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Some updates on this week's episode

Hi all,

Some of you may have noticed this week's episode went up briefly, before being taken down. This was due to a technical and editing related issue that we are resolving, and will be re-uploading it later this week. Some of you might have picked up what the issue was, to which I would ask that you keep the information to yourself, for fairly obvious reasons.

Thank you for understanding and for your patience.

Best,

HK

Ten Thousand Posts celebrates 5 years!

Hey all!

Some of you pointed out that it's been 5 years since we began the show. My god, how much things have changed – granted, mostly for the worst – but as always, there are still posts, posters and much to talk about when it comes to the art of posting.

To celebrate, we've decided to record a Q&A episode. Please field us your questions, which can be about stuff we've talked about on the show, things you're interested in, or any other questions you might have for us. <...

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🚨The Girls Are Fighting🚨

This week, Hussein and Phoebe catch up on stuff happening online. They talk about Catturd (pronunciation TBD) ending his friendship with Elon Musk over politics and what this tells us about how the verification system is going.

They also talk about addressing their screen time for the sake of their kids, and remembering what’s truly important in the world, which, of course, is a deep dive on why Joyce Carol Oates posts so well and the power of simply asking people to explain why they ...

Demon Ex Machina ft. Miles Klee

Miles returns to the show this week to talk about why so many people are starting to treat Chat GPT as a deity, and are willing to sacrifice their friendships and intimate relationships so they can worship the computer. Miles talks about the people who have lost their loved ones to LLMs and the work it takes to bring them back from the brink, why tech companies are unwilling to stop this from happening, and the ways that religious organisations are forced to compete with AI on matters of text...

Grok, Stock & 20 Teenage Atheists

This week, Hussein and Phoebe bravely battle through their various illnesses and brainworms to talk about Jordan Peterson’s staging a battle against 20 atheist teenagers and losing, and whether Peterson can even exist in the current right wing media environment.

They also talk about Grok’s weird ethnic fixations, and why, in spite of it, increasing numbers of people are spending what’s left of their time on earth asking if people with six fingers and two sets of teeth are real. 2025-06-03 09:47:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Little Bosses Everywhere: An Interview with Bridget Read

We’re joined by journalist and author Bridget Read, to talk about her new book, “Little Bosses Everywhere : How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America”. 

Bridget talks to us about the long history of Multi Level Marketing (MLM),  its place in American mythmaking and how the Direct Selling industry was able to acquire political power and influence, which continues to help them evade regulation, as well as shape social and economic policy. We also talk about why MLMs aren’t s...

My Life In Posting: Juniper

June joins us this week to talk about their life in posting, and goes through just some of the ways posting has shaped their lives, for good and for ill. We talk about the relationship between posting and loneliness, how the internet has created complex pathways to radicalisation that are difficult to regulate, what to do if your family get doxxed by online oddballs, and the virtues of meeting your online friends in real life. 

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10K Posts TV Club: Paul American

We watch the first episode of the HBO series “Paul American”, a documentary – sort of – about Jake and Logan Paul.

We talk about the relationship between the Paul brothers and prime time TV shows, what happens when you age out of content economy but can only think in terms of virality, and try to figure out what this show is actually trying to say, and to whom.

We also find some time to talk about Kemi Badenoch’s addiction to doom scrolling and mobile games, and Phoebe t...

10k Book Club: Careless People ft. Josh Boerman

Friend of the show Josh Boerman returns to the show to talk about “CARELESS PEOPLE: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism” by former Meta staffer Sarah Wynn-Williams.

We talk about the controversy surrounding the memoir, the pretense that nobody at Facebook knew what they had created, and how the platform’s ambitions to become the entire internet was undermined by the its inability to create any other ...

Space Double Katy Perry is Now the Pope ft. Fred Scharmen

Architect and urban designer Fred Scharmen joins us this week to talk about Jeff Bezos’ recent Blue Origin space flight, and what it tells us about how billionaires think about space exploration and settlement today.
Fred explains how the utopian, collectivist visions of space exploration in the 20th century lost purchase as rich tech guys became more interested in tourism, and how private sector Space projects might also reflect a lack of desire to try to repair the problems currently ...

Touch Grass : Graphic Design is my Passion ft. Michael Oswell

Designer Michael Oswell joins the show this week to talk about his work in graphic design and typography. Michael talks about how he got started in design, at a time when work was still drawn by hand first and tailored to print mediums – and how the expectations of social media platforms and digital first technologies has diminished the importance of drawing. We also speculate over contemporary fascism's penchant for Serif fonts, what the decline of original imagery tells us about culture's...

The Revolution Will Not Be Ghiblified ft. Gareth Watkins

Writer and podcaster Gareth Watkins comes on the show today to talk about his essay, 'AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism'.

We talk about the shifts in what we is considered to be the 'aesthetic' of AI, why so many on the right, including those obsessed with 'classical' beauty, seem to love using it, and  what it tells us about the way political messages are distributed and received.

Gareth also explains that the best way to challenge those using and promoting AI images over th...

Everything is Computer ft. Josh Boerman

This week, Josh Boerman from The Worst of All Possible Worlds returns to the pod to catch us up on everything happening in America, as it decides to self immolate for no other reason but to own the libs.

