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  "description": "After bouncing back from missing Tuesday with daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, we make it two days in a row with your daily collection of links for May 7, 2026.\n\n1. Mamdani to announce free 2026 World Cup fan events across NYC (Mary Frost for Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 27, 2026.)\n\nDeputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su said the World Cup is an opportunity to celebrate all of the city’s diverse cultures and people. 'In the past, host cities have been criticized for failing to ensure […]",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-07T16:46:54.000Z",
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    "Pook-Emu Bee links",
    "Mamdani to announce free 2026 World Cup fan events across NYC",
    "Lasers, hawks and even guns haven’t solved the UK’s pigeon problem. There is a better way",
    "Help pigeons in need",
    "Warren Buffett on Sports Betting: ‘It’s a Tax on Stupidity’",
    "How the Portland Fire marketers created content without players",
    "Beijing Frames the Trump Visit",
    "The Partisan Asymmetry In Callais",
    "REVEALED: EU Planning Forceful Merging of BlueSky with X",
    "The NBA lottery reform is good, actually",
    "Oscars: Film Academy Cracks Down on AI, Opens Up International and Acting Categories",
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  "textContent": "After bouncing back from missing Tuesday with daily Pook-Emu Bee links yesterday, we make it two days in a row with your daily collection of links for May 7, 2026.\n\n1. Mamdani to announce free 2026 World Cup fan events across NYC (Mary Frost for Brooklyn Daily Eagle. April 27, 2026.)\n\n> Deputy Mayor for Economic Justice Julie Su said the World Cup is an opportunity to celebrate all of the city’s diverse cultures and people. ‘In the past, host cities have been criticized for failing to ensure their own workers and residents benefit and get to participate in the opportunities this global game presents,’ she said, calling Mamdani’s approach ‘a new model.’\n\nNew York City is not a “host city.” There will no World Cup matches being played in New York City.\n\n2. Lasers, hawks and even guns haven’t solved the UK’s pigeon problem. There is a better way (Sydney Lobe for The Guardian. May 4, 2026.)\n\nThere is a better way. Stop being hysterical. Help pigeons in need.\n\n3. Warren Buffett on Sports Betting: ‘It’s a Tax on Stupidity’ (Dylan Gwinn for Breitbart. May 6, 2026.)\n\nI have never been one to wait at the base of the mountain for Warren Buffett to appear with a tablet, but he’s certainly not wrong here.\n\n4. How the Portland Fire marketers created content without players (Alyssa Meyers for Marketing Brew. May 6, 2026.)\n\nThey have their work cut out for them when the team with no players is called the “Fire.” Are we mere years away from a Portland Fire/Indiana Fever final? The original WNBA teams had great names. New York Liberty, Houston Comets, Phoenix Mercury,  _etc._ But after, even shortly after like the Portland Fire, they lost the [Los Angeles] Sparks.\n\n5. Beijing Frames the Trump Visit (David Bandurski for China Media Project. October 28, 2025.)\n\nCameras have an tend to love President Trump so China should not have difficulty framing the visit, assuming it is not scuttled by one geopolitical circumstance or another. But I would recommend that Chinese officials ensure that the Mao and Xi frames always have a place of honor, prudence and all.\n\n6. The Partisan Asymmetry In Callais (Josh Blackman for Reason. May 4, 2026.)\n\nAsymmetrical no more.\n\n7. REVEALED: EU Planning Forceful Merging of BlueSky with X (Peter Caddle for Gript. May 1, 2026.)\n\nThe extent to which this is an actual plan rather than one policy document is perhaps overstated by the headline, but I think X has enough moderation failures involving bots and grifters without taking on Bluesky’s considerable baggage.\n\n8. The NBA lottery reform is good, actually (Mike Shearer at Basketball Poetry. May 1, 2026.)\n\nIt seems alright but I suspect tanking will still be an “issue,” especially in years where there exists the perception that there are 3-4 elite, top-pick caliber prospects.\n\n9. Oscars: Film Academy Cracks Down on AI, Opens Up International and Acting Categories (Scott Feinberg for The Hollywood Reporter. May 1, 2026.)\n\n> The organization’s board of governors decreed that the only sorts of performances that will be eligible for acting Oscars are those credited in a film’s legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent. (This appears to address questions raised by the posthumous completion of a performance by Val Kilmer, who died in 2025, using AI.). Additionally, the Academy explicitly spelled out that only human-authored screenplays are eligible for writing Oscars.\n\nThe Oscars and 3D people movies are not my area, but these new rules sound good to me.\n\nYou can reply to this article from your own site by sending a Webmention.",
  "title": "Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-07-26",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-07T19:50:49.000Z"
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