Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Puffin : Dear Larry and Shady Side Academy friends, Happy birthday, Larry (Lawhead)! How are you doing? Here's the beginning of a first e-birthday party celebration (if others email-celebrate your birthday as well). Scott https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Energy_Technologies * * * message to Old Fettesian Flora (Halford-MacLeod) ... and again the first picture appears to be Flora at the University of Bristol studying medicine toward a MBBS, and the last one too comes up with her LinkedIn profile too ... Might she be seeking a life partner or husband even somehow - and with all these photos and social media postings? Also - This Oxford University Education post just came up, with possible relevance for World University and School and Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford Anthropology department talking further about possible partnering or collaborating - * * * Creative Commons Founders Fireside Chat is TODAY at 1pm EDT! ~ Tue June 23, 2026 & ... Thanks so much for your great Creative Commons' Founders' Fireside Chat today - https://creativecommons.org/event/cc-founders-fireside-chat/ - and fascinating, as well as Empowering - Hal, Inspiring - Eric, Community - Larry, Serendipitous - Molly, Belonging - Glenn ... Free-to-students' World University and School, building on MIT OCW and WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in Wikidata (re Wikimedia / Wikipedia in ~342 languages), which I started while teaching a "Society and Information Technology" class ... * And a question - A Creative Commons’ question for the future: How best to Creative Commons’ license aspects of an emerging #RealisticVirtualEarth and a #RealisticVirtualHarbin as ethnographic & STEM field site (think Google Street View with Time Slider and at the GCellView and GMoleculeView levels, with TensorFlowAI), #TextInTheSidebar which everyone can add to via ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & in many other ways (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy )?


Shady Side Academy friends!

Happy birthday, Larry (Lawhead)! How are you doing? Here's the beginning of a first e-birthday party celebration (if others email-celebrate your birthday as well).   Scott https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Energy_Technologies ... ... and with aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drugs emerging, FDA approved first by 2050 even?  .. and with free-to-students' World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages and wiki too in a Grow With Google WUaS program - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/GrowWithGoogle (in daily blog) ...


tmullins@lycos.com, Ramakrishna.Ashwin@gmail.com, "Griffith, Bart" <bgriffith@shadysideacademy.org>, jrobinson@shadysideacademy.org, Trixie <tsabundayo@shadysideacademy.org>, mattk@steelcityphoto360.com, "Modic, Katie" <kmodic@shadysideacademy.org>, Shawn Flaherty <stf@pghfirm.com>, Shawn T Flaherty <pgh.shawn@yahoo.com>, John Tadler <olfroth@gmail.com>, johno_chesley@dfci.harvard.edu, kshariff@randomhouse.com, ayers@shariff.com, "Scott, Jamie" <jscott@shadysideacademy.org>, padrdeat@velocity.net, Sid Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>, paul@sheasimonearchitects.com, wgs@muslaw.com, mellitter@gmail.com, Marc Lhormer <marc.lhormer@gmail.com>, Mike Wiley <mawiley@comcast.net>, Larry Lawhead <larrylawhead@gmail.com>, Greg Highlands <dreadlockcowboy@cheqnet.net>, Henry Cutter <vfhc@nyc.rr.com>, Edward Smyth <esmythmd@gmail.com>, Stephen Cambor <steve.cambor@gmail.com>, Nancy Bevilaqua <nancysdp@gmail.com>, Sid Mazumdar <smazumdar@cms.hhs.gov>, Janie MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>, Joan Kidder <kidderjoan@gmail.com>, John Kidder <jkidder@vtc.edu>, Sarah Kidder LaBombard <sarah.k.labombard@dartmouth.edu>, Bruce MacLeod <macleod@usm.maine.edu>, Charles Nesson <nesson@gmail.com>, George Preston <em4gdcp@btinternet.com>, Mary Murrin <mary.murrin@gmail.com>, John Hill <johncornellhill@gmail.com>, Jan Lhormer <Jlhormer@comcast.net>, John McLean Dix <johnmcleandix@gmail.com>, Joseph Paletta <Joseph@palettalaw.com>, kerry@kerryhannon.com, George Riely Dobbin <riely921@yahoo.com>, Nick Thompson <npt134@gmail.com>, Dennis Epple <epple@andrew.cmu.edu>, Stephen Epple <epple_s@mac.com> 




Dear Larry and Shady Side Academy friends, 

Happy birthday, Larry (Lawhead)! How are you doing? Here's the beginning of a first e-birthday party celebration (if others email-celebrate your birthday as well). 

Scott
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Energy_Technologies .. Want to teach here, Larry, with time ... and with aging reversal and extreme longevity genetic drugs emerging, FDA approved first by 2050 even?  .. and with free-to-students' World Univ & Sch building on MIT OCW in 7 languages and wiki too in a Grow With Google WUaS program - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/GrowWithGoogle (in daily blog) ...


How much are you using Gemini or similar these days? - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/06/what-is-artificial-intelligence-what-is.html 




On Thu, Sep 5, 2024 at 1:15 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Greets Mike (Wiley), Shawn (Flaherty), Shady Side Academy high school friends from the 2nd half of the 1970s +, All,
 
You all who are in the Pittsburgh place area (am pretty place-centric regarding socio-cultural anthropological theorizing in my 1st actual-virtual Harbin Hot Springs' ethnography -  https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/place) ... and who all might be thinking about going to the SSA Homecoming Reunion on F Sep 20, and Sat Sep 21, 2024 - it would be nice to see you again and hang out some ...  I just registered for 2 complementary Shady Side Academy Homecoming events on F 9/20/ & Sat 9/21/24 - https://www.shadysideacademy.org/alumni/homecoming -(for the year 1979, out of synch with the friends I started with ... due to studying at Fettes College high school in Scotland for a year between my junior and senior years at SSA) ... could be great to connect with people (and lightly regarding MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch too especially) .Looks like Friday begins as early as 10 am ET (not yet virtually I think), and due to the open hour-long WUaS Monthly Business Meeting (conducted loosley in the Manner of Quakers / Friends' consensus-wise) -https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/Business%20Meeting & https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Business%20Meeting - on 3rd Saturdays at noon ET, I won't be getting to the party until after this - 

Seeking to move the Physical-Digital World Univ & Sch Academic Medical Center with WUaS Longevity Genetics' Institute into a newly safe Canyon 94516 in 2024 (with US federal law and states' laws working effectively in new ways) ... and potentially in a way out of the box #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForGenetics #ForAgingReversal + and regarding again I think this INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article from Peter Norvig - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: #WorldUniversityAndSchool #WUaSUnivs"

Would be great to see you, Namaste, abolitionally, cheers, best regards, 
Scott 

Some previous communications of ours - 

PPS
Pink cockatoo: M 9/2/24 video of open @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress #WUaSNewsAndQA 



PPPS
* 
Made the first Yoga teaching and learning video ever this morning - 
for your explorations ... 
Th Sep 15, 2024
Can we bring some consciousness to doing Yoga meditation ? - Yoga Mac Flower



On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Mike (Wiley), Larry (Lawhead), Greg (Highlands), Henry (Cutter), Shawn (Flaherty), Shady Side Academy high school friends from the 2nd half of the 1970s, All, 

Happy 4th of July!

