Hey all,
Just a note that due to a last-minute content issue on the planned bonus for this week, we're delaying the release until TOMORROW (06/02/2024).
Thanks for being patient and hope you enjoy it.
Best,
HK
Writers and Book Workers Jessica Gaitan Johannesson, Mohamed Tonsy and Guy Gunaratne...
2024-07-02 12:01:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all,
Hope you're doing good and enjoying what remains of the British sunshine if you're in the UK!
Just a note for today – there will be no bonus episode. This was due to tec...
Actor, writer and avid 10kposts listener Jassa Ahluwalia joins us this week to talk about his new book, "Both, Not Half: A Radical New Approach to Mixed Heritage Identity". A memoir looking back on code-switching, navigating...
2024-06-25 11:51:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds swung by the studio and so we forced him to podcast. In this episode, Hussein explains the Bromley Chicken Yaoi reddit post...
2024-06-21 09:13:19 +0000 UTC View Post
As the far right surges across Europe, we look at Germany, where fascist electronic music has become a sensation on TikTok, and memefied in other parts of the internet – and ask, why is the government ignoring this?
Uma, from the...
Comics artist and cartoonist Rory Blank joins us on this weeks free episode as we ask: What is an AI image, exactly?
Rory and Hussein discuss why the "All Eyes On Rafah" instagram post became the first 'viral' AI image, des...
2024-06-11 12:18:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Comedy writer Mollie Goodfellow talks about her early experiences on the internet, which largely amounted to luring unsuspecting men into the woods of Runescape and beheading them for fun.. We talk about the transition between social networks and how it shaped our real-life social experiences in ...
2024-06-07 08:57:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Youtube essayist Tom Nicholas joins us this week to talk about vaping and specifically, how the excesses of contemporary internet culture, guided by the philosophies of liminal capitalism, can explain the prominence of disposable vapes. Tom tells us how vaping went from a means to manage addictio...
2024-06-04 09:48:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Political journalist Zoë Grünewald joins us to talk about the upcoming UK General Election, and why so many candidates are opting to run on hyper-online 'culture war' issues. Zoë explains how obsessions with social media among politicians and journalists has contributed to the eroded trust in ...
2024-05-31 10:51:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Paris Marx returns to the show to talk about two AI conferences hosted by Google and OpenAI, and how both failed to provide any real evidence of why it’s any more than a chatbot with a voice, but also, why this doesn’t really matter to tech companies, and the government’s appeasing them. Pa...
2024-05-28 10:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post
To commemorate Phoebe’s final episode (before she goes on maternity leave, not forever) we take questions from you. We discuss some big questions about the internet, whether one’s decision not to post still counts and posting, and if the age of vertical video discourse will make our lived exp...
2024-05-24 10:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Journalist and author Joanne Mcneil returns to the show to talk about her novel WRONG WAY, which was among the New Yorker’s best fiction of 2023. Centred around the proliferation of ‘self-driving’ taxis, the novel is an explorat...
2024-05-21 10:25:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome back to part 2 of our discussion about the 2023 True Crime/Documentary miniseries Telemarketers. Once again, we're joined by Brian, AJ, and 2024-05-17 10:35:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we're joined by Brian, AJ, and Josh, the hosts of the 2024-05-14 10:49:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Joe Kassabian, host of the Lions Led By Donkeys podcast and sci-fi author, comes back on the show to talk about Yukio Mishima, once Japans most famous novelist, who led a failed project to restore imperial glory to the country- only to be booed and commit Seppuku.
Joe talks to us about what...
2024-05-10 08:59:19 +0000 UTC View PostHey all,
As you know, Phoebe is about to head off on Maternity leave later this month. We thought it'd be fun to do a Q&A episode for subscribers to mark the occasion, and because we haven't done one in a while.
Questions can be about stuff we've covered on the show that you'd l...
Edi returns to the show to update us on posting in China, and in particular, explain why a medium-sized factory manufacturing glycine went viral on TikTok.
Edi talks to us about how Chinese companies and factories use social media and how it differs from business in the Western world, how...
This week Jeremy Kaplowitz, from the Quorators podcast and Dibs Next, joins us to talk about his life in posting! From the highs of owning some loser in an onli...
2024-05-03 08:57:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Journalist Sirin Kale returns to the show to talk about how and why content feeds change when a social media platform detects that you might be pregnant, and how weird, often dangerous content is targeted at new parents. ...
2024-04-30 10:37:30 +0000 UTC View Post
On this week's bonus episode, we're beginning a new occasional series! 'Touching Grass' documents offline hobbies and interests, through conversation with the people already engaged with them. This week, friend of the show and returning guest 2024-04-26 11:15:20 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, journalist and author of 'Class' and 'Steal As Much As You Can', Nathalie Olah joins us to talk about her most recent book, 'Bad Taste'.
Order your copy here!
This week, Hussein and Phoebe are joined by tech writer John Herrman to discuss his recent article in NY Magazine's Intelligencer about the 'Pussy in bio' bots. We all know them, we've all seen them. John takes us through the history of spam bots, and helps us place this most modern expression of...
2024-04-19 08:36:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The gang tackles a listener request and watch Dream Scenario, the 2023 Kristoffer Borgli film starring Nic Cage. Dream Scenario tells the story of an unassuming academic who becomes famous for appearing without explanation in the dreams of strangers. We discuss what works and what doesn't, what t...
2024-04-12 08:29:18 +0000 UTC View PostArts and Culture critic Barry Pierce comes into the studio to talk to us about 'BookTok , a section of TikTok which reviews and recommend books to viewers, and is often used by publishers to market new releases. Barry talks to us about the array of book content on the platform, and why the most s...
2024-04-09 10:18:25 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined by investigative reporter Ellie Hall to talk about the revelation of Princess Catherine of Wales' cancer diagnosis, and the media pressures driven by memes, stan groups and online conspiracy theories that forced her to reveal the condition. Ellie talks to us about the structure of th...
2024-04-05 11:31:41 +0000 UTC View PostIn the latest of our posters of history series, Phoebe is joined by one of our history correspondents Eleanor Janega and her We're Not So Different Co-host Luke Waters to talk about Dante Alighieri, the pioneering Italian poet, writer, philosopher and poster. We talk about the historical context ...
2024-04-02 10:20:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We're joined by reporter John McDermott, whose recent investigation into the self-proclaimed 'monk' turned corporate lifestyle guru Jay Shetty, has caused ruptures in online life coaching and wellness influencer circles.
John talks to us about how Shetty went from being a blogger living i...
Writer and journalist Merritt K joins us this week to talk about their new book, LAN Party: Inside the Multiplayer Revolution.
A collection of photographs, essays and vignettes documenting a short period in the late 90s and early 2000s, the book documents the rise of an internet...
2024-03-26 12:12:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hussein talks to the writer and podcaster Jay Caspian Kang about his early memories of being on the internet, and how its shaped his thinking about life today.
Jay talks about spending time on hip hop forums and participating in text-based rap battles, and how the New York blog culture of the...