Proposed Reedie+ book group beginning in late December 2024 or early 2025? ~ & some poetry?
Hi Gabrielle, Byron, Reedies+, all,
Green Reedies + greetings, All!
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Who here is writing books that we might read in the Proposed Reedie book group, first meeting in Canyon 94516 on 3rd Saturday this November, so Sat 11/15 around 4 in the daylight even? Potentially the US federal government with the state of California will be working effectively in new ways, and I and the WUaS Academic Medical Center will have moved forward further to 670 A Ridgecrest, Canyon, CA 94516.
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Here's the 2nd poem in the "To the Dance Or the Pools? ~ Virtually! (2019)" book of poetry (and the blog post from which I harvested it) I gave Byron and Cindy on their recent birthdays ...
Illuminated Star Cloud: The dance or the pools? First the dance then the pools
The dance or the pools?
First the dance then the pools. Long haired folks with flowing clothes - wild and free. What a shift -
from the city.
Listen first,
hear the rhythm, dance a little, cool, - then away. Up to the pools, past the Temple with its white and colored lights.
(A woman at the dance
is topless.
She starts to make out with her friend on the pillows). How glorious.
And Harbin's evening illumination is all around. So soft, - and
so nice to be back ... Rainbow Gathering? ... The moon is out,
the garden grasses
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are high, and the air is fragrant.
I walk up and there inside Stonefront lodge, I see her feet,
for she is lying
on her back
on a sofa, reading.
Past the Gazebo,
under the starlight,
I walk farther
up the way
past Redwood lodge under the sun deck, and into the pool area. Welcome home.
It's dark.
I go into a bathroom, shut the door,
and write some more - this here now.
To the warm pool now, leaving my clothes
on the benches
under the grape arbor. To the pools.
In,
in ease under,
holding my ears,
float ...
Then to the shelf at one end,
and into lotus pose,
now relaxation response, MMmmm.
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Inside, I go deeper - she's pretty -
then out of the warmth and into the hot pool.
In the dark,
the candle -
in its holder with holes that illuminate
a heart image in metal - looks like a golden brooch on the neck of the woman's bust
with flowers in her hair above the whale spout.
The hot pool is
so beautiful illuminated by candles in many ways,
and steam,
in the night,
rises.
And there a woman
sits on
the dolphin railing stairs, receiving the heat
from this earth's energy.
Out of the pool,
I head to shower, skipping the
cold plunge,
and walk through the dark pool area, cement under foot -
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it's joy to be walking naked here -
to the new little deck at the far end
of the pool area. No one is around - Stars -
then back,
put on my clothes walk down through Harbin again,
into the garden, and past the temple
and to bed.
From
To the Dance Or the Pools? ~ Virtually! (2019)
OR
"To the Dance Or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How Different It Is to Soak at Harbin Hot Springs, Than to Realize It in Virtual Reality" (2019)
Book by Scott Gk MacLeod
https://books.google.com/
To the Dance Or the Pools? ~ Virtually! (2019)
OR
"To the Dance Or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How Different It Is to Soak at Harbin Hot Springs, Than to Realize It in Virtual Reality" (2019)
Book by Scott Gk MacLeod
https://books.google.com/
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Just began yesterday to enroll in Medicare + (with KP health care coverage), and in planning to sign up for A, B, and D ... and potentially for D with aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies emerging (FDA approved). Thoughts about aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies emerging (FDA approved)?
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Has anyone listened to this recently -
Reed regards, Namaste, Yogically, Friendly Quaker greetings, kindly,
Scott
On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@
Happy birthday, Byron & Cindy (on 10/20 and 10/21 I think), and greetings Gabrielle, Dino, Reedies+, all,How are you? Byron and Cindy's birthdays just happened yesterday and the day before I think ... Gave Byron & Cindy 2 books & regarding possibly our Proposed Reedies+ book group, first real get together in Canyon 94516 in November 2025??? ... "The Story of Ferdinand" and "To the Dance or the Pools: "Just texted Byron this in some of these regards -"Hi Byron! Happy birthday ... In the book of poetry I gave you (did I give you this book before, or possibly another of my 4 books of poetry?), here's the first poem, and possibly re building out a realistic virtual earth for everything in the Canyon 94516 shop -"Arriving to Harbin in the mist and rain
Arriving to Harbinin the mist
and rain,
after an amazingflax seed oilomega fatty acids' drive
through the
moist, wet, aliveNapa Valley,listening to the Dead,
I walk up
past the temple
with the dance,
up through the
wet, dark, verdant gardenand ascend the steps
of Stonefront Lodge.
