Ten Thousand Posts

Writers and Book Workers Jessica Gaitan Johannesson, Mohamed Tonsy and Guy Gunaratne come on the show this week to talk about their work as organisers in Fossil Free Books, and their campaigns for a books industry free from fossil fuels, fossil fuel finance and investments in the arms industry. 

They talk about the hostile media coverage of FFB in the wake of Baillie Gifford pulling funding from UK literary festivals, what it means to be a Book Worker, and how decades of austerity and state defunding has left arts institutions dependent on external financing from corporates, and how that has subsequently shaped public perceptions of art as labour. We also talk about the importance of artists organising, and why groups like FFB are essential at times when the value of the arts as a public good is increasingly under threat. 

Support and join FFB here: https://www.fossilfreebooks.org/

Read Jessica's work here: https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/the-nerves-and-their-endings-

Read  Mohamed's work here: https://www.hajarpress.com/books/you-must-believe-in-spring

Read Guy's work here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741839/mister-mister-by-guy-gunaratne/

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

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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).

Actor, writer and avid 10kposts listener Jassa Ahluwalia joins us this week to talk about his new book, "Both, Not Half: A Radical New Approach to Mixed Heritage Identity". A memoir looking back on code-switching, navigating multiple cultures and identities throughout his adolescence, and later, as an up-and-coming actor in London, it also examines the role that class consciousness through union organising helped develop Jassa's identity as a worker in a precarious creative economy. 

Jassa talks about the process of writing his book, the public reactions to his comedy videos on Youtube going viral via Indian Whatsapp networks, and his experiences working within a union to take on certain notable right-wing figures.

Purchase Jassa's book here: https://coles-books.co.uk/both-not-half-by-jassa-ahluwalia-hardback

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

PHOEBE ALERT

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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 preview of a patreon bonus episode! Check out the full episode here!

Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds swung by the studio and so we forced him to podcast. In this episode, Hussein explains the Bromley Chicken Yaoi reddit post, and the phenomena of London chicken shops with American names. We also talk about some of our favourite recent posts, weird Christian TikToks and why exorcisms always make for good content, and Josh tells us about the time Putin opened the oldest tomb.

Support them on Patreon here!

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

PHOEBE ALERT

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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 an unlocked bonus episode! Find it and more on our patreon!

This week, Hussein and Phoebe are joined by tech writer John Herrman to discuss his recent article in NY Magazine's Intelligencer about the 'Pussy in bio' bots. We all know them, we've all seen them. John takes us through the history of spam bots, and helps us place this most modern expression of them into context of online scams.

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

PHOEBE ALERT

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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).

As the far right surges across Europe, we look at Germany, where fascist electronic music has become a sensation on TikTok, and memefied in other parts of the internet – and ask, why is the government ignoring this?

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

PHOEBE ALERT

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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).

Comics artist and cartoonist Rory Blank joins us on this weeks free episode as we ask: What is an AI image, exactly?

Rory and Hussein discuss why the "All Eyes On Rafah" instagram post became the first 'viral' AI image, despite its inconsistencies, inaccuracies and lack of specificity. Rory explains how these features characterise the AI 'art' taking over the internet, why its proliferation is so difficult to regulate, and why we shouldn't see these images as creative outputs, but rather, a way to understand the confusion and detachment that comes with being on the internet today.

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

PHOEBE ALERT

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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 preview of a bonus episode. Find the whole thing on our reasonably-priced patreon!

Comedy writer Mollie Goodfellow talks about her early experiences on the internet, which largely amounted to luring unsuspecting men into the woods of Runescape and beheading them for fun.. We talk about the transition between social networks and how it shaped our real-life social experiences in the suburbs, why being 'Myspace Famous' didn't translate to Facebook fame, and whether the exposure that comes with going viral for an online joke is worth being yelled at for weeks afterward.

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

PHOEBE ALERT

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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).

Youtube essayist Tom Nicholas joins us this week to talk about vaping and specifically, how the excesses of contemporary internet culture, guided by the philosophies of liminal capitalism, can explain the prominence of disposable vapes. Tom tells us how vaping went from a means to manage addictions to a new kind of addictive behaviour, how and why attempts to regulate vaping have so far failed, and why the vaping lobby is taking its cues from none other than the gambling industry. 

You can watch Tom’s video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuTQbOo3Y30&pp=ygURdG9tIG5pY2hvbGFzIHZhcGU%3D

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

PHOEBE ALERT

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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 preview of a bonus episode. Find the whole thing on our reasonably-priced patreon!

Political journalist Zoë Grünewald joins us to talk about the upcoming UK General Election, and why so many candidates are opting to run on hyper-online 'culture war' issues. Zoë explains how obsessions with social media among politicians and journalists has contributed to the eroded trust in politics, how an over-reliance on Twitter disincentivised holding power to account – and how all of this has driven the disconnect between Westminster and the rest of the UK.

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

PHOEBE ALERT

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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).

Paris Marx returns to the show to talk about two AI conferences hosted by Google and OpenAI, and how both failed to provide any real evidence of why it’s any more than a chatbot with a voice, but also, why this doesn’t really matter to tech companies, and the government’s appeasing them. Paris talks about the consequences of AI software integrating into every public service we have, and how this will change our relationship to the internet - one where you are no longer a ‘user’, but a consumer stuck in an endless feedback loop in service to the AI. Sounds bad imho!

Read Paris’ article on disposable Apple products here: https://disconnect.blog/roundup-apples-wants-to-hike-iphone-prices-again/

Follow and support DISCONNECT, here: https://disconnect.blog/

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

https://www.savethechildren.org.uk/how-you-can-help/emergencies/gaza-israel-conflict

PHOEBE ALERT

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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).