Scott MacLeod's Anthropology of Information Technology & Counterculture
To a global, virtual, free, open, {future degree- & credit-granting}, multilingual University & School for the developing world and everyone, as well as loving bliss ~ scottmacleod.com
A trillion dollar endowment goal for both wings of WUaS 1) the 501 c 3 @WorldUnivAndSch & 2) the for profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California @WUaSPress #WUaSstores both planned in 200 countries & 7159 languages, & in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM ~
The Wall Street Journal @WSJ The AI sprint is hurtling toward a world where anyone can build personal concierges to do everything from executive presentations to March Madness brackets
- 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 -
Greetings from north Berkeley near the former LRY Liberal Religious Youth (- Little Red Yogis too?) Unitarian Universalist (Starr King) seminary - https://holyhillberkeley.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/sksm/ - on so-called "Holy Hill," which may have now moved to downtown Oakland. And where have the hippies gone in Berkeley? And how to explain this sociologically too? Chuck Berry's song "Too Much Monkey Business" -
came on Spotify music-streaming just as I was driving by here earlier this morning. And how could we see and live this in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory a #RealisticVirtualEarthForCounterculture ... Kai grew up in Berkeley, and Ed, in SF, and some of us (not me so much) know Berkeley from the very late 1970s and 1980s, when hippies were still around en 'masses' (Gantt, are you hibernating up on the 3rd floor of your Highway 13 tree house in south Berkeley, or have you gone underground to Portland, Oregon, or ?) And can we all talk with all of you ethnographically for all of your knowledge of Berkeley in the 1970s for example?
Book proposal for our proposed Reedie+ book group (on the 3rd Saturday of September or October in Canyon 94516 physically, and online? :) I'm revisiting and rereading the John McPhee's great "Basin and Range," - a geological tour de rock-history - which Ed gave me some decades ago : https://www.hoopladigital.com/audiobook/basin-and-range-john-mcphee/13540634 - and wonder how best to begin to build this out in a realistic virtual earth for geology in Google AI studio - https://aistudio.google.com/apps - and even altogether at a Reedie + Book group gathering. This could lay the groundwork so to speak for a #RealisticVirtualEarthFor #RVEforArchaeology #RVEForEverything #RVEforSTEM, including a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs ... and a #RealisticVirtualEarth #RVEforThe1960s #RVEforThe1970s and a #RealisticVirtualOregon and #RealisticVirtualCalifornia etc and an exploratory co-creative process ...
Stay tuned ... Begin reading ?? I think the great Hoopla Digital app may work better from the SF Public Library than the Contra Costa county library system ... so if you decide to get it from your public library and have a choice of counties, with better and worse IT, ... heads up ..
Still taking those swimmers' and surfers' showers in state parks, and living out of the back a Toyota Sienna Woodland minivan as I and the WUaS academic medical center in an #WUaSMultimediaRoom seek to move forward into a newly safe, vacant, with deed 670 Ridgecrest rd, Canyon 94516 ...
See you at the first very real (physical - and digital) proposed Reedie+ book group (on the 3rd Saturday of September or October) ...
Nancy, which Anthony Doerr book would you recommend, and would you also recommend Reedie Janet Fitch's book "White Oleander" for our Reedie+ book group? (saw these authors online re a writers' group you're involved with in San Diego - https://myimwa.org/march-2023-member-of-the-month-nancy-osullivan/ ). :)
Reed regards, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga), abolitionally Friendly Unitarian UU church and NtF Quaker greetings, best wishes,
just sent this to Contra Costa county's Recorder-Clerk Kristin Connelly + (and as I'm the Presiding Clerk and Recording Clerk of free World Univ & Sch ) ... in some of these regards
Dear Kristin (Connelly) re Contra Costa County Health Care Services, Ed (Smyth MD, KP NorCal), Sid (Mazumdar HHS, in the US federal government), all,
And when might I be able to move further fully into a newly safe, vacant, with property deed 670 Ridgecrest Road, Canyon 94516 please? (I've been underway since I left asylum on the eastern seaboard in PA first on 12/10/24, and van camping since March 4, 2025, taking cold swimmers and surfers' showers in state parks, and am still quite impoverished, - and as I continue to grow free World University and School WUaS in all 200 countries and in all 7159 known living languages, and also in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet potentially to facilitate free highest quality universal education end poverty worldwide by making Stanford Mine Pi free money daily a main worldwide cryptocurrency). Might I come out to the Contra Costa county municipal offices to sign the property deed soonish please, and thanks to Ed Smyth MD's precipitation of this beginning I think in March of 2022 when I was living in a safe house north of Berkeley in El Cerrito, before fleeing for my life I would say to the east coast on around August 1, 2022, I think)?
