Ten Thousand Posts

All of us have/had the novel coronavirus, and because it's Christmas, we decided to watch a low-energy Neflix film. This week, we're joined by friend of the show Olga Koch (@Rocknrolga) to watch LOVE HARD (2021) a movie in which Netflix confuses its algorithms to produce something that should have been made in 2013. With discourse around sexist christmas songs, 'is Die Hard a Christmas movie?' and not reading enough women authors, the movie focuses on two characters who, after catfishing each other, seemingly tag team to bully a very nice and well meaning guy called Tag, only to face absolutely zero consequences!

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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).  For weekly bonus episodes, listen at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

This is a preview of a bonus episode. To listen to the whole thing, subscribe to our Patreon for as little as $5 a month at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast. ------This week, we're joined by writer and artist Liara Roux (@Liararoux), the author of "WHORE OF NEW YORK: A CONFESSION" which is out now with Repeater Books. We talk a bit about the book, and its themes around love, collective activism, the dangers of surveillance tech, and what emancipation means today. We then talk about the 6th episode of SEL, "Kids". We see Lain learn more about the Wired, stand up to a big talking mouth, and meet a cryptic old guy who tells her that the original Wired was a big experiment on children that went wrong. Huh, maybe that's why he was on an Island that seemed so familiar.....

You can and should purchase Liara's book from Repeater, here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/whore-of-new-york-a-confession/. You can check out Liara's work at : https://liararoux.com/

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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 friends of the show Mattie (@Lubchansky), associate editor at The Nib, to talk about the history of webcomics, comic artists and writers having to think about being content creators before the rest of us did, and what happens when comic panels end up being cut out of the strip, decontextualised and turned into memes without attribution. How are comics writers dealing with the content economy, think about their place in it, and, crucially, what are they doing to resist its worst effects? We also talk about some of our favourite webcomics, and try to get to the bottom of why Ben Garrison draws Trump like that. --------Read and purchase Matties work here: https://thenib.com/author/mattie-lubchansky/--------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). For bonus episodes, subscribe on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

This is a preview of a bonus episode. To listen to the full episode, listen on Patreon at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.--------This week we're rejoined by friend of the show Sophie (@sophie_frm_mars) to once again revisit an old episode of the show. We go back in our Tenet time machines to the lockdown days of 2020, and the first instances in which JK Rowling went full 'mask off' with the gender stuff. We talk about the weird politics of the Ickabog, the Death of the Author, JK Rowling's post-Harry Potter need to control every aspect of the franchise, and crucially, how she gave (some) of this up in order to keep on TERF posting. Finally, we ask - will JK Rowling go "full Glinner" ? Seems unlikely for now, but if 'gender critical' groups keep demanding more of her, it might not be so inconceivable....Subscribe to Sophie's Youtube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/SophiefromMarsSupport Sophie's work here: https://t.co/Jg9OvNcxezTen 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 James Vincent (@jjvincent), a senior reporter at The Verge who writes on AI, Machine Learning and the development of robots. We talk about the ongoing meme of fake Boston Dynamics videos, and why watching videos of humanoid robots - real and fake- constantly seems to freak people out, and how much Boston Dynamics is aware of these viral videos. We then talk about digital 'Geofoam' - a mixture of inanimate digital objects, rigid automated robots, and machine learning tools designed to 'mimic' human activity - and how this is shaping the development of the internet, and our own relationship to it. While those autocomplete functions on Gmail might be great for sending half-assed emails to your line manager, how long will it take before these machines end up being able to produce and reproduce digital content? Is their presence setting even more limits on creative expression? Crucially, we reach one conclusion: If the robots are going to force themselves into our lives, they absolutely should NOT have British accents. You can read James' article here: https://t.co/yBOvgfAvJ8--------Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posted. It's hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@PRHRoy) and produced by Devon (@Devon_onEarth). For weekly bonus episodes, subscribe on Patreon at: www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast.

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the full (very good!) episode on Patreon at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast--------This week, we talk to Gizmodo reporter Shoshana Wodinsky (@swodinsky), who covers the business of data, and is one of the leads on Gizmodo's ambitious project to make the Facebook Papers public.We talk about some of the revelations from the Papers that didn't make the headlines, how much of Facebook's problems are caused by negligence and its sheer scale, rather than being outright ghouls, and the value of open source information gathering when studying the platform technologies collectively. Shoshana also brings us an NFT related meme that neither of us initially understand, and end up descending into a deep conversation about the virtue of hot keys and warm change.

You can read Shoshana's work and keep up to date with the project here: https://gizmodo.com/author/swodinsky.-------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 rejoined by Ed Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin), a writer at Vice and a co-host of the podcast This Machine Kills, to talk about ConstitutionDAO, another crypto thing that claims to be emancipatory and revolutionary, but also seems to really benefit the rich for some reason? We then go on to talk about the Metaverse, and why Facebook's announcement of their weird virtual boardrooms might simply be a way to paper over problems that they have caused, and realised are unfixable. Ultimately, this could be more effective if they simply were broken down and treated like utilities, but unsurprisingly, this is something that Mark Zuckerberg (and other tech guys) really don't want. So, as a result, it looks like we're all going to be forced to play by more of Facebook's rules. Great!--------

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Welcome back to the Otaku Zone! This week, we're back to talking about one of the most incomprehensible anime series ever made, Serial Experiments Lain, as we follow Lain's journey into the Wired. We ask questions such as "Where is Lain getting all these new server units from?" , "Why is her Dad spying on her behind a door like a nonce?" and "What's up with that weird little girl with no eyes?". As Lain goes further into the Wired, we find out how a simple computer upgrade means that she now permanently lives online, being able to hear and comprehend every conversation being had (much like a chaotic Clubhouse room), how she begins hearing rumours about a 'Prophecy' and a "God" in the Wired and the inevitability of the Wired consuming the real world. Of course, as people start dying as a result of trying to play a bootleg copy of MS DOS Quake, we realise that all this weird shit is happening because of Gamers. 

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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).

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This week, we're joined by academic researcher Sam Hoadley-Brill (@deonteleologist), who has been diligently following the most influential posters in America, who have successfully weaponised 'critical race theory' through relentless posting. Sam talks to us about how posting strategies created a lexicon in which CRT ended up becoming a meme, loaded with connotations of western civilisational collapse, and how Christopher Rufo, once an obscure right wing think-tank wonk in the 2000s, was able to utilise social media platforms to reframe the post-Trump culture wars, with effects not just in America, but throughout the rest of the Western world too.

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We also talk about Paul Joseph Watson's lamentation over No Nut November, in which he believes that the woke soyboy left have corrupted the true meaning of 'no nut' and its reactionary origins of banning all internet porn. You can read the original tweet here: https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1455100786313211912