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  "description": "Today is June 1. It is also Monday. With that, I present our first-ever collection of June Pook-Emu Bee links after a brief photography interlude. [caption id=\"attachment_5496\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1024\"] I took this photo on Sunday, May 31, 2026, from Valentino Pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The orange boat in the background is the iconic Staten...",
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  "textContent": "Today is June 1. It is also Monday. With that, I present our first-ever collection of June Pook-Emu Bee links after a brief photography interlude. I took this photo on Sunday, May 31, 2026, from Valentino Pier in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The orange boat in the background is the iconic Staten Island Ferry (en route to Staten Island from Manhattan). 1. Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs (Carly Page for The Register. May 30, 2026.) HT to and quote from Ambient Irony: “Wikipedia editors are threatening a global strike where they’ll stop airbrushing history.” I chuckled. 2. Mamdani wants to remove former Mayor Ed Koch’s name from iconic NYC bridge — but critics say hands off ( Jordan Donegan and Carl Campanile for the New York Post. June 1, 2026.) Let’s not. But beyond my incisive take, you can enjoy some of my photographs and writing about the Queensboro Bridge. 3. Nothing has changed on Instagram; Meta has always read your DMs (Rodrigo Ghedin. May 11, 2026.) I am 100% confident that Meta has never read my Instagram DMs. 4. The RAMageddon hits home (Rob Fahney for Games Industry.biz. May 29, 2026.) I wasn’t planning to buy a Steam Deck, so this “hits home” for me less than the dramatic spike in RAM and SSD prices. (Note: I think Steam Deck is cool, I just don’t have a use-case for it that is commensurate to the pre-“RAMageddon” price, much less the current price.) But the Steam Deck price spike is one of the purest examples of the effects of RAMageddon. 5. “You Have 30 Seconds”: United Pilot’s FBI Warning Over Passenger’s Wi-Fi Hotspot Name (Luke Diaz for Simple Flying. May 26, 2026.) A United Airlines pilot took the situation into their own hands earlier this month after a passenger activated a hotspot with a politically provocative network name. The hotspot name onboard read ‘Free Palestine, F Zionists,’ according to an account of the event posted on Reddit. “Starting in the 1960s, Palestinian militant groups made commercial aviation one of their primary targets, carrying out a series of hijackings over the decades.” See one historic example I covered on NLJ. 6. Keep messing with the clocks (Kitten. May 30, 2026.) Permanent DST polls well with the public because people are familiar with early sunsets but not with late sunrises, and they aren’t smart enough to realize you have to pick one. They don’t actually like DST; they like summer. Setting the clocks forward all year long doesn’t give you an endless summer, just miserably dark winter mornings. People haven’t thought it through and would hate it in practice. Seconded. 7. 17Studio and the Degradation of the Nintendo eShop (Game Slush Pile. May 31, 2026.) Do people actually buy these AI slop games? That would be bleaker than the fact they exist.",
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