- 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 -
Tu 9/1/26 - Dept of Health Care Services County of Contra Costa case Name: Gordon MacLeod Case Number: 1B4RL66 Worker Name: M. Medi-Cal English Only
Dear Kristin (Connelly), all,
A
Greetings from near 670 Ridgecrest Road, Canyon CA 94516.
A 1
I just received a paper letter from the
Department of Health Care Services
County of Contra Costa
requesting information, and please see the PS.The information is due by September 25, 2026. I've also photographed the front and back of the relevant page, and am attaching them.
B
Per the PS below, the letter asks for:
X Proof of social security benefits received - a copy of paid benefits stub or award letter for:
Person
Gordon K MacLeod III
Customer Notice
Please provide Medicare information and any Social Security award letter, if applicable.
C
I don't receive social security benefits
C 1
and so there's no Proof of social security benefits received
C 2
And my Medicare number is 4HA0A78YR12; what other Medicare information might you need?
D
How best please to submit this information online per the letter which also says:
"Contact your county to find out how to submit your information online"
How best to proceed please? Could you possibly please forward this to the Contra Costa county health care worker on this case - and as a first step to my providing the information to you online?
Thank you, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga), best wishes,
Note: We ONLY Need the Information where a Box Is Checked.
Income
Your income information will help us decide if you qualify for free or low-cost Medi-Cal or assistance From Covered California, the state health benefits exchange.
X Proof of social security benefits received - a copy of paid benefits stub or award letter for:
Person
Gordon K MacLeod III
Customer Notice
Please provide Medicare information and any Social Security award letter, if applicable.
- 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 -
Dear Kristin (Connelly) re Contra Costa County Health Care Services, Ed (Smyth MD, KP NorCal), Sid (Mazumdar HHS, in the US federal government), all,
As a follow up to my email to you Kristin (Connelly) with attached CCC Medi-Cal request form below, I just called Contra Costa County at 866 663 3225, and giving my case number # 1B4RL66 and then further waded through about 10-15 minutes of CCC health care outgoing messages messages, including suggesting going to - https://benefitscal.com/ - & in seeking to speak with my caseworker, or a CCC representative, and then the call cut me off, suggesting calling again, or similar. What's up with being dropped from the waiting queue like I was?
So I went to https://benefitscal.com/ and tried to report a change (after looking through a number of options), and the going through the steps for this, and added this as the change -
"Per recent paper letter dated 8/2526 to me Gordon MacLeod, Worker M Medi-Cal English Only, ID 07LS10670X, (866) 663 3225, & per my Tu 9/1/26 email to Kristin Connelly about this, my Medicare number is 4HA0A78YR12 & I don't receive social security benefits"
and received a receipt for his in the PPSa, but I'm not sure if my change message went through.
And per my letter yesterday, and the paper letter I received from you about
"X Proof of social security benefits received - a copy of paid benefits stub or award letter for:
Person
Gordon K MacLeod III
Customer Notice
Please provide Medicare information and any Social Security award letter, if applicable.
C
I don't receive social security benefits
C 1
and so there's no Proof of social security benefits received
C 2
And my Medicare number is 4HA0A78YR12; what other Medicare information might you need?"
What to do please next?
Thanks, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga), Friendly NtF Quaker and Unitarian church greetings, best wishes,
Scott
Scott Gordon MacLeod
PS a
And when might I be able to move further fully into a newly safe, vacant, with property deed 670 Ridgecrest Road, Canyon 94516 please? (I've been underway since I left asylum on the eastern seaboard in PA first on 12/10/24, and van camping since March 4, 2025, taking cold swimmers and surfers' showers in state parks, and am still quite impoverished, - and as I continue to grow free World University and School WUaS in all 200 countries and in all 7159 known living languages, and also in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet potentially to facilitate free highest quality universal education end poverty worldwide by making Stanford Mine Pi free money daily a main worldwide cryptocurrency). Might I come out to the Contra Costa county municipal offices to sign the property deed soonish please, and thanks to Ed Smyth MD's precipitation of this beginning I think in March of 2022 when I was living in a safe house north of Berkeley in El Cerrito, before fleeing for my life I would say to the east coast on around August 1, 2022, I think)?
