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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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24:15

The $250 Top Hat: Buying Your First Serious Victorian...

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2026/07/21

Thinking about adding a top hat to your wardrobe? This episode dives into the surprisingly deep world of serious hat enthusiasts. We trace the top hat's origin as a public menace that got its first wearer fined for causing a riot, then explore the modern market's two extremes: cheap costume hats that disintegrate in humidity and heirloom-quality pieces costing hundreds to thousands of dollars. Learn about silk plush versus beaver fur felt, the forums where enthusiasts debate brim curl and crown

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21:29

The Doublet Changed My Posture

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2026/07/21

Forget costume parties — which historical garments are worth wearing in daily life? This episode ranks pre-industrial clothing by "anachronism density," from the misunderstood codpiece (which started as a practical modesty panel) to the wearable doublet (a fabric exoskeleton that forces better posture) to the farthingale (a structural frame that redefines personal space entirely). Learn why a well-made wool doublet is the most practical anachronistic garment you can own, and why the farthingale

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23:35

Tracing the IP Path of Your Phone Call in 2026

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2026/07/21

When you place a call from a DSL landline or a smartphone in 2026, does your voice travel over an IP network end-to-end, or does it still rely on ancient circuit-switched technology? The answer, frustratingly, is "it depends." In this episode, we trace the actual routing path behind three specific scenarios: a DSL landline call, a mobile-to-mobile call, and the messy hybrid of mobile calling landline. We explore the role of media gateways, the stubborn persistence of Class 5 switches, and why the

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30:58

55M Addresses Leaked: What Suno Users Need to Know

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2026/07/21

Suno's recent data breach exposed 55 million accounts — including names, email addresses, passwords, partial credit card numbers, and crucially, physical home addresses. This changes the stakes from a digital annoyance to a potential physical safety concern. We break down what the attacker actually walked away with, why partial card numbers plus addresses create a social engineering kit, how US and EU legal frameworks handle address data differently, and four specific questions affected users should

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25:49

Where Is the Internet Still Missing?

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2026/07/21

The ITU says 96% of the global population is within range of a mobile signal, yet 2.6 billion people remain offline. This episode explores the gap between coverage maps and reality, separating places with no infrastructure from places where connectivity is functionally impossible. We examine North Korea’s deliberate intranet, the economic barriers of Starlink, and the truly dark inhabited zones in the Amazon basin, Central African Republic, and beyond. The answer to whether the pre-internet era is

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24:27

How to Tell Real Security Tools From Fakes

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2026/07/21

When Daniel's friend asked how to know if security tools themselves aren't the crooks, it raised a question more sophisticated than most security advice addresses. This episode breaks down the "scam scam detector" phenomenon — fake antivirus, VPNs, and monitoring services that prey on people trying to protect themselves. We explore the Hola VPN scandal, fake antivirus apps with 500,000 downloads, and how Mozilla Monitor and Have I Been Pwned architect their systems differently. Learn the

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26:55

W-8BEN Traps for Spouses of US Citizens

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2026/07/21

A non-US citizen married to an American gets handed a W-8BEN form by a US company paying them — YouTube ad revenue, podcast sponsors, freelance income. It looks simple: certify you're not a US person, claim a treaty rate, done. But marriage to a US citizen turns that simplicity into a minefield. This episode walks through how the W-8BEN interacts with joint filing elections, FATCA reporting on shared accounts, and the IRS's automated underreporter system. We cover the §6013(g) election trap that

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26:07

Why Your Phone Scan Fails (and How to Fix It)

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2026/07/21

Phone scanning apps like Google Lens, Adobe Scan, and Microsoft Lens have gotten astonishingly good at curvature correction, shadow removal, and text sharpening. But the single biggest variable in output quality is still the physical setup you provide. In this episode, we break down the three hidden failure modes of AI document scanning—background contrast, curvature correction, and glare—and reveal the cheap household items that fix them. From dark craft paper to neodymium magnets, these simple

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25:50

Shared Shopping Carts That Auto-Order

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2026/07/21

Daniel wants a shared household cart that auto-places orders when it hits a free shipping threshold. Herman explains why AliExpress cart sync breaks across devices, why consumer platforms resist automation, and how enterprise procurement systems already solve this problem. They explore Share-A-Cart, AI shopping agents, and middleware approaches — and why none of them fully work yet.

