Ten Thousand Posts

[Preview] HK’s Anime Club: Serial Experiments Lain, Episode 12

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We're on the penultimate episode of this damn series, so we're joined by Devon to talk about Lain's final debate with the God of the wired - a debate she wins fairly easily?- causing the God to go sicko mode. We also talk about the real victim of all this, Alice, who basically has THE worst day of her life, all spent inside the world's dampest house. 

 

 

 

Poster’s Potluck #2 ft. Alice Caldwell-Kelly

Alice (@aliceavizandum) joins us this week to talk about some fun posts and TikTok's we found, and we also talk about the whole 'Libs of TikTok' debacle, and why the whole 'doxxing' conversation is both boring and a red herring that the Libs are conceding to the extremely online right. 

[PREVIEW] HK’s Anime Club: Serial Experiments Lain (Episode 11)

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Gary, We Hardly Knew Vee (ft. Münecat)

This week, we're joined by Youtuber and Musician Münecat, to talk about venture capital influencer Gary Vee, a man who seems to be on some really unique cocaine constantly and demands that everybody makes content all the time. We talk about how Gary - a patron saint of the Rise and Grind genre of Youtube - has the same conclusion about content as us (Everything is Content), and in understanding this, promotes an extremely cynical vision of creating things online - one in which everything has to have a monetary value, that is extracted in every possible way to every possible audience. Seems kinda bad, Gary! 
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Watch Munecat's video on Gary Vee here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2630&v=5Xpx0l6FXJU&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=m%C3%BCnecat

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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)

 

[PREVIEW] He’s Making A List, He’s Checking It Once [Part 2] ft. Annie Kelly

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[UNLOCKED] He’s Making A List, He’s Checking It Once ft. Annie Kelly

We're joined this week by Annie Kelly, an academic and co-host of QAnon Anonymous (@AnnieKNK) , who talks to us about what QAnon is up to these days, and how they're taking the whole War in Ukraine situation. We talk about QAnon's current identity crisis, as it tries to figure out what its supposed to be, or who its supposed to be rooting for - all while still trying to continue to play the hits, in an even more crowded content economy. We also talk about post-coma Jordan Peterson posting, and why he's now just making lists about stuff???

[PREVIEW] Stop Queering The Cookie Monster! ft. Dr Eleanor Janega

Eleanor (@goingmedieval) joins us once again to talk about this weird thing where TERFs and Trad guys seem to realise their visions of the future really aren't that different, and how following the same pathology of posts have allowed them to arrive there. We also talk about how Trads have successfully used the political purchasing power of TERFs to advance their own anti-feminist politics, in such a way that their online habits are basically a mainstay of politics now. Plus, we revisit friend of the show Greg Kelly, who once again is crying because the woke left are RUINING his favourite SWEET TREATS.
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You can purchase Eleanor's book, here: https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/the-middle-ages/9200000117492724/

Bad News ft. Joe Bernstein

We're joined this week by Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) to talk about his recent Harper's long read on Disinformation and the commercialisation of fact-checking, misinformation reporting, OSINT, and its implications of how we understand news, information and data. We talk about what Joe considers to be "Big Disinfo" and the ways in which important work - discerning the truth on the internet- can be leveraged and co-opted by the tech platforms that incentivise and encourage fake news and weaponised information in the first place.

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You can read Joe's essay, here:
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/

[PREVIEW] Poster’s Potluck ft. Devon (Updates)

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We decided to take a little break from *the discourse on main* this week, to sit as friends and enjoy the Poster's Potluck - where we each bring a few posts we thought were interesting, amusing or downright deranged - and talk about them at length. We also revisit friend of the show Bevvie to see what she's thinking about the war in Ukraine, and propose setting up a Devon Updates twitter account. 

Sunset & Vine ft. Oobah Butler

Were joined by Oobah Butler, a writer, satirist and host of MTV UK's Catfish, to talk about how scamming is embedded into basically every form of online culture, and how actually, a lot of people really love to be in on the ride, even if they're the ones who are about to lose. Plus, we talk about Oobah's ongoing beef with Jeremy Vine, wherein Vine is trapped in Oobah's mind palace, with no way out.