Walking down past me, he asks"Are they dancing down there?"Nice words :)
Yea, they're dancing,dancing, dancing
in the temple.
I walk up farther past
the Health Services' Massage Officeand into the pool area dressing room.Five women are naked,
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here changing,
with no men around right now.And there's a sculptor I knowwho has made
beautiful art
at Harbin.Oh, and now she inthe dressing room is very pregnant.Into the waters -
the warm pool
releases so profoundly -and lovely oneness comes.I sit in lotus
on the shelf
at the end of the pool
and release,
and release,
into the now~
Home again.
Rain drops
in the pool
form spider webs.Rain drops
on our heads
bring weather home.Wet from above,
and the warm
water is all around ...
such a fluid world.
Out of the pools,
I walk down to bed.
In the morning,
I awake with moneyconcerns.
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Arising early
on a quiet dampmid-week morn,
I head into
the empty temple
to explore
the relaxation response.It's warm and welcoming,and I sit -
relaxation responseMMmmm. :)
This ocher floor
is a cosmos -
with red galaxies
and brown cloud formations, -native American earth
in Harbin temple.
http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/05/red-freesias- arriving-to- harbin-in-mist.html" = http://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/05/red-freesias-arriving-to-harbin-in-mist.html ... Hugs, Scott " Reedie hugs, more later, warm regards,ScottPSVisit the Harbin Hot Springs' gate house here in Google Street View with time slider (in 2025, and 2007 ,and 2012 and 2024 ... and 'walk' down the road '4 miles' to Middletown to explore further, ... but you can't head up to the Harbin pool area just yet ...)~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
Scott MacLeod's
Naked Harbin Ethnography:
Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin
by Scott MacLeod
sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
Foreword by Nelson H.H. Graburn
UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus of Sociocultural Anthropology
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html
Academic Press at World University and School
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ AcademicPress.html from, and more colorfully - http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html More later, Fond regards, Happy soaking from home ... Scott--Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2025, forthcoming)Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)- https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand (Berkeley)
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'What’s New & Next in Education' - Agentic AI - Zoom Webinar Th 11/6/25
Dear Zoom Team,
Thanks so much for this - https://ev.zoom.us/webinars-
One thing I've found remarkable about teaching and learning in 3D virtual worlds (beginning even in around 2006 or 2007 on Harvard's virtual island of Second Life, and just as voice was being added to SL) ... was the potential for 2 channels of communication in the learning conversation ... voice AND text chat, where the open TEXT CHAT during OFFICE HOURS in CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion course I was in (a lecture too even) WAS an opportunity for STUDENTS to engage and generate a conversation, leading even to a text-document which could become a library document, scholarly as well. How to develop this with Zoom agentic AI?
And in some of these regards, search on -
"It was great to have free, interactive classes online exploring the possibilities of virtual worlds, etc.
It was also particularly the office hours (facilitated by Becca Nesson) in Charles Nesson's class "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion with Rebecca Nesson and Gene Koo" in Second Life in 2006, as well as in the class itself (prior to the introduction of voice in SL) where the potential for 'flow experiences' (i.e. absorbed mind viz. Csikszentmihalyi's book "Flow" - what enjoyment is per his psychological studies) in group text chat emerged for me."
AND
"it was during this course's office hours in group chat (Figure with dialogue example) that I experienced new possibilities for the exchange of ideas among people"
"I first got an avatar, and found rich, 'flow' (Csikszentmihalyi 199.) experiences with these new information technologies, in the autumn of 2006 when participating in a Harvard University course, “CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion,” on its virtual island in Second Life. Besides the excitement of interacting, representationally, with people from all over the world on virtual places in Second Life - with cartoon-esque avatars representing you which you can shape and dress any way you like, and where you can build anything imaginable - it was during this course's office hours in group chat (Figure with dialogue example) that I experienced new possibilities for the exchange of ideas among people..."
And regarding studying enjoyment in learning as "flow" please see again Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-
And brainstorming, how to further these ways of students' talking, sharing ideas, developing a co-conversation in a classroom or office hours - and with now Agentic AI - as a form of student learning and giving students' agency in group learning conversations (re Conference Method at Reed College too - https://wiki.
(WUaS has been in WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki since the mid-2010s, and with its backend structured knowledge database of Wikidata, and with its Wikibase too, all part of Wikimedia Deutschland, based in Berlin, with Lydia Pintscher as project manager/ lead).
Also, in developing the wiki side of World University and School, how might WUaS use agentic AI to help prospective students or wiki Universitians register or create Profiles (and see PPPS below) - and thus become part of the WUaS community, and from which groups, and re their registering, WUaS might also even begin to hire, and as WUaS seeks to code for speakers of all 7,159 known living languages, and in each of all ~200 countries (per the Olympics), and from there to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet each a Wikidata PIN # from here - https://wiki.
