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Originally published on April 9th, 2025, enjoy this episode in which Mike talks with psychotherapist Kurt White about how the internet may help us become ourselves.  – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Any Rigid Idea About Yourself is a Prison Kurt White Unravelling podcast LinkedIn – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Your business in this world Your nakedness and terror Your sanctity remains the crucial battle Dearly beyond We are scattered here today amongst commodities This town isn’t big enough for trust Excerpt of The Concept of Dread by Pam Rehm Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure, and is distributed by Radiotopia

Georgia chats with Ludwig Hurtado of MOLD Magazine's "Food Futures" podcast about luxury grocery brands and the Highsnobiety “Status Report,” that says fashion is dead and food is in. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – The Tyranny of Taste Highsnobiety’s Status Economy Report Highsnobiety’s report on groceries specifically In the status economy, even groceries are a flex Find Ludwig: Twitter Instagram Food Futures Play zine – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. spore print of mushroom in the retina, in my dreams lens displacement in the multi-cellular dark abyssal sound of leaves in the wind rushing cloud dance before the sky closes in except of It Is Difficult to Exaggerate the Importance of Mushrooms as Food, by Chris Torrance Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia.

Mike chats with Maia Woluchem and Cella Sum – co-authors of The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania – about the fight against Data Centers happening across Pennsylvania. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – News Links ICE agents could be targeted by fake "tradwife" dating profiles Discord Launches Delayed Age Verification Measures OpenAI agent hacked Australian govt website Railroad work crews cut fiber optic cable, grounding flights Trump fires FAA air traffic control employees post-DC plane crash Did Trump’s FAA slash the staffing target for air traffic control? Bill would require blocking piracy sites Church groups ask Microsoft for 1% of data center costs PA town pushes back on data center despite $10k payout – The AI Factory The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. These newfangled ghosts haunt by telephone and airwave. Acumen will finally languish in a good sense: type would bottle a new motto in live numbers and wine were they only not printers with so many thoughts to slip in media res or the thick of things at grasp root level up a slope on themselves. Our notion of productive labor becomes narrowed to the use of censure and science to ensure I am baffled as Yeats by those voices that still speak to Oddysseus but as the bats. Excerpt of Shadow Recension by Alan Halsey Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia.

Originally published on April 10th, 2024, enjoy a conversation between Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop and Executive Producer Jason where they talk about what pop-musical acts have sounded like the internet. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – What Does the Internet Sound Like? You should listen to Switched on Pop generally, but also here’s the interview they did with 100 gecs.– Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

After a confusingly whirlwind week on the AI battlelines, senior producer Hans Buetow seeks the counsel of researcher Dave Karpf to understand what the heck even happened in the past week with all the tweet storms, screeds, panics, and prognostications - is AI going to kill us all in 10 years or not?!?!?? – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – The World's Most Special Boys Building the Apocalypse Find Dave Karpf: Website Bluesky Blog New book - Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present Links: Jacob Coxon’s thread (X) Dario Amodei’s response (blog) Lina Khan’s response (X) Sam Alman and Elon Musk’s responses (News18) Cal Newport (podcast) Kat Tenbarge (Spitfire) Ciaran Martin (The Economist) Will Knight (Wired) How Much of the Internet is Written With AI? (Pew) Young Adults in the US Are Increasingly Wary of AI (Pew) Half of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work (Reuters) Pro-Human Assembly (MSN) AI Diplomacy (Politico) – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

The Never Post staff meet to discuss four academic papers on how the internet is getting worse, each from a special edition of the European Journal of Cultural Studies. How is slop like gelatin? In many more ways that you might immediately assume! Tune in to hear about them all! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Brainrot, AI slop, and the enshittification of the Internet Intro  Georgia, Doing the numbers: The operational aesthetics of AI slop Hans, Feed them slop: Alignment, attunement, and the affective lure of slopaganda Jason, Degenerative AI: AI slop, brainrot, and the gimmick of generative culture Mike, Computational Gallerte: Compressions of culture – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Jesus Christ, my dusty socialist, “There’s enough sun for everyone,” you state, your crown chipped like a front tooth after a bar fight. Behind you a red curtain. Excerpt of Ephphatha by Spencer Reece Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Georgia talks to Matt Sitman, host of the podcast Know Your Enemy, about Pope Leo XIV's recent comments about the algorithm, and why so much of his papacy seems concerned with the cultural impact of AI.  -- Become a Never Post member for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – News Links NVIDIA could buy HuggingFace  HF valued at $4.5 billion HF turned down earlier deal  News on AI doctors from Harvard Health, Futurism, 404 Media NYT on AI meds ads Substack post on fake doctor accounts Dangers of mushroom foraging CDT on bot traffic online Cable faults affect Vietnam's internet  Pope Leo XIV warns AI could lead to tech domination – The Pope and AI Algorithm could be "subtle form of domination" Pope Leo XIV encyclical warns against AI  Find Matt: Know Your Enemy– suck up stork torso into the jet engine like a fork in the throat so the engine goes yolo bogo putt-putt flashing its famous lights like teeth tho excerpt of Day of Being by Joyelle McSweeney – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

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With the help of listener submissions and the insight of experts Drs Casey Fiesler and Alex Hanna, Senior Producer Hans Buetow investigates how people resist the integration of AI into the workplace, why folks might feel hesitant to broadcast that resistance, and why this topic feels so different from just a year ago.  – Become a Never Post member for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – AI At Work? In This Economy? The Luddite Lab (DAIR) The Luddite Lab launch stream Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI Over Time (HBS) Find Dr. Casey Fiesler: Bluesky Website Casey’s video about AI incentivizing cheating Find Dr. Alex Hanna: Bluesky Website – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Of course there are victims in this poem: victim victim victim victim victim  victim victim victim victim victim  victim victim victim victim victim  victim victim victim victim victim  victim victim victim victim victim  victim victim victim victim victim  victim victim victim victim victim  victim victim victim victim victim  victim you are here victim victim  victim victim victim victim victim  victim victim victim victim victim  Excerpt of History by Tracy K Smith Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia DISCOUNT for ½ off a yearly membership – offer ends on August 17th, when stream week begins!

Mike talks to security researchers Jan Pennekamp and Johannes Lohmoller about how many academics are allegedly doxxing themselves in the process of publishing their own research, and why it’s so hard to get sensitive, secretive information off the internet after it lands there. – Tell your pals to take the survey here! -- Become a Never Post member for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – News Links Hbo Max introduces shorts  Streaming platforms try to beat TikTok at their own game France bans social media for teens Vietnam proposes social media ban for teens Doom is a top influential piece of American culture Doom as part of Trump's election strategy arxiv.org  – Doxxing Yourself For Science  Read the paper here See Jan and Johannes’ other work here – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

We respond to your questions and comments! – Become a Never Post member for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content – ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st -Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer is Meghal Janardan. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure.

Originally published on April 26th, 2024, enjoy this episode where Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video. – Become a Never Post member for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – The American Car  Garlic Naan And Butter Chicken Fountain?! – Tiktok David After Dentist – YouTube Taco Reacts – Tiktok The American Room – Paul Ford, Medium It is NOT My day – Tiktok forget a rage room, ima just rent out my car so y’all can scream in it – Evelyn, Tiktok Shanin Blake – Tiktok Dear single parents ~ when I was 18 I got pregnant with my daughter and her dad went to prison right after she was born, so I was on my own. – Shanin Blake, Instagram This is our home her name is Nancy 🚐 – Shanin Blake, Instagram Good morning! I love living in a mom van!!! – Shanin Blake, Instagram – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

Georgia talks with automotive journalist Rory Carroll about the memetic rise of the Renault Twingo, its debut on the racing game Gran Turismo, and what the popularity of this dorky car says about online car culture.  – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – The Happiest Car On The Internet Find Rory: Alloy's website Bluesky Auto Week Jalopnik Cute Car Links: What is a Kei car? - Jalopnik The Nissan S-Cargo is a Postmodern Masterpiece - Road & Track Nissan Figaro  – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer is Kurt White. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Revving an engine to Steal attention. Flirting cool furniture with blithe lids Closed. A tidy splash on a mirror. A Fear Of belonging an avoidance of Cleaving to Incompletion As of a flash as of hit by a flash Or an echo Of an echo of a speech into stones. Tone deaf stick lashings who Spoke, along school railings Paramount Noise Excerpt of Stranger, by Cris Cheek Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Senior producer Hans Buetow and contributing producer Kurt White tackle a new type of post - people making content out of the things they inherit from dead people. They talk with Nikki from Dad’s Vinyl Stash, and speculate about whether or not these new posts are leading to a new way of mourning. – Become a Never Post member for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Links Unravelling interview with Nikki (Ep. 46 - Giving the music life) Dad’s Vinyl Stash Cooking with Congress Goodnatured.studio Dead Greg’s Recipes Soundwaves of Wax Anjali Pinto Mattie on the Homefront - Hans’ Inheritance Posting podcast – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer is Kurt White. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Producer Audrey talks with Mols Sauter and Erin Kissane about what AI hallucinations actually are. – Become a Never Post member for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Links French spies break with Palantir Palantir should be stripped of NHS contract Chile turned to China for an undersea cable. The U.S. said no The Millions of Songs Mashed Into AI-Generated Music Google's YouTube settles social media addiction case with teen Research shows Australia’s teen social media ban has little impact Study on effects of Australian Social Media Minimum Age Act Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood YouTube Channel Goes Live Little Dot Studios Buys Content Agency Wing German ruling says Google is liable for its AI Overviews' false answers German court holds Google liable for AI hallucination KPMG pulls AI usage report EY retracts study after discovering AI hallucinations Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia AI hallucination epidemic – You Seein What I’m Seein Search is over - Techcrunch– Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer is Kurt White. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Long and short: Memberdrive Streamweek is Aug 17 - 21 at twitch.tv/theneverpost Sideshow specific feeds are being retired; members will have one feed! Once monthly members' only content will include things like Team Chats, WIGOHs, &c, &c – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Never Post’s Mike Rugnetta on the creative process and the value of reliable power The Earliest Game of the Year Awards –Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Originally published on March 27th, 2024, enjoy this episode where Georgia and guest producer Luis López wonder why there is so much audio online that seems to sound bad on purpose, and decide to give this practice a name: burnt toast audio.   – Become a Never Post member for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Burnt Toast Audio https://www.tiktok.com/@tiaraskye_ https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4WXquxJWxG/ https://www.tiktok.com/@cbc/video/7285762769880714501 https://www.tiktok.com/@theporktornadoes/video/7179733641092746542 https://www.tiktok.com/@inf1n1temusic/video/7195244395220749574 https://www.tiktok.com/@cchiphop/video/7232580386759380267 https://www.tiktok.com/@epic.cammy1933/video/7348992219698826539 https://www.tiktok.com/@notamine/video/7347043430738054406 https://www.tiktok.com/@tiaraskye_/video/7310222966363573537 https://www.tiktok.com/@tiaraskye_/video/7313244933232676129 https://www.tiktok.com/@tiaraskye_/video/7173471436479139078 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzzUPZs5l1Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-3IV11_ZgA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D-ZO2rGcSA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77sS5IuR0Gs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2_r4q2imnQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvjQXF5ucO0 – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Georgia talks to New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka about the state of personal taste on our algorithmic feeds. When popularity reigns supreme and it feels like everything is an ad online, how do we trust our own personal taste?  – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Did The Feed Ruin Taste? Wired - Geese’s popularity is a psyop Vulture - The entire feed is fake  Find Kyle: His column Infinite Scroll in The New Yorker Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture Bluesky – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Mike talks with two game designers, a nuclear physicist and sound artist about how the iconic videogame became what it is today: something that runs on every piece of technology (and increasingly: biology) known to man – Become a member at https://neverpo.st – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Everything Plays Doom Xaser Acheron on Doomwiki and Github Bijan Stephen’s Website and Bsky John Matter’s Website and Bsky Matthew Gantt on Instagram and Diagnostics, his record on OMR  Doom Guy: Life in First Person, by John Romero Master of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, by David Kushner Next Generation Magazine, 30 Jun 1997 Compute! Magazine Issue 163 Computer Gaming World Issue 116Computer Gaming World Issue 116 Doom Editing Utilities, Doomwiki Other uses for DOOM engine, Usenetarchives Zfootball, Doomhockey, Hellshots, Gallery Experience, MyHouse.wad – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. I got a tattoo of God. You can’t see it but it’s everywhere. If I seem out of it, do the math. I was put on earth. And then you were, making up your feet as you went along. New thinspo clanks the spank  bank. New emoticon makes a Holocene.  Excerpt of Money Bin by Michael Robbins Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Georgia chats with Sydney Bradley of Business Insider about dating app Bumble’s termination of the swipe, and the dating app market’s overall pivot to AI – Subscribe to the Trustfnd Independent Media Collective bundle here! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – News Links Google Search as you know it is over What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use It How a government contest launched a revolution in AI-based bug hunting ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App ICE Mobile Fortify: Biometric Surveillance in Every Agent's Pocket X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay for a blue checkmark Kickstarter faces pressure from payment processors to restrict adult content An Apology: Rethinking Our Mature Content Guidelines Navigating Stripe Mature Content Reviews Bumble Kills The Swipe To Help 'Exhausted' And 'Fatigued' Singles, CEO Confirms Dating app Bumble is ending swipe feature, introduces AI assistant for matchmaking Bumble introduces an AI dating assistant, ‘Bee’ – Swipe No More Find Sydney: Business Insider  Twitter  Her coverage on new dating apps  – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Originally published on March 27th, 2024, enjoy Mike's conversation with Gabriele de Seta and Paolo Berti about how the “megadungeon” is a productive model for understanding the internet. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Megadungeons Megadungeon: A Model for Media Complexity, Magazen Megadungeon: New Digital Volumetries in Art and Media, YT Playlist paranom.asia, Gabriele de Seta unive.it, Paolo Berti – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

