Ten Thousand Posts

We're joined this week by Annie Kelly, an academic and co-host of QAnon Anonymous (@AnnieKNK) , who talks to us about what QAnon is up to these days, and how they're taking the whole War in Ukraine situation. We talk about QAnon's current identity crisis, as it tries to figure out what its supposed to be, or who its supposed to be rooting for - all while still trying to continue to play the hits, in an even more crowded content economy. We also talk about post-coma Jordan Peterson posting, and why he's now just making lists about stuff???

Eleanor (@goingmedieval) joins us once again to talk about this weird thing where TERFs and Trad guys seem to realise their visions of the future really aren't that different, and how following the same pathology of posts have allowed them to arrive there. We also talk about how Trads have successfully used the political purchasing power of TERFs to advance their own anti-feminist politics, in such a way that their online habits are basically a mainstay of politics now. Plus, we revisit friend of the show Greg Kelly, who once again is crying because the woke left are RUINING his favourite SWEET TREATS.--------

You can purchase Eleanor's book, here: https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/the-middle-ages/9200000117492724/

We're joined this week by Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) to talk about his recent Harper's long read on Disinformation and the commercialisation of fact-checking, misinformation reporting, OSINT, and its implications of how we understand news, information and data. We talk about what Joe considers to be "Big Disinfo" and the ways in which important work - discerning the truth on the internet- can be leveraged and co-opted by the tech platforms that incentivise and encourage fake news and weaponised information in the first place.

--------You can read Joe's essay, here:https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/

This is a preview of a bonus episode. To listen to the whole episode, listen at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.--------

We decided to take a little break from *the discourse on main* this week, to sit as friends and enjoy the Poster's Potluck - where we each bring a few posts we thought were interesting, amusing or downright deranged - and talk about them at length. We also revisit friend of the show Bevvie to see what she's thinking about the war in Ukraine, and propose setting up a Devon Updates twitter account.

Were joined by Oobah Butler, a writer, satirist and host of MTV UK's Catfish, to talk about how scamming is embedded into basically every form of online culture, and how actually, a lot of people really love to be in on the ride, even if they're the ones who are about to lose. Plus, we talk about Oobah's ongoing beef with Jeremy Vine, wherein Vine is trapped in Oobah's mind palace, with no way out.

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

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We're joined this week by Annie Kelly, an academic and co-host of QAnon Anonymous (@AnnieKNK) , who talks to us about what QAnon is up to these days, and how they're taking the whole War in Ukraine situation. We talk about QAnon's current identity crisis, as it tries to figure out what its supposed to be, or who its supposed to be rooting for - all while still trying to continue to play the hits, in an even more crowded content economy. We also talk about post-coma Jordan Peterson posting, and why he's now just making lists about stuff???

We're joined by writer and podcaster Huw Lemmey, author of "Bad Gays: A Homosexual History", to discuss his recent substack essay on the Cry Laugh Emoji, and its links to British 'banter' culture and cultural encouragement of cruelty. We discuss how concepts of accepted cruelty as social relations became digitally mediated, and how the cry-laugh emoji embodies the worst elements of it, as well as a broader, political effort to enshrine dehumanisation into policy-making. We discuss how and why the emoji is used, why it clogs up our facebook feeds, and why, regardless of who wins or loses an election, it's ultimately the cry-laugh emoji that rules over the British Isles. --------

Read Huw's essay on substack here: https://t.co/1MoivjXLVpFollow and listen to Bad Gays pod, here: https://twitter.com/BadGaysPod

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the whole episode at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.---- ----Milo (@Milo_Edwards) joins us once again to talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine, and how its being presented online. In this episode, we talk about how the war has shaped the Russian internet, and whether Putin's plans to build a localised, domesticated internet is even possible, as well as the weird parts of the Russian internet that simply cannot be contained, despite how many wires are cut. We then talk about Russia and Ukraine's digital strategies in promoting propaganda, and the limitations of "winning the social media war" when posts are ephemeral, instantly forgettable and, crucially, too abundant.

We're joined by Oscar Rickett (@oscarrickettnow), journalist and editor at Middle East Eye, to discuss the events taking place in Ukraine, and how we are viewing clips, videos, articles and posts about it from Westerners. We discuss the role of content in relation to journalism and information distribution, and at what point content stops being productive as a way of raising awareness and spreading messages of activists. You can read Oscar's article on Mic, here: https://www.mic.com/impact/russia-ukraine-protests-viral

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Donate to humanitarian efforts of the Red Cross in Ukraine, here: https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal

Hussein and Phoebe talk about SEL Layer 10, "Love", in which Lain finally meets The God of The Wired (just a guy) who tries to debate her about the existence of God and the necessity of religion. That's right, turns out even in The Wired you can't get away from New Atheists harassing young girls. Lain, trying to challenge The God, decides to wipe out all the gamers from The Wired....but will it work?