Ephemera

Read this episode's script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cyE8e0TAyE_duiG05FIV5EZRddNOkFizvbJx8ECr8_Q/edit?usp=sharing Get in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine Audio engineering is kindly provided by Miguel Tanhi, who is very good at his job. Further reading: Global Impunity Index 2020: “Getting away with murder” https://cpj.org/reports/2020/10/global-impunity-index-journalist-murders/  Global Impunity Index 2021: “Killers of journalists still get away with murder” https://cpj.org/reports/2021/10/killers-of-journalists-still-get-away-with-murder/  James Delaney's 2018 thesis: https://www.blockworks.uk/democracy-and-urban-design  Block By Block, a collaboration between UN Habitat and Mojang, builds faithful replicas of architectural proposals created via participatory design:  https://www.blockbyblock.org/projects/  The fake news article's original source tweet:  https://twitter.com/FreeDuck5/status/1453523224323510272  Morgan Krakow's thread about the fake article: https://twitter.com/morgan_krakow/status/1453866420723339265  “Understanding the Mirai botnet” - a postmortem: https://elie.net/publication/understanding-the-mirai-botnet/  TrendMicro white paper “Worm War: the Botnet Battle for IoT Territory”: https://documents.trendmicro.com/assets/white_papers/wp-worm-war-the-botnet-battle-for-iot-territory.pdf Reviews of anime “Mirai Nikki”: https://myanimelist.net/anime/10620/Mirai_Nikki_TV/reviews

Get in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine Audio engineering is kindly provided by Miguel Tanhi, who is very good at his job. — Further reading:

Get in touch (even about vaccination): ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine Audio engineering is kindly provided by Miguel Tanhi of Much Different, a live podcast recording venue in Brooklyn, NY. — FURTHER READING: “Almost half the world is living through this pandemic without Internet”:https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/07/world/internet-inequality-coronavirus-intl/index.html  Kate Petrova's thread on Amazon scented candle review data:https://twitter.com/kate_ptrv/status/1332475475726381056  That image from FARK.com: https://storiesfromtheinter.net/post/669434840080384000 The LA Times' followup reporting, interviewing Eddie Moreno's colleagues:https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-02/fbi-train-derailment-mercy-naval-ship-extremist-groups  This episode's cover art is a simplified explanation of SARS-CoV-2 lineage descent, published by and alongside the Pango viral lineage nomenclature system. I chose it because I think it cleanly illustrates the ever-evolving state of the virus worldwide. http://pando.tools/ https://www.pango.network For a comprehensive list of all documented viral lineages of SARS-CoV-2, try scrolling through this link for a few minutes: https://cov-lineages.org/lineage_list.html Finally, a note: as I edited and published this episode, the WHO declared the Omicron variant to be a "Variant of Concern", leapfrogging the intermediary "Variant of Interest" status. In Pango nomenclature, Omicron was previously known as B.1.1.529. There are other nomenclatures too but basically you'll probably only ever hear Pango nomenclature or WHO nomenclature. I don't know very much about Omicron at all but I want to stress, at this time, that travel bans are ineffective at preventing international transmission, and that vaccination remains the #1 most effective tool we have to protect ourselves from this pandemic. Access to those vaccines is an enormous issue of vaccine equity and vaccine imperialism. As director-general of the WHO Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has pointed out, eight billion doses of vaccine have been administered worldwide. The supply exists, but it is constrained by imperialism and the rent-seeking profit motive. I applaud US president Joe Biden's seemingly-sincere attempts to end the vaccine patents and liberate the world from our global pandemic. Nursing unions in nearly 30 countries are begging him to do so. If we do not protect the entire world from this plague, it will never leave us. Ephemera will be back with a much less depressing episode, shortly before Christmas.

BLACK LIVES MATTER. RESIST FASCISM. Get in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine Audio engineering is generously provided by Miguel Tanhi of Much Different NY, a live podcast recording venue in Brooklyn, NY. --- FURTHER READING: http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4436.html  https://ir.virtu.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2013/Study-of-Federal-Reserve-Announcement/default.aspx  http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4441.html  https://sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com/2013/12/04/the-fed-robbery-new-evidence/  https://www.quincy-data.com/fed-robbery-revisited/

Teaser fragment of the full 27-minute interview available to Patreon subscribers. https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast

