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
"Thanks so much for your excellent presentation, Andre. Besides in the Portuguese language, in what ways does or could JusPredict’s "Case Outcome Prediction for Brazilian Courts," engage or could it plan for the other approximately 228 languages in Brazil - and even as potential customers or markets? Is Portuguese, as the official language, the only legal language in Brazil? Could you even use, hypothetically, Google Translate in your JusPredict projects to reach other potential customers (eg for human rights, or environmental questions) in Brazil’s languages?"
What do you think?
Karl, Liz, Charlotte, (André too),
In what ways might WUaS's planned law schools in all ~200 countries' languages (planned in 7,117 known living languages too with machine translation - for benefits of law for all esp.) work or collaborate with you to develop brief writing, possibly some case law, articles, and library resources (where WUaS is planning online university and school libraries in all 7,117 languages), and similar, for your project in your thinking about aiding the poor - and with NLP and machine learning too?
From about 1:01:50 you say, Charlotte, re "automated brief writing, and things like that, and so there are some companies that are attempting to build some of this space, but I don't think really with a sort of legal services, low income client, poor lawyer type orientation that we have been talking about. I don't know. So I think goal one is to push out some papers, and as we do that we're thinking about where else we might go."
Brainstorming-wise, here are the beginning law schools at CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School (of which I'm the founder and head), which is planning online free-to-students' CC-4 OCW-centric law degrees, PhDs, Bachelors' degrees, MD degrees, and IB high school diplomas in all ~200 countries (per Olympics) and in their official and main languages - so with a significant focus on helping the poor. And since MIT has neither a law school nor a medical school, World University and School is exploring collaboration with Stanford Law and Medicine in these regards, for something akin to law and medicine open course ware, in 200 countries' main languages. All 4 of your projects could dovetail amazingly with this:
Law Schools at World University and School (planned in main languages in them)
- http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html (WUaS parallel 2nd wing, a for profit general stock company in California as a legal entity, not yet operational), where both wings are planned in ~200 countries, and in all 7,117 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning too).
From text chat:
Charlotte:
Let us know, everyone, if we need to explain U.S. summary judgment procedure more to make this make sense!
Summary judgment is a pivotal moment in civil litigation when the judge can make a ruling for one side or the other (and end the case before trial) if the weight of the evidence is overwhelmingly in that party's favor. Either party can move for summary judgment.
So there's an opening brief by the moving party, then an opposing brief, then a reply and an optional surreply.
Charlotte Alexander (Georgia State University) to Everyone (2:17 PM) Then the judge rules. The briefs contain recitations of the facts and citations to precedential cases.
Thank you so much, and looking forward to further brilliant legal information technologies' communications, and smart contracts' developments, in these regards. Thank you!
- CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization.
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Hi Everyone,
Our next CodeX group meeting is today, Thursday (Feb 4), from 1:30p to 2:30p PT, via Zoom - please use the link and password below. Our meetings continue to be held remotely.
Our guests:
André Lage Freitas, Assistant Professor, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, and Co-founder, JusPredict, a legaltech startup that builds AI solutions. Prof. Lage-Freitas will discuss "Case Outcome Prediction for Brazilian Courts," an applied research project that builds predictive analyses of Brazilian legal decisions.
Pretty good Yoga asana exploring this morning ... in thinking about the 4-week course beginning on Sunday with Angela (and possibly Victor) streaming in from Greece.
Good lesson last night with Taylor ...
Water goes off from 9:30a - 12:30 or until Navin says it's back on, due to some plumber's work apparently ... so I'm washing my sheets now, having washed a load of clothes last night.
Seeking a life partner via circulating, and also perhaps putting the 'word' out (in one way or another, ie messaging, thinking, etc.), continues ... an American could have appeal, a MD too, someone I connect with naturally (like with S & A and some other wonderful friends in the past) and someone wonderful (like you:)
Seeking to stay safe, and even through the decades ahead (re unethical behavior like potentially from N.G. ... ) and by using language, since California law always seems to be in flux, and international law, & law between countries, have a lot of interstices, for example.
Fascinating genetic engineering below, suggesting we know the anatomy (of species' bodies - phenotypes) of their genomes pretty well now (a map of the effects of A T G C - https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Deoxyribonucleic-Acid-Fact-Sheet ) ... will we be able, for example, to genetically engineering something for my eustachian tube dysfunction in an analogous or parallel way, since I think the issues is at the cellular and 'street view' levels too ... like this bird-amphibian ...
