I have been watching all of the top division bouts at the 2026 Aki Basho (September Grand Sumo Tournament). One of the highlight bouts on day 4 featured Yokozuna Onosato vs Takayasu. Takayasu delivered a brutal hit at the Tachiai, forcing the Yokozuna back. Onosato backpedaled, and circling away, tried to guide Takayasu out of the ring. He very nearly succeeded, but Takayasu gracefully twirled one leg, staying in. Unfortunately for Yokozuna Onosato, he ended up twirling as well, but without the same success as the light-footed Takayasu. YouTube user Wegwezen decided to set the slow-motion highlights to music, and I must say that I fully approve of his music selection. Consider this video a “must watch.”
Tag: sumo
2026 Aki Basho Sumo Predictions
Before July’s Nagoya Basho (July grand sumo tournament), I predicted which wrestlers I thought would reach 10 wins. Now, one tournament wiser, I will predict the entire field for the September 2026 Aki Basho (running from September 13-27, 2026). To see predictions from more learned sumo observers, see Tim Edwards’ predictions at Sumo Stomp and the Fantasy Basho predictions. Note that I am assuming for purposes of my predictions that all wrestlers who are slated to compete on day one will compete all 15 days.
- 12-3: O1e Kirishima
- 11-4: Y1e Onosato
- 10-5: O2e Aonishki, M6w Ichiyamamoto, M8e Takerufuji, M8w Hiradoumi, M16e Toshinofuji
- 9-6: S1e Atamifuji, M10e Oho, M11w Shodai, M12w Asahakuryu, M15e Asasuiryu
- 8-7: O1w Kotozakura, K1e Hakunofuji, M1w Kotoeiho, M2e Takayasu, M2w Yoshinofuji, M4w Fujiryoga, M13e Asakoryu
- 7-8: K1w Daieisho, M1e Kotoshoho, M4e Takanosho, M7e Fujiseiun, M13w Abi
- 6-9: S1w Fujinokawa, M3e Gonoyama, M6e Asanoyama, M9e Ura, M9w Shishi, M10w Kinbozan, M11e Wakamotoharu, M14e Tobizaru, M15w Tokihayate
- 5-10: M3w Churanoumi, M5e Roga, M5w Oshoma, M7w Nishikifuji, M14w Chiyoshoma, M17e Shonannoumi
I made my picks conservatively, generally avoiding picking extreme records for this tournament. To be sure, I am sure there will be some 3-12/4-13 records on the low-end and I would not be surprised to see one of the wrestlers in my 10+ win group run up a 13-2 record (most likely Kirishima, Onosato, or Aonishki, health permitting on the latter two). Based on other picks I have seen, I will mark M6w Ichiyamamoto and M8w Hiradoumi as my “surprise” picks for this basho.
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-01-26
For the first time in about a week (if not a little more), I do not have a tight work deadline. Thus, I present you with a relatively leisurely edition of the Pook-Emu Bee to kick off September.
1 | Expression After Hit By Car (Ojai Raptor Center (via Owl’s in Towels). Oct. 11, 2024.)
That raptor has seen more things than the original raptors.
2 | GrapheneOS might skip the Pixel 11 series over the lack of MTE hardware security support (Paul for AlternativeTo. Sep. 1, 2026.)
Pixels are going in the wrong direction, but my (LineageOS-powered) 3a XL is going stron[-ish].
3 | Tether Brings the Apple Continuity Experience to Linux (Sourav Rudra for It’s FOSS. Aug. 31, 2026.)
I don’t run iOS (see above), but this looks like a neat project for Linux/iOS people. I have now done my PSA duty for the week.
4 | “A Cute Little LibGen Babysitter”: Music Publishers Sue Anthropic Founders Over Torrenting Spree (Ernesto Van der Sar for Torrent Freak. Sep. 1, 2026.)
I’m somehow not surprised that the Claude leadership described their thoughts about torrenting pirated works contemporaneously in the style of teenage girls keeping a diary.