BLACK LIVES MATTER. INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY MATTERS. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xim3v8KTX14-M9FvYz7VsDm1YkLFuUUKULqpias01Uc Get in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine (zine 2 is out!)https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast Audio engineering is generously provided by Miguel Tanhi of Much Different NY, a live podcast recording venue in Brooklyn, NY. ---Additional reading: https://www.wired.com/story/virtual-reality-church/  https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2018/11/13/going-to-church-in-virtual-reality-beme.beme  https://www.jaykranda.com/blog/2018/11/29/honest-conversation-about-vr-church-with-dj-soto  https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/testing-the-waters-of-virtual-reality-baptisms  http://christinmedia.org/vr6-a-virtual-baptism/  https://youtu.be/QMt3S-xLP0c DJ Soto giving a talk IRL about VR Church https://twitter.com/djsoto/status/1208893321025900546?s=20  https://twitter.com/arkthespearman1/status/1196187843195850752?s=20  https://twitter.com/djsoto/status/1178417305044303876?s=20 https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/cant-livestream-church/  https://erlc.com/resource-library/articles/how-should-we-think-about-the-virtual-reality-church  https://arpost.co/2018/11/26/going-to-church-vr-technology/  https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/interviews/vr-church Naked Gaming Podcast interview w DJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh65Fj4lmRg Drumsy’s vlog about his baptismhttps://youtu.be/N_88DBmdnNA Syrmor’s less edited video VR Church’s architect’s reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/The_Architect_92/  https://the-toast.net/2015/06/01/gabbin-about-god-transubstantiation-and-the-lords-supper/ Danny M Lavery on doctrinal differences re: the Eucharist A discussion of halacha on virtual minyanin:https://traditiononline.org/the-virtual-minyan/ If you're looking to attend livestreamed church services at an Affirming and justice-guided church, you could do a lot worse than checking out the church I attend: https://www.canadianmemorial.org/cmuc-streaming Ephemera will have a Christmas episode! Depending on how things are feeling on the research side, we'll discuss either high-frequency trading (and financial crime) or unboxing videos for children (and gambling addiction). Happy holidays, and death to America.

BLACK LIVES MATTER. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jTlMERf0Ohhqy08ZgfyxGQWuoTulorKcweXrppoxTR0 Get in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine (zine 2 is out!) https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast Audio engineering is generously provided by Miguel Tanhi of Much Different NY, a live podcast recording venue in Brooklyn, NY. I was on vacation, so please forgive the slightly worse audio on my part this episode. Next episode will sound as warm and gentle as you’ve become used to. --- Muerte’s first thread, soliciting a name for his project:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3712401 Muerte’s thread:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3714480 The FYAD thread making fun of Muerte:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3720872  Muerte’s Fundrazr:https://fundrazr.com/2yYS4?ref=sh_54ho83_ab_06Di176j3jx06Di176j3jx  Hobo Nick’s lessons learned video, in which he describes the very unrealistic circumstances that let him keep going: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Pw521AYB0&feature=youtu.be  Hobo Nick’s blog (written by his mom):http://worldinstrides.blogspot.com/  Some of Muerte’s - and SA goons’ - photos:  https://storiesfromtheinter.net/post/628457004882624512  Goon ‘atomicthumbs’ goes looking for the cart (lots of nice photos of the park):https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3714480&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=77#post446000686 Please note: I have consolidated a couple of muerte’s exchanges with goons into single quotes from Muerte. The meaning has been preserved, and I’ve experimented more with doing this lately (see also ‘Cain’ ‘s text). If you want the original and full text, I’ve linked to it. Does this seem fair? 

BLACK LIVES MATTER. RESIST FASCISM. THE WORLD STANDS WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. --- Get in touch, particularly this time: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.comhttp://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine (zine 2 this month!) https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcastAudio engineering is generously provided by Miguel Tanhi of Much Different NY, a live podcast recording venue in Brooklyn, NY. Thanks for bearing with my delays. xoxo. next ep is about another one of my favourite :goonstory:s. --- Read the episode script and my research notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6_9BLS6JEH5dC3pnCsKOiL17HD5W2IMZwR0Dh5k0rQ/edit?usp=sharing Virgil Texas' "OKC_ebooks", where thirsty men reply ad nauseam to incoherent horse_ebooks text: https://slacktory.tumblr.com/post/43168538440/this-is-a-pick-up-artist-talking-to-a-horse-robot  You will look back on this moment with shock and: https://twitter.com/horse_ebooks/status/113976583752134656?lang=en  Adrian Chen tracks down the account's father: https://gawker.com/5887697/how-i-found-the-human-being-behind-horseebooks-the-internets-favorite-spambot Dan Sinker's "Eulogy For A Horse": http://web.archive.org/web/20140213003406/http://dansinker.com/post/62183207705/eulogy-for-a-horse Excellent perspective here on the relevance of horse ebooks as ‘obliging a program’ and parallels to social media: https://www.marieconnelly.com/writing/horse-ebooks  Academic writing on the idea of 'botness': http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/rt/printerFriendly/814/0  Bakkila's artist statement: https://images.gawker.com/1915kb0m44uocjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg  Susan Orlean's review of the gallery performance: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/10/man-and-machine-susan-orlean  Michael Craig-Martin's "An Oak Tree": https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/craig-martin-an-oak-tree-l02262 If you have a recording of Ryan O’Connor's talk at Mind Maze II, “The Horse Computer in Kiev”, I want it. It was impossible to find and I really wish I'd been able to. Please stay safe, dear listeners. I have more episodes written and I hope to return to a normal release pace.

