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Today in
My Weird Prompts
Saturday, 19 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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Steeplejacks rope-access the four pinnacles of Lincoln Cathedral at 271 feet to test lightning protection that gets a full inspection once every ten years…
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Watching footage of linemen in Faraday suits sitting on live half-million-volt conductors raises an obvious question: who signs up for this? The answer is more…
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A moving box full of mystery VESA mounts turns into a tour of what's actually standardized and what isn't. The plate pattern on the back of your monitor has been…
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Drone rules attach to aircraft, not to sticks — so a camera on a telescopic pole sits in a genuine legal gap. But the physics closes it fast: stiffness falls with…
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Is that vague future real, or a fantasy? Drawing on the Circuit Salvage guide, a Hackaday teardown of an old Kindle, the Loopstr parts harvesting guide, and Okon…
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The millimeter is the last measurement most humans can actually see and feel — roughly the limit of the naked eye at reading distance. But the moment you're…
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The answer turns out to be messier than anyone expected: the naked eye's true resolution floor is finer than the standard 20/20 chart assumes, and there are…
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Phone camera apps default to three focus points, but at macro magnifications the depth of field is a fraction of a millimeter — a five centimeter object needs…
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History |
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We assume sanitation is a straight line from filth to porcelain — but the archaeology says otherwise. Mohenjo-daro had covered drains and flush toilets 4,500 years…
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Screws, bolts, nuts, and washers hold the built world together — but the standardized, off-the-shelf fastener is far newer than most people assume. This episode…
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Eleven men eating lunch on a steel beam, 850 feet above Manhattan — the most famous construction photo ever taken. But it wasn't the Empire State Building, it…
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AI |
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When a webhook fires but the response never arrives, the form looks like it failed — so you resubmit, and now the pipeline is running the same job twice. This…
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Most tool manuals serve the manufacturer's lawyers, not the person holding the tool. This episode takes that problem seriously: build a system prompt that strips…
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Geopolitics |
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The Institute for Science and International Security published annotated satellite imagery showing Iran rebuilding the Taleghan Two site at Parchin for the second…
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Health |
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Cholera kills within hours, costs cents to treat, and has been understood for 170 years — so why is it still spreading? This episode unpacks the two very different…
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Judaism |
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What if a podcast player had no controls at all? In this episode, we explore a listener's prototype for a Shabbat-friendly radio: a Raspberry Pi that pulls episodes…
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Science |
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It started with a joke about selling holy air from Jerusalem in little vials — and turned into a real question about whether air can be sealed, preserved, and…
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Everything Else |
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What drives someone to build a museum around fossilized dung, tapeworms, or the objects left behind after a breakup? This week we tour the world's most niche…
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A single word in a statute — "occupation" — lets London landlords dodge a billion pounds in business rates with nothing but empty cardboard boxes. This week we go…
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From the economics that make loud, high-volume bars win on paper to the fishmonger who threatened to hose down singing customers, we explore the tradeoffs of…
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We assume structured learning and development is an enterprise luxury — dedicated HR teams, corporate universities, formal budget lines. The data tells a more…
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