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Eric Roston

@eroston.bsky.social
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Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales. Literally wrote the book on carbon. Born 326.17. He/him. "Bleakly amusing." —A. Martine. "The dad jokes will continue until morale improves." —Charlie Jane Anders. Signal: eroston.87 Bloomberg Green

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Open Google Doc tabs are the new open browser window tabs.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🤞🤞🤞
Fortune cookie text:
 Friday will bring you the breakthrough you've been waiting for.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Joe Romm gave one of the most memorable talks I’ve ever heard at Columbia many years ago. Among other things, he said, “Sustainable development is like teenage sex. Everybody says they're doing it, very few people actually are, and those who are doing it are doing it badly.” RIP legend.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Shocking and sad news. Joe Romm single-handedly powered US climate debates through the aughts and into the teens.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
One interesting thing nobody talks about is, to a dog, you're the service animal.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
idk I've personally been trying to reach recursive self-improvement for a long time.
Newspaper front page story blurb:

The Liftoff Scenario That Terrifies A.I. Doomsayers
"Recursive self-improvement" is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress - and risk.
7 MIN READ
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If somebody asked you to "stay in your lane," what would that mean for you? Please provide the truest, most granular possible answer.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What's an example of perfect casting?
Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins and Orson Welles as Harry Lime, in The Third Man
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If there's one thing about Washington consistent throughout time and party, it's the Friday news dump. Nothing gets past @zhirji.bsky.social tho ⤵️
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🏆 for real-life metaphor of the week
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
how cool, they can now make clouds that look like real pollution.
Gray Manhattan skyline, with a thick dark blanket of high clouds and small low lying cottony clouds wisps just above the building tops
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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New: With summer come monsoonal rains in Arizona, but climate-driven drought and wildfires are worsening the destruction from downpours like the deadly deluge that struck the Grand Canyon last weekend, according to experts. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
How a Convergence of Climate Disasters Ushered the Grand Canyon Flood Tragedy
It’s an example of a compound event, when environmental-related catastrophes overlap or occur in quick succession.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. “Nepal must hold its head high internationally and turn this into a matter of justice,” said Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Nepal Seeks Climate Compensation From China, US and India
Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s biggest emitters of greenhouse gases after deadly floods in the country killed more than a thousand people and left even more missing.
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Zahra Hirji @zhirji.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
BREAKING: The House Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a stopgap funding bill to fund the government through Dec. 11. Notably, the bill delays any action on the controversial WH proposal to overhaul federal science funding to allow political oversight of grants www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Congress Sends Funding Bill to Avert US Shutdown to Trump
Congress cleared funding legislation to avert an Oct. 1 government shutdown, sidestepping, at least temporarily, the partisan warfare that led to repeated disruptions over the last year.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What is that sound? It's the noise that of a million "what about" brains exploding. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Joel Pinckney @jpinckney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
New one today for @defector.com: in the wake of the most recent declaration of reading's demise, I was curious what booksellers, almost always ignored by the post-literate prognosticators, made of such claims. Here's what they told me:
defector.com
What Do Booksellers Make Of “The End Of Reading”? | Defector
If you haven’t yet encountered the cover story for the August issue of The Atlantic, I have some bad news to share: “The End of Reading Is Here.” It’s an intentionally provocative headline for a sligh...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
No nothing? Not anything? Everything is permitted?
A standing sign inside an old church, barely visible behind. The sign has a red circle with a red line through it, and that's it.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bluesky main character today is robot (h/t @anjalikdayal.bsky.social and @bgrueskin.bsky.social )
Two sequential Bluesky posts. 
Anjali Dayal: I DO NOT WANT TO TALK TO MORE ROBOTS I JUST CALLED TO ASK A QUESTION ABOUT MY UPCOMING DOCTORS APPOINTMENT WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING
Bill Grueskin: I'm texting UPS about a lost package, asked for a human agent and not a bot, was assured I'd get an actual person, and then this popped up
BG quoting text with UPS: "Hello, thank you for contacting UPS. My name is Tetrax, and I'm here to assist you today.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
One astonishing thing about modern life is that 1 in 4 people worldwide still don't have access to safely managed drinking water, while 1 in 3 of us flush our toilets with drinking water.
who.int
Drinking-water
WHO fact sheet on water: key facts, access to water, water and health
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Corporal von Fartburger @smurfburger.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NICE
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What's your favorite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only.) "Please don’t put your life in the hands "Of a Rock ‘n’ Roll band "Who’ll throw it all away.