Check out this Allman Brothers' concert, with a similar energy / alternative culture generation to when we were at Shady Side - 
The Allman Brothers Band - Full Concert - 05/14/82 

May add to the Rock and Roll wiki school / subject at MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll - in English and for open wiki-teaching and wiki-learning.

Great to talk those two times on the phone, Mike! And Marc, heading west to not far from where you are based in Sonoma, to move forward the WUaS Academic Medical Center with WUaS Longevity Genetics' Institute (and see PS below) into a newly safe Canyon 94516 potentially in 2024, and write 2nd Harbin Hot Springs' ethnographic book inventing the book anew and potentially in Google Street View with time slider, #TextInTheSideBar and see - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/07/alta-toquima-wilderness-nevada.html. 

Bart and Trixie (SSA heads) ... seeking to move forward with WUaS accreditation (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/accreditation & https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/accreditation) with Middle States Commission on Higher Education with offices in the greater Philadelphia area, and licensure with the state of PA's department of Education before heading west - AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR AUTO-REPLY, Trixie, to WUaS's recent WUaS News and Q&A potentially in these regards.

Does anyone know Kerry Hannon's or Janis Johnson's email address? - 

SSA regards, abolitionally, best wishes,
Scott 


just started to post to the following three social media sites a little more actively than before (and per MIT prof Hiroshi Ishii - https://x.com/ishii_mit?lang=en - who posts to FB and Twitter he said in a talk he gave in central Europe) - and will likely blog about this today ...



PPS

west to #Canyon94516 in late 2024 from #InAsylum on #USeasternSeaboard w #WUaSUnivs #WUaSAcademicMedicalCenter / #WUaSLongevityGeneticsInstitute & "Affordable Gene Therapies Are Coming!-@GeoChurch @ EARD" https://youtu.be/ON8vxUInQYA 











PPPS
Linkedin post - 



west to #Canyon94516 in late 2024 from asylum on US eastern seaboard w #WUaSAcademicMedicalCenter and #WUaSLongevityGeneticsInstitute AND "Affordable Gene Therapies Are Coming! -@GeoChurch at EARD" ...

"Affordable Gene Therapies Are Coming! -@GeoChurch at EARD" https://youtu. be/ON8vxUInQYA 
How best to develop in #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForAgingReversal & #NDimensionally in shop in #Canyon94516 as #WUaSHospitalRoom or #WUaSMultimediaRoom & w #ToolifyAIWUaS https://www.toolify. ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 ? (INCREDIBLE article from #PeterNorvig about #WUaSUnivs)

https://x. com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1808133918735946118

https://twitter. com/scottmacleod/status/1808132093655789973


AND -

Good to be moving forward with both #WUaSwings of OCW.MIT.EDU -centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress as of F 6/28/24 esp - http://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2024/06/klamath-mountains-ecoregion.html - potentially west to #Canyon94516




And with retweet of Klamath Mountains' pic -

Good to be moving forward with both #WUaSwings of OCW.MIT.EDU -centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch @WUaSPress as of F 6/28/24 especially - http://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2024/06/klamath-mountains-ecoregion.html - potentially west to #Canyon94516 in the #SFBayArea in late 2024 w #WUaSAcademicMedicalCenter #RealisticVirtualEarth -

https://x. com/WUaSPress/status/1808135835788689641

https://x. com/sgkmacleod/status/1808136260457738451 ~





PPPPS


New  facebook posts today - F July 5 2024 posts 

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Scott MacLeod

https://www.facebook.com/macleod

west to #Canyon94516 in late 2024 from #InAsylum on #USeasternSeaboard w #WUaSUnivs #WUaSAcademicMedicalCenter / #WUaSLongevityGeneticsInstitute & "Affordable Gene Therapies Are Coming!-@GeoChurch @ EARD" https://youtu.be/ON8vxUInQYA 











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World University and School

https://www.facebook.com/groups/48753608141


World University and School : west to #Canyon94516 in late 2024 from #InAsylum on #USeasternSeaboard w #WUaSUnivs #WUaSAcademicMedicalCenter / #WUaSLongevityGeneticsInstitute & "Affordable Gene Therapies Are Coming!-@GeoChurch @ EARD" https://youtu.be/ON8vxUInQYA (https://youtu. be/ON8vxUInQYA )
(https://www.linkedin. com/posts/scottgkmacleod_affordable-gene-therapies-are-coming-george-activity-7214986346229039104-lDBf)
http://scott-macleod.blogspot. com/2024/06/klamath-mountains-ecoregion.html ~
https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/1809223273730736615
https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1809222619733926281
https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/1809223072609628580
https://x. com/HarbinBook/status/1809223014921253339
https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/1809223130830787058
https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1809222853335646254
https://x. com/scottmacleod/status/1809222710406398350





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Harbin Hot Springs :)

https://www.facebook.com/groups/5609024455


Would you head > your bathtubs 3-4 times per day from home to #MeditateSoak in #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings ? ...







Retweeting again Travertine Hot Springs, east side of the Sierra mountains -

Mono Lake, and Travertine Hot Springs #roadmoretravelled

https://twitter.com/RMTravelled/status/860362737171484672




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Scott Gordon K MacLeod

https://www.facebook.com/bagpiper


prettiest Piobaireachd tunes? 
5 of my all-time favorite Piobaireachd classical #Scottishbagpiping pieces:  The Desperate Battle (of the birds)I got a kiss of the king's handHis father's lament for Donald MacKenzie The Earl of Seaforth's SaluteBeloved Scotland, I Leave Thee Gloomyhttps://scottmacleodpiobaireachdscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/ ~
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1664621839736360964?t=BYuGD9NncqKr0VNzsbGtEQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1664621910188081154?t=ywAdNTR4LM4R8FBLJVX3CA&s=19

https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1664621984842432513?t=cEdEbjsYo1T78dTcd7LUTw&s=19

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1664621683401977856?t=qW89R6HEK5BlU7xrjGC_RQ&s=19



*#ScottishSmallPiping album #2 #HoneyPiobaireachd (2022){@TheOpenBand (Berkeley)} @scottmacleodhttps://scottmacleodpiobaireachdscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Pibroch,_Piobaireachd_or_Ce%C3%B2l_M%C3%B3r #SSPipes' album #1 "Honey in the Bag" (2020) 'Out of the Air' tune https://scottmacleodhoneyinthebagscottishsmallpipesbagpiping.bandcamp.com/track/out-of-the-air-j-scott-gk-macleod ~https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Scottish_smallpipes_and_borderpipes @WorldUnivAndSch ~

https://twitter.com/TheOpenBand/status/1662119965149806596?t=X62UnoQlENxHVn0Z4zRlFw&s=19

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1662119646923767812 
https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1662119830491676672 
https://twitter.com/WUaSPress/status/1662120208310452225
https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1662120139544731648?t=7-dd1xfHyLPCfL9BcwmESQ&s=19

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1662120058271694850



PPPPPS 




On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 2:21 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Hi Shawn, Mike, Bart and Trixie, Shady Side Academy friends, all, 

Friendly greetings from being in asylum in western PA from the SF Bay Area since August 2022 ... 