Contributing producer Rose Witmer and her sister Maggie explore the nature of collecting — specifically, collecting Disney branded enamel pins — in an age where social media dominates hobbies across the board, and clicking "purchase" is easier than hunting for something IRL.  – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. – Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Mike talks with the German Federal Center for Digital Sovereignty’s Head of Open Source Product & Delivery about Digital Sovereignty and the process of divesting the German state from American technology products. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content. We're also offering an Independent Media Collective bundle, where you can subscribe to us, Aftermath, Rogue, and Rascal all at once for a sweet, sweet deal — 30 days, complete member access to all four platforms, for $12.  – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – News Links Brazil Bans 27 Prediction Platforms MSN on Brazilian ban Brazil tightens rules to curb 'bet-like' products Soldier charged in $400K Polymarket bet Kalshi, Polymarket lobby as insider trading, betting eyed by Congress RedNote after the 'TikTok refugee' moment Judge rules in favor of Indiana man in ICE tracking app lawsuit Co-Writing with AI Mor Naaman and Advait Baht on bsky Aadam Jacobs Collective  98% of IT leaders want digital sovereignty  Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives – ZenDis, and Digital Sovereignty https://www.zendis.de/ https://www.opendesk.eu/en – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Georgia speaks to writer, researcher, and academic Carolina Bandinelli about embarrassing boyfriends and the online culture of cynicism, shame, and blame that has spread throughout the modern dating scene. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content – Vogue — Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?Find Carolina Her website Her study on dating apps and marketized love – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. – Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Originally published on May 22nd, 2024 in our episode Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places, enjoy Georgia's segment where she investigates the walled garden of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result.  – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. – Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Business and finance journalist Kit Pulliam examines MrBeast Financial, a soon-to-be-launched financial services platform spearheaded by MrBeast — A.K.A Jimmy Donaldson — himself. But what does it mean for this one, rich (is he rich?) YouTuber to own a bank (is it a bank?)? And how did he get to this position?  – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content – Find Kit Pulliam Business InsiderFind Alexandria Degree AskDegree– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. – Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

We respond to your questions and comments! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content --☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st --Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer is Meghal Janardan. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure.

In the latest installment of Terms & Conditions, Georgia chats with author, professor, and digital piracy expert Aram Sinnreich about torrenting. Peer-to-peer file sharing isn’t new, nor is the legal controversy surrounding it. But what is torrenting? Why does it have such a marred reputation, and what role does it play in our online lives?  – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – News Links Vote for us at the Webby’s! The U.S. ban on foreign internet routers Explainer on the router ban Hachette pulls “Shy Girl” off shelves Meta loses NM lawsuit on child endangerment Meta and Youtube fined for creating addictive social platforms Judge demands DOGE deposition be removed from YouTube DOGE depositions are back online Supreme Court rules in favor of Cox Media in piracy suit – Terms & Conditions: On Torrenting Aram’s website Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Executive Producer Jason Oberholtzer speaks to Dr. Jess Rauchberg about how the lolcow — a vulnerable Internet persona interacting with an unreliable and often malicious audience — relates to contemporary politics online and historic medieval spectacle. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content – Find Jess Rauchberg: The lolcow paper– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. – Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, enjoy Georgia's segment talking to Professor Elizabeth Wissinger about how the social internet helped erase an entire fashion demographic — namely, tween fashion for girls. Listen to the original episode here: https://www.neverpo.st/never-post-2/ – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content – Find Elizabeth Wissinger: Her website This Year's Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. – Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Contributing producer and Kabul-based journalist Ali Latifi tells the story of a roughly 48-hour period, at the end of 2025, when the Taliban turned off the entire internet in Afghanistan. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to an ad-free feed, and member-only episodes. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Cord Cutters https://bsky.app/profile/netblocks.org/post/3mgrehog7wk23 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project The Internet, Switched Off   Internet Shutdown: How Governments Weaponize Connectivity Iran’s regime has shut down the internet in the middle of war How Iran shut down the internet and built a sophisticated system of digital control Afghanistan imposes internet blackout: What has the effect been so far? The Kremlin says the internet is turned off to stop drone attacks. Russians are fed up Blocked and Bypassed: Russians Evade Internet Censorship  – Find Ali https://authory.com/Ali– Thank you to Suha, Fara, Saeed, Samir, Ramin, Mohammad, Hamed, Jabar, Sanam Muradi, Haroun Rahimi, Naser, Ahmad Azizi and Saeed. This episode’s Contributing Producer is Ali Latifi. Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. 1. These are the vague demands you make on me 2. (that I) assemble(to) recollect(to) decode(   ) associate 3. that I admit, fraught with difficulty, reintegrationis no day at the beach in eggshell tints“The inmates start to get brave and a little crazy”when they hear that friendly voice–the matron 4. (But that’s also my mind, lost)Her epic poem on the constraints society places on the 5. misunderstood Excerpt of Sybil by Rebecca Wolf  Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Mike talks with science communicators Alex Dainis, Trade Dominguez and Joe Hanson about what it’s like trying to do their job in today’s information environment. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Alex Dainis https://www.instagram.com/AlexDainis/ https://bsky.app/profile/alexdainis.bsky.social https://www.helicasemedia.com/ Trace Dominguez https://www.instagram.com/tracedominguez/ https://www.threads.com/@tracedominguez https://www.youtube.com/tracedominguez https://thatsabsurdshow.com/ Joe Hanson https://www.instagram.com/drjoehanson/ https://www.youtube.com/@besmart https://www.youtube.com/@pbsterra – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. teach us about life gently implored the little beings and stretched their arms for love of the other shore  Canto XVII (for Diana) by Alejandra Pizarnik Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Mike chats with Jeffrey Parkin of Rogue and Rory Carroll of Alloy about the impending chip shortage caused by the construction boom in AI Data centers. How did this happen, why is there no easy way out, and how should you – as a consumer – be thinking about this these things? – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to an ad-free feed, and member-only episodes. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – News Links New Mexico's Internet Affordability Program https://acpdashboard.com/ Affordable Connectivity Program TikTok's usership steadies post-sale TechCrunch on TikTok's usership steadying Temu’s global rise runs into a regulatory wall The political effects of X’s feed algorithm Pope says beware of the internet Exclusive: Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index Substack, Polymarket announce partnership Looming Taiwan chip disaster U.S. aim to curb China's chipmaking access Will Intel deliver leading-edge chips? Taiwan won't move chip production to U.S. Why Taiwan Fears ‘America First’ Risks Eroding Its ‘Silicon Shield’ – Chip Chat Rogue.site Alloymag.com – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Producer Georgia Hampton looks to writer and blogger Katherine Dee and academic Charles Soukop to help her figure out how to visualize the internet. As in, what kind of a place is it, if it’s even a space at all? – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to an ad-free feed, and member-only episodes. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Find Charles Soukop: Charles’s 2006 study on virtual third placesFind Katherine Dee: default.blog NYT: The phone as a portal to the Otherworld – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Senior Producer Hans Buetow digs into the data from the 2025 Pornhub Year-in-Review, and wonders aloud to sexual wellness educator Courney Brame, and co-founders of SWR Data, MelRose Michaels and Mike Stabile - what’s going on with the sudden rise in SFW content on a decidedly NSFW platform? – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – You can find all sorts of 24/7 camera streams at webcamtaxi.com – Pornhub Is Entering Their FrictionMaxxxing Era Courtney Brame MelRose Michaels Mike Stabile SWR Data Website SWR Data Substack Pornhub 2025 Year-In-Review Mia Khalifa on Always Open In 2026, We Are Friction-Maxxing (The Cut) How I Frictionmaxx (P.E. Moskowitz) THUTT! (Jessica DeFino) – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, enjoy Mike's segment on the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media. Listen to the original episode here: https://www.neverpo.st/never-post-2/ – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Find Bijan: His blog: https://newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/ Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/bijan.bsky.social – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.–CC-BY Licensed Audio Usedhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/kirk-osamayo/blue-season-4https://freesound.org/people/Qleq/sounds/679130/2010 Pop by Akira Sora at Free Music ArchiveDream Pop by Holizna CC0 at Free Music ArchiveRetro Synths by Holizna CC0 at Free Music Archive – Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Mike, Hans, and Georgia discuss the recent U.S. deal with TikTok, how it’s changed the app,  whether it’s worth sticking around to see what happens, or if it's better to just log off for good.  – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – DuckDuckYesNo Kalshi gets banned Court order against Kalshi - Mass Gov Boston Globe Hackers against ICE - Techdirt EFF vs ICE tracking apps France bans Zoom - Politico Shopify comes to ChatGPT The new era of AI storefronts - McKinsey Craig Newmark pulls back on funding journalism - Neiman Lab NoAI for DuckDuckGo YesAI for DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo’s statement on their study The U.S. / TikTok deal - ABC News – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. There is no promise like the presentthough the present’s not promise at all.The grifter flashes a glimmer like it wasa sure thing. Clinging to these turnsblindsides what’s before the eye, a fistbehind dice. I want distraction evenmore than you, but both of us lostthe duel when our seconds went missing. Excerpt of Against Hope By Charles Bernstein Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Never Post is live streaming their very own Olympiad! Join us on Monday, February 2nd at 11:30am ET to watch intrepid competitors try to win the internet by doing various internet-related tasks for points. Want to compete? Go to neverpo.st/olympiad to find out how! Tryouts must be submitted by 11:59pm ET on Wednesday, January 28. To watch the 2026 Never Post Olympiad, head over to twitch.tv/theneverpost. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

