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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD

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Geophysicist at lab in Pasadena, California. Statements and opinions posted by me are my own and not those of my employer. he/him. Header image is […] 🌉 bridged from https://mastodon.social/@EricFielding on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@stacey_campbell If you live in a European country, Microsoft is offering the updates for no charge

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@sundogplanets Maybe you already saw this article in Earth and Sky about Starlink space junk reentries every day. It quoted your Mastodon posts.

https://earthsky.org/human-world/1-to-2-starlink-satellites-falling-back-to-earth-each-day/

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

What Trump-Noem ICE is doing in # Chicago is morally and legally wrong. https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/us/chicago-apartment-ice-raid 1/

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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

@sundogplanets In case you didn’t see it yet, Scott Manley released an excellent video about telling the difference between meteors and space debris on YouTube. https://youtu.be/y5bYAjCMcwM?si=69co2IPYRrNTCTTw

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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

@ai6yr Brave or foolhardy?

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

The first NISAR (NASA-ISRO SAR) L-band radar images have now been released! These are early images acquired before NISAR reached the final science orbit with radar test modes so only a few locations were imaged. The mountains of Mount Desert Island in Maine, USA, are beautiful. I first visited […]

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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

@kenwhite.bsky.social Alex who?

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Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון @raph.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17d

Excerpts from the statement of Bassem Tamimi, Palestinian activist from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, to an Israeli military judge in 2011:

Your Honor,

I hold this speech out of belief in peace, justice, freedom, the right to live in dignity, and out of respect for free thought in the […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Please read Josh Marshall's take on the Trump regime's escalating attacks on freedom of speech -- Kimmel's removal only the latest but probably most extreme example.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few-thoughts-on-kimmelgeddon/sharetoken/9b9c2c6c-bc94-4280-a74f-6fc8e2158cf8

The most […]

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 20d

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries.

When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom.

I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 20d

weird that neither of these articles two main stories decrying censorship mention WaPo's firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social I guess democracy really does die in darkness

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22d

From John Unsworth, just-retired dean of libraries at U of Virginia:
https://www.arl.org/blog/john-unsworth-on-libraries-higher-education-and-anti-facism/

"21st-century fascism is not just about governing through force. It’s also about surveillance. It’s about AI in the service of fascism, as a […]

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Bruce Mirken @brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28d

No comment needed:
#science #democracy

Cartoon: In an office hallway, 2 men are talking. One says, "I'm transferred from the warning on science to the warning on democracy. Is that a promotion?"

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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29d

@sundogplanets Yes, it can be helpful to use email aliases for journals. Nature-Springer might or might not be selling their author emails directly to spammers

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · Sep 8

Weiss is being specifically hired by a right wing billionaire nepobaby to turn CBS into another right-wing friendly propaganda mill. but you genuinely wouldn't know that from reading the U.S. media industry's coverage of itself:

What would a Bari Weiss era at CBS News look like? TV insiders and analysts share their takes.

TV insiders and analysts say a Paramount Skydance deal to acquire Bari Weiss' The Free Press could expand its reach, but carries risks.

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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

@sundogplanets Very Canadian and clever.

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

@drahardja Great explanation of the calculations.

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LillyLyle/Count Melancholia @lillyherself.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7

de Adder. 🎯

NEW BALANCE OF POWER
Cartoon showing Xi, Kim Jong, Putin and Trump all on the same side of a children's see-saw. Putin is saying to Trump "You're supposed to be at the other end"

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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 7

@sundogplanets So much wheat! Nice views.

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

@sundogplanets At least that means they want to keep you around.

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

@evan Younger people are “inexperienced” while older people are “over the hill”.

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Nonilex @nonilex.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

#trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of #fraud. Records Show 3 of His #cabinet Members Have Them.

The White House has targeted opponents, including a Fed governor, for having more than one primary residence on their loan papers. ProPublica found that, in one case, a Trump cabinet […]

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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

@sundogplanets My wife does not try to figure out time zone conversion and just asks Google. I hope that part of Google results is not messed up by the AI cancer.

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tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · Sep 3

Fox silenced Greene when she broke MAGA ranks and pointed at Trump’s DOJ. The network erased victims to shield power, trading accountability for another cheap culture-war segment.

Fox News Cuts Out of MTG Epstein Presser Once She Criticizes Trump DOJ

After largely ignoring the just-released Epstein files, Fox News cut out of a Marjorie Taylor Greene presser on the matter once she criticized the Trump DOJ.

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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

@0xabad1dea I like dogs and I am over 100 kg, so I would not mind but some people are different.

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericfielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 30

@sundogplanets Probably you heard about goat yoga. I was wondering how they got goats to jump on people doing yoga, but it seems they love to do it