Just circling around to the beginnings of this "Shady Side Academy friends!" email thread sans the folks who have asked to unsubscribe from this email thread, and as MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS grows a worldwide abolition movement, potentially by coding for all 7.9 billion people on the planet from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and to protect people   "Hi Mike, Larry and Greg, Pin, Henry, Steve, Shawn, Nancy, All, ... "

Good to talk with you on Saturday afternoon, Mike, and for a second time in two weeks ... (and from the Fern Hollow Nature Center / the Sewickley History Center in the green hills of Sewickley above Quaker Valley, down by the river, the Ohio river ... ancient as it is, flowing for millions of years from the Allegheny and the Monogahela coming together at Pittsburgh's "The Point") ... Could the Fern Hollow Nature Center have been a hippy gathering place back in the 1960s and 1970s - and HOW COULD WE SEE THIS in a completely new approach to history in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory ... and see the PPS and PPPS below too (and think Google Street View with time slider, with TensorFlow AI, where we could wiki-add all our own possible historical documentation too to such a #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForHistory) ... and since many of us know each other from Shady Side Academy in the second half of the 1970s, when some of us were a bit hippy-minded as high schoolers too.

And good to see you Shawn at the Beechwood Farms' Nature Center on Sunday afternoon, not that far from Shady Side ... and possibly, as I've emailed, regarding MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch WUaS Corp Chase bank loans, and with your amazing metallic orange convertible, roof down, with the doors opening up at 45 degrees as if in a flying car these would be wings ... and with your driver's side door only open as it could be 'banking' as I think about our meeting further, and see too Agenda item A here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/06/goshute-canyon-wilderness-nv.html ! ... And could this metallic orange convertible car have been possibly symbolic of Chase bank loans to WUaS, and even as a Chase bank loaner car(d) ... ? And please check out my email this morning to Shawn below in some of these regards in the PS. 

How best for WUaS to proceed with  Middle States' Commission on Higher Education accreditation in conjunction with state of PA licensure, both of which WUaS has received the green light for, but has not yet begun too much the paperwork, or paid the fees (and where I learned from a MSCHE panel presentation that I would not be the person to write these applications for WUaS Accreditation for example) - and potentially possibly with the help of Shady Side Academy's Bart Griffith, Trixie Sabundayo and you, Shawn, and others, I wonder (and as WUaS has emailed about inquiring a number or times)? WUaS continues to seek for US federal law with US states' laws (and international law, and uniformed services' law too) to work effectively together in new ways, and in growing an abolition movement further to protect people, and potentially WUaS and ALL students, in all 200 countries and in their main languages. Great to be in communication further!  

Best wishes, abolition-ally, Friendly Quaker regards, thanks! 
Scott







PS

Beechwood Farms' Nature Center meeting, Sunday 6/9/24

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

8:15 AM (5 hours ago)
to Shawn, Shawn
Hi Shawn,

Good to see you on Sunday 6/9/24 at Beechwood Farms' Nature Center, I think, and to talk about briefly in passing CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch / the WUaS Corp coding for potentially the enormous number of 7.9 billion people on the planet, speakers of all 7164 known living languages for wiki free universal education, in all ~200 countries) - from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University and http://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/search/label/You%20at%20WUaS (& potentially to end poverty with UBI experiments eg with https://minepi.com/ - https://minepi.com/sgkmac - which the WUaS Cotp has a partnering letter for, by distributing Pi cryptocurrency to most of all 7.9 billion people) - and to talk about too possibly living another 150 or 300 years with possible extreme longevity and aging reversal genetic drugs emerging (FDA approved potentially). It was basically the first time you and I have talked since meeting you before Shady Side Academy's Homecoming in around September 2022 in Shadyside Pittsburgh near your law office on Ivy Street (although there's been much communication via email potentially ... as I continue to send you emails as I seek to stay alive, as you may have been reading) . Thanks for introducing me to Heidi, your girlfriend you said, too, in the passenger seat of your of the metallic orange convertible with the driver's side door pointing up at a 45 degree angle as if it were 'banking' if somehow a flying car - leading me to wonder if the car could even be a Chase bank loaner car - and a sign or symbol regarding CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch / the WUaS Corp getting Chase bank loans to grow a flagship physical-digital WUaS Educational Services Store / bookstore computer store / robotics' store on Walnut St in Shadyside Pgh near your law office). Good to learn too you said that "I am still a lawyer." I was taking a walk with my mother - but she was at some distance when I walked over to say hi to you. 

In MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch / the WUaS Corp growing a worldwide abolition movement to protect humans from the wrongful buying and selling of people, of women, kids, victims, in the illegal sex, drugs and violence industries internationally and their largest networks of violence, in all ~200 countries and in their main languages, with law, law enforcement, AI, machine learning, #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords, MD psychiatry, tracking, culture change, potentially education, and similar, and having fled for my life from the SF Bay Area in August 2022 and being in asylum in western PA, and with a murderous run through attempt of me sadly by a craven, psychopath??? Swiss or Lebanese soldier???, murderer ??, in my first asylum house in Pgh at 210 East End avenue Pgh PA 15221, WUaS continues to seek to knock back international organized crime significantly, (and after my father's GKM MD's first subdural hematoma in Belize on 12/30/04 on univ pitt managed at the time semester at sea - potentially by internal organized crime rings(. How best to grow this WUaS abolition movement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the USA further, I wonder, - and as US federal law and states' laws work effectively together in new ways, and with information technologies?

Best wishes, abolition, thanks, Friendly Quaker greetings, Scott 

















PPS
 
Quaker Desiderata - & Friendly informed WUaS & William Penn



#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory
and even brainstorming-wise a kind of Quaker (e.g. SPICES) with Desiderata prose-poem words to live by approach to creating a realistic virtual earth and regarding Penn's Woods /Pennsylvania since ~1681 ...

