Notices by Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD (ericfielding@mastodon.social)

@jasonkoebler @dan613 Is there a link without a paywall or registration-wall?

Will it make a difference? Possibly.

Will satellite builders actually make their satellites fainter? Gosh I hope so.

Will they actually talk to each other about how they do it? Probably not. But if that tech is subject to ITAR regulations, they definitely won't.

Are there more important things to worry about? Oh my yes. But how often does the US State Dept ask for public input on something that affects the night sky? Now's your chance to run the experiment and see if they listen!

@John @CarandDriver It works from the Mastodon iOS app.

@evan I have to use a VPN to connect to my work network.

Stat news article about the USA Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee: “Nominating an anti-vaxxer like Kennedy to HHS is like putting a Flat Earther at the head of NASA,” Peter G. Lurie, president of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, said in a statement. CSPI is a consumer advocacy group that lobbies in part for better food policy. https://www.statnews.com/2024/11/14/trump-to-nominate-rfk-jr-hhs-secretary-health-care-maha/

@evan I am not sure how to interpret your question. I have several issues that I will pay attention to during the Trump administration, not only one.

Maybe people saw this news already.
Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/the-guardian-no-longer-post-on-x-twitter-elon-musk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@yogthos Sounds like a great time for the new Trump Administration to get rid of the Department of Education. /sarcasm

@W6KME @douglasvb @ai6yr @max_in_somer @raymondjohnson I don’t know much about Chinese dumplings, but we have several restaurants in Pasadena specializing in dumplings so there is substantial demand.

@brooke They have used the B-2 bomber for flyovers to start the Rose Parade many times. It is an 8 AM wake-up call for anyone sleeping late on New Year’s Day. That is a big airplane that can fly very low. Not so stealthy for noise.

@seachanger @dyckron @mloxton Some billionaires manage to be popular with a substantial part of the population.

@brooke We get flyovers often in Pasadena. Very loud.

@max_in_somer @raymondjohnson @ai6yr They said it was a 6-lane highway, so probably wide lanes and more than 3 times your estimate.

3/ A challenge.
#men #women #equality

@Luna @claralistensprechen3rd Wait until they hear about Steven Miller’s plans for denaturalization.

A photo by Dorothea Lange of Kimiko Kitagaki, tagged and numbered like the luggage surrounding her, as she and other Japanese Americans awaited their forced removal to an internment camp for Japanese Americans, most of them citizens, in World War II. The photo is in the National Archives, and is available for sharing online at Wikimedia Commons.

It CAN happen here. It HAS happened. And we refuse to learn from our barbarism in the past.

#fascism #cruelty #USA

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakland,_California._Kimiko_Kitagaki,_young_evacuee_guarding_the_family_baggage_prior_to_departure_._._._-_NARA_-_537890.jpg

@kagan @Infoseepage @RickiTarr I am sure that increased hours of voting is low if not last priority for the GOP.

@kim_harding Xiaomi phones are not allowed to be sold in the USA.

@stonekettle Sorry to hear that. I am hoping for the best.

@Keiko_geo welcome back!