To celebrate Never Post's second birthday, Mike, Jason, Hans, and Georgia gather to talk about how it went; and to break down how many people listened, how much money changed hands, and changes coming in 2026. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Producer and Minnesota resident Hans Buetow talks with journalist and Minnesota resident Em Cassel about Minnesota - the fraud, ICE raids and killings, and how it’s all about the posts. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Eat Hot Chip, Post and Lie RacketMN Em Cassel on Bluesky 2024 Auditor Report on Department of Education Feeding Our Future timeline - Axios Feeding Our Future timeline - Sahan Journal FBI Investigates Autism Schemes - Minnesota Reformer DHS Suspends Housing Stabilization - MNDHS The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer - City Journal Key Source Disputes Reporting - Star Tribune I Investigated Minnesota’s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal - Nick Shirley Health Department Pauses Child Care Payments - NYTimes Child Care Centers Operating As Expected - MPR News Charlie Warzel Don Moynihan Cooper Lund  Ryan Broderick Right-Wing Influencers at Whipple Building - Ryan Broderick – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2025 – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Our Esteemed Panel: The Dog Hots Akilah Hughes! Rebel Spirit on iHeart Jamie Loftus! The Bechdel Cast; jamieloftus.xyz 6-7 Nights At Freddy’s Ryan Broderick! Garbageday.email Adam Bumas! Garbageday.email 2 Nerds 2 Furious Lily Alexandre! youtube.com Tom Lum! tomlum.com – Special thank you to Annie Rauwerda from Depths of Wikipedia, Kurt White of the podcast Unravelling, and Morgan Sung of the podcast Close All Tabs. – Assorted links you may be interested in: NY City Mayoral Election Day Stats - Pornhub Le Poisson Steve The dice game Hazard - Wikipedia Act 2, Scene ii of Richard II – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Dexter Thomas of the tech podcast kill switch interviews Jeremy Busby about his work as a journalist from solitary confinement, within a maximum security facility. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – It’s the Radiotopia Fundraiser! Click here to donate to all your faves! $4 $7 Never Post Membership Tier$4 $12 Never Post Membership Tier Intro Links Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings Pew, Striking findings from 2025 Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Reach Landmark Agreement to Bring Beloved Characters from Across Disney’s Brands to Sora Michael Weinberg on Bluesky Michael Weinberg website – social media reveals life behind bars. prisons want to block it kill switch podcast kill switch episode about prison tablets Dexter Thomas Freedom of the Press Foundation – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

We respond to your questions and comments! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” --☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st --Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer is Meghal Janardan. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure.

Audrey talks with cloud-server DIYer Drew Lyton about what its like trying to rebuild the internet in your living room. Also: LASERLAKE – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – It’s the Radiotopia Fundraiser! Click here to donate to all your faves! $4 $7 Never Post Membership Tier$4 $12 Never Post Membership Tier Intro Links Reservation of IPv6 Address Block 44::/16 for Amateur Radio Digital Communications (44Net) Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators iHeartRadio Exec Says Company Won’t ‘Play AI Music’ or Use ‘AI Generated Personalities’ in Staff Memo The Current No. 1 Christian Artist Has No Soul Forrest Frank on IG Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps – Don’t Do It Yourself  Drew’s blog Drew’s website – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Tresspasser. A high stone wall. I continue to obsessively study ‘improving your hurdle technique’ online, the red curve of the track guiding from the right to the left of the image as drills, minidisciplines, are suggested. Over and over. I was young when I heard recounted to me the terror and excitement of being chased of farmland, thinking there was a gun, scaling over to escape with superhuman force. Even then, I wanted to be a part of the chase. Excerpt of The [blank] jumped over the [blank] (along a line a leap a landing) by Rowan Powell Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Meghal! shares her journey trying to rebuild her attention span and then chats with Emily Mazo and Mohamed Ali, organizers of the conference “New Luddism: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace” Also: MACHINES! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/  – It’s the Radiotopia Fundraiser! Click here to donate to all your faves! Intro Links Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive https://andotherstuff.org/ https://bsky.app/profile/kalina2hu.bsky.social/post/3m5ucuht7vc2e Why the closure of 'Teen Vogue' is a bigger deal than you realize Roosevelt Institute on Closure of Teen Vogue https://kickstarterunited.org/ iHeartMedia and TikTok Launch Partnership TikTok Shop Is Now the Size of eBay Fixing My Attention Span (*Deep Breath*) Meghal on IG (which she is not checking as often)Man vs Machine: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace New Luddism Conference NYC off Tech  Collective Action in Tech Tech Workers Coalition  Mohamed Ali (email link)  Emily Mazo  Brian Merchant Blood in the Machine Gavin Mueller Breaking Things at Work Jathan Sadowski The Mechanic and the Luddite – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This weeks friend of the show is Meghal Janardan. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. This week's poem is an excerpt of Dalmation People by Jessica Bet Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Hans talks with Paul Levy about the case of Pool World vs Prepared Food Photos; A WIGOH for the broken hearted; Tokyo! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – It’s the Radiotopia Fundraiser! Click here to donate to all your faves! Intro Links Polidashboard.org No degree, no discussion? China tightens the grip on influencers Not Verified? Not Welcome. China’s Influencer Policy Sends a Message Paid Armies of 'Clippers' Boost Internet Stars Like MrBeast Australia sues Microsoft for misleading M365 users about Copilot subscription options Internet Pricing Is About to Get a Lot Less Transparent Making Trolls Pay Their Own Tolls Paul at Public Citizen Paul’s Blog Paul Levy, the Web Bully’s Worst Enemy Pool World The Complaint and letter WiGOH “i don’t even know how to process this #cheater  #toxic  #betrayl”– Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Georgia talks with Mahigan St. Pierre about witches Etsy-and-not, and Ph.D candidate in forensic psychology Alex Frampton about the image of witches today.  – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you Photography, Or The Writing Of Light by Jean Baudrillard X will start selling inactive usernames to paid users A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request 2025 Fiscal Year Among the Deadliest in ICE History for Detained Migrants Nearly two years after the “Chicago Rat Hole” became a viral sensation, scientists have weighed in on the debate over what type of critter made the splat. 'Chicago Rat Hole' was not made by a rat, say rodent researchers Interstitial Music from the Trick or Beep Collection Elvira II - Jaws of Cerberus (Amiga version) Beetlejuice (NES version) Pinball Jam - Elvira and the Party Monsters Sweet Home Noctropolis (MS-DOS version) Spear of Destiny Rise of the Dragon (MS-DOS version) Monster Bash (MS-DOS version) Thrill Kill Castlevania Chakan - The Forever Man (Sega Genesis Version) Castlevania II - Simon’s Quest Gauntlet Dark Legacy  (Arcade Version) The Business of Digitized Witchcraft Find Mahigan Kitchen Toad   Their Patreon (where you can also find their podcast) Find Alex“In The Broom Closet” – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Mike asks if there’s anything in the connection between fascism and the aesthetics of A.I.. And if they are connected, how are they? Is there something inherently fascistic about these technologies? Also: OPEIU Local 153 is union PROUD! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Vote for us in the Signal Awards! Friend.com ads backlash ICE looking to create social media surveillance team Apple and Google remove ICE tracking apps The bots come for Cracker Barrel – AI and New American Fascism White House Posts Ghoulish AI Cartoon Showing Woman's Deportation (Huffpost) With Manifest Destiny art, DHS goes hard on ‘white makes right’ (LA Times) Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop (e-flux) The Other Side of the Canvas (Unpopular Front) Ur-Fascism (The Anarchist Library) In Unhinged Speech, Pete Hegseth Says He's Tired of ‘Fat Troops,’ Says Military Needs to Go Full AI (404 Media) Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline from Ep. 13 Generated-ish from Ep. 22 – Thank you to Dannel Jurado for recording the Kickstarter picket. Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

We respond to your questions and comments! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” --☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st --Head to neverpo.st to see the extensive morning alarm routine--Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure.

Tori Dominguez-Peek returns to look at the prevalence of AI in the college classroom, and what it takes to ban it. Also: BOP SPOTTER! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Vote for us in the Signal Awards! Google to reinstate banned YouTube accounts censored for political speech Alex Jones sports Hitler mustache in shocking broadcast: 'It had a wild effect on women' U.S. Secret Service disrupts telecom network that threatened NYC during U.N. General Assembly TProphet on bsky The Irresistible Rise of On Tyranny Here’s what’s happening right now with the US TikTok deal Inside Trump's deal to save TikTok Paramount Skydance eyes takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery as high as $24 a share: report LimeWire acquires Fyre Festival, has vague plans to offer 'real experiences' LimeWire, Former File-Sharing Service, Is Revealed as Buyer of Fyre Festival Bop Spotter – Teaching AI Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through CollegeFind Everyone: Megan Fritts on X Dr. Rui Sousa-Silva on LinkedIn Tori Dominguez Peek on Bluesky Press Start Pod on Bluesky – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Hans talks with adult content creator Siri Dahl about age verification online; Georgia talks with James Beard Award-nominated producer and recipe developer Gabriella Lewis about the state of recipe sharing online; and also: sonification! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links TShirt Preorder!!!!!! - https://neverpost.bigcartel.com A hacker used AI to automate an 'unprecedented' cybercrime spree, Anthropic says 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers twitch.tv/theneverpost  – Sonification Listen to Wikipedia Listening Back Sonificator – Age Verified Down a Slippery Slope Find Siri: Her website Her Bluesky – Recipes as Vibeposting  Find Gabriella: Her website Her instagram Eater New York Times Cooking – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Enough of this observing said the child to her respondent. Explain the astonishment of the abashed articulate before the table of the circle of friends washed up on the shore of the foreign country we all hoped to leave for medicine. An alien name had already gone and we were left to drink; health had no opponents Excerpt of The Beautiful, by Jean Day Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

