Ten Thousand Posts

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This week, we're joined by actress, Youtuber and podcast host Abigail Thorn (@philosophytube) all the way from the spooky mountains of Transylvania where she's shooting an upcoming film. While she's incredibly busy with a hectic shooting schedule, Abigail still found time to challenge us in The Battle of Ideas - specifically, how we on the show have talked about influencers and content creators. Abigail suggests that the breadth of multimedia content on the internet - alongside the rapid bleeding out of 'online content' into 'mainstream' entertainment, means that terms such as 'content creator' may be obsolete, not least because so many people are involved in it. Moreover, Abigail suggests that in 'mainstream' entertainment, including in areas such as Theatre and Opera, established artists actually *want* to be content creators and influencers - and in some cases, see it as more 'real' than other aspects of the entertainment industry. 

We also talk about film studios continuing to mine ideas from Twitter, and whether this is not only influencing how high-budget cinema is being made, but also, what viewers and audiences actually expect from the entertainment they consume.

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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). For weekly bonus episodes, subscribe at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

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We're joined by journalist and tech writer Aisha Gani (@aishagani) to talk about proposals to 'ban anonymity' on social media as part of the British government's Online Safety Bill, and to discuss how much of this - in practice - would be extending the British government's expansive and secretive counter-extremism strategy, much of which has been designed to tackle the nebulous threat of "Islamist" radicalism. We discuss how expanding surveillance tech to social media platforms not only represents a gross expansion of the programme, ensuring that Peter Theil and other tech cops get richer, but also how this would be entirely counter-intuitive - not least because most people who spread hate online already use their real names and are very easily traceable. Does this mean that more far-right threats will be reported to Prevent? Not particularly! Especially when, based on the British government's own definitions of radical, exclude them entirely. Seems good!

We also discuss Germanic Food Supremacy, in relation to a tweet lamenting that Muslims were unlucky because they couldn't eat boiled salty ham and mashed potatoes, in a liquid pan sauce. Sucks to be us I guess!
(https://twitter.com/Tinkzorg/status/1451921866222878729)

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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). 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome back to the Ten Thousand Posts Film Club!
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This week, we're joined by Rob (@CountRthe) and Jamie (@anxietycowboy) to talk about the 1995 film "The Net", starring Sandra Bullock, Jeremy Northam and Dennis Miller. The film - which oscillates from mundane to truly chaotic - centres around a computer hacker and video game tester (Bullock), an original e-girl, who has one computer for hacking and another entirely dedicated to ordering pizza. After finding out one of her colleagues died in a 'mysterious' plane crash after sending her a weird disk, she completely brushes it off, goes on holiday and meets a weird british guy with a yacht. Of course, being the most incurious hacker in the world, she joins him, despite his very obvious statements that he is gaslighting her. 
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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're once again joined by Miles Klee (@Milesklee) to talk about author posting, and namely, Joyce Carol Oates. From the disgusting Keyboard tweet and the posts of her unwashed toes, to lamenting the Halloween decorations of her neighbours, we ask - what *is* Oates Posting? How is Joyce Carol Oates so good at it, and how is she one of the only authors that actually has the right approach to being a poster? 

We also talk about how leftist gamers are challenging the word of God by speed running games and making sexy Marios, and how, once again, this all comes down to Jordan Peterson fans not actually understanding what Peterson argues, or his outright contempt for video games (https://twitter.com/bronzeswords/status/1449345260207828995)

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This is a preview of a bonus episode of Ten Thousand Posts. You can listen to the full episode at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

This week, we're joined by comedian Rajiv Karia  (@RajivAKaria) as we talk about whether we actually enjoy TV shows anymore, or whether we just get mad at people who don't like them. We talk about how we are all part of fandoms, whether we like it or not, and how posting about shows influences how they are written, produced and marketed - something that is most clearly evident in "no context" twitter accounts.

We also see the return of patron of the show Jordan Peterson, who, post-coma, now seems to just be posting Jungian movie reviews of Marvel films, and discuss how his new genre of posting may be a reflection of being overshadowed by younger, more savvy conservative posters. 

