We're joined this week by writer and academic Amelia Horgan, author of Lost In Work, which is published by Pluto press. We talk about the recent drama with Reddit's Anti-Work sub, and the complications of defining anti-work movements, especially in relation to white collar digital labour jobs and the work of fuelling the content economy. Amelia talks about how we might conceive of 'work' in these spaces, and why it'll be necessary for a future filled with digital assets, p...
2022-02-08 09:37:08 +0000 UTC
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We're going back to where it all started....back to the Matrix!
We're once again joined by the podcast oracle, Sophie (@sophie_frm_mars) to talk about the new Matrix movie, in which Neo and Trinity find themselves in a new Matrix - a Matrix *within* a Matrix, where everything has bisexual lighting, Neo is sad and drinks a lot of tiny coffees. We talk about why this was a reluctantly made sequel for Lana Wachowski, the efforts to produce something new within an economy fuelled on nostal...
2022-02-04 09:01:07 +0000 UTC
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We take our first steps into the world of "tiktok" this week, as Magdalene Taylor (@magdajtaylor), a senior writer at MEL magazine, talks us through the West Elm Caleb discourse, and what happens when pile-ons, projections and participatory posting are co-opted by brands on social media platforms. Indeed, what happens when we get tired about making fuccboi content, and the fuccboi becomes *the* content that needs constant...
2022-02-01 07:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Phoebe couldn't be on the bonus this week, so Hussein sits down with Travis from QAnon Anonymous to talk about what's been going on with Q guys since Jan 6th, the splintering of its factions as they descend into even weirder conspiracies, and their relationship to posting - in which being online is not just an addiction, but a sense of duty. Travis explains how, when it comes to QAnon, posting is proof of your dedication to the 'movement' and, reaffirmation of your faith in Q. Essentially, we...
2022-01-28 11:27:17 +0000 UTC
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This week, we're rejoined by Andrew Law (@IllyBocean) from Boontavista to talk about the kooky characters of Australian Twitter. This includes a guy who believes he is solely responsible for trending topics, people who are *really* into voluntary lockdowns because they realise it makes for great content, and some Australian witches, who are somehow jus...
2022-01-25 13:06:09 +0000 UTC
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Fellas, is it gay if you shed a tear? That's the subject of most of today's episode, as we attempt to dissect a thread in which a kind of trad (?) woman tries to make the argument that men shouldn't cry because she doesn't find it attractive, and then tries to walk back on it, then double down on it, all while people are getting mad at her throughout. The lesson? Once your tweet gets retweeted more than 10 times, delete it! Nothing good will come out of it!
We then issue an apology re...
2022-01-21 11:29:55 +0000 UTC
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This week, we finally have to address the big ape with laser eyes smoking weed in the room and is worth over £5 million for some reason. Yes, we are talking about NFTs, the crypto economy, and what's driving this accelerated faith that bored apes and lazy lions are apparently going to rescue capitalism from itself. We're joined by Ryan Broderick (@Broderick) from The Content Mines and the Garbage Day Newsletter, to talk...
2022-01-18 12:21:04 +0000 UTC
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The gang is back to finish this goddamn series about girls who love being on the computer. We talk about episode 7 and 8, in which, as Lain discovers more about herself and her relationship to the Wired, the mysterious group of hackers known as the Knights are, for some reason, killing their fans for being a little bit too into them. Then, as Lain sort of gets to grips with the idea of a digital Lain, she now has to contend with a *third* version of Lain - another freak who keeps nosying arou...
2022-01-14 11:18:43 +0000 UTC
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In our first new episode of 2022, we're joined by 10k Posts LA correspondent and leading Wifethropologist Miles Klee (@milesklee), to check in on what's going on with wife guys. We go over some of the classics (curvy wife, cliff wife, cheese wife) and discuss some of the new developments in the Wifing world (Alarm clock wife, Coffee Shop pronouns wife). Crucially, Phoebe makes an incorrect prediction about the future of wife guys, and she will be issuing an Apple notes apology in due course.<...
2022-01-11 11:03:25 +0000 UTC
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Hi! This is just a quick message to say thanks to all our patrons, listeners and supporters over the past year, and we hope you had a great New Year.
We really appreciate your support for our show, and are really glad you're enjoying it so far. We have some big plans for 2022, and plans we need to follow through on (eg. Discord) - announcements for those will come shortly.
