Ephemera Stephanie Bee
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Each month, host Stephanie Bee uses primary sources to tell a story that could've only happened online.
Ephemera is a show about the Internet that does its research and preserves stories in amber. It is made with an understanding that its listeners are just as fascinated with the liminal space of the Web as I am. It is a cyberpunk, plunderphonics, digital archive of human stories, particularly ones I find interesting.
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E25: "in minecraft"
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 -
E24: talking animals
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.
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Further reading:
📑Clara Mancini: Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI): a Manifesto
📑Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas & Andrés Lucero: On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog... Unless You’re Another Dog
📑Giancarlo Valentin, Joelle Alcaidinho, Ayanna Howard, Melody M. Jackson, & Thad Starner: Creating Collar-sensed Motion Gestures for Dog-Human Communication in Service Applications
📘Oskar Pfungst - CLEVER HANS: The Horse of Mr. Von Osten
📑Laasya Samhita & Hans J Gross: The “Clever Hans Phenomenon” revisited
📷Christina Hunger & Stella’s blog: @hunger4words | https://www.hungerforwords.com/
📘Herb Patterson (foster parent of Nim Chimpsky)’s scathing critique of ape language research:
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1980/12/04/more-on-monkey-talk-1/
Jane Hu’s Slate.com article:
https://slate.com/technology/2014/08/koko-kanzi-and-ape-language-research-criticism-of-working-conditions-and-animal-care.html
An archived copy of the AOL chat Koko did in 1998 (!!!):
https://web.archive.org/web/20050227020554/http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/4451/KokoLiveChat.html -
viral
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.
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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. -
Basically, no-one knows if HFT is good or bad.
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.
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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/
📖Michael Lewis - Flash Boys
📖Dark Pools And High Frequency Trading For Dummies
📖Haim Bodek - The Problem With HFT
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/02/high-speed-trading-isnt-about-efficiency-its-about-cheating/283677/
A Guardian Business profile of Hunsader and Nanex:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jun/07/inside-murky-world-high-frequency-trading
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-06-06/how-the-robots-lost-high-frequency-tradings-rise-and-fall
http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/04/no-one-really-knows-if-hft-is-good-or.html
On SIP timestamps:
http://www.nanex.net/aqck2/4599.html
https://sevenpillarsinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Laure-Madonna-High-Frequency-Trading.pdf
ADDITIONAL ECONOMICS READING:
📖 Markus Brunnermeier - Asset Pricing Under Asymmetric Information
A discussion on Hide Not Slide:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443989204577599243693561670
A late analysis of HFT firms between the miracle millisecond and today. The citations at the bottom were particularly helpful in my initial research:
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/091615/world-high-frequency-algorithmic-trading.asp
On “Dodging Robin Hood”:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2389166
🎥Adam Curtis - All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace(2011)🎥
🎥Margin Call (2011)🎥
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teaser: an interview with VR Church's Pastor Alina
Teaser fragment of the full 27-minute interview available to Patreon subscribers.
https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast -
21: An Outward Expression of an Inward Faith
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.
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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 baptism
https://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.
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At time of writing this would be best described as a podcast spliced together on the island of Dr. Moreau. Fun intersection of “The F Plus” and “Lou Reads..” with “Lore”.
I look forward to more in the future.