For the final episode of 2022, we're talking to Michael Veale, associate professor in digital regulations in the faculty of laws at UCL, about the Online Safety Bill.
We’ve wanted to talk about the online safety bi...
This week, to round out a year that has felt increasingly like an all-out assault on the senses, we spoke to Senior Vox Correspondent Rebecca Jennings about her article, '2022-12-27 10:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the most wonderful time of the year! To celebrate the season of giving, we're giving you an episode about a bad christmas movie. I edited this a little while ago and don't remember what it's about, sorry.
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Ten Thousand Posts is a show about how everything is posting. It'...
This week we’re joined by the writer Seamas O’Reilly to talk about his life in posting and why his prank photo of the Belfast Riots, featuring a photoshopped elephant and Noam Chomsky, keeps going viral and is also fr...
2022-12-20 11:17:06 +0000 UTC View PostRebecca (@wilksbecca) joins us again for part two of our special series on Landlord Posting.
On this episode, we talk about what 'makes' a Landlord poster, from the constant feeling of victimhood, to upholding the warp...
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 ...
2022-12-13 13:55:59 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we're joined by Alex Ptak of the Pod Damn America and Ballin' Ou...
2022-12-09 10:51:49 +0000 UTC View PostIn 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 ...
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 ...
2022-12-02 10:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostThis 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 t...
2022-11-29 10:28:35 +0000 UTC View PostAt 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, ...
2022-11-25 10:01:56 +0000 UTC View PostUnfortunately, 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 Taki...
2022-11-18 07:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostNo 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 touc...
2022-11-11 11:07:03 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we are joined by Essayist and author of the Internet Princess substack, the excellent Rayne Fisher-Quann, to talk about how art criticism i...
2022-11-08 11:43:11 +0000 UTC View Postnote: Phoebe's microphone is broken in this episode. A replacement has arrived and it will be fine going forwards, but you may notice a certain... mobile phone handset quality to the audio. I have done everything I can, and it sounds orders of magnitude better than it did in the ...
2022-11-04 10:14:52 +0000 UTC View Postthis week we’re joined by Quinn Myers, formerly of MEL magazine and author of “Google Glass”, volume 3 of the “Remember the Internet” series from Instar Books, to discuss the rise and fall of Google Glass. Glass was g...
2022-11-01 09:52:46 +0000 UTC View PostIt'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?
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2022-10-28 10:14:30 +0000 UTC View PostTech and Culture writer Sarah Manavis joins us to ask and answer: How come every platform is becoming the same? Why are Youtube shorts and Instagram Reels just trying to recreate TikTok? What does Elon Musk mean when he says...
2022-10-25 10:03:05 +0000 UTC View PostLook, i'm not sure how to write this synopsis other than to say that there has been more nonsense emerging out of 'gender criticial' twitter. this time, it focussing on a cute cartoon alien that apparently doesn't have enough of a backstory, and is therefore a danger to children and bathrooms and...
2022-10-21 12:40:28 +0000 UTC View PostWe're joined this week by Emmi Conley, an extremism researcher and writer, to talk about the phenomenon of far-right manifestos, and how we often make grave mistakes in interpreting them. We talk about manifestos as posts within posts, the aesthetics and symbology that give them currency and powe...
2022-10-18 11:45:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, friend of the show and Russia Correspondent Milo Edwards rejoins us to talk about recent news from the back lines of the war against Ukraine: The current state of the russian draft; the unassailable courage of tho...
2022-10-14 10:06:33 +0000 UTC View PostWe're recording our very first Q&A Episode next week and need some Qs to A! If you have something you've always wanted to ask, now is your time. Simply reply to this post, and I will select the questions that I think would make for the most interesting discussion.
This will be an all-ha...
2022-10-12 12:56:54 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, we’re joined by Kate Lindsay, the Co-creator of Embedded, who writes one of the best internet culture newsletters around at the moment, to discuss Influencers.
Influencing IS a job, and many Influencers are j...
This week, we finally take the plunge and attempt to understand the mysterious website known only as.... Tumblr. Guiding us on this journey is none other than Allegra Rosenberg, who does a bunch of cool communities work a...
2022-10-07 10:23:19 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, it's Just The Fellas and we've watched another TV show about how scary technology is: The Capture on 4OD!
When a British soldier (Who may or may not have killed a civilian in Afghanistan, don't worry about it) is charged with a crime, the tenacious young detective handling his case ...
Rachel (@RachelConnoll14) joins us once again to talk about her recent Kinfolk article, on what happens when ordinary people go viral. We talk about surveillance, agency and *the spectacle*, and how all these themes c...
2022-09-30 11:13:46 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Paris Marx of the Tech Won't Save Us Podcast joins us to talk about their book, 'Road to Nowhere', and how silicon valley fundamentally cannot imagine a future without cars. We check in on the progress of long-time a...
2022-09-27 10:26:09 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode should work now sorry - Devon
We are joined by Rebecca Jennings, senior correspondent at VOX and author of one of our favorite tech newsletters, to demystify digital Trends.
Rebecca wrote a piece some time ago ...
This week we are joined by Callum Cant, Author of Riding for Deliveroo, editor for NFP and Postdoc researcher at the OII, To discuss the recent Amazon wildcat strikes in the UK; why the british media is steadfastly ignoring t...
2022-09-20 09:20:38 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Eddie Kim joins Hussein to discuss how Tech guys are trying to take over local politics in California, And to look specifically at the venture capitalist Garry Tan, the new head of YCombinator who sits on the school ...
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