Ten Thousand Posts

This is an unlocked bonus episode! Find the original, along with our extensive backlog, on our Patreon! Our friend Niamh joins us on the pod this week to talk about the recent ‘Unite The Kingdom’ rally in London, and the way that the far-right are embracing and incorporating AI into their visual language and political organising. Niamh also talks about her recent article, which profiles a devout P...

Recorded during the height of the most recent heatwave, Jon from Horror Vanguard joins us to finally decide if Franz Kafka was a Poster. A German-speaking Czech Jewish man born in Prague, which at the time was part of the Empire of Austria-Hungary, Kafka is well-regarded as one of the most influential figures in 20th-century literature, producing novellas, novels and short stories, almost all of w...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Listen to the rest on our Patreon! This week, we’re joined by tech and culture writer Kat Tenbarge, founder of Spitfire News.  We talk about the moment she got into trouble online while pretending to be Lucifer on a Tumblr advice blog, her experiences in fandoms combining British and American sci-fi shows from the 2000’s, and how fan culture have changed and s...

This week, novelist and screenwriter Sufiyaan Salam comes onto the pod to talk about TENET, Christopher Nolan’s take on the spy thriller genre that continues to confuse audiences. Hussein and Sufiyaan talk about TENET as Nolan’s passion project, how his take on time travel makes the film unique, and whether you can watch a film to experience it, without thinking about it too much. Sufiyaan also ta...

This is a preview episode. To listen to the full episode, subscribe for as little as $5 a month at www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast . ----more---- This week, Hussein talks to writer, author and tech critic Paris Marx about how the global shortage of hardware has led to a surge in prices of most electronic devices, and have also made them worse in quality. They also talk about how this has led to th...

This week, we’re joined by writer, academic and creator John Duncan to talk about the effects Large Language Models are having on academic writing and research. John talks about the growing number of AI hallucinations that are appearing in academic papers and articles and what it reveals about the poor working and pay conditions of academics in the UK and around the world. John also talks about th...

This is a preview of a bonus episode. Listen to the entire episode by subscribing on Patreon at : www.patreon.com/10kpostspodcast ----more---- Our friend Niamh joins us on the pod this week to talk about the recent ‘Unite The Kingdom’ rally in London, and the way that the far-right are embracing and incorporating AI into their visual language and political organising. Niamh also talks about her re...

This week, we’re joined by novelist Jackie Ess to talk about her early online experiences and how it influenced her writing and craft. Jackie talks to us about constructing semi-fictional characters on Twitter, and what happened when an academic journal took it at face value. She also talks about how her posting has changed over the years, and how much of her life online incorporates playing the p...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! You can find the rest of the episode on our patreon! This week, Hussein and Phoebe discover and read  Andrew Tate’s poetry from his newsletter, talk about the ongoing collapse of Redpill influencers in the Manosphere, and what might come next. They also talk about the general slop crisis on Substack, and the challenges this poses to the company as it hopes to...

In this unlocked bonus episode from February , we talk about Clavicular, an incel adjacent looksmaxxer who recently broke out of online containment and into the mainstream, and ask what happens when content creators are driven by attention at all costs. In the second half of the show, Hussein talks to documentary film maker Ben Zand about his recent film, ‘INSIDE THE GOON CAVE’ , and what his phys...

We’re joined by The Londoner’s Andrew Kersley to talk about his recent article, looking at the ways that misinformation in the form of viral content, is affecting how London, is governed. Andrew talks through his investigation into Fare Evasion on London’s public transport, and how myths of chaos and lawlessness, have been weaponised by political parties online, and  have also resulted in greater...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check out the rest, as well as our extensive backlog of bonus episodes,  here! This week, we’re joined by friend of the show Joe Kassabian, to talk about the new era of warslop content feeding our social media feeds. We talk about Iran’s use of AI-generated Lego videos, and why it seems to have rattled senior figures in the White House, as well as the LEGO com...

