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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Friday, 25 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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Technology |
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The answer runs through Section 115 of the Copyright Act, a compulsory mechanical license that dates back to a 1908 anti-monopoly fight over player piano rolls…
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The answer is already happening. Content platforms like SleekCMS, Storyblok, and Sanity have independently built multi-stage publishing workflows with draft states…
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A listener swapped to a cheaper carrier and lost his data connection almost entirely — same phone, same bands, central Jerusalem. This episode unpacks the four…
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If you want to know what your browser is really sending, DevTools is the wrong instrument — it silently drops the initiator data that answers "which script fired…
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This episode digs into why that happens — hardware churn, inherited coffee cans of rusty mixed screws, and the paradox that both too few and too many types send you…
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When a physical-to-eSIM adapter shows you certificate downloads and LPA strings, you're watching a standardized provisioning process that normally happens…
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The bonding software is a solved problem. The phone is not. This episode works through what bonding actually requires (a far-end server that reassembles…
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A listener wrote in with three questions about his 9eSIM adapter: why the company sells a physical USB reader when his phone can already talk to the card, whether…
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A listener wrote in with a specific ask: a single-purpose appliance that incrementally pulls podcast episodes onto local storage he owns, reachable over Tailscale…
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Every tech enthusiast has one: an old laptop with a dead battery, too slow to use and too functional to bin. This episode walks through the full playbook for…
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But what if the whole system gets wheels? This episode digs into mobile warehouse racking — the intermediate inventory tier that lives in vans, ambulances, and…
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We dig into the actual mechanism of wall plugs — why "nylon anchors expand" is technically true and practically misleading — and why a hole just 1/16" too wide…
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We dig into why bits deflect off aggregate in concrete but follow the grain in wood, why a weaker cordless drill makes lateral drift worse (not better), and how the…
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We break down the three failure modes (suction cups, vent clips, and magnets that inherit the same bad attachment points), then dig into the research showing that…
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So where's the co-pilot tablet? Turns out the screens shipped starting with the 2020 Porsche Taycan, and they're now standard in the 2026 BMW 7 Series. But the…
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A Motolola walkie-talkie on AliExpress — no "r" — opens a tour of the gray zone between inspiration and infringement. This episode maps the four-tier hierarchy of…
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AI |
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You generate a character, they look perfect in shot one, and by shot four they're someone else's slightly off cousin. Why? This episode digs into the structural…
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A screening bot should attend your low-value sales calls and hang up when the pitch goes nowhere. The hard part isn't the screening logic — it's the ending…
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Inference was never local — what's moving is the agent process, the filesystem it touches, and the tool runtime. We look at Anthropic's remote control and why its…
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Then Hannah asked what happens when 4.2 ships. We dig into what fine-tuning is actually for, where style lives inside a transformer, and why a LoRA adapter trained…
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A listener built a Hugging Face dataset of 5,000+ podcast episodes, each stamped with the model that generated it and synced daily. That makes it a longitudinal…
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Ask ChatGPT to reword an email and you assume one model answers. In reality, a single turn can pass through input moderation, PII detection, a server-side safety…
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When someone asks whether AI is a bubble, they usually mean: are large language models a bubble? That equation — AI equals LLM — happened gradually, and it's…
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What if you never sat through another pseudo-personalized sales pitch again? We write the actual system prompt: the disclosure block, the fair-opportunity block…
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You type a prompt, hit a button, and get a picture — but that single step is a myth. Drawing on ComfyUI's visible node graphs, leaked function calls, and…
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Geopolitics |
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What happens when incredibly precise mapping meets the artificial reality of borders? In 1948, two commanders drew Jerusalem's armistice line with green and red wax…
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Benjamin Netanyahu flew to New York for a few hours at the UN General Assembly — no meeting with Trump, no Musk, a walkout reportedly planned, and wheels up before…
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Armies ran standing intelligence offices in the 1850s; dedicated civilian spy agencies didn't arrive until 1909. So how do the two tracks actually divide the work…
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Unit 8200 supplies roughly 90% of Israel's intelligence material, yet Mossad gets the movies. This episode traces why military intelligence is older as a practice…
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Six churches hold legal rights at Jerusalem's shared holy places, and the rules freezing them in place date back to a 1757 Ottoman decree. This episode traces how…
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The CIA's public map archive lists 110 country maps. A 1961 memo from White House aide Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to President Kennedy counted 16 CIA case officers…
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Architecture |
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Hannah grew up in Dallas surrounded by houses everyone called the Hutsell houses — distinctive, almost fantastical, and impossible to research. Clifford Hutsell has…
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History |
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In November 1948, Moshe Dayan and Abdullah el-Tell met in an abandoned house in Musrara and drew a ceasefire line through Jerusalem by hand — Dayan in green wax…
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Judaism |
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Reincarnation is missing from the Hebrew Bible, the Mishnah, the Talmud, and Maimonides' thirteen principles of faith. Yet gilgul neshamot — the recycling of souls…
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Parenting |
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What if you could spend a day inside the head of a fifteen-month-old? A listener's question about his son Ezra opens up the science of infant experience: color…
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Policy |
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What does life actually look like after the Oval Office? Starting from a listener's question about whether former presidents can ever do ordinary things again, we…
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Preparedness |
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A listener's email about a $30 small-parts box sent us down a research rabbit hole into emergency medicine. Task-based package organization (TPO) groups supplies by…
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Everything Else |
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A busy British curry house sends out 120 dishes a night, and every one of them starts from the same vat of base gravy. This episode breaks down what's actually in…
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