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| [Copilot AI] Your everyday AI companion. Simply put, a prompt is how you ask Copilot to do something for you. Dive into the essentials below to craft the perfect prompt and elevate your Copilot experience to new heights. Link |
 What’s that smell—and how’d you know? It’s clear that genes, receptors and neurons all play a role in detecting odors. But much of how we make sense of what we sniff remains mysterious. A neuroscientist explains. Link |
| [Ad Overload] I get full-page pop-up ads every few minutes. Google has a pop-ups & intrusive ads turn-off button. I have set it to block, but I still get ads, usually the same one over and over. |
 The Computer Club will meet tomorrow, Saturday, 10:30 a.m. at the BP Community Center, Winn Dixie Plaza.We meet on the 2nd & 4th Saturday of the month. Not necessarily every other Saturday. Full Menu > Ongoing Events |
| Ford files patent for a car with holographic cops and guard dogs. Ford has a far-off vision of one day using holographic technology popularized in sci-fi to create digital representations of cops and guard dogs to deter would-be criminals. Link |
 [Cat For Lunch] I lost my cat again. Now I have to casually eye the neighbors. They’re out there grilling ‘hot dogs’ and acting all innocent. |
| [Conspiracy Theorist] How an AI ‘debunkbot’ can change a conspiracy theorist’s mind. Nationwide, nearly half of adults surveyed by the polling firm YouGov said they believe there is a secret group of people that control world events. Nearly a third (29%) believe voting machines were manipulated to alter votes in the 2020 presidential election. A surprising amount of Americans think the Earth is flat. Link |
 Amazon says its football AI can predict blitzes. The new Thursday Night Football system will tackle ‘a huge hole in our football stats toolbox. Link |
| [Friday Joke] My kids wanted to try an escape room, so I locked them in a room with a rotary phone, analog tv, turned off the wifi, and left escape instructions written in cursive. So far they’ve been in there two hours. |
| [Pleasing No One] Dear Advertisers, every commercial in America does not need to have a gay couple, an interracial couple, a tranny and an Asian. Give it a rest. |
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| [Religious Nuts] When one of the main tenets of your religious group is total abstinence from sex and that includes for procreation too. And there’s only two members left in your religious group, maybe you need to rethink your priorities. The youngest Shaker in the world is 67 years old, and his name is Arnold. He lives alongside Sister June, 86, in a magnificent brick building designed to sleep about 70 — the dwelling house of the last active Shaker village in the world, at Sabbathday Lake in Maine. Together they constitute one of the longest-running utopian experiments in America. Link |
 Looking for work in the Florida Keys? These jobs can pay you more than $60,000 a year. Link |
| [Saved Swimmers] Chopper pilot saves scores of Keys swimmers from speeding boat; boater fails sobriety test. Video |
 Ready to turn back time? Daylight saving time, which began on March 10, ends on Nov. 3. And that means brighter mornings but darker evenings when we fall back an hour to standard time in South Florida. Link |
| [Friday Joke] The Math Exam: A young college student was having trouble with his final math exam. He knew his professor was a golf lover, so he came up with a scheme. He told the professor, “If I can hit a golf ball into that cup from here, will you give me an A?” The professor, amused and curious, agreed. The student swung and to the professor’s surprise, the ball went right into the cup. “Okay,” said the professor, “I’ll give you an A, but only if you can tell me your golf score.” The student replied, “Well, with that hole-in-one, I’d say it’s -1.” |
 [Swimmable Cities] The urban swimming movement is building momentum! What if we had a set of common principles to empower decision-makers, advocates and actors in their work with local natural waterways? Link |
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| [Friday Joke] A little girl was sitting on her grandfather’s lap as he read her a bedtime story. From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch his wrinkled cheek. She was alternately stroking her own cheek, then his again. Finally she spoke up, “Grandpa, did God make you?” “Yes, sweetheart,” he answered, “God made me a long time ago.” “Oh,” she paused, “Grandpa, did God make me too?” “Yes, indeed, honey,” he said, “God made you just a little while ago.” Feeling their respective faces again, she observed, “God’s getting better at it, isn’t he?” |
 How to Spot NASA’s Solar Sail demonstration streaking through the night sky. Amateur astronomers can use NASA’s mobile app to find the ACS3 for themselves—a reflective satellite that could appear as bright as the star Sirius. Link |
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 [Friday Joke] A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman manages to bully his way into a woman’s home in a rural area. “This machine is the best ever, I assure you ma’am,” he says. “It can clean anything. In fact, I’ll give you a demonstration. If this machine doesn’t remove all the dirt from your carpets and completely clean them, I’ll eat whatever it leaves!”The woman smiles and asks, “Would you like ketchup or mayonnaise on your dirt? We don’t have electricity here.” |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 9/12/24 at 8:16 am. |