Get in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.comhttp://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine (zine 2 this month!) https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcastAudio engineering is generously provided by Miguel Tanhi of Much Different NY, a live podcast recording venue in Brooklyn, NY. -------- Read the episode script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1971bcy15t1CufTOH45As_6yMqPmvnN7-6lQfku2ekmE/ I didn't find it until after I'd written my script, but this subreddit has an awful lot of collected materials for further reading. Unfortunately, it's full of redditors who seem to have an encyclopedic knowledge of these victimization films. Gross. https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlsDoLawsuits/ As I mentioned in the episode, VICE's reporting on this case has been surprisingly good. https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/gyz9gy/girls-do-porn-producer-allegedly-made-fake-porn-of-lawyers-suing-him Bianca Bruno has been amazing at covering the legal aspect of this story: https://www.courthousenews.com/porn-company-employee-says-recruiting-continues-during-fraud-trial/  https://www.courthousenews.com/months-long-trial-over-bait-and-switch-porn-scheme-kicks-off/  Pratt files for bankruptcy to delay the case: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VTBlXG5dcdm242fIyxkBzCQWgYhlYppG/view  Pratt flees the US https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12275965  The conspirators are charged with sex trafficking:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvgxvw/girls-do-porn-employees-charged-with-sex-trafficking-potentially-face-life-in-prison One of their fake shell companies: https://www.zoominfo.com/c/bll-media-inc/383265205 The VICE story that interviews Monica:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/evjkdw/she-helped-expose-girls-do-porn-but-she-can-never-outrun-what-it-did-to-her?utm_source=stylizedembed_vice.com&utm_campaign=8xwep4&site=vice  https://www.thedailybeast.com/she-was-18-and-tricked-into-doing-porn-this-ruined-my-life?source=articles&via=rss Sanford Heisler Sharp LLC: https://sanfordheisler.com/case/girlsdoporn-com-lawsuit/  Yale Law School’s Yiqin Fu’s twitter thread translating posts about the chinese facial recognition app: https://web.archive.org/web/20190529205522/https://twitter.com/yiqinfu/status/1133215940936650754  A folder of pdf files I read during my research:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o61fH_d3reOnsdPMIiN4OcawTcPAwa_T?usp=sharing   Finally, a personal note. I meant what I said when I called out "you true crime sickos". I do not like true crime and I do not want Ephemera to ever be a true crime podcast. However, it's impossible to look at the Internet holistically without discussing its ability to empower criminals. But abuse, rape, and criminal deception are not what I like to listen to stories about, and even less appealing to me to research. Thank you for understanding.

FULL TEXT: Hey, babes. This is just a short little announcement to update you on ephemera’s release schedule during this whole plague meets great depression thing. If you wanna pull your patreon pledges, I have no issues with that, but they are still going to the ephemera research slush fund. I’ve been researching and writing episodes and our boy Miguel has been editing them, but we both had COVID symptoms at some time in the last month or two - he lives in New York, my heart goes out to the guy - which obviously took some time. Miguel just sent me episode #18, and after I listen to it, I’m gonna upload it for you to listen to. Episode 19 is about Horse Ebooks and the nature of Barthèsian simulation, Foucault, all that good stuff, and I expect to publish that during May as well. I’ve fully written scripts for episodes 19 and 20, and I’m about half done with the script for #21. I also submitted Ephemera for publication and funding from the CBC, canada’s national broadcaster, and I’m waiting to hear back about that. The pitch took a fair bit of my time that couldn’t directly transfer over into regular episodes, but I submitted it and I’m waiting to hear back. If they take me up on it, I’ll make a six episode season looking in particular at women’s experiences with the Internet, re-telling a few stories I’ve told before but with tighter production.    During this unprecedented global crisis, ephemera will still publish, but since I no longer know what time is, or how it proceeds from one moment to the next, it’s a little harder to have my scheduled research and writing blocks. Also, I’m back in school, which is taking a lot of my time but allows me to apply for Canada Student benefits.    Ephemera will get back on track, work out the kinks in publishing, catch back up to itself, and continue to provide you with unique perspectives on interesting stories. It is so so SO important to me that Ephemera is good, remains at the consistent level of quality I’ve reached with Miguel’s help, and that’s something I’ve heard from listeners that you care about as well.All of this is, basically, just to say that hey, there’s an episode coming out later tonight. And I’m making another zine. Thanks.