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Liam Gallagher Oasis
Alt: Black and white gif of Oasis's Liam Gallagher wearing sunglasses in a record shop holds up a copy of Paul McCartney's album Red Rose Speedway, and turns to look at the camera.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Experts urge schools to keep teaching writing in the age of AI, not even because of its importance per se but because it’s essential to developing habits of mind: “Writing is a technology for thinking” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...
nytimes.com
What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)
Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I found the Overton Window. It's in Norwalk. I've always heard about it but didn't know about the free ice cream with a lobster roll dinner.
Overton's burger and seafood takeaway food shack menu. Two walk-up windows for ordering/pick-up, under a big sign with restaurant name and menu Irans. Norwalk, CT.
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Oh, and Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady, turns 65 today. Enjoy your afternoon.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🎸🎸🎸🥁 Beatlemania ended 60 years ago. So why are there more, better books about the #Beatles now than ever before? Including at no extra cost: a never-too-late dig at the Rolling Stones 🇬🇧⤵️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Beatles Books Keep Getting Better
After thousands of volumes and six decades of scrutiny, there should be nothing left to say about the Fab Four. Somehow, the opposite is happening.
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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Do you run a book club? Publish a newsletter? I have questions! I want to know everybody's best practices, most helpful resources, things you wish you'd known earlier, etc.
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Amanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
No emissions disclosures, no net-zero pledges, no sustainability reports: the AI giants are a black box when it comes to their climate impact. Does Wall Street mind? Not really. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
bloomberg.com
AI Giants Are Quiet on Climate in Sign of Post-ESG Wall Street
OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX have revealed little about their greenhouse gas emissions or sustainability plans. There was a time when that would have been unacceptable to many investors.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wish I saw this study when it pubbed for no reason other than I could write it up and reach out for comment to @nedbeauman.bsky.social , author of Venomous Lumpsucker, which you *really* need to read if you're someone who even partially tolerates my bluesky ramblings: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
nature.com
Limitations of carbon markets for biodiversity conservation - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Nature-based carbon projects are widely promoted as delivering both climate and biodiversity benefits. However, carbon accounting requirements can diverge from the needs of biodiversity conservation. ...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
AI is doing amazing things for garbage. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Garbage-Truck Margin Boost Shows the AI Profit Boom Has Begun
Corporate America’s adoption of artificial intelligence tools is paying off, in a major relief to investors who had questioned massive investments in the technology by a concentrated number of compani...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
😳 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Coffee Drinkers Pay $32 for a Single Cup and a Side of Luxury
A luxury chain setting up shops across Manhattan is betting customers from Los Angeles to Chicago will be willing to pay $32 for an 8-ounce cup of coffee.
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Todd Woody @toddwoody.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New: The US is enduring one of its worst wildfire seasons in years, with blazes scorching millions of acres. It’s part of a global pattern of hot, dry conditions that favor fires becoming more common with climate change. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Global Wildfire Surge Hits US, Propelled by Rising Temperatures
Blazes in the Western US and Europe point to a global shift: Climate change is making fire weather more extreme and more widespread.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
asked and answered
Opinion headline: Who Should Be Minnesota's Next Senator?Frances McDormand as policewoman Marge Gunderson, in uniform winter jacket, holding a handgun with two hands and pointing at someone offscreen. She looks surprised but firm.