In the meantime, stay tuned for new episodes of your favourite show about posts, and as always do conside...
2022-01-04 17:11:54 +0000 UTC
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We close out a year of Posts with friend of the show Nish Kumar (@Nishkumar), as we each bring a favourite post, tweet or column and explain why it bests defines this strange and absurd year. From right-wing talk show hosts who keep getting bested by sweet treats, to the emergence of the Woke Taliban (in a very literal sense), what were the themes of 2021's tweets? Why did things feel so strange in the latter half? And does it have something to do with Michael Owen walking through a tear in t...
2021-12-28 13:19:42 +0000 UTC
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All of us got the novel coronavirus, so this week, Hussein hung out with Jake Flores (@feraljokes), comedian and host of Pod Damn America, to talk about Christmas posts, and the broader 'war on Christmas' which seems to come earlier and earlier every year. We talk the origins of the War on Christmas - first, in response to liberalism, then to anti-Muslim sentiment, and now, being framed as a war for western tradition - and how it manifests in weird posts, ranging from Starbucks' Red Cup drama...
2021-12-24 12:50:10 +0000 UTC
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All of us have/had the novel coronavirus, and because it's Christmas, we decided to watch a low-energy Neflix film. This week, we're joined by friend of the show Olga Koch (@Rocknrolga) to watch LOVE HARD (2021) a movie in which Netflix confuses its algorithms to produce something that should have been made in 2013. With discourse around sexist christmas songs, 'is Die Hard a Christmas movie?' and not reading enough wom...
2021-12-21 11:29:36 +0000 UTC
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This week, we're joined by writer and artist Liara Roux (@Liararoux), the author of "WHORE OF NEW YORK: A CONFESSION" which is out now with Repeater Books. We talk a bit about the book, and its themes around love, collective activism, the dangers of surveillance tech, and what emancipation means today. We then talk about the 6th episode of SEL, "Kids". We see Lain learn more about the Wired, stand up to a big talking mou...
2021-12-17 12:36:15 +0000 UTC
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This week, we're joined by friends of the show Mattie (@Lubchansky), associate editor at The Nib, to talk about the history of webcomics, comic artists and writers having to think about being content creators before the rest of us did, and what happens when comic panels end up being cut out of the strip, decontextualised and turned into memes without attribution. How are comics writers dealing with the content economy,...
2021-12-14 13:04:41 +0000 UTC
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This week we're rejoined by friend of the show Sophie (@sophie_frm_mars) to once again revisit an old episode of the show. We go back in our Tenet time machines to the lockdown days of 2020, and the first instances in which JK Rowling went full 'mask off' with the gender stuff. We talk about the weird politics of the Ickabog, the Death of the Author, JK Rowling's post-Harry Potter need to control every aspect of the franchise, and crucially, how she gave (some) of this up in order to keep on ...
2021-12-10 12:09:03 +0000 UTC
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This week, we're joined by James Vincent (@jjvincent), a senior reporter at The Verge who writes on AI, Machine Learning and the development of robots. We talk about the ongoing meme of fake Boston Dynamics videos, and why watching videos of humanoid robots - real and fake- constantly seems to freak people out, and how much Boston Dynamics is aware of these viral videos. We then talk about digital 'Geofoam' - a mixture of inanimate digital objects, rigid automated robots, and machine learning...
2021-12-07 11:14:08 +0000 UTC
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* We have unlocked this episode to begin the year, due to current events and also that it was a good and fun episode. New episodes - free and premium- will resume from next week*
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This week, we talk to Gizmodo reporter Shoshana Wodinsky (@swodinsky), who covers the business of data, and is one of the leads on Gizmodo's ambitious project to make the Facebook Papers public.
We talk about some of the revelations from the Papers that didn't make the headlines, h...
2021-12-03 11:10:10 +0000 UTC
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This week, we're rejoined by Ed Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin), a writer at Vice and a co-host of the podcast This Machine Kills, to talk about ConstitutionDAO, another crypto thing that claims to be emancipatory and revolutionary, but also seems to really benefit the rich for some reason? We then go on to talk about the Metaverse, and why Facebook's announcement of their weird virtual boardrooms might simply be a way to paper over problems that they have caused, and realised are unfixable. Ul...