Dear Kristin (Connelly) re Contra Costa County Health Care Services, Ed (Smyth MD, KP NorCal), Sid (Mazumdar HHS, in the US federal government), Lt. John (Tadler, who attended a FBI workshop online in 2013 from Pittsburgh PA), US Senator and former Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren, all,
Greetings, and as a follow up.
Am a little concerned that I haven't heard back from you, and haven't been able to get through to the Contra Costa county health care services today, and after my phone call to Contra Costa county health care services dropped me after a 10-15 minutes' wait with no access to case worker or a person or similar (and with Contra Costa county's IT and processes - and the CCc Medi-Cal site too - not working well or in the interests of the end users in my experience since around 2009 when I first moved into Canyon 94516). I've also asked before in writing to Contra Costa county what role organized crime might be playing in adjacent buildings to Contra Costa county ...e.g. in the former John F Kennedy university - and therefore in Contra Costa county health care services itself and among some employees potentially ...
With one gunshot to my vehicle on M 5/18/26 on Skyline drive near chabot space and science center, and 5 tesla-companies' related death threats, another involving gunshots up on skyline drive too, and 3 appearing in my twitterX feeds, and not having moved in to a newly safe vacant with property deed 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 since departing the east coast a 2nd time to return west on 12/31/2024, - for about 1 3/4 years - because in my analysis it had become safer (but apparently not) ... Having been underway, again, for a year and nearly 3/4 now, I am wondering what role international organized crime (and even regarding a very very small country in the middle east ... with my friend from Reed, Byron Hann MD PhD mentioning the name of the very creepy head of that small country the last time we spoke in front of his house in Moraga near Canyon 94516 a few weeks ago) might be playing even in Contra Costa county municipal offices ... and out of Canyon 94516 ... and having sought a US federal investigation into Canyon 94516, the SF East Bay even, the whole SF Bay Area, and into tesla / twitterX / spaceX re a us space agency even ... and the skyscraper across from the sf quajer meeting on 9th street, where twitterX / tesla / spaceX may have had offices on the 10 th floor etc ... and in possibly preying on kids even in the sf quajer meeting for example (about which I whistle-blew loudly much in around 2017).
In World University and School WUaS growing a worldwide abolition movement, to protect people, and with teslas regarding GPS and AI and ML - re violence gangs??? and death squads?? even (how many of them carry weapons even?), and in them seeking to institutionalize international organized crime in the sf east bay, and possibly on the west coast (as I wrote a Reed College friend the other day and see the PPPS aaa), I've posited a number of times - continuing to seem to swarm my vehicle on and offer - like today as I left from the cold swimmer's shower I had taken (and see the PPSaaa for a possible explanation from Stanford Law CodeX Director Roland Vogl ), I'm concerned about possibly heading into Contra Costa county health care services - since I couldn't get through today to a person - and getting videoed on the surveillance system, and then even Contra Costa county health care services' employees possibly contacting violence gangs for example, and having called for US federal protection for my mother, my brother and family on the eastern seaboard and myself many many months ago.
So I'll try to call again tomorrow in the morning, and hope to speak with a Contra Costa county health care services' worker or representative person and re getting you this information -
"Per recent paper letter dated 8/2526 to me Gordon MacLeod, Worker M Medi-Cal English Only, ID 07LS10670X, (866) 663 3225, & per my Tu 9/1/26 email to Kristin Connelly about this, my Medicare number is 4HA0A78YR12 & I don't receive social security benefits"
... or possibly wait for another paper letter in the Canyon 94516 ... and as teh US federal government potentially works effectively in new ways with the state of California and Contra Costa county law.
Thanks, abolition, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga), Friendly NtF Quaker and Unitarian church greetings, World Univ & Sch WUaS building on CC-4 licensed MIT OCW is growing, best wishes,
"Who is driving?" when one person supervises a fleet " ... and see the related LexisNexis emerging issues information below -
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Hi Everyone,
Happy end of summer!
Our next CodeX group meeting is this Thursday, 9/30, from 1:30 to 2:00 p.m. PT, via Zoom (access info below).
To kick off the 2026–27 academic year, we have an exciting presentation lined up. Our first guest is Will Chen, creator of MikeOSS — an open-source AI legal platform. MikeOSS aims to be the leading platform of its kind, letting legal teams own their own application infrastructure while offering end-to-end solutions for enterprise legal teams handling complex legal workflows.
On a separate note: this Thursday I'll also be moderating a panel, "When AI Escapes the Screen: Robots, Autonomous Systems, and the Law of Physical-World AI," as part of LexisNexis' Emerging Issues webinar. If you'd like to attend, you can register here.
