn your thinking about this with time as we seek to create major online MIT OCW-centric wiki India World University and Schools with time, and hire as many as 2.5 million people (slightly bigger than Walmart) in the next 50-100 years, to create an online alternative to MIT/Harvard/Stanford/Oxbridge/University of Munich/Sciences Po etc), including especially your students and graduates of your universities, Santosh and Usha - 



PS
My notes - 

Undoing Caste-Visuality

5:30 – 7:00 p.m.


The role of modern Indian art in invisibilizing caste-subaltern lifeworlds has not been incidental. On the contrary, it is structurally embedded within the historical formation of modernism itself. Two primary technologies of representation have sustained this process. First, the over-signification of the caste-subaltern and Adivasi subject as the “ethnos” of the nation through tropes of innocence, nature, pastoral authenticity, and purity. Second, and more insidious, is the production of caste-sight—what may be thought alongside Nicholas Mirzoeff’s white-sight—which operates through the aesthetic and intellectual formation of the casteless modern artist. Modern art thus played a crucial role in producing caste-visuality and the upper-caste projection of castelessness as both a subjective dis-position and an aesthetic virtue. 

Although every aspect of Indian life is marked by caste, revealing its visual coordinates in historical and geo-political specificity has remained outside mainstream artistic discourse. Through exclusionary techniques and technologies of making and/as thinking, the material manifestations of caste are easily transcoded as class, region, or culture, thereby evading direct visual inscription. This forfeiture of visualizing caste’s spatial and material coordinates marks the historical failure of Indian modernism to confront its constitutive violence. 

This presentation argues that thinking caste and aesthetics today requires moving beyond the representational question toward a dispositional and performative one: how spatial, social, and material entanglements produce and circulate aesthetic experience. Caste-sight may be seen as a machinic operation that organizes perception and affect rather than a mere representational absence. Contemporary anti-caste practices reclaim these entanglements, striving to unconceal the caste coordinates of visuality and open a counter-aesthetic where seeing itself becomes a site of political and affective struggle. 






Event sponsor: Center for South Asia


Undoing Caste - Visuality 
is title of paper

Santhosh Sadanandan, Ambedkar University Delhi


(From ~2020 - 


visuality marks a foucauldian episteme

regulating perceptibility itself


invoking 
the narrative of the modern indian art

cassette remained imperceptibly as caste

ethnographic romantic framing of subjects
as cultural pastoral of the nation


this casteless ness functions as privilege

PAINTINGS

Jamini Roy 

Mother and child

Priestess

casteless hindu view forged in the nation state


caste-less sensorially 

caste regime of visuality ... render as universal


modernism produced a casteless order that would appear universal




slide

Savi Sawarkar
red
banaras and Ganga oil on canvas

blue
Untouchable with dead Cow



caste as material disturbance


slide

Vinu VV Ruptures wood terracotta and coir 2021

Vinu VV, Oche (Louder Voice), mixed media sculpture installation 2018



slide

Vikrant Blise, 

Assembly of Parinibbon of Great Being


slide

Crushing Voices

both site as displacement


slide

Sajan Mani
Caste-pilot
durational performance 9.30 hours
Haus der Kunst, Munich 2017



Eliminative materialism 




Santhosh

proposes
a recentering

where caste can no longer be cast as neutral


caste is generative force in the indian ... force in hierarchies 


it worked by remaining unnamed

separable from political reckoning



yet visibility is not redistribution 


who defines the types of the appearance






Question about 

technological 

animated materiality


animation 
mobilize ideas
emotions


Q
commencal counter visuality 


re sight violence

re muslim minorities

and dalit 
and other ways



Q
shaile

descasting cast 
sociality and spaitiality


university' students subvert caste power in university situations

extend to art spaces

and the spaces where the art is displayed

art galleries and 

became a training ground for caste sight a

Is that possible iand if yes how?


Anser

the way I've deployed the idea of spatiality


our dispositions are infrastructure ?


any questions spatialities are politic


museum spaces


spaces need to recalibrated

thinking of art outside of infrastructure


imagination as a political pst

in all mimetic activity



q
can we imagine one person's theory of aesthetics


2
there is caste and anti-caste


there is cste
there is Brahman
there is dalit

sociologically and philosophically

can we disrupt to whole system



Answer

think in the same direction but with some deviation


whether we ;like it or not caste os a spoca; rea;otu " ... pr

think beyond upper caste and lor caste 


radically positioning against the oppression


naming 
caste is important

de-center 'caste'

naming is part of every political process

move to some sort of anti-essentialist position 


invisibility in the social spaces


demanding visibility to remain invisible


keep on working often against the grain 


Question
The art you shared is largely produced by Dalits

how to understand their positionality in terms of production and space?