An episode-long staff round-table with special guest Meghal Janardan. Recorded LIVE with chat during the Never Post Member Stream Week, the team discusses the future tech that was made to seem inevitable - have we reached it? Will we ever? – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Links TShirt Preorder!!!!!! - https://neverpost.bigcartel.com Subscribe to our Twitch channel - twitch.tv/theneverpost – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Mike talks with David Huerta about age verification laws, VPNs, and Bluesky being blocked in Mississippi; The team asked chat WHAT (?!) Is Going On Here; ALSO: Never Post Plays – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links TShirt Preorder!!!!!! - https://neverpost.bigcartel.com You've got mail no more: AOL to shutter dial-up internet service An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators & Allies: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing twitch.tv/theneverpost  – Never Post Plays Date Everything Pancito Merge NBA Jam – Agewalled Gardens An In-Depth Guide to Choosing a VPN– WIGOH LIVE: Memberdrive Streamweek Ed. Kurt Cobain Will Have His Revenge on the Straights Most iconic thing in pop culture (warning: X link) – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer for this episode is Toby Martin. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Reader unmov’d and Reader unshaken, Reader unseduc’d and unterrified, through the long-loud and sweet-still I creep toward you. Toward you, I thistle and I climb. I crawl, Reader, servile and cervine, through this blank season, counting – I sleep and I sleep. I sleep, Reader, toward you, loud as a cloud and deaf, Reader, deaf as a leaf… Except of Sweet Reader, Flanneled and Tulled by Olena Kalytiak Davis Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

How do social algorithms perceive and prescribe gender? Contributing producer Toby Martin investigates. Then Mike goes deep on the ins-and-outs of RSS. Also: Internet Instruments! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Send a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links -Reddit to block Internet Archive -OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train AI on your posts -Google cut deal with Reddit for AI training data -OpenAI may pay Reddit $70M for licensing -Wikipedia legal challenge -‘AI slop’ on Wikipedia -IL bans AI therapists -K-12 cellphone ban -Tasteland 51: ft. Mike Rugnetta -twitch.tv/theneverpost  – Internet Instruments 10kdrummachines Nest 303-gen – Gender By Algorithm Toby@astroacespace on Tumblr Adam Aleksic  The Etymology Nerd Algospeak Thank you Lily, Adam, and George for their voices – Terms & Conditions: RSS RSS and Atom The Rise and Demise of RSS RSS 2.0 at Harvard Law On shutting down Google Reader Find Justin: Bsky– Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

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Hans looks into the tactical archiving efforts of our nation’s librarians, and Mike unboxes a bussin glow-up of an alt big mood to brainrot. Also: Ask an Expert! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results A Second Tea Breach Itch.io Suddenly Pulls NSFW Adult Content Update on NSFW content YouGov poll results European project Eurosky eurosky.social – Ask an Expert! Micah Loewinger Adopt-A-Station – Tactical Archiving Tracking Government Information Data Rescue Project UChicago Data Mirror Federal Data Forum America’s Essential Data Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine – Tralalero Tralarot Ryan: Garbage Day Panic World Emilie: ‘It speaks to me in brain rot’ emilieowens.ca hf.uio.no – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

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An episode-long staff round-table about device customization with special guest Meghal Janardan.  – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Mike thinks through the amount of gambling we are forced into, and contributing producer Melissa Locker tells us the story of a very special 90’s online newsletter. Also: Book reviews! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links What to know about online age verification laws Trial reveals flaws in tech intended to enforce Australian social media ban for under-16s Australia regulator and YouTube spar over under-16s social media ban French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools – Posting In The Age of Chance  Trapped - the secret ways social media is built to be addictive (and what you can do to fight back) Everything in America is Gambling Now - Adam Conover Tiny Subversions (2014) - Darius Kazemi Tiny Subversions (2024) - Darius Kazemi The Online Gambling Epidemic - Drew Gooden You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information - Hank Green – Whatever https://oasisinet.com/ And After All - Melissa’s book on Oasis – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This episode's contributing producer was Melissa Locker. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Look, this is not the West, this is the 21st Century but still as desolate cottonwood pollen blowing through abandoned mansions, the ball-bearing factory, strikers with their flapjack placards waving at a glance of traffic At the discount cinema, gunfighters name a young Cherokee guide “Look” because of the way she stares, because of the way they look at her. And everyone keeps their eyes on the horizon, Look, you’ve won a set of false teeth. Excerpt of Look by Sarah Messer Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Georgia talks with Tim Lawrence about the posts emptying dancefloors, and the team gathers to ask What Is Going On Here. Also: Signoffs! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links WhatsApp is bringing subscription model and ads to its messaging platform Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement Download festival rockers told to take off smartwatches after moshpits spark emergency alerts Thirst Traps and Quick Cuts: The Effects of TikTok “Edits” on Evaluations of Politicians Nexus Mods' new owner is a company whose co-founder has already had to reassure folks that NFTs and crypto aren't incoming  End of an era: Nexus Mods has change in ownership after 24 years following "stress-related health issues" An Update From Dark0ne – An Exuberance Entombed Find Tim Dancing In The Streets by Barbarba Erenreich  – What Is Going On Here Reembot r/FifthWorldPics r/WackyTicTacs The Sufi Blower https://www.tiktok.com/@maydonoztadi/video/7322541177171971333?lang=en @haqkhattebhussain – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This episodes contributing producer was Tori Dominguez Peek. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

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Hans confronts the technological, moral, and philosophical impacts of using Artificial Intelligence to animate still photos, including those of both personal and historical significance. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Why Academics Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky This Cybersecurity Startup Is Quietly Moderating X’s Community Notes to Fight Crypto Scams Scam Sniffer Nancy Mace ran bot army, had staff run fake accounts to boost profile, report claims: ‘It’s what she does for fun’ RFK Jr.'s MAHA Report Cites Research Studies That Don't Exist The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist Roblox’s Hit Farm Game Spurs Underground Digital Fruit Economy – Animating History Falcon Heights, MN City Council Meeting - March 26, 2025 Errol Morris at NYPL Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ‘True of Voice’ Making a Dead Lion Roar Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Saigon Execution Oral History with Eddie Adams oldphoto.ai Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision Ways of Seeing 'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This episodes contributing producer was Tori Dominguez Peek. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Mike talks with Morgan Sung of KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast and PhD Media and Technology researcher Aurelie Petit about hentai and platforms. Georgia talks with WIRED gear reviews editor Boone Ashworth about the tariffs coming for your fashion microtrends. ALSO: Ask an Expert with Avery Dame-Griff. – Become a Never Post member  – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Scientists Blasted Human Cells With 5G to See What Would Happen 5G-exposed human skin cells do not respond with altered gene expression and methylation profiles Open Access The Hidden Game: How Scammers Use “Chameleon Ads” to Bypass Meta’s Moderation 23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17 Regeneron Enters into Asset Purchase Agreement to Acquire 23andMe® for $256 Million; Plans to Maintain Consumer Genetics Business and Advance Shared Goals of Improving Human Health and Wellness The Kids Online Safety Act is back – Ask an Expert Avery Dame-Griff– The Post-Platform Internet Close All Tabs Morgan’s website Morgan on X Aurelie’s website The hentai streaming platform wars Hentai Music 2018 AH OH UH – MFW They Come for the Little Treats Right to Repair in the age of tariffs Find Boone Ashworth on Wired Boone on X Boone on Bluesky To send in tips, contact Boone on Signal at Boone.10 – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This episodes contributing producer was Tori Dominguez Peek. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia

Dr. Martin Shelton tells us what Signal is, and how end-to-end-encryption works. Then: was this show always going to devolve into a poetry reading? Probably. Finally: contributing producer Tori Dominquez Peek wonders what happened to the COUNTLESS FLASH GAMES of the early aughts. Also: Wildflowers! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins Next steps for Privacy Sandbox and tracking protections in Chrome Google won’t kill third-party cookies after all Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive Congress approves a revenge porn bill backed by first lady Melania Trump Shein and Temu will cost more, thanks to massive tariffs going into effect Epic v. Apple Contempt order A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store – What Is Signal? Dr. Martin Shelton at Freedom of the Press Foundation Signal, the secure messaging app: A guide for beginners – Are You There, Chat? It’s Me, Mike. Because one once willed you…, Rilke Culture and Value, Wittgenstein – A Remembrance of Things Flash Flashpoint Archive Video Game History Foundation Tori Dominguez Peek – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This episodes contributing producer was Tori Dominguez Peek. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. You are so opaque to me your brief moments of apparent transparency seem fraudulent windows in a Brutalist structure everyone admires The effort your life requires exhausts me. I am not kidding Excerpt of They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century by Maureen N McLane Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Friends! A Very Special Never Post for you! In this one, Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their screen time stats and habits and what it even means to be informed.--☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st -- Links: Garbage Day - Did You Hear About The Protest This Weekend?-- Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure.

Jason talks with Hannah Pivo about charts, graphs, truth and proof; Georgia talks with Julian Chokkattu about where all the buttons went. And also: DATA CENTERS – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/  – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Google loses ad tech monopoly case [2022] Judge says FTC’s antitrust case against Facebook can proceed Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wraps up testimony in antitrust case Risks to children playing Roblox ‘deeply disturbing’, say researchers Nvidia to produce AI servers worth up to $500 billion in US over four years France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs  – Charts & Curves Find Hannahhttps://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/hannah-pivo – Where Have All the Buttons Gone? Find JulianWired Touchscreen rollback on cars  Car and Driver Automotive News The Verge The LA Times Haggerty – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. The aim of constructive uncertainty lies in the corner between two windows. Such that we, welcoming the indistinct, unlocks the door because it likes the sound. We abstracts the whistled body of the world. The hazards of this opposition become clear: the ear listens to what becomes it, the blood flowing through it. Excerpt of Among the Living by Gary Sullivan Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure, and is distributed by Radiotopia

Contributing producer Youngna Park looks at why people talk *like that* on LinkedIn. Mike talks with psychotherapist Kurt White about how the internet may help us become ourselves. ALSO: The people united will never be defeated. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/  – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Vote for us in the Webbies! Elon Musk’s X Sues Twitch for Alleged Advertising Boycott Elon Musk's X sues Twitch in lawsuit alleging advertisers conspired to boycott the platform Twitch appears to have settled with X Meta blocks livestreaming by teenagers on Instagram Online Safety Act: explainer The UK’s Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law A deepfakes bill is flying through Congress. Critics say it’s flawed. Fake Social Media Posts Can Tank The Stock Market Now New York introduces data collection tax and digital advertising tax … again Confirmed: Microsoft stops new data centres worldwide – The Ultimate Platform of Capitalism Youngna Park Website Making it Work newsletter Melanie Ehrenkranz Laid Off substackSara M. Watson Website– Brick by Brick Kurt White Unravelling podcast LinkedIn – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Your business in this world Your nakedness and terror Your sanctity remains the crucial battle Dearly beyond We are scattered here today amongst commodities This town isn’t big enough for trust Excerpt of The Concept of Dread by Pam Rehm Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure, and is distributed by Radiotopia

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Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links How a false story about an anti-Trump band went viral Musk’s X Shuts Down Political Opposition Accounts in Turkey Existing ByteDance investors emerge as front-runners in TikTok deal talks Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now Influence with Matt Silverman Unravelling, with Kurt White and Mary Wilson – The 75 Day Hardstyle Challenge Mandy Lee’s 75 Day Hard Style No Buy Challenge: TikTok, Substack, Instagram Find Avery: Articles of Interest , Twitter, her website, Substack Find Kyle: The New Yorker, The Longing for Less – One Particular Toothpick TechDirt Mike Masnick on Bluesky Protocols not Platforms Eric Goldman’s Blog, Technology & Marketing Law Blog Jeff Kosseff, The 26 Words That Created the Internet EFF on Section 230 ACLU on Section 230 – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. By the sparkle of certain ciliates, cesium    practices its cricket song. Am I supposed to be impressed? My smoothie    comes with GPS. Excerpt of We Have the Technology, by Michael Robbins Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia

We're very excited to let you know that as of today, Never Post is distributed by Radiotopia. We wanted to tell you what that means for us (hopefully a lot), for you (hopefully not too much) and what it changes about the kind of show we make, and how (almost nothing). – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and – of this upload – distributed by Radiotopia.

