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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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25:49

Airport Security Theater: Who's It Really For?

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2026/07/01

A sixteen-year-old accidentally carries a pocket flamethrower through airport security. DHS undercover tests show screeners miss weapons 95% of the time. So why do we still queue up for body scanners and liquid baggies? This episode unpacks the uncomfortable truth about security theater — a system optimized not for catching threats, but for making passengers feel safe. We trace the incentives that keep failing measures in place, from the TSA's dual mandate to the political calculus that makes it

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32:40

How Intelligence Operatives Build Digital Legends

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2026/07/01

What happens when the privacy-maximizing advice civilians rely on becomes a red flag for intelligence agencies? This episode explores the high-stakes craft of building digital legends — fabricated online identities with years of plausible history, cross-platform consistency, and behavioral fingerprints that read as human. We trace how professionals maintain sock puppet farms, age accounts to look lived-in, and navigate the brutal tradeoff between detail and detectability. And we examine an

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20:47

The Clipboard That Opens Any Door

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2026/07/01

What happens when someone gets paid to lie their way past security guards, clone access badges, and talk their way into server rooms — and getting arrested is just a budgeted expense? This episode unpacks the strange, precarious world of physical penetration testing. From TSA Red Team operators smuggling mock explosives through checkpoints 95% of the time, to testers spending hours in holding cells with a "get-out-of-jail letter" the police don't believe, we explore who does this work, who hires

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25:49

What Landlord Power Does to Human Empathy

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2026/07/01

When a landlord displaces a family with a six-month-old rather than fix a leak, is that just a bad person — or is the system designed to produce that outcome? This episode examines Israeli rental law's structural power imbalances, the psychology of petty sovereignty, and whether the landlord-tenant relationship itself selects for dehumanization. Drawing on data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, comparative law from Germany and France, and decades of power psychology research from Zimbardo and

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21:03

The Art of Being Boring: Privacy Engineering for Renters

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2026/07/01

In an era where the average US renter moves every 18 months, avoiding neighbor relationships is a rational response to a volatile market. This episode breaks down a full social engineering playbook for residential privacy, drawing on professional pretexting techniques used by penetration testers. Learn the three pillars of becoming a "satisfyingly boring" presence: question obfuscation, physical artifact misdirection, and behavioral pattern management.

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45:21

Finding Home in a City You Didn't Choose

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2026/07/01

What do you do when work, family, or circumstance lands you in a city that feels wrong? This episode tackles that tension head-on, using Jerusalem as a case study for a universal problem. We explore real research on place attachment — from a 2025 study showing that a single third place reduces dissatisfaction by 40%, to Hebrew University's cognitive mapping research, to Tel Aviv's surprising findings on walking vs. driving. This isn't about toxic positivity or pretending problems don't exist. It's

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27:31

Is Jerusalem Becoming More Religious?

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2026/07/01

When Daniel sat down for pizza in Jerusalem, two women in full black veils walked past. Across the street, posters declared a long-dead rabbi the Messiah. He and his wife both felt the city was becoming more religiously homogeneous — but is that feeling backed by data? In this episode, we explore two tracks: the demographic numbers from the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research showing how the city's religious composition has shifted over 24 years, and the psychology of "religious load" — why the

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27:28

Why Buying Used Feels Broken

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2026/07/01

Why does buying a used platform trolley feel like a worse deal than buying new? This episode unpacks the hidden economics of second-hand marketplaces — from the endowment effect and hassle tax to the lemons problem that drives good sellers away. We explore why platforms optimize for listings instead of successful transactions, and how this creates a sustainability paradox where eco-conscious consumers end up buying new because the used market is too broken to trust.

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20:47

How to Fix Israel's Broken Rental System

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2026/07/01

Daniel's story of six forced moves in ten years, a landlord who ended his tenancy for asking about a leak, and a toilet ripped out while tenants still lived there — these aren't isolated horror stories. They're symptoms of a rental system designed for landlord discretion, not tenant stability. This episode examines why Israel's 2017 Fair Rental Law failed (no registry, no enforcement), how tenancy at will creates permanent precariousness, and what grassroots movements in Los Angeles and Berlin teach

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24:47

Why Your Fiber Upload Is Stuck at 250 Mbps

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2026/07/01

If you're on fiber in 2026, your download speed has probably skyrocketed — but your upload speed is suspiciously stuck. This episode unpacks why residential fiber plans in Israel (and many other countries) cap uploads at a flat 250 Mbps, even as downloads scale to 5 Gbps. We explore the three explanations: the passive optical network architecture that makes symmetric speed mathematically impossible on shared splitters, the genuine backhaul costs that favor downstream traffic, and — most importantly