new oppression of the Dalit caste



often contested and contingent



ansser

artisanal


caste-labor
vs
caste-service




Q
often return to an anti-essentialist universalism

struggle and joy

arguing for
universalism rooted in shared experience of oppression


Q 1

something emancipatory with universalism 



A
pluralism

processual understanding


continuous de-territorialism or deconstruction 


particularism that undoes universalism

proposes universalism that is contingent

normative in a non essentialist way





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Age of AI: Agentic AI and the Future of Legal Practice

Dear Justin, Irene, all, 

Thanks for your timely and topical "Age of AI: Agentic AI and the Future of Legal Practice" - https://law.stanford.edu/event/agentic-ai-and-the-future-of-legal-practice-rock-center-lawyering-in-the-age-of-ai-series/ - talk, and nice to speak with you at its close.

Besides the questions I asked you about 

A 
how Creative Commons' licensed datasources (such as for CC-4 MIT OCW in 7 languages https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/ - https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/, and Wikidata / CC-4 licenseWikipedia in ~342 languages - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Licensing - https://creativecommons.org/2023/06/29/wikipedia-moves-to-cc-4-0-licenses/) could be used by and inform AI Agent LLMs, and how CC resources might work with proprietary licenses for data sources used by companies in creating AI Agents, 


and 
B  
how AI Agents, that Law students write even, could inform an emerging #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForLaw a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw () and a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs for a 2nd ethnographic book project, and STEM research, and even for pulling from to paper, and to Digital Masks, and WUaS Hospital Multimedia Rooms, from Google Street View with time slider potentially,  ... and see this INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article by Peter Norvig - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 (mentioning a realistic virtual earth for the first time other than WUaS and a #VirtualHarbin, and for studying bliss even) -  about World University and School, building on MIT OCW and Wikidata, 


B i 
Regarding a  #RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw  (#TwitterX and #LinkedIN)
see 
Charley Moore from Axon Lightpost - CodeX Group Meeting February 19
https://youtu.be/7epfQkVcKRw

and these questions - 


Stanford Law [codex_group_meetings] TODAY! CodeX Mtg (2/19 @1.30p PT): Axon Lightpost; eLegalls (via Zoom) - 2 nation states, US and Royal Bahamas, and how could people wiki-add all that video footage to a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth ?


Sugam, Roland, Charley (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleybmoore/ - and please forward), Stanford Law CodeX, all,

Thanks for your excellent Stanford Law CodeX Axon Lightpost; eLegalls legal technology presentations today February 19, 2026.

Looking forward to following up on some of these questions I asked in the Q&A and chat with host and panelists, in the future -

1
Charley, excellent and thanks: How does ownership work of each of these cameras’ videos' footage, and with AI and ML … and regarding country to country with law, and usable in a court of law, and even teachable in a law school? (free MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School seeks to create online law schools in each of all ~200 countries and in their main languages - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School (and see the ~9 beginning law schools in the middle - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School#World_University_and_School_Links - part way down) …eg re USA and Royal Bahamas as nation states?)


2
Charley, is there any history in Axon Lightpost, by any chance, of the software being initially created for brain research even - and on axons as part of neurons / brain cells ? (And I’ll seek to follow up on this in email if I can - Thanks, Scott (Scott GK MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org)

2 a
AND I'm posting below in the PSs 3 related searches I made just before your presentation - (and am curious about Axon's coders re a realistic virtual earth too)


3
(Charley, and in innovative ways, but out of the box, how could people wiki-add all that video footage to a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth and see Peter Norvig’s INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS mentioning a realistic virtual earth - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - for the first time other than WUaS)"


from

and the M 2/23/26 World University and School Weekly Business Meeting, in agenda item 7



C
How might World University and School's planned law schools in each of all ~200 countries and in their main languages (and see the PPS), and in all 50 US states, both in hiring faculty and as LLMs, help with legal issues in the development of these? And how could even Stanford and UC Berkeley (and even Harvard students, since you went to Harvard) law students help build this out too ?


D
And since Justin, your role at is for transactions, both wings of WUaS,1)  the 501 c 3 nonprofit World Univ & Sch, and 2) the WUaS Corporation, Academic Press at WUaS in 7159 living languages with human and machine translation AI and ML, the WUaS Educational Services' Stores has a partnering email from Stanford Mine Pi cryptocurrency free money daily - https://minepi.com/ - and is seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, each a Wikdiata PIN # from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University ... and to end poverty worldwide, as well as to create people-to-people wiki-teaching and wiki-learning free universal education, for speakers of all 7, 159 living languages.   

