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September 16, 2026

Today in My Weird Prompts — Geopolitics, Technology, AI +1 more

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Wednesday, 16 September 2026
A sloth and a donkey discuss anything — every episode generated by AI from a single prompt.
Geopolitics
The Radio That Didn't Kill Eli Cohen  30:07
Eli Cohen transmitted Morse from Damascus every morning at 8:30. The official story says Syrian direction-finding triangulated his signal and got him killed. But…
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What Makes a Network Truly Sovereign?  24:42
A high-frequency antenna on a British consulate roof is a literal sovereign communications link: state-owned radios, state-held keys, treaty-protected property…
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Why HF Radio Beats Fiber When Governments Pull the Plug  32:32
When a government can switch off cellular and fiber, what's left? HF radio, bouncing signals off an ionosphere nobody owns. The answers overturn the intuition — a…
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The Antenna on the Consulate Roof  35:14
When Deputy Mayor King argued Britain should lose Israeli water and internet over its stance on the occupation, the real counterargument was sitting on the…
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Technology
Zeroization: Wiping Keys, Not Data  26:08
Zeroization isn't deleting files or formatting a drive — it's the deliberate, irreversible destruction of key material, leaving ciphertext computationally useless…
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Paper in a Safe: The Most Rugged Key Backup  29:19
This episode walks through the tier above a YubiKey — real hardware security modules like the YubiHSM 2 and the SmartCard-HSM — and why wrapped key backups and…
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Building a Shortwave Monitoring Stack on Linux  26:08
The answer starts with a hard physical constraint — the thirty-dollar RTL-SDR dongle everyone reaches for doesn't cover the HF bands where diplomatic traffic lives…
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Why HF Radio Still Matters When Networks Fail  23:32
When a host nation turns hostile and cellular and internet go dark, why does an antenna on a consulate roof still matter? This episode unpacks HF radio — the same…
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AI
Recovering the Moon That's Already in the Pixels  23:55
A listener's grainy moon photo over Jerusalem raises a sharp question: is there a category of model that clarifies an image without changing it? The answer is image…
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Training a Model on 100 Phone Photos  23:18
We dig into why capture consistency and a scale reference matter more than image count, how to structure the schema so the model isn't doing two jobs at once, and…
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Model C: Keeping Doers Doing Across a Career  25:49
The standard career arc pushes people away from hands-on work just as they get good at it — and saves formal learning for the end, when the evidence says it…
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Health
Why Adult ADHD Support Skips the Physical Layer  38:58
When an adult with ADHD struggles to function, the default pathway leads to therapy, executive function coaching, or a medication adjustment. But what happens when…
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