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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Thursday, 17 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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Learning to solder starts with a four-dollar badge and ends with a habit you'll keep for decades — but the safety advice most beginners get is backwards. The…
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We sort the failures into three buckets: good ideas killed by politics, engineering that works but economics that don't, and the transparently ridiculous. Along the…
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This episode walks through the teardown as a discipline: photographing the intact device, mapping every screw, capturing board sections at macro magnification, and…
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What makes a power tool absurd rather than merely niche? This episode tours ten of the strangest power tools ever manufactured — a chainsaw bayonet designed for…
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When a Dremel 7760's micro USB port dies mid-engraving batch, it kicks off a deeper question: why do cordless rotary tools feel weaker as the battery drains, and…
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But repairing it means documenting it: photographing a micro USB port at 4-5x zoom well enough to diagnose a cracked solder joint, and publishing those photos…
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That charging cable that only works at one specific angle? It's not the cable — it's the port. This episode breaks down why micro USB connectors fail so reliably…
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So what actually stands out for practical, durable marking? We walk through the entire rotary tool landscape: Dremel's own lineup from the disposable Lite to the…
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AI |
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AI agents write code in whatever language the training data favors, and that's reshaping which programming languages survive. This episode digs into the numbers…
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Software development is shifting from writing code to supervising the systems that write it — and that changes almost everything downstream. This episode digs into…
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Health |
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Waking at 1 a.m. feels manageable. Waking at 4:30 feels catastrophic — and there's real science behind that difference. This episode digs into time monitoring…
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This episode unpacks the accelerator-and-brake analogy, why a prodrug like lisdexamfetamine still produces peaks sharp enough to feel like an erratic taxi driver…
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Policy |
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A Dremel under warranty that still costs double. A leaky apartment that costs a family its home. Two stories, one pattern: rights that exist on paper but dissolve…
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A broken micro USB port on a $50 rotary tool turns into a tour of global consumer protection. Israel's 1993 Warranty Law puts both retailer and importer on the…
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Geopolitics |
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Jason Watson, a Chickasaw citizen and executive director of Indigenous Bridges, arrived in Israel in 2008 with an agenda: he read the Palestinian cause as his own…
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Judaism |
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In 1242, twenty-four wagonloads of Talmud manuscripts were burned in Paris. The tradition survived anyway — and that survival tells us something profound about how…
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Everything Else |
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In 1999, David Cronenberg released a body-horror film about organic game pods, bio-ports surgically installed in the spine, and a gun that fires human teeth — and…
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Quentin Tarantino has been spotted in Tel Aviv laughing at his own movies — repeatedly, in public, with visible delight. Most actors can't make it through a single…
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