Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD

@EricFielding
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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 interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) map of surface displacements caused by the 2015 magnitude 7.8 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal.
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Researchhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6648-8067
Work websitehttps://science.jpl.nasa.gov/people/fielding/
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Prof. Sam LawlerMar 14

I saw southern auroras last night!!!! Rakiura! Holy cow that was AMAZING

(View from a bit south of Arthur's Pass, New Zealand)

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Show threadArchmage of ProcrastinationMar 13

Say her name!

Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first Black woman in the U.S. to earn a medical degree, graduating from the New England Female Medical College in 1864. After graduation, she devoted herself to treating formerly enslaved people in Richmond, Virginia, In 1883, she published A Book of Medical Discourses, the first medical book by an African American,

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Lauren WeinsteinMar 13
Pentagon is banning photographers from press briefings, because Hegseth was upset about "unflattering" photos
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Neil BrownMar 10

Mastodon has a new human-over-AI contribution policy.

tl;dr:

- The human contributor is the sole party responsible for the contribution.

- If AI was used to generate a significant portion of your contribution (i.e. beyond simple autocomplete), we require you to disclose it in the Pull Request description.

- If you cannot guarantee the provenance and legal safety of the AI-generated code, do not submit it.

- Cases of repeated violations of these ... guidelines could result in a ban from our repositories.

https://github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md

#AI #Mastodon #fedimeta

.github/AI_POLICY.md at main · mastodon/.github

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GitHub
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up NewsMar 9
This WaPo article describes many signs of Trump’s dangerous derangement and unfitness, but in failing to state the obvious conclusion, it sanewashes his conduct. It uses “unique” as a pathetic euphemism for “chaotic and irrational“. It’s worse than nothing. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

A wartime presidency defined b...
A wartime presidency defined by Trump’s unique political style

President Trump is recasting the role of wartime leader in his image, breaking from generations of practice as he attacks his domestic enemies and revels in memes.

The Washington Post
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(((Cindy Weinstein)))Mar 7

The Santa Ana winds are blowing: "There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the northeast whining down through the Cajon and San Gorgonio Passes, blowing up sand storms out along Route 66, drying the hills and the nerves to flash point." -- Joan Didion

https://theorcasonian.com/the-santa-anas-by-joan-didion/

#LosAngeles

'The Santa Anas' by Joan Didion

||| BY JOAN DIDION ||| There is something uneasy in the Los Angeles air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from the northeast whining down

theOrcasonian.com
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I woke up to see the lunar eclipse, but we have clouds. Darn marine layer!
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Dr. Judith HubbardMar 2

Will a large earthquake be followed by an even larger event? A 2025 paper proposed a new method for classifying foreshocks in advance, with an apparent success rate above 90%.

But does it work?

Our deep-dive analysis found serious problems that we believe invalidate the result. Read more:

https://earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/can-we-tell-if-an-earthquake-is-going

Can we tell if an earthquake is going to be a foreshock?

A recent study says yes, but we find otherwise.

Earthquake Insights
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Taylor LorenzMar 2
I have a piece out in The Guardian today on how the internet is becoming a fully surveilled digital panopticon and why we need to fight back
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/02/ban-children-social-media-biometic-data-surveilled
The world wants to ban children from social media, but there will be grave consequences for us all

Age-verification systems require collecting sensitive data to support the biometric information. In no time, the internet will become a fully surveilled digital panopticon, says technology journalist Taylor Lorenz

The Guardian
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Tinker ☀️Feb 27

So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that #infosec loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)

You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?

Yeah, that Persona.

Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials...

...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona...

...or be fired.

https://duo.com/docs/identity-verification

#Duo #Persona #Privacy #Discord #AI