2021-11-30 13:01:48 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to the Otaku Zone! This week, we're back to talking about one of the most incomprehensible anime series ever made, Serial Experiments Lain, as we follow Lain's journey into the Wired. We ask questions such as "Where is Lain getting all these new server units from?" , "Why is her Dad spying on her behind a door like a nonce?" and "What's up with that weird little girl with no eyes?". As Lain goes further into the Wired, we find out how a simple computer upgrade means that she now ...
2021-11-26 12:05:50 +0000 UTC
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This week, Nate (@inthesedeserts) comes back on the Posts Pod to tell us about some internet history, and this little forum you might have heard of called "Something Awful". Following the death of Something Awful's founder, "Lowtax", Nate tells us how the forums shaped much of contemporary internet culture, ranging from terms like 'doxxing' and the ubiquity of trolls, to Lolcats, gifs, and uh, a lot of racism and Nazi insignia. But, it did also give us Dril, so who's to say if it was good or ...
2021-11-23 11:31:31 +0000 UTC
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This week, we're joined by academic researcher Sam Hoadley-Brill (@deonteleologist), who has been diligently following the most influential posters in America, who have successfully weaponised 'critical race theory' through relentless posting. Sam talks to us about how posting strategies created a lexicon in which CRT ended up becoming a meme, loaded with connotations of western civilisational collapse, and how Chr...
2021-11-19 14:19:51 +0000 UTC
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A quick note from us: There were some technical difficulties at the end of this episode, so the closing section of this show was not recorded, sadly. We will revisit the section when Juliet comes back!
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This week, we're joined by writer and broadcaster Juliet Jacques (@zinovievletter) to talk about the "Very British Problems" twitter account. Set up in 2012, the extremely popular account posts mundane observations of British life (milky tea, not being able...
2021-11-16 10:53:01 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the 10kposts Film Club, a series where we watch movies that tried to predict what internet culture would be like, and how much they got right or wrong.
Joining us this week are Rob and Jamie from @PodcastingisPraxis. This is the second part of our review of THE NET, a 1995 movie starring Sandra Bullock and Jeremy Northam, in which the world's most incurious hacker is chased by Britain's worst assass...
2021-11-12 12:54:58 +0000 UTC
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A Note from us! We are now producing WEEKLY bonus episodes. That means you get 2 episodes of the podcast a week, one for free, and the other, for subscribers only. At the end of this month, subscribers above $10 tier will also get access to the discord channel, which will have a bunch of cool stuff on there. You can subscribe to us for as little as $5 a month at: www.patreon.com/10kpostsp...
2021-11-09 00:21:42 +0000 UTC
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We're joined by journalist and tech writer Aisha Gani (@aishagani) to talk about proposals to 'ban anonymity' on social media as part of the British government's Online Safety Bill, and to discuss how much of this - in practice - would be extending the British government's expansive and secretive counter-extremism strategy, much of which has been designed to tackle the nebulous threat of "Islamist" radicalism. We discuss how...
2021-11-05 10:47:10 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to the Ten Thousand Posts Film Club!
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This week, we're joined by Rob (@CountRthe) and Jamie (@anxietycowboy) from Podcasting Is Praxis, to talk about the 1995 film "The Net", starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller. The film - which o...
2021-11-02 12:42:59 +0000 UTC
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This week, we're once again joined by Miles Klee (@Milesklee) to talk about author posting, and namely, Joyce Carol Oates. From the disgusting Keyboard tweet and the posts of her unwashed toes, to lamenting the Halloween decorations of her neighbours, we ask - what *is* Oates Posting? How is Joyce Carol Oates so good at it, and how is she one of the only authors that actually has the right approach to being a poster?
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2021-10-26 11:10:11 +0000 UTC
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This week, we're joined by comedian Rajiv Karia (@RajivAKaria) as we talk about whether we actually enjoy TV shows anymore, or whether we just get mad at people who don't like them. We talk about how we are all part of fandoms, whether we like it or not, and how posting about shows influences how they are written, produced and marketed - something that is most clearly evident in "no context" twitter accounts.
We also see the return of patron of the show Jordan Peterson, who, post...
2021-10-22 11:35:40 +0000 UTC
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This week, Hussein and Phoebe are joined by tech writer and journalist Chris Stokel Walker (@stokel), the author of Youtubers : How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars and TikTok Boom: China, the US and the Superpower Race for Social Media.
We talk about what a "Platform" actually is, at a time when Facebook is under heavy criticism for its scale-chasing practices, and whether rival platforms like TikTok are being forced to pursue ...
2021-10-19 09:37:40 +0000 UTC
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