Ten Thousand Posts

This week, we go back to one of our favourite topics: Youtubers. And in particular, we talk about a recent video from Max Fosh, an elder millennial British 'prankster' who, like many of his generation, are trying to figure out what's next for their online careers. We discuss the crisis facing older Youtubers through a recent video Fosh put out where he turns Mr Beast's saliva into a cheese, and makes a well meaning, but clearly confused Turophile eat it on camera.

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

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

Currently, Aid is not getting through. You can donate with the knowledge that these funds will be used the instant Aid is allowed into Gaza, but please do make your voice heard in other ways about this. Showing up at protest marches and writing letters to elected MPs are useful acts of solidarity.

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PHOEBE ALERT

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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).

We're joined this week by Beatrice Adler-Bolton, a researcher, artist, co-host of Death Panel, and the co-author of HEALTH COMMUNISM: A Surplus Manifesto.

We talk about the ways 'healthcare' as it is currently provided is directly linked to labor and economic growth, and as a result, dismissing those who cannot participate in work. We also talk about the limits of providing institutional national healthcare, and the ways that new systems of health and care provision can be imagined and devised in post-capitalism. 

Get a copy of Health Communism here: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2801-health-communism

Listen to Death Panel here: https://www.deathpanel.net/

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PALESTINE AID LINKS

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

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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. Listen to the whole episode at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

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The UK may be the only developed nation currently shifting its' infrastructure focus away from Trains and towards Cars, as the Prime Minister states that there is a 'War on Motorists'. In a country where the Car Guy feels like a rising political force, comedian Milo Edwards, who has a car, joins us to unpack how we got here.

You can find Milo's tour dates here!

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PHOEBE ALERT

And while you're clicking links, check out Phoebe's Substack 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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

Returning champion Patrick Wyman, host of Pursuit of Dadliness, Romecast, and Tides of History, came on to talk to us about the new tactical guys, true crime brain for boys and of course, how often we think about the Roman Empire.

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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. Listen to the whole episode at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

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10K Posts welcomes Phoebe back from her holiday with this comforting El Classico episode. What's been going on with Posting lately? 

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PHOEBE ALERT

And while you're clicking links, check out Phoebe's Substack 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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This week, we're joined by friend of the show Paris Marx, host of the podcast 'Tech Won't Save Us' and author of  'Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation'.

In this episode, Hussein and Paris talk about silicon valley's obsessions with generative AI, and the ways that it not only undermines art and creativity, actively limits what people are allowed to imagine, as as a result, are allowed to desire out of their lives. Paris explains how this isn't a new phenomenon, and that the prescient dangers of profit-driven generative AI were forewarned by the American writer Ursula le Guin nearly a decade ago.

You can read Paris' article on Disconnect, here: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/generative-ai-closes-off-a-better

Listen to Tech Won't Save Us, here: https://www.techwontsave.us/

Get a copy of Paris' book through Verso Books, here: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2795-road-to-nowhere

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PHOEBE ALERT

And while you're clicking links, check out Phoebe's Substack Here!

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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. Listen to the whole episode at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

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This week, Hussein talks to Alison Rumfitt, author of "Tell Me I'm Worthless" and "BRAINWYRMS", about Star Wars Episode 8: The Last Jedi. We talk about what happened in the film that seemingly got so many people mad, from stan accounts to online fascists, as well as how the response to the film spooked Disney into commissioning a load of very bad spin-off shows, rendering Star Wars into little more but pure content to passively watch on your laptop. Was the franchise destroyed by too many posts? That would be a fairly simplistic reading, sure. But it's not entirely untrue....

You can purchase a copy of BRAINWYRMS here: https://www.cipherpress.co.uk/brainwyrms

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PHOEBE ALERT

And while you're clicking links, check out Phoebe's Substack 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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This is an unlocked former bonus episode. Listen to more like it at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

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On this episode, Hussein talks to Derek Guy, who you might know as "the menswear guy" on Twitter. We talk about Derek's sudden twitter fame when he was forced to become a main character after Elon changed the algorithm, and why he thinks his posts about menswear are incredibly popular, even among the most casually dressed, as well as oddballs who get mad about tailoring trousers. We also talk about how he started off as a forums guy, the ways in which forum culture informs the way he thinks about style and design, and whether the scope of the platform economy means that there are no more defining styles or aesthetics anymore.

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PHOEBE ALERT

And while you're clicking links, check out Phoebe's Substack 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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

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

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This week, journalist and podcaster Alex Goldman (@AGoldmund) joins us to talk about how 9/11's impact on posting. We talk about early 9/11 conspiracies on forums and early youtube videos, to more bizarre, esoteric content in which 9/11 was never a tragedy, but a posting phenomenon that crosses cultures. Alex tells us his thoughts on how and why we post about tragedies when there is no real spaces to mourn or reflect, and as an internet culture, we are incentivised to just seek attention instead.

Listen to Alex's podcast, Western Kabuki, here: https://twitter.com/westernkabuki

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PHOEBE ALERT

And while you're clicking links, check out Phoebe's Substack 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 Devon (@Devon_onEarth).

This week we're joined by Ashwin Rodrigues, a journalist who writes for GQ, among other places, to discuss the ongoing Republican nominee debates, all of which seem to centre around posting.

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PHOEBE ALERT

And while you're clicking links, check out Phoebe's Substack Here!

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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).