Folks, this is a free preview for a limited series Phoebe recorded with friend of the show Dr Janega (We're Not So Different, etc.) about season 1 of the Wolf Hall TV show! If you like this episode, you can access all 7 episodes of the limited series for just $15 at: https://www.patreon.com/collection/2087866 enjoy!

This week, we’re joined by Maia Wyman – known on Youtube as Broey Deschanel – to talk about Charli XCX’s cinematic debut,  ‘The Moment’. As we revisit BRAT summer, we discuss the pressures of contemporary celebrity, how the internet addresses and avoids confronting the demands of online fandoms, and why we’re not sure if the film is supposed to be satirical or a serious commentary.   We also revis...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check out the rest, as well as our extensive backlog of bonus episodes,  here! We’re joined by writer and journalist Sarah Jaffe, to talk about her new book , Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire. Sarah talks about the personal events that shaped the ideas for her book, and why she believes that meaningful political change must understand and cherish death...

This week, we’re joined by writer and curator Matt Muir, to talk about various online ephemera haunting our screens. We spend a lot longer than anticipated talking about ‘Fruitslop’ and the genre of regurgitated AI videos where horny fruits keep cheating on each other, mostly with a banana that has a six-pack. We then talk about the challenges, and  creative possibilities outside of the platform e...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check out the rest, as well as our extensive backlog of bonus episodes,  here! We’re joined by Screen Rot host Jake Farrell, to talk about his early experiences online, and how they shaped his personality today. Hussein and Jake briefly talk about their time at York University, and the unwarranted self-importance that comes with student journalism. We then tal...

This week, Hussein and Phoebe catch up on their lives, and wonder whether it’s possible to do this show without mentioning the ongoing horrors. They run through some rare fun posts, talk about various home cleaning strategies and ask what happened to Marie Kondo. They also talk about the ongoing exodus of influencers from Dubai, and what this tells us about the future of the Gulf, its soft power s...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Check out the rest, as well as our extensive backlog of bonus episodes, here! This week, Josh returns to the podcast to talk about the Theatre of Cruelty, and the Trump administrations use of ICE agents to create bizarre viral content for its diminishing base of supporters. We talk about how the administration’s content strategy has changed since 2016, and how...

Researcher and journalist Adam Smith joins us this week to talk about what happens when AI boosters hype up their own speculation. We talk about Moltbook, a project that purported to be a “social network for AI agents” and claimed to prove that the sentience and consciousness of AI was inevitable. Adam explains the tricks AI boosters used to present their bots as smarter than they actually were, a...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Listen to the whole thing on our patreon! In this episode, we talk about Clavicular, an incel adjacent looksmaxxer who recently broke out of online containment and into the mainstream, and ask what happens when content creators are driven by attention at all costs. In the second half of the show, Hussein talks to documentary film maker Ben Zand about his recen...

This week, Hussein chats to London Centric editor Jim Waterson about his recent story about a real estate contractor making money on the side through racist and Islamophobic rage bait on TikTok. Jim talks about how his team tracked the contractor down using a comprehensive knowledge of British Bins, how his content fits into the broader milieu of fake immigration stories online, that are having a...

This is a preview of a bonus episode! Find the whole thing here! Disclaimer: This episode contains references to SA and CSA, that may be upsetting to some listeners.  This week, we’re joined again by actor, director, and screenwriter Jonathan Daniel Brown to talk about Hollywood’s AI infatuation, and how it’s producing cheaper, and worse, films. Jonathan talks to us about how the AI industry enter...

This is an unlocked bonus episode. You can find it, and many others like it, on our patreon! Friend of the show Oobah Butler returns to talk about his latest documentary,  How to Make a Million in 90 days.  Live from New York, Oobah tells us about the murky financial world he stumbled upon while making the documentary, filled with bored fintech CEOs and finance guys devoid of any real ideas, and d...

This week, we’re joined by political journalist  Zoë Grünewald, who talks to us about the attempts to regulate and rein in X in the UK, and whether the state has the ability to regulate an AI system like Grok. Zoë also explains why some MPs are unwilling to let go of their accounts, even as the platform gets overrun with abusive and racist material.  Of course, we also touch on the most important...