Ten Thousand Posts

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

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

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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???

Live, Love, Cry Laugh ft. Huw Lemmey

We're joined by writer and podcaster Huw Lemmey, author of "Bad Gays: A Homosexual History", to discuss his recent substack essay on the Cry Laugh Emoji, and its links to British 'banter' culture and cultural encouragement of cruelty. We discuss how concepts of accepted cruelty as social relations became digitally mediated, and how the cry-laugh emoji embodies the worst elements of it, as well as a broader, political effort to enshrine dehumanisation into policy-making. We discuss how and why the emoji is used, why it clogs up our facebook feeds, and why, regardless of who wins or loses an election, it's ultimately the cry-laugh emoji that rules over the British Isles. 
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Read Huw's essay on substack here: https://t.co/1MoivjXLVp
Follow and listen to Bad Gays pod, here: https://twitter.com/BadGaysPod

 

[PREVIEW] Watching The War (Part 2) ft. Milo Edwards

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Milo (@Milo_Edwards) joins us once again to talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine, and how its being presented online. In this episode, we talk about how the war has shaped the Russian internet, and whether Putin's plans to build a localised, domesticated internet is even possible, as well as the weird parts of the Russian internet that simply cannot be contained, despite how many wires are cut. We then talk about Russia and Ukraine's digital strategies in promoting propaganda, and the limitations of "winning the social media war" when posts are ephemeral, instantly forgettable and, crucially, too abundant. 

Watching The War (Part 1) ft. Oscar Rickett

We're joined by Oscar Rickett (@oscarrickettnow), journalist and editor at Middle East Eye, to discuss the events taking place in Ukraine, and how we are viewing clips, videos, articles and posts about it from Westerners. We discuss the role of content in relation to journalism and information distribution, and at what point content stops being productive as a way of raising awareness and spreading messages of activists. 

You can read Oscar's article on Mic, here: https://www.mic.com/impact/russia-ukraine-protests-viral

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[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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