Ten Thousand Posts

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the whole episode at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.
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Rachel (@RachelConnoll14) joins us once again to talk about her recent Kinfolk article, on what happens when ordinary people go viral. We talk about surveillance, agency and *the spectacle*, and how all these themes could be seen playing out in the aftermath of The Queen's Death. We also talk about what it actually means when The Daily Mail goes searching for tweets, and who is really the target when shit hits the fan.
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Read Rachel's Article, here: https://t.co/2h3I6MOL32
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This week, Paris Marx of the Tech Won't Save Us Podcast joins us to talk about their book, 'Road to Nowhere', and how silicon valley fundamentally cannot imagine a future without cars. We check in on the progress of long-time archenemy of the show Elon Musk's hyperloop, and examine his ongoing effort to escape his obligations to purchase twitter.

Get your very own copy of Paris' book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3995-road-to-nowhere

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This is a free preview of a bonus episode! Find the whole episode, as well as our entire backlog of bonus episodes, at https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast

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We are joined by Rebecca Jennings, senior correspondent at VOX and author of one of our favorite tech newsletters, to demystify digital Trends.
Rebecca wrote a piece some time ago talking about the 'sea shanties' trend that was going around, despite this being based off exactly one tiktok video of a guy singing that was endlessly stitched and parodied, then picked up by journalists, before eventually making it to Saturday Night Live within a matter of weeks. 

We also take our time to investigate the absolute depths and heights of Posting that arose around the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

You can find Rebecca's linktree Here
the articles discussed in this episode are here and here,
and also the video of Dan Wootton laying tribute is here.

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This week we are joined by Callum Cant, Author of Riding for Deliveroo, editor for NFP and Postdoc researcher at the OII, To discuss the recent Amazon wildcat strikes in the UK; why the british media is steadfastly ignoring them, and what they tell us about organising in the modern era.

But first, why is it that the first month of september generates some of the most memorable tweets?

Read Callum's piece on the strikes: https://notesfrombelow.org/article/mapping-amazon-strikes

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This show is supported by Patreon. Sign up for as little as $5 a month to gain access to a new bonus episode every week, and our entire backlog of bonus episodes! Thats https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

 

This is a free preview of a bonus episode! Find the whole episode, as well as our entire backlog of bonus episodes, at https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast

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This week, Eddie Kim joins Hussein to discuss how Tech guys are trying to take over local politics in California, And to look specifically at the venture capitalist Garry Tan, the new head of YCombinator who sits on the school board council in San Francisco. 

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This is an unlocked episode from our Patreon feed. To subscribe for bonus episodes, go to www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

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On this week's bonus episode, we've heard your demands and finally- JUST THIS ONCE- acquiesced. Morbius is a fascinating example of a movie so awful and uninteresting that it became an object of ironic enjoyment. Posters managed to convince Disney to reopen the movie in cinemas, only for it to pull in about 80 dollars per cinema on average on it's reopening weekend.

Joining us to talk about this is Twitch Streamer and QANON Anonymous contributor Liv Agar, who penned the tweet that brought this back to our attention. https://twitter.com/Liv_Agar/status/1532643775553712130?s=20&t=hlAxrWGE_Ui5c2s1twW3yw
Devon joined for this one too, making this our first ever four-mic episode. And truly, what better a topic to break records for.

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

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

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Alex (@ptaktestkitchen) joins us in the woods of online for a lovely picnic, complete with Smokey Bear barbecue buckets. For this feast, we have a TikTok channel hosted by a guy who really, really loves ants, Tim Pool's emo music video and Jeff Bezos proving to all the haters and losers that he can eat a burger like a normal person.
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Ant TikTok Guy: https://www.tiktok.com/@lightscameraants?_t=8VFF9hw629e&_r=1
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Jeff Bezos Eating A Burger: https://twitter.com/JeffBezos/status/1564006036037521408
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Tim Pool's Emo Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOfvaUwWi2k&ab_channel=TimcastRecords

This week, we revisit a subject we last discussed two years ago: Tiktok Witches.
What factors have led to the rise of a magick subcommunity on Tiktok? Does every girl just have a witch phase, or is this a sign of something darker? Why does Tim Curry in the Worst Witch look like a sexy Tony Blair?

As an amuse-bouche, we take a look at Footballer Paul Pogba's admission to the police that he paid a witch doctor to cast a spell, but insists it was a hex to protect himself from injury, and that he has not cast a curse on rival Kylian Mbappé.

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This show is supported by Patreon. Sign up for as little as $5 a month to gain access to a new bonus episode every week, and our entire backlog of bonus episodes! Thats https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This is a free preview of a bonus episode! Find the whole episode, as well as our entire backlog of bonus episodes, at https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast

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This week Annie Kelly of the Qanon anonymous podcast joins us to talk about how, even among all the shit in the news, it turns out basically every library in the country is about to be inundated with abuse and violence, as the ‘grooming/pedo’ panic sweeps the nation. A number of libraries across the country, including one in Norwich, where Annie is based, was protested by far-right and conspiratorial groups, after a number of them participated in ‘Drag Queen Story Hour’ - in which drag queens read childrens stories to children while their parents sit there aimlessly scrolling on their phones.

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This week, we take a look at Quinn Shepherd's recently-released social media black comedy, Not Okay. The film tells the tale of a young journalist who finds social media success after she uses photoshop to claim to have been present at a terrorist attack, and the travails of being a young woman thrust into massive mainstream popularity, and her attempts at leveraging this position for personal gain while trying to hide that the whole thing is a fabrication. 

It stars a lot of social media influencers you will be familiar with if you're about a decade and a half younger than any of us, and appears to have the moral: Not everyone's cut out to be an influencer. Cool!

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This show is supported by Patreon. Sign up for as little as $5 a month to gain access to a new bonus episode every week, and our entire backlog of bonus episodes! Thats https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth).