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HK's Anime Club: Serial Experiments Lain, E12

We're on the penultimate episode of this damn series, so we're joined by Devon to talk about Lain's final debate with the God of the wired - a debate she wins fairly easily?- causing the God to go sicko mode. We also talk about the real victim of all this, Alice, who basically has THE worst day of her life, all spent inside the world's dampest house. 

Poster’s Potluck #2 ft. Alice Caldwell-Kelly

Alice (@aliceavizandum) joins us this week to talk about some fun posts and TikTok's we found, and we also talk about the whole 'Libs of TikTok' debacle, and why the whole 'doxxing' conversation is both boring and a red herring that the Libs are conceding to the extremely online right.

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HK's Anime Club: Serial Experiments Lain E11

This week we're going back to Cyberia to talk about Lain's current adventures. In "Infonography", The God of the Wired explains more about Lain's purpose in the Wired, suggesting that she is simply a conduit to his rule over the world (women once again doing emotional labour!). We also find out how Lain exists as "software" and in that way, she is designed to constantly be posting and making pe...

Gary, We Hardly Knew Vee ft. Münecat

This week, we're joined by Youtuber and Musician Münecat (@munecatmusic), to talk about venture capital influencer Gary Vee, a man who seems to be on some really unique cocaine constantly and demands that everybody makes content all the time. We talk about how Gary - ...

He's Making A List, He's Checking It Once [Part 2] ft. Annie Kelly

In part two of our chat with Annie Kelly, a co-host of the podcast QAnon Anonymous, we talk about what's next for QAnon, and why we might see more Q theories make their way into environmental movements and Eco-Fascist tendencies. Because this episode was recorded a while ago, we also talk about Will Smith's Oscar's Slap, and why so many people online kept trying to link it to the Ukraine War, o...

Stop Queering The Cookie Monster! ft. Eleanor Janega

Eleanor (@goingmedieval) joins us once again to talk about this weird thing where TERFs and Trad guys seem to realise their visions of the future really aren't that different, and how following the same pathology of posts have allowed them to arrive there. We also talk about how Trads have successfully used the political ...

Bad News ft. Joe Bernstein

We're joined this week by Joe Bernstein (@Bernstein) to talk about his recent Harper's long read on Disinformation and the commercialisation of fact-checking, misinformation reporting, OSINT, and its implications of how we understand news, information and data. We talk about what Joe considers to be "Big Disinfo" and the ways in which important work - discerning the truth on the internet- can b...

Rescheduled Episode Release

Hi all,

Just a note that this week's free episode will be out tomorrow due to an emergency rescheduling.

Bonus episode will be out on Friday as usual, and normal scheduling resumes from next week.

Thanks! 

Poster's Potluck ft. Devon (Updates)

We decided to take a little break from *the discourse on main* this week, to sit as friends and enjoy the Poster's Potluck - where we each bring a few posts we thought were interesting, amusing or downright deranged - and talk about them at length. We also revisit friend of the show Bevvie to see what she's thinking about the war in Ukraine, and propose setting up a Devon Updates twitter accoun...

Sunset & Vine ft. Oobah Butler

Were joined by Oobah Butler, a writer, satirist and host of MTV UK's Catfish, to talk about how scamming is embedded into basically every form of online culture, and how actually, a lot of people really love to be in on the ride, even if they're the ones who are about to lose. Plus, we talk about Oobah's ongoing beef with Jer...

He's Making A List, He's Checking It Once ft. Annie Kelly

We're joined this week by Annie Kelly, an academic and co-host of QAnon Anonymous (@AnnieKNK) , who talks to us about what QAnon is up to these days, and how they're taking the whole War in Ukraine situation. We talk about QAnon's current identity crisis, as it tries to figure out what its supposed to be, or who its supposed t...

😂 Live, Love, Cry Laugh ft. Huw Lemmey 😂

We're joined by writer and podcaster Huw Lemmey, author of "Bad Gays: A Homosexual History", to discuss his recent substack essay on the Cry Laugh Emoji, and its links to British 'banter' culture and cultural encouragement of cruelty. We discuss how concepts of accepted cruelty as social relations became digitally mediated, and how the cry-laugh emoji embodies the worst elements of it, as well ...

Watching The War (Part 2) ft. Milo Edwards

Milo (@Milo_Edwards) joins us once again to talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine, and how its being presented online. In this episode, we talk about how the war has shaped the Russian internet, and whether Putin's plans to build a localised, domesticated internet is even possible, as well as the weird parts of the Russian internet that simply cannot be contained, despite how many wires are cut...

Watching The War (Part 1) ft. Oscar Rickett

We're joined by Oscar Rickett (@oscarrickettnow), journalist and editor at Middle East Eye, to discuss the events taking place in Ukraine, and how we are viewing clips, videos, articles and posts about it from Westerners. We discuss the role of content in relation to journalism and information distribution, and at what ...

HK's Anime Club: Serial Experiments Lain, Layer 10

Hussein and Phoebe talk about SEL Layer 10, "Love", in which Lain finally meets The God of The Wired (just a guy) who tries to debate her about the existence of God and the necessity of religion. That's right, turns out even in The Wired you can't get away from New Atheists harassing young girls. Lain, trying to challenge The God, decides to wipe out all the gamers from The Wired....but will it...

Poster's Grindset ft. Symeon Brown

This week, Hussein talks to journalist, producer and author Symeon Brown (@symeonbrown), about his new book "Get Rich or Lie Tryin' :Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy". We talk about how hustles, scams and cons have become all but ubiquitous features, not just of influencer economies, but internet culture...

HK's Anime Club Serial Experiments Lain, Episode 9

Clean Your Virtual Room ft. Charlie Warzel

We're joined by Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) , who writes the newsletter Galaxy Brain for The Atlantic, to talk about a recent piece on Web3, crypto economies and the phenomena of a technology that's desperately searching for a culture to justify its existence. W...

The Revolution Will Not Have A Brand Partner ft. Rachel Connolly

Friend of the show Rachel returns to the pod to talk about her recent Guardian piece on influencers, cynical activism and the limitations placed on protest movements when corporate-backed influencers jump on the bandwagon. We talk about how influencer marketing has changed over the past decade, to the point where it is now entrenched into the daily lives of most internet users in subtle and une...

Nostalgic Vibeset ft. Aaron Thorpe (@Paradoomer)

This week, we're joined by Aaron (@Paradoomer) from The Trillbillies Podcast to talk about a recent essay he wrote about nostalgia, gritty reboots, hauntology, and the inability to conceive of any kind of future, let alone one that might actually be better. We talk about how and why reboots fail to capture any kind of contemp...

Jester Mindset ft. Milo Edwards

Milo returns to the poster's dome to talk about how and why comedians have become influencers and what this suggests about how we think about comedy and making jokes. We talk about how internet culture has changed comedy, and the way that comedians develop routines and profiles - being far more aware of online discourse, than the audience they're actually playing to - creating a situation where...

10k Posts Film Club: The Matrix Resurrections ft. Sophie (part 2)

Hussein and Sophie jack into the Matrix once again to complete the watch of the latest Matrix movie. Now that Neo is once again "out", we find out what happened to Zion after the humans-machines war, how the new Matrix is powered through tons and tons of posts, and the great heist to reunite Neo with Trinity by sending Chad to the virtual divorce court. In the second half, we talk about how Lan...