5 | The 3DO Is Getting A New DOOM-Esque Shooter Featuring The Voice Of Silent Hill’s Lisa Garland (Sep. 1, 2026.)
Having conquered ONScripter-EN, should I make my next visual novel for 3DO?
6 | Dem AG urges Jewish voters to put humanity above ‘safety and security’ of own people (Alec Schemmel for Fox News. Sep. 1, 2026.)
I could state the obvious here. But instead I will offer a more novel take. How in the world did a woman with these political instincts win state-wide office in one of the biggest states in the union?
7 | I built my own streaming box, and it beats every smart TV I’ve owned (Anurag Singh for XDA. Aug. 31, 2026.)
I just use a mini PC running Fedora with KDE Plasma. With that being said, I should really test out LineageOS with Waydroid on my TV.
8 | Homan Denies Yiannopoulos Deported Quickly to Bypass ICE Detention (Pam Key for Breitbart. Aug. 31, 2026.)
I know this is going to be hard for a reporter at CNN to understand, so we can go slowly. Detention occurs in the course of removal proceedings or in the period after an alien has been ordered removed but has not for one reason or another been removed. Mr. Yiannopoulous had already been ordered removed in absentia, apparently did not seek to reopen his removal proceedings, and did not otherwise try to obstruct his removal to the United Kingdom, which apparently did not refuse to accept the return of its national (between the return of Prince Harry and Mr. Yiannopoulous, they are having a rough stretch). Thus, Mr. Yiannopoulous was removed expeditiously after DHS performed a social media touchdown dance instead of being detained pending nothing whatsoever. With my “Ted Talk” completed, I will note with some surprise that the new position of CNN is “the prompt execution of removal orders is special treatment.”
9 | Aki 2026 Banuzke Analysis (Fantasy Basho. Sep. 1, 2026.)
I’m thinking about putting together some detained predictions for the upcoming Aki Banuzke. Not fantasy though. Real, ice-cold predictions.
Fujinokawa First Kyoto-Born Rikishi to Reach Sekiwake in 198 Years
According to the JSA, Fujinokawa becomes the first wrestler from Kyoto Prefecture to reach sekiwake in 198 years, following in the footsteps of Hiodoshi, who made it for the October tournament in 1828.
The 2026 Aki banzuke (September Grand Sumo tournament) were released yesterday. 21-year-old Fujinokawa, one of the smallest wrestlers in the top-division, was expected to make his san’yaku debut after finishing 8-7 at maegashira-1 in July. The more burning question was whether he would make his san’yaku debut at Komosubi or the higher Sekiwake rank. Sekiwake is is for Fujinokawa. In makin. The Yomiuri Shimbun reported that Fujinokawa is the first Kyoto-born sumo wrestler to make the san’yaku ranks in 198(!?) years, with the most recent prior to 2026 being Hiodoshi, he made it for the 1828 October tournament. Fujinokawa has been on a history-making run of late. Back in July he became the first wrestler in the post-war era to win his first four bouts against Yokozuna. Fujinokawa will have a tough slate at his new highest rank, but he has certainly been one of the most exciting (and historic) wrestlers of 2026 thus far.
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-14-26
Let us complete our perfect Pook-Emu Bee link week before our regularly scheduled day off for Newsletter Saturday.
1 | Sekiwake Wakatakakage Begins Rehabilitation After Narrowly Avoiding Leg Amputation in Emergency Surgery (Sumostats. July 29, 2026.)
Scary stuff. Hoping first for a safe and speedy recovery and second for him to quickly return to the lofty rank he achieved with his win in the May Basho once he is back in competition.
2 | Sixth Circuit Reverses Pretrial Release for Antifa Member Accused of ICE-Related Threats (Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy. August 14, 2026.)
Excellent. Quoting the opinion of the Court: “The Bail Reform Act focuses on the danger the defendant poses to ‘any other person and the community.’ The district court’s views on the Executive Branch’s immigration policy have no bearing on that inquiry….”
