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If you can wake in the morning with no pain in your joints and muscles, it’s a sure sign that you have died in the night. There’s nothing worse than waking up dead.

There’s well over 100,000 illegal Canadians living in the U.S. How come we’re not seeing ICE doing raids rounding up these illegals? Wrong color? No, It’s because they don’t tip.

[Fake AI] No, North Carolina’s wild horses were not wrapped in insulation. AI-generated images spread fast ahead of a record-breaking winter storm, fooling plenty of people along the way. Link

Eugenics is the practice or advocacy of improving the human species by selectively mating people with specific desirable hereditary traits. It aims to reduce human suffering by “breeding out” disease, disabilities and so-called undesirable characteristics from the human population. Early supporters of eugenics believed people inherited mental illness, criminal tendencies and even poverty, and that these conditions could be bred out of the gene pool. Link

[Computer Club Meeting] Saturday (Valentine’s Day) 10:30 a.m. at the Community Center, Winn Dixie Plaza, Big Pine Key. Have you been hit with this problem yet?  Gmail is entering the Gemini era with AI powered Email? it’s not letting me on Gmail on my pc, but so far my tablet & phone are not affected. I was able to trick it by going in through Ace Launcher. Maybe we can figure it out at the meeting.

[Friday Joke] A bishop advertises a job to ring the bell in his tower. The only job applicant is a hunchback with no arms. Bishop, “How can you do the job? You can’t pull the rope!” Hunchback, “I have a plan — but we have to go to the top of the tower, where the bell is.” So they climb all those stairs to the top of the tower. Bishop, “Ok, show me your plan.” The hunchback runs and jumps at the bell, striking it with his head. Sure enough, he rings the bell. The bishop says, “That’s amazing! but you’ll get a headache.” The hunchback replies, “No problem, I’ll get used to it.” And he gets the job. One day, the hunchback decides to put a little extra into his bell ringing, so he steps back, and then runs and jumps at the bell, but he misses, slips, and falls off the tower, plummeting to his death. A crowd gathers and a policeman arrives. A bystander asks, “Do you know this man?” The cop replies, “No, but his face rings a bell.”

Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit: Tools for Thinking Critically & Knowing Pseudoscience When You See It. Video

[What’s an Engineering Notebook] Keeping lab notebooks. There are a lot of different practices, but there are some common characteristics between them: They’re very detailed. Each thing you’re working on is recorded. Your hypothesis or goal is recorded. It’s detailed enough that someone else could come along and replicate the steps. They are dated. Each entry is provided with a date, so you can trace back when things happened. They’re done in real-time. Rather than recording information after a project is finished, notes are written as it progresses. They create permanent records. Notes are written without erasing old notes, going forward in an append-only fashion. No pages are removed or modified. They’re the original record. This is where things get recorded first, instead of being copied into from other sources. The level of detail is a particularly crucial bit, because, for your notes to be useful to yourself later? They have to be useful to someone else, too. Link

[How to Make a Living as an Artist] Why you should not make a living as an artist, admit it’s a business. The moment when I was finally sure that what I was doing was working. I had just finished a year with $54k in sales and was about to have one with $150k. A few years later I would sell over $1M in art. I figured that whatever I was thinking at that moment of transition would be the most relevant to other aspiring artists. Link

America’s Cyber Defense Agency is burning down and nobody’s coming to put it out. The acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the person in charge of defending every federal network and coordinating critical infrastructure protection for the entire country, uploaded at least four documents marked “For Official Use Only” to the public version of ChatGPT. Not the government’s internal AI tool, DHSChat, which is designed to keep data inside federal networks. The public version. The one where your inputs get ingested and potentially regurgitated to other users. Link

[My Microwave Is Alive] The oven started to malfunction at around five years old. It started to randomly power on the lamp, fan, and turntable. It progressively got worse over several weeks until it was mostly stuck on. The microwave oven is not usable when this happens: It behaves as if the door were open, causing the control panel to ignore button input and to stop cooking if it was cooking. Link

Fascism doesn’t just start, it slowly builds. Bit by bit, small freedoms are taken away for some ‘good’ purpose that was better left for the better purpose.

