Ten Thousand Posts

In this week's *bonus* episode, we return to the 10kposts Picturehouse to gourge on tasteless popcorn, drink heavily watered down Monster energy, and watch the 2010 David Fincher/Aaron Sorkin movie "The Social Network". 
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We talk about what the film got right about the underlying ideologies of social media platforms, how they were originally designed to be voluntary surveillance machines, and why the film chooses gloss over all of this so it can focus on rich white guys being mean to each other. Plus, we discuss the one-liners that plague the Winklevoss twins' instagram page, how Justin Timberlake is the only character in the film who actually does understand what's going on, and the weirdness of two Armie Hammers on screen. 
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This week, Hussein Interviews Tom Victor (@tomvictor), author of ‘What Would Jurgen Klopp Do?’ as well as several good posts. We talk about what "Football Twitter" is exactly, how and why they clog up Twitter's trending pages every Saturday, and, in the absence of Football, operate similarly to other online fandoms - both in promoting their favourite teams, and harassing people.  If you've ever been called a Nonce by an account with the crest of a low-ranked Premier League team or an obscure footballer you don't recognise, this episode might clarify some things.

We also talk about Jamila Jamil being cast as a Marvel Villain, basically celebrating this show's successful lathing of Joker Jamil - but how will her new role, and subsequent enrolment onto Marvel's fitness bootcamp, go down with the Body Positivity fandom she's cultivated?
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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 Drew (@Drewtopia_)
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This week we have a classic 10k where we talk about some fun posts. We start off with Richard Dawkins being unable to understand Kafka's The Metamorphosis and then go onto Jeanette Winterson getting so mad at the publishing industry and its proximity to home decor that she burnt her own books.

Finally, we talk about two tweets that, though seemingly different, embody the same logic. How does a tweet thread about a female journalist travelling cross-country to get rejected by a guy embody the same poster's pathway as a guy who tortures his wife with his alarm clock? When you're performing for a vague set of participant observers, it turns out, quite a lot!

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This week's bonus is with James Allen-Robertson, a researcher on radical technology and cultures. He talks to us about the origins of Online Rationalism, early forums culture, and why so many of the rationalists now seem to only agree on one thing (mandatory phrenology in schools). How has this movement shaped the social web, and how exactly did it lead to a peripheral figure with a blog to become the UK Government's most senior advisor?

You can get the entire episode on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/tragedie-of-part-52249353

In Part 1 of our series on Dominic Cummings, the self-fashioned Svengali and largest government poster's brain, we're joined by friend of the pod(s) and the Home Counties' favourite stand-up comedian, Nish Kumar (@MrNishKumar). 

We discuss the extraordinary moment when this podcast was proven correct - that *everything* is posting - when Dominic Cummings, apparently the government's smartest advisor, openly misinterpreted a very basic meme in Parliament to describe why it was totally ok that thousands of people died due to government corruption and incompetence at the height of the COVID-19 crisis.  

We also talk about a rare *wholesome* meme, in which beloved Friends actor Matt Le Blanc transformed from an Italian man to an Irish dad, and how he has became the patron saint of Italian Wakanda. 

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This is PART 1 of our series on Dominic Cummings. You can listen to PART 2, with James Allen-Robertson on Patreon: 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 Drew (@Drewtopia_). Follow us on Twitter at @10kpostspod. 

This week, we're joined by labor journalist Sarah Jaffe (@sarahljaffe) to talk about her book Why Work Won't Love You Back, which is out with Hurst Publishers. We talk about how the 2008 financial crisis permanently changed the structure of work, normalising instability and precariousness and creating foundational struggle myths to justify paying people below minimum wage. We also talk about how these confrontations have played out online, in forms ranging from self-fashioned girlboss culture, to low-paid gig economy workers beginning to unionise and demand the very basic levels of dignity. 

You can buy Sarah's book here, and read the article we reference 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 Drew (@Drewtopia_). For bonus content, subscribe to our patreon for as little as $5 a month: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast .

This week we're joined by writer and good poster Miles Klee (@milesklee) to talk about his ongoing war with Elon Musk, and specifically, how Elon stole a meme he made. Turns out, this isn't the only time Elon has stolen a meme! In fact, Musk not only has a basic boomer taste in memes, but he actively leverages it to inflate the value of his stupid companies that keep crashing into walls and blowing up while in mid-air. 

We also talk about some posts that have emerged during Israel's attack on Gaza, not least from Eve Barlow, a former British music journalist whose politics is entirely based on being disinvited from a Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran after-party in the early 2010's. How has this led to Barlow calling for an Iron Dome for posting, and keeping a list of antisemites which include Dua Lipa, The Weeknd and Rage Against the Machine?
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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 Drew (@Drewtopia_). Follow us on Twitter at @10kpostspod. 

We are also on Patreon! For bonus contentn and to support our show, subscribe for $5 a month at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast

 

 

Good News! We have done a lucrative business deal with Nate and licensed a limited version of Alice / @AliceAvizandum (Posting Alice)  to come on the show this week, to talk about her infamous International Space Station tweet, and how it united Muslim Twitter and Gender Twitter in getting mad online. A rare combination!

We also talk about Silvercorp - the self styled mercenary/influencer collective who tried to do a coup in Venezuela but fucked up because they were too busy posting and trying to get Donald Trump's attention. Which leads us to the big question: why do so many militias post in the same way as Multi-Level Marketing scams? 
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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how Everything Is Posting and how everyone's a poster. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Drew (@Drewtopia_).
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We've unlocked one of our bonus episodes this week, because we felt that there is an issue that too many have been silent on, fearing the woke mob who have normalised things such as overly-long personal blogs on top of simple recipes, and the defence of, in the words of Donald Trump, "bad-food restaurants".

We're joined by friend of the show Riley Quinn (@Raaleh), from Trashfuture, Boney Island Whitefish, The Bottlemen and probably some others, to talk about Italo-Food Futurism, and how a guy called Fillipo Marinnetti once had dreams of creating food that would inspire men to fight and win wars, only to be laughed at by the troops. But, his legacy lives on in a weird way - namely, in the form of strange viral food videos, ranging from Epic Meal Time style food sculptures to that woman who made the cheetos and candy macaroni and cheese and made everyone get mad online again.

Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Hussein (@Hkesvani), Phoebe (@PRHroy) and produced by Drew (@Drewtopia_). You can get bonus content on Patreon for as little as $5 a month, at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. 

 

This week,  Milo Edwards (@Milo_Edwards) joins us once again on the podcast for yet another strange hybrid podcast where we aren't sure if we're talking about start ups, Seinfeld or posts.  Eventually, we decide to talk about Milo's attempted cancellation by British guys with Ukranian flags in their Twitter names, who are convinced that Milo is a war criminal because he was pictured with a bag of "Daddy's Sugar" at a French resort. Which leads us to a bigger question: How have posts about Russia broken the liberal brain online, to the point where basically everyone has been accused of being on Putin's payroll as an official Kremlin cyberbully? 

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