Ephemera
33 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsEach 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"
May 26, 2022 22:54 - 34 minutes - 47.7 MBRead this episode's script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cyE8e0TAyE_duiG05FIV5EZRddNOkFizvbJx8ECr8_Q/edit?usp=sharing Get in touch: [email protected] 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/globa...
E24: talking animals
December 27, 2021 22:30 - 30 minutes - 31.9 MBGet in touch: [email protected] 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: 📑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, Ayan...
23: viral
December 02, 2021 05:22 - 27 minutes - 38 MBGet in touch (even about vaccination): [email protected] 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 ...
22: Basically, no-one knows if HFT is good or bad.
January 07, 2021 22:02 - 30 minutes - 41.5 MBBLACK LIVES MATTER. RESIST FASCISM. Get in touch: [email protected] 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-Announcem...
teaser: an interview with VR Church's Pastor Alina
November 26, 2020 21:33 - 3 minutes - 2.92 MBTeaser fragment of the full 27-minute interview available to Patreon subscribers. https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast
21: An Outward Expression of an Inward Faith
November 26, 2020 21:25 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBBLACK LIVES MATTER. INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY MATTERS. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xim3v8KTX14-M9FvYz7VsDm1YkLFuUUKULqpias01Uc Get in touch: [email protected] 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/sto...
20: America Is The Dark Souls Of Things You Can Walk Across
September 05, 2020 22:13 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBBLACK LIVES MATTER. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jTlMERf0Ohhqy08ZgfyxGQWuoTulorKcweXrppoxTR0 Get in touch: [email protected] 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 e...
unfortunately, as you probably already know, people
August 04, 2020 16:00 - 23 minutes - 32.8 MBBLACK LIVES MATTER. RESIST FASCISM. THE WORLD STANDS WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. --- Get in touch, particularly this time: [email protected] http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine (zine 2 this month!) 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. Thanks for bearing with my delays. xoxo. next ep is about another one of m...
18: ** Paid Modeling Gig. **
May 14, 2020 04:04 - 21 minutes - 29 MBGet in touch: [email protected] http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine (zine 2 this month!) 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. -------- 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 subre...
long time no talk, listeners
May 13, 2020 23:17 - 2 minutes - 3.58 MBFULL 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 t...
17: The Other Nefertiti
March 04, 2020 00:54 - 25 minutes - 35 MBGet in touch: [email protected] http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine (zine 2 coming soon!) 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. -------- episode script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uKplPH6bVADnr3WL9j35AxewNVzDaBqgO9gn_ry6BmQ/edit?usp=sharing The artists' page, ft torrent download of the Bust: http:...
16: I FEEL SO LONELY // WE LIVE IN PUBLIC
December 15, 2019 23:16 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBI 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 ...
A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? The world’s biggest graveyard.
October 16, 2019 15:50 - 27 minutes - 38 MBSHOW NOTES Get in touch: [email protected] http://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 salaam https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/iraqs-peace-valley-the-worlds-largest-cemetery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lziGiFiuseE Inside the Tech Industr...
15 - A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? The world’s biggest graveyard.
October 16, 2019 15:50 - 27 minutes - 38 MBSHOW NOTES Get in touch: [email protected] http://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 salaam https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/iraqs-peace-valley-the-worlds-largest-cemetery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lziGiFiuseE Inside the Tech Industr...
EXCERPT: an interview with Molly Kalan
October 13, 2019 23:26 - 1 minute - 2.01 MBi'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 3: GDPR and the Right to be Forgotten
September 11, 2019 03:37 - 29 minutes - 41.1 MBSplinternet 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...
14 - i felt i should just go to japan and die there.
August 02, 2019 03:51 - 21 minutes - 28.9 MBGet in touch: [email protected] 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-s...
13: The Life (and Deaths) of The WELL
July 01, 2019 04:07 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBWe got a big boi over here - the first >30m episode! http://storiesfromtheinter.net [email protected] 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 pl...
(UNLOCKED) Companion Ep 1: My Process
May 31, 2019 01:11 - 6 minutes - 6.26 MBI 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.
(RE-UPLOAD) 01: Tell Me About the Rabbits, George
May 31, 2019 01:06 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBR-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, a...
12: Swatting: Terrorism for Children
April 25, 2019 04:13 - 26 minutes - 15.8 MBGet in touch: [email protected] 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 ...
11: Emojigeddon
April 05, 2019 07:11 - 29 minutes - 30.5 MBGet in touch: [email protected] 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...
10: if everybody rode motorcycles the government would collapse
March 12, 2019 02:31 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBDank 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...
SPLINTERNET 2: "To be a journalist in Russia is suicide."
January 23, 2019 15:48 - 27 minutes - 37.6 MBSplinternet 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 ...
09: EVE Online is Like Vegas for Nerds
December 20, 2018 17:00 - 25 minutes - 34.3 MBAdditional 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-id...
08: If Marty McFly Can Do It So Can We
November 29, 2018 23:21 - 21 minutes - 29.3 MBSome 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 wh...
SPLINTERNET 1: 大妈你观察 (Big Mama Is Watching You)
November 02, 2018 02:50 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MB~Support Ephemera on Patreon~ https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast ~Get in touch~ [email protected] ~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...
07: The Corrupted Blood Incident
September 27, 2018 22:14 - 18 minutes - 33.2 MB~~~~~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 t...
06: Chesterton's #cockygate
August 23, 2018 02:44 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBHost Stephanie Bee uses primary sources to tell stories that could have only happened online. the patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast question / topic idea? [email protected] 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/e03db8859cdc79416d9d116d00f5e8f1817ba...
05: just like lost but everyone is hurley
July 20, 2018 05:47 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MBHost 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.p...
04: De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum
June 21, 2018 00:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MB(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 -...
03: You Besically Killed 100+ Innocent People
May 17, 2018 00:00 - 19 minutes - 18 MBLINKS: 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 popu...
02: Here On Level One of Robot Hell
April 18, 2018 00:00 - 20 minutes - 18.8 MBHost 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.youtu...