230. What's God Even Made Of Anymore?

Lords:

• Mike
• Jake

Topics:

• Cameras are peaking -- what's next?
• Is the mysterious disappearing, or just mystery?
• Preschool security practices
• At the Feast in the Great Hall, by Ursula Leguin
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• It's not boring to talk about dreams

Microtopics:

• The great state of Maine.
• A project you've been working on for a long time.
• Inventing a game developer community in Michigan.
• Meaningful distinguishers on normal camera use.
• A lukewarm decisionmaking process.
• Computational photography.
• Samsung's fake moon.
• A camera that just guesses what you want to see so you don't even need to take the photo.
• A massive endless feed of the same photo with different people in it.
• Why people use cameras.
• Whether photos exist.
• Late stages of the product category.
• People who need Photoshop to do their job.
• Photo mode in real life.
• A photo you can take later.
• Adding a filter to make the guy in the background less likable.
• Meals for the Ages
• How to get from here to perfect ubiquitous service surveillance.
• Theatrically pretending to be hit by a stationary car.
• Going to the Gallagher movie and getting sprayed with watermelon.
• There's just the one Bigfoot, it's the same Bigfoot every time.
• Tomato sauces that are still delicious even if you learned the recipe from the Internet and not from a grandma.
• Mysterious things backing into the shadows so they can remain mysterious.
• Protecting mystery wherever you find it.
• The Museum of Jurassic Technology.
• Stepping inside someone else's very strange brain.
• Dawn Wall.
• An intensely detailed exploration of the surface of a cliff.
• I wonder what it's like on the fucking moon?
• Who painted the iconic cover of the Wrinkle in Time paperback.
• The shoot-em-up cabinet you saw in the canteen at the US Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia before the first Liberian civil war and have never been able to find since.
• A reaction to the lack of organic mystery in our lives.
• The Case of the Missing Hit and Searching for Sugarman.
• Wash over me, True Story.
• Which phone checked the kid out of preschool.
• Being on the list of services the insurance companies consider to have checked various boxes.
• We got pins. We can do that.
• The three bad four-digit pins.
• Streamlining the process of rapidly accounting for all the children.
• Developing a system that would deterministically move the needle in a useful way.
• Blundering in the brightness.
• Telling two events from the same perspective.
• Ugly crying at your desk in a public workspace.
• Spending way more time not alive than alive.
• Something that we can experience on either side of our lives.
• A Fire Take from Jake.
• Waiter stress dreams.
• A skill that you can hone.
• One of the more fun channels in the discord.
• Holding an increasingly large bag of stuff.
• Waking up laughing until you realize your dream was not funny.
• The consciousness wall between you and visualization.
• Training yourself to let your mental imagery be visible.
• Seeing clumps of color and interpreting them.
• Doing an editing pass on your dreams before relating it to your friends.
• Jay-Z's favorite bleu cheese Milkshakes.
• Screwball horror.
• A splash of furry content.