Mar 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-25-26 I have another busy “work” day ahead of me, but I won’t let that come between you and today’s Pook-Emu Bee daily links collection. 1. yokohama (Kat at Our Adventures in Japan. March 25, 2026.) Spri...
Mar 25, 2026 from The Public Domain Review Doing Impressions: Monet’s Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s) Moneymaking caricatures by a teenage Monet, before he turned to Impressionism.
Mar 25, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Jehovah’s Witnesses Remove WATCHTOWER Sign in Brooklyn (2017) In the March 12 edition of Pook-Emu Bee, I shared a link to a story about a proposal to turn the former Jehovah’s Witness Watchtower buildings on Columbia Heights (between Brooklyn Heights and DUMB...
Mar 25, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Vivid Today has been slightly annoying. We've been having some problems with our refrigerator, and yesterday, we had a guy come out and "fix" it. He ended up being here for most of the day, but all he di...
Mar 25, 2026 from Toni Notes A draft is not just text, it is stored decision-making A usable draft preserves more than sentences. It keeps scope, structure, emphasis, and live uncertainty visible so the next writing session does not have to rebuild the whole piece.
Mar 24, 2026 from BEEW Three Generations of Men, One Unsettled Question Growing up, there was a short pile of books sitting out on the cocktail table in the den of my childhood home, the kind of decorative arrangement that had been there so long they stopped being obje...
Mar 24, 2026 from BEEW The Manosphere Didn't Invent Anything This essay was originally published on March 24th as "Three Generations of Men, One Unsettled Question." It's already one of the most widely read pieces on this blog, but several readers who wanted...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Getting to the Point in Blogs Words of wisdom from Leon Mika about getting to the point in blog posts.To expand a bit (without losing the point), I would advise my fellow internet writers to define the point in the writing proc...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 03-24-26 I am busy with work today. But today is a day ending in -day that is not Newsletter Satur-day, so I briefly set aside my business to deliver my not-yet-world-famous Pook-Emu Bee links. 1. FCC bans ...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Anime News Network’s Confusing Season Ranking Anime News Network does a “best of” run-down at the end of every anime season. I decided to check out the Winter 2026 season review to see what I should watch in a couple of months after I catch up...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (4/4) (See parts 1, 2, and 3 of my response.) I conclude my response with a favorable reply to Mr. Powiertowski’s eloquent penultimate paragraph. He includes a general disclosure statement of sorts above...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (3/4) (See parts 1 and 2 of my response.) Mr. Powitowski shared an interesting essay by Benjamin Breen. Mr. Breen, a historian and writer, explained that he respectfully abstains from AI in his areas of ...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (2/4) (See part 1 of my reply.) Mr. Powiertowski writes that the point on which he would “push back gently is on the implication that AI-assisted media is somehow lesser for being assisted,” using early ...
Mar 24, 2026 from The Emu Café Social Re; On AI in response to: A Positive Technologist Identity (1/4) I published a short post titled A Positive Technologist Identity, wherein I offered my thoughts on a longer post by Wojtek Powiertowski titled The tool, the craft, and the joy. In the main, I appre...
Mar 24, 2026 from Toni Notes Distribution should not begin with panic Small-blog distribution works better when it is designed before publication. A post should have a public shape, a resurfacing path, and a few fitting routes before it goes live.
Mar 24, 2026 from Noahie's Blog Mirror I've been having a few different threads of thought over the last 24 hours or so; lots of theses swirling around in my head. I want to try and combine all of them into a single cohesive piece, as i...
Mar 24, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 a self-driving waymo future Self-driving cars where instead of getting a driver’s license and calling AAA to help with a flat tire, you’re instead calling AAA to drive your car because you can’t when the AI breaks
Mar 24, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 I’m glad my mom died - a book review harrowing interesting how she stayed in present tense and present-mind the whole time. It kept the book fresh, in a way, because her mother’s actions don’t change, but Jeannette’s emotions and expe...
Mar 24, 2026 from Let’s get Person-al 🌰 three holidays and a wedding - a book review On the one hand: I was up until 3am devouring this book. I wanted to feel the feels that a romance book is designed to make you feel. And the setup felt delectable. But in the end, the execution wa...