[Bears Don’t Actually Hibernate] Their winter survival trick is a months-long power-save mode—and scientists think it could help humans, too. Link

[Pickleball Bad] Florida couple arrested after pickleball game turned into ugly 20-person brawl at glitzy country club. It’s said the pickleball game first became ‘heated’ when Anthony Sapienza accused their opponents of going into the ‘kitchen,’ an area at the front of the court where players are banned from volleying the ball. It was all downhill from there. Link

[Selling Milkshakes] In his MBA course, Christensen shares the story of a fast-food restaurant chain that wanted to improve its milkshake sales. The company started by segmenting its market both by product (milkshakes) and by demographics (a marketer’s profile of a typical milkshake drinker). Next, the marketing department asked people who fit the demographic to list the characteristics of an ideal milkshake (thick, thin, chunky, smooth, fruity, chocolaty, etc.). The would-be customers answered as honestly as they could, and the company responded to the feedback. But alas, milkshake sales did not improve. Link

[Privacy] Walking past a café with an active WiFi network could be enough for you to be identified, even if you are not carrying a cell phone. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have shown that people can be recognized solely by recording WiFi communication in their surroundings, a capability they warn poses a serious threat to personal privacy. As radio waves move through a space and interact with people, they create distinctive patterns that can be captured and analyzed. These patterns are comparable to images produced by cameras, but they are formed using radio signals rather than light. Link

Ireland rolled out a permanent basic income scheme for the arts on Tuesday, pledging to pay 2,000 creative workers 325 euros ($387) per week following a trial that participants said eased financial strain and allowed them to spend more time on projects. Ireland began the three-year trial in 2022 to help artists recover from COVID-19 shutdowns. While similar pilots have been tried in San Francisco and New York, Ireland’s Culture Minister Patrick O’Donovan said the scheme was the first permanent one of its kind in the world. Link

[Locate Your Horizon] You hike to the top of a mountain or pull off at a scenic overlook. You see mountains in the distance. Which mountains are they? HeyWhatsThat will tell you, providing a 360° panoramic sketch labeled with the names of the peaks you’re looking at. From almost anywhere in the world. The main site computes the horizon and mountain names and other related visualizations, including the surface of the Earth visible from where you’re standing (the visibility cloak or viewshed) and the line of sight profile between you and the distant peaks. You can view panoramas that someone else has requested and generate your own. Link

[Friday Joke] A man walks into a bar and sees a piano player, but the piano player is only a foot tall. He asks the bartender, “What’s with the tiny piano player?” The bartender says, “Oh, I found a Magic lamp and the genie granted me a wish, but he’s hard of hearing. I asked for a twelve-inch penis!”

[Banana-Nut Oat Bran Muffins] 2-1/4 cups oat bran 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/4 cup brown sugar 1 1/4 cups milk 2 bananas mashed 2 eggs 2 tablespoons agave nectar or honey 1/4 cup walnuts choppedPreheat oven to 425 degrees F. Line a standard muffin tin with paper cups. Mix all ingredients. Divide the batter evenly between the 12 muffin cups. Bake until the muffins are lightly browned and a knife inserted in the center comes out clean, about 12 to 15 minutes. Cool the muffins in the pan for 5 minutes, then remove them to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container at room temperature. Serve at room temperature or reheat in the microwave. Recipes>Desserts>Banana-Nut Oat Bran Muffins

Valentine Strawberry Fest Tomorrow, Saturday at Truman Waterfront Farmers Market in Key West. Sean@DailyPlan-it.net

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Friday Joke] A dad buys a lie detector robot which slaps people when they lie. He decides to test it at dinner. “Son, where were you today?” The son says, “At school, dad.” Robot slaps the son. “Okay, I watched a DVD at my friend’s house!” “What DVD?” “Kung Fu Panda” Robot slaps the son. “Okay, it was an adult film!” Dad yells, “What? When I was your age, I didn’t know what an adult film was!” Robot slaps the dad. Mom laughs, “He’s certainly your son!” Robot slaps the mom.

[Coffee Sniffers] Drinking coffee was illegal—or even punishable by death. Rulers once closed cafés, burned beans, and even executed someone—all for a cup of coffee. In 1781, Frederick The  Great hired the Kaffeeschnüffler, typically war veterans discharged for their injuries, roamed the streets to sniff out the rich smell of illicitly roasted coffee. Those caught with coffee had to pay hefty fines, with a quarter of the sum going to the coffee-sniffer. Link

The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 2/13/26 at 7:44 am.

[House For Sale] Big Pine Key. 3 bedrooms. 2 full bathrooms. House on stilts over full concrete slab. Bay window in Kitchen plus a pantry. Stainless steel appliances. Plenty of kitchen cabinets and granite counter tops. Dining area/living room. Big front porch. Large, locked storage room downstairs. Covered parking for two vehicles. Central air conditioning plus heat. Back two bedrooms have additional mini-split A/Cs for custom cooling. Very bright and clean and in a quite neighborhood. Laundry area in hallway. Only 3 houses are on the street and none are across from the home. $575,000.
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