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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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36:09

How Open-Source Satellites Spot Missile Launches

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2026/06/21

The gap between classified military surveillance and publicly available satellite data has shrunk to months, not decades. In this episode, we explore how free data streams from Sentinel-3, Landsat, and NASA's FIRMS system can detect ballistic missile launches using the same basic physics as the US Space-Based Infrared System. From thermal infrared atmospheric windows to revisit cycles and latency tradeoffs, we unpack what open-source remote sensing reveals — and what it can't — about the shape of

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34:37

How Consulting Became Spycraft's Perfect Cover

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2026/06/21

Why do intelligence agencies keep using consulting and import-export as cover stories? This episode unpacks the mechanics behind a Mossad front company called EuroTech Industrial Solutions, which operated inside Iran for nearly two years. We explore how professional ambiguity, built-in non-disclosure norms, and the vast noise of global supply chains create perfect camouflage for espionage. From trade show booths with branded pens to customs paperwork that survives scrutiny, we break down what makes

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34:33

How Ukraine's Trophy Lab Crowdsources Enemy Hardware...

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2026/06/21

Ukraine's Ministry of Defence launched Trophy Lab in May 2026 — a public platform publishing 3D scans, circuit schematics, and material compositions of captured Russian military equipment. No classification, no registration, no export controls. Just raw engineering data available to anyone with an internet connection. In this episode, we explore how this unprecedented move turns traditional intelligence-sharing on its head, why a Discord server of 12,000 volunteers now functions as a self-organizing

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34:14

Social Engineering Before Cybersecurity

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2026/06/20

Most people think social engineering started with cybersecurity. But the practice of manipulating people to gain access or information is as old as civilization itself. In this episode, we trace the actual lineage — from the Trojan Horse to the Cambridge Five spy ring, from Renaissance con artists to the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual. We break down the core psychological vulnerabilities (authority, urgency, social proof) and the techniques (pretexting, baiting, tailgating) that predate digital

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25:05

ZFS Mirroring: Why Your RAID Card Is the Weak Link

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2026/06/20

After a power supply failure nearly wiped his data, a home server user wants to know: what's the next step for a safer ZFS setup? The answer isn't what most people expect. Herman and Corn explain why a hardware RAID controller actually undermines ZFS's self-healing capabilities, why a simple two-drive mirror on motherboard SATA ports is often sufficient, and how a used LSI HBA flashed to IT mode can future-proof your build for under $60. They cover the exact procedure for adding a mirror drive, the

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24:31

SBC Clusters vs Virtualization: The Real Tradeoffs

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2026/06/20

When a ZFS corruption took down his entire Proxmox server, one listener wondered: why not split services across separate physical computers instead of virtualizing everything on one box? The answer leads to the Turing Pi and other SBC cluster platforms — but also reveals why most home labbers don't use them. This episode explores the brutal tradeoffs of physical isolation: worse resource efficiency, higher cost per compute, fragmented management, and a single point of failure that's harder to

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28:34

Smuggling Drones Into Iran: The IKEA Approach

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2026/06/20

How do you smuggle attack drones into one of the most heavily surveilled countries on earth, conceal them until the moment, and launch them from inside the perimeter? This episode unpacks the three-phase logistics of Israel's reported Operation Rising Lion: smuggling components disguised as industrial parts, assembling them in a covert workshop near Tehran, and activating them to strike Iranian missile launchers. We explore the "IKEA approach" to covert operations — shipping flat-pack death,

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29:06

Mossad's Secret Influence Branch: 11-Year Photo Trap

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2026/06/20

In May 2026, Israel Hayom revealed the existence of a secret Mossad branch dedicated entirely to influence operations against Iran, established in 2021 under Director David Barnea. This unit maps Iranian society, identifies vulnerabilities, and deploys media leaks, social-media campaigns, and AI-generated personas to weaken the regime. The disclosure includes a stunning case study: a compromising photograph of former oil minister Rostam Ghasemi, held since 2011, was released during the 2022 Mahsa

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27:36

AI-Native Knowledge Platforms for Human-Machine Docs

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2026/06/20

What happens when AI agents start writing documentation alongside humans — and the two versions inevitably drift apart? In this episode, we explore the five dimensions of an AI-native knowledge platform: machine-friendly structure, human-friendly editing, provenance and attribution, conflict resolution, and the single shared store. We look at why existing tools like Obsidian, Notion, and Confluence fall short, and what a graph-based system of atomic assertions with authority-weighted version control

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31:15

How Mossad Built a Fake Factory to Pager-Bomb Hezbollah

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2026/06/20

In September 2024, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies exploded across Lebanon in a near-simultaneous attack targeting Hezbollah operatives. But this wasn't a simple supply chain interception — Mossad had infiltrated the manufacturing process itself. By constructing a "synthetic supply chain" spanning Taiwan, Hungary, and Bulgaria, Israeli intelligence embedded military-grade explosives into pagers during production. This episode breaks down the extraordinary tradecraft: the brand licensing

