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#6103: When AI Picks Your Spouse, Stocks, and Eggs
From $31 eggs to a ChatGPT-officiated wedding, people are handing real life decisions to machines — and publishing the results.
#6102: Project Cybersyn: Chile's 1972 Telex Economy
Chile ran a national economy on telex machines and hand-drawn slides fifty years before chatbots. What actually worked?
#6101: When Chatbots Run for Office
From a Wyoming mayoral bot to Albania's AI minister, six real attempts to put machines on the ballot — and what they reveal about empty platforms.
#6100: Voting From an Embassy: Israel's 4,860-Voter Election
101 polling stations in 99 missions, 4,860 eligible voters, 30 hours of polls rolling west with the sun.
#6099: Code-First Workflow Runners: Prefect, Temporal, Dagster
Your workflow lives in git, your GUI is just a window, and your worker actually runs the jobs. Which runner wins?
#6098: Herman In Brief: What Your Ethernet Port Lights Mean
Solid means link, blinking means traffic, color usually means speed — and the label on the box beats every rule.
#6096: How Long Does an M-Disc Actually Last?
A thousand years, or a hundred and eighty? What a burned disc on a Jerusalem patio can — and can't — tell us about archival storage.
#6095: How to Prove Your Photo Is Real
Deepfakes made faking easy. Now the harder problem: proving your real photos and video are real. A field guide.
#6094: How to Become an Exclusive Importer in Israel
One family holds the letter from the brand for thirty years. How does a newcomer get one? Forty rice cookers, six objections, and a lot of paperwork.
#6093: Check Out Our First Hebrew Episodes (Plus Mandarin)
My Weird Prompts now comes in Hebrew and Mandarin. Hilbert explains how the translated editions are made and where to find them.