3 | Tankhouse to Raze Historic Boerum Hill Church After $28.25 Million Purchase (Anna Bradley Smith for Brownstoner. August 13, 2026.)
Funny timing. I was just sitting there thinking to myself “what we need is more ugly tall buildings designed by architects who read too many Superman comic books.” The news has a way of delivering.
4 | Preview: Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Dials The ‘Three Houses Formula’ Up To 11 (Jim Norman for Nintendo Life. August 13, 2026.)
It looks great. I dare say this is the first game to make not buying a Switch 2 sting. But I’m still not throwing down $500+ for a Switch 2 and Fortune’s Weave.
5 | Simon & Schuster Doubles Down on Notorious Writer Who Calls Jews ‘Ghouls,’ Will Publish Her New Novel: Writer Taunts Angry ‘Zionists’ Who Oppose Her Deal (Jon Levine for The Washington Free Beacon. August 13, 2026.)
I suppose the question is was she published by Simon & Schuster despite being an Islamist terrorist-supporting antisemite or because she is an Islamist terrrorist-supporting antisemite? I have my suspicions it’s the latter.
6 | I finally switched Linux desktops, and COSMIC is the one to blame (João Carrasqueira for XDA Developers. August 10, 2026.)
Cosmic looks interesting but I will stick with KDE for my daily driver needs for the foreseeable future (certainly at least until Cosmic is “stable”).
7 | Sweet Hamster Days Game Review (Bolts for Anime News Network. August 14, 2026.)
This is certainly a visual novel concept. A good concept? I didn’t say that. But it’s A concept.
2026 Nagoya Basho Unfortunate For Yokozuna
Excluding withdrawals, it was the first time in 35 years—since the July 1991 Nagoya Tournament with Asahifuji (8-7) and Hokutoumi (9-6)—that multiple Yokozuna failed to reach double-digit wins and finished with 9 wins or fewer
I learned from a Sumo Stats post that the 2026 Nagoya Basho marked the first grand sumo tournament since the July 1991 Nagoya Basho that multiple Yokozuna failed to reach 10 wins. Yokozuna Onosato finished 9-6 and Hoshoryu finished 7-7-1, which was unfortunate for my pre-tournament predictions.
Responding to Nagoya Basho Grades
Josh K (tachiai.org)M7E Kotoeiho 11-4 – Led the basho after 10 days before running into trouble, having adjusted to the higher level of competition at his highest ever rank. Despite being knocked out of the race, finished strong with wins against two impressive opponents to clinch a special prize. A
I read and enjoyed Josh K’s Some Highly Subjective Grades for Nagoya 2026, referring to the Nagoya Basho grand sumo tournament. He gave out four A’s to M7E Kotoeiho, S2W Aoniishki (A+ to the winner), S1E Atamijfuji, and OE Kirishima. I cannot disagree with any. The latter three competed in a playoff for the title, so I will focus on Kotoeiho, who was one win out of the playoff. He was wrestling at what was by far his career high rank at M7E after having made a title run from lower in the standings in May. I dare say he looks like the real deal and he seems to be physically stronger each successive tournament. I am curious to see where he is ranked for September after his 9-6 (MW17), 10-5 (M13E) and 11-4 (M7E) showings in his three tournaments in the top division this year (perhaps very close to his elder brother, who will fall from Sekiewake after a disappointing 6-9 result).
Evaluating My Nagoya Basho Predictions
Nicholas A. Ferrell (The Emu Café Social)In the spirit of putting my picks on record, I will pick the eight wrestlers who I think will reach double-digit wins [in the Nagoya Basho].
On July 11, I made my pre-Nagoya Basho predictions for the fourth grand sumo tournament of 2026. To be precise, I picked eight wrestlers to hit double digit wins. Now that the Nagoya Basho has been completed, let us see how I did…
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 07-13-26
It has been 12 days since I last published “daily” Pook-Emu Bee links due to some combination of being busy and not feeling my best. Both of those blockers exist today, but I have time to squeeze in a new edition.