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29:31

The Art of Strategic Neighboring

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2026/06/20

How much do you invest in neighborly relations when your lease might be up in eight months? In a volatile rental market with high turnover, the social norms of neighboring haven't caught up to the reality of provisional relationships. This episode unpacks the unspoken playbook of calibrated disclosure, the ladder problem, and the four tiers of neighbor relations—from the nod to the home visit. Learn how to control the introductory moment, vet neighbors without a questionnaire, and maintain "friendly

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36:46

How to Cosplay as a Pro Mover

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2026/06/20

When a listener's apartment move involves a tiny elevator and a ten-day lease overlap, the solution isn't better packing — it's better performance. This episode unpacks the art of "moving cosplay": how a $50 investment in an ANSI Class Two vest, a clipboard, a hand truck with a ratchet strap, and a boring fake business name can transform you from a suspicious renter into an invisible professional. We explore the psychology behind it — the Halo Effect, Milgram's uniform studies, and why building

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31:00

Testing Premises Before They Fail

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2026/06/20

What if the biggest flaw in your national security analysis isn't the data, but the premise you started with? This episode explores the rigorous methods — from the CIA's Analysis of Competing Hypotheses to IQT Labs' Snowglobe framework — for systematically stress-testing assumptions before they shape decisions. We trace the lineage from Richards Heuer's cognitive bias research to modern LLM-powered red teaming, and examine how tools like Monte Carlo simulations and premortems force analysts to

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29:45

How LLMs Actually Learn: Stages or Slurry?

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2026/06/20

When you train a large language model from scratch, does it learn in stages — grammar first, then facts, then reasoning? Or does everything bloom in parallel? The honest answer is both. This episode unpacks what loss curves actually reveal about training dynamics: how syntax and factual knowledge race each other from day one, why "grokking" complicates the picture, and how the training data's natural distribution creates a self-curriculating curriculum. We explore why the model's internal

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32:48

How Mossad Stole Iran's Nuclear Archive from a Warehouse

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2026/06/20

In January 2018, Mossad operatives broke into a nondescript warehouse in Tehran and spent six and a half hours cracking 32 safes filled with Iran's nuclear program documentation — stored on CDs and DVDs in a deliberate air-gapped archive. This episode unpacks how Iran preserved its AMAD program's institutional knowledge on optical media, why the physical isolation that protected against cyber attack made the archive vulnerable to a commando raid, and what this reveals about how rogue states and

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35:50

How Enrichment Percentages Actually Work for Nuclear...

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2026/06/20

What do enrichment percentages actually mean? When headlines say Iran has enriched uranium to 60%, most coverage treats these numbers as self-explanatory — but the physics behind them is elegant and deeply strategic. This episode breaks down why 60% enrichment represents roughly 80% of the work needed for weapons-grade material, why 90% is the threshold for practical nuclear weapons design, and whether 100% enrichment has any real-world value. We explore the nonlinear enrichment curve, the concept

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29:31

Rooting's Last Stand: Play Integrity vs. Power Users

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2026/06/20

Google’s Play Integrity API has turned Android rooting into a losing battle. Banking apps now demand hardware-backed attestation that even Magisk modules can’t spoof. We break down the three tiers of Play Integrity, the cat-and-mouse game with fingerprint substitution, and why Samsung’s Knox e-fuse makes unrooting permanent. Plus: is GrapheneOS the way forward for users who want control without compromise?

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31:47

How Iran Could Hide a Nuclear Stockpile

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2026/06/20

What happens when the most critical nuclear threat isn't at the sites we're watching? This episode explores a deeply unsettling scenario: Iran distributing its enriched uranium stockpile across dozens of hidden locations — university basements, industrial warehouses, and other nondescript sites. We examine the IAEA's detection methods, from swipe sampling to isotopic analysis, and why they'd fail against a distributed network. Drawing on case studies from North Korea's secret centrifuge halls to

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33:16

Why Your Screen Won't Go Dark Enough at Night

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2026/06/20

You've dimmed your phone to minimum, but your bedroom still glows like a landing strip. The problem isn't you — it's the LEDs. This episode unpacks why pulse width modulation, quantum efficiency droop, and leakage current all conspire to keep your screens bright even at "zero." We explore the three engineering bottlenecks that prevent displays from reaching true sub-nit darkness, and explain why the circadian health conversation is shifting away from blue light filters toward something far simpler:

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29:53

How Countries Warn Civilians of Danger

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2026/06/20

How do governments tell civilians to brace for impact without crying wolf? This episode breaks down the design of national threat alert systems. We trace the failure of America’s color-coded terror alerts, explore Israel’s hyper-local rocket sirens, and examine how the UK and France use visible military deployments as a communication tool. The core tension? Compressing intelligence into actionable signals without creating noise or anxiety.

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