@eroston.bsky.social
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
This week's Substack newsletter written by Prof Ariella Helfgott covers 10F Consortium's F08: From Energy Hegemony to Power Plurality
open.substack.com/pub/10fconso...
It brings some much needed clarity to the global moment we are in right now.
@eroston.bsky.social @tracyalloway.bsky.social
Bill's 100% right ⤵️ (as is @timharford.ft.com s FT column natch). Here's a link to @mariapopova.bsky.social s post on the Flexner that links to a pdf of the original (also in the FT piece):
www.themarginalian.org/2012/07/27/t...
True true true! Plus side: People who aren't familiar with even climate basics think it's pretty and riveting and ask questions about it.
Climate solutions don't have to be just about "don't do this bad thing". There are plenty of "do this good thing". In that list, right at the top, should be turning anything doesn't use electricity into something that uses electricity.
Climate models are good at projecting things that haven't happened yet.
AI is only good at things that have happened.
So what's the use? A lot!
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
sequel idea
Short war prediction sort of reminds me of the US Civil War, WWI, Korea, Soviets-Afghanistan, Iran-Iraq, US-Iraq, US-Afghanistan, Russia in Ukraine...
This is where the West ends.
Finland's border with Russia is NATO's newest Arctic fault-line. I went there in winter with @louiepalu.bsky.social to see what a nervous Europe can learn from a country that "for 109 years stared to the east without blinking an eye"
@opinion.bloomberg.com (1/6)
Blowing up civilian water sources: potential war crime
Mismanagement and corruption irreparably wrecking civilian water system: not a war crime
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finally, decades later, a nice footwear complement to Big Helmet Tank Guy
My latest: in an interview with @science.org, new NASA administrator Jared Isaacman promises a big uptick in lunar robotic missions, another potential Mars 2028 mission beyond comms, and continued support for earth science observation.
(Sorry astro and helio folks, time went fast.)
how come you get to write all the fun books
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No, you're thinking of Jimmy the Greek
I thought you were going more for a Mott the Hoople thing
and there's not even a product yet
There's no place like home.
I hadn't realized Picasso worked in blueberries
What I'm getting from this is that 93% of Americans have seen "Frozen" multiple times.
sigh, great. now I have to buy this book and enjoy it and recommend it to others, just on principle smdh
I used to think the true path to unhappiness was treating past choices as if they were still live decisions.
Now I think the truest path to unhappiness is pushing simultaneously for high oil prices and low gasoline prices.
Best subtweeter of the post-twitter era.
One of the John McPhee craft-retrospective essays in the NYer has a phenomenal example of this. I just tried to look for it, but can't remember which one.
So this post inspired my New Year's resolution to read 50 books this year.
That's about a book a week.
All these folks in the timeline fondly recalling your liberal arts education? No time like the present to continue it.
Everybody will want a piece of the rebate if it's televised.
muting all BREAKING and CONFIRMED from people who have never reported out a story in their lives.
