Ten Thousand Posts

This week, we're joined by writer, editor, and host of the Sinobabble podcast, Edi Obiakpani-Reid, to discuss the current worker's protests in China, How social media operates in the country, and how protestors are managing to use it to protest. We also touch on the extent of the state's surveillance.

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Further reading:

Current protests - how protesters are using social media

Sitong bridge incident 

Incident in Xinjiang that is widely considered to have started the protests

Timeline till late Nov

The difficulties of a political awakening among Chinese people online

Gov backlash

About (social) media in China

The basics on the platforms used

BATs

Cyberspace administration of China

Cybersecurity law

How cyber censorship works 

Lack of anonymity

Government ownership of tech companies

Xinjiang surveillance 

People do use social media to protest 

Li wenliang

Chained up woman

#Metoo

Online vigilantes

Edi's Newsletters

China’s global media influence

China’s view on large corporations

Recent Xinjiang developments 

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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 entire episode at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast--------This week, we're joined by Alex Ptak of the Pod Damn America and Ballin' Out Super podcasts to discuss his life in posting. What got him started on his Journey to posting excellence? Has he ever lost out on a job because of his posts? And what's the most internecine beef he remembers from high school? All this and more in this exploration of the man behind the posts.

Alex Ptak; This is your life (in posting)

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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).

In this episode, we're joined by Rebecca Wilks, a Cardiff-based poverty, policing and housing journalist, to talk about Landlord Posting - a genre of online content produced by (or for) Landlords. Landlord Posting has become a more common feature of social media recently, not least in the wake of the cost-of-living crisis surging, and much of that being centred around the cost of renting and living - as well as a rising number of tragic deaths and hospitalisations directly linked to poor quality housing. Landlord Posting is then an attempt by Landlords to rationalise, not just their disproportionate level of power, but the foundations its built on. And as they become harder to justify and rationalise, well, the posts become a lot stranger.

This episode serves as an introduction to the topic, and a low-down of the current state of Landlording in the UK, before cracking into the Posts proper in Part 2.

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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 entire episode at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast--------

This week, we're joined by Alex Hern, UK Tech editor at the Guardian, to talk about Mastodon, the new ‘alternative twitter’ people have been moving to in the wake of Elon Musk’s twitter take over, and the very real threat of the platform becoming dysfunctional.We will be discussing the history of Mastodon, Alex’s experiences on the platform and where it differs from twitter in terms of objectives and positions. We’ll use his experience (documented in his guardian article) to discuss whether Mastodon is a suitable twitter alternative, or whether it’s simply attempting to revive what’s already dead - can Mastodon really survive a social media economy that’s pivoting to video anyway?

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Further reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/12/joining-the-herd-whats-it-like-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodonhttps://theconversation.com/what-is-mastodon-a-social-media-expert-explains-how-the-federated-network-works-and-why-it-wont-be-a-new-twitter-194329

https://www.businessinsider.com/what-it-is-like-to-use-mastodon-twitter-social-media-2022-11

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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 focus on the collapse of FTX, a former crypto exchange worth multiple billion dollars, which declared just last year that it would be the company to ‘save’ crypto from extreme fluctuations, fraud, schemes etc. Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30 year old former CEO of FTX, was hailed as the next Warren Buffett, met with Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, and was extremely influential in government and policy circles in promoting cryptocurrency. He even stated that FTX could eventually buy Goldman Sachs.We talk to Jacob Silverman, a journalist who has long warned about the fraudulence inherent in crypto, about how we got here, what SBF’s rise and fall tells us about the crypto/web3 economy, and whether the collapse of FTX is the final death knell for any use-case for crypto, other than to do scams.

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Further reading:

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-cryptocurrency-effective-altruism-crypto-bahamas-philanthropyhttps://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-bankruptcy-what-happened.html

https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7epm/sam-bankman-fried-was-supposed-to-be-different-he-wasnt

https://newrepublic.com/article/168991/ftx-effective-altruism-bankman-fried-climateƒ

https://newrepublic.com/article/162448/bitcoin-price-drop-market-clubhouse

https://newrepublic.com/article/161894/bitcoin-digital-wallet-currency-surveillance

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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 entire episode at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast--------At time of recording, the general consensus was that this could well be the end of twitter, so what better time to gather your friends and have ourselves a poster's potluck? Everyone brings a tweet or two for the table, we kick back to discuss and analyse why these tweets are worth highlighting, or perhaps are even worthy of inclusion in the hall of fame. This time: Joyce Carol-Oates wonders if there's any joy in ISIS culture, Liam Payne's 2013 worries about snake habitats, and much more!--------Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and Hussein (@HKesvani) and produced by Devon (@Devon_OnEarth)

This is an unlocked episode from our Patreon feed. To subscribe for bonus episodes, go to www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

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It's all hands on deck as we embark on our first ever Q&A episode! Join the full cast as we discuss: Should kids be allowed online? What's the oldest meme? Can twitter be fixed, and is the origin story of 10k Posts?--------

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 entire episode at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast--------Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we have had little choice but to address the current and ongoing "Elon situation" at Twitter. We're joined by Jathan, co-host of This Machine Kills, and the author of Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World,  to try figure out what Elon's strategy actually is, or if he's too trapped in grievances to think about running Twitter as a business. We also talk about what Elon gets right - namely, a recognition that social media platforms don't really have any value in and of themselves - and how this exposes the shams and illusions of the content economy that govern much of our lives today. --------You can listen to This Machine Kills here: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills --------Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It's hosted by Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and Hussein (@HKesvani) and produced by Devon (@Devon_OnEarth)

On this week's episode, Phoebe is joined by Rax and Amber from the Low Culture Boil podcast to discuss posting, the generational divide in attitudes toward privacy online, and at the end whether or not Demons are real (they are).

This episode started out with a plan and ended up just being a long-form chat between friends. So make yourself a cup of tea, pull up a chair, and listen to the 10K Posts Tarts' Summit.You can find Rax at https://mobile.twitter.com/raxkingisdead,Amber at https://mobile.twitter.com/ambercrolloAnd their podcast at https://mobile.twitter.com/lowcultureboil

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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 free preview of a bonus episode! Find the whole episode, as well as our entire backlog of bonus episodes, at https://www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast

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No guest this week as we have a little catch-up on the Rishi Sunak premiership and examine his posting style- We're back to the days of Instagram Tories, and specifically going from Girlboss Liz Truss, to “Management Consultant with a side hustle as a life coach” instagram.

 

We also touch on Cass Horowitz, the man behind Rishi's social media presence, and his agency, which specialises in influencer content and branding.

 

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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).