1. You Can Now Play Virtua Racing On PC, Xbox 360, & Xbox One, Thanks To These Impressive New Emulators (Jack Yarwood for Time Extension. July 13, 2026.)
This is very neat. But Virtua Racing will always be a 32X cartridge to me.
2. July 2026 Grand Sumo Tournament Height-Weight Scatterplot (Mary Pat Campbell at Sumo Stats. July 1, 2026.)
Kazuma is one of the complete newbies, up from Juryo, and he’s the reason I had to extend the weight axis as he comes in at 205 kg (452 pounds) at the height of 185 cm (6’1”).
I thought Kazuma looked “big” when his first match came up. Then I saw his weight in the graphic. He’s a big boy.
3. For the Birds 20 (tugster: a waterblog. July 12, 2026.)
The tugboat blog takes a rare detour into avian photography.
4. Sen. Lindsey Graham Dead at 71 After ‘Sudden Illness’ (Olvia Rondeau for Breitbart. July 12, 2026.)
I was surprised and saddened when I read the news of Senator Graham’s passing. He was certainly one of the more interesting national politicians of the current century. Rest in peace.
5. Manny Pacquiao takes over Floyd Mayweather’s former Hollywood gym in brutal troll (Daniel Farr for the New York Post. July 11, 2026.)
This is all well and good but I’d rather they go back in time and fight in the 2010-11 area. Thank you.
6. You can now legally rip your Wii, GameCube, and Xbox games using a Blu-ray drive (Patrick O’Rourke for XDA. May 25, 2026.)
My Blue-Ray drive is supported… but it looks like a bit of a pain to install the firmware for my specific model on Linux.
7. Court files reveal disturbing details of child sex offender pardoned by Walz, Ellison before deportation (Jenna Gloeb for Alpha News. July 8, 2026.)
Disturbing? How disturbing are we talking?
He further claimed that the 10-year-old victim ‘should be arrested also because she was as much at fault.’
Quite.
8. Immune to DRAM crisis, the original PlayStation gets a massive 8x upgrade 30 years later (Rahim Amir Noorali for Notebook Check. July 9, 2026.)
This bears watching. At the rate AI is eating RAM, PSX running some kind of barely functional Linux may be our best hope down the line.
9. A Top Mamdani Official Tried to Meet with Iran (Adam Lehodey for City Journal. July 9, 2026.)
Having suffered the unfortunate ramifications of empowering provincial machine politicians to run the biggest city in the most powerful country on Earth, New York City upped the ante and now has provincial DSA members trying to conduct foreign policy. Here, at least, the State Department was there to affectionately say “no, lol.”
Nagoya Basho Predictions
My prediction for the 2026 Nagoya basho is a play-off between Hōshōryū and Atamifuji. If that comes to fruition, I think it’s a toss up between those two who takes it. Hōshōryū has more talent, in my opinion, but Atamifuji’s size causes him problems.
The Nagoya Basho grand sumo tournament is about to begin. I watched the first three tournaments of the year (January, March, and May) and am excited for the fourth. I would not yet deem myself competent to predict the records of all the participants like Tim Edwards does on his always-interesting Sumo Stomp! blog, but I suppose I can take a stab at predicting the top of the bracket. Mr. Edwards is predicting that seven wrestlers will reach double-digit wins (note: out of 15 bouts). In the first three tournaments of the year, the double-digit winners were 8, 8, and 7, although note that May was unusually injury-filled at the top of the bracket. In the spirit of putting my picks on record, I will pick the eight wrestlers who I think will reach double-digit wins.
First, I think both Yokozuna, Y1e Hōshōryū and Y1w Ōnosato, will reach at least 10 wins. Hōshōryū won 10 and 11 in January and March respectively before exiting May on day one with a hamstring injury. The typically-dominant Ōnosato won 10 while hurt in January before missing most of March and all of May.