Appreciating George Alexander further, and his focus on hope in 'sophistication' - in this complex knowledge world we live in (but I'd add some moral and ethical orientation, since he was as a MD Lacanian psychoanalytic psychiatrist self-identified as 'amoral' ... appreciating how much philosophical thought he gave to so many words in English, and a bit in French ). And what can conscious 'thinking' - per George esp. - add to the Desiderata going forward ? What is thinking in this sense, and how for example can it shape one's own agency - philosophically "action or intervention, especially such as to produce a particular effect" also in a sense free will or freedom to choose - (and ethically and morally too)? ... What role does law play here ... and newly with aging reversal and genetic engineering, and re below, the possibility to live for many many more decades that we might have otherwise thought?
What are you up to today, Ma?
Sending love, Scott
Thrilled to announce the first successful hybridization between a bird and an axolotl.
Learned further in my first piano lesson in many years about the FM add-on idea for real-real time music making (and which video recording has Patti's knowledge of it - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/02/yukon.html - at the beginning). It could be worth exploring (and without ethernet) ... Not sure about the range of faster FM frequency than the internet (I think) or latency / lag ... but Berkeley < > Oakland would be a first exploration rather than Hoboken and Wisconsin, for example :) ... and regarding the 2 choirs, including Da Upper Yoopers ;) ... - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2021/01/tree-swallow.html?m=0 -
Pretty wild genetics' engineering below with lots of implications, some of which I just shared with my mother, and will likely blog about today :)
See you, Henry, and all Sunday at 8pm ET, 5pm PT :)
Scott
Thrilled to announce the first successful hybridization between a bird and an axolotl.
Northern Red Bishop, Fort Mason.
Thrilled to announce the first successful hybridization between a bird and an axolotl.
Speculatively, FM add-on may be 'parking lot range limited' (eg in the covid-19 pandemic, in the information technology / internet revolution) - and possibly in combination with the 180 feet range of a wireless internet router, speed could improve. And could choir voices' signals be easier to transmit than musical instruments???
But how to develop real-real time music-making with less lag or latency than FM, or ethernet cable, and from the SF Bay Area to Wisconsin to Hoboken NY, I wonder, and in a do-it-yourself free way?
Thoughts, ideas, questions, suggestions (Greg?, Sandro? Henry re what you've seen journalistically? anyone?)
Fondly,
Scott
Received recently on paper my 4th book of poetry, "Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually," (although it was published on 1/1/21, and I received a not-for-sale paper copy in early January), - in a new Academic Press at World University and School! which has published 5 books now, the first being ethnography ("Naked Harbin Ethnography") - and just Tweeted the following:
(And I haven't explored very much at all reading my poetry to video or audio, although in my 1st book of poetry, I recorded some of the 'Haiku~ish' at Harbin in Garageband:) ... this could be an interesting generative poetic 'conversation' in the future too - and re 'sound' and the spoken word:) ):
5th book in new @WUaSPress
'Light, Float, Sit, #Watsu ~ Virtually: Bodymind Electricity Sings to Me at Harbin Hot Springs & Other Traveling Poems' (book) is AVAILABLE on PAPER !:) @SGKMacLeod (Author)
Nice to talk the other day (after quite a while), Rob (and since high school in the second half of the 1970s). Glad you're visiting organic groceries in the Connecticut town where you live! Interesting to observe what 'organizations' and 'culture' comes through time from the 1960s and even late 1970s (as I listen to this Allman Bros 1973 - https://youtu.be/DNAmXz8kc6I - as I type). (Congratulations too to Gwyn / you on getting into Harvard Law School!)
Regarding social media and Twitter introducing "a feature that pops people up to the top of the smartphone Twitter screen - allowing me to unfollow them, if I so choose, which I'm doing; are they all illegals somehow? - could be" (see email below too) ... I continue to unfollow 1 or 2 people everyday, and I infer that they could be involved in illegal activities too somehow (so am in agreement with Twitter's coding, possibly, and so far) ... interesting to think about what kind of coding Twitter could be using in its databases.
Appreciating too, in these regards, Gerd Moe-Behrens's recent Tweet - https://twitter.com/GerdMoeBehrens/status/1352770791746711552?s=20 (as a scientist and regarding Twitter too, which is evolving - and social media distributively-wise, where distributed is a key feature of the internet). He's a sophisticated and very ethical I think and knowledgeable synthetic biologist / biological engineer based in Berlin, who is also an Apple programmer, and who wanted very much to emigrate to the US, but which didn't happen; here are some videos of us from 2012 in a Google Hangout in a Stanford Advanced Startups' course - http://scottmacleod.com/papers.htm.
Here's Gerd Moe-Behrens's Tweet (as he leaves Twitter fairly completely) with new social media sites -
Does social media / the internet come from the 1960s too? ... & per a course I teach - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html. Yes, in terms of the actual beginnings of distributed digital networks, and counterculture too, and in many other ways ... and how many hours are we all on it per day? So many !
Thoughts about social media strategies? - ... ie for good (and re ethics, morality and similar - am a Castellian in broad strokes here and regarding alternative social movements that arise re countering power, for example ... see his "Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age" in these regards) - and even regarding developing AI and machine learning?
