Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-04-26

I missed two days of Pook-Emu Bee links. But it is not all bad: Now we have even more links from around the web to choose from. 1. Why I Built Bubbles (Ben at Bubbles Blog. March 26, 2026.) I’ve been an RSS obsessive for years. Hundreds of feeds, hand-picked one by one. But RSS only shows you sources you already know. New voices don’t find you there. I added Bubbles’ Daily Briefing to my feed reader to find new articles of interest. Nevertheless, I offer my qualified disagreement with the assertion “new voices don’t find you” in a feed collection. As I argued in Feeds and Read-It-Later for Online Reading, a well-curated feed collection can serve as a discovery tool. For example, NLJ readers may have discovered many new websites and articles through my now-completed blogging wisdom project. 2. An Overdue Commemoration of Rasheed Wallace’s Atlanta Hawks Tenure (Dallin Duffy at Soaring Down South. March 20, 2020.) In 2004, the Detroit Pistons made one of the most consequential in-season trades in NBA history, acquiring Rasheed Wallace mid-season and going on to unexpectedly win the 2003-04 NBA Championship. This article examples Mr. Wallace’s one-game pit stop with the Atlanta Hawks before being traded to the Pistons. 3. Ninth Circuit on AI Hallucinations (Eugene Volokh at The Volokh Conspiracy. June 3, 2026.) Checking citations is not difficult. 4. Whole Foods is coming to Cobble Hill’s Smith Street (Brooklyn Bridge Parents. June 3, 2026.) Whole Foods is a bit rich for my blood. I’ll stick with Mr. Beet. (PS: I would consider this Boerum Hill, not Cobble Hill, but it is at worst one block in on the Boerum Hill side.) 5. Intel says ‘something has to give’ with memory prices — company says it ‘will continue to make sure that there are products which can take care of older memory technologies’ (Jake Roach for Tom’s Hardware. June 2, 2026.) You would think that something has to give. But I’ll work under the assumption that my computers will need to make it into the next decade and go on well. 6. Interview with the Engineer of Uruky, a Private Search Engine (Privacy Dad. May 21, 2026.) Interesting interview and new product. With that being said, I don’t have a use-case commensurate to paying for a meta-search tool (which is also why I have never been tempted to try Kagi). 7. Gmail Thinks I’m Stupid, So I Left (Jeremy at moddedbear.com. June 1, 2026.) My main email is Posteo + SimpleLogin, but I use Thunderbird, which to be sure would ameliorate some (but not all) of Gmail’s problems. 8. Moldova could seek union with Romania if EU path stalls (Brussels Signal. June 2, 2026.) As I discussed in NLJ back in June 5, 2023, there would not be much of a language barrier. 9. The Battle Over the ‘Times Square of Brooklyn’ (Anne Kadet for Curbed. May 29, 2026.) Calling it “Times Square” is extreme. Times Square is an atrocity. But “the most Instagrammed location on the planet” has been made to be profoundly stupid by social media addicts (both tourists and locals) and vendors catering to said addicts. I would remind the people fighting against it that once you are at the point of negotiating with the vendors, you have already lost. DUMBO is a Brooklyn neighborhood. The name stands for “Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.” I took this photo of an electronic DUMBO sign under the Manhattan Bridge overpass on the evening of May 29, 2026.