Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Namaqualand, SA: Happy New Year 2026, & 2025 Seasons' Greetings & Holiday Salutations ~ in Switzerland, and everywhere you are ... & Some related ideas, and regarding your "Love the idea of the virtual harbin tubs" observation AND "Might you be involved in French-Swiss officers' and academics' conversation on Swiss international organized crime operations overseas ?" * * * Kimba and Ed on W 1/6/26 & 'Nice to talk with you Kimba at the Berkeley Claremont public library Tu 7/22/25' * * * Zoom - Designing Seamless Campus Communications in the Age of AI & WUaS registered for this ... re WUaS as business WUaS is seeking to develop both of our WUaS wings, the 1) non-profit 501 c 3 World University and School (building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and Wikipedia in 342 languages) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ ... AND the 2) for profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California, the WUaS Corporation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html - WUaS Educational Services Stores / Academic Press in 7159 known living languages, in a #RealRealTime #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverything #ForRetail #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords potentially for all 7.9 billion people on the planet #ForRobotSimulations

 


Happy New Year 2026, & 2025 Seasons' Greetings & Holiday Salutations ~ in Switzerland, and everywhere you are ... & Some related ideas, and regarding your "Love the idea of the virtual harbin tubs" observation AND "Might you be involved in French-Swiss officers' and academics' conversation on Swiss international organized crime operations overseas ?"


Marc Dupuis <marco.dupuis@gmail.com>, Ed Smyth MD <esmythmd@gmail.com>, Janie Kirkbride Brown MacLeod <jkbmacleod@icloud.com>, Pin - Siddartha Mazumdar <sid.mazumdar@gmail.com>, Annie Brown -541 975 0588 <annieb@gorge.net>, Byron Hann MD <byronhann1@gmail.com>, Joan Kidder <kidderjoan@gmail.com>, Nick Thompson <npt134@gmail.com>, Shawn T Flaherty <stf@pghfirm.com>, Alden F Briscoe <ABriscoe@brakeleybriscoe.com>, Peter Norvig <pnorvig@google.com>, Stephon Owens <stephono87@gmail.com>, Robin Appleberry <robinappleberry@yahoo.com>, Byron & Cindy Hann MD <hannfam@gmail.com>, George Church <gchurch@genetics.med.harvard.edu>, Elizabeth Warren <warren@law.harvard.edu>, Elizabeth Warren <Elizabeth_Warren@warren.senate.gov>, Scott Gordon MacLeod <president@worlduniversityandschool.org>, Roland Vogl <rvogl@law.stanford.edu>, Hank Greely <hgreely@stanford.edu>, Barbara van Schewick <schewick@stanford.edu>, Eric B Myers <ericbmyers@hotmail.com>, David Ackerly <dackerly@berkeley.edu>, "Matchett, David" <dmatchett@gmail.com>, Chris Mohr <mohrandmohr@gmail.com>


Marc, (All)!

Happy New Year further, and thanks. 

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Some related ideas, and regarding your "Love the idea of the virtual harbin tubs" observation - 

this idea of soaking from our home bathtubs at Virtual Harbin is also implicit in 
Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: World University IN School" updated Mar 2, 2024

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where he writes about (and search on - )

"The Study of Bliss and Enjoyment in Learning

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Exploring Bliss in a Virtual Harbin Hot Springs"





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my 4th of 5 books so far 

"To the Dance or the Pools ~ Virtually?:


How Different it is to Soak at Harbin, than to Realize it in Virtual Reality"
 
(Poetry Press at World University and School 2019 - ISBN-13: 978-0578625492)


has implicit in its title even virtual Harbin tubs ... 





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Onsen video ... further create-able in a digital mask with unique youtube technologies ... and potentially viewable from our home bathtub or hot tub ...

ONSEN - this is the relatively new  'tilt-able' Youtube interactive immersive #InfoTech 




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and How to 

Turn the back of an INCREDIBLE #ToyotaSienna #WoodlandMinivan into #WUaSMultimediaRoom w its #MultimediaPackage? See #interactiveWUaS immersive ONSEN in #tiltableYoutubeVideo https://youtu.be/X6YBetANDUI re #RealisiticVirtualHarbin #HotSprings #DigitalGlasses https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin ~

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/1919541269388300634


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and see : 

Naked Harbin Ethnography
Physical-Digital Harbin Ethnographic Book For Sale
~ Academic Press at World University and School ~
http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html
(available from ~ http://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity  ~ (with daily blog posts,
some about virtual Harbin Hot Springs, including visiting it online
https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin)

And Visit the Harbin Gate
here
~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~
and 'walk' down the road to Middletown, California, in Google Street View
{and WIKI-add your photos from below the OLD Harbin gate}

Reed College MarketPlace Harbin Book Pic Virtual Reality with Google Street View 2017

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







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Since as I recall from having lived in Geneva Switzerland for 6 months in 1972-73 ...