From the Ozeki rank, I will offer the very lukewarm take that O1e Kirishima, who was champion in March and lost in a playoff in May, will make it four-for-four in double digit win tournaments in 2026.
Skipping down to Komosubi, I will predict that rising star K1e Yoshinofuji notches his second consecutive 10-win performance.
From the maegashira ranks, I will pick M3w Hakunofuji (coming off an 11-4 showing at M10 in May), M7w Takayasu (coming off an injury-shortened May showing), M13w Takerufuji (coming up from Juryo after a lengthy stint caused by injury, I agree with Mr. Edwards’ pick here), and M16w Asakoryu (went 9-6 at M15 and M12 in the first two tournaments before exiting May due to injury at 3-4 as M7).
I suppose I have to pick a winner too. Hōshōryū’s first of two yusho came at the 2023 Nagoya Basho and he is “overdue” for his first win at the top Yokozuna rank, so I will make the fairly “conventional” pick.
The full rankings are available from The Japan Times. Note that K1e Wakatakagae, who won the May tournament, is out with what was apparently a serious health condition.
Tatakiage Recruits in Sumo
hochiyama (Tachiai)This helped me, a 30-plus year sumo fan learn the concept of 'tatakiage / 叩き上げ'. A tatakiage is actually my favorite type of recruit, one who comes straight from middle school without any prior experience and is 'built from scratch' in the stable.
I watched all the matches in the first three grand sumo tournaments of 2026. Because I am following sumo this year, I looked for a couple of sumo blogs to add to my feed collection. One is Tachiai. On June 27, 2026, author Hochiyama covered the lower divisions (which I have not watched in 2026, I only saw the top division matches). In going through some up-and-coming prospects to watch, Hociyama shared a new term he learned: “tatakiage / 叩き上げ”. A tatakiage is a sumo recruit is is picked up out of middle school with no prior sumo experience and is developed by a sumo stable from scratch. In the case of Sachinofuji, we learn that he did attend high school as a correspondence student while dedicating himself to sumo. He is quite small (by sumo standards), but he sounds like someone to watch in the months and years ahead.
Aside: For readers who are not familiar with school in Japan, middle school (aka junior high school) runs through 9th grade there instead of 8th grade as in the United States. I discussed this in the context of translating Japanese media into English in Localizing Japanese High School Classes.
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-22-26
I was too busy yesterday to put together my daily Pook-Emu Bee links. I am busy today as well, but not too busy to take a link break.
Article Links
1. Six search engines worth trying now that Google isn’t really Google anymore (Amanda Siberlin for TechCrunch. May 21, 2026.)
This is a fair list but the article misses some nuance about the sources used by Startpage and Ecosia. I would add Mojeek to the selection.
2. Prosecutor charged for allegedly emailing self sealed Jack Smith Trump report veiled as cake recipes (Justin Dunleavy for Just the News. May 20, 2026.)
This scheme sounds like a lemon cake.
3. Jeff Bezos blasts Mamdani for casting billionaire Ken Griffin as a ‘villain’ in Hizzoner’s viral video filmed outside NYC penthouse (Carl Campanile and Anna Young for the New York Post. May 20, 2026.)
Mr. Bezos is not wrong. While he is on the subject of being right, can he right the wrong that is the Amazon chatbot on store pages? It evolved from Rufus to Alexa and I think it went from war crime to super war crime.
4. A before-and-after look at downtown Brooklyn’s new streetscape (Nate Berg for Fast Company. December 9, 2025.)
They did a nice job. But it is still Downtown Brooklyn. You can only do so much with all the traffic and ugly apartment and office towers.
5. Delivery Robots Take Over Chicago Sidewalks, Sparking Debate And A Petition To Hit ‘Pause’ (Alec Karam for Block Club Chicago. December 8, 2025.)
I’d welcome them to Brooklyn on the condition that they take over the bike lanes while keeping bikes off the sidewalk.
