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Never Post is joining Radiotopia Mar 19, 2025

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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’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.

F*cking Around, and Finding Out Mar 12, 2025

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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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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

The Day The Vibes Died Feb 26, 2025

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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

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Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Mad Chat Feb 14, 2025

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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:

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From the Files of Madison Finn

Find Laura:

lauradower.com

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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

Mailbag #6 Feb 05, 2025

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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.

Here’s Looking at You Jan 29, 2025

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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.

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Intro Links

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Cameo’s Reputation Machine

Find David:

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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

State of the Pod: 2025 Jan 15, 2025

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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

Post-Mortem: 2024 Dec 31, 2024

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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 is a production of Charts & Leisure

The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself Dec 18, 2024

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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:

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

Leaving Social Media Roundtable Dec 04, 2024

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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

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

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