Quaker Desiderata - & Friendly informed WUaS & William Penn 


Quaker Desiderata - & Friendly informed WUaS & William Penn -

#SwarthmoreCollegeProfessor (1954–70 in #QuakerPennsWoods) #FrederickBTolles:
https://quaker.org/legacy/pamphlets/ward1956p.html
"#WilliamPenn"
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Penn-English-Quaker-leader-and-colonist/Founding-and-governorship-of-Pennsylvania >#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory Talk with Penn? & regarding #FriendlyInformed #QuakerInformed #MITOCW-centric #WUaSwiki @WorldUnivAndSch?

https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1731338094329110873

https://twitter.com/sgkmacleod/status/1731339434732200274






* 
#SwarthmoreCollegeProfessor (1954–70 in #QuakerPennsWoods) #FrederickBTolles:
https://quaker.org/legacy/pamphlets/ward1956p.html
"#WilliamPenn"
https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Penn-English-Quaker-leader-and-colonist/Founding-and-governorship-of-Pennsylvania >#RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory Talk with Penn? ~& regarding #FriendlyInformed #QuakerInformed #MITOCW-centric wiki @WorldUnivAndSch?

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1731337399051964633



*
#QuakerDesiderata ?
'#Desiderata in #QuakerHistory-An Editorial'
'#QuakerService - #BrigitteAlexander' 









PPPS
Desiderata - 





On Mon, May 27, 2024, 7:48 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Greg (Highlands), Joe (Paletta), Shady Side Academy friends, all, 

This one's for you - 

This one too -


And I'll fly away as well - 

Billy Strings Chris Thile Cory Henry Lincoln Center 





And Joe! 
Great to hear from you! ~ 

Hi Joe!

A while too! Greetings - and well -email- met!

Am in the Pittsburgh area since August 2022 (in asylum from the SF Bay Area, as a whistle blower  in calling the police there and here ... Seeking for US federal and states' laws to work effectively in new ways ... and as MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch grows an abolition movement world wide to abolish the wrongful buying and selling of people in the illegal sex drugs violence etc industries internationally and in their latent networks of violence  ) ...

 And have been Gradually connecting with old SSA friends, most recently in this email thread!

 Great to hear from you + and thanks, and greetings from Shadyside presently! 

Regards, abolition-ally, great to be friends from SSA,
Scott

PS
Brainstorming -

interesting to explore scientifically REMEMBERING (eg our #ShadySideAcademy friendships in '70s): How could a #RealisticVirtualEarthForBrainScience &a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMemory  further facilitate developing research & think #GSreetView w #TimeSlider #GCellView #GAtomView ?








Retweeting -

Help us welcome our new faculty and staff to campus! We're so happy to have them join our team and community! đź“šđźŹ«đźŤŽ




Joseph Paletta

4:09 PM (3 hours ago)
to me

Hello Scott MacLeod.  Wow, it’s been a minute, hasn’t it.  To what do I owe this unexpected but welcome contact?

 

Joseph A. Paletta

Attorney at Law


Regards, Scott 


/Rock And Roll label in daily blog especially too 




On Mon, May 27, 2024 at 3:07 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Larry, Mike, Marc, Shady Side Academy friends, all, 

Greetings all - and hello Joe Paletta, esquire, newly from Shady Side Academy from the 2nd half of the 1970s ... with some of htis unfolding conversation here - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2024/05/tongass-national-forest-ak.html 

Wednesday, May 22, 2024



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And thanks, Larry (Lawhead), so much for your email reply - 

Larry Lawhead

Sun, May 26, 9:53 PM (16 hours ago)
to Mike, me
<< Which backpacking trips did we go on together? A SSA trip to the Dolly Sods in WV with Mr. Thorpe in the backpacking club?>>

I was looking at some of my old slides, I didn't see you (Scott).  Here's the trips I have, I can identify:

Buckeye Trail, Ohio, C&O Canal, Maryland (2 trips), Smoke Hole Cavern/North Fork Mtn, West Virginia/Virginia, Tucsarora Trail, Pennsylvania (2 trips)

The folk I could identify between the various trips:  Becky Bennet, Henry Cutter, Nancy Gormley, Greg Highlands, John Hill, Scott Klages, Larry Lawhead, Phil Pavlovich, Rob Posner, Carol Richardson, Karen Stahfield (sp?), Gary Walkowski,  Mile Wiley.  There were a few others I don't remember
\

And see PS too re - 

Thanks Larry (and Mike)! Brings back memories of old friends ... How to add such great photos to a Realistic Virtual Earth For Hiking ... #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking (on Twitter)
 ... and to backpack again together virtually (in the 1970s even !... and thanks Peter Norvig for the #ToolifyAIWUaS article -
#ToolifyAI created: 

"Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI" : #WUaSunivs 
 - re an iterating realistic virtual earth For History too, interactively even with Pegman in Street View becoming #AvatarAgents - FROM YOUR PHOTOS potentially & #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords of us too +  )?

Perhaps I was studying at Fettes College in Scotland, which I did in between my 11th and 12th grade at SSA, if you could have taken the pictures then. I also don't recall going on many SSA backpacking trips, maybe 1 big one in WV and a few smaller ones ... it would be great to see your pictures for bringing back memories . .   and even in a wiki-communal #RealisticVirtualEarthForHistory ... and think #GStreetView with #TimeSlider :)


2
And thanks so much Marc (Lhormer) for your MIT OCW-CENTRIC wiki World Univ & Sch further thinking - 


Marc Lhormer

Sun, May 26, 12:51 PM (1 day ago)
to Jan, me, mawiley, larrylawhead, Greg, Henry, Shawn, Edward, Stephen, Shawn, Nancy, Sid, Sid, Janie, Joan, John, Sarah, Bruce, Charles, George, Bart, Catherine, John, Mary, jim, John, Bill, jlplaw15217, padrdeat, John, mellitter
The mention of William Sonoma on Walnut Street caught my attention... right up there with ending poverty and a global single currency!

My wife Brenda and I live a short stroll from the original William Sonoma store in the little wine country town of Sonoma. Will be heading over that way soon as part of a nice Sunday walk.

Exciting stuff all around.

Best wishes to everyone...

M

Marc Lhormer

Yes, MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch and the WUaS Corp seek to develop the WUaS Educational Services' Stores / bookstores / robotics' stores ... potentially with a physical-digital flagship #WUaSBookstore in the old store called 
"William Sonoma on Walnut Street caught my attention... right up there with ending poverty and a global single currency" 

AND EVEN WITH a fleet of TOYOTA SIENNA autonomous vehicle delivery vans (and with Toyota Ambulance Vans for telerobotic surgery in the backs of them) ... with Toyota Humanoid Robots THR3 as another 2nd autonomous system and as drivers and WUaS MD surgeon professors even ... in all ~200 countries (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States each a major online free to students' MIT OCW-centric WUaS Univ in each of ~200 countries per the Olympics) and in their main languages (https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages ... all 7164 known living languages as wiki schools for open teaching and learning too!!! :) ... 