Mike talks with Stephen Harrison about why authoritarian governments hate Wikipedia and Georgia talks with Kyle Chayka about how to have fun on the internet. Also: Kidpix! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links ubuweb.com Poetica: Three Sound Poets: Jaap Blonk, Amanda Stewart, Christian Bok (2014)), ubuweb.com Skilled technologists are being forced out of government, Don Moynihan GSA eliminates 18F, NextGov Doppelgänger: New disinformation campaigns spreading on social media through Russian networks, Intrinsec NEW REPORT: Russian propaganda may be flooding AI models, American Sunlight Project Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg, TechCrunch – Authoritarians vs Wikipedia Censorship of Wikipedia, Wikipedia.org Find Stephen: Sourcenotes Stephen’s novel, The Editors Stephen on Bluesky – Are We Having Fun Yet? Find Kyle: Twitter Bluesky Instagram Kyle at The New Yorker Titanium Daydream (also on YouTube and Instagram)  Read Kyle’s book Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Oh! to be almost loquacious Rather than fatally over loquacity’s edge Excerpt of #36 the-faux-ailing-abacus by Wayne Koestenbuam Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Georgia talks with Matt Pearce – journalist, former president of Media Guild of the West, and senior policy advisor for Rebuild Local News – about the info environment on Tiktok around its 12 hour ban in the US. The team asks WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. Also: Computer Whiz! – Intro Links William McFarland Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Defrauding Investors And A Ticket Vendor Of Over $26 Million, justice.gov EXCLUSIVE: Fyre Festival 2: Dates, location and how to get tickets, Today Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value, Futurism Microsoft Dropped Some AI Data Center Leases, TD Cowen Says,  Bloomberg How Temu’s supply chain is changing, RetailBrew Temu Overhauls Supply Chain on Tariffs, Risking Price Hikes, Bloomberg UK users are losing a key Apple security feature, raising questions about the future of privacy, CNN – Tiktok’s Leftovers Hours Matt Pearce’s substack On B******t - Harry G. Frankfurt – What Is Going On Here Mike: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCNP0atyy0J/ Georgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnBLd93cydQ, https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YqRuDF/ Hans: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pomes/hot/ Jason: https://www.tiktok.com/@aerosangels7?_t=ZT-8uF8Ot7ziWJ&_r=1 Stevie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf8vqQFeH_k – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Mike talks with artist, researcher and online harassment expert Caroline Sinders about blocking people online. What’s it for, and what kinds of feeling do we have when using it? Then, friend of the show Meghal Janardan speaks to children’s book author Laura Dower about her series “From the Files of Madison Finn”, an early exploration about what it was like being young, and online, at the turn of the millennium. Also: ssshhhhhh library asmr – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links Wired Establishes Itself as the Digital Thorn in Elon Musk’s Side, The Wrap  Introducing ChatGPT Gov, OpenAI As Trump Offers Buyout to Get Rid of as Many Government Workers as Possible, OpenAI Announces New Version of ChatGPT Designed to Do Government Work, Futurism Union lawsuit seeks to block ‘deferred resignation’ program, Federal News Network EU sets out guidance on banning harmful AI uses, TechXplore The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers, Advait.com Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance, Washington Post Google scraps its diversity hiring goals as it complies with Trump’s new government contractor rules, APNews Vance gets the TikTok portfolio, Punchbowl – What If There Were Fewer Connections? Journalists’ Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ‘I Try Not to Block People, but…’ Dr Dawn Wheatley, dcu.ie Find Caroline: convocation.design cord_labs on IG – From the Files of Madison Finn Find Laura: lauradower.com– Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. The soft rumor of spreading weeds. The sound of things ruined by the wind. The come to me as if I were the heart of all that exists. I would like to be dead, and also to go inside another’s hear

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Georgia talks with politics and internet reporter David Mack about whether disgraced politicians are attempting to launder their reputations on Cameo. Plus, Hans finds out what it feels like to answer an unanswerable question about how many cameras there are in the world. Also: the sounds of our collective TikTok Journey. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links FCC -- Carr Welcomes Court Order Invalidating President Biden’s Plan to Expand Government Control of the Internet Through Title II Regulations MSN -- Brendan Carr is officially in charge of the FCC ALA -- Net Neutrality: An Intellectual Freedom Issue – Cameo’s Reputation Machine Find David: Bluesky Slate Rolling Stone Buzzfeed – How Many Cameras Are There? Segment Links: Archive.org -- Opening the Era of Outer Space Union of Concerned Scientists -- Satellite Database FAA -- Drones By the Numbers IHS Markit -- Video Surveillance Datasheet Allied Market Research -- Video Surveillance Market CNET -- Google Maps has now photographed 10 million miles in Street View NYC DOT -- Cameras List 404 Media -- Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool Electronic Frontier Foundation -- Atlas of Surveillance International Telecommunications Union -- Facts and Figures 2023 Business Wire -- Amazon's Ring Remained atop the Video Doorbell Market in 2021 Decision Research -- Psychic Numbing Daniel V

To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of launching Never Post, Mike, Jason and Hans gather to talk about how it went; and to break down how many people listened, how much money changed hands, and what to expect from the show in 2025. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2024 – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Thanks to EX Research and The Pudding for their help writing questions for Post-Mortem 2024! – Our Esteemed Panel: Nerds of a Feather / The Lilybrary of Tomgress Tom Lum! tomlum.com Lily Alexandre! youtube.com The Dog Hots Akilah Hughes! Rebel Spirit on iHeart Jamie Loftus! Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) on iHeart The Garbage Men Ryan Broderick! Garbageday.email Adam Bumas! Garbageday.email – Assorted links you may be interested in: Why Chappell Roan Told MTV VMAs Attendee to "Shut the F--k Up" - E!Online Netflix, Paramount Ask Canada Court to Amend New Trudeau Tax – Yahoo! Finance Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop – The Verge The #3 Most Viral Song in the World Is an AI-Generated, Xenophobic Parody – PCMag “Dodgers Gawr Gura” on eBay “mistakes into miracles” on DeviantArt (potentially NSFW) emojistats.bsky.sh The Willy Wonka Event’s Lead Actor Speaks Out: ‘It Was Just Gibberish’ - WIRED – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Georgia talks with beauty reporter and critic Jessica DeFino about the capitalistic excesses of“self-care” online; Mike talks with Today in Tabs’ Rusty Foster about logging off. Also: UNBOXING. – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links TikTok CEO meets with Trump while asking for Supreme Court to take up ban appeal – UPI Hawk Tuah Haliey Welch's Crypto Team Nets £2.59M Amid Botched Token Launch, Fans File SEC Complaints – IBTimes Researchers Consider the Relationship Between Misinformation, Outrage, and the Sharing of Content on Social Media – TechPolicy Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco – The Guardian Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 – Pew Research – The Horrors Persist, But So Do The Little Treats Find Jessica: jessica-defino.com The Review of Beauty newsletter Segment Links: Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light – WorldCat Studies on retail therapy — here, here, here and here  – Touching Trail Find Rusty: Rusty on Bluesky Today in Tabs Today on Trail Would you pay to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would - The Conversation Most of the TikTok users (64%) and almost half of the Instagram users (48%) were prepared to pay to be off them, so long as others were off them, resulting in average valuations across all use

Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their experiences leaving social platforms behind. – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. On the last evening on this earth, we sever our daysfrom our trees, and count the ribs we will carry alongand the ribs we will leave behind, right here . . . on the last eveningwe bid nothing farewell, we don't find the time to end who we are . . .everything remains the same, the place exchanges our dreamsand exchanges its visitors. Suddenly we are incapable of satiresince the place is ready to host the dust . . . here on the last eveningwe contemplate mountains surrounding clouds: a conquest and a counterconquestand an ancient time handing over our door keys to the new time Excerpt of Eleven Planets At The End Of The Andalusian Scene by Mahmoud Darwish Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Mike talks with Jon Greenaway, aka litcritguy, about the horror of online food videos; Georgia talks with Katie Notopoulos about why you can’t personalize your social profiles a la MySpace anymore; ALSO leaf crunches!  – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links Bluesky hits 20 million users and counting - ZDNet Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’ – theonion.com https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3law7zmt6522x The Onion Wins Bid to Buy Infowars, Alex Jones’s Site, Out of Bankruptcy – NYTimes Donald Trump names Project 2025 author to oversee the internet & media – LGBTQ Nation FCC commissioner calls for TikTok ban – CNN A Conservative Path Forward on Big Tech | Opinion – Newsweek America’s News Influencers – Pew – Food Gore Find Jon: Capitalism: A Horror Story, Jon’s Book (HIGHLY recommended) Horror Vangaurd, Jon’s horror podcast The Haunt, Jon’s writing Segment Links: 15 Recipes For Anyone Who Loves Fries - YouTube Garlic Bread & Meatball Sub – Chefclub Spaghetti-O Pie – Tiktok Your Least Favorite Gross Viral Food Videos Are All Connected to This Guy – Eater chefclub comments on X Are Those Disgusting Food Hack Videos a Sex Thing? – Inside Hook a href="https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/07/28/hocus-focus-how-magicians-made-a-fortune-