We talk about how Everything Is Computer, and what that actually means in practice, Elon Musk stealing tricks from...

Dunking Your Head into the Quizbowl ft. Ed Campbell

Ed Campbell, Correspondent and Senior Political Producer at PoliticsJoe, joins us this week to talk about the morning routine and sigma grindset required to nearly win Britain’s favourite game show, The Chase.

We talk about ice bowl dunks, getting evicted from your apartment for leaving too many banana peels on the floor, before moving onto Ed’s experience on The Chase.

Ed gives us an insight into how the show works, the strategy he developed to take on each potential Chaser, ...

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We talk to Jonathan about his early experiences trolling on forums, his early introduction to cinema via rental stores, and the ways the industry has changed as a result of streaming services determining what films get made and distributed. We also talk about t...

Parents' Evening ft. Annie Kelly

Writer, researcher and co-host of QAnon Anonymous Annie Kelly returns to the show as we talk about the long tail of QAnon, and its lasting remnants on the ‘mainstream’ internet – in particular, in parenting content. 

Annie explains how conspiracy theories seamlessly infiltrated the online lives of parents, exploiting the vulnerability of caring for a newborn, at a time when state support and medical care for many parents continues to diminish. We also talk about the ways ...

Springtime In Germany ft. Corner Späti 

Nick and Ciarán from Corner Späti come on the show this week to talk about the recent elections in Germany, and the specific ways in which posting influenced its outcome. We talk about the rise of the far-right AfD and the ineffectiveness of liberal politics to counter it, and the surprise surge of the left-wing Die Linke.

 We also talk about rising authoritarianism in Germany and the ways in which historical memory is abused, resulting in an increased targeting of Muslim immigra...

A Regrettable Victory Lap

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We also look back on some of the moments that took us here, and ask why, despite posting driving so many world events, mainstream media outlets still can't seem to get a grasp of wh...

Some DOGEy Geezers ft Paris Marx

Paris returns to the pod to talk about Elon’s first few weeks running the US government, and the mysterious group of teenagers he’s hired to find copper wire. We talk about the ideological origins of DOGE, some of the characters that make up the group, and what Elon’s other business strategies suggest about the true purpose of the department. We also talk about the political uses of austerity in the American context,  how this ultimately serves to benefit a more power hungry Silico...

War on Wokeipedia ft. Molly White

This week, we're joined by journalist and Wikipedia editor Molly White, to talk about the right's war on wikipedia, the production and conservation of knowledge online, and what it takes in order to preserve it. We also talk about the work of a wikipedia editor, how it differs from other kinds of fact-checking, and the ways in which Wikipedia's dedicated army of human writers and editors are able to thwart the attempts to replicate them by challengers, ranging from ChatGPT to Conservapedia (y...

Pump & $TRUMP ft. Jacob Silverman

Jacob returns to the pod to explain how cryptocurrencies are back (derogatory) and the ways that memecoins are used to assert political and cultural influence while also swindling people. We also talk about the Trump administration’s plans to deregulate crypto, and why, in the end, this really benefits the gambling industry and its attempts to enter every facet of mainstream culture. 

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What say, Zuck? ft. Mike Isaac

Friend of the show and NYT tech reporter Mike Isaac returns to the pod to explain what the tech oligarchy looks like under a second Trump administration.
After many years of searching for an identity and failing, Mike explains how a freshly-permed Zuck has decided to simply give up on trying to make his platform produce anything other than slop, and what that says about Meta’s idea of what the internet should be.

Buy Mike's book from 2025-01-28 22:18:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Number of the Beasts: 10k Watches Beast Games

This week, we watch BEAST GAMES, the game show hosted by Mr Beast in which he imprisons thousands of ordinary Americans and pits them against each other in a series of mundane games, largely for his own amusement.

We talk about the financing behind the Amazon Prime show, Mr Beast's struggle to become a household name, and why the the novelty and excess required to game the Youtube algorithm doesn't quite work on a streaming platform.

We also chat about Mr Beast's weird proposal pi...

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The lads intended to talk about Mr Beast's new show Beast Games on Amazon, but once again got distracted by Elon.

This week we talk about Elons interventions in Uk and European politics, what politics as posting looks like, and how Musk is using crypto 'pump and dump' tactics to reshape democracy.

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Check out 2024-12-31 11:19:05 +0000 UTC View Post

10K 2024 Recap Part 1 ft. Milo Edwards

Friend, lover and brother of the show Milo Edwards stood in for Hussein today, for the first part of our year in posting episode.

We chat Moo Deng, Luigi Mangione, Lee Anderson and we have a long argument about whether or not hippos float. Part 2 out for patrons next week!

Check out Masters of our Domain with Milo, here!
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10k Time Capsule: The US Election ft TWOAPW Part 1

Pals and returning champions Josh and Brian from the Worst of All Possible Worlds came on to chat about the US election. In Part 1, we discuss the lay of the land and do our absolute best to track the course of this election cycle, from the Trump assassination attempts to Biden's refusal to drop out until the absolute last minute. This episode was recorded several weeks before the election happened, and we're releasing it several weeks after, in our own bid to recreate 2020’s Tenet. Part 2 ...