Get in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.comhttp://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine (zine 2 coming soon!) https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcastAudio engineering is generously provided by Miguel Tanhi of Much Different NY, a live podcast recording venue in Brooklyn, NY. -------- episode script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uKplPH6bVADnr3WL9j35AxewNVzDaBqgO9gn_ry6BmQ/edit?usp=sharing The artists' page, ft torrent download of the Bust: http://nefertitihack.alloversky.com/ The wonderful Mexican heist film MUSEO is a meditation on the duplication and authenticity of artifacts, based on a true story. Also, Gael Garcia Bernal is an ABSOLUTE smoke show throughout. My God, he’s SOOO hot. You should make time to watch it; I think you’ll really be glad you did. Alonso Ruizpalacios is a cut above the rest of modern Mexican cinema. Roger Ebert said so! Available through YouTube Premium here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ikRdynR996c Cosmo Wenman’s article goes over the similarities between the museum’s private scan and the one released by the artists:https://cosmowenman.com/2016/03/08/the-nefertiti-3d-scan-heist-is-a-hoax/  Charly Wilder's two articles for the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/arts/design/other-nefertiti-3d-printer.html  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/11/arts/design/nefertiti-3-d-scanning-project-in-germany-raises-doubts.html  The Neues Museum still has those €8900 replicas for sale:https://www.smb-webshop.de/en/subjects/nofretete/2502/painted-replica-bust-of-nefertiti-gf-539?c=101031 But I printed my own using this hollowed-out version of the #NefertitiHack model, And You Can Too: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1372787 (here's some photos) https://storiesfromtheinter.net/post/611692761627934720

I was recently asked if I’d include my scripts in the episode notes. I’m happy to do so! Read along at your leisure here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P1XOLvBoYXXlffn1Q0YSrN3zwO3uRmuBp39pgRWmulU/edit?usp=sharing  Molly Osberg writes for Fusion about the relationships between the first camgirls: https://fusion.tv/story/385606/jennicam-first-female-lifecasters-camgirls/ I’ve been assured by Paul Brown, who ran a Jennicam fansite, that Jennicam updated every fifteen minutes, with the premium feed refreshing every two minutes. People have written that the site updated at a variety of speeds - every 15 seconds, every three minutes, every twenty minutes, and so on - but the general state of things was a new image every fifteen minutes. Mr. Brown writes in his email to me:“As I remember it, however, there were a few times here and there when the updates were more frequent. That was definitely a rare and short duration thing.” Also, I state in the episode that Jennicam’s premium feed was $15/month, but it was actually $15/year. No wonder she went into debt. Alex Goldman, producer and co-host of the Reply All podcast, was obsessed with Jenni and spent a year tracking her down for a 2014 interview. You might be interested in hearing more from him on his connection to her website (unfortunately, his page of additional material he references has been lost to bit rot):https://gimletmedia.com/episode/5-the-jennicam/  A partial archive of JenniSHOW, Jenni's online video series from 1998 (remember, Jennicam worked in serialized photos): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdXBHnkRzp7l9j4Ac7nhsxbpiIlseKd5o  Jenni’s 1998 Letterman interview:https://youtu.be/0AmIntaD5VE  The salacious WaPo article: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2000-09-04-0009011003-story.html  Jenni’s “I FEEL SO LONELY” post-it sign: http://www.polyamory.org/~howard/Poetry/9701272308.jpg (ps check that /poetry/ directory. just wild) Josh Harris’ “WE LIVE IN PUBLIC” sign: https://storiesfromtheinter.net/post/189691653275 Steven Kaplan, who was one of the pod people in Quiet, reflects on it here:https://post.thing.net/node/2800 (with photos!) rent WE LIVE IN PUBLIC here (or if you know me IRL, come over and we’ll watch it):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnt23PA2zZ4  A profile of Justin.tv’s early days. It’s interesting to compare Justin Kan’s reaction to 24/7 surveillance to Jenny’s: https://www.fastcompany.com/1839300/many-pivots-justintv-how-livecam-show-became-home-video-gaming-superstars essay by Ana Voog, of “anacam”, about her early days Online and then walking away from it:https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywe9wv/anacam-anna-voog-livestream-web-cam-art ANIL DASH: “Now we are all Jennicam.” https://twitter.com/anildash/status/492060636218544128  YT vid: “JenniCAM Invented Reality TV” (as discussed in the ep, that was MTV’s The Real World, but it’s a good video): https://youtu.be/4ii0gLK3meM Closing music: Anais Mitchell - 1984 Additional audio resources provided by: https://freesound.org/people/ERH/

