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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Friday, 11 September 2026
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A sloth and a donkey discuss anything — every episode generated by AI from a single prompt.
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Geopolitics |
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Shuafat refugee camp sits inside Jerusalem's municipal boundary but on the wrong side of the separation barrier. Its residents hold Jerusalem IDs, pay municipal…
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What happens when territory is held in legal limbo for decades? This episode traces two parallel stories: Egypt's 19-year administration of the Gaza Strip…
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Covert operations designed to degrade an enemy's society from within sound like pure conspiracy fodder—but some of them are thoroughly documented. This episode…
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A source claims commercial real estate developers are recruiting informants on rival construction sites — excavator operators, pour crews, site supervisors. The…
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The IAEA Board of Governors just reported Iran to the UN Security Council for non-compliance — the first such move in two decades. But the mechanism behind it is…
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Gaza gets discussed as a single geopolitical entity, but is it? This episode unpacks the internal divisions of the Strip — refugee versus native, camp versus city…
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For most of human history, a border was a river or a ridge — something you could point at without a map. Then states started drawing centimetric lines through…
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In January 2023, Egypt declared the end of terrorism in North Sinai and formally concluded Operation Martyr's Right. Three years later, Israel's National Security…
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The fight over whether Gaza's hunger qualifies as "famine" has consumed the debate, but the nutritional data tells a more complicated story. This episode digs into…
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Satellite imagery reveals the footprint of destruction in Gaza — but what happens when a city becomes forty million tons of pulverized concrete? This episode digs…
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Health |
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You're awake, alert, and completely unable to think hard. That late-day wall isn't sleepiness, laziness, or weak willpower — it's a measurable metabolic state in…
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We trace the stethoscope from Laennec's rolled paper in 1816 through the Littmann tunable diaphragm to AI-enabled devices that just doubled the sensitivity for…
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When a parent needs to log oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, and video ahead of a doctor's visit, the baby-tracking category has nothing for him — and neither…
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A fourteen-month-old with a fever can't tell you where it hurts, and their vital signs will look reassuring right up until they crash. So how do pediatric emergency…
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Pediatric triage isn't adult triage with smaller patients — it's a structurally different discipline. The patient often can't narrate their own symptoms, vital sign…
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The blue rescue inhaler hasn't changed since you were a kid. Albuterol is still albuterol, the nebulizer still hisses in emergency rooms, and the tremor is still…
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A fourteen-month-old wakes at 6 a.m. with labored breathing, and the pulse oximeter reads a reassuring 97%. But that number was never answering the question that…
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Why does a three-day trip feel like a month, while a two-week family visit leaves you exhausted? This episode digs into the psychology of vacations — psychological…
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AI |
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When a language has sparse training data, should you fine-tune a big multilingual model or train something smaller from scratch? New research — including a…
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The answer is nuanced: system prompts genuinely have no architectural privilege, but retrieval does have a real scalar. Grounded Decoding from Iowa State fuses a…
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A routine email from DeepSeek revealed that requests meant for DeepSeek 4.1 Pro are being handled by 4.1 Flash until Pro ships. That small routing change is the…
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Science |
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What does it take to invent something that changes the world — and then be forgotten? We set a hard bar: no household names, no figures a science student would…
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The number is accurate. The conclusion you draw from it is where things go wrong. Starting from the medieval English life expectancy figure of thirty-one years at…
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Why can a person work in 45°C desert heat but collapse in 35°C Singapore humidity? It comes down to wet-bulb temperature and whether your sweat can actually…
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Linguistics |
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We trace the whole spectrum: code-switching (it's rule-governed, not confusion), pidgins, creolization, and the slow drift that turned Vulgar Latin into the Romance…
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Out of roughly 7,000 living languages, only a few hundred have at least 100,000 speakers — a quiet middle ground almost nobody discusses. This episode counts that…
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Judaism |
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Yiddish looks like German wearing a Hebrew coat — so why isn't it a pidgin? This episode unpacks how Yiddish actually emerged: a full Germanic grammar carrying…
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Parenting |
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A pulse oximeter said 96% and everything was fine. The breathing said otherwise. This episode walks through the actual decision tree for labored breathing in an…
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Technology |
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The number everyone quotes (seven) turns out to be an implementation detail in the BLE stack, not a designed feature, and the real constraint is which profiles…
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Everything Else |
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When a house sits empty for months, someone has to run the faucets, flush the toilets, and photograph the water heater — not as a favor, but as a paid, scheduled…
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Vanilla Sky opened to a 41% critic score and a D- CinemaScore, yet grossed $203 million worldwide and never left the cultural conversation. This episode digs into…
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Acting looks like a fame chase from the outside — but the data tells a different story. Most SAG-AFTRA members earn less than $26,000 a year from acting, and only…
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Retirement feels like a natural life stage, but the funded, age-triggered exit from work is a twentieth-century invention — one built for industrial laborers whose…
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