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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Tuesday, 15 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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Most people blame the drill when a hole won't go through concrete or steel. But the bit is the only part of the system that actually touches the work — and a dull…
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A replacement patio spotlight arrived as just a fixture — no radio, no driver, no brain — which turned into a full lesson in what modular smart lighting actually…
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On this episode, we dig into why most digital card pages fail — they hand the recipient eight options and hope for the best — and what the data says about…
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This episode unpacks four questions hiding inside one prompt: can Android rebind button events for one specific Bluetooth device, what standalone PTT buttons…
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That question opens up the entire pull-down screen market: why a $66 Elite Screens Manual B can satisfy a dark bedroom while a $2,700 Vividstorm floor-rising ALR…
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Most people use "virus" and "malware" interchangeably, but the difference matters — and it explains why modern attacks don't look like the ones we grew up fearing…
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Geopolitics |
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The U.S.-Canada relationship is usually pictured as the world's longest undefended border between two best friends. That picture is a post-war artifact — the…
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Most gun control debates assume the state controls the supply — write the right rules about who may buy, hold, and carry, and you've determined who ends up armed…
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Every state claims a monopoly on the legitimate use of force — but no state actually holds it absolutely. Police are a delegation. Private security guards are a…
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If two podcast hosts can engineer a birthday prank in an afternoon, how do the professionals get trained? This episode traces the real history of social engineering…
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History |
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The Library of Congress holds more than 170 million items and grows by 10,000 a day. It started as a few hundred law books in the Capitol, burned by British troops…
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The term "robber baron" started as an insult aimed at Cornelius Vanderbilt for *challenging* a government monopoly — and today it means the opposite. This episode…
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What came first — the urge to engrave, or the pigment to paint with? The archaeological record says the cut came first, and it came from a hominin that wasn't even…
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Linguistics |
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Why does an Israeli highway sign say Petah Tiqwa when the Academy of the Hebrew Language killed the Q back in 2006? This episode digs into a century of…
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The Academy of the Hebrew Language has statutory power: its rulings on grammar and terminology are binding for Israeli schools, courts, and government documents. So…
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Israel's Prime Minister's Office has tapped the Academy of the Hebrew Language to build one unified transliteration system for every ministry and local authority …
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AI |
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Deep research agents look busy, but a new paper found 77-94% of search episodes add no new evidence — and search volume is *anti-correlated* with accuracy at -0.77…
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Architecture |
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Jerusalem has a record 10,340 unsold new apartments and an estimated 15,000 homes that sit dark most of the year — yet luxury towers keep selling out before permits…
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Aviation |
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Every wide-body jet has a fuel jettison system, but the FAA only counts dumps — it doesn't track how much fuel comes out, where it falls, or who's underneath. We…
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Policy |
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How does a state keep its monopoly on force while letting tribal nations, religious courts, and community patrols operate their own legal systems? This episode…
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Science |
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Uranium shows up in nearly 45% of Connecticut's private wells, yet the danger there isn't radiation — it's your kidneys. This episode traces the strangest arc in…
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Everything Else |
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Paleo-Hebrew survives in daily life on the one-shekel coin and almost nowhere else. This episode walks through how to commission custom metal stencils of…
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A friend is turning forty-one and the guest list is thin — so the organizers want to know if you can hire a crowd. Rent-a-crowd is a real industry: companies in the…
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