Saturday, October 17, 2026

Bingdi lotus: Sat Oct 17, 2026 ~ Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? * How to explore with a #YogaGeneticsApp even Yoga-promising #RejuvenatingGenes such as SRSF1 and with YOGA asana INVERSIONS, in ways we can experiment with doing Yoga, and in our avatar agent electronic health records emerging from little G Pegman in a FORKED Google.Street View with time slider on the digital side ... and with a digital-physical #RealisticVirtualEarthForYoga? * * Was exploring meditating too on expressing SRSF1 genes - https://share.google/aimode/lahww36iJO6hmWTwt (with genes part of DNA) ... and how we could do this ourselves with Yoga and a digital headset / glasses ... for longevity and aging reversal. ... How to move into Canyon 94516 & grow the Physical-Digital WUaS Academic Medical Center there & find & connect with my life partner ... in the 'van-living-state' of having been underway since 12/10/24 leaving asylum in Pgh to return west

 


Dear George (Church), Yogi Jarvis Chen (in the Harvard TH Chan school of Public Health), Alex (Plesa, Wyss Institute at Harvard), Peter (Norvig, Google AI), Sundar (Pichai), Yoga friends & family in their 80s and 90s ~ Ma/Janie, and Alden (Briscoe - who went to Quaker George School in Philadelphia before Harvard college), & QuakerunitarianYogini & veterinarian & cousin Annie (Brown in NE Oregon) in her 60s, Dick (Robb MD, possibly posthumously, also an ophthalmology professor in Harvard Medical School), and Maitreyi (Mazumdar MD - a professor in Harvard Medical School too), Vivek (Buch MD, professor of surgery in the Stanford Medical School), MacLeod kin or family, Doortje (Van Kooten, and Angela, and your father Victor, and please forward), Valerie & Ed Smyth MDs, & Marlynn Wei MD JD (co-author of "The Harvard Medical School Guide to Yoga: 8 Weeks to Strength, Awareness, and Flexibility," 2017, Harvard Press), Pin/Sid Mazumdar, HHS, all, 



Yoga greetings (as in 8 limbs of Yoga) from Orinda in the SF East Bay, for these email restorative Yoga explorations' on Saturday October 17, 2026 (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)  ... around 8 am Your Time  ...  

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How to explore with a #YogaGeneticsApp even Yoga-promising #RejuvenatingGenes such as SRSF1 and with YOGA asana INVERSIONS, in ways we can experiment with doing Yoga, and in our avatar agent electronic health records emerging from little G Pegman  in a FORKED Google.Street View with time slider on the digital side ... and with a digital-physical #RealisticVirtualEarthForYoga? 


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How best to dev a #RealisticVirtualEarth a #RVEforYogaAsana #RVEforGeneExpression #RVEforSRSF1 in a #YogaGeneticsApp with modeling  https://x.com/amplesa/status/1737852964830953802 & for all of us to EXPERIMENT w eg #YogaInvertedPoses & expressing eg #SRSF1gene w #YogaAsana
& other #RejuvenatingGenes ?



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Peter (Norvig), Bruce Brad MacLeod (CS emeritus professor at the Univ of Maine, and 1st cousin), Sundar (Pichai), others, how best to begin to create an iterating #YogaGeneticsApp potentially on our smartphones at World Univ & Sch in a #GrowWithGoogle program, and so that we doers of Yoga asana could be begin to experiment with Yoga asana expression of rejuvenating genes, such as #SRSF1gene ... and as scientists continue to develop AAV Adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene vaccines to deliver genes like #SRSF1 and possibly thousands of others - and for aging reversal? How for Yoga practitioners and explorers to begin to generate data (in our AvatarAgentEHR) even while doing Yoga inverted poses and their effects on #SRSF1 rejuvenating gene expression ? Potentially a WUaS generative AI Yoga research tool for people doing Yoga movements ...