(at 15 Avenue de Miremont - 


and attended the Ecole International - Ecolint - as a 12 & 13 year old - my father GKM MD was doing a Ford Foundation funded study of 3 European countries' health systems around Switzerland) 

... that neutral Switzerland has required conscription for all men, possibly all people, of a certain age, where they serve in the Swiss uniformed armed services ... 

Might you be involved in French-Swiss officers' and academics' conversation on Swiss international organized crime operations overseas ? And might this be what you are referring to with 'knocked back' ? How might World Univ & Sch put you in communication with a parallel-to-your-role US uniformed services officer or department or agency, beyond your possible communications with the CIA re Lisa Klinck ... and such that even US generals could talk with Swiss generals to further help grow a Swiss abolition movement to abolish the wrongful buying and selling of people, for example, in the illegal sex, drugs, violence, car theft etc industries internationally and their latent networks of violence too? 





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And at Quaker-informed NtF Nontheist-Friendly NtQ MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School, how best to possibly open a first WUaS Educational Services' Store (planned in all ~200 countries, and in their official languages, and Switzerland has 4 official languages) ... for books, computers, robotics, groceries, hospital technologies, etc (and think Walmart which is in about 19 out of 200 countries, and their product line) ... and see this incredible Gemini AI Artificial Intelligence response - https://g.co/gemini/share/6fe18668c5c0 - in these regards in Agenda item A from the WUaS Weekly Business Meeting - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/laramie-mountains-wy-m-1526-11226-open.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/01/laramie-mountains-wy.html (search on vaccines here too regarding incredible Gemini AI responses too) regarding the idea of developing WUaS "Learning Hubs" with our WUaS Educational Services' Stores -

"The Store Model: #PhysicalDigital #BrickAndMortar

The #WUaSstores serve as more than just retail outlets; they are "Learning Hubs" that compete by offering what Amazon cannot: physical community and immediate academic validation."


How to 'teach peace' further in Lausanne Switzerland for example and possibly at free-to-students' MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School as well in some of these regards ... and regarding the "learning hubs" in our WUaS Educational Services Stores ... ? 

(And there is an unprogrammed Quaker Meeting in Lausanne interestingly - 
Quaker Meetings in Europe and the Middle East
Switzerland
Switzerland Yearly Meeting
https://fwccemes.org/fam?mg=17)



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In addition to innumerable STEM and STEAM courses from MIT OCW courseware - https://ocw.mit.edu/ - eventually for credit at WUAS for free online WUaS degrees - Bachelor, PhD, Law, MD, IB high school / similar, AA / AS, and Master's - from home in Switzerland, in French, German, and Italian, and possibly Romansh too if helpful, here are some 'teaching peace' and Friendly Quaker informed and oriented wiki schools at WUaS -

Here
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Peace_and_Social_Justice_Studies (not yet with much MIT OpenCourseWare courses for credit eventually, but stay tuned)


Happy New Year to all, abolitionally, best regards, 
Scott 




Thursday, January 1, 2026
Mount Tamalpais: Happy New Year 2026 & 2025 Seasons' Greetings & Holiday Salutations







--

Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2026, forthcoming) 

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
at / of best STEAM CC licensed OCW, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- USPS US Post Office, 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

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


World Univ & Sch Innovation Research - 






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Kimba and Ed on W 1/6/26 & 'Nice to talk with you Kimba at the Berkeley Claremont public library Tu 7/22/25'




Kimba (and Ed Pitt...), thinkers in and frequenters of the Berkeley Claremont public library,  

Nice to see you in the Berkeley Claremont public library yesterday and today, Kimba. (And I haven't seen you around here Ed yet this year; are you back home in 'merry old England', and returning for the beginning of the Cal semester on the 14th of January? And does your brother make it up to Gordonstoun school in the north of Scotland much now that he's graduated from there? Just received this Fettes College high school invitation to a capella and drinks on Jan 16th in London, from when I studied at Fettes in the 1st year 6th form in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1977-1978 during high school, and please see the PPS). 

