Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-27-26

I am publishing today’s Pook-Emu Bee links a bit later than I had hoped due to having had a little bit more work on my recent assignment, but I now complete a second perfect week before our Saturday break for The Newsletter Leaf Jorurnal.

1. The next frontier in sports betting: the past (Molly Liebergall for Morning Brew. March 27, 2026.)

I give the big tech and big AI companies plenty of grief in these pages. But I submit for the record that big gambling is worse.

1. Massive 40-foot whale carcass washes up on NYC beach (Zoe Hussain for the New York Post. March 26, 2026.)

Poor whale. Despite being a life-long resident of New York City, I have never been to a Queens beach.

1. Wikipedia has banned AI-generated articles (Lawrence Bonk for Engadget. March 26, 2026.)

Wikipedia has plenty of non-AI problems, so this would seem to be a step in the right direction of not adding AI problems. With that being said, I Mexico Wikipedia’s decision to ban AI wholesale strikes me as the better approach than English Wikipedia’s qualified ban.

1. A few squirrels (Daniel N. March 27, 2026)

These terrific squirrel photos remind me that I have my own squirrel photo that I need to publish. In the meantime, enjoy my post on a squirrel kiss.

1. Shaw on when Kobe refused to play the 4th QTR after scoring 62 in a 3rd (Bruno Feliks for Basketball Network. March 14, 2026.)

I discussed the game in question in my article about my memories of Kobe Bryant’s 81-point performance a few weeks later.

1. Louisville to pay $800K after Christian photographer beats law forcing her to shoot same-sex weddings (Rachel del Guidice for Fox5 DC. March 26, 2026.)

Good. But I will note for Louisville taxpayers that $800,000 is on top of the time and money the local government of Louisville spent on this inane, doomed, legal project.

1. Jury Finds Meta and Google Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial (Lucas Nolan for Breitbart. March 25, 2026.)

While I am no fan of Meta or Google (more of a non-fan of the former than the latter), I had some questions about the logic accounts of the plaintiff and her mother when I read about them a couple of months ago. But let that be an article topic for another day.