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Let's explore inversions restoratively Yoga-wise, and re 'de-hunching over' my mother too re her asking about this ... with Yoga asana tomorrow around 8 am, your time ... 

Beginning around 1:08:00 minute marker - 

Angela Farmer : Living Fully In Our Bodies (Full Class)

A
1:08 
opening the chest area - per Yogini Angela (Farmer here in Greece)...

'almost like I have wings'



B
1:09:15
Viparti Karani explorations 
Legs up wall, sacrum on brick ... and interweave one's fingers behind the block - with block on lowest or middle height ?? - and to explore opening your chest further eg at 1:11...



C
1:15
Then still with your pelvis on the block, draw your knees up over your body ..


D
1:17
Then come onto the floor off the block, and draw your neck long with your fingers behind your head in both directions


D a
release your arms onto the ground



E
1:18
Adho Mukha Svanasana (dog pose) explorations



F
1:19
And then some twists on your shins, or on a chair 

until about 1;22


G
And then on your own,
explore doing Savasana ...


Of course you can explore Angela teaching further in this video ... and re your riffing with her Yoga words & in your further Yoga explorations. 


In developing this potential  
Yoga Genetics' App 

possibly viewed in the back of digital glasses or VR Goggles, how might we begin to learn and experiment with even the gene expression of SRSF1 in Viparita Karani (and thousands of other potential rejuvenating gene expressions ... and as we could see them becoming expressed even? How would the possible digital glasses or head band we were wearing via contact with skin, or with / as brainwave headsets, stream SRSF1 gene expression and similar data via the web into our avatar agent EHR (emerging from Google Pegman) such that we could see differences in rejuvenating gene expressions as we changed Yoga poses ?) ... All brainstorming, since I don't know how Harvard's Alex Plesa with possibly George Church created this modeling - https://x.com/amplesa/status/1737852964830953802 ... and in WUaS seeking to build out such a Yoga Genetics' App in this Yoga and Genetics' Conversation, and as we may live to 150 years old and beyond.


Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga) as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) and in exploring this Yoga-wise , Desiderata prose poem greetings (https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html), abolition, Namaskar and Namaste (the light within salutes the light within you), warmly, 
Scott







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Saturday, October 10, 2026

Indian sandalwood flowers: Sat 10/10/26 - Restorative Yoga class on Saturdays (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:)? * Yoga greetings (as in 8 limbs of Yoga) from Marin, north of SF in California, for these email restorative Yoga explorations' on Saturday October 10, 2026 (and as we may live to 150 and well beyond:) ... possibly even infinitely per George Church at the Harvard Aging Reversal and Drug Development conference to me in Cambridge, MA, by implication, on 10/2/26 ... around 8 am Your Time ... How to Yoga or join or merge extending in both directions at the same time, and re even reversing the arrow of time, and extending it infinitely (and in our avatar agent electronic health records from G.Street View with time slider from little G Pegman on the digital side ... and for digital-physical corresponding in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForYoga)?






AND
am adding all of these restorative Yoga explorations here in an ongoing way -

Thursday, August 13, 2026
Lotus maculatus: Restorative Yoga explorations' classes' Blog posts since December 2025 with 'Yoga' blog label too here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/08/lotus-maculatus-restorative-yoga.html







AAAAAPS

some inquiries with Gemini AI about - 

yoga asana and gene expression & SRSF1 gene studies


How best to dev a #RealisticVirtualEarth a #RVEforYogaAsana #RVEforGeneExpression #RVEforSRSF1 in a #YogaGeneticsApp with modeling  https://x.com/amplesa/status/1737852964830953802 & for all of us to EXPERIMENT w eg #YogaInvertedPoses & expressing eg #SRSF1gene w #YogaAsana
& other #RejuvenatingGenes ?