This week, Hussein and Phoebe are joined by tech writer and journalist Chris Stokel Walker (@stokel), the author of Youtubers : How YouTube Shook Up TV and Created a New Generation of Stars and TikTok Boom:  China, the US and the Superpower Race for Social Media.


We talk about what a "Platform" actually is, at a time when Facebook is under heavy criticism for its scale-chasing practices, and whether rival platforms like TikTok are being forced to pursue the same growth model, as well as whether Platforms can ever be meaningfully regulated or treated like a public-service utility. We also talk about Facebook's PR Guy, Andy Stone, whose strategy largely seems to amount to: Get mad online but actually emphasise that you are, indeed, laughing. Does this indicate Facebook going off the rails? Or do they just realise that they can do this now and get away with it? Anyway, we conclude, as always, that this is Nick Clegg's fault.

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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). For more episodes and bonus content, sign up to our patreon for $5 a month at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

This week, we're joined by Sirin Kale (@thedalstonyears), a writer for The Guardian, GQ and Vogue, to talk about Nextdoor - the billion dollar app that has taken over local neighbourhoods, and has its own wikipedia section entirely dedicated to 'racial controversies'. We discuss how this app has simulated the 'idea' of a neighbourhood as a surveillance project, that incentivises curtain twitching and snitching, while also eradicating the material functions required to actually build and sustain a local community. That means that Nextdoor ends up becoming a bizarre clone of Facebook, but with more hyper-specific forms of racism, even more minions memes, and endless flame wars between moderators and users that, crucially, seeps out into the real world too. 

We also talk about 'Salt Bae', why so many people are going to his restaurant in order to post their receipts, and whether 'Salt Bae' is the logical end point of the experience economy - one in which, rather than enjoying your time, you pursue things in order to make other people online as mad as possible.

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This week, Hussein & Devon watch episodes 2 and 3 of Serial Experiments Lain,  in which we learn more about "the Wired", its relationship to the 'real world' and all the weird things happening to Lain as she modifies her computer and does e-girl shit. Plus, who are the Knights? What is the Acella pill? What is up with Lain's weird digital voice? We also talk about Chiaki Konaka's descent into poster's plague, his infamous "Cancel culture" episode of Digimon, and what it suggests about how even the most insightful creators can't seem to keep up with internet discourse.

You can watch all the episodes of SEL for free here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8nbEGDR4Yg&list=PLvDJyBgCi8B_8kSSFS0ZFj4yn5KqqpKtg

On this week's episode we're joined by Luke Bailey (@imbadatlife) , co-host of The Content Mines podcast and someone who actually has a "day job". We talk about our experiences working in several #content factories, as we ask ourselves - what *is* content, actually? At a time when everything from news and art, to games and entertainment, are organised through platforms, is a better term needed to differentiate creative output in digital space? And, crucially, how is human communication affected by the abundance of content, optimised specifically to please Mark Zuckerberg?

On this episode, we also talk about Scottish Twitter, and the era of posting in 2010-15 where some poster's communities were still niche, fun and hard to replicate. Remember when Twitter was 'ard? Can't have it these days thanks to the Woke Left. 

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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). For bonus content every fortnight, sub to our patreon at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

On this week's episode, we're joined once again by Will Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV3) to talk about why the British government - having decided to fully give up on governing- has been stocked to the brim with Posters. From Nadine Dorries falling for every Facebook conspiracy you can think of, to Liz Truss and her #love of #hashtags, the Conservative party have decided to simply cover all aspects of poster's brain - a strategy which, oddly enough, seems to be working.

We also revisit one of the original anti-Brexit tweets - in which British people form "genteel queues at the Pret a Manger" that set the tone for the online "FBPE" movement, and examine why the group has been struggling to find a sense of purpose or identity in a way its counterparts haven't. 
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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It is hosted by Phoebe (@PRHRoy), Hussein (@HKesvani) and produced by Devon (@Devon_OnEarth). For bonus content,  check out our Patreon at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.