3
Thanks, Mary Ellen ... I have a faint recollection of this hypothermia event ... (it only takes a single neuron to fire to stimulate a memory, I learned from a Yale-trained family MD friend, who may have studies this experimentally in a biology of memory course at Yale potentially  ... and interesting to explore in this conversation REMEMBERING our Shady Side Academy friendships in the 2nd half of the 1970s ... and how conversation helps ... And How could a #RealisticVirtualEarthForBrainScience and a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMemory Twitter #hashtags further facilitate developing research & think Google STreet View with time slider GCellView GAtomView and GMaps, GEarth and with TensorFlow AI too:)


4
Here's the BEGINNING Memory wiki subject page in English at MIT OCW-centric World Univ & Sch ... and with iterating MIT OCW courses on memory ... 
(and where we all you and I can all wiki-teach too ...eg simply by adding a resource, a reference, a Youtube video that we create, accessible from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects - both academic and creative ... and where you or I can wiki create a new subject, and people can also do so in their 1st language or language of their choosing :)

Scott

PS
Couldn't find friend and hiker Phil Werner's LinkedIn

but found of the names you mentioned only 1 LI -


Found too
Joe Paletta here - 

but not Dave Wentz, Kelvyn Jones, Cindy Hume, Joanna Smith, (Becky Bennet, Carol Richardson) and others ... and the SSA directory is down ... 

Friendly regards, 
Scott





PS
I hiked much of the Pacific Crest Trail in 1980 & 1982, while living in Portland Oregon & around studying at Reed College there AND Brainstorming đź™‚ ... and re your photos too -


Recent related set of Tweets -

Could people hike the whole #PacificCrestTrail, ~2600 miles from home in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking on a step master for the movement benefits

 . . . or for Mike from the comfort of his chair even  (or to visit and SOAK in #RealisticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings ... and re my upcoming 2nd Harbin Hot Springs' book ethnographic project


#AllTrails' App blew my mind: I was/AM able to 'walk' 197 miles NOW virtually! - & you can too, if you have the App on 
#JohnMuirTrail -https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/california/pct-ca-section-h-crabtree-meadow-to-tuolumne-meadow by clicking the Preview Button ~AN AMAZING INSTANTIATION OF A #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking from home even eventually!










*
alltrails link no longer works Th 5/23/24 - 

Crabtree Meadow to Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite
Inyo National Forest
Range of Light
John Muir Trail 



*
alltrails link no longer works Th 5/23/24- 


Could I hike the whole #PacificCrestTrail, ~2600 miles, w #AllTrailsApp (#WUaSbatteries, downloading all maps when I had internet picking up food boxes)?


#AllTrails' App just blew my mind: I was able to 'walk' 188 miles virtually! - and you can too, if you have the App on 
#JohnMuirTrail -https://www.alltrails.com/explore/trail/us/california/pct-ca-section-h-crabtree-meadow-to-tuolumne by clicking the Preview Button ~AN AMAZING INSTANTIATION OF A #RealisticVirtualEarthForHiking from home even eventually!







...
which I hiked on in 1980 (& north of there in 1982 too) :)


Could I hike the whole #PacificCrestTrail, ~2600 miles, w #AllTrailsApp (#WUaSbatteries, downloading all maps when I had internet picking up food boxes)? ...


1 neuron to fire


On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 9:39 AM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Mike, Larry and Greg (with your somewhat Scottish last names:), Pin, Henry, Steve, Shawn, Nancy, AND John (Hill), Mary, Jamie,  Marc, Jan, Bill, - Jim, John (Parran), Mike, & Scott (with no email addresses - please forward) - Jeff, Catherine, Michael, Eric John (Dix), Shady Side Academy friends, All, 

So great to talk with you yesterday, Mike (first time since the 1970s I think)! Which backpacking trips did we go on together? A SSA trip to the Dolly Sods in WV with Mr. Thorpe in the backpacking club? I'm trying to recall ... who else here recalls? (I remember Henry, Greg and I and Henry's sister Elizabeth took a backpacking trip to the Dolly Sods, not on a school trip). 

When we talked, I was soaking wet having hiked in pouring rain in pouring rain in Moon township - Log Cabin, Christmas Fern, Ridgeback, East Beech on AllTrails
Here's my email to you from yesterday evening - 

Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org

May 25, 2024, 10:02 PM (11 hours ago)

Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2024, forthcoming)

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- PO Box 442, Canyon, CA 94516 
- 5816 Callowhill St., Pittsburgh, PA 15206

1) non-profit 501(c)(3) Public Charity 
MIT OCW-centric, 
 World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research -  scottmacleod.com 

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* * * 


message to Old Fettesian Flora (Halford-MacLeod) ... and again the first picture appears to be Flora at the University of Bristol studying medicine toward a MBBS, and the last one too comes up with her LinkedIn profile too ... 



Might she be seeking a life partner or husband even somehow - and with all these photos and social media postings? 


Also - 

This Oxford University Education post just came up, with possible relevance for World University and School and Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford Anthropology department talking further about possible partnering or collaborating - 


from:Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
to:
  1. Janie MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>,
  2. Edward Smyth <esmythmd@gmail.com>,
  3. Sid Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>,
  4. Byron Hann <byronhann1@gmail.com>,
  5. George Preston <em4gdcp@btinternet.com>,
  6. "norvig@stanford.edu" <norvig@stanford.edu>,
  7. Elizabeth Warren <Elizabeth_Warren@warren.senate.gov>,
  8. Dean MacCannell <edmaccannell@ucdavis.edu>,
  9. "Scott MacLeod (Helianth)" <helianth@gmail.com>,
  10. Vicki Nash <victoria.nash@oii.ox.ac.uk>,
  11. William Kelly <william.kelly@anthro.ox.ac.uk>,
  12. MacLeod Mark and Roberta <mark_k_macleod@yahoo.com>
date:Jun 24, 2026, 10:57 AM
subject:message to Old Fettesian Flora (Halford-MacLeod) ...
mailed-by:worlduniversityandschool.org


Hi Ma, Ed, Pin, Peter, Byron, all, 

Greetings. How are you? I hope this email finds you well. Regarding the message I sent via the Fettes College Community Portal to Flora (Halford-MacLeod) on Sunday June 21, 2026 ... 