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36:38

Venice's Secret: Cargo Lanes for Hand Trucks

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2026/07/01

When moving apartments with a hand truck, one listener discovered the real enemy wasn't the weight—it was dodging tourists and parked cars. His question: if Venice runs a modern city with zero cars, moving everything by barge and hand trolley, why can't other cities carve out dedicated cargo lanes for different speeds of non-vehicle movement? This episode explores the Venice logistics model, how it handles Amazon deliveries without a single van, and whether cities like Barcelona and Utrecht are

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23:10

The Truth About Fiber Rollout Metrics

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2026/07/01

When a politician says their city’s fiber rollout is world-leading, what would it take to believe them? This episode unpacks the gap between press-conference numbers and address-level reality. We break down three broken metrics — “homes passed,” “gigabit-capable,” and subscription rates — and show how each one can obscure the truth. Plus: who’s building honest alternatives, and why the last hundred meters from the curb to your apartment is where the real battle is fought.

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25:02

How ChatGPT Beat Affiliate Marketing and the Store Clerk

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2026/07/01

When Daniel needed a drill, he didn’t trust Google or the store clerk. He fed ChatGPT his specs, local screenshots, and a photo of his drill bits. Seconds later, it recommended one specific Bosch model — and it was right. This episode unpacks how AI’s compositional reasoning is dismantling two broken layers of retail: affiliate marketing’s commission-driven content and big box stores’ under-trained floor staff. We explore the mechanics of Daniel’s method, why most consumers won’t get the same

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29:27

The Lost Art of People-Watching

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2026/07/01

A listener's exhausted moment in a Cork coffee shop sparks a deep dive into the psychology and neuroscience of watching the world go by. We trace the figure of the flâneur from 19th-century Paris to modern-day Portugal, explore the spotlight effect and the default mode network, and ask why sitting on a bench doing nothing has become a quiet act of resistance in an age of constant productivity.

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22:26

The Silence That Moves Furniture

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2026/07/01

What happens when coexistence isn't a peace program or a dialogue group, but a moving truck in a Jerusalem apartment? This episode follows one Israeli Jew's interior crisis as Arab movers load his family's belongings — and the uncomfortable asymmetry of who gets to have an existential crisis on a Tuesday. We explore the contact hypothesis, the functional work of silence, and what happens when two people with incompatible narratives about the same land still need to get a couch through a doorway.

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25:34

The Hand on the Head: Blessing Across Millennia

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2026/07/01

When a secular man in a Jerusalem cafe placed his hand on a stranger's head and spoke a blessing, he was tapping into one of the oldest continuous ritual gestures in Jewish tradition. In this episode, we trace the hand-on-head gesture from its prototype in Genesis 48:14—where Jacob deliberately crosses his hands to bless Ephraim and Menashe—through the Friday night blessing of children, the priestly blessing of Birkat Kohanim, and the transmission of authority through smicha. Why does a hand on a

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36:34

How to Be the Perfect Coffee Shop Worker (No Laptop...

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2026/07/01

Millions of remote workers now use coffee shops as de facto offices, but the unwritten social contract is a minefield of anxiety. This episode decodes the etiquette of long-stay customers — from ordering cadence and tip strategy to the hidden economics of "human scenery." We tackle Daniel's specific crisis: how to work from a Jerusalem bakery with just a phone and a pastry, without the owner silently wishing you'd evaporate. Featuring barista forum research, the psychology of the spotlight effect,

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36:01

The Flash Interview: Give Away Gear in 2 Minutes

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2026/07/01

Selling a $100 item on Facebook Marketplace costs you 2-3 hours of back-and-forth, ghosting, and no-shows. There's a better way. This episode breaks down a structured system — the "flash interview" — that turns any friend interaction into a seamless gear-matching opportunity. Learn the three-question protocol to surface latent needs, how to run a 30-second mental inventory before social events, and the zero-friction pitch that makes giving away gear feel like a compliment. No listings, no haggling,

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21:49

The Hidden Math of Professional Movers

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2026/07/01

Moving looks like a strength problem, but the real bottleneck is something most people never consider: trip count. This episode unpacks the hidden playbook professional movers use — from three-dimensional truck packing that achieves 85-95% volumetric efficiency, to crew choreography where nobody's ever idle. You'll learn why loading slower saves time, how to reverse-engineer your load order for the destination, and why the most impactful person on a moving crew never lifts a single item.

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23:05

Fueling Your Body Without a Gallbladder

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2026/07/01

After gallbladder removal, your fat emulsification capacity drops 50-70%, making standard high-fat meals a recipe for bloating and misery. But what if you're physically working hard and need 3,000 calories a day? This episode breaks down the physiology of bile-free digestion, the role of MCT oil as a bile-bypassing calorie source, and why zero-fat diets actually sabotage your metabolism. We build actual quantified meals — breakfast, lunch, dinner — designed for post-cholecystectomy bodies that need

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