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I have not had much time to post new articles (long or short lately), but let us get the last full week of September off to a good start with a new edition of the Pook-Emu Bee.

1 | Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Victrix Pro BFG & Azeron Controllers (Michael Larabel for Phoronix. Sep. 20, 2026.)
I have questions here. First, why is that controller $269? Second, why does it look like a hand with six fingers? I can’t weigh in on the new Linux support until those threshold questions are answered.

2 | Jane Austen’s 8-Bit Adventure Switch Review (Game Slush Pile. Sep. 19, 2026.)
The review makes it sound uninspiring. But what if you tried playing it with the “hand” controller? (See above.)

3 | NYC judge fails to take bite out of crime after repeat offender chomps on cop (Tina Moore for the New York Post. Sep. 19, 2026.)
I understand that the pro-crime judge is reluctant to remand anyone to custody, but what if we compromised and all agreed to send him to the pound?

4 | Hyperlocal New York City publications are having a moment (Hannah Frishberg for Gothamist. Sep. 17, 2026.)
I added a few of these to my feed collection. We’ll see if there are any Pook-Emu Bee links to be had.

5 | Judge Strikes Down Controversial Rule Changes Benefitting Embattled Brooklyn Party Boss (The City Repoter (via The Haitian Times). Sep. 17, 2026.)
Call me a romantic but I’m not counting out the possibility that Frank Seddio still has some magic left (see link 9 in Pook-Emu Bee 08-27-26). There are some notable contextual omissions in this ostensibly straightforward news report, but I choose to stick with the Seddio jokes.

6 | NYC ‘animal lover’ accused of stealing beloved bodega cat furiously claims she was unfairly arrested (Georgett Roberts and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon for the New York Post. Sep. 16, 2026.)
Pro-tip: If your position is that you are just a cat lover who genuinely thought the cat was a stray, try to avoid repeatedly referring to the cat you claim you thought you were rescuing as the “f—ing cat.”

7 | AOC Blasts Patriots Owner Robert Kraft for ‘Censoring’ Macklemore from Criticizing Israel (Dylan Gwinn for the New York Post. Sep. 16, 2026.)
Strange. Here I thought the Congresswoman was a big fan of Israel-related boycotts.

8 | After Landmarks Review, Hotel Bossert Moves Ahead With Reno, Ritz-Carlton (Anna Bradley-Smith for Brownstoner. Sep. 16, 2026.)
It sounds like the new owners are working in good faith to maintain the landmark while getting it up and running again. I approve.

9 | Who Is feeding the sudden panic about AI? (Issues & Insights. Sep. 15, 2026.)
The big AI companies and their lobbyists (both of the witting and unwitting variety). I try to be a reality-based AI critic as I fight to keep the scrapers from crashing my sites (preventing stealing my stuff is nice but sometimes you have to focus on the practical wins). That leads us to a fitting final link…

10 | Daily News Stuff 20 September 2026 (Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony. Sep. 20, 2026.)
The replies to excerpts from AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable made me laugh and reminded me of how my friend was able to make himself look smart in front of friends and colleagues by sharing my 2021 election wisdom that, notwithstanding the polls, there was in fact no scenario wherein Andrew Yang would become Mayor of New York City.

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Today is June 1. It is also Monday. With that, I present our first-ever collection of June Pook-Emu Bee links after a brief photography interlude.

Photograph of the Staten Island Ferry behind a sail boat in the East River, taken from Valentino Pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
I took this photo on Sunday, May 31, 2026, from Valentino Pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The orange boat in the background is the iconic Staten Island Ferry (en route to Staten Island from Manhattan).

1. Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs (Carly Page for The Register. May 30, 2026.)

HT to and quote from Ambient Irony: “Wikipedia editors are threatening a global strike where they’ll stop airbrushing history.” I chuckled.

2. Mamdani wants to remove former Mayor Ed Koch’s name from iconic NYC bridge — but critics say hands off ( Jordan Donegan and Carl Campanile for the New York Post. June 1, 2026.)

Let’s not. But beyond my incisive take, you can enjoy some of my photographs and writing about the Queensboro Bridge.

3. Nothing has changed on Instagram; Meta has always read your DMs (Rodrigo Ghedin. May 11, 2026.)

I am 100% confident that Meta has never read my Instagram DMs.

4. The RAMageddon hits home (Rob Fahey for Games Industry.biz. May 29, 2026.)

I wasn’t planning to buy a Steam Deck, so this “hits home” for me less than the dramatic spike in RAM and SSD prices. (Note: I think Steam Deck is cool, I just don’t have a use-case for it that is commensurate to the pre-“RAMageddon” price, much less the current price.) But the Steam Deck price spike is one of the purest examples of the effects of RAMageddon.

5. “You Have 30 Seconds”: United Pilot’s FBI Warning Over Passenger’s Wi-Fi Hotspot Name (Luke Diaz for Simple Flying. May 26, 2026.)

A United Airlines pilot took the situation into their own hands earlier this month after a passenger activated a hotspot with a politically provocative network name. The hotspot name onboard read ‘Free Palestine, F Zionists,’ according to an account of the event posted on Reddit.

“Starting in the 1960s, Palestinian militant groups made commercial aviation one of their primary targets, carrying out a series of hijackings over the decades.” See one historic example I covered on NLJ.

6. Keep messing with the clocks (Kitten. May 30, 2026.)

Permanent DST polls well with the public because people are familiar with early sunsets but not with late sunrises, and they aren’t smart enough to realize you have to pick one. They don’t actually like DST; they like summer. Setting the clocks forward all year long doesn’t give you an endless summer, just miserably dark winter mornings. People haven’t thought it through and would hate it in practice.

Seconded.

7. 17Studio and the Degradation of the Nintendo eShop (Game Slush Pile. May 31, 2026.)

Do people actually buy these AI slop games? That would be bleaker than the fact they exist.