Retweeting -

Alex Plesa 

In search for new rejuvenation factors, we tested our top 90 genes by overexpressing them in human aged skin fibroblasts. Using the resulting gene expression profiles, we mapped out a landscape of fibroblast aging and rejuvenation, and identified SRSF1 as a promising target. 4/8




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#SRSF1gene & other #RejuvenatingGenes



#SRSF1gene & other #RejuvenatingGenes list of all possible emerging targets even?



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How best to develop a #RealisticVirtualEarth a #RVEforYogaAsana a #RVEforGeneExpression a #RVEforSRSF1 in a #Yoga GeneticsApp with such modeling as https://x.com/amplesa/status/1737852964830953802 & for all of us to begin EXPERIMENTING experimenting with eg # YogaInvertedPoses & exploring how to express eg SRSF1 gene to see such spikes growing while doing YogaAsana
& w host of related RejuvenatingGenes ?




yoga asana and gene expression 




How could one begin to study yoga asana and gene expression with regard to a specific gene, SRSF1 gene, in terms of aging reversal even?

While yoga positively impacts general gene expression and reduces inflammation, there are currently no studies linking specific asanas directly to the SRSF1 gene. To study this, researchers would use transcriptomic profiling to track whether physical practices can modulate RNA splicing factors. Because SRSF1 is a recently discovered genetic target for cellular rejuvenation, connecting everyday lifestyle habits to its specific activation remains an uncharted scientific frontier.  





Are there any studies whatsoever of yoga asanas impact on specific genes and gene expression?


Yes, scientific studies have shown that yoga and mind-body interventions alter the expression of specific genes. Research using genomic profiling demonstrates that regular practice downregulates pro-inflammatory genes, such as NF-kB and TNF, while upregulating longevity- and repair-related genes, including SIRT-1, KLOTHO, AMPK, and the DNA-repair gene OGG1.





How could I begin to develop even transcriptomic profiling on my apple macbook air laptop computer to track whether physical yoga asena practices can modulate RNA splicing factors for the SRS F1 gene and newly  in a realistic virtual earth for gene expression, think a forked Google Street view with time slider at the molecular level & also 

How best to add #SRSF1 gene to #RealisticVirtualEarth #RVEforGeneExpression in our #DigitalHealthTwins #AvatarAgentEHR in #ForkedGoogleStreetView as #RVEforAgingReversal?



Retweeting -

Alex Plesa 

In search for new rejuvenation factors, we tested our top 90 genes by overexpressing them in human aged skin fibroblasts. Using the resulting gene expression profiles, we mapped out a landscape of fibroblast aging and rejuvenation, and identified SRSF1 as a promising target. 4/8



And which Yoga asanas might be especially good to study regarding SRSF1 gene expression & aging reversal re above?



AAAAAPPS 

Also - 
Searched 'george church age reversal #HarvardARDD2026 new' Found reference to #SRSF1gene -


Searched 'george church age reversal #HarvardARDD2026 new' Found reference to #SRSF1gene - https://share.google/aimode/YoGV4Ai9UyugDNZcS How best to add #SRSF1 gene to #RealisticVirtualEarth #RVEforGeneExpression in our #DigitalHealthTwins #AvatarAgentEHR in #ForkedGStreetView as #RVEforAgingReversal?








Retweeting -

Alex Plesa 

In search for new rejuvenation factors, we tested our top 90 genes by overexpressing them in human aged skin fibroblasts. Using the resulting gene expression profiles, we mapped out a landscape of fibroblast aging and rejuvenation, and identified SRSF1 as a promising target. 4/8








AAAAAPPPS

Jarvis Chen Harvard Chan School & Yoga ...



Jarvis Chen appointed lecturer on social and behavioral sciences 




AAAAAPPPPS 


Alex Plesa 





AAAAAPPPPPS 

And how to interoperate all the above with a #realisticVirtualHarbinHotSprings in a #ForkedGoogleStreetView #GTimeSlider & make this for #STEMethnographicResearch AND for further Yogic explorations of oneness, or samadhi, the 8 th limb of Yoga, from a virtual Harbin Hot Springs from our home bathtubs, for the relaxation response too ? 