Thanks so so much, best regards, more later,
Scott
PS
These are the questions I asked in the Q&A, as well as my notes -
Thursday, November 6 2025
Zoom Educause
https://www.linkedin.com/in/
Agentic AI for Zoom Educause -
Reasoning
Memory
Make decisions with other AIs (?)
Orchestration
Thanks and great, Mike Williams (and Johann Zimmern)!
Regarding Zoom's
AI companion
And free World University and School WUaS (http://
Thanks, Dustin! I think the Team Zoom email just came into my inbox - teamzoom@e.zoom.us , n’est-ce pas? Scott (This are all Zoom conversations in the open free WUaS News and Q&A on Mondays at 10 am PT - https://www.youtube.com/@
This is a very forward looking question: Any planning at Zoom in moving your Agentic AI and video AI into a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverything #ForClassrooms #ForSTEAMfieldSites ? … And please see Peter Norvig’s INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WorldUniversityInSchool mentioning a realistic virtual earth for the first time that I know of other than WUaS - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-
How does Zoom’s AI projects interface or interoperate with Gemini AI, MS Copilot, Anthropic Claude AI, ChatGPT etc … for educational purposes … and in all 200 countries and in their main languages, and potentially in all 7159 known living languages? Thanks!
Re free World University and School WUaS (http://
AI blue paper
https://library.zoom.com/zoom-
PPS
And this is what I added in registering -
Best STEAM CC OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch (WUaS) has 2 wings, a 1) 501 c 3 non-profit legal entity - http://
but couldn't add -
due to 'invalid characters' so added above, which I tried to remove here, but couldn't figure out which special characters -
Best STEAM CC OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch (WUaS) has 2 wings, a 1) 501 c 3 non-profit legal entity - http://
So this is what I would have added in registering for this Zoom Educause -
Best STEAM CC OpenCourseWare wiki World Univ & Sch (WUaS )has 2 wings, a 1) 501 c 3 non-profit legal entity - http://
PPPS
Some of these possible registrations to be Universitians are spurious while others are potentially great wiki contributors to WUaS ... how to develop Agentic AI to help with registration at WUaS for 'serious' Universitians ... AND in WUaS seeking even to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, each a Wikidata PIN #?
And while you won't be able to see this page -
this is what's on it presently -
Showing below up to 3 results in range #1 to #3.
- (diff) . . N User:ChuVial1810 05:46 . . +292 . . ChuVial1810 [Approve Approve all . . Reject Reject all] . . [Mark as spammer]
- (diff) . . N User:CorinaDanglow51 21:23, 1 November 2025 . . +177 . . CorinaDanglow51 [Approve App
rove all . . Reject Reject all] . . [No longer a spammer] - (diff) . . N User:Jamika02L52 18:25, 1 November 2025 . . +144 . . Jamika02L52 [Approve Approve all . . Reject Reject all] . . [Mark as spammer]
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Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2025, forthcoming)
Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
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Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)
Order Book #4 To the Dance or the Pools? ~ Virtually! How different it is to soak at Harbin Hot Springs, than to realize it in virtual reality (2019)
Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018)
Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017)
Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016)
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To AI:
Thoughts about aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drug therapies emerging (FDA approved)?
There are no FDA-approved genetic drug therapies specifically for "aging reversal" or "extreme longevity" in humans as of November 2025.
Current research in this field is primarily in the preclinical (animal studies) or early human clinical trial phases, and the FDA does not yet recognize aging itself as a disease indication for which a drug can be approved.
Current Landscape and Developments
- Research Focus: A great deal of research is focused on understanding and targeting the fundamental mechanisms of aging, with the goal of extending "healthspan" (life lived without disease). Promising approaches include cellular reprogramming (using Yamanaka factors), senolytics (drugs that clear senescent cells), and compounds that affect metabolic pathways (like rapamycin and metformin).
- Genetic Therapies: Gene therapy for aging reversal has shown promise in animal models. For example, studies have demonstrated that gene therapy using partial reprogramming can extend the lifespan and improve health markers in mice.
- Clinical Trials: Biotech companies are moving these therapies toward human trials. In 2025, Life Biosciences announced its plan to file an application with the FDA to begin the first human trial of a cellular reprogramming technique.
- Off-Label Use: Some existing FDA-approved drugs, such as rapamycin (an immunosuppressant) and metformin (a diabetes drug), are being studied for their potential anti-aging effects in clinical trials (e.g., TAME trial) and are sometimes used off-label for this purpose, but they lack specific FDA approval for aging-related indications.
