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My Weird Prompts

Daniel Rosehill

The human-AI collaboration podcast. A man, a sloth, and a donkey collaborate to create a podcast (with a little help from AI). No question is too obscure, no rabbit hole too deep. My Weird Prompts celebrates curiosity in all its forms. Daniel, the human, asks the questions that pop into his head at inconvenient moments. Corn the Sloth offers laid-back, thoughtful takes. Herman the Donkey brings boundless enthusiasm and energy. Together, they explore topics ranging from the mundane to the

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27:52

How Territorial Compression Triggers a Biological...

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2026/06/01

Headlines mention squalid conditions in Gaza but skip the chain of causation. This episode traces three specific mechanisms: waste infrastructure collapse as a rat population catalyst, water system fragmentation enabling disease transmission, and population density as a force multiplier. Learn how Manhattan-level density without any infrastructure creates the perfect conditions for Norway rats to produce up to 2,000 descendants from a single breeding pair in one year, and why scabies R0 can exceed 5

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30:40

Public Housing in America: A State-by-State Breakdown

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2026/05/31

What is public housing, really? It’s not the high-rise projects of decades past. Today, it’s a patchwork of 3,000 local housing authorities, each with its own rules, waitlists, and funding crises. With the midterms approaching and renters squeezed nationwide, state-level policy divergence has never mattered more. We break down how eligibility works, why New York has six times the units of Texas, and what it actually takes to get on a waitlist — from Washington’s streamlined portal to Illinois’s

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30:36

Moving Secrets from Film Scouts & Museum Pros

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2026/05/31

Most moving advice comes from professional movers — but the best systems come from professions that move complex, irreplaceable things under pressure. This episode unpacks how film location scouts document every power outlet and cable path before a single truck arrives, how museum registrars achieve a 0.1% damage rate on priceless artifacts, and how yacht crews maintain floating inventory systems. You'll learn practical techniques you can steal: strike kits organized by setup sequence, dependency

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28:51

Housing as Anchor vs. Safety Net

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2026/05/31

This episode unpacks a provocative proposal: strip the job guarantee from the state's safety net and instead guarantee just housing, food, and healthcare — unconditionally, without means-testing, and as a legal right. We explore how this differs structurally from existing programs like Section 8 and SNAP, why waitlists and welfare cliffs create chronic anxiety even when nothing's gone wrong, and what Israel's month-to-month rental market reveals about the psychological cost of insecurity. Drawing on

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34:16

How to Break an LLM's Bad Verbal Habits

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2026/05/31

Every large language model develops a fingerprint of overused phrases — "delve," "failure modes," "it's worth noting." Blacklists leak into output, regex silently inverts meaning, and feeding previous episodes into context only compounds the problem. This episode explores three practical approaches to breaking the reinforcement loop: compressed style summaries with decay, dual-model editing architectures, and context-aware regex using dependency parsing. No silver bullets, just real trade-offs for

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34:45

Pharmacokinetics vs Neural Nets: Two Meanings of "Model

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2026/05/31

The word "model" now triggers thoughts of AI, but clinicians have used pharmacokinetic models for decades — differential equations with physically meaningful parameters, no training data required. This episode unpacks the fundamental differences between classical mathematical models, machine learning models, and algorithms, using drug dosing as a concrete example. We explore how theory-first PK models (built from known physiology) compare to data-first neural networks, why extrapolation risk differs

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27:54

Why Your Phone Betrays You to a Nursery Speaker

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2026/05/31

Your Android phone keeps hijacking business calls to send them to a nursery speaker. Why can’t you set connection priority? We dig into the 14-year-old Bluetooth stack, the fragmentation that blocks a fix, and the workarounds that actually help—from Tasker automation to hidden developer settings.

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27:25

30 BLE Tags for $60: DIY ADHD Object Tracking

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2026/05/31

Tired of hunting for your phone, wallet, and keys every morning? Commercial trackers like Tile and AirTag break down when you need to track more than a handful of items. This episode reveals a radically cheaper alternative: a self-hosted BLE tracking system built on ESP32 proxies and Home Assistant that scales to 30+ tags for about $60 in hardware. We explore the architectural shift from persistent connections to connectionless scanning, how to build a portable travel tracker with a Raspberry Pi,

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30:06

DeFi vs Microlending: What Actually Works?

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2026/05/31

DeFi has $180 billion locked in protocols, yet 1.7 billion adults remain unbanked. This episode cuts through the hype to examine what the evidence actually says about credit access — from microlending's randomized controlled trials showing $3.50 monthly profit gains to DeFi's overcollateralized lending that requires borrowers to already have money. We explore where blockchain finance is genuinely transformative: stablecoin adoption in hyperinflationary Argentina, cross-border remittances at 0.1%

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28:45

The Split in Insomnia Treatment: SOI vs SMI

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2026/05/31

Most people think insomnia is one condition, but the biology tells a different story. Sleep-onset insomnia and sleep-maintenance insomnia involve different brain circuits, different neurotransmitters, and different timing of dysfunction. The FDA just approved a new dual orexin receptor antagonist in March 2026 targeting sleep maintenance specifically, and the treatment pipeline is finally splitting. We break down the neurobiology, the pharmacology, and why your sleeping pill might be targeting the

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27:08

A Floor That Holds: Housing, Food, and Job Guarantees...

