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/

“The silence she kept for 60 years was not weakness. It was the impossible weight that survivors of sexual violence are forced to carry—often to protect others, often at profound cost to themselves. That she carried it while simultaneously building one of the most important labor movements in American history makes her courage almost incomprehensible."

~ Feminist Majority Foundation

#DoloresHuerta #CesarChavez #farmworkers #women #SexualAbuse #patriarchy #WomenofColor
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The Far Side from 1987

"Trump’s sudden climb-down [from his threat to bomb Iranian power plants] was startling. Who could have seen this coming?

The answer is, the person or people who bought large quantities of stock market futures and sold large quantities of oil futures around 15 minutes before Trump’s announcement."

~ Paul Krugman

#Trump #Iran #war #markets #StockMarket #PredictionMarkets #futures #oil #gas #InsiderTrading
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-the-futures-markets

Treason in the Futures Markets

People close to Trump are trading based on national secrets

Paul Krugman

Happy birthday to one of greatest mathematicians of all time Emmy Noether (1882-1935), here with her eponymous theorem, the backbone of modern physics. Noether’s theorem links any symmetry of a system with a conservation law. In my portrait, I chose to depict a young Emmy in front of a blackboard with a more simple formulation of her theorem and three specific applications of it, shown schematically, using pictures and 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #physics #mathematics #WomenInSTEM #mastoArt

I've always used manual focus or "selection" autofocus on my camera. But we have these lovely black carpenter bees nectaring at the sweet peas, and I'd love to catch one in flight.

I'm much too slow for manual or selection focus here, and if I try to focus on a plane and wait for them it'll take weeks (there are too many flowers for them to choose from).

So for the first time I'm trying "dynamic area" autofocus...

#bees

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

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

Pentagon is banning photographers from press briefings, because Hegseth was upset about "unflattering" photos

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

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