- Regulatory Challenges: A significant hurdle is the lack of a clear regulatory pathway with the FDA for "anti-aging" or "longevity" drugs because aging is not classified as a disease. Researchers are working to frame their interventions in the context of preventing multiple age-related diseases simultaneously.
- Ethical Concerns: The emerging field raises concerns about potential side effects (e.g., tumor formation in early reprogramming studies), high costs, and unequal access to life-extending interventions, which could exacerbate social inequalities.
In summary, while the field of aging reversal and extreme longevity is advancing rapidly with promising research and emerging clinical trials, there are currently no FDA-approved genetic drug therapies available for human use in this capacity
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To #IndiaWUaS @WorldUnivAndSch
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/
To #IndiaWUaS @WorldUnivAndSch
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/
To #IndiaWUaS @WorldUnivAndSchhttps://t.co/eimMKc0hsl >https://t.co/umujieDlUV planned in Hindi & in all 22 scheduled languages there from https://t.co/vPfIrWRAlH for free to students' #onlineFromHome Bach, PhD Law MD IB high sch /eq, AA, Master's degrees in #VirtualIndia too?
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 6, 2025
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Blue blazers for women cricket sport players in India ... But the newscaster is wearing a Sari ..
And ???
So many British 'imperialist' or colonialism legacies (re feminist echoes too) western, wedgie too? memes - replicating cultural units - in these images ... And as India modernizes - develops into "modernity" and into INTERNETITY - and grows more prosperous
also humorously making mountains out Of molehills ?
An expression of Yoga ('joining' the 'west') & Hinduism too ...
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News - Th 11/6/25 & TwitterX
Google's rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom silicon
(/Subjects) @WorldUnivAndSch How to model processes together in #RealisticVirtualEarth?
Google's rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom silicon
https://x.com/scottmacleod/
(/Subjects) @WorldUnivAndSch How to model processes together in #RealisticVirtualEarth?
Pichai
Google's rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom siliconhttps://t.co/5zeTxpITIl -https://t.co/xENpzcpE9z
— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) November 6, 2025
-https://t.co/e3eph3lbPe
-https://t.co/0QrOr1YpIS
(/Subjects) @WorldUnivAndSch How to model processes together in #RealisticVirtualEarth?
AI wiki subject page at WUaS image
Google's rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom siliconhttps://t.co/7cCMBAFScx -https://t.co/JOujR9R3aO
— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) November 6, 2025
-https://t.co/PcmG63t5cF
-https://t.co/9pdLsaTO1X
(/Subjects) @WorldUnivAndSch How to model processes together in #RealisticVirtualEarth?
Google's rolling out its most powerful AI chip, taking aim at Nvidia with custom silicon
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Nancy Pelosi announces she will not seek reelection to Congress after nearly 40 years in Washington
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Dear Jamie Dimon (CEO of JP Morgan Chase, and please forward), Peter Norvig (a head of Google AI), AND -
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Yellowstone Sand-verbena (Abronia ammophila): Abolition #WUaSabolition #WUaSLawSchools @WorldUnivAndSch In asylum from #SFBayArea on eastern seaboard ... then in asylum from the eastern seaboard back in the SF Bay Area ... * How to PLAN to #AbolishModernSlavery eg in #IllegalSexIndustry industries & re their #LatentNetworksOfViolence & in ~200 countries & in languages #WUaSabolition -#WUaSLawSchs in ~200 #MITOCW-centric #GrowWithGoogleWUaS wiki World University and Schools from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States "Americans keep the momentum of Greek tourism high" https://sofokleous10. gr/2025/08/22/americans-keep-the-momentum-of-greek-tourism-high/ ... and in WUaS planning to code for all 7.9 billion people on the planet, and even to distribute #StanfordMinePiCryptocurrency #FreeMoneyDaily to most of these people, and to #EndPoverty, as well as create FreeUniversalEducation, wiki and #PeopleToPeople in all 7159 living languages, with free #MITOCW-centric WUaS degrees? * * * * Education 2.0 Conference USA - April 2026 (Could the United Nations help with Education 2.0 funding possibly and somehow?) * * * * Further - Asked #GeminiAIreOjibweLanguage re "Dear @PeggyFlanagan @EWarren re #OjibweLangWUaS wiki school in #OjibweLang @WorldUnivAndSch "HOW TO BEGIN a #LargeLanguageModel for people who want to learn or build community in #OjibweLang -https://g.co/gemini/share/8750a145301b -https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/08/kendall-warm-springs-dace-rhinichthys.html ~
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