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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

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.

BLACK LIVES MATTER. RESIST FASCISM.

Get in touch:
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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)🎥

Teaser fragment of the full 27-minute interview available to Patreon subscribers.
https://www.patreon.com/ephemerapodcast

BLACK LIVES MATTER.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jTlMERf0Ohhqy08ZgfyxGQWuoTulorKcweXrppoxTR0

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.

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.

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Muerte’s first thread, soliciting a name for his project:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3712401
Muerte’s thread:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3714480

The FYAD thread making fun of Muerte:
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3720872 

Muerte’s Fundrazr:
https://fundrazr.com/2yYS4?ref=sh_54ho83_ab_06Di176j3jx06Di176j3jx 

Hobo Nick’s lessons learned video, in which he describes the very unrealistic circumstances that let him keep going:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Pw521AYB0&feature=youtu.be 

Hobo Nick’s blog (written by his mom):
http://worldinstrides.blogspot.com/ 

Some of Muerte’s - and SA goons’ - photos: 

https://storiesfromtheinter.net/post/628457004882624512 

Goon ‘atomicthumbs’ goes looking for the cart (lots of nice photos of the park):
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3714480&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=77#post446000686

Please note: I have consolidated a couple of muerte’s exchanges with goons into single quotes from Muerte. The meaning has been preserved, and I’ve experimented more with doing this lately (see also ‘Cain’ ‘s text). If you want the original and full text, I’ve linked to it. Does this seem fair? 

BLACK LIVES MATTER. RESIST FASCISM. THE WORLD STANDS WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
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Get in touch, particularly this time: ephemeraTHEpodcast@gmail.com
http://storiesfromtheinter.net/about
http://storiesfromtheinter.net/zine (zine 2 this month!)
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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.

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Read the episode script and my research notes:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6_9BLS6JEH5dC3pnCsKOiL17HD5W2IMZwR0Dh5k0rQ/edit?usp=sharing

Virgil Texas' "OKC_ebooks", where thirsty men reply ad nauseam to incoherent horse_ebooks text:
https://slacktory.tumblr.com/post/43168538440/this-is-a-pick-up-artist-talking-to-a-horse-robot 

You will look back on this moment with shock and: https://twitter.com/horse_ebooks/status/113976583752134656?lang=en 

Adrian Chen tracks down the account's father:
https://gawker.com/5887697/how-i-found-the-human-being-behind-horseebooks-the-internets-favorite-spambot

Dan Sinker's "Eulogy For A Horse":
http://web.archive.org/web/20140213003406/http://dansinker.com/post/62183207705/eulogy-for-a-horse

Excellent perspective here on the relevance of horse ebooks as ‘obliging a program’ and parallels to social media: https://www.marieconnelly.com/writing/horse-ebooks 

Academic writing on the idea of 'botness':
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/rt/printerFriendly/814/0 

Bakkila's artist statement:
https://images.gawker.com/1915kb0m44uocjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg 

Susan Orlean's review of the gallery performance:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/02/10/man-and-machine-susan-orlean 

Michael Craig-Martin's "An Oak Tree":
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/craig-martin-an-oak-tree-l02262

If you have a recording of Ryan O’Connor's talk at Mind Maze II, “The Horse Computer in Kiev”, I want it. It was impossible to find and I really wish I'd been able to.

Please stay safe, dear listeners. I have more episodes written and I hope to return to a normal release pace.