Ten Thousand Posts

On this week's bonus, we talk to Riley (from Trashfuture, obviously, but also The Bottlemen) about why all our social feeds are clogged up with either facist political content, or weird and grotesque food videos. Turns out, it also comes from fascist roots! Riley talks to us about Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian fascist futurist who believed that pasta was making Italian men soft and lazy, and that they, like the English, should eat bland meat and boiled potatoes so that they could enjoy the bloody gore of war. Marinetti may have been laughed at, but it turns out that his philosophy of food was adopted by BuzzFeed and other content factories, which is why we have stuff like Epic Meal Time and the viral Pizzadilla : food that isn't supposed to be consumed, but simply looked at gawked at.Also, we talk about the return of Donald Trump, who, while banned from Twitter, still has poster's energy running through his (presumably very clogged) arteries. We would like to thank you for supporting our show on Patreon!You can follow us on twitter at @10kpostspod. You can also follow Hussein @HKesvani and Phoebe at @PrhRoy. Follow producer Drew at @mydrewd. 

In this week's bonus episode, we speak to friend of the show Jathan Sadowski, co-host of the very good podcast This Machine Kills (@machinekillspod), about why Facebook tried to cancel Australia simply for posting too hard. What does this suggest about the future of Facebook as a platform, and does the new deal between Platforms and news outlets in Australia actually benefit journalists? (spoiler: unless you are related to Rupert Murdoch, probably not). We also talk about whether Bitcoin is weaponised toxic masculinity, or if posts like this actually illustrate how most of us still don't really know how it works (despite BTC guys screaming at you on Twitter) so instead choose to project all our anxieties and traumas onto the blockchain. You can follow Ten Thousand Posts on @10kpostspod, and you can follow Hussein at @HKesvani, Phoebe at @PrhRoy and Drew at @Mydrewd. 

We started Ten Thousand Posts during the first lockdown in 2020, when we started noticing that not only were there too many posts, but that more and more people were getting mad at them.  Since the Spring of 2020, the number of posts seems to have only increased. So much so, that episodes we put out weekly end up going out-of-date really fast. And we are not in the business of being called "boomers" by people in their early to mid 20s. So, we're doing bonus content. More episodes about posts, more interviews with posters and more pontificating on posts about past posts.  We're also going to be doing live-streams, more collaborations and eventually, setting up a Discord community for self-fashioned Post Anthropologists.In so doing, we'll bring you an up-to-date account of how social media and online writing is making it harder and harder for people to communicate with each other, without an immediately monetisable medium in which to do so.If you value your parasocial relationships with us, we'd love for you to subscribe for more #content about #content.