(Interestingly, Twitter just introduced a feature that pops people up to the top of the smartphone Twitter screen - allowing me to unfollow them, if I so choose, which I'm doing; are they all illegals somehow - could be - and which other large social media cos never built in as a feature, but could even FB's MZ have suggested to Twitter's JD that this would be a good idea for Twitter, and could Twitter have learned from other's mistakes? C'est possible ... all speculatively ... am tuning into ethics' questions in a variety of ways regarding the information technology revolution and society even - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethics and see /Society and IT label too:).
Thanks for talking!
Regards, Scott
How to integrate science into a developing single realistic virtual earth -
- and which helpful critique opens new directions for theorizing. But this book review isn't about "Communication Power" ... which I'm still reading :)
Love, Scott
How's your day going? :)
Book Review: Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age by Manuel Castells
In the second edition of Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age, sociologist Manuel Castells conceptualises the relationship between social movements and the internet age through the notion of ‘the networked social movement’. While the book utilises an admirable empirical dataset and shows deep understanding of the fluidity of contemporary social movements, Helton Levy wonders if Castells’s optimistic vision neglects lingering issues, including state surveillance and the digital divide.
Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age. 2nd edition. Manuel Castells. Polity. 2015.
The emergence of new social movements has lately become a hot topic, as seen by the recent media popularity of groups such as Occupy or Spain’s Indignados. In Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age, sociologist Manuel Castells aims to conceptualise their relation with the Internet, or what he defines as the networked social movement. Author of other famous net-optimistic titles such as The Rise of The Network Society (1996), Castells preaches of a world in which the Internet not only centralises our communicational routines, but also liberates individuals to shape a new autonomy, to reclaim power and to shake the political scene, leading to social change. By coordinating their offline action with other online initiatives, networked social movements could become ‘super counter powers’ that are able to articulate in multiple settings, converge into transnational agendas and achieve an unseen political accountability.
This second edition incorporates recent cases from Brazil, Turkey, Chile and Mexico, before then reintroducing the thesis. The networked social movement appears now as an extended and successful idea, having migrated from screens and streets to a more direct engagement with institutionalised power. Castells firmly believes that Occupy should be read beyond momentum, with its counterparts spreading across very different countries and contexts. The reintroduction of the Arab Spring into this conversation, despite the controversies around its real existence, envisions the networked movement as a universal phenomenon. Castells revisits the case of Tunisia; but instead of people, it is Internet organisations that are at the forefront: ‘The connection between free communication on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter and the occupation of urban space created a hybrid public space of freedom that became a major feature of the Tunisian rebellion’ (23).
In the academic literature, Networks of Outrage and Hope has been much criticised for being more about hope than outrage: firstly, for the technological determinism on which the book grounds its premises, whereas a critical outlook that includes multinational corporations, such as Google, could clarify who actually runs the ‘Internet’. Secondly, for its one-dimensional, compulsory ‘Internet age’, in which ‘people’ actually means ‘users’ whose main fate rests in interacting with machines without objection or resistance. Discomfort with Castells’s triad of online communication, political engagement and power stems from the fact that the networked social movement appears here as a continuation of the networked society, which is itself an unfinished idea: namely, the dependence on sharing experiences to build meaning and then forming associations. Ordinary citizens would only need to follow this track in order to suddenly break into power: ‘They overcome the powerlessness of their solitary despair by networking desire’ (9).
Image Credit: Poster from 2011 Egyptian Protests (Essam Sharaf)
One perceives a rush to claim a ‘power switch’ from offline, old, establishment power to an online, new, ‘people’s’ power, which covers much of Castells’s good empirical dataset. The diverse graphs attached to the appendix try to prove consistent public awareness of movements such as Occupy, which is fine. However, the roots of this popularity, such as links with the mainstream media, remain undisclosed. On the other hand, Castells resumes the search for the idea of an ‘autonomous’ space where citizens’ power happens: a discussion that began in The Network Society. The existence of this ‘autonomous’ space, situated between cyberspace and urban realms, would enable movements to gather and conquer their objectives. Inevitably, the social network appears as its prime example and as the core of this new ‘spaciality’. In this sense, qualities such as togetherness, self-reflexivity and viralitysplit networked movements from ordinary, or offline, social mobilisations and political campaigns.
Castells aims to demonstrate how those qualities can be perceived in recent episodes of great media visibility. He brings up the case of Brazil. In 2013, protests that started in São Paulo as the result of a bus fare hike later became massive demonstrations. That event would be enough to attest to the power of networked movements, sending people out onto the streets and ultimately receiving a direct response from the government. Letting alone that this thesis can be easily contested with many other factors, I will point out that the credit for this improved accountability is neither given to society, nor to the leftist government that was in power. It is rather the product of a new Internet-based mindset. Are these changes for good? The issue of temporality appears unaddressed. Networked movements are celebrated for their leaderless structures, but the ‘charismatic’ activist Camila Vallejo is praised as the Chilean movement’s leader, alongside the support from president Michelle Bachelet (238). Those contradictions unveil more the traditional ambiguity of collective action than a seamless and spontaneous, online-mediated civil reaction, as the author argues.
