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Never Post episodes

February 14, 2025Mad Chat
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

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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
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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
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From the Files of Madison Finn

Find Laura:
lauradower.com
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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 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
53 min
February 05, 2025 Mailbag #6
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59 min
January 29, 2025Here’s Looking at You
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.

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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
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Cameo’s Reputation Machine

Find David:
Bluesky
Slate
Rolling Stone
Buzzfeed
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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
59 min
January 15, 2025State of the Pod: 2025
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.

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Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure
51 min
December 31, 2024Post-Mortem: 2024
A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2024
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Thanks to EX Research and The Pudding for their help writing questions for Post-Mortem 2024!
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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
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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
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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 8 min
December 18, 2024The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself
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.

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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
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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
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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
53 min
December 04, 2024Leaving Social Media Roundtable
Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their experiences leaving social platforms behind.
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On the last evening on this earth, we sever our days
from our trees, and count the ribs we will carry along
and the ribs we will leave behind, right here . . . on the last evening
we bid nothing farewell, we don't find the time to end who we are . . .
everything remains the same, the place exchanges our dreams
and exchanges its visitors. Suddenly we are incapable of satire
since the place is ready to host the dust . . . here on the last evening
we contemplate mountains surrounding clouds: a conquest and a counterconquest
and 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

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1 hr 8 min
November 20, 2024Looks Great!
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!

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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
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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
56 min
November 07, 2024Don't Panic
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! 📼

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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
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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
59 min
November 06, 2024 Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain
Episode coming later this week. For now: something meaningless.
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Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure.
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