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  "description": "I had been sitting down to churn out today's edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now lunch, and lunch means it is time for links.\n\n1. Humpback Whales Sometimes Hold Their Mouths Open for No Clear Reason. Tourists Are Helping Scientists Understand the Rare Behavior (Margherita Bassi for Smithsonian Magazine. May 18, 2026.)\n\nMaybe they're just messing with everyone.\n\n2. What Trump’s psychedelics order means for healthcare (Maia Anderson for Healthcare Brew. May […]",
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    "Venezuela Extradites Nicolás Maduro’s Money Man Alex Saab After Biden Freed Him",
    "Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed during graduation speech about AI",
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  "textContent": "I had been sitting down to churn out today’s edition of Pook-Emu Bee links when work fell into my lap. But it is now lunch, and lunch means it is time for links.\n\n1. Humpback Whales Sometimes Hold Their Mouths Open for No Clear Reason. Tourists Are Helping Scientists Understand the Rare Behavior (Margherita Bassi for Smithsonian Magazine. May 18, 2026.)\n\nMaybe they’re just messing with everyone.\n\n2. What Trump’s psychedelics order means for healthcare (Maia Anderson for Healthcare Brew. May 18, 2026.)\n\nIn the long-run it will mean more people wandering around under the influence of psychedelics.\n\n3. Your blog needs more photos (Robert Birming. May 18, 2026.)\n\nThat’s not a problem on New Leaf Journal but  _this_ blog could indeed use more photos. I’m on it.\n\n4. Bloat (Herbert Lui. May 18, 2026.)\n\n> One tradeoff with being prolific is bloat.\n\nThis is not untrue. The best way to mitigate the trade-off is trying to ensure that every article or post is in some respect pleasant or useful.\n\n5. Turning an $80 Android tablet into a Debian Linux PC (Brad Linder for Liliputing. May 18, 2026.)\n\nI like the idea of bringing mainline Linux to Android tablets. Now let us try to expand it to tablets that do not fall into the “why did you buy that in the first place?” category. Signed me.\n\n6. Venezuela Extradites Nicolás Maduro’s Money Man Alex Saab After Biden Freed Him (Christian K. Caruzo for Breitbart. May 18, 2026.)\n\nSounds like a big shift in Caracas’ thinking. Did something happen? I feel like I missed something.\n\n7. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed during graduation speech about AI (Mirna Alsharif and Austin Mullen for NBC. May 17, 2026.)\n\n> ‘If you’d let me make this point, please —’ Schmidt said amid boos. ‘The point I’d like to make is choose a diversity of perspectives, including the perspective of the immigrant who has so often been the person who came to this country and made it better. America is at its best when we are the country that ambitious people want to come to. Let us not lose that.’\n\nDid the chatbot tell him to try to use immigration policy as a shiny object when his AI lecturing was poorly received?\n\n8. A first-timer’s observations about Watkins Glen International (NASCARCASM. May 12, 2026.)\n\nI had only seen Watkins Glen on TV. Nice views.\n\n9. First NYC casino to offer live table games sets opening day (Carl Campanile for the New York Post. April 20, 2026.)\n\nI often find myself thinking “what can New York City use more of?” Here is our answer: Commercial vice.\n\nYou can reply to this article from your own site by sending a Webmention.",
  "title": "Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 05-19-26"
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