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Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Kill the lawn. Kill it. Kiiiiillllll it.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The world reached 1,000 GW of solar installed in 2022, Bloomberg Green's story headline was "Clean Power Isn’t Reaching Those Who Need It Most" Is that claim still true at 3,000 GW? The chart below hides an interesting story. Thread below 🧵 My story: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🥵The powerful El Niño -- on top of seemingly accelerating global heating -- is raising the odds (now ~35%-40%) that early in 2027 we get our first-ever month with a global mean temperature abvoe 2°C. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
El Niño May Push Global Warming to 2C or Higher in the Short Term
There’s a 35% chance that the average temperature will hit 2C above pre-industrial levels for one month next year, projections show.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The things that pass for knowledge, I can't understand.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Rough month I expect for The Zombies and one of music history's best typos
Time of the Season - Mono Remastered
The Zombies
Odessey and Oracle
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John Smillie @johnsmillie42.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
www.ecoportal.net/uk/wind-turb... Opponents love the picture of the landfill filled with turbine blades, but that's not the primary outcome any more.
ecoportal.net
A wind turbine blade can run beyond 170 feet, and when it wears out a Tennessee company bakes the whole thing down to recover the clean glass fiber the industry once paid to bury
Picture a blade taller than a 15-storey building, curved and white, leaning against a sky it spent two decades slicing through.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Has anyone successfully removed their phone number from "US Speaks" text surveys? I would watch a 3-season, 8-episode limited series about how you did this.
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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
OTD, 2020. It will never get better than this: "How did that happen? This book shows us by dissecting his demagogic language with a particularly precise scalpel. In doing so, it deserves a place alongside George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” and Harry G. Frankfurt’s “On Bulls---.”
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Manohla Dargis @manohladargis.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
gift article 🎁 👏🎊🙌🍾🎉🥳 🍾🍻🎈🎆 U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/b...
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U.S. to Withdraw Subpoenas Issued to New York Times Journalists (Gift Article)
A federal judge raised questions about the government’s handling of the subpoenas, which The Times said were an attempt to intimidate the free press.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Latest on how not to get the parasite: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
What You Can Do to Avoid Getting the Diarrhea-Causing Parasite
A widening outbreak of a parasite that’s sickened thousands of Americans with severe diarrhea has spurred one of the country’s largest produce companies to prepare for a recall. It’s also left America...
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
🤣😂😅😆😄😃😀🙂🤨🙁😲😒😞😩🫠 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
An OpenAI “agent” discovered new vulnerabilities and hacked into start-up Hugging Face by itself, in one of the first public examples of [emphasis added:] a cyber attack by an AI system acting outside human control.
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 21/07/2026
www.wired.com/story/missis... this is very good reporting and also it bums me out so much that lots of kids aren't excited to read books these days, books saved my life as a kid
wired.com
Stop Saying Kids Can’t Read
Everyone is talking about the reading crisis. But inside the “Mississippi Miracle,” it’s all about comprehension.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Phenomenal investigation and storytelling into how T. Rex skeletons (sometimes of mysterious provenance) became sought-after toys by the super-rich costing them millions. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
bloomberg.com
Billionaires’ T. Rex Obsession Has Turned Fossils Into Red-Hot Drama
As the battle for dinosaur bones heightens, paleontologists, collectors and auction houses navigate a Wild West market.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
1️⃣) For energy consumers: Reduce efficiency 🏡 2️⃣) For energy producers: Increase efficiency 🛢️
The U.S. Is Pulling Back on Energy Efficiency Just as Prices Are Rising The Trump administration is undoing fuel-saving efforts even as war in Iran, data centers and heat waves are pushing up gasoline and electricity costs.Drillers are now so efficient they can expand production marginally without really trying. And that's exactly what they're expected to do this year.
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Coco Liu @cocojournalist.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The global climate technology sector logged its busiest first half on record for public listings and acquisitions, with 153 transactions announced during the first six months of 2026. That marks a 70% increase from a year ago. More details👇 for @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Climate Tech Sees Record-High Deals as Power Demand Fuels Market Appetite
The recovery in IPOs and acquisitions may help unlock fresh venture capital for the sector, experts say.
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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
James Earl Jones baseball monologue > Tom Cruise "football" monologue #worldcup www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBwh...
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James Earl Jones baseball speech - Field of Dreams
YouTube video by frstbse1
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