Mike talks about how and why some authentic media looks like it was generated by AI; Hans talks about KOSA – the Kids Online Safety Act – and how it is shaped by not one, but two concurrent moral panics. Also: RARE TAPES! 📼 – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links https://x.com/MikeIsaac/status/1854202822600106162 Facebook Took More Than $1 Million For Ads Sowing Election Lies - Forbes EU launches action against shopping website Temu over illegal products - Guardian Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division - TechCrunch Looks like a random AI slop site based in Illinois, aided by social media, has coaxed hundreds of people on to the main street of Dublin for a Halloween parade that was never happening. – X – Generated-ish https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1gfij22/comment/luhu6kz/ How can you tell if text is AI-generated? Researchers have figured out a new method Discover the most common AI vocabulary words RIP Baudrillard https://x.com/TheRidleyJones/status/1848214407211311466 Kamala Rally photo, and indication it was shot on an iPhone warped, surrealist, why’d you generate the background people Generated-ish Examples https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFdNh7yj/ https://x.com/Meelsie143/status/1832795190794342539 https://x.com/Solomosos/status/1848367541665583473 https://www.reddit.com/r/shitpost

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Georgia talks with communications scholar and privacy researcher Alice Marwick about “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups, and how hard it is to keep private communities private. Contributing producer Noah Hertz files a story about the best, smallest social network you’ve never heard of. Also: MIKE DIES??? 🎃 👻 – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links Archive.org hacked Automattic CEO quadruples down on WP Engine legal battle Cracks in the Mr. Beast empire  The AI restaurant problem on Instagram – Are We Dating the Same Guy? AWDTSG Wikipedia Entry Find Alice on bsky Alice’s website – David Social You can find Noah at noahhertz.com David Social is at davidsocial.com but don’t bother if you don’t already know David Lily Alexandre is on YouTube and X, The Everything Website – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  when I first died, I stole a lock of your hair while you slept Now I dip it in ink when the mood strikes and the times you visit and kneel so pretty on the grass above me, that’s not scratching you hear. It’s writing.  except of Poem to Line My Casket with, Ramona, by Josh Bell Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

We visit the funeral for CrowdTangle, a social listening app that was used by disinformation and human rights researchers. Mike talks with Dallas Taylor, host of the podcast 20k Hertz, about why podcasts sound the way they do. And also: videogame menu music! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for and tell us about POSTS THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE – Intro Links Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank – Reuters Musk's X paid $5 million in fines to the wrong bank, Brazil's Supreme Court said - Business Insider After weeks of drama, SF tech CEO gives workers $30,000 to quit – SFGate 159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO’s fight with WP Engine escalates – TechCrunch How to Delete Your 23andme Data Amid the Company's Turmoil – MSN California enacts laws to protect child influencers' financial security – NBC DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says – ArsTechnica  – CrowdTangle, We Barely Knew Thee RIP Crowdtangle David Karpf Kevin Roose’s Twitter Bot – Why Do Podcasts Sound Like That, with Dallas Taylor Dallas’ LinkedIn Post - LinkedIn 20k Hertz DeFacto Sound – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  Having been taught by fools, how else could i have ended up but as I am? a man who panics at the sound of his own voice, a blusterer, afraid that within the five pointed maple leaf there lies another name he never knew; ready, always, to be found wrong.  Excerpt of ON FIRE by Andrew Feld Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Senior producer Hans Buetow leads a conversation with three makers and thinkers in the podcast space — Mia Lobel (Freelance Cafe, fmr. Pushkin Industries), Lauren Passell (Tink Media) and Ronald Young, Jr. (Weight For It). We perform a health check on the podcast industry, to see who it’s working for, and who not. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for and tell us about POSTS THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE – Links: Alex Goldman’s podcast economics Tweet Buzzsprout’s podcasting industry stats IAB’s 2022 Podcasting Advertising Revenue Report – Find Our Guests: Mia Lobel — Freelance Cafe Lauren Passell — Tink Media Ronald Young, Jr. — Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Twitter – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Georgia talks to Cliff Lampe, Professor of Information at the UMich School of Information about how Find My has become indispensable technology of friendship in a hypergamified social-media landscape. Then, Hans talks with Dr. Brooke Erin Duffy, associate professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University, about the need to be vulnerable as an influencer. And also: [REDACTED] – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for and tell us about POSTS THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE – Intro Links Elon Musk's X blinks in standoff with Brazil – Yahoo.com Elon Musk’s X Backs Down in Brazil – NYT Lionsgate Inks Deal With AI Firm to Mine Its Massive Film and TV Library – Hollywood Reporter Runway Partners with Lionsgate – runwayml dot com Three Mile Island to Host New Disaster in Exclusive Deal to Power Microsoft AI – Splinter.com Microsoft deal would reopen Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power AI – WaPo After CEO’s arrest, Telegram says it will now turn some bad actors’ data over to law enforcement – CNN Read Oldster! Find me on Something Rotten talking about Spec Ops: The Line Jacob Geller’s Swordstream 2024 Announcement Find me on Jay Springett’s Experience.Computer on Sept. 26th – Find My Friend Surveillance Find Cliff on Google Scholar  Gamification and Social Media  – Vulnerableposting The politics of vulnerability in the influencer economy – Sagepub Find Brooke @ brookeduffy.com – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  Now I promise the shriek that the pressure of days, the pressure of days will be weapon. We drive and we drive, we blare music, we go on. On the highway of our lost intentions, all sign

Mike talks with Know Your Meme Editor-in-Chief Don Caldwell about the prevalence and decline of the Laser Eyes Meme, and the ever shifting place of internet memes in presidential election season; the staff then talks about posts that baffle and confound us. And also: fair play. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for and tell us about POSTS THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE – Intro Links EU top court ruling paves way for Apple to pay Ireland over €13bn in taxes – Irish Times  Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits – Gizmodo.com Brazil Blocks Musk’s X After Company Refuses to Comply Amid Feud With Judge – Time Elon Musk Has Backed Himself Into a Corner in Brazil – WIRED What to know about Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ feud with a Brazilian judge – AP Who are Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin? The 6 commentators linked to Tenet indictment – USA Today Who Are Tim Pool And Benny Johnson? What To Know About The Six Right-Wing Commentators DOJ Alleges Were Funded By Russia. – Forbes YouTube Deletes Tim Pool’s Embarrassing Kremlin-Backed Videos – Gizmodo Media start-up from Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, and Dave Rubin was secret Russian influence campaign, indictment alleges – DailyDot cohost to shut down at end of 2024 – cohost  – Laser Eyes Laser Eyes – KYM Dark Brandon – KYM Dark Brandon Explained – KYM Fell Out of a Coconut Tree – KYM What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has Been – KYM Find Don: a href="

Georgia talks with marketing consultant Bryce Whitwam and takes us in and out and further in – maybe further in than any of us have ever wanted to go – to the TikTok shop; Mike talks with media studies professor Shannon Mattern about Drafts – writing while it is still in progress – and how it feels to POST them. Also: Audience participation! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Find the slides for this live performance on our website. Intro Links J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk Named in Cyberbullying Lawsuit Filed by Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif After Olympic Win (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety “it was so nice when you were following legal advice to shut the f**k up” – death angel Swifties for Trump? Not so fast-Taylor Swift fires back at Donald Trump's AI-generated endorsement – Marca Fans Suspect Taylor Swift Just Subtly Addressed Donald Trump's AI Image Scandal in New Statement – parade.com Donald Trump Shares Fake Taylor Swift Endorsement Using AI-Generated Images – Stereogum Trump shares AI-generated images of Taylor Swift and her fans supporting him – NBC anyway here's the story of how i worked with a cafe (isshiki matcha) to import the olympic village muffins for a popup in nyc… – @kelin_online – The Shop Zone More of Bryce Whitwam: The TikTok effect Shanghai Zhan podcast Syracuse University  – Writing is Death Find Shannon Mattern: wordsinspace.net shannonmattern.bsky.social – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  It’s slow writing on re-admission of the abyss so if this body is sleepy-tired please walk around Suddenly there’s nothing in the laws of the alphabet that breaks open revealing what buoyancy am I. Excerpt of Puberty of Puck, by Mark Hyatt Never Post is a production o

Hans talks with Lia Haberman of the newsletter ICYMI about the ostensible death of the hashtag; Georgia talks with media scholar Whitney Phillips about catching breaking news via internet memes. Also: Hit Em! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for, like: SEND US YOUR DRAFTS – Intro Links Google has an illegal monopoly on search, judge rules. Here’s what’s next – MSN.com Crooked Media, Producer of ‘Pod Save America,’ Reaches Deal With Union, Which Withdraws Claim Company Engaged in Union-Busting Tactics – Variety.com After Walkout, Crooked Media Union Reaches Tentative Deal With ‘Pod Save America' Company – MSN.com Spotify is full of AI music, and some say it’s ruining the platform – FastCo Cartoon Network Website Shuts Down, Warner Bros. Discovery Kicks Visitors Over to Max – Variety.com 5 Podcasts for the Constantly Online – NYT XOXO 2024 Schedule! – #DeathoftheHashtag Find Lia: ICYMI newsletter Website Twitter LinkedIn – Meming the News, Newsing the Memes Find Whitney: University of Oregon site Twitter The Ambivalent Internet book – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  The idea, the teacher said, was that there was a chaos left in matter – a little bit of not-yet in everything that was – so the poets became interested in fragments, interruptions– the little bit of saying lit by the unsaid– was it a way to stay alive, a way to keep hope, leaving things unfinished? as if in completing a sentence there was death– – Excerpt of Ars Poetica (the idea) by Dana Levin

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Contributing producer Victoria Dominguez attempts to understand the practice of digitally resurrecting deceased loved ones using artificial intelligence. Also: home movies. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for, like: SEND US YOUR DRAFTS – Intro Links People searching X for updates on California's largest wildfire encounter torrent of porn spam – SF Gate I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Fraud – YouTube MrBeast employee hits back against whistleblower who called YouTube star a ‘fraud’ – Metro The news about MrBeast 'Beast Games' is disturbing – Rosanna Pansino, TikTok More 'Beast Games' Allegations Break My Heart – Rosanna Pansino, TikTok MrBeast 'Beast Games' Keeps Getting Worse… – Rosanna Pansino, TikTok Hoarding Chocolate, Seizures, and Broken Bones — Messages Depict Bad Conditions on 'Beast Games' Project – Distractify via MSN ‘Skibidi Toilet’ Film and TV Franchise in the Works From Michael Bay, Adam Goodman — Listen to the Exclusive Interview – Variety  – BRB AI Links BRB2ME -- https://btwinai.com/bring-mom-back Find Tori:  Press Start Podcast (Episode 106, ft. Mike Rugnetta)  Twitter: @Tori_as_always Website: vdominguez.net Find Elreacy Dock: Website: https://www.elreacydock.com/ Find Elizabeth Schandelmeier: Website: Howling Lion Grief Support – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  One winter, he held a rope, lowered me  by the ankles to the wells bottom.  I ascended upside-down through the dark thermometer  with a blood orange in my teeth. He had a beard  of new snow. I held cold to his pant leg  while our dog left and snapped at a sound  in the air only he could hear. When I fell  in love, he reached out to me and held me down 

