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  • Hentai and the Post-Platform Internet

    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.

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      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
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        Ask an Expert

        • Avery Dame-Griff

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        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
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          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
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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.

            Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia

            55 min
          • A Remembrance of Things Flash

            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

              • 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
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                What Is Signal?

                • Dr. Martin Shelton at Freedom of the Press Foundation
                • Signal, the secure messaging app: A guide for beginners
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                  Are You There, Chat? It’s Me, Mike.

                  • Because one once willed you…, Rilke
                  • Culture and Value, Wittgenstein

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                    A Remembrance of Things Flash

                    • Flashpoint Archive
                    • Video Game History Foundation
                    • Tori Dominguez Peek
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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

                      55 min
                    • Roundtable: Is The Internet Driving You To The Brink?

                      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.

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                      Garbage Day - Did You Hear About The Protest This Weekend?

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                    • Smooth Moves

                      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

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                        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 

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                          Charts & Curves

                          • Find Hannah
                            • https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/hannah-pivo

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                          Where Have All the Buttons Gone?

                          • Find Julian
                            • Wired
                          • Touchscreen rollback on cars
                             
                            • Car and Driver
                            • Automotive News
                            • The Verge
                            • The LA Times
                            • Haggerty
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                              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

                              58 min
                            • Any Rigid Idea About Yourself Is a Prison

                              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.

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                                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
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                                  The Ultimate Platform of Capitalism

                                  Youngna Park

                                  • Website
                                  • Making it Work newsletter

                                    Melanie Ehrenkranz

                                    Laid Off substack

                                    Sara M. Watson

                                    • Website

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                                    Brick by Brick

                                    Kurt White

                                    • Unravelling podcast
                                    • LinkedIn
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                                      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

                                      1 hr 2 min
                                    • Mailbag #7: On Ads, The RSS Resurgence and More

                                      We respond to your comments!

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                                      Head to neverpo.st to see OKRA and Garfies

                                      Isaac Varzim's “Groovy” sets

                                      Humano Studio’s guest sets

                                      Boilerroom sets

                                      Ultima Thule

                                      Vivrant Radio — Jeremy Olander

                                      Above and Beyond — Group Therapy

                                      Real Synthetic Audio — Todd Clayton

                                      A State of Trance — DJ Armin Van Buren

                                      Song of the Day — The Current

                                      Morning Becomes Eclectic — KCRW

                                      Vegetative Electron Microscopy

                                      Source Article from 1959

                                      Article with correction

                                      The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — Shoshana Zuboff


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                                      Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure.

                                      51 min
                                    • The Hardest Thing To Do Is Nothing

                                      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”

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                                        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
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                                          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
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                                            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
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                                              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

                                              1 hr 10 min
                                            • Never Post is joining 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).

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                                                Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and – of this upload – distributed by Radiotopia.

                                                11 min
                                              • F*cking Around, and Finding Out

                                                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!

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                                                  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
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                                                    Authoritarians vs Wikipedia

                                                    • Censorship of Wikipedia, Wikipedia.org

                                                    Find Stephen:

                                                    • Sourcenotes
                                                    • Stephen’s novel, The Editors
                                                    • Stephen on Bluesky
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                                                      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
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                                                        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

                                                        1 hr 4 min
                                                      • The Day The Vibes Died

                                                        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!

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                                                        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
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                                                          Tiktok’s Leftovers Hours

                                                          • Matt Pearce’s substack
                                                          • On Bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt

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                                                            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
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                                                              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

                                                              1 hr 2 min

                                                            About Never Post

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                                                            A podcast about and for the internet, hosted by Mike Rugnetta

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