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!

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Intro Links

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What Is Signal?

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Are You There, Chat? It’s Me, Mike.

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A Remembrance of Things Flash

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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