There seem to be 2 Flora Halford s, one of which is Flora Halford-MacLeod ... both having attended Fettes College high school in Edinburgh Scotland finishing in 2020 ... and one of which is a medical student at the University of Bristol and the other (Flora Halford-MacLeod) a Teacher of Art & Textiles having studied at the University of Brighton ... and to whom I wrote via the Fettes College Community Portal messaging .. and could she be married even? Here's the the Fettes College Community Portal page for 


Flora Halford-MacLeod

Teacher of Art & Textiles

Old Fettesian

Achievements
Fettes College Education

Peer Year
2020

Other education

Educational institution
University of Brighton
Degree
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Field of study
Fine Art (Hons)
Graduation year
2024

Educational institution
Newcastle College
Field of study
Diploma in Art and Design
Graduation year
2021

Industry
  • Arts and Crafts
  • Education
Job function
  • Arts and Design
Senior House
  • College East
Extra Curricular Activities
  • Art
  • CCF
  • Choir
  • DofE
  • Drama
  • Orchestra
Experience
September 2025 - Present

Mossbourne Victoria Park Academy
DofE Manager/Co-ordinator

May 2024 - Present

Camp Timber Tops
Camp Counsellor/Activity Lead

American Camp Association






and here's the LinkedIN profile for 
Flora Halford who may be finishing in September with a MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery) - 




Am not sure which of these pictures refer to which social media profile, but I think I found the 2nd picture just through Google Searching  - 




1 Flora (Halford-MacLeod) as main Linkedin picture - 

(just searched on is it possible to see all the LinkedIN pictures someone has posted? - https://share.google/aimode/wvg3g6wXQkclNI1kf ... but Flora here doesn't have an activities' section, etc.)





2 Flora (Halford-MacLeod)? - as an ~18 year old in Edinburgh?? ... looking a tiny bit hippy too, albeit with an academic robe over her dress which matches her hair color ...





3 Flora (Halford-MacLeod) with her 2024 diploma from the University of Bristol ?? - 

University of Bristol
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bioethics/Medical Ethics
Sep 2023 – Jul 2024
Grade: First class honours




and again the first picture appears to be Flora at the University of Bristol studying medicine toward a MBBS, and the last one too comes up with her LinkedIn profile too ... 


Might she be seeking a life partner or husband even somehow - and with all these photos and social media postings? 


Also - 

This Oxford University Education post just came up, with possible relevance for World University and School and Oxford Internet Institute and the Oxford Anthropology department talking further about possible partnering or collaborating - 


Carlo Perrotta 
Associate Professor of Digital Education

Reading AI-written student coursework and dissertation chapters is proving mentally taxing and disheartening. Imagine, in a long-winded 4000-words document ... 




AND 

Invite Flora 

to Harbin Hot Springs to float ? 


or to an Angela and Victor Yoga workshop eg 

https://angela-victor.com/schedule/ Oct 12 - 24 Lesvos Greece  ?



Just attended a Creative Commons' Fireside Chat with Founders yesterday, and texted my mother Jane, and friends' Pin (Sid Mazumdar HHS), and Ed (Smyth MD) - 

W June 24, 2026 

Hi Pin, Ma, Ed, How are you this Wednesday ? Attended a great Creative Commons Fireside Chat with Founders yesterday morning ... with 4 graduates of Harvard Law School alumni lawyers Glenn Brown, and Eric Saltzburg spoke too, and law professors' Molly Shaffer Van Houweling and Larry Lessig and Hal Abelson MIT CS and EE professor involved in MIT OCW and Creative Commons from its inception, with CC dating from 2002, talking Emailed them afterward and about a realistic virtual earth and realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs ... and much else ... Could Molly Shaffer Van Houweling a UC Berkeley Law professor ... help with CC licensing of a realistic virtual earth and re "the Metaverse," virtual worlds in the aggregate conceptually, and also possibly with my and the WUaS Academic Medical Center moving forward into a newly safe vacant with deed 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 ... and re knocking back international organized crime even out of the University of Californias, uc berkeley law ... cal law instructor will kell & re the deceased? cal anthropology prof nelson graburn for example??? ... and re recent death threats and death attempt with gunshot too from tesla / twitter x / spacex nole ksum death cults' companies' cultures?? (or was the gunshot to vehicle near my head as I arose from sitting Yoga meditation possibly somehow calculated machiavellian wise even ) - and see - 

In growing a #WUaSabolition #WorldwideAbolitionMovement @WorldUnivAndSch, building on MIT OCW in its 7 languages (https://opencw.aprende. org/courses/translated-courses/ = https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/translated-courses/ and https://ocw.mit. edu/ = https://ocw.mit.edu/) & coding for all 7.9B people on planet for #FreeUniversalEducation #WikiToo, in each of all 200 countries - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Nation_States = https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States - and to end poverty perhaps among the poorest billion out of 7.9 billion people (with WUaS partnering emails with Stanford Mine Pi Cryptocurrency - https://minepi.com/sgkmac), have received some #TwitterX #teslaSpaceX #WeWillKillYou #deathThreats recently, - How best to knock back #InternationalOrganizedCrime, and with US federal, US states', uniformed armed services, both foreign and US, and international law?

AAAB
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_wuasabolition-worldwideabolitionmovement-share-7465495455955849216-v8Mg/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-macleod-4691a011a_wuasabolition-worldwideabolitionmovement-share-7465494481883090945-JMRj/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/wuasabolition-worldwideabolitionmovement-share-7465494225523216384-H7uM/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/world-university-and-school_wuasabolition-worldwideabolitionmovement-activity-7465494226173100032-COi8 ?? ... Yoga Yamas' ahimsa (non-harming) brahmacharya (ethical restraints of moderation of sexual energy) and aparigraha (non-greediness), and the Yoga Niyama santosha (contentment) as part conceptually of a bio-engineering system for the human bodymind (brainstorming) and societally be relevant for Yoga meditation here - and Yoga-philosophy-wise ? I had the impression the panelists were all pretty ethical, and are good lawyers, ethics-wise too ... and in WUaS growing a worldwide abolition movement to protect people too, potentially for all 7.9 billion people from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University ... and they could be helpful law wise and Creative Commons' wise in developing a realistic virtual earth for STEM and science and especially a realistic virtual earth for aging reversal and a  realistic virtual earth for extreme longevity therefore ... Asked Gemini AI: how will the US federal government regulate eg pi cryptocurrency if at all and re law enforcement & ... & Is Pi cryptocurrency a private currency and being used for prostitution ?
https://share.google/aimode/vaelaQVv3lPN0eTza
&
https://share.google/aimode/0YvIox4zGRt9o9jFU ~ The development of Creative Commons' law since around 2002 - "some rights' reserved" (a development from all rights' reserved in copyright law) - 

The development of Creative Commons' law since around 2002 -
https://share.google/aimode/CjOlLJJTaIx96hej8

Creative Commons (CC) provides standardized legal tools that allow creators to keep their copyrights while granting the public permission to share and use their work. It operates within existing copyright law, replacing traditional "all rights reserved" with "some rights reserved" to facilitate global sharing
https://share.google/aimode/0hxUMryLHi4oayair 