6. Pocketbook Era With Koreader (tc3. September 21, 2025.)
I have a Pocketbook Color and InkPad Color with Koreader. I have almost talked myself into buying an Era for the side buttons, but it would be a bit expensive in light of the fact that I already have two working Pocketbooks. But let it be said Pocketbook comes with my recommendation for anyone who does not “need” the Kindle or Kobo stores.
7. Firefox Should Let Users Disable Searching from the URL Bar (Terence Towles Canote at A Shroud of Thoughts. May 20, 2026.)
I enable the search box on Firefox and agree with this take. But with that being said, I have reasons for usually searching from the address bar.
Videos
Natsu Basho (May Grand Sumo Tournament) Day 10: Atamifuji vs Wakatakage (May 19, 2026.)
I won’t spoil the outcome other than saying it was a big lift.
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-20-26
We are having a second consecutive 90+ degree day here in Brooklyn today’s Pook-Emu Bee links are warmer than the outside temperatures.
Links
1. Google Search as you know it is over (Sarah Perez for TechCrunch. May 19, 2026.)
The AIfication of Google Search is concerning but NLJ has been hitting new highs in Google Search despite my disfavoring AI cawlers via .htaccess and robots, so we’ll see if it has any effect on my numbers.
2. Japanese indie gay bar management sim Sodomy Fatale will have you serving blood cocktails to flamboyant homosexual vampires (Dorde P for Automation West. May 19, 2026.)
That title is a little bit more attention-grabbing than the one Victor and I gave our visual novel back in January-February.
3. Don’t let the old man in (Robert Birming. May 19, 2026.)
Too late. I already let myself in.
4. Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages (Michael Larabel for Phoronix. May 19, 2026.)
I was never tempted to try Deepin. That was apparently the right call.
5. Firefox 151 brings PDF merging, local profile backup, document PiP, and enhanced privacy (Paul for AlternativeTo. May 19, 2026.)
Local profile backup and the PDF features sound useful.
6. Matter of I-B-M-S-, 29 I&N Dec. 628 (BIA 2026) (Board of Immigration Appeals. May 19, 2026.)
Interesting Board of Immigration Appeals decision on adjudicating change of venue requests. The logic should be applicable to other motions. I have a feeling the Immigration Judge who issued decision below will be (or already is) looking for new employment.
7. LaGuardia Airport adds hologram ‘concierge’ Bridget in latest spooky invasion of AI (Brooke Steinberg for the New York Post. May 19, 2026.)
That’s not a hologram. That’s an AI generated woman on a screen. For real holograms, go read my review of A Midsummer Day’s Resonance.
Video
Natso Basho Day 8: Tobizaru vs Ura
I have been following the Natsu Basho grand sumo tournament (I’m up to date on day 9 of 11). This fight between Tobizaru and Ura on day 8 was terrific. Watch and enjoy. I watched the January and March tournaments as well and recalled the announcers discussing how popular Ura is (it was also obvious from the crowd). Ura struggled in January and March (maybe injuries?), but I got he idea. He has been doing well in May and is consistently producing exciting matches. I understand why he’s popular. Add me to the Ura fan club.
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-31-26
They say that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. That is true in terms of whether (looks nice out), but not in terms of your regularly-scheduled Pook-Emu Bee links.
1. OneTaste ‘orgasm cult’ boss got surprising letters of support – including from CNN personality (Ben Kochman for the New York Post. March 31, 2026.)
Letter of support rom Richard Schiff, who is described as having been an actor on West Wing:
I do not know Nicole personally beyond brief interactions, but I have observed the deep respect and affection my wife holds for her
This raises all kinds of questions. I will not ask all those questions here. Instead I will ask: Then why didn’t your wife write the letter? But that too spawns questions. This is just a link post. Not a Q&A.
2. Life with AI causing human brain ‘fry’ (AFP. March 30, 2026.)
The rise of AI agents that tend to computer tasks on demand has put users in the position of managing smart, fast digital workers rather than having to grind through jobs themselves.
