(Black Screen for sleep) [Ep. 6] ? Light your mirror neurons, or visit the Black Screen Village.
This is the episode where I talk about how the ethereal world of sleep can be visited through various unexpected means, in this age of options--such as, through Tiktok.
- 00:00:00 --- 1: Opening - 00:02:03 --- 2: Late to the trend - 00:09:45 --- 3: Paris on my mind - 00:18:34 --- 4: Mirror neurons and martyr - 00:22:29 --- 5: Mirror neurons, again - 00:31:02--- 6: The dark corner of Youtubeland - 00:38:32 --- 7: Odysee is brilliant + money talk - 00:46:33 --- 8: More brilliant stuff, more money talk - 00:59:13 --- 9: Closing
The episode where I reach the level of randomness that I've been aiming for.
- 00:00:00 --- 1: Opening
- 00:01:51 --- 2: Avatars - dictionary - Meta - Facebook specifically - the movie(s)
- 00:08:58 --- 3: Avatars again - Decentraland - Socrates
- 00:15:09 --- 4: Age and attitude - games - work - sports - reality
- 00:27:22 --- 5: Metaverse - blockchain
- 00:32:21 --- 6: Virtual land price
- 00:42:00 --- 7: Avatars, yet again
- 00:47:21 --- 8: Cyworld
- 00:56:50 --- 9: Changed society - beauty fatigue - Big Tech Art
- 01:02:35 --- 10: My beauty standard - memory
- 01:08:28 --- 11: Closing
Links related to the episode
- 00:05:30 --- CNBC article "Facebook shares plunge more than 20% on weak earnings, big forecast miss" --- https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/02/02/facebook-parent-meta-fb-q4-2021-earnings.html
- 00:11:28 --- Socrates didn't like the emergence of writing --- https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=3439
- 00:20:00 --- An example of a slime ASMR video --- https://youtu.be/kOaexgPS-Vc
- 00:37:42 --- The Decentraland estate that I checked out --- https://market.decentraland.org/contracts/0x959e104e1a4db6317fa58f8295f586e1a978c297/tokens/4140
- 00:39:25 --- CNBC article "Metaverse real estate sales top $500 million, and are projected to double this year" --- https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/02/01/metaverse-real-estate-sales-top-500-million-metametric-solutions-says.html
- 00:40:00 --- Fortune article "The cheapest real estate on popular metaverse platforms is already selling for more than $13,000" --- https://fortune.com/2022/01/05/cheapest-digital-land-metaverse-selling-more-than-13000/amp/
- 01:00:19 --- "Why do ‘Corporate Art Styles’ Feel Fake?" --- https://youtu.be/lFb7BOI_QFc
Everything I do is listed here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
Transcript for the whole episode
https://ithakadreaming.imaginariumkim.com/ep-8-our-virtual-selves-shant-float-around-in-ghostly-forms/
A reminder that we don't need protection from Big Tech, of all things. (Is this a fact? My opinion? Taste? Experience? Interpretation? I don't know.)
- 00:00:00 --- 1: Opening
- 00:03:47 --- 2: Tastes and opinions
- 00:07:30 --- 3: Tacos and diarrhea
- 00:14:21 --- 4: Nobody’s tastes and opinions matter
- 00:18:55 --- 5: Instagram said we can’t talk about that
- 00:25:30 --- 6: A brief political disclaimer
- 00:31:05 --- 7: Alternatives?
- 00:36:52 --- 8: What's next
- 00:47:37 --- 9: Cards everywhere
- 00:49:54 --- 10: Closing
Links related to the episode
- 00:08:09 --- Really random diarrhea dance video --- https://youtu.be/CKjaFG4YN6g
- 00:31:30 --- Modern Grotesque Times --- https://www.instagram.com/m_g_times/
- 00:39:39 --- write.as --- https://write.as/
- 00:42:46 --- [Ep. 5] Undying voices can't be target-killed through flower apps. --- https://ithakadreaming.imaginariumkim.com/ep-5-undying-voices-cant-be-target-killed-through-flower-apps/
- 00:45:46 --- Coil --- https://coil.com/
My website
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
Transcript for the whole episode
https://ithakadreaming.imaginariumkim.com/ep-18-tacos-protection-cards/
A self-psychoanalysis of why I came to associate McDonald's stores at airports with reliability and... home.
- 00:00:00 --- 1: Opening
- 00:02:53 --- 2: Priorities
- 00:09:43 --- 3: Public privacy
- 00:14:31 --- 4: Taxi drivers
- 00:20:58 --- 5: No small talk. Big talk, please
- 00:28:022 --- 6: Airport routine
- 00:33:12 --- 7: My go-to place
- 00:36:43 --- 8: Well-intentioned (not) segregation
- 00:46:12 --- 9: A split structure
- 00:50:22 --- 10: Wholeness
- 00:58:08 --- 11: The golden arches
- 01:01:29 --- 12: Closing
Links related to the episode
- 00:13:35 --- Subway Line 2 (green line) in Seoul --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul_Subway_Line_2
Transcript for the whole episode
https://ithakadreaming.imaginariumkim.com/ep-9-home-was-where-chicken-nuggets-were/
Is power the ability to make something natural so unnatural, to the point that it becomes culturally natural to adhere to that unnatural?
- Black screen video for the whole episode, on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@ithakadreaming:a/ep-14-smile-power-aliens:5
- On the usual podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/ithaka-dreaming/episodes/Ep--14-Smile---Power---Aliens-e1hn463/a-a7qn6s6
Without stories, our lives are just meaningless dots.
- Black screen video for the whole episode, on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@ithakadreaming:a/ep-15-mythology-branding-accumulation:f
- On the usual podcast platforms: https://anchor.fm/ithaka-dreaming/episodes/Ep--15-Mythology---Branding---Accumulation-e1hpesn
(This episode was originally published on December 24, 2021.)
This is the episode where I start by talking about normal Christmasy stuff, then go all the way to Life/Death topics.
- 00:00:00 --- 1: Opening
- 00:04:23 --- 2: But what jellyfish?
- 00:07:57 --- 3: A bunch of questions, then ants
- 00:13:20 --- 4: Christmas Past
- 00:19:00 --- 5: Christmas Present
- 00:22:48 --- 6: Weather talk
- 00:25:42 --- 7: Beginnings come from endings
- 00:32:01 --- 8: Machine translation and language
- 00:39:41 --- 9: Christmas Future
- 00:45:38 --- 10: Necessary middlemen and intent
- 00:53:48 --- 11: Closing
Links related to the episode
- 00:09:43 --- What Is It Like to Be a Bat? --- https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl/study/ugmodules/humananimalstudies/lectures/32/nagel_bat.pdf
- 00:10:20 --- Do ants sleep? --- Ants and their sleep: the queen vs. the workers --- https://kapturepest.com/do-ants-sleep/#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20each%20sleep%20episode,for%20just%20over%20a%20minute.&text=Adding%20that%20all%20up%20brings,That's%20significantly%20more
- 00:19:50 --- Death Valley National Park --- https://www.nps.gov/deva/index.htm
- 00:43:30 --- Karl Friedrich Benz and the automobile --- https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/who-invented-the-automobile/
- 00:47:00 --- Ghost CMS --- https://ghost.org/
Everything I do is listed here
https://ithakaonmymind.com/
Transcript for the whole episode
https://ithakadreaming.imaginariumkim.com/ep-2-christmas-is-a-time-to-contemplate-death-and-life-before-the-new-year/