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Daily Pook-Emu Bee links ceased being daily for the last week and change, but perhaps it is back with two straight editions to start the new week.

1 | Calibre 9.15 E-Book Manager Introduces “Create Your Own Adventure” Writing Game (Marcus Nestor for 9 To 5 Linux. Sep. 28, 2026.)
While I disable (or don’t enable) AI functionality in Calibre, I opined last year that some of the integrations were relatively inoffensive and in line with Calibre’s purpose. I’d say I fear Calibre is losing the plot (get it!?) with this one. However, it is not enabled by default and the new release includes some interesting normal features, so as long as the plot is lost on the side…

2 | NYC refuses to remove massive hornets’ nest from Queens tree, tells terrified residents to foot the bill (Rich Calder for the New York Post. Sep. 19, 2026.)
If (heaven forbid) this situation goes sideways after the NYC Parks Department both refused to step in and warned that it would block any efforts by the residents to remedy, NYC (i.e., taxpayers) will most certainly foot the bill.

3 | Ancient bronze bracelets found in Uzbekistan (The History Blog. Sep. 16, 2026.)
You never know what you’ll dig up in your yard in Uzbekistan.

4 | Three Patrons, Three Clients: The Mecca Alliance No One Owns (Ahmed Saber Abbas for War on the Rocks. Sep. 15, 2026.)
If only Saudi Arabia had some alternative proposal in front of it.

5 | Nearly one third of college-age ‘BORG’ drinkers report blacking out: New study (W.B. Kagan for EurekAlert! Sep. 15, 2026.)
This ends with a suggestion for parents to discuss with their college-age students “whether to attend a BORG event, and if one does attend, whether to bring a BORG beverage and how much (if any alcohol to put in the beverage.” That’s great but let’s try cutting this off at “event” and making the answer “no.”

6 | Holdout Lindsay Clancy Juror Breaks Silence, Says “Activists” Wanted “Not Guilty” on Day 1 (Steven Ertelt for Life Site. Sep. 16, 2026.)
He shouldn’t have had to break silence, but now that he has been left with no choice, I tip my hat to Mr. Michael P. Desronvil for having the courage to do the right thing.

7 | Scientists Create a New Form of Ice at More Than 2,000 °C (Michelle Starr for Science Alert. Sep. 9, 2026.)
I don’t know. Our current ice works well enough. The scientists should focus on something more practical.

8 | The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Rawdawg (Lauren Peck for Austin Chronicle. Nov. 27, 2024.)
That this running club was obnoxious enough to be cracked down on in Austin sounds like an accomplishment (and well-deserved as someone who finds our less noisy running clubs here in New York City annoying enough as is).

9 | I saw the movie that Warner tried to delete: ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ (Bryan Preston for Fox Business. Sep. 12, 2026.)
While my 16+ year streak of not being in a movie theater continues, this does sound like a fun movie and one that was well-worth saving.

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I have another busy “work” day ahead of me, but I won’t let that come between you and today’s Pook-Emu Bee daily links collection.

1. yokohama (Kat at Our Adventures in Japan. March 25, 2026.)

Spring hasn’t fully spring in Yokohama, but we can see in the pretty photographs that it is in the progress of springing.

2. Chuwi responds to CPU fraud, does not replace all affected models (Hannes Brecher for Notebook Check. March 24, 2026.)

You can count on the company that not only lied about the CPU in its laptops, but also tried to obfuscate the lie, to tell you the truth about how many models were affected.

3. Could One State AG End 18,000 Alien Habeas Suits? (Andrew R. Arthur for Center for Immigration Studies. March 25, 2026.)

I hadn’t familiarized myself with this provision of the Laken Riley Act but I have been forced to familiarize myself with the habeas issue at issue in the article (that is not “this week’s” assignment, however).

4. How Dare Trump ‘Politicize’ Illegal Who Thrill Killed Loyola College Student (Beege Welborn for Hot Air. March 24, 2026.)

Here I learned that the Venezuelan criminal alien who brutally murdered an 18-year old young woman in Chicago had his arraignment postponed due to his tuberculosis. But of course.

5. NYPD Still Slapping Street Vendors With Criminal Charges Despite Council Law Requiring Civil Charges (Gwynne Hogan for The City. March 20, 2026.)

Unfortunately, not on the Brooklyn Bridge. I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge on a Sunday afternoon a couple of weeks ago. The vendors are back after a refreshing respite during part of the Adams Administration. Not quite “better than ever” but close. We can only hope there’s enough “turf” in Manhattan for more of the vendors to stay in-island (fortunately the vendors generally do not seem drawn to the areas of Brooklyn I frequent).

6. Former NBA player exposes the toxic delusion of the youth basketball circuit (Mislav Puljiz for Basketball Network. March 23, 2026.)

This article bothered me. I saw the featured image and asked myself “is that Stromile Swift?” No. Tyrus Thomas. Shame on me. I even watched him at LSU and remember when he was drafted! In any event, he offers some words of wisdom to parents who think the son they paid to get on an AAU team is on a glide-path to NBA (or, now, NCAA) riches: “[I]f your child is good enough to be on the elite circuit, they are going to pay for them. And they gonna pay to bring you too. So, if you have to pay, your child not good enough.”