Add this to the ever-growing genre of articles ostensibly expressing concerns about AI while bragging about how amazing AI is.
3. Brooklyn Parents And Teachers Take Aim at AI in Schools (Megan McGlibney for BK Reader. March 27, 2026.)
I agree with the compaints but with the idea that the teachers, as represented by the teacher’s unions, are a broad impediment to the encroachment of AI or similar fads in public school classrooms (credit to the teachers quoted in this article, however).
4. How to turn off Calibre AI features (Joel Chrono. March 27, 2026.)
I covered the same topic a few months ago, but this advice may be more up-to-date.
5. Natsu Banzuke Musings (lksumo at Tachiai. March 22, 2026.)
Yesterday we looked back at The March Tournament in sumo. Now we look ahead to May.
6. Ex-NBA All-Star went from $30M career to Craigslist scam (Julian Eschenbach for Basketball Network. March 28, 2026.)
- Not to spoil, but Chris Gatling is a great answer to any “random one-time NBA All Star” trivia question.
- I’m amazed that Mr. Gatling played for the “Brooklyn” Nets back in the late 90s? I followed the NBA starting in Mr. Gatlin’s lone All Star season (1996-97) and had no idea my native Brooklyn had a team! (They were the New Jersey Nets back then.)
This day in NLJ history
7. EGM’s 2001 Sega Neptune April Fools Joke (Nicholas A. Ferrell at The New Leaf Journal. March 31, 2022.)
Many lists of olden video game April Fools jokes are likely written by people who did not read them first-hand (or by chatbots). Not this one, my friends. I was inspired to write about Electronic Gaming Monthly’s “Sega Neptune” in warehouse April Fools joke because I read it in Electronic Gaming Monthly at the time. Take that!
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-30-26
I have work today, but let us start the work week with a new set of Pook-Emu Bee links.
1. New Apple Silicon M4 & M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays (Sam McLeod. March 29, 2026.)
As a Linux man, I am blown away by how advanced Macs are. They’re already dropping support for legacy 4K.
2. ‘There Are a Lot of People in Dearborn Who Are Sad’: D emocratic Senate Hopeful Abdul El-Sayed Said He Needed To Stay Silent on Khamenei Killing Because Many of Michigan’s Muslim Voters ‘Are Sad’ (Alana Goodman for The Washington Free Beacon. March 30, 2026.)
I’d say that someone should have told him to not discuss the “strategy” out loud but it probably wouldn’t have done him any good.
3. Bushwick City Farm Padlocked Amid Migrant Crisis, Fines (Kennedy Sessions for The City. March 26, 2026.)
You have one job if you take over property to start a “community farm” and the property owner decides to tolerate you to avoid conflict: Don’t let it turn into a homeless camp. (The article notes this “farm” was in Bed Stuy, not Bushwick. Is Bushwick really “cooler” than Bed Stuy? Who knows.)
4. Major NYC hospital accused of using ‘market power’ to force higher insurance costs: feds (Peter Senzamici for the New York Post. March 26, 2026.)
Good thing I went to NYU in late 2018 when they took a good chunk of my colon (I had a huge TV in my room, very cool).
5. Sports Branding’s “Elite 8” Best Uniforms. (Brigitte Smith for Sports Branding. March 28, 2026.)
Arizona is clearly the best of the eight teams discussed in the article.
6. Haru Basho Storylines of Intrigue: Recap. (Josh K at Tachiai. March 29, 2026.)
A good recap of the recently completed March grand sumo tournament. I watched the top-level highlights on NHK World TV for all 15 days. Need to figure out how to see the lower-level matches for the summer tournament.
7. The 800 Million Shekel Mistake: Inside the Knesset’s Chaotic Late-Night Session (Eliana Fleming for JFEED. March 29, 2026.)
In Israel, accidentally voting to give your political opposition ~$250 million is a news story. Here, it’s a rounding error.