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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Thursday, 24 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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Almost everyone has tried to install a tempered glass screen protector, and almost everyone has ended up with bubbles. The frustrating part is that it looks trivial…
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Emoji didn't start as decoration. In 1999, NTT DoCoMo's Shigetaka Kurita built 176 tiny pictures to carry tone that plain text on a tiny screen couldn't — and named…
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Ever opened a UTF-8 CSV in Excel and watched José turn into "José"? That garbled text is called mojibake, and it's the visible symptom of a character set mismatch…
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A listener noticed something odd: Hebrew in a URL's domain renders beautifully in the address bar, but Hebrew in the path collapses into six lines of percent-sign…
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What if the government owned every fiber line and cell tower, and every carrier simply rented space on the state's pipes? This week we dig into a listener's…
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Israel's 2009 telecom reforms forced incumbents to host virtual operators and cut mobile prices by 60–80%. So why not go further — one physical network owned by the…
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Mobile number porting is a legally mandated right, standardized by 3GPP and enforced in Israel since the mid-2000s. The consumer version is one sentence: disconnect…
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Israel deregulated its mobile market to multiply competitors, but the antennas collapsed into two shared networks — PHI and S-Plus — and virtual operators aren't…
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This episode unpacks why these lockouts aren't bugs but failures of imagination, tracing the problem through happy-path testing, dissolved QA teams, and decades of…
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AI |
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This episode digs into the measurable mechanics of AI over-editing — from a 2026 coding-model study showing reasoning models rewrite more by default, to brevity…
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When ChatGPT asks you to approve a tool call, something has already scanned the outgoing data for usernames, addresses, and other PII — and that something is…
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Most advice about custom instructions says make them longer. The evidence says the opposite: a leaner prompt can be functionally equivalent, four and a half times…
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A single 2015 forum post, one scraped phone number, and a chatbot that confidently hands it to strangers over a decade later. This episode digs into "AI doxxing" …
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Judaism |
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The Pharisees and Sadducees are two of the most famous groups of the Second Temple period, and almost everything we think we know about them comes from sources that…
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Imagine Jerusalem in the days before Sukkot during the Second Temple period — not as a pilgrim, but as a resident watching your city triple in size. Drawing on…
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Most Jews today hear the shofar once a year. But in the Second Temple, horns and silver trumpets were part of the daily soundscape of Jerusalem — at least 21 blasts…
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Every Sukkot, the Temple courtyard filled with towering lamps, torch dances, and all-night music. But what does the earliest source actually claim — and where do…
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Geopolitics |
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Eight countries — France, Belgium, Britain, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Greece, and Turkey — maintain consulates-general in Jerusalem whose diplomats report straight to…
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From 1948 to 1967, Jerusalem was split between Israel and Jordan, and the Mandelbaum Gate was the only legal crossing between the two halves. It looked like a…
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In 1948, two commanders met in an abandoned Musrara house and drew Jerusalem's ceasefire line by hand — one with a green wax pencil, one with red. What they assumed…
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History |
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In the heart of Jerusalem, a 68-dunam walled district flies a flag that isn't Israeli. The Russian Compound — Migrash ha-Rusim in Hebrew, al-Muskubiya in Arabic …
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The word "superpower" was coined in 1944 by William T.R. Fox to describe exactly three countries: the United States, the Soviet Union, and Britain. So what happens…
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For nineteen years, a border drawn in wax pencil cut through the middle of Jerusalem — through neighbourhoods, streets, and even individual houses. After the…
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Architecture |
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The walls surrounding Jerusalem's Old City were built by Suleiman the Magnificent between 1537 and 1541 — yet the original Jerusalem sits outside them, uninhabited…
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Audio & Speech |
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Then we separate the two questions: personal vocabulary turns out to have a lightweight, already-shipped answer in contextual biasing and hotwords, while Hebrew is…
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Parenting |
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A fifteen-month-old, a flat-pack wardrobe, and a screw that went missing — that's the scenario a listener wrote in about, and it turns out the answer splits in a…
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Everything Else |
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A country that eats chopped salad at seven in the morning, and a country where the same dish signals joyless dieting. How did raw vegetables become the backbone of…
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