Mike chats with EX Research about their new report which goes deep on Roblox, the massively multiplayer online game played by HALF of all American teenagers. Georgia takes a look at Love Island UK – as many people have over the last few weeks – and asks why so much of that looking is preoccupied with plastic surgery. Also: the sound of touching grass. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for, like: SEND US YOUR DRAFTS – Intro Links War Thunder does it again, this time with classified documents relating to 3 Russian tanks, cyberdaily.au It’s happening again: War Thunder players continue to leak classified military documents, dotesports.com Commission sends preliminary findings to X for breach of the Digital Services Act, europa.eu Musk says EU wanted “secret deal” to “censor free speech” after fine threat, msn.com Chasing YouTube, Spotify adds comments to podcasts, techcrunch.com An Illinois law requires parents to give 15% of earnings to children who star in their videos, tubefilter.com – Once Day, We’ll All Be In There What’s the deal with Roblox? An EX Special Report – exresearch.co Roblox fruit jumpscares, x.com This Brokkhaven Roleplay In ROBLOX Be Weird…, tiktok.com Pretending to be a spying christmas tree in roblox, youtube.com ROBLOX DOORS BUT IT'S ME, youtube.com Roblox is down.., youtube.com ROBLOX DIFFICULTY CHART, youtube.com The nuggets gonna get ya, tiktok.com The Strange Origins of "Old ROBLOX Music", youtube.com – Love Island Face https://www.tiktok.com/@jackmacbarstool/video/7379780711802309930 https://www.tiktok.com/@barrettplasticsurgery/video/73801

Mike talks with unsung internet pillar DylanPDX, steward of vxTwitter and others, who single-handedly does what Big Social doesn’t want - keeping your embeds working. Senior producer Hans gets the ambrosia from Tallulah Trezevant, an antiquities scholar who ran an experiment to see how fast she would get flushed down the alt-right pipeline when expressing an interest in ancient history online. Also! Some of your favorite hidden corners of the internet. Show Notes: Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers -- Ars Technica The Spotify conspiracy theories about “Espresso,” explained -- Vox MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline -- Variety Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone -- LateNighter Why Major Labels Are Suing AI Music Startups Udio and Suno For Mass Copyright Infringement -- Forbes Succor borne every minute -- FTC – vxTwitter with Dylan Find Dylan: GitHub Twitter Ko-fi – Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline, with Tallulah Trezevant Find Tallulah: The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline -- workingclassicists.comOther Sources of hope in Antiquity: Dan-el Padilla Peralta Sarah Debrew Ky Merkley – Favorite Corners of the Internet Rad Pro Calculator Serebii Sporcle Geography Quizzes crouton.net The Academic Family Tree – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  So much of any year is flammable,lists of vegetables, partial poe

An episode-long staff round-table about music library management with special guest Meghal Janardan.  – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

We respond to you! – LINKS! Angelmamii7 in Limerance Burnt toast about burnt toast HEADPHONE USERS BEWARE – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Moss’ Email ​​Hi Never Post! My name is Moss (she/her) and I am trans. Your recent segment on before and after pics got me thinking about the particular variety of before and afters that are shared online in the trans community. I think that this became a lot more visible to me after being witness to the early chaos of unconstrained trans horniness and wild openness in the early formation of Bluesky last year, which is a whole fascinating bit of platform ecosystem history, especially seeing how much Bluesky has leveled out into something much more "presentable" and twitter-like now that it's operating at scale—but I digress. On sites like Twitter and Bluesky (and surely elsewhere...) there is an established trend of trans beings (queer beings) sharing before and after pictures of themselves. These are occasioned by trans holidays, like Transgender Day of Visibility, by personal events like transition anniversaries, and by quote chains of such pics (not to mention special occasions of steps taken towards transition). I think it's important to mention these not only as a queer phenomenon, but as something that illuminates how before and afters work for everyone in a variety of situations (as is the case with many things related to transness—it's not [only] about being trans: it's about living more freely). The trans case highlights a few aspects that I want to explore here: 1) The pics, by virtue of being in a trans discourse, would seem to point to something deeper about how life is structured—an identity, a gender—rather than merely an aspect of life—weight, appearance, dwelling, &c.—not of course that identity and gender are not merely aspects of life nor that what seem to be mere aspects are not structuring, but thinking about the weight these are given culturally. What does it mean to see one photo and then another and think, and be encouraged to think by the poster, to see the second as more in line with their gender, as "more woman," "more animal," "more thing," "more man," "more..."? But perhaps above all "MORE THEMSELF." I think we can reasonably be quite ambivalent about this: as your segment points out, the after of the before and after is actually a changing state, and that perhaps it's harmful to over-fix (and that it might fix norms that should be taken as fluid and contextual), but, on the other hand, the fixing function of the before and after photo may be precisely the point for the trans poster—a trans performance to reinforce self. We might further ask, what is visible and what is invisible about transition—does the before and after pic over-reinforce the visible (and how does it then interact with the endless discourse of "passing")? There is also of course a great potential for rupture with norms with queer people—the after often completely rejects standard norms (but then is it rejection or creation...? and so on and so on and so on). 2) The before pic is possibly quite contentious for trans beings, when it is understood to be a pre-transition pic (and not say, both before and after being after the start of transition). This is because

Georgia chats with Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Hilke Schellmann about the job market, and the increasing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence in hiring. Mike talks with comedian, writer and podcast host Jamie Loftus about her show Sixteenth Minute (of Fame), and the curse of becoming an Internet Main Character. Also! Every YouTube video the team watched in the last two weeks. Show Notes: Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links Google Cut Back AI Overviews in Search Even Before Its ‘Pizza Glue’ Fiasco –  WIRED Ikea is hiring UK workers for its new store in Roblox – Eurogamer How 7 Brands Are Engaging Gen Zers with Roblox Experiences – Obsessar Nebula Strikes Deal With Spotify to Stream Video Content (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety Spotify demonetises all tracks under 1,000 streams – Musictech Spotify Announces New Price Increases for Premium Plans – Yahoo Tech Spotify raising prices by up to $3 as frustrated subs beg it to “just do music” – Ars Technica A New Lawsuit Accuses Spotify of Cheating Songwriters Out of Royalties – Time We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years – PC Gamer Internet Sleuths Finally Find Origin of 'The Backrooms' Creepypasta Image – 404 Media Backrooms Research Doc – Why Is It (Hiring) Like This? with Hilke Schellmann Find Hilke: hilkeschellmann.com The Algorithm: How AI Can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future Other Sources: OpenAI GPT Sorts Resume Names With Racial Bias, Test Shows – Bloomberg a href="https://www.forb

Georgia digs deep into the enshittification of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. Mike talks to Aftermath co-founder Luke Plunkett about recent, massive changes to Google’s Page Rank algorithm, and the risk of reconfiguring entire industries to pander to search traffic. And also: An AI Voice Clone of Mike is set to *maximum chaos*.  Show Notes: Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links Belle Delphine earned over $90K selling jars of her bathwater in 2019. PayPal only released her money this week – Katie Notopulous, Business Insider Slack has been using data from your chats to train its machine learning models – Will Shanklin, Engadget It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It – Lauren Goode, WIRED Uber and Lyft agree to deal with state lawmakers on minimum pay rates for drivers – Max Nesterak, Minnesota Reformer IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more –  Christopher Dring, gameindustry.biz IGN buys Eurogamer, VG247, and Rock Paper Shotgun – layoffs have already started – Game Central, Metro.co.uk Never Post at XOXO 2024  12 Best Podcasts of 2024 (So Far) – Lauren Passell, Lifehacker  Mike on Blocked Party – Dating Apps (derogatory) Dating Apps: The Uncertainty of Marketised Love https://www.tiktok.com/@officialbrept/video/7028325781537393925?_t=8lrDLmaKbTa&_r=1 https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahgraser/video/7117094997484309806?_r=1&_t=8ly4uYqQrPD https://www.tiktok.com/@harmonythread/video/7262952885158235435?_t=8lwOVY3O0LP&_r=1 https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahgraser/video/7125991346489314603?_t=8lwOSDK1l3H&_r=1 a href="

The second and final installment of our two part collab with Slate’s ICYMI! Mike talks with mis- and disinformation researcher Joan Donovan about the line between gossip and conspiracy; then ICYMI’s Candice and Rachelle join us to talk about what it feels like swimming in the wide open sea of monocultural event discourse. Also: C-SPAN’s earliest internet memories! Special thanks to Candice, Rachelle, Se’era, Daisy and the whole ICYMI team! Please listen to them on slate.com and wherever you get your podcasts. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Everyone is a Journalish Find Joan at her website and at publicinterestinter.net – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  vertigo of too many nuances don’t drown in their rapidity choose the nuances you love and settle down with them Excerpt of #45 - butter colored slacks and rubber rum balls by Wayne Koestenbaum Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

This week, we got TWO episodes coming at you - one today and one on Saturday. Both are a collaboration with the incredible team at the Slate Podcast ICYMI. In today's episode, the first of our collaboration, Mike guests on ICYMI, where they break down one of 2024’s biggest internet stories and ask: what's the recipe for a rare monocultural event? It's been more than a month since Kate Middleton announced she'd started preventative chemotherapy treatments following a cancer diagnosis. Which means it's also been just over a month since conspiracy theories about the princess ran rampant across the internet. As an increasingly algorithmic internet silos us further into our own little content niches, all-consuming events like Kate Middleton's disappearance are fewer and far between. So what does it take, in 2024, to capture the internet's attention and create these rare monocultural moments? ICYMI is produced by Se'era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. --- To get ahold of the Never Post team: - Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail- Drop us a voice memo via airtable- Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com- See what interstitials we need submissions for Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Senior producer Hans Buetow investigates the transit vacuum that’ll result when Uber and Lyft leave the Twin Cities; Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video. Also: PLANES, TRAINS… BIKES – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links The House just voted on a potential TikTok ban (again). Now what? – CNN Biden signs a bill that could ban TikTok — after the 2024 election – NBC News Steve Mnuchin seeks AI partner to rebuild TikTok’s algorithm in takeover bid: sources – NY Post Google blocks California news in response to bill that would force tech giant to pay – NPR When Facebook bans the news – Matt Pearce Nvidia drops 10% as investors see risk in Big Tech shares – FT Super Micro And Nvidia Stock Woes Could Mean Trouble For Generative AI – Forbes AuthorJMac Tweet Mike on The Eurowhat Podcast If You Love Podcasts, Dump Spotify – Alex Sujong Laughlin, Defector – Twin Cities Transit Vacuum Minnesota Reformer Uber Archives Max Nesterak is on Twitter  – The American Car  Garlic Naan And Butter Chicken Fountain?! – Tiktok David After Dentist – YouTube Taco Reacts – Tiktok The American Room – Paul Ford, Medium It is NOT My day – Tiktok forget a rage room, ima just rent out my car so y’all can scream in it – Evelyn, Tiktok Shanin Blake – Tiktok Dear single parents ~ when I was 18 I got pregnant with my daughter and her dad went to prison right a