How will they inform the further creation of AI Agents for transactions and re your role as Chair of Technology Transactions Practice at Morrison & Foerster - https://www.mofo.com/people/justin-haan?


E
How could World University and School in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program too begin to grow a #Realitic Virtual Earth, and think Google Street View with time slider, GMaps, GEarth, TensorFlowAI, and at the GCellView and GMoleculeView levels, with a #RealsiticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs for soaking meditations from home, and for scientific academic research coded for Digital Masks, such as Meta's(formerly Oculus) Quest headsets?

Thanks, 
Scott

Virtual Harbin label (in daily blog) - 




PS

Justin H. Haan
Chair of Technology Transactions Practice
Morrison & Foerster




PPS 


Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)

Nation States

Afghanistan Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Afghanistan_Law_School_at_WUaS

Brazil Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Brazil_Law_School_at_WUaS

China Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/China_Law_School_at_WUaS

Egypt Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Egypt_Law_School_at_WUaS

India Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/India_Law_School_at_WUaS

Jamaica Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Jamaica_Law_School_at_WUaS

Mexico Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Mexico_Law_School_at_WUaS

World University Law School: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/World_University_Law_School

US States

Iowa Law School at WUaS: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Iowa_Law_School_at_WUaS




PPPS 

My notes
Agent is a chatbot and go back and forth

but an agent is one that go forth and do something ... using the word "Genie" 


agentic ai system ideally doesn't have a human in the loop
and for high stakes transactions legally, that's a big matter ..

agentic ai could help with billable hours ... 




PPPPS
asked Gemini AI also re creativity in students creating AI agents - 

For law students, - How best for students (say first year law students) to experiment and create agentic artificial intelligence AIs, AI agents, and that might even help the company or university they're working for find new areas to develop legally, and to enhance students' thinking creativity? ... How could novices best create with or hack AI Agents ... and with a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLaw () - and to develop these AI Agents for autonomy say in a Realistic Virtual Earth?

https://gemini.google.com/share/2e94a3bbeb07


AND
For art or law students, - How best for students (say first year law students) to experiment and create agentic artificial intelligence AIs - agentic ai programs, is this the correct term- and that might even help the company or university they're working for, and to enhance students' thinking creativity? ... How could novices best create with or hack AI Agents ... and with a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForSTEM #ForLaw #ForAnthropology, a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs - and with TwitterX and Linkedin - and to post these AI Agents to these social media sites, for example, or even to start a company, say in a Realistic Virtual Earth For STEM?






PPPPS

AI Mode 
And asked for my own knowledge further 


Agentic AI represents a fundamental shift from reactive systems, like standard chatbots, to proactive, autonomous systems capable of reasoning, planning, and executing multi-step tasks to achieve high-level goals. Gartner predicts that by 2028, 15% of daily work decisions will be made autonomously by these systems.
Core Characteristics
Unlike traditional AI that requires constant prompting, agentic systems possess:
  • Autonomy: They can act independently with minimal human oversight to complete complex workflows.
  • Reasoning & Planning: They use Large Language Models (LLMs) as a "brain" to break down complex goals into manageable sub-tasks.
  • Tool Use: They can interact with external systems like APIs, databases, and software to execute real-world actions.
  • Learning & Adaptation: Through reflection and feedback loops (often called a "data flywheel"), they refine their strategies over time based on successes and failures.
Emerging Real-World Applications (2025–2026)
  • Enterprise Operations: Major platforms like Salesforce Agentforce and ServiceNow now use agents for autonomous customer service, HR onboarding, and IT incident resolution.
  • Software Development: Tools like AWS Kiro act as digital teammates that can write, test, and debug code asynchronously.
  • Finance & Commerce: Partnerships like Affirm and Stripe are enabling agents to handle secure transactions and "pay-over-time" options for shoppers.
  • Cybersecurity: Systems like Exabeam Nova autonomously hunt for threats, correlate data across systems, and initiate rollback procedures.
Critical Risks & Challenges
  • Security Vulnerabilities: Recent 2026 research has identified flaws in agentic AI browsers (like Perplexity’s Comet) where prompt injections could force an agent to exfiltrate local files.
  • Accountability Gap: Determining who is liable—the developer or the user—when an autonomous agent makes a mistake remains a significant legal and ethical hurdle.
  • Systemic Risk: Financial regulators have warned that autonomous agents could become a channel for systemic risk in finance if they initiate large-scale market actions without sufficient human oversight.
Are you looking to implement an agentic framework for a specific business use case, or do you want to explore the technical design patterns like reflection and multi-agent orchestration?

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