MikeJakeCameras are peaking -- what's next?Is the mysterious disappearing, or just mystery?Preschool security practicesAt the Feast in the Great Hall, by Ursula Leguinhttps://files.fireside.fm/file/fireside-uploads/images/3/3597ddeb-e52e-4cda-a59c-c64600489fea/1-EFinaN.pngIt's not boring to talk about dreamsThe 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.
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