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  "description": "Today is April 1. It is both April Fools and the first day of Passover (happy Passover to any Jewish readers!). I do not have a new April Fools joke prepared, but maybe there will be something April Fools-related in this edition of Pook-Emu Bee,\n\nLinks from around the web\n\n1. Israel halts all defence purchases from ‘anti-Semitic’ France (Carl Deconinck for Brussels Signal. March 31, 2026.)\n\nFrance has finally achieved what it has been passively aggressively working toward since October 7, […]",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-01T16:01:43.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "ai",
    "antisemitism",
    "aprilFools",
    "france",
    "israel",
    "law",
    "newsletters",
    "openai",
    "pokémon",
    "ram",
    "shogi",
    "videoGameMagazines",
    "Pook-Emu Bee",
    "Israel halts all defence purchases from ‘anti-Semitic’ France",
    "Judge Leon Blocked The East Wing Ballroom Based on Offended Observer Standing",
    "legal decision which includes 18 exclamation points",
    "It May Be April Fool’s Day, But This Week’s Arcade Archives Release Is No Joke",
    "Running a Game on a PC with no System RAM",
    "Victor V. Gurbo",
    "The email list cleaning conundrum",
    "‘More AI Slop than AI Magic’: WSJ Reveals the Reason OpenAI Suddenly Shut Down Sora",
    "Expert Gamer’s 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank",
    "Webmention"
  ],
  "textContent": "Today is April 1. It is both April Fools and the first day of Passover (happy Passover to any Jewish readers!). I do not have a new April Fools joke prepared, but maybe there will be something April Fools-related in this edition of Pook-Emu Bee,\n\n## Links from around the web\n\n1. Israel halts all defence purchases from ‘anti-Semitic’ France (Carl Deconinck for Brussels Signal. March 31, 2026.)\n\nFrance has finally achieved what it has been passively aggressively working toward since October 7, 2023.\n\n2. Judge Leon Blocked The East Wing Ballroom Based on Offended Observer Standing (Josh Blackman for The Volokh Conspiracy. March 31, 2026.)\n\nThis is a good legal analysis but Mr. Blackman failed to ask whether the public can claim offended observer standing against a legal decision which includes 18 exclamation points.\n\n3. It May Be April Fool’s Day, But This Week’s Arcade Archives Release Is No Joke (Jack Yarwood for Time Extension. April 1, 2026.)\n\nShould I buy this and learn shogi? I’m tempted…\n\n4. Running a Game on a PC with no System RAM (Maya Posch for Hackaday. March 31, 2026.)\n\nNice preview of our game PC future after Sam Altman destroys all the RAM. Look, there are worse games out there than Snake. Years ago, my good friend Victor V. Gurbo had me play Life is Strange and Detroit: Become Human. I’d prefer Snake.\n\n5. The email list cleaning conundrum (Matthew Guay for Buttondown Blog. September 26, 2025.)\n\nI sit back and trust Buttondown to handle my email list clean-up.\n\n6. ‘More AI Slop than AI Magic’: WSJ Reveals the Reason OpenAI Suddenly Shut Down Sora (Lucas Nolan for Breitbart. March 30, 2026.)\n\nOn one hand I struggle to believe that the people at OpenAI are as stupid as they want us to believe. On the other hand, they do like the taste of their own Kool Aid, so I can’t rule out the possibility.\n\n## April Fools\n\n7. Expert Gamer’s 1999 Yoshi in Pokémon April Fools Prank (Nicholas A. Ferrell. April 1, 2021.)\n\nMy personal favorite video game April Fools joke from back in the day.\n\nYou can reply to this article from your own site by sending a Webmention.",
  "title": "Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-01-26"
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