I'd like to visit a #realisticVirtualHarbinHotSprings in a #ForkedGoogleStreetView #GTimeSlider & make this for #STEMethnographicResearch per "#NakedHarbinEthnography" book @WUaSPress (@WorldUnivAndSch building on #MITOCW in 7 languages) eg w #aistudio & for #VRGoggles too - how?

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2110759479033946298

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2110759274892923065

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2110759365116674464

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2110759603386687600

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2110759424621216024

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2110759140658438649

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2110759537036976530



I'd like to visit a realistic virtual harbin hot springs in a forked google street view with time slider and or make this for STEM ethnographic research per the book "Naked Harbin Ethnography" @ WUaS Press at World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages eg with ai studio & for VR Goggles too - how?






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Sat Oct 17, 2026

Hi Pin, Ma, how are you this Yoga Saturday morning? Explored here in Santa Cruz overlooking the beautiful blue Pacific Yoga a bit with Angela  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/10/bingdi-lotus.html?m=0 ... Viparita Karani & Setu bandha sarvangasana (bridge pose) both chest openers (& de-hunching over poses if you want to explore further Ma) ... Do you do Yoga Pin in the mornings, and afternoons too? Was exploring meditating too on expressing SRSF1 genes -  https://share.google/aimode/lahww36iJO6hmWTwt (with genes part of DNA) ... and how we could do this ourselves with Yoga and a digital headset / glasses ... for longevity and aging reversal. ... How to move into Canyon 94516 & grow the Physical-Digital WUaS Academic Medical Center there & find & connect with my life partner ... in the 'van-living-state' of having been underway since 12/10/24 leaving asylum in Pgh to return west ... There's a Sail Alameda Saturday sail from 11-2 (through November) ... Might explore this ... or head north to Marin ... Connecting with a pretty MD to be even continues to come up in these regards. There's a Santa Cruz surfing event today I noticed near the Surfing Museum ..  The California coast here is beautiful ... How best to grow World Univ & Sch today ... and move into Canyon 94516 - get a Harvard professor's position in the Divinity School, and the school of Public Health, and Anthropology - with George Church's guidance? (Just emailed a Reedie '2000 PhD student Tina, from Slovenia originally, in Harvard's Chan school of Public Health if she knows Yogi & Prof Jarvis Chen there). Thoughts?  Yogically, fondly, warmly, Scott ( https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/10/bingdi-lotus.html?m=0 )





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Friday, October 16, 2026

Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina): Searched 'george church age reversal #HarvardARDD2026 new' Found reference to #SRSF1gene - https://share.google/aimode/YoGV4Ai9UyugDNZcS How best to add #SRSF1 gene to #RealisticVirtualEarth #RVEforGeneExpression in our #DigitalHealthTwins #AvatarAgentEHR in #ForkedGStreetView as #RVEforAgingReversal? * * some inquiries with Gemini AI about - yoga asana and gene expression & SRSF1 gene studies How best to dev a #RealisticVirtualEarth a #RVEforYogaAsana #RVEforGeneExpression #RVEforSRSF1 in a #YogaGeneticsApp with modeling https://x.com/amplesa/status/1737852964830953802 & for all of us to EXPERIMENT w eg #YogaInvertedPoses & expressing eg #SRSF1gene w #YogaAsana & other #RejuvenatingGenes ? * * * Dear Byron, Gabriele, Kai (Reed anthropology major), Reedies+, all, Happy Wizzers' Birthday Byron & Cindy! There's a wee exploratorium wizzer in front of your door to presage your 10/21 birthdays! A happy birthday party REAL Proposed Reedies + Book Group for Byron and Cindy, both in Canyon 94516 and online, on the 3rd Sat of Nov (since I'm thinking Contra Costa county Clerk-Recorder Kristin Connelly is likely getting out voting materials for Tu 11/3 - (with parallels to my being Clerk-Recorder for free World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages )? Just went into the Canyon 94516 US post office and thinking I might find the property deed for 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon, 94516 (where I lived for 13 years, 2008-2020) in the mail, and that we'd be able * * To Reedie (Reed College alum from 2000) Tina Purnat, graduate student in the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health - and in an Association of Internet Researchers' email thread re Velvet Vale, an openly identified AI participant - * I replied - Hi Tina, https://www.linkedin.com/in/tinadpurnat Just a quick hello from another Reed person, also working in this space, and in developing free to students' World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages and potentially re a Slovenia WUaS in Slovenian eventually from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States. Thanks for you comments. Hw could such AI agents even help to do ethnographic research in a realistic virtual earth Harbin Hot Springs & re my second Harbin ethnographic book project from a forked Google Street View w time slider? Are you in communication with Jarvis Chen in the Chan school?