The book’s merits lie nonetheless in dedicating time to understanding the fluid dynamics of social movements and their important role for contemporary politics. The improvement of social movements’ ability to communicate raises hopes of a more critical public sphere, less vulnerable to being misled by politicians (264). As seen in the final chapter, a connected but disenchanted electorate can offer a risky protest vote, as happened with the Five Stars Movement in Italy. The benefits of well-connected social movements are clear and they can be enormous, even more far-reaching in vibrant democracies. However, the extent to which this connectivity thrives amid a capitalist, entertainment-driven, ‘attention deficit’ Internet, remains, nonetheless, not enough discussed. The constant references to Occupy as the cornerstone of ‘civil disobedience’ and outrage against the system miss the point of a more radical critique, one that could take social movements to new levels of politicisation.
By assigning a less ambitious scope for the ‘networked’ phenomenon, a more credible and exciting reality could instead be described, even if applied to the micro-level. In Networked Publics and Digital Contention(2015), Mohamad Zayani makes the case for Tunisia and narrates on a more realistic basis the impact of the Internet in a young democracy. In Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (2012), Paolo Gerbaudo discusses the illusion of online ‘space’ by receiving many insights from activists. The truth is, while users of Facebook and Twitter, social movements must still struggle today against real inequalities before they can embody good cases of connectivity and Internet power. Perhaps by looking at this social backbone before then exploring communicational possibilities, this would give more credibility to the ‘networked’ as a normative framework. Castells’s book may enchant those who are fascinated with a few mainstream cases of temporary social disruption, but it unsurprisingly fails to add more meaning to the ‘network’ ideal, which, in a time of state surveillance and the digital divide, has not yet lived up to expectations.
Just walked up 1.7 miles (to the UU Church) and turning around, am walking back.
Received a curious email the other day from Angela, Patricia and another organizer. I get the impression A & V Yoga has changed a lot re freedom and other related issues. Why did my good friend Lynn never go back to them? (Illegal issues even?)
As artists, and possibly now unethical ones (here in California too, from their base in Greece?) am
I'm considering simply, following their curious email, not communicating, and simply watch the videos (afterward) per what I ordered when I registered.
Am focusing on ethics in an ongoing way, and re Yoga too.
Sending love,
Scott
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Scottish Country Dance tunes in G & D for D & A Scottish Small Pipes CHANTER explorations
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Hi Taylor,
Scottish Country Dance tunes in G - 'Southwind' - & D - 'Farewell To Scotland' - for D & A Scottish Small Pipes' CHANTERs explorations. There's a tune in A major too here - Bonnie Glenfarg - which can sort of work on the A mixolydian chanter. (No gracenotes or doublings however - which can be freeing, or even offer improvisational opportunities too:)
Cheers,
Scott
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Taylor,
for the interesting learning challenge of it, would you like to explore playing "Southwind" on the D CHANTER for next week and the following week? This would involve learning new fingering, and you'd have to rewrite a tiny bit of the tune outside the D chanter's nine note range. (Only a few of the tunes in the blue and pink books in D major, - So for A mix chanter (and I presume the key of G) so D mixolydian chanter - are completely in the chanters' range, which makes for innovation possibilities. Seeking to develop new big interesting challenges for you ... Beyond Piobaireachd ... (Learning SSP CHANTER B flat fingering ANEW on the practice chanter AHEAD TOO potentially? ): Three SSP chanters' open a range of possibilities, and esp in playing with other instruments :)
Scott
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Great, Taylor,
Circle of 5ths, I think, - seeking those tunes in blue and pink books which can be played with both chanters' and work, without learning New D CHANTER fingering but on D chanter, and even 'fugue' like making harmony ... May be an opportunity to write such tunes too ... Blue and pink books are deep resources, many playable with all 3 Scottish Small Pipes' chanters' ... And thus with other instruments and Open Band Players, possibly across the country digitally even ... Have mentioned this to Patti who knows these books very well (and some theory too - she was a music major at Cal in the '70s) and we'll see what emerges ...
Was just jamming with the Allman Bros in 73 in a beginning way on the A chanter around 2:30 ... Sounded in tune, was fun and beginning to click a bit, - helped to have head phones on from computer ... (I 'Bliss' out a little to this 1973 recording ... Not sure completely why) ... May learn more too from Ian (and Patti) about doing this too
Playing so was fun, novel experimental with lots of potential
Image Credit: Poster from 2011 Egyptian Protests (Essam Sharaf)
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