Tech reporter Paris Martineau came on to talk to us about Blind, the tech industry gossip app, and its potential implications for labour organising.
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2023-08-15 09:00:06 +0000 UTC View PostSarah Hagi, Host of the Scamfluencers podcast, joins us to talk about Hot Or Not websites. From Reddit to the OG Facebook, we ask: why does this phenomenon arise? and is there any way to send everyone who posts there to Jail?
But first, let's check in on an old friend: Dr Peterson.
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Returning guests Brian and Josh from the Worst of all Possible Worlds podcast join us to discuss parts 3 and 4 of the 2022 documentary 'Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed'!
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Joey Santore, Host of Kill Your Lawn and the youtube channel Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't, came on to talk to us about his channel, science and nature communication and one especially good turtle.
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We talk to Ed Ongweso Jr (co-host of TMK and columnist at The Nation) about his recent essay on the deification of generative AI by the tech guys competing to determine who gets to control its development. Ed explains how either choice disregards the labour needed to build the systems in the first place, and how the end point of either directi...
2023-07-28 09:20:08 +0000 UTC View PostReturning guests Brian and Josh from the Worst of all Possible Worlds podcast join us to discuss the first part of the 2022 documentary Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed. Part 2 coming next week!
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For an el Classico episode, the lads revisit an all timer post and take a deep dive into Roast Him Jim, Plus discuss the current posting climate on Bluesky and Threads, two current twitter clones.
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2023-07-21 10:46:21 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Phoebe and Hussein watch 'Ingrid Goes West', a 2017 film about a young woman who becomes obsessed with an instagram celebrity. Although, as we discuss, it's not really quite like that, not least because the writers don't really know what Ingrid is supposed to be doing, or what she wants, or why she makes the choices that she does.
We talk a bunch about whether Aubrey Plaza is good or not, Hussein misremembers a line from Godzilla (2014), and we discuss what parts the film s...
This week, NYT reporter and returning guest Mike Isaac joins us to discuss the recent Reddit shutdown, our own startup ideas, and to give us an update on Elon Musk.
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2023-07-11 09:35:04 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Hussein and Phoebe have watched the recent Black Mirror episode 'Joan is Awful', and have some thoughts.
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Peter Mitchell is a historian, writer and author of “imperial dreams: how the British conquered themselves”.
On this episode, Peter explains how nostalgia emerges out of trauma, how it has informed post-empire politics in Britain, and the ways in which internet culture as heightened this sense of imagined collective loss. He also talks about the ways that British nostalgia has retreated into the mundane, and...
2023-07-04 09:29:33 +0000 UTC View PostWe’re joined by Chris Kavanagh, an anthropologist and the co-host of “Decoding The Gurus” to talk about the emergence of the New Atheist movement and the ways it permanently shaped discourse online.
We talk about the movement's entrance into the mainstream, and how it fractured, as some of its core figures decided to ally with the religious ri...
2023-06-30 09:26:01 +0000 UTC View PostFashion, Culture, and Music writer W. David Marx joins us this week to talk about his book, Status and Culture.
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The Culture We Deserve's Jessa Crispin came on to talk to Phoebe about Goodreads and how literary culture is irreparably broken.
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2023-06-23 08:49:44 +0000 UTC View PostReturning champion and fan favourite historian Patrick Wyman comes back to talk to Phoebe about the prolific 1st century BC Roman poet Catullus; poster, lover, obsessive butt guy.
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2023-06-20 09:25:34 +0000 UTC
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This week, Journalist Ed Zitron , author of the 'Where's your Ed at' newsletter, came on to launch a spirited defence of the Apple nerd goggles. Also, it's time for another Elon Update!
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This week, Hussein and Phoebe are joined by friend of the show, Journalist and Writer Seamus Malekafzali, to discuss the premier 'falling in love with an AI girlfriend' movie, 'Her' starring Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlet Johannsen.
You can find Seamus's Substacks Here for Middle Eastern Politics, and Here for lesser known movies.
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2023-06-13 08:46:35 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Hussein is joined by writer, fighter and local legend Tom Usher to talk about the rise of Arsenal Fan TV, and the ways that it changed being an Arsenal fan, and football fandom as a whole.
We talk about the origin story of the channel and what it was responding to, as well as the fans that became the channels hosts and recurring characters. Tom also explains how AFTV set a new standard for what fans expect...
2023-06-09 08:50:52 +0000 UTC View PostFriend of the show and oft-returning guest Annie Kelly from QAnon Anonymous and Vaccine podcast joins us to talk about the renewed interest in Giant-related conspiracy theories on TikTok. But first, we check in with problematic fave Azealia Banks' peerless cultural criticism. 2023-06-06 09:17:50 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, Hussein and Phoebe are joined by Aaron Thorpe from the Trillbillies to look back at the 2005 psychological thriller Hard Candy, starring a young Elliot Page as a girl who captures a suspected paedophile.
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This week, Annie Rauwerda joins us to talk about hosting the 'Depths of Wikipedia' Instagram and twitter accounts, and about being a Wikipedia Editor!
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2023-05-30 08:38:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by the illustrious Miles Klee to talk about his life in posting. But mostly we talk about Facebook and Incels.
You can find Miles' excellent public interest journalism here!
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This week, we're joined by Author Alison Rumfitt to talk about the Two Sentence Horror subreddit!
Order Alison's novel Tell Me I'm Worthless from your local bookstore! Waterstones if you don't have a local independent bookstore. Just not Amazon.
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In the second part of our two parter on how evangelicals use the internet, Josh Boerman from the Worst of All Possible Worlds returns to talk to us about- among other things- evangelical tiktok!
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2023-05-19 07:42:21 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor and broadcaster Joanne McNeil, host of the podcast Main Accounts and author of Lurking, joined Hus...
2023-05-16 08:50:23 +0000 UTC View PostComedian and author Tom Ballard joins us talk to us about his life in posting, with particular reference to Facebook statuses.
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This week Hussein is joined by Journalist and Author Stephen Markley to discuss his recent book The Deluge, which follows the story of a radicalised scientist and the allies he makes while railing against inaction on climate change.
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2023-05-09 11:31:15 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Phoebe and Hussein watch Black Mirror S1E2 '15 Million Credits'. Is it an effective satire of capitalism and consumerism? We have some thoughts about that.
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Josh Boerman from the Worst Of all Possible Worlds join the gang for the first part of our look at how evangelical conservatives use social media.
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2023-05-02 09:54:45 +0000 UTC
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We're pretty clear what a cursed object is, but what makes a post a cursed post? Dan Hancox and Kasia Tee from Cursed Objects join Phoebe & Hussein to make the deciding call, featuring bourgeois beans on toast, surveillance vines, and large farm animals.
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