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Contributing Producer Marie Kilaru discusses the emotional impacts of making and seeing Before and After posts; Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop joins Jason to talk about what pop-musical acts have sounded like the internet. Also: Georgia reads Franny Choi’s “Unrequited Lovesong for the Panopticon” Join us on Twitch, Friday, April 12th @ 2pm ET to chat about audio production! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Why a near-miss cyberattack put US officials and the tech industry on edge – Reuters When Facebook fails, local media matters even more for our planet’s future – Kansas Reflector We can slay giants – Handbasket FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump – Reuters LinkedIn plans to add gaming to its platform – Techcrunch Mike’s Twitch Mike on the Alarmist! – Before and After Photos Find Marie at her website and on X. Mark Gaetano is on IG and YT Special thanks to Hannah Meacock-Ross for editorial support – What (Pop Music) Does the Internet Sound Like? You should listen to Switched on Pop generally, but also here’s the interview they did with 100 gecs.–Unrequited Love Song for the Panopticon was used with permission  – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer this episode is Marie Kilaru. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.  After the accident we had the phrase after the accident. Also this: before the accident. We had a drawer marked before and after, and after and before happenings we'd add atrocities and incidents and the wild asters someone before and after keeps leaving. After By Andre

Georgia and guest producer Luis wonder why there is so much audio online that seems to sound bad on purpose; Mike talks to Gabriele de Seta and Paolo Berti about how the “megadungeon” is a productive model for understanding the internet. Also: posts from the field! – ☎️ Call us at `651 615 5007` to leave a voice mail 🎙️ Drop us a voice memo via airtable  📧 Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro The House passed a TikTok ban bill. But is the app really a national security threat? –  Bobby Allyn, NPR Members of Congress are getting pushback on the TikTok ban from their own angry Gen Z kids – Lindsay Dodgson,  Business Insider US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones – Lauren Feiner, Verge United States v. Apple is pure nerd rage – Sarah Jeong, Verge Catherine, Princess of Wales, Reveals She Has Cancer – NYT The great Kate Middleton backtracking – Embedded Facebook is trying to make ‘poking’ cool again – Aisha Malik, TechCrunch – Burnt Toast Audio https://www.tiktok.com/@tiaraskye_ https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4WXquxJWxG/?igsh=ZGx6eWJiODRxcDg1 https://www.tiktok.com/@cbc/video/7285762769880714501?_r=1&_t=8ktpSHiLKYQ https://www.tiktok.com/@theporktornadoes/video/7179733641092746542?_r=1&_t=8ktqqvEJL2d https://www.tiktok.com/@inf1n1temusic/video/7195244395220749574?_r=1&_t=8ktqPN6UmMx https://www.tiktok.com/@cchiphop/video/7232580386759380267?_r=1&_t=8ktpfRDu1uR https://www.tiktok.com/@epic.cammy1933/video/7348992219698826539?_r=1&_t=8ktunEQdWZy https://www.tiktok.com/@notamine/video/7347043430738054406?_r=1&_t=8ktqF4oIwpD https://www.tiktok.com/@tiaraskye_/video/7310222966363573537?_r=1&_t=8kqgpZcBXPb a href="https://www.tik

Hans wonders why ‘being informed’ is so exhausting, and if there’s anything he can do about it (short answer: sorta) and a few members of the Never Post team discuss “important emails”. Also: the hunt for Diet Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper continues. – ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🎙️ Drop us a voice memo via airtable  📧 Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links The Media-Sensational Rise and Fall of “Jim Spanfeller Is a Herb” – Ashley Feinberg, Slate Deadspin’s entire staff has been laid off after the sports site was sold to a startup – Liam Reilly, CNN Second Iteration Of Deadspin Now Also Dead – Samer Kalaf, Defector GMG Union on Deadspin Layoffs – gmgunion.bsky.social “Amidst the tide of layoffs plaguing the media industry…” – Meera Pattni, LinkedIn Google now wants to limit the AI-powered search spam it helped create – Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica Discord to Offer Rewards for Gamers as CEO Considers IPO – Cecilia D'Anastasio, Bloomberg House GOP moves ahead with TikTok vote as Trump voices opposition to possible ban – AP via NPR U.S. Bill Targets TikTok’s Future and Threatens the Open Web – Tianyu Fang, New America Trump's TikTok ban reversal comes after meeting megadonor who has stake in TikTok – Adam Carlson and Max Zahn, ABC News Mike on Object Worship  Critical Ignoring Links https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214221121570 Stephan Lewandowsky -- https://www.lewan.uk/ Important Emails Links https://www.tiktok.com/@mattbooshell/video/7161110027124690218?lang=en, reposted at https://hive.com/blog/generational-email-writing-stereotypes/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/wesgay/2017/08/29/millennials-email-adobe/?sh=18c9b

We respond to listener comments about independent media co-ops, the disappearance of tween fashion, posting disease, influencer voice, mourning online, and human height throughout history.--This conversation contains a single, brief mention of suicide.--☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st--Nick's thoughts on "Never Post" and the internet: 1. One interpretation of ""Never Post"" is that it's like the internet version of the taoist wei wu wei which translates to something like ""do by not doing" and reminds us how often trying to accomplish something makes us less likely to succeed. You install a Ring camera for safety and now you're always paranoid. You complement someone for saying something smart and they stop speaking because they're afraid of sounding dumb. The historian/political scientist/anarchist James Scott borrows the term "iatrogenic" from medicine to describe how many of societies' attempts to control rivers (e.g., levees) only cause the rivers to become more unruly. Iatrogenic illnesses are ailments caused by medicine or medical care. Iatrogenic systems are ferociously hardy because simple attempts to solve them just feed them. You can think of the capitalist work ethic where the only way (besides inheritance) to secure a life of financial independence outside of capitalist pressures is to dive head first into the capitalist waters and work hard at a lucrative job for a long time (see adherents of the FIRE movement). Social media seems like a classic iatrogenic system. You dunk or subtweet an egregious post and it makes the poster post more. The truly skilled poster posts by not posting. Never posts. Learning not to repost bad posts is a major spiritual milestone for the internet citizen. 2. An irony is that if the best way to steward the internet is to never post, doesn't the internet disappear under ideal stewardship? Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" tries to solve a related problem in postmodern discourse. The problem is, every deconstruction, no matter how profound, rests on some logical/linguistic "center" that itself is not real or stable. So every deconstruction can itself be deconstructed and you just have infinite regress. If postmodernists know this, what's even the point of writing for each other any more? Derrida's solution is freeplay which is about recognizing existience as full of other world with their own "centers" that are yet all connected. A mistake is anchoring yourself to any of those single centers. Freeplay is hopping worlds with "the joyous affirmation of the play of the world and of the innocence of becoming, the affirmation of a world of signs without fault, without truth, and without origin which is offered to an active interpretation". --Never Post's producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show's host is Mike Rugnetta.  Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure.

Georgia talks with Tamara Kneese about how the software of the platform internet works against the social flows of grieving, and mourning. Mike then talks about men who throw ping pong balls into solo cups. ALSO: chill, lo-fi, public domain beats. - Share the show with a friend! https://www.neverpo.st/ – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable: https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Rascal News -- https://www.rascal.news/ New York Times -- Supreme Court to Decide How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media The Atlantic -- Texas’s Social-Media Law Is Dangerous. Striking It Down Could Be Worse. NBC News -- Supreme Court justices express free speech concerns about GOP-backed social media laws The Verge -- Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget Terrence O’Brien -- layoff announcement LA Times -- Vice.com News Site Shut Down  Reuters -- Vice Media to be acquired by Fortress-led lender group for $350 million Megan Greenwell -- Fortress Investment Group destroys Gannett New Hour – Gannett Journalists Walk Out RIP Corp: VICE Docs Jules Suzdaltsev -- NowThis News video deletion Ernie Smith -- Archiving VICE Jules Suzdaltsev -- Buying VICE archive – Online Mourning Find Tamara: https://www.tamarakneese.com/ Death Glitch: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/  Adriana’s tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3BfJxc/ – Trickshot Timeworkers Watch some Trickshotters: Dude Perfect, a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/corycotto

Mike talks with sociophonologist Lisa B. Davidson about why influencer voice exists, and with bass player and YouTuber Adam Neely about the people who have been retiring from YouTube. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable: https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Never Post Ep 1 Hangout Stream VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2057956412 News Links: https://www.thewrap.com/coyote-vs-acme-update-offers-warner-bros/ https://twitter.com/JoaquinCastrotx/status/1756190120334545302 https://aftermath.site/coyote-vs-acme-f**k-david-zaslav https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712692/australias-new-right-to-disconnect-law-includes-jail-time-for-now.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/crowd-sets-waymo-self-driving-car-on-fire-they-couldn-t-even-recognize-the-vehicle/ar-BB1i9xOo https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/photo-waymo-vehicle-blocks-fire-truck-in-san-francisco/ – Why Does Influencer Voice Exist? Find Lisa: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/lisa-b-davidson.html https://wp.nyu.edu/lisa_davidson/https://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social – The Great YouTube Retirement This segment contains a portion of the Sungazer track Threshold: https://sungazermusic.bandcamp.com/track/threshold 1.8 Million Subscribers (and no one cares): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceZ8VS8PbQ Tom Scott retirement video: https://youtu.be/7DKv5H5Frt0?si=SvpIUq7OUQe_M_Uk Adam’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/havic5 Sungazer’s AUS tour dates: https://www.sungazermusic.com/tour – Birdsong ID app, Merlin: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/ – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. 

On the disappearance of tween-specific fashion trends, and the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media. Also: a man on a mission. -- Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable - https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Become a member at https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/ – Intro Links Apple Transcripts: https://podnews.net/article/apple-podcasts-transcriptions-faq Ring and the Police: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/ring-announces-it-will-no-longer-facilitate-police-requests-footage-users https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-24/amazon-s-ring-to-stop-letting-police-request-video-from-users Social CEOS on Capital Hill: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-30/social-media-ceos-brace-for-senate-scrutiny-on-child-safety-what-to-expect?srnd=undefined CDC Youth Health Summary: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/pdf/YRBS_Data-Summary-Trends_Report2023_508.pdf Evan Greer on KOSA: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjven5/elizabeth-warren-just-backed-an-online-safety-bill-that-will-harm-lgbtq-youth – Disappearing Tween Fashion Links https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcEjae5/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3e7q73/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcEhsPD/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3dNn6c/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3etHXa/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3eEMNB/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3dLQ1N/ – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. – CC-BY Licensed Audio Used https://freemusicarchive.org/music/kirk-osamayo/blue-season-4 https://freesound.org/people/Qleq/sounds/679130/ 2010 Pop b

To kick things off, we had a roundtable conversation with a trio of makers and thinkers, all of whom are creating independent media. They are Gita Jackson (Aftermath), Alex Sujong Laughlin (Defector Media), and Rusty Foster (Today in Tabs). We wanted to talk with Gita, Alex and Rusty about the current state of media, and why each of them has decided to strike out beyond the big, legacy media organizations and create something new. You can find Never Post, including all episodes, at neverpo.st.

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