Ephemera

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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: [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 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

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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

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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!

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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.

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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".

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(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! 🙇