Part 1 | When AI Escapes the Screen: Robots, Autonomous Systems, and the Law of Physical-World AI
Join us for Season 2 of the Emerging Issues: AI and the Law webinar series as we explore the law of physical-world AI and robotics, the rise of autonomous agents in legal practice, and the geopolitics of AI export controls and national security.
AI law is no longer confined to software. As robots, delivery devices, and autonomous vehicles enter workplaces and public roads—sometimes under remote human supervision—companies face new exposure when AI causes physical harm. Following our first season on AI's informational outputs, this program examines the practical legal issues raised when AI acts in the physical world: workplace safety, bodily injury, product liability, recalls, and responsibility for remote fleet operations.
Topics we'll cover:
The federal and state direction of physical-world AI regulation
State-by-state autonomous-vehicle rules and remote-operator licensing
"Who is driving?" when one person supervises a fleet
Risk allocation, and contracting across the manufacturer–operator–deployer chain
Hi Adam (Hewitt, in Bellevue Washington) ... and a long time waldorf / camp hill / anthroposophy (re steiner ism - which is a bit of a cult to my way of thinking) teacher in the state of Washington,
Greetings.
Thanks for the invitation, but no thanks.
In growing a World Univ & Sch worldwide abolition movement to protect people, am deeply concerned about waldorf education and anthroposophy (steiner ism) being involved in international organized crime re the wrongful buying and selling of people eg of kids and women in the illegal sex, violence, military targeting industries internationally - and regarding reed college too having sought an ongoing us federal investigation into reed college many months ago.
IN these WUaS abolition regards, I am also navigating 5 tesla companies' related death threats and a gunshot to vehicle on m 5/18/26 here - re tesla companies seeking to institutionalize international organized crime in the sf east bay and on the west coast too, I posit.
Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga), Friendly NtF Quaker and Unitarian Universalist greetings, abolition, best wishes,
Scott
WUaS Weekly Business Meeting (loosely conducted in the Manner of unprogrammed Friends NtF Quakers' invitation for today at 10 am PT -
Scott MacLeod<sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org>
to:
Kristin.Connelly@vote.cccounty.us,
Edward Smyth <esmythmd@gmail.com>,
Sid Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>,
Janie MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>,
Elizabeth Warren <Elizabeth_Warren@warren.senate.gov>,
Byron Hann <byronhann1@gmail.com>,
Konrad Alt <kalt104@gmail.com>,
Melissa Hickok <Melissa.Hickok@cr.cccounty.us>,
ProviderRelations@cchealth.org,
Info <info@cchealth.org>,
Hank Greely <hgreely@stanford.edu>,
Shawn T Flaherty <pgh.shawn@yahoo.com>,
John Tadler <olfroth@gmail.com>,
Roland Vogl <rvogl@law.stanford.edu>,
Rolene Walker <rolenewalker@gmail.com>,
Ann Brown <annieb@gorge.net>,
Robin Appleberry <robinappleberry@yahoo.com>,
"Brennan, Karen" <karen_brennan@gse.harvard.edu>,
Catherine Muller <catherinemuller57@gmail.com>,
Dean MacCannell <edmaccannell@ucdavis.edu>,
"Matchett, David" <dmatchett@gmail.com>,
"David S. Kong" <dkong@mit.edu>,
Elliott Thurston <esthur7362@gmail.com>,
"Koehler, Peter F" <koehler@pitt.edu>,
Scott Gordon MacLeod <president@worlduniversityandschool.org>,
George Church <gchurch@genetics.med.harvard.edu>,
Tom Hess <yogitom@comcast.net>,
Joichi Ito <Joiito@gmail.com>,
John Sargent MD <jsargent@tuftsmedicalcenter.org>,
Mark MacLeod <mark_k_macleod@yahoo.com>,
Lydia Pintscher <lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de>,
Tym Lenderking <Lenderkingta@yahoo.com>,
Rebecca Nesson <rebeccanesson@gmail.com>,
norvig@stanford.edu,
Nancy O'Sullivan <n.osullivan@cox.net>,
Henry Robb <robb-h@comcast.net>,
Sandy MacLeod <sandysculpture@hotmail.com>,
Eric Thun <eric.thun@sbs.ox.ac.uk>,
Trish Sylvester <trishsylvester@gmail.com>,
Urs Gasser <Ugasser@gmail.com>,
Barbara van Schewick <schewick@stanford.edu>,
Wilson McLeod <w.mcleod@ed.ac.uk>
date:
Sep 3, 2026, 12:05 PM
subject:
Re: Tu 9/1/26 - Dept of Health Care Services County of Contra Costa case Name: Gordon MacLeod Case Number: 1B4RL66 Worker Name: M. Medi-Cal English Only
mailed-by:
worlduniversityandschool.org
Dear Kristin (Connelly) re Contra Costa County Health Care Services, Ed (Smyth MD, KP NorCal), Sid (Mazumdar HHS, in the US federal government), US Senator and former Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren, all,
Greetings. How are you? I tried to call the Contra Costa county health care number on my paper letter from you, to "Contact the county to find out how to submit your information online," and received the following message again: " Due to high call volume, we are unable to handle your call at this time." Having emailed you with the letter's requested information I think, I also logged into - https://benefitscal.com/Dashboard/DBCDB - and see this message:
Things to do
You don’t have anything due at this time.
