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Ten Thousand Posts

Ten Thousand Posts

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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is a form of posting, and how our lives are a guided by a combination of good and bad posts. It’s hosted by Hussein (@HKesvani), Phoebe (@Phoebe_Rosa_Holly) and produced by Devon (@Devon_Onearth).
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Sociologist and political economist Will Davies joins the show to talk about his recent forays into Faragist TikTok, and what it tells us about Britain’s online habits, and how it’s influencing contemporary politics. Will talks to us about how the For You Page became the dominant organisational system for using social media, and how this has create…
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This is a preview of a bonus episode! You can find the rest on our Patreon, alongside hundreds of hours of interviews, TV, Movie, and Book reviews, as well as general musings. ------ Can you believe it's already been 5 whole years since we first got together on a sunny July morning in Lockdown to talk about Eric Garland's game theory thread? We can…
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Let’s get into part 1 of our series of Unit 731 and its spearheading scientist Dr. Shiro Ishii, beginning with some history and background on his early life and the development of Unit 731. …… Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, like, share, subscribe! Visit u…
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Rebecca returns to the show to talk about her recent attempts to reclaim her attention from screens and notifications, and whether it’s truly possible to build an attention span at all. We discuss the developing literature and research around attention, and what is meant when we talk about focus, delve into the great debate on declining literacy ra…
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This is a preview of a bonus episode! check it out on our reasonably-priced patreon! ----- This week, just the lads discuss Jesse Armstrong's directorial debut, the 2025 movie 'Mountainhead'. Four app billionaires sequester themselves in a mountaintop mansion as online misinformation brings the world to its knees. How will this affect their friends…
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Join us as Devon wraps up this mind-blowing operation with the adoption society’s downfall, what happened to Georgia and her accomplices, and the fallout as well as resulting changes in legislation. ———— Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, like, share, subscri…
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This week, we're joined by friend of the show and returning champion Eleanor Janega, as well as her 'We're Not So Different' podcast co-host Luke Waters, to talk about Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century Benedictine Abbess. Known for her religious visions, and the writing, sermons and music that emerged from them, Hildegard is often considered a po…
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This is a preview of a bonus episode! Listen to the whole thing on our Patreon! ----- This week, Hussein and Phoebe catch up on stuff happening online. They talk about Catturd (pronunciation TBD) ending his friendship with Elon Musk over politics and what this tells us about how the verification system is going. They also talk about addressing thei…
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Miles returns to the show this week to talk about why so many people are starting to treat Chat GPT as a deity, and are willing to sacrifice their friendships and intimate relationships so they can worship the computer. Miles talks about the people who have lost their loved ones to LLMs and the work it takes to bring them back from the brink, why t…
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Devonism alert! Let’s start exploring the old-timey horror that is Georgia Tann, the social worker who orchestrated a massive, long term child trafficking ring. …… Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, like, share, subscribe! Visit us at: Www.medcrimespodcast.co…
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This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check it out on our Patreon! ------ This week, Hussein and Phoebe bravely battle through their various illnesses and brainworms to talk about Jordan Peterson’s staging a battle against 20 atheist teenagers and losing, and whether Peterson can even exist in the current right wing media environment. They also tal…
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Let’s go back in time to the early 1900’s and break down the bizarre and sad tale of Typhoid Mary, the first known asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid fever, and how she infected countless people with the deadly disease. ——- Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, lik…
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We’re joined by journalist and author Bridget Read, to talk about her new book, “Little Bosses Everywhere : How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America”. Bridget talks to us about the long history of Multi Level Marketing (MLM), its place in American mythmaking and how the Direct Selling industry was able to acquire political power and influence, which c…
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This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check it out on our Patreon! ------ June joins us this week to talk about their life in posting, and goes through just some of the ways posting has shaped their lives, for good and for ill. We talk about the relationship between posting and loneliness, how the internet has created complex pathways to radicalisa…
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We watch the first episode of the HBO series “Paul American”, a documentary – sort of – about Jake and Logan Paul. We talk about the relationship between the Paul brothers and prime time TV shows, what happens when you age out of content economy but can only think in terms of virality, and try to figure out what this show is actually trying to say,…
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This is a preview of a bonus episode. Check it out on our Patreon! -------- Friend of the show Josh Boerman returns to the show to talk about “CARELESS PEOPLE: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism” by former Meta staffer Sarah Wynn-Williams. We talk about the controversy surrounding the memoir, the pretense that nobody at Facebook k…
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Architect and urban designer Fred Scharmen joins us this week to talk about Jeff Bezos’ recent Blue Origin space flight, and what it tells us about how billionaires think about space exploration and settlement today. Fred explains how the utopian, collectivist visions of space exploration in the 20th century lost purchase as rich tech guys became m…
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*the story told here is from the perspective of the victim and contains many statements of actions that the offender was not formally convicted of. These statements are the opinion and retelling of the perspective of the victim only and were not proven in a court of law. In this quick-fire conclusion, Rachel deteriorates further when mysterious hyp…
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This is a preview of a bonus episode- check it out on our Patreon! ------ Designer Michael Oswell joins the show this week to talk about his work in graphic design and typography. Michael talks about how he got started in design, at a time when work was still drawn by hand first and tailored to print mediums – and how the expectations of social med…
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Writer and podcaster Gareth Watkins comes on the show today to talk about his essay, 'AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism'. We talk about the shifts in what we is considered to be the 'aesthetic' of AI, why so many on the right, including those obsessed with 'classical' beauty, seem to love using it, and what it tells us about the way political messa…
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This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check it out on our Patreon! ------ This week, Josh Boerman from The Worst of All Possible Worlds returns to the pod to catch us up on everything happening in America, as it decides to self immolate for no other reason but to own the libs. We talk about how Everything Is Computer, and what that actually means i…
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Imagine you’re on a taxing fertility journey and you seek help from a trusted specialist, only to be forced to endure a painful procedure because an employee was skimming drugs for personal use. ——— Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, like, share, subscribe! V…
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Ed Campbell, Correspondent and Senior Political Producer at PoliticsJoe, joins us this week to talk about the morning routine and sigma grindset required to nearly win Britain’s favourite game show, The Chase. We talk about ice bowl dunks, getting evicted from your apartment for leaving too many banana peels on the floor, before moving onto Ed’s ex…
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This is a preview of a bonus episode. Find the whole thing at our reasonably priced patreon! This week, we talk to independent film producer, director and actor Jonathan Daniel Brown. Based in LA, you may know him from his acting roles in Kid Cannabis and Project X, or as a former co-host of the podcast Struggle Session. We talk to Jonathan about h…
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This is an unlocked bonus episode, originally aired on the 8th of March, 2024. Check it out on our Patreon! -------- We're joined by the writer and film critic Hannah Strong to talk about "Eighth Grade" the 2018 film debut from musician, comedian and Youtuber Bo Burnham. The film explores the final days of middle school for a young American girl, a…
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TW: sexual assault, stillbirth, sexual harassment, child loss. In this short and sweet conclusion, we discuss Kaitlyn's pathology, possible diagnoses, conviction, victim impact, and where she’s at today. ———- Intro/outro: New Media, Olive Musique Cover art: Blossom Creative Studio, Jenny Hamilton Instagram: @medcrimespodcast Follow, like, share, su…
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This is a preview of a bonus episode. Find the rest, and our entire backlog, at patreon.com/10kpostspodcast Writer, researcher and co-host of QAnon Anonymous Annie Kelly returns to the show as we talk about the long tail of QAnon, and its lasting remnants on the ‘mainstream’ internet – in particular, in parenting content. Annie explains how conspir…
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