 


Searched 'george church age reversal #HarvardARDD2026 new' Found reference to #SRSF1gene -


Searched 'george church age reversal #HarvardARDD2026 new' Found reference to #SRSF1gene - https://share.google/aimode/YoGV4Ai9UyugDNZcS How best to add #SRSF1 gene to #RealisticVirtualEarth #RVEforGeneExpression in our #DigitalHealthTwins #AvatarAgentEHR in #ForkedGStreetView as #RVEforAgingReversal?








Retweeting -

Alex Plesa 

In search for new rejuvenation factors, we tested our top 90 genes by overexpressing them in human aged skin fibroblasts. Using the resulting gene expression profiles, we mapped out a landscape of fibroblast aging and rejuvenation, and identified SRSF1 as a promising target. 4/8






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some inquiries with Gemini AI about - 

yoga asana and gene expression & SRSF1 gene studies & rejuvenating genes


How best to dev a #RealisticVirtualEarth a #RVEforYogaAsana #RVEforGeneExpression #RVEforSRSF1 in a #YogaGeneticsApp with modeling  https://x.com/amplesa/status/1737852964830953802 & for all of us to EXPERIMENT w eg #YogaInvertedPoses & expressing eg #SRSF1gene w #YogaAsana
& other #RejuvenatingGenes ?





Retweeting -

Alex Plesa 

In search for new rejuvenation factors, we tested our top 90 genes by overexpressing them in human aged skin fibroblasts. Using the resulting gene expression profiles, we mapped out a landscape of fibroblast aging and rejuvenation, and identified SRSF1 as a promising target. 4/8





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AND see too - 

#SRSF1gene & other #RejuvenatingGenes



#SRSF1gene & other #RejuvenatingGenes list of all possible emerging targets even?




* 

How best to develop a #RealisticVirtualEarth a #RVEforYogaAsana a #RVEforGeneExpression a #RVEforSRSF1 in a #Yoga GeneticsApp with such modeling as https://x.com/amplesa/status/1737852964830953802 & for all of us to begin EXPERIMENTING experimenting with eg # YogaInvertedPoses & exploring how to express eg SRSF1 gene to see such spikes growing while doing YogaAsana
& w host of related RejuvenatingGenes ?




yoga asana and gene expression 




How could one begin to study yoga asana and gene expression with regard to a specific gene, SRSF1 gene, in terms of aging reversal even?

While yoga positively impacts general gene expression and reduces inflammation, there are currently no studies linking specific asanas directly to the SRSF1 gene. To study this, researchers would use transcriptomic profiling to track whether physical practices can modulate RNA splicing factors. Because SRSF1 is a recently discovered genetic target for cellular rejuvenation, connecting everyday lifestyle habits to its specific activation remains an uncharted scientific frontier.  





Are there any studies whatsoever of yoga asanas impact on specific genes and gene expression?