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29:09

Bluetooth Tape Measures: What Actually Works

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2026/07/21

Daniel discovered a Bluetooth menu in ImageMeter and wondered: can I pair a laser measure directly to my phone and skip manual typing? We break down the Bluetooth measuring ecosystem — what actually works, what doesn't, and why Bluetooth tape measures are a dead end for ImageMeter users. We cover the Bosch GLM series, Leica DISTO, and combo devices like the Bosch PLR 50 C that put a laser and tape measure in one body. Plus, why lasers are terrible for short measurements like keyhole spacing, and why

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26:39

When Hacking Becomes Disclosure: The Suno Breach

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2026/07/20

A data breach at AI music generator Suno exposed millions of customer records — but the real revelation was internal code showing the model trained on scraped YouTube content. The hacker didn't sell the data or demand ransom; they handed it straight to a journalist. This episode explores the blurry line between criminal hacking and public interest disclosure, unpacking what makes the Suno case different from ransomware attacks, and where it sits on the spectrum of hacktivism from HBGary Federal to

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26:49

Who Decides What's Kosher? The Tzohar Fight

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2026/07/20

In July 2026, Israel's new government revoked state recognition of Tzohar's kosher certification, re-establishing the Chief Rabbinate's monopoly over kashrut. But this isn't a simple religious dispute — it's a political and economic battle over who gets to decide what "kosher" means. This episode unpacks what Tzohar actually offers differently (spoiler: it's not leniency), how the Jewish world went from a simple binary to a bewildering marketplace of competing hechshers, and why the modern obsession

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31:05

Flights vs Feelings: Israel-UAE 5 Years After the...

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2026/07/20

Five years after the Abraham Accords, the Israel-UAE relationship is a study in contradictions. Over sixty weekly flights connect Tel Aviv to Dubai and Abu Dhabi — more than to London — and bilateral non-oil trade has hit $2.5 billion. But public support in the UAE has actually declined since 2020, and the warmth index is trending down. In this episode, we examine what the aviation numbers, trade composition, tourism asymmetry, and security cooperation reveal about whether the Accords produced

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27:17

The Port Concession Trap: Dependency vs. Malware

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2026/07/20

Most headlines focus on the malware risk when Chinese state-owned enterprises win port concessions. But the real danger is slower, more insidious: structural dependency. When a foreign operator runs your port for a quarter-century, your country loses the institutional knowledge to ever take it back. We break down the trilemma every government faces — cost, speed, security — and why you can only pick two. From Haifa to Piraeus, we explore how the Trojan horse framing lets governments off the hook

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22:50

What Latency Actually Buys in Trading

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2026/07/20

Retail trading platforms compete on data feed latency down to milliseconds, but the actual infrastructure gap between individual traders and professional HFT firms is enormous. This episode breaks down what latency really buys at each tier — from colocated servers inside exchange data centers to microwave relay chains between Chicago and New Jersey — and why the spec your broker advertises is almost certainly irrelevant to your actual trading results. We also walk through what it would actually cost

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28:15

How We Know Pension Funds Manage $56 Trillion

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2026/07/20

Most people think banks or sovereign wealth funds run the world's money. The real answer is pension funds, with $56 trillion in global assets. But how do we actually know that number? This episode unpacks the methodological minefields behind global pension statistics, explores the shift from defined benefit to defined contribution plans, and examines what this all means for sustainable finance and impact investing.

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25:30

Israel's Secret Elephant-Flying Cargo Airline

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2026/07/20

Most Israelis have never heard of Challenge Airlines IL — formerly CAL Cargo Air Lines — but this tiny fleet of 747 freighters has been Israel's air cargo lifeline for nearly fifty years. From flying military equipment during wartime to transporting giraffes and temperature-controlled vaccines, CAL fills the gap that passenger planes can't cover. We trace how a single 707 in 1976 grew into Israel's dedicated freighter operation, the doctrine of non-dependence that drove its creation, and why a

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21:57

How a Tiny Country Runs a Global Shipping Line

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2026/07/20

ZIM, Israel's national shipping line, was founded in 1945 as a Zionist political project — a fleet of blockade runners to bring Holocaust survivors past British restrictions. Today, it's a publicly traded global carrier facing a hostile takeover bid from Hapag-Lloyd, which hired former IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot to lead the effort. This episode traces ZIM's history from Ben-Gurion's "non-dependence" doctrine through its survival strategies — early containerization, the Kingston hub-and-spoke

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25:16

How a Government Admin Became a Kosher Food Icon

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2026/07/20

Shimshon Leshinsky is a middle-aged government administrator from Jerusalem who accidentally became one of the most trusted kosher food reviewers in the world. He pays for every meal himself, wears a jacket and tie to review falafel, and posts detailed reviews including kosher certification details — information most reviewers skip. With roughly 200,000 readers across Facebook groups, he's built a following that lifestyle influencers with millions of followers envy. This episode explores how he did

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26:13

The Rabbi You Can't Google

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2026/07/20

In an era where rabbis are expected to have podcasts, Substack newsletters, and Instagram followings, Rabbi Mike Nasielski — known as HaRamyan — has built a meaningful rabbinate with almost no digital footprint. No Wikipedia page, no viral shiurim, barely a social media presence. Yet people who know him consider him deeply significant. This episode explores what his career tells us about influence, presence, and the difference between a lighthouse and a lamppost.

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