SHOW NOTESGet in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.comhttp://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast Audio engineering is generously provided by Miguel Tanhi of Much Different NY, a live podcast recording venue in Brooklyn, NY.   The Valley of Peace / wadi es salaamhttps://widerimage.reuters.com/story/iraqs-peace-valley-the-worlds-largest-cemetery  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lziGiFiuseE Inside the Tech Industry’s Obsession With Immortality:https://newrepublic.com/article/140260/human    John Berlin’s viral plea for his dead son’s “look-back” video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPT28MGhprY  2014 and 2019 facebook announcements about deceased user policy:http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/02/remembering-our-loved-ones/  https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/04/updates-to-memorialization/ Phoebe Judge’s “This Is Love” episode about Bina 48:  https://thisislovepodcast.com/how-to-live-forever/    ICOM code of ethics:https://icom.museum/en/activities/standards-guidelines/code-of-ethics/    I wanted to loop in a story about selfies at funerals, but it was going to take too long and detracted from where I eventually settled on going with the Terasem tangent. You should read this paper; it’s just a couple pages and it’s very interesting:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283318951_Selfies_Selfies_at_Funerals_Mourning_and_Presencing_on_Social_Media_Platforms “Many commentators on ‘selfies at funerals’  were quick to criticize the character of the people involved for being  narcissistic and lacking proper respect and tended to focus on the problematic  character of ‘today’s youth’; an age-old conundrum. However, for others who attempted to understand rather than dismiss this practice, there was recognition that social media such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are  integrated into many people’s everyday lives and are thus ‘natural’ avenues for personal expressions of grief. Given the waning of institutionalized mourning rituals in contemporary western societies (Margry  & Sánchez-Carretero 2011; Wouters 2002), disentangling the vitriol from the vernacular in expressions of digital culture are needed if we are to adequately comprehend how funeral rituals are being remediated.”Judge for yourself here:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/10/selfies-at-funerals/280972/  And finally, take the Order of the Good Death’s ‘Death Positive pledge’ today: http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/death-positive

i'm sure u know the drill by now. I caught up with Molly Kalan to ask her a few questions about grief, the Internet, and selfies at funerals, but I wanted to take this little snippet (I asked 'what would you say to someone listening to this who's experiencing grief?) and share it with everyone. xoxo

Splinternet is an irregular report from Ephemera. Once upon a time, we thought of the Internet as like the Wild West; anarchic and mostly empty. The dream of the World Wide Web was ‘all of the world’s knowledge, at all the world’s fingertips’. But this dream has failed to materialize. As Scott Malcomson says in his book ‘Splinternet’, from which I’ve taken the title of this series: “the Internet is cracking apart into discrete groups no longer willing, or able, to connect.”  This month, we’ll be looking at the regulatory approach of the European Union, which seeks to curtail and police the Internet, but in a way that defends the privacy and human rights of Internet users. This is quite different from authoritarian forms of policing the Net, and the EU are pioneers in uncharted territory on this. Are there problems with the EU’s approach to copyright and surveillance? Are they being adopted elsewhere? Will they work? --- SHOW NOTES: My sincere thanks go out to ephemera’s patrons. I couldn’t have done a research-focused series like SPLINTERNET without your support. Patronage also includes nearly an hour of bonus episodes, two hours of other content, and the right to do a voice on the show. View all current and former patrons on this page: http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about  While you're there: http://patreon.com/ephemerapodcast  http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine  http://storiesfromtheinter.net/music Have an idea for a show, or just want to get in touch? Ephemerathepodcast@gmail.com Want a better handle on the idea of the “splinternet”? Here’s a quick and good tv interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJSRR66teM  There are a lot of new GDPR compliance related businesses that want to sell YOUR business their products. More here: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/world/europe/10spain.html More on the right to be forgotten in criminal cases: https://www.datainnovation.org/2018/09/the-eus-right-to-be-forgotten-is-now-being-used-to-protect-murderers/ PDF link （！）to the letter signed by Tim Berners-Lee, Jimbo Wales, and a lot of other Internet luminaries about the dangers of the copyright directive: https://tinyurl.com/LuminariesLetter MEP Julia Reda’s blog posts on articles 11 and 13: https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/extra-copyright-for-news-sites/  https://juliareda.eu/eu-copyright-reform/censorship-machines/  James Bridle's "Citizen Ex", with an essay on algorithmic citizenship and downloadable browser extension. https://citizen-ex.com/ PS here's his self-driving car hex: https://vimeo.com/208642358 You actually CAN get an internet passport. The ultimate in cyberstatehood swag! https://thefpl.us/also-made/passports  