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2026/05/31

What if you couldn't become homeless or hungry, no matter what? This episode explores the three interlocking ideas of a housing and food guarantee, a job guarantee, and how they differ from Universal Basic Income. We trace the philosophical lineage from Thomas Paine to FDR's Economic Bill of Rights, examine real-world evidence from Utah's Housing First program and Finland's national experiment, and unpack the surprising findings from 1970s guaranteed income trials — including the controversial

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27:08

The Million-Dollar Cost of Avoiding an Invoice

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2026/05/31

Money shame isn’t financial anxiety — it’s the visceral discomfort of naming your price, sending an invoice, or negotiating a salary. This episode traces the psychological inheritance behind that feeling: parental modeling, cultural scripts, and class-based shame. We break down why knowledge alone can’t fix it (your anterior cingulate cortex doesn’t care about spreadsheets), what the “worthiness gap” costs you over a career, and how both undercharging and overcharging are driven by the same

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26:28

How to Learn Life Skills Without the Shame

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2026/05/31

That laundry confession you've never admitted? You're not alone. This episode explores the massive gap between YouTube tutorials and therapy for learning basic life skills — cooking, cleaning, home systems. We map the existing landscape of informal networks, passive digital resources, and sparse formal education, then examine the emerging market of specialized coaches offering everything from stain chemistry workshops to home systems audits. With "adulting" content surpassing 12 billion views on

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31:29

Sovereign SATCOM: Inside the Military's Orbital Arms...

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2026/05/31

When a commercial satellite provider can restrict where its terminals operate — as SpaceX did in Ukraine — the military implications are profound. That's why the US Space Force operates WGS: twelve geostationary satellites serving as the backbone of American military communications, from drone feeds over Yemen to B-52s over the Pacific. But the US isn't alone. Russia's Blagovest network has four birds in orbit, China's Tiantong has three, and all three nations are racing toward proliferated

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32:02

Three Hatreds: Christian, Islamic, Anti-Zionist

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2026/05/31

Are all forms of anti-Semitism the same hatred wearing different masks? This episode argues no — Christian theological anti-Judaism, Islamic dhimmi subordination, and modern anti-Zionist ideology are fundamentally distinct phenomena with separate roots, mechanisms, and consequences. We trace each tradition from its origins — Melito of Sardis, the Pact of Umar, the Soviet "Zionism is racism" campaign — through their most dangerous mutations. The distinctions matter enormously for understanding how

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34:21

The Five Pathways to Homelessness (You’re Wrong About...

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2026/05/31

How do people actually wind up on the street? A landmark University of Chicago study tracked 26,000 homeless individuals across 50 cities for two years, revealing five distinct pathways — not one. The largest group? People who had housing, lost it to an economic shock, and are often still employed. This episode breaks down the data behind the housing crisis, institutional discharge pipelines, relationship breakdowns, health crises, and chronic spirals — and why Finland cut homelessness 80% by simply

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32:32

How Bankruptcy Works Differently in the US vs. Israel

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2026/05/31

Bankruptcy isn’t one idea—it’s a legal technology engineered for different purposes. In the US, it’s a fresh start; in Israel and much of Europe, it’s a punishment for failure. With global debt hitting $315 trillion and cross-border insolvencies rising, understanding which rules apply could determine whether you get a second chance or spend a decade under court supervision. This episode breaks down the mechanics of Chapter 7, Chapter 11, Israel’s creditor-friendly system, and what happens when your

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33:18

How Consumer Drones Really Talk to Their Controllers

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2026/05/31

Ever wondered why your DJI drone loses signal behind a building while military drones fly from halfway across the world? This episode breaks down the radio guts of consumer drones — from OcuSync 4.0 and Fresnel zone physics to the real-world range gap between spec sheets and city streets. Then we trace the path from line-of-sight limits to military Ku-band satellite links, and land on the surprising middle ground: off-the-shelf 4G LTE modules that let consumer drones fly twenty kilometers behind

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29:07

Opus 4.8: What Actually Changed Under the Hood

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2026/05/31

Anthropic quietly released Opus 4.8 on May 27, 2026 — a substantial checkpoint update that reworks the training data mix, post-training pipeline, and inference strategy without changing the underlying architecture. We break down the 40% more code training data from GitHub Copilot traces, the new speculative decoding with dynamic tree depth that cuts code generation time by more than half, and the improved refusal calibration that dropped over-refusals from 8.2% to 3.1%. Plus: where benchmark gains

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33:09

The 2,000-Year Campaign to Ban Brit Milah

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2026/05/31

Belgium's parliament is considering a bill that would ban non-medical circumcision for anyone under sixteen — and European Jewish groups are calling it the most serious threat to Jewish life since the Holocaust. But this isn't a new fight. In this episode, we trace the 2,000-year history of state attempts to outlaw brit milah, from Hadrian's Roman Empire in 135 CE to medieval Christian Europe, the Spanish Inquisition, the Soviet Union, and Nazi-occupied Poland. Each time, the legal framing has been

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