I'm writing to wish you a Happy New Year further, and with my 

Happy New Year 2026, & 2025 Seasons' Greetings & Holiday Salutations' letter again: 


Thursday, January 1, 2026
Mount Tamalpais: Happy New Year 2026 & 2025 Seasons' Greetings & Holiday Salutations


Friendly Berkeley & UC greetings, best wishes, Happy New Year!,
Scott 
In praise of libraries - 
(and MIT OCW-centric wiki World UNiversity and School seeks to create online all libraries ever in all languages in a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries - and see TwitterX and LinkedIN for this #hashtag in the future in something like GStreet View with G Time Slider to which we can all add photos and book resources as well, from - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources & https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects :)


AND




PS
#RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries

WorldUnivandSch
@WorldUnivAndSch
·
Nov 20, 2024
Happy Thanksgiving! 200 world class #UniversityResearchLibraries in 200 countries' main languages @ CC4 http://OCW.MIT.EDU -centric wiki
@WorldUnivAndSch
 
@WUaSPress
 online in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries #StreetView w #TimeSlider #TensorFlowAI https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources ~

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1859238270476943476?s=20

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/1859238085516542052?s=20





WorldUnivandSch
@WorldUnivAndSch
·
Jul 24, 2025
Great! -
@SenAlexPadilla

"SF-Based #InternetArchive Is Now a #FederalDepositoryLibrary. What Does That Mean?"
https://kqed.org/news/12049420/sf-based-internet-archive-is-now-a-federal-depository-library-what-does-that-mean -
https://gpo.gov/how-to-work-with-us/agency/services-for-agencies/federal-depository-library-program
How to add to a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries? -for all libraries in all languages ever: https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources ~

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1948550480680079812?s=20





WorldUnivandSch
@WorldUnivAndSch
·
Jun 15, 2025
It's our being able to photo & #WikiCreateLibraries with #AIandML to a #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries all ever in all languages in now all countries in world
https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources that is newly revolutionary & create networks of people >#SocInfoTechAndGlobalUniversity book


https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1934307599350182188?s=20





HarbinBook
@HarbinBook
·
Mar 21, 2024
200 online world class #UniversityResearchLibraries in 200 countries+main languages @ CC4 http://OCW.MIT.EDU -centric wiki
@WorldUnivAndSch
 
@WUaSPress
 in #RealisticVirtualEarthForLibraries #StreetView w #TimeSlider #TensorFlowAI w wiki #FilmTo3DApps https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Library_Resources !

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/1770773072330535031?s=20

Retweeting


University of Oxford
@UniofOxford
#OnThisDay in 2015,
@bodleianlibs
' Weston Library reopened to the public following a three-year transformation.

The library is equipped with cutting-edge research and conservation facilities and serves as a model for research libraries worldwide.

https://x.com/UniofOxford/status/1770752043864465635?s=20





PPS

Invitation: A Cappella and Drinks in London - Fri 16th January

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To start the year, Old Fettesians and Parents, past or present, are invited to get together in London on Friday 16th January for an evening of a cappella with drinks afterwards. 

We are enormously grateful to Old Fettesian Fergus Bolton (PS-Gl 2011-2022), who is a member of The Bear Necessities, Brown University's  premier a cappella group, specialising in all-spectacular vocal performance since 1992.  This Ivy League group are on a winter tour to England from Providence, Rhode Island.  

The performance will start at 6.30pm and will run for about 40 minutes.  The set will include favourites ranging from Can't Help Falling in Love by Elvis Presley to Brandy by Looking Glass and Loch Lomond.   

To join us please click the booking link below.  We are asking for a nominal £10 per ticket to gain commitment, so that we can plan appropriate seating and drinks afterwards.

We look forward to getting the Fettes Community together in London for an enjoyable evening on Friday 16th January.  Partners and friends are most welcome.  

Karen Jones, Head of Engagement (Development & Alumni)

Tel: 0131 311 6743




On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Dear Kimba and Ed (Pitt...), thinkers and frequenters in the Berkeley Claremont public library, 

Nice to talk with both of you just now. 

I'm writing to introduce you to one another, as frequenters in the Berkeley Claremont public library. Kimba is writing a book and re Chat GPT too, and has some roots in Pittsburgh PA, and where I lived during high school (both regarding the beginning of your last name, Ed), and Ed is from London, and studying mathematics / algorithms for his PhD at Cal UC Berkeley. 

Here Are two wiki subjects or schools in English regarding your focuses these days -



(from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects) and see the science fiction wiki subject as well as the artificial intelligence, computer science, and machine learning wiki subjects as well.

with some iterating CC-4 licensed MIT OCW courses https://ocw.mit.edu/ and https://opencw.aprende.org/courses/ - eventually for-credit at free-to-students' World Univ & Sch for free WUaS degrees online from home, and not yet as large language models, and even regarding with Gemini AI conversational generative AI for fundamental new research and writing ... but where this is in the works, and with WUaS in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS ...

What are your LinkedIN profiles or TwitterX's (I post a lot to both, for idea generation) ?

Friendly regards, more later, cheers, 
Scott






On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 12:18 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Hi Kimba, 

Nice to see you in the library just now.

