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 [Continental Army] On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress resolved “that six companies of expert riflemen, be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia; that each company consist of a captain, three lieutenants, four serjeants, four corporals, a drummer or trumpeter, and sixty-eight privates…[and that] each company, as soon as completed, shall march and join the army near Boston, to be there employed as light infantry, under the command of the chief Officer in that army.” And thus Congress established the Continental Army. Link |
| [Irony] The Kentucky Coal Mining Museum in Benham, owned by Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College, is switching to solar power to save money. The museum, which memorializes Kentucky’s history in coal mining, is modernizing with a new form of cheaper energy. |
 [Dymaxion Houses] After WWII, flying saucer-shaped houses almost filled American suburbs. R. Buckminster Fuller envisioned factories churning out 185,000 Dymaxion Houses each year. The Dymaxion House weighed only three tons, about as much as a full-size pickup truck, and could be shipped anywhere in America for $100 |
| [No Kids Online] England’s Prime Minister Ker Starmer bans children from social media. “There hasn’t been any positive effects from kids online.” “Every parent can see it with their own eyes. Social media is making children unhappy,” said Starmer, who has two teenage children. Link |
 Long-lost World War II ‘Hellship’ may have finally been found. Over 1,000 Allied servicemen died aboard the ‘Hōfuku Maru’ in September 1944. Link |
| [Spam] You can often request to be removed from mailing lists, but some companies may ignore these requests or make it difficult to unsubscribe. Additionally, many organizations share or sell their mailing lists, which can complicate the removal process. When you submit a request to be removed from mailing lists, that only confirms that your email is a working email and can be sold. |
 RFK Jr. wrangles snakes on Dr. Oz’s porch in latest wild animal encounter. ‘They were having sex’. In a video posted by the health secretary, his wife, Cheryl Hines, can be heard pleading with him as he is repeatedly bitten by nonvenomous black racers. Video |
| Elon Musk, he first trillionaire in history. Now people are really going to hate him. We usually hate anyone who’s successful, but it’s actually jealousy. |
 By all accounts, Breck Bednar was a warmhearted and kind fourteen-year- old boy who loved gaming and computers. Like many teens, he found friendship and belonging in an online gaming community. Over more than a year, the group’s charismatic leader, eighteen-year-old Lewis Daynes, cultivated Breck’s trust, offering guidance. praise, and the illusion of access to an elite world only he could open. Despite Breck’s mother’s efforts to protect her son by limiting his computer access and installing parental controls, Daynes ultimately lured Breck to his apartment under the pretense of meeting other members of the group. There, he murdered Breck and posted photos of the boy’s body online. Breck’s story is a heartbreaking reminder of how vulnerable adolescents can be when seeking connection.
Teens are increasingly targeted by online manipulators—strangers, extremists, abusers, and, in some cases, Al-driven systems that can exploit a young person’s vulnerabilities with alarming precision. These cases differ in circumstance but share common features: isolation secrecy, and the gradual erosion of a teen’s sense of self |
 [Richer Than Croesus] Musk is worlds first trillionaire as SpaceX IPO pops 25% in record debut. Space stocks jump on frenzy to get long on SpaceX. Link |
| [eBike] I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it. Video |
 [Optimism] If you keep topping off your beer before finishing it, technically you’re still on your first glass. |
| [Old Uncopyrighted Art From Around The World] an archive of pictorial typography before copyrighted art. Link |
 [Dying Reef] Two more Florida corals are ‘functionally extinct’ after 2023 heatwave. Abnormally hot surface water temperatures have created conditions ripe for an unprecedented coral bleaching event. This side-by-side shows the same elkhorn coral in August 2022 before bleaching and in its bleached state in August 2023. Link |
| [Free Game] Tiny Wind a pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics. Game |
 [Prepare For Big Brother] One of my crazy ideas was to modify a WiFi smart light bulb to have an open WiFi access point and a web server hosting banned books. The idea was that if you lived somewhere that banned books you thought were important, you could theoretically stick a digital copy of the book on one of these light bulbs. Then you could go install it somewhere in your community. As long as the light bulb is switched on, then anyone in the vicinity can still access the banned material assuming they have an electronic device with WiFi. Since the device is a light bulb, it would be difficult to detect and likely to go unnoticed. A cyberpunk digital dead drop. These devices are also fairly inexpensive, so leaving them around town as is not very cost prohibitive. Link |
| Fox to Buy Roku Streaming Service] In a $25 billion deal. The deal, Fox’s largest to date, provides scale as competition for streaming audiences intensifies. Link |
 US battery manufacturing output continues to break records. Link |
| Amazon Announces Multibillion-Dollar Data Center in Montgomery County, Missouri. On the water front, the facilities will emphasize efficiency with features including: Free-air cooling for approximately 90% of the time. Rainwater harvesting to cover about 20% of annual water needs. On-site recycling that reuses water up to six times. Expected water use for cooling on only about 7% of the year or less at full capacity. Amazon projects the site will use less than 0.1% of the local aquifer’s annual recharge volume from rainfall. Link |
 [Losing My Mind] Copper drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer’s proteins. Monash University researchers have found in laboratory experiments that a drug which delivers copper to the brain significantly reduces toxic Alzheimer’s proteins and improves long-term spatial memory. Link |
| Functional improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following high-dose psilocybin-containing mushroom administration: a case report. Psilocybin is known to transiently alter large-scale brain network dynamics and to induce plasticity-related mechanisms in preclinical models, yet clinical data in advanced dementia remain lacking. Link |
 [Micro Radar] A tiny open-source flight radar for your desk, just like the airport has. How To |
| [Mindless Splitting Firewood] That’s it. You can just keep splitting the logs for firewood. Firewood |
 [Sheriff Locations] When you hear the sirens, this site will tell you where the Sheriff is responding. Go to the Sheriff’s site and click on Calls from the home page. https://www.keysso.net/calls |
| The rise of machine writing is a great opportunity for literature. Why AI is incorrigibly didactic. Today, savvy readers use a similar approach to identify AI writing, by hunting for supposed telltale signs. Link |
 [Chili Peppers of the World] A visual field guide to the chili peppers of the world, from wild origins to cultivated forms, illustrated with 176 hand-drawn peppers. Link |
| [Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?] In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Link |
 [Dutch Children Are Unusually Happy And Healthy] Is it because of this walking ritual? Once a year, Dutch kids, parents and teachers take part in a walking festival, heading out for four nights in a single week to explore their neighborhoods, exercise and make friends. It’s a tradition that seems to be genuinely transformative. Link |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 6/16/26 at 8:36 am. |
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