Get in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast Patreon extra: mini-sode on the infamous IRC sexchart Cain’s photo thumbnails: https://storiesfromtheinter.net/post/186668640545  Homelessness thread 1: https://archive.is/nIPkp  Thread 2:http://archive.is/prHPw  Want to read more about Wizardchan for some reason? Here’s a 2016 article:https://splinternews.com/wizardchan-the-online-home-for-magical-30-something-ma-179386089   I forgot to shout him out in the episode, but audio engineering for Ephemera is generously provided by Miguel Tanhi, of Much Different NY, a live podcast recording venue in Brooklyn.

We got a big boi over here - the first >30m episode! http://storiesfromtheinter.net ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com http://patreon.com/ephemerapodcast I couldn't have done this story without Fred Turner’s book “From Counterculture to Cyberculture”, or Katie Hafner’s extensive 1997 history in Wired magazine: https://www.wired.com/1997/05/ff-well/ the WELL is a much much bigger story than I could possibly tell here. For all that I say in the episode, I think it was a really special place with a prescient idea about how to build bonds in an online community.  

I switched to producing different kinds of original content, but I recorded about ten of these, one for each early episode, before I settled on a real format for the patreon extras (interviews and bonus mini-sodes). Since some people have already heard the bunny rabbit episode, I wanted to unlock the corresponding, more casual, companion piece. Enjoy! the EU episode SPLINTERNET will come out in July and it's gonna be really good.

R-R-R-R-REMIX (rap air horn) This was the first regular episode of the podcast, but it fell into a chasm somewhere along the way and hasn't been in the RSS feed for a while now. I'm currently knee-deep in research for both the regular episode of Ephemera and the next SPLINTERNET (june/july respectively) and sorting out some technical difficulties related to a recent move, so I'm uploading a new and revised version of this episode, with some extra details that didn't make it in last time, and the right theme music, etc etc. I've also uploaded my original patreon "companion track" to the main feed as something new for my regular subscribers who've heard this one before. If you're a patron, I have a bunch more stuff coming down the pipes for you next week. Contact me: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com http://storiesfromtheinter.net http://patreon.com/ephemerapodcast   I couldn't have stumbled across this story if it hadn't been covered by VICE's "Waypoint" vertical, which is itself not long for this world. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d7aj9j/thousands-of-second-life-bunnies-are-going-to-starve-to-death-this-saturday Ending music: the inimitable Alex Cameron's "Internet" from his 2016 album "Jumping the Shark".

Get in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast (patreon extra: minisode on "The Four Horsemen") I couldn’t have done the story on Obnoxious without the diligent reporting of the New York Times Magazine on this issue. They interviewed B A Finley at length in 2015 as part of a larger article on swatting, which you can read here: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/29/magazine/the-serial-swatter.html?module=inline Brian Krebs’ post about being swatted:https://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/03/the-world-has-no-room-for-cowards/ SWAuTistic’s tweets the night of the Wichita incident: https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/swatutistic.png The Reply All episode on swatting has some good audio from actual twitch streams of cops:https://www.gimletmedia.com/reply-all/ive-killed-people-and-i-have-hostages And the Seattle PD have an opt-in registry for people who think they’re going to be swatted:https://www.pcgamer.com/seattle-police-launch-opt-in-registry-system-to-help-prevent-swatting/ At one point I say that 80% of small towns in America now have swat teams, up from 20% 40 years ago. I think it sounds more like I said “4 years ago” so I'm just noting that here!