... was interesting to learn about Creative Commons' law further ... and in developing World Univ & Sch building on CC-4 MIT OCW in 7 languages ... and CC is an accomplishment in the information age ... And could they all become a great network in growing World Univ & Sch and a realistic virtual earth for STEM further ? Doctors' appointment with Javier Deleon MD was good I think ... nothing new aging reversal genetics' drug therapies for my right ear's eustachian tube dysfunction or water wound yet (I think) I learned  ...  Flora may have added something to her Fettes College profile that she's working in some summer camps possibly this summer and speculatively re the DoE (some significance in the acronym doe re Duke of Edinburgh program) outdoor adventuring is part of this, rather than in a Hospital or Medical Center this summer with her upcoming MBBS degree in September ... which could be great for Flora ... working with kids and re being around 24 years old ... could she be the attending MBBS medical doctor or physician in these? ... and working with kids could be good possibly in preparation for raising a family for example  ...  I learned that the great Larry (Lessig) has something like faith in the US courts ... and that we have a dysfunctional Congress too - in this Creative Commons' talk ...  So after these two meetings yesterday, might I learn this week that I can move forward into a newly safe vacant with property deed 670 Ridgecrest Rd, Canyon 94516 ? Yoga-wise, time to write further my "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" book which I worked on a little yesterday ...  thoughts, questions, suggestions? Yogically, warm regards, fondly, - Scott (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/06/what-is-artificial-intelligence-what-is.html) ...


How best to explore connecting with Flora I wonder? Thoughts, questions, suggestions? 

Scott












PS
Sunday June 21, 2026 - sent 9:05 am PT

via 
Flora Halford-MacLeod 2020
Fettes College Edinburgh 



Dear Flora (Halford-MacLeod), 

Greetings from California. I'm exploring the possibility of traveling to Oxford this summer and to give a Digital Ethnography talk in the Anthropology department there, and to talk further about free-to-students' World Univ & Sch, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages and with planned medical degrees in all 200 countries. 

Could you tutor me please in how the British medical education system works from the inside if I'm in England this summer ?

I continue to be in communication with my Kimmerghame housemaster from Fettes,  George Preston, as well as Fettes' Helen Harrison & Karen (Houston) Jones in some of these regards. Are you much in communication with Fettes these days?

Warm regards,
Scott 

Scott GK MacLeod
(SF Bay Area)


Blogged about you here together with a talk at Sciences Po by University of Bristol Professor Devika Narayan (do you happen to know each other by any chance?) - 









Society, Information Technology, and the Global University, (forthcoming, Academic Press at World University and School, 2026) 

Scottish Small Piping album #2 - Honey Piobaireachd (2022)
- Poetry! Order Book #5 Light, Float, Sit, Watsu ~ Virtually (2021, Academic Press at WUaS)

Scottish Small Piping album #1 Honey in the Bag ~ Out of the Air tune (2020)


Order Book #3 Winding Road Rainbow: Harbin, Wandering & the Poetry of Loving Bliss (2018,  Academic Press at WUaS)

Order Book #2 Haiku-ish and Other Loving Hippie Harbin Poetry (2017,  Academic Press at WUaS) 

Order Actual-Virtual Ethnographic Book #1: Naked Harbin Ethnography (2016, Academic Press at World University and School)

- 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 
best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html

(o) 415 480 4577 (Google voice #) - sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org 
(m) 412 478 0116 - sgkmacleod@gmail.com 


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 





* * * 

Creative Commons Founders Fireside Chat ~ Tue June 23, 2026 & ... Thanks so much for your great Creative Commons' Founders' Fireside Chat today - https://creativecommons.org/event/cc-founders-fireside-chat/ - and fascinating, as well as Empowering - Hal, Inspiring - Eric, Community - Larry, Serendipitous - Molly, Belonging - Glenn ... 


Free-to-students' World University and School, building on MIT OCW and WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in Wikidata (re Wikimedia / Wikipedia in ~342 languages), which I started while teaching a "Society and Information Technology" class ... 


from:Scott MacLeod sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org
to:
  1. gotisbrown@gmail.com,
  2. Larry Lessig <lessig@law.harvard.edu>,
  3. msvh@law.berkeley.edu,
  4. hal@mit.edu,
  5. info@creativecommons.org
date:Jun 23, 2026, 5:28 PM
subject:Re: Creative Commons Founders Fireside Chat is TODAY at 1pm EDT!
mailed-by:worlduniversityandschool.org


Dear Glenn, Larry, Molly, Hal, Eric, Creative Commons, All,  

Thanks so much for your great Creative Commons' Founders' Fireside Chat today - https://creativecommons.org/event/cc-founders-fireside-chat/ - and fascinating, as well as Empowering - Hal, Inspiring - Eric, Community - Larry, Serendipitous - Molly, Belonging - Glenn . 

Free-to-students' World University and School, building on MIT OCW and WUaS Miraheze MediaWiki in Wikidata (re Wikimedia / Wikipedia in ~342 languages), which I started while teaching a "Society and Information Technology" class - like CC-4 MIT OCW in X languages with Wikipedia in <X languages - on Harvard's Berkman Island in Second Life in around 2006 or 2007, before voice was added (and a year or two after taking Charlie Nessons' "CyberOne; Law in the Court of Public Opinion" - with Rebecca Nesson and Gene Koo as Teaching Assistants) has been growing with Creative Commons ever since, so thank you for developing Creative Commons' licensing (which I think I learned from Cecilia D'Oliveira allows for 1) sharing freely, 2) adaptation, with eg AI and ML, but 3) non-commercially, which is why WUaS degrees will be free-to-students upon World Univ & Sch accrediting, and as WUaS seeks reimbursement from all 200 countries' Ministries of Education, and all 50 US states' Departments of Education; is all this still correct?).

Here is what I added to the text chat today - 

Greetings from the SF Bay Area, east bay, & near Berkeley, and Stanford, and in growing World University and School in all 200 countries for free online WUaS degrees, building on Creative Commons’ 4 licensed MIT OCW in 7 languages. And wiki schools in all 7159 known living languages. - Scott GK MacLeod ( @WorldUnivAndSch - https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2069450247336792158 )


And a question - 

A Creative Commons’ question for the future: How best to Creative Commons’ license aspects of an emerging #RealisticVirtualEarth and a #RealisticVirtualHarbin as ethnographic & STEM field site (think Google Street View with Time Slider and at the GCellView and GMoleculeView levels, with TensorFlowAI), #TextInTheSidebar which everyone can add to via ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy & in many other ways (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy )? (And see the INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article by Peter Norvig - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 mentioning a realistic virtual earth, the first time I know of other than World Univ & Sch mentioning it).


And did some people in the text chat respond with - 

Commons
& 
ideas < > expression 
?