Here's the incredible (short) WUaS Manifesto that Anthropic AI created - 

"World University and School: A Manifesto for Universal Free Education"

and below are 2 sets of social media posts I've created with it.

Best wishes, 
Scott



AND

On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 3:03 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Hi Kimba, 

How are you? (Here in the Claremont Berkeley public library presently sitting across from each other, observing a kind of library silence ... with email instead) How's your Chat GPT book coming along conversation-wise?

My "Society, Information Technology and the Global University" upcoming book is coming along pretty nicely and somewhat in conversation with Gemini AI - 
... although I'd like for Gemini to be able to harvest my daily blog since 2008 and "in my writer's voice" and see - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2025/09/chacoan-guanacos-bolivia.html  ... (As you may read, I just wrote to Google AI Director Peter Norvig about this and we'll see what develops ...) 

MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch in 200 countries and their main languages, and in all 7159 known living languages, is coming along too  - https://worlduniversityandschool.blogspot.com/2025/08/victoria-boliviana-m-9125-open-mit-ocw.html .. 

2nd physical-digital Harbin Hot Springs' Heart Consciousness Church ethnographic book project (for university research too) will be 7th book, newly to publish from Google Street View tight time slider, and both to paper, and new digital formats such as a WUaS Multimedia Room in our home bathrooms for soaking at a virtual Harbin from home, and in digital glasses, and to brainwave headsets too ... inventing the book anew potentially.

Cheers, 
Scott

On Tue, Jul 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM Scott MacLeod <sgkmacleod@worlduniversityandschool.org> wrote:
Hi Kimba, 

Nice to talk with you Kimba at the Berkeley Claremont public library Tu 7/22/25

More later, best wishes, Happy writing!, 
Scott










Society, Information Technology, and the Global University (2025, forthcoming) 

- Scott GK MacLeod  
Founder, President, CEO & Professor
CC-4 licensed MIT OCW-centric, Wiki, 
World University & School (WUaS) 
- USPS US Post Office, General Delivery, Canyon, CA 94516 


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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WUaS registered for this ... 


re WUaS as business 

WUaS is seeking to develop both of our WUaS wings, the 1) non-profit 501 c 3 World University and School (building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, and Wikipedia in 342 languages) - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ ...  AND the 2) for profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California, the WUaS Corporation - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/AcademicPress.html -  WUaS Educational Services Stores / Academic Press in 7159 known living languages, in a #RealRealTime #RealisticVirtualEarth #ForEverything #ForRetail #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords potentially for all 7.9 billion people on the planet #ForRobotSimulations - and think in Google Street View with Time Slider - and eg for a #RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicMaking and for the WUaS Symphony Orchestras, in all 200 countries and in their official languages to start. Thanks.


World University and School WUaS is seeking to develop both of our WUaS wings, the 1) non-profit 501 c 3 World University and School (building on MIT OCW in 7 languages - https://opencw.aprende. org/courses/translated-courses/ = https://lnkd.in/gnJucURX - and - https://ocw.mit. edu/ = https://ocw.mit.edu/ - and Wikipedia in 342 languages) - http://worlduniversityandschool. org/ = https://lnkd.in/gq8khsFB ... AND the 2) for profit general stock company legal entity in the state of California, the WUaS Corporation - http://worlduniversityandschool. org/AcademicPress.html = https://lnkd.in/g-zR9EiC - WUaS Educational Services Stores / Academic Press in 7159 known living languages, in a hashtag#RealRealTime hashtag#RealisticVirtualEarth hashtag#ForEverything hashtag#ForRetail hashtag#AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords potentially for all 7.9 billion people on the planet hashtag#ForRobotSimulations - and think in Google Street View with Time Slider - and e.g. for a hashtag#RealisticVirtualEarthForMusicMaking and for the WUaS Symphony Orchestras - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool. org/wiki/Symphony_Orchestra_at_World_University_and_School = https://lnkd.in/ghuTdbRi which we will be able to play musical instruments with from home) - in all 200 countries and in their official languages to start. Thanks.

https://www.linkedin. com/posts/world-university-and-school_realrealtime-realisticvirtualearth-foreverything-activity-7414782602945134592--uE5 = https://lnkd.in/gPTGxgem ~


https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottgkmacleod_realrealtime-realisticvirtualearth-foreverything-activity-7414784528369500160-w_kw

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scott-macleod-4691a011a_realrealtime-realisticvirtualearth-foreverything-activity-7414784371607560192-T33J

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/world-university-and-school_realrealtime-realisticvirtualearth-foreverything-activity-7414782602945134592--uE5










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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaqualand

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Namaqualand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaqua_National_Park


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