Ephemera

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” f

  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-onlin

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

~~~~~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 releas

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".