Get in touch: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com http://storiesfromtheinter.net https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast (patreon extra: interviews with both Andrew West and Michael Everson) Collected links: Tom Scott on the genius involved in the invention of UTF-8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MijmeoH9LT4 This longform article about the ginger (redhead) emoji goes into a lot of detail on both the Consortium and Everson: https://www.popsci.com/why-we-have-ginger-emoji 99% Invisible did a great episode about

Dank in 2014 playing the guitar passably. He keeps kissing his guitar though!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN264qAU7e8 Dank’s really unsafe motorbiking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IyWNZ-5_N3U Dank’s injuries as a result of his really unsafe motorbiking/demon attack: https://imgur.com/EhqkjxB https://imgur.com/ca4MQoG (and then a pretty gross one) The 2021 festival https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-world-music-festival-tickets-9441729467 Dank’s https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=21728;sa=showPosts ==ZINE==I made a zine. It seemed fun! (20 pages, free pdfs to patrons and physical copies available) http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine

Splinternet is an irregular report from Ephemera. Once upon a time, we thought of the Internet as like the Wild West; anarchic and mostly empty. The dream of the World Wide Web was ‘all of the world’s knowledge, at all the world’s fingertips’. But this dream has failed to materialize. As Scott Malcomson says in his book ‘Splinternet’, from which I’ve taken the title of this series: “the Internet is cracking apart into discrete groups no longer willing, or able, to connect.” The Internet’s “destructive creativity”, born from Silicon Valley libertarianism, must be tamed. China’s solution has been to retreat from the World Wide Web and create a parallel Chinese Internet, which will soon dwarf the English one. In Russia, the mafia state pairs the Chinese panopticon with extralegal violence against the media.   Want a better handle on the idea of the “splinternet”? Here’s a quick and good tv interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJSRR66teM Here’s a cool 1-hr tv doc on Russia’s “Creepy, Innovative Internet” from Bloomberg TV. It’s great, especially the segment that starts at 28:50, which is about a facial recognition app that’s been downloaded over a million times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tICL-lwI7KM The op-ed Anna Politkovskaya wrote for the Guardian about being poisoned: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/09/russia.media Yulia James and Sophia Jones for Wired: https://www.wired.com/2017/10/russian-trolls-attack/ I couldn’t have done this episode without the Freedom House reports on internet freedom. If you really want to drill down into the nitty-gritty, that’s where I’d start. Here’s their scores for Russia, year-by-year (100 is Least Free, 0 is Most Free): 2009: 49 2010: n/a (no report) 2011: 52 2012: 52 2013: 54 2014: 60 2015: 62 2016: 65 2017: 66 2018: 67 https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2018/russia Support Ephemera: https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast  get in touch: ephemerathepodcast@gmail.com  This month's Patreon exclusive - a tour of Wikipedia's odder internal policies.  Music used: Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four Pussy Riot - Police State Alberto Iglesias - Los Vestidos Desgarrados Max Richter - infra 3 Frank Ocean - Voodoo

  Additional links: There were a lot of ‘big’ stories from EVE that I wanted to do but decided weren’t right for this format. Here’s the Mittani, spymaster for Goonswarm, talking about the downfall of large rival corp Band of Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvwk4QncSG4   Jim Rossigniol’s book Travels In Three Cities has a chapter on the experience of what it’s like to really care about EVE. Read it for free online (“Reykjavik”)https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=dcbooks;idno=5682627.0001.001;rgn=full%20text;view=toc;cc=dcbooks;xc=1;g=dculture   The other big story I wanted to tell this month is the Guiding Hand Social Club’s attack on the Ubiqua Seraph corp. The attack was worth about 3.3 trillion ISK in 2017 values and regularly makes ‘biggest events in EVE’ writeups. But it was a little too much like the FomkA story, and is a lot more well-known, so instead I’m sharing a good article about it:https://www.pcgamer.com/murder-incorporated-ten-months-of-deception-for-one-kill-in-eve-online/   The FomkA log:https://pastebin.com/gwtDvBNW   Before Phaser Inc, there was the Bank of EVE. Read about it here:https://www.engadget.com/2009/07/02/new-perspective-on-eve-onlines-latest-bank-embezzlement/   The Citadel trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bjTrPutt4k   Patreon content: an interview with Kirith Kodachi, one of the biggest names in EVE, who quit the game this month after twelve years. Also, I got a chance to ask Chribba some questions - hear more from him as well. https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast 

Some representative photos from Roberto ™’s posts on BCT: https://storiesfromtheinter.net/post/180633090810/ My faves of Roberto’s music videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW_tsfQgobawoxg00C__6O3EL9EFqP_Pv You really have to see their big redesigned web page, because then you’ll get to see their actual, real honest-to-God logo for the WLC project: https://transpotimers.com/ Patreon exclusives: This month my patrons get an hour-long conversation about Roberto ™ with the friends who showed him to me, and narration of the best chapter of Roberto’s book. Check out the page for more details: https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast

