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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Friday, 2 October 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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A twelve-meter Cat6 run terminates badly and quietly falls back to 100 megabit — the classic silent failure where the link light comes on and everything looks fine…
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This episode works through the actual engineering: why active optical cables make display the solved problem, why USB over distance is the maddening one, and what…
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A rebuilt server, a headlamp on a dark apartment floor, and a phone camera pointed at a circuit board. That setup raised a better question than it answered: why…
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A woodworking bench punishes mess; an electronics bench doesn't. That's why the high street phone repair shop is the archetype of the scattered bench — dozens of…
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Why do interchangeable precision screwdriver sets struggle with recessed screws, and why is hand driving actually more efficient for tiny fasteners — even though…
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Geopolitics |
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A Russian airborne unit near Hirske was caught using a map printed in 1990 with a coordinate system retired in 1942 — while Finland's Guard Jaeger Regiment is…
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On September 30, 2026, Flydubai Flight 1073 plunged from 34,000 feet over the Jordan–Saudi border after a first officer attacked his captain with a knife. The…
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When the IDF published a ten-page rebuttal to the Venice-winning documentary NAZA, it raised a narrow but important question: what does the "right of reply"…
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When a documentary built entirely on silhouetted, voice-altered testimony wins the Special Jury Prize at Venice, the ethical questions don't stay on the red carpet…
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Health |
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Most circadian advice stops at blackout curtains and putting your phone down. But the biology was never the hard part — the hard part is that no single body treats…
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This episode traces the light pathway — from the intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells that don't help you see, to the contested question of whether…
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We untangle the genes, the imitation, and the pattern-matching brain that makes every parent see themselves in their kid.
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History |
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The Puritans are America's favorite scapegoats for strict alcohol laws, drab clothing, and a war on fun. But how much of that is real? The result is a messier, more…
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Policy |
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The United States is a plurilegal federal union — conflict-of-laws scholar Symeon Symeonides' term for a country where American judges encounter roughly five…
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Everything Else |
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Israel has rest hours written into law — 2 to 4 PM, noise restricted, on the books since 1961 — and almost nobody observes them. Where did the siesta actually come…
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What happens when a film's budget doesn't just limit the production but actively breaks the illusion it's asking you to believe? This episode explores the sincere…
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