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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Monday, 21 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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This episode unpacks the three layers behind every route you've ever taken: the static map, the routing engine, and the live conditions layer on top. Along the way…
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Android's architecture treats your keyboard and your speech recognition engine as two independent system services — you can set each one separately. But most…
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HeliBoard ships with zero dictionaries — you download a .dict file yourself, and that file may date to October 2014. This episode digs into the open-source…
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You need to get a message across a room with two phones and no network. Morse code over audio is the oldest trick in the book — and the most likely to actually…
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Android has always treated keyboards and speech-to-text as two separate services — you can set a default IME and a default voice input provider independently. But…
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You download a model from Hugging Face, but you're not downloading something that runs — you're downloading weights. Something has to map every operator onto your…
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Android is open source — except for the parts that matter. This episode digs into the gap between what AOSP promises and what developers actually experience when…
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Commercial and industrial equipment is built for a different buyer: one who runs it sixteen hours a day for a decade and repairs rather than replaces. That single…
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The answer is yes and no — and the no is more interesting. This episode maps the three tiers of laundry equipment, from domestic machines to commercial…
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A malicious WebP image doesn't need you to open it. It just needs your operating system to glance at it — to generate a thumbnail, index it, or render a preview…
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Most people treat VirusTotal like a thermometer: paste a file, get a verdict, move on. But the real forensics — sandbox behavior, relationship graphs, YARA rules …
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SIP doesn't carry audio — it negotiates sessions, and RTP does the rest. That separation is what makes one-way paging possible: a SIP speaker is just an endpoint…
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Standalone pagers like the Motorola MINITOR use a persistent blink-until-acknowledged loop, while Zello's Call Alerts repeat three beeps every sixty seconds until…
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The answer splits into three layers: tempered glass (cheap, everywhere, but a scratch-and-clarity product), TPU impact film (the material that actually claims…
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Zello brought walkie-talkie urgency to smartphones, but it never solved the persistent alert problem: the pager-style loop that keeps pinging until someone confirms…
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Most "10 tools every homeowner needs" lists are wish lists — they tell you what to own, not what to buy first. This episode builds an actual purchasing sequence…
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Most jigsaw buyers shop by amps and strokes per minute — the two numbers that predict the least about whether a saw is any good. This episode works through what…
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AI |
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In May 2026, a Gemini model running a capture-the-flag exercise against a fictional target company reached three real businesses — because the sandbox it was…
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A Google Gemini cybersecurity evaluation accidentally reached the public internet, and three real companies got breached. But the techniques used were password…
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Amazon Go promised a grocery store where you walk in, grab what you want, and walk out — no checkout, no scanning, no line. But in April 2024, The Information…
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What happens when companies deliberately make human-written text read as machine-generated? This episode breaks down the "pseudobot" text generator — a system…
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We pull back the curtain on "fauxtomation" — products sold as autonomous AI where humans are quietly doing the intelligent work. Starting with X.AI's Amy, the…
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When Amazon launched Just Walk Out, the pitch was computer vision at scale. The reality: roughly a thousand workers in India manually reviewing transactions. This…
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A comedy sketch about a "Waze call center" turns out to be less absurd than it looks. This episode traces fauxtomation — automation that isn't automation — from…
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Dates render as "nineteen eighty-four," paragraphs have no boundaries, and self-corrections like "wait, I meant grapes" sit in the text as content. His instinct is…
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Dictation pipelines break on numbers, not hard words. This episode digs into inverse text normalization (ITN) — the post-processing step that turns spoken forms…
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Most coverage of personal fine-tuning leads with the same line: tens of thousands of examples, a rack of GPUs, a research team. That story is mostly wrong. For a…
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Everyone says they want agents they can move between clouds, laptops, and providers — until they try. The code moves fine. The memory doesn't. This episode digs…
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A listener running a Futo voice input fork on Android wants to chain a custom small model after his ASR and punctuation stages to fix number normalization…
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Hugging Face and Kaggle get compared head-to-head all the time, but they're not two storefronts selling the same thing. Hugging Face is Git-backed infrastructure…
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Health |
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When a child's chest infection sent a family through the winding corridors of Shaarei Zedek Medical Center, the instruction on the chart was simple: follow the…
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It's a clinical decision support layer, and the biggest name in the space is Schmitt-Thompson, standardized triage protocols used by over a thousand organizations…
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Geopolitics |
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For twenty-five years, Gallup's sympathy question barely moved. In February 2026, Americans favored Palestinians over Israelis for the first time ever — 41 to 36…
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Israel |
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A listener bought a La Roche-Posay face cream in a Jerusalem pharmacy for 160 shekels — the same cream cost her about $17 on Amazon in the U.S. the week before…
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