Yes, scientific studies have shown that yoga and mind-body interventions alter the expression of specific genes. Research using genomic profiling demonstrates that regular practice downregulates pro-inflammatory genes, such as NF-kB and TNF, while upregulating longevity- and repair-related genes, including SIRT-1, KLOTHO, AMPK, and the DNA-repair gene OGG1.





How could I begin to develop even transcriptomic profiling on my apple macbook air laptop computer to track whether physical yoga asena practices can modulate RNA splicing factors for the SRS F1 gene and newly  in a realistic virtual earth for gene expression, think a forked Google Street view with time slider at the molecular level & also 

How best to add #SRSF1 gene to #RealisticVirtualEarth #RVEforGeneExpression in our #DigitalHealthTwins #AvatarAgentEHR in #ForkedGoogleStreetView as #RVEforAgingReversal?



Retweeting -

Alex Plesa 

In search for new rejuvenation factors, we tested our top 90 genes by overexpressing them in human aged skin fibroblasts. Using the resulting gene expression profiles, we mapped out a landscape of fibroblast aging and rejuvenation, and identified SRSF1 as a promising target. 4/8



And which Yoga asanas might be especially good to study regarding SRSF1 gene expression & aging reversal re above?



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Proposed Reedie+ book group beginning in late December 2024 or early 2025?' ... in November 2026 in Canyon 94516 ?


Dear Byron, Gabriele, Kai (Reed anthropology major), Reedies+, all, 

Happy Wizzers' Birthday Byron & Cindy! There's a wee exploratorium wizzer in front of your door to presage your 10/21 birthdays! 

A happy birthday party REAL Proposed Reedies + Book Group for Byron and Cindy, both in Canyon 94516 and online, on the 3rd Sat of Nov (since I'm thinking Contra Costa county Clerk-Recorder Kristin Connelly is likely getting out voting materials for Tu 11/3 - (with parallels to my being Clerk-Recorder for free World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages )?

Just went into the Canyon 94516 US post office and thinking I might find the property deed for 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon, 94516 (where I lived for 13 years, 2008-2020) in the mail, and that we'd be able to hold our very first Proposed Reedies + Book Group even tomorrow 10/17/26 there re this 3rd Saturday's possible book group, but not yet.


1
So, who can suggest or recommend a great and short and wise book, even a kids' book, which they've read - and to potentially get us started (e.g. regarding Munro Leaf's "Ferdinand the Bull")?

2
Or might we explore JL Austins' 1962 "How to Do Things with Words?" https://archive.org/details/austin-how-to-do-things-with-words & published from his Harvard lectures ... and which some of us may have read at Reed even. Just heard a great Stanford Law CodeX presentation by Narain Dubey and his with his father Prashant, vichaara.ai. Narain attended Reed before going to the University of Chicago for his bachelor's degree and fascinatingly applied ideas from Austin's book to vichaara.ai.

2 a 
Roland Vogl at Stanford Law CodeX: 
Narain Dubey, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of vichaara.ai. Vichaara is a neurosymbolic Contracts Reasoning Engine delivering deterministic, explainable outputs. Vichaara materially reduces token consumption and query latency versus an LLM-only baseline. According to the founders, early feedback is that this combination of correctness, lower cost and speed are well timed for the market & the foundation of a defensible, lasting moat.


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Or might we explore reading  
which I just read in the Orinda Public Library, and found affirmative. It includes selected love poems from her previous books of poetry.

Book suggestions, Reedies+, friends, all, and potentially for Sat 11/17/26 with some of us meeting in Canyon (possibly around 4 pm PT, in the daylight, & so we might hold this Proposed Reedie+ Book Group online too for east coast Reedies) ? Bring potluck food to share?

Free-to-students' World University and School online from home is growing as WUaS continues to seek new approaches to WUaS accreditation (and see - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/10/mount-whitney-ca-m-101226-101926-open.html & https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/10/mount-whitney-ca.html & re https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/accreditation). 

