Eric Roston

I learned recently that the Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha Frappuccino wasn't invented until like August or September.

😂

Everyone should wish everyone a happy birthday every day as a morning greeting.

Still from Star Trek TOS episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield." Two men dressed in white turtlenecks look off-camera right. Both faces pained half-black and half-white. Foreground man, left, has black on right side of his face, white on left side. Man behind him the reverse.

Animated Superman puts his hand kindly on the shoulder of Bizarro, his zombie-looking, muted color evil twin.

Like so many evil twins, locked in conflict for eternity.

[Searches social medias to see if the AI dance videos of BW doing the Cronkite Slide have been generated yet.]

Odds Are Rising That Another Winter Storm Will Pummel US East Next Week The odds that another winter storm will pummel the US East Coast early next week are rising, putting power grids to the test again as the region recovers from a larger system that upended travel and t...

Absolutely not. Sorry, but no. I just can't, okay????

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

what is 14 inches in celsius

FEMA Halts Terminations as Massive Storm About to Hit US The Federal Emergency Management Agency has halted planned terminations of some temporary disaster relief workers just as a major winter storm moves across the country, according to people familiar wi...

New with @bloomberg.com's Gregory Korte: FEMA Halts Terminations as Massive Storm About to Hit US

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I might even credit George Harrison, in a song on Let It Be, on a homophonic technicality.

It debuts in The Selfish Gene, 10y earlier🤯

An interesting thing about the future that I never anticipated is the amount of time I'd spend looping people in. The 2020s are an email rodeo.

Read Mark Carney's full speech on middle powers navigating a rapidly changing world | CBC News Read the full text of Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech about a shakeup of the global order and role of middle powers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Hey here's a cool opportunity to read/watch Canadian PM Mark Carney's Davos speech before it's printed in history textbooks forever:
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Penn Calls Government’s Demand for Lists of Jewish Staff ‘Disconcerting’

What bad could ever come from governments requiring universities to turn over lists of Jewish people
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

An "Infinite Pancakes of America" would have stalled, perhaps forestalled, the tyranny of the IPA 🍻

Infinite Pancakes, Anyone?

🤤 mmmm cut pancakes into infinite pancakes
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/s...

The Climate-Disaster Scores That Could Make or Break Your Home Sale Millions of home sellers and buyers are caught in the crossfire over how to rate a home’s exposure.

The Climate-Disaster Scores That Could Make or Break Your Home Sale: WSJ
www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Chart with a blue line snaking from the lower left to upper right. The light-blue uncertainty band around the line slims as it goes up. Left axis is Heat Content (10^22 joules). X-axis is year, beginning around 1950. Title: 0-2000m Global Ocean Heat Content Pentadal average through 2021-2025 Source: NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI Ocean Climate Laboratory Updated from Levitus et al 2012

Soviet Monument to the Conquerors of Space. A silver monument with a broad base sweeps up to the right as it narrows to a tiny point at the tip. Set against a blue sky with wispy clouds.

They should rename The Monument to the Conquerors of Space The Monument to the Conquerors of Ocean Heat Content

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

A lot of my day is spent toggling back and forth between two voices in my head, somebody I know who never uses exclamation marks in email and text, and somebody who only punctuates with exclamation marks

is that good

a little girl is sitting at a table with her arms outstretched and laughing Alt: A girl in a striped green and white shirt sliding off a high-top chair at a kitchen island laughing hysterically

[spits out tea]

Tweet from Robinson Meyer: How to count to 100 like a journalist: A, both, several, five, half a dozen, more than half a dozen, nearly 10, nearly a dozen, a dozen, more than a dozen, nearly two dozen, a score, nearly two dozen (again), dozens, scores, 50, more than 50, more than 75, nearly a hundred, 100. 9:56 PM • Apr 29, 2020

Reproducing here one of the most important and damning works of media criticism I've ever come across, as I, in another window, demonstrate that it's true it's all true your honor
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social

Steak Is Expensive, and Now It Rules the Food Pyramid New dietary guidelines raise affordability concerns, but some US officials say customers have choices.

My take on the new Dietary Guidelines: Who can afford them? with steak prices up 18% YoY, it’s quite a choice for a ribeye to figure so prominently in the pyramid. (USDA, for its part, says it’s all very affordable. HHS was like, no, it’s not affordable yet.)

www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A chart back to 1970 showing the global average temperate rise, which matches the warming effects of CO₂, methane and other warming gases, until an anomalous heat spike after 2023.

Heat and greenhouse gas pollution rise in lock-step — until 2023, when the thermostat goes bonkers.

🎁🔗 The 2025 climate numbers are in.
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

EPA Will No Longer Consider Value of Human Health Benefits in Setting Air Pollution Rules The agency is abandoning a longstanding policy to calculate the monetary savings in avoided deaths and disease from cutting certain pollutants.

The EPA will no longer calculate the monetary value of saving human lives, among other health impacts, when setting new clean air rules. It quietly debuted this new approach in a version of a new final rule for power plant emissions published online last week.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

Scoop: The EPA will no longer estimate the lives saved by reducing air pollution when writing clean-air regulations, according to documents reviewed by @nytimes.com.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Hessy Levinsons Taft, Jewish Baby on Cover of Nazi Magazine, Dies at 91

A+ story
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

oh man buttons

Excellent. However, I'm not able to share mine becuse this is Information Retrieval, not Information Dispersal.