Ten Thousand Posts

[PREVIEW] HK’s Anime Club: Serial Experiments Lain, Layer 10

Hussein and Phoebe talk about SEL Layer 10, "Love", in which Lain finally meets The God of The Wired (just a guy) who tries to debate her about the existence of God and the necessity of religion. That's right, turns out even in The Wired you can't get away from New Atheists harassing young girls. Lain, trying to challenge The God, decides to wipe out all the gamers from The Wired....but will it work?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poster’s Grindset Ft. Symeon Brown

This week, Hussein talks to journalist, producer and author Symeon Brown (@symeonbrown), about his new book "Get Rich or Lie Tryin' : Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy". We talk about how hustles, scams and cons have become all but ubiquitous features, not just of influencer economies, but internet culture itself- and how a digital environment built on shams and deceit have been weaponised by everyone from big corporations and governments, to teens in their bedrooms selling bootleg Fortnite skins. We then talk about why people are drawn to these types of scams and what that might suggest about contemporary relationships in digital culture, as well as the consequences we'll see from a generation, for whom digital culture is augmented into every aspect of their lives. 
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You can purchase a copy of Symeon's book here: https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/get-rich-or-lie-trying/

[PREVIEW] HK’S Anime Club: Serial Experiments Lain, Episode 9

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Clean Your Virtual Room ft. Charlie Warzel

We're joined by Charlie Warzel, who writes the newsletter Galaxy Brain for The Atlantic, to talk about a recent piece on Web3, crypto economies and the phenomena of a technology that's desperately searching for a culture to justify its existence. We talk about how the shift to web3 relates to the 'vibe shift' - moving to an undefined space that is categorised as 'the future' with no further explanations required, and what this suggests about how we conceive of trends, viral content and popularity on the internet. We also talk about Jordan Peterson giving the keynote at this year's Bitcoin conference, which has seemingly made a bunch of Bitcoin guys on Reddit kinda mad!
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Read and subscribe to Charlie's newsletter here: https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/620d5303dc551a0020870079/i-found-the-tech-angle-on-the-vibe-shift/

[PREVIEW] The Revolution Will Not Have A Brand Partnership ft. Rachel Connolly

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the full episode at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

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Friend of the show Rachel (@RachelConnoll14)  returns to the pod to talk about her recent Guardian piece on influencers, cynical activism and the limitations placed on protest movements when corporate-backed influencers jump on the bandwagon. We talk about how influencer marketing has changed over the past decade, to the point where it is now entrenched into the daily lives of most internet users in subtle and unexpected ways, leading to a situation where we can't really define what a 'celebrity' is anymore, abstracting what we mean by, and consider to be, "influence".
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Read Rachel's article here: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/09/influencers-online-social-justice-branding

Nostalgic Vibeset ft. Aaron Thorpe (@Paradoomer)

This week, we're joined by Aaron from The Trillbillies Podcast to talk about a recent essay he wrote about nostalgia, gritty reboots, hauntology, and the inability to conceive of any kind of future, let alone one that might actually be better. We talk about how and why reboots fail to capture any kind of contemporary moment in the age of content, and why this has also led to a situation where shows about teenagers, and ostensibly *for* teenagers, are actually geared toward and discussed by people in their 30s, trying to re-imagine their teen years. We also talk about what's been going on with Facebook recently, its weird swathes of viral content which make zero sense, and why going on Facebook is very much like the early stages of a stroke. 
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You can read Aaron's essay and subscribe to his substack here: https://spacelight.substack.com/p/what-may-have-been

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[PREVIEW] Jester Mindset ft. Milo Edwards

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Milo returns to the poster's dome to talk about how and why comedians have become influencers and what this suggests about how we think about comedy and making jokes. We talk about how internet culture has changed comedy, and the way that comedians develop routines and profiles - being far more aware of online discourse, than the audience they're actually playing to - creating a situation where to be a very successful comedian, you don't really have to be funny. You just need a bit of charisma when you're doing a mad rant. Healthy! 

We also talk about how the Bored Ape Yacht Club is the fault of David Foster Wallace, and why we should ban all MFAs right now.

[UNLOCKED] Critical Poster’s Theory ft. Sam Hoadley-Brill

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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 Christopher Rufo, once an obscure right wing think-tank wonk in the 2000s, was able to utilise social media platforms to reframe the post-Trump culture wars, with effects not just in America, but throughout the rest of the Western world too.
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We also talk about Paul Joseph Watson's lamentation over No Nut November, in which he believes that the woke soyboy left have corrupted the true meaning of 'no nut' and its reactionary origins of banning all internet porn. You can read the original tweet here: https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1455100786313211912

 

[PREVIEW] The Matrix Resurrections ft. Sophie (Part 2)

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Hussein and Sophie jack into the Matrix once again to complete the watch of the latest Matrix movie. Now that Neo is once again "out", we find out what happened to Zion after the humans-machines war, how the new Matrix is powered through tons and tons of posts, and the great heist to reunite Neo with Trinity by sending Chad to the virtual divorce court. In the second half, we talk about how Lana Wachowski thinks about revolution and radical optimism being co-opted, and the ways in which that can and should be resisted, leading to a conclusion which, while at first might seem cynical, provides practical insights into how power can be exacted to literally rebuild society with rainbows, blue hair and pronouns.

Tank Engine Elegy ft. Amelia Horgan

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, pumped up crypto scams and further alienation of labour from production. We also talk about the recent discourse around whether its abusive to let your kid watch Thomas the Tank Engine if you are of the belief that the trains are sentient and anthropomorphic - only to realise that the person making these claims was, once again, getting mad at Alice. 
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Buy Amelia's book from Pluto Press here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745340913/lost-in-work
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Ten Thousand Posts is hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_OnEarth).