For my 2nd Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church ethnographic book project (my first book being "Naked Harbin Ethnography: Hippies, Warm Pools, Counterculture, Clothing-Optionality & Virtual Harbin" (2016, Academic Press at WUaS World University and School), possibly co-authored or co-coded with Peter Norvig, seeking to create a #RealisticVirtualHarbin Hot Springs (and how to license some of this iterating realistic virtual earth with CC?) for iterating anthropological field work, and ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - http://www.scottmacleod.com/research-group.html - and even to invent the book anew, publishing from something like Google Street View with time slider, text-in-the-sidebar, to 1) new hardware formats like a #WUaSMultimediaRoom and digital glasses for soaking from home in our bathtubs, and 2) to paper. If I can interview current Harbin founder since 1972 Ishvara Bob Hartley online as part of this, how could such interviews be CC-licensed too? And Peter and I can create an Avatar Agent of Sunheart Sunheart Sunheart my main anthropological information and friend in "Naked Harbin Ethnography" (2016) from a very few interviews I have (but with other possible audio and video data resources too), could such NLP avatars Chat GPT conversational generative historical figures be CC licensed too somehow?

Seeking to build out further from the Harbin Hot Springs' gate house in Google Street View eg in 2007, 2012, and 2024, here (not yet much CC-licensed I'd think) - 

~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~
http://www.scottmacleod.com/ActualVirtualHarbinBook.html 

 
Asked too during the session - 

How best could you write an ethnography of current in the 2020s' creative commons' law culture, Gemini AI?  

and see the PPPPS too 

Best regards, abolitionally, Friendly NtF Quaker salutations, Yogically (as in 8 limbs of Yoga philosophy), kindly, 
Scott

WUaS open Weekly Business Meeting from Monday June 23, 2026, and which meet on Mondays at 10 am PT, with an invitation to join - 




- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO, Professor, Presiding & Recording Clerk (loosely in the Manner of unprogrammed Friends NtFs Quakers)
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 
best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University and School - http://worlduniversityandschool.org 

2) for profit general stock company WUaS Corporation in CA - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html





PS
My notes - 

Empowering - Hal
Inspiring - Eric
Community - Larry 
Serendipity - Molly 
Belonging - Glenn 

How best could you write an ethnography of current in the 2020s' creative commons' law culture, Gemini AI?


Commons? 

ideas < > expression 



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Obama Foundation Announces Glenn Brown as Chief Digital Officer
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Announced this on TwitterX 1 or 2 weeks ago - 


Creative Commons' fireside chat, announced by Larry Lessig: - @WorldUnivAndSch building on #CC4licensed #MITOCW in 7 ...


Molly, Hal, Glenn, @WorldUnivAndSch building on #CC4licensed #MITOCW in 7 langs for #freeWUaSdegrees fr home in all 200 countries in main languages is looking forward to this #CreativeCommons' talk; CC is a key piece of NP #WUaSunivs' free degrees (& re 2nd FP wing @WUaSPress)

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Molly, Hal, Larry -
https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2065115242800263596

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2065115079272759592


Retweeting -

Lessig 
@lessig
Looking forward to a (virtual) conversation with #CreativeCommons co-founders Hal Abelson and Molly Van Houweling, moderated by the great Glenn Brown, June 23, 1pm ET. Join if you can: https://bit.ly/3QBZiwa

https://x.com/lessig/status/2065053692881965172?s=20




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Again - 

Asked this of Gemini as you were talking today - 



How best could you write an ethnography of current (in the 2020s)' creative commons' law culture, Gemini AI?  


To write a compelling ethnography of the Creative Commons (CC) law culture in the 2020s, you have to document an existential fracture.

For two decades, the CC movement operated on a beautiful, ideological symbiosis: I share openly, you access freely, and we both enrich the public square. But in the mid-2020s, generative AI models fundamentally disrupted that contract. Creators who once proudly stamped a CC-BY or CC-BY-NC license on their work are experiencing a massive crisis of faith, realizing their cultural generosity has been scraped, parsed, and synthesized into corporate machine learning models without real reciprocity.

If you want to map this culture, you aren't just looking at static legal text; you are studying how a community of hackers, lawyers, and artists are desperately trying to renegotiate what "openness" even means when data is the new gold.

1. The Core Cultural Tensions (The "Why")

An ethnography needs a central friction. Your study should focus on three cultural paradoxes currently playing out across the CC landscape:

  • Sharing vs. Extraction: The psychological shift from viewing open licensing as an act of community building to viewing it as unpaid labor for tech conglomerates.

  • The Rebirth of Attribution: Historically, attribution was a simple hyperlink. In 2026, Creative Commons' rallying cry is "If nothing else, credit." But how does a culture enforce attribution when thousands of CC-licensed inputs are atomized into mathematical parameters inside an AI?

  • Legal Pluralism (Norms vs. Code): The battle between official law (courts deciding if AI training is "Fair Use") and unofficial law (the moral frameworks, robot.txt blocks, and "AI-free" community standards creators are manually building to protect themselves).

2. Mapping the Field: Where the Culture Lives

Because this is a highly distributed digital subculture, your fieldsites must bridge formal legal institutions and raw, online creative hubs.

FieldsiteKey Cultural ActorsDominant Discourse / Friction

The Infrastructure Hubs


(CC Slack channels, GitHub repos, legal hackathons)

Tech-forward copyleft lawyers, open-source developers, digital archivistsTrying to build technical patches like "CC Signals"—machine-readable data governance tools to express AI usage preferences.

The Creator Frontlines


(Substack, Mastodon, specialized artist Discord servers)

Independent illustrators, writers, open-education advocatesA deep sense of betrayal; intense debates over whether to abandon "open culture" entirely to prevent corporate exploitation.

The Formal Arenas


(WIPO panels, copyright office hearings, key litigation notes)

Institutional stewards, policy advisors, corporate legal teamsAttempting to fit legacy copyright doctrines (like the "transformative" aspect of Fair Use) onto algorithmic architectures.

3. The Methodological Blueprint

To execute this research, you need a systematic approach that shifts from macro-legal politics down to micro-level human anxieties.

1.Map the Network Constellations:Phase 1.

4. The Reflexive Loop (The "Gemini" Paradox)

Because you explicitly asked me—an AI model—how to write this, your ethnography requires a layer of radical reflexivity.

As the ethnographer, you are using a tool (Gemini) that belongs to the very class of technology causing the cultural panic you are documenting. Your field notes should account for this weird loop. When you interview a digital artist or an open-access lawyer, your positionality includes the fact that your analytical collaborator is a generative model.

Ask your informants: Where do we draw the line between a tool that helps synthesize legal code, and an entity that broke the open-web social contract? That tension is where the real human story of 2020s digital culture resides.







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