Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 02-24-26

Welcome to the first edition of the Pook-Emu Bee, where I will publish interesting links (maybe daily!) collected from my feed collection (or unused newsletter link backlog). I usually include 21 links from around the web (with comments) in each issue of my weekly newsletter, The Newsletter Leaf Journal. The Pook-Emu Bee will feature a more modest link selection for daily perusal. Some Pook-Emu Bee links may appear in the Newsletter, but I will try to feature links that I am not planning to use there.

1. Firefox 148.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes (Mozilla. February 24, 2026.)

I previously took the position that Mozilla should make it easy for people who use Firefox to disable AI features (or anti-features, depending on your perspective). It looks like they heeded my call (can I take credit?) with the release of Firefox 148. I need to make sure my preferences overrides (I use Arkenfox btw) are up to date.

1. How Figs pivoted its Lindsey Vonn Winter Olympics campaign (Alyssa Meyers for Marketing Brew. February 24, 2026.)

I only know what figs are because my doctor friend wears them. While I usually avoid advertising campaigns instead of following them, this Figs-Lindsey Vonn collaboration made the best of a terrible circumstance (fingers crossed for as full a recovery as possible for Ms. Vonn).

1. Paul Pierce calls LeBron James the ‘pioneer’ of lost loyalty in NBA (Bjorn Del B. Deade for Basketball Network. February 24, 2026.)

I had always been of the opinion that LeBron James’ decision to take his talents to south beach along with Chris Bosh to team up with Dwyane Wade was a paradigm shift moment in the NBA. I see no less than Hall of Famer and 2008 NBA Finals MVP Paul Pierce concurs. Of course, left un-mentioned is that the “Heatles” came together after the “Boston Three-Party,” which was formed when Mr. Pierce’s Celtics completed trades for Ray Allen and Kevin Garnett in 2007, and went from 24-58 in 2006-07 to 66-16 and the Championship in 2007-08. Let no one think I mean that as a slight though, for I was a Celtics fan.

1. Wild video shows rare ‘thundersnow’ lightning strike World Trade Center (Patrick Reilly for the New York Post. February 23, 2026.)

I was awake when the “thundersnow” came and caught two lighting flashes followed by thunder. But I do not have a view of the Freedom Tower, so it was neat to see the photos in this New York Post report.

1. This app alerts you when it detects Meta camera glasses nearby (Rodrigo Ghedin. February 24, 2026)

I personally call those ridiculous things Facebook Glasses.

1. Particle’s AI news app listens to podcasts for interesting clips so you you don’t have to (Sarah Perez for Tech Crunch. February 23, 2026)

I’m not really a podcast man but if the podcasts sound like the Particle CEO’s pitch for the app, maybe listeners need something to diagram the content:

‘We’ve done that basically for any news story — if there is a podcast that is talking about it, or relevant at all, we’ve got all those clips,’ Particle CEO Sara Beykpour, previously the Senior Director of Product Management at Twitter, told TechCrunch. ‘It’s a really cool way, when you’re reading a story or learning about a story, to get a breath of what are people saying about this? What’s the commentary?’

1. German police launch investigation against pensioner for calling Chancellor Merz ‘Pinocchio’ online (Chris Gattringer for Brussels Signal. February 23, 2026)

Instead of stating the obvious I’ll note that there’s a quaint literary sensibility to just calling a politician Pinocchio.