~Support Ephemera on Patreon~ https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast ~Get in touch~ Ephemerathepodcast@gmail.com ~Additional links~ I took the name “splinternet” from Scott Malcolmson’s book of the same name. It’s very good and written for a lay audience; he tells the compelling human story of the history of the Internet and the attempts of sovereign states to excercise control over it. It’s published by the excellent O/R Books: https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/splinternet-by-scott-malcomson/ HIGH TECH, LOW LIFE is a remarkable documentary by Stephen Maing following 2 Chinese citizen journalists. You can rent it on iTunes, but if you speak Chinese, the star of the movie - a young blogger named Zola - has uploaded it to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0TOHB-Paug While I’m recommending movies, visual artist Lawrence Lek’s “Sinofuturism (1839 - 2046 AD)”, a “science fiction that already exists”, touches on the Chinese experience of the Internet. He uploaded it to Vimeo here: https://vimeo.com/179509486 More on the JSON attack: https://www.securityweek.com/china-uses-watering-hole-attacks-jsonp-hijacking-identify-users

~~~~~Support Ephemera on Patreon~~~~~ https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Youtube vids on Corrupted Blood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz5Nf4mJMSw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxDvxKeLWlA Dr Nina Fefferman’s GDC talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj-mz5piYYY Dr Florian Burckhardt’s talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW_aQDJH14Y Skeletons https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/corrupted-blood-death.jpg Compare to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu I was hoping to interview a couple of the researchers who've worked in this sphere, but none got back to me in time. I think the episode's pretty good anyway, but that's why it's a minute or two short and a week delayed. Thanks for bearing with me and my process!

Host Stephanie Bee uses primary sources to tell stories that could have only happened online. the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast question / topic idea? ephemerathepodcast@gmail.com Court transcript from June 1st hearing: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11oHHuW_RLl3Ww9mFB1OnQDk1VRjL7ZbH/view A couple clips from the above pdf: https://ephemerapodcast.tumblr.com/post/177005956720 Some of Hopkins’ book covers: https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e03db8859cdc79416d9d116d00f5e8f1817ba3f5/115_0_1110_666/master/1110.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=452b0fe9740344d6487c8b32f7ae3d31 Chance’s defence of bookclicker: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Defe5KVU0AArd6-.jpg:large

Host Stephanie Bee uses primary sources to tell stories that could have only happened online. The original thread. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3123495 Socratic Moron and his girlfriend. https://forums.somethingawful.com/attachment.php?postid=362529365 Madlilnerd butchering a pig. https://forums.somethingawful.com/attachment.php?postid=363670726 FYAD thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3151205 Support Ephemera on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast

(RE-UPLOAD) Host Stephanie Bee uses primary sources to tell stories that could have only happened online. ==Additional links== https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/10/technology/for-the-new-college-bmoc-m-is-for-machine.html The first NYT article. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20010531thursday.html The second NYT article. http://web.archive.org/web/20010616231208/http://www.anywherebeyond.com/2001/0501/051701.html An article written - indirectly - about Kaycee. https://www.metafilter.com/7819/ Acridrabbit’s thread. https://web.archive.org/web/20060112223701/http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory%3Bsid%3D2001%2F5%2F22%2F105957%2F933 A few of Kaycee’s posts - an archive of an archive. http://web.archive.org/web/20030207171708/http://www.logboy.com/jr/main.asp A collection of important posts, according to the Scooby Doos. Another archive of an archive. ==Patreon== https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast $3/month gets you the unreleased pilot (which I couldn't release because of sound quality issues), companion pieces to each episode, and tells me that you really, really like the show. Also you get first crack at any of the primary source readings.

LINKS: Watch the documentary on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdGP4Qi-UCg Aja Romano on 1D fandom: https://www.dailydot.com/culture/one-direction-fans-tinhat-larry-stylinson/ An unconfirmable tweet from a Directioner that says nobody killed themselves: https://twitter.com/olozhika/status/369312296683589632 A (representative sample) response video from the fandom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOK575prAOg Did you know that One Direction members have tweeted 10 of the 30 most popular tweets ever? Barack Obama has five. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_retweeted_tweets ENDING MUSIC: Gene Pitney - Town Without Pity

Host Stephanie Bee uses primary sources to tell stories that could have only happened online. ==Additional links== http://unenumerated.blogspot.ca/2012/07/pascals-scams.html An archived version of Roko’s original thread: https://basilisk.neocities.org RationalWiki’s comprehensive thread on the Basilisk, which has a great talk page: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk David Langford’s ‘BLIT’: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm ♪Robert Gross - Big Yud♪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXARrMadTKk The ending music is paniq's "Masagin".