The letter also says "We must receive this information by 9/25/26 or you may lose your Medi-Cal benefits" -
Person
Gordon K MacLeod III
Customer Notice
Please provide Medicare information and any Social Security award letter, if applicable.
I'm glad Contra Costa county's information technologies are interoperating with the US federal governments in new ways potentially, and per https://benefitscal.com/.
I'll assume I've provided the information to you per the CCc health services' paper letter.
On a related note, and again :
When might I be able to move further fully into a newly safe, vacant, with the property deed 670 Ridgecrest Road, Canyon 94516 please? (I've been underway since I left asylum on the eastern seaboard in PA first on 12/10/24, and van camping since March 4, 2025, taking cold swimmers and surfers' showers in state parks, and am still quite impoverished, - and as I continue to grow free World University and School WUaS in all 200 countries and in all 7159 known living languages, and also in seeking to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet potentially to facilitate free highest quality universal education end poverty worldwide by making Stanford Mine Pi free money daily a main worldwide cryptocurrency). Might I come out to the Contra Costa county municipal offices to sign the property deed soonish please, and thanks to Ed Smyth MD's precipitation of this beginning I think in March of 2022 when I was living in a safe house north of Berkeley in El Cerrito, before fleeing for my life I would say to the east coast on around August 1, 2022, I think)?
And further how best to sign the property deed for ownership 670 Ridgecrest Road, Canyon 94516 or similar, please? I continue to pay a monthly homeowner's insurance premium for this with LM Geico, and would like to schedule an inspection visit (and also for 3 insurance companies' claims regarding damage to my vehicle in about the last year, per ongoing reminders about this from my Geico car insurance). Might I even sign the property deed for ownership 670 Ridgecrest Road, Canyon 94516 online, or would it be best to come into the Contra Costa county municipal offices in Martinez, or?
Thank you, abolition, best wishes,
Scott Gordon K MacLeod
I've added this email thread here for the record -
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 The Wasatch Range, UT ...
Tu 9/1/26 - Dept of Health Care Services County of Contra Costa case Name: Gordon MacLeod Case Number: 1B4RL66 Worker Name: M. Medi-Cal English Only * * *
World University and School is like Wikipedia, & building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, for free online WUaS university degrees (Bachelors, Ph.D., law, M.D. & IB / sim, AA & MS), in all 200 countries in main languages, & wiki schools in all 7,159 languages; is developing a #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM as world class research universities, & see https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 See "Naked Harbin Ethnography" (2016 Academic Press at WUaS)
Scott's an anthropologist of #PhysicalDigital Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church @HarbinBook (on #TwitterX), as ethnographic field site - https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 - who is currently writing "Society, Info Tech & the Global Univ", who also finds fascinating the internet, ideas, poetry, sociology, art, science, genetics of aging reversal & extreme longevity drug therapies emerging (with FDA approval), philosophy, history, music, love and life ~ as well as the anthropology of info tech & counterculture :) - scottmacleod.com; Am also the president or head of, and professor at, best STEAM CC OCW wiki World Univ & Sch & Academic @WUaSPress, planned in 7,159 living languages with machine translation, (aka the WUaS Corp) planning free online degrees in ~200 countries & in their main languages, where you can #WikiTeach, or #WikiLearn, or #WikiCreate - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects (See too "Yoga Notations": http://www.scottmacleod.com/yoganotations.html). Identity-wise, a Nontheist f/Friendly Quaker - a NtF or NtQ - with Unitarian Universalist sympathies as well, and a player of Scottish bagpipes, & an academic