E25: "in minecraft"
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Read this episode's script: Get in touch: http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about 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” Global Impunity Index 2021: “Killers of journalists still get away with murder” James Delaney’s 2018 thesis: Block By Block, a collaboration between UN Habitat and Mojang, builds faithful replicas of architectural proposals created via participatory design: The fake news article’s original source tweet: ...
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E24: talking animals
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Get in touch: Audio engineering is kindly provided by Miguel Tanhi, who is very good at his job. — 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: ...
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23: viral
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Get in touch (even about vaccination): 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”: Kate Petrova’s thread on Amazon scented candle review data: That image from FARK.com: The LA Times’ followup reporting, interviewing Eddie Moreno’s colleagues: This episode's cover art is a simplified explanation of SARS-CoV-2 lineage descent, published by and alongside the Pango viral lineage nomenclature...
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22: Basically, no-one knows if HFT is good or bad.
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go to my website for the show notes! thank you! storiesfromtheinter.net
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teaser: an interview with VR Church's Pastor Alina
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Teaser fragment of the full 27-minute interview available to Patreon subscribers.
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21: An Outward Expression of an Inward Faith
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http://storiesfromtheinter.net
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20: America Is The Dark Souls Of Things You Can Walk Across
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BLACK LIVES MATTER. Get in touch: (zine 2 is out!) 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: Muerte’s thread: The FYAD thread making fun of Muerte: Muerte’s Fundrazr: Hobo Nick’s lessons learned video, in which he describes the very unrealistic circumstances that let...
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unfortunately, as you probably already know, people
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BLACK LIVES MATTER. RESIST FASCISM. THE WORLD STANDS WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. --- Get in touch, particularly this time: (zine 2 this month!) Audio 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: Virgil Texas' "OKC_ebooks", where thirsty men reply ad nauseam to incoherent horse_ebooks text: You will look back on this moment with shock and: Adrian Chen...
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18: ** Paid Modeling Gig. **
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Get in touch: (zine 2 this month!) Audio engineering is generously provided by Miguel Tanhi of Much Different NY, a live podcast recording venue in Brooklyn, NY. -------- Read the episode script: 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. As I mentioned in the episode, VICE's reporting on this case has been surprisingly good. Bianca Bruno has been amazing at covering the legal...
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long time no talk, listeners
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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,...
info_outlineSplinternet 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
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Music used:
Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm - Four
Pussy Riot - Police State
Alberto Iglesias - Los Vestidos Desgarrados
Max Richter - infra 3
Frank Ocean - Voodoo