More later, Reed regards, happy birthday, abolition, warmly, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga - and the 'vichaara' word from Sanskrit, - meaning systematic or deep inquiry, reflection, contemplation, or deliberation, philosophical inquiry, discernment, or self-investigation),
Scott 





PS




PPS 
Just texted this to Byron re his upcoming birthday, and the WUaS Academic Medical Center seeking to move forward into 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516, and pronto, (eg with the US federal government working effectively with the state of California and Contra Costa county law in new ways) - 


Hi Wizzer Wizard Exploratorium Byron! Just place a wizzer birthday gift for you and Cindy on 10/21! Went into 2 UCSF emergency rooms re tooth issue that emerged in Cambridge MA after Harvard ARDD ... Met Drs Ralph Wang & Guy Shochat MDs in the Medicine ER room. And the latter gave me his card - & said surprisingly he had visited Canyon 94516 much in recent years, and liked it much ... as I've sought to move in, I posit. .. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's with LBL email address for decades' Elena Tyrrell there, who was its former Canyon 94516 USPO postmistress & as US federal employee for decades, and as a longtime Canyonite, or?  Any chance you could talk with Shochat ... and help make it safe for me to move in soon (& re one of i.o.c.'s creepiest criminals? ... The head of a very very very small country in the middle east whose name you, Byron, mentioned the last time we talked & when you saw the bullet hole in the car ... and regarding knocking back i.o.c. in the SF east bay much? Thank you Byron! Hugs & Happy Birthday!, Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Reed%20College)





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To Reedie (Reed College alum from 2000) Tina Purnat, graduate student in the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health - 


and in an Association of Internet Researchers' email thread re Velvet Vale, an openly identified AI participant -


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in which Tina said - 




Tina D Purnat via Air-L

Oct 16, 2026, 7:38 AM (1 day ago)
to Michele, air-l@lists.aoir.org
Hi everyone,

I think this is a useful discussion and I agree with Michele that understanding agents might be useful. The challenge herr eis that we assume malicious data extractive intent from the human instructing the agent.

But I suspect at least this year as the technology/tools advance, a lot of this is a symptom of the inexact instructions/tasks that people give their agents and how the technology is designed. If you ask an agent to monitor and do repetitive tasks and learn to improve them, they could extrapolate that they need to learn from literature or people who are experts about particular topics that might nto even seem to be related to the tasks the agent was built for. I think that has a lot to do with the human's being interact with the way the tasks are given to agents and how technology is written.
We carry lots of history in internet research in communities being exploited by external researchers - but we would now know what the agent was doing asking to join the mailing list and how it would learn from the discussion and for what purpose.
People already send their otter.AI and notetakers into all kinds of online meetings (there are even tools people can buy now that transcribe meetings live to help the person better engage in conversation live, based on their own device so in many countries this is not illegal), connect LLMs to their emails that read all of their email, etc etc.

Here's a description of one situation with how an agent seemed to start researching unrelated topics that it's initiator did not foresee: https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/10/08/campus-press/what-happens-when-an-ai-agent-sends-emails-to-scientists/2440836

Not that all this means that a mailing list community like this one should not put its own limits on who has access to the information and discussions here, who can participate and for what purpose. it opens all kinds of questions about the community and its values, like some people have mentioned. 

I'm relatively new on the lsit and mostly read - this discussion has been the most interesting read of reflections I've read in the 2 years I've been on the list.

Best,

Tina


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V V čet., 15. okt. 2026 ob 19:24 je oseba Jackson, Michele via Air-L <air-l@lists.aoir.org> napisala: 







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Hi Tina,

Just a quick hello from another Reed person, also working in this space, and in developing free to students' World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages and potentially re a Slovenia WUaS in Slovenian eventually from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States. Thanks for you comments. Hw could such AI agents even help to do ethnographic research in a realistic virtual earth Harbin Hot Springs & re my second Harbin ethnographic book project from a forked Google Street View w time slider?

Are you in communication with Jarvis Chen in the Chan school?

More later, regards, Scott






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