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Looks Great! Nov 20, 2024

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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

Don't Panic Nov 07, 2024

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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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Generated-ish

Generated-ish Examples

Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain Nov 06, 2024

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Episode coming later this week. For now: something meaningless.

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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.

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Mailbag #5 Nov 01, 2024

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We respond to your comments!

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A Feed to Call One’s Own Oct 23, 2024

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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??? 🎃 👻

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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

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Are We Dating the Same Guy?

AWDTSG Wikipedia Entry
Find Alice on bsky
Alice’s website

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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

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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.

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

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Our Dearly Decommissioned Oct 09, 2024

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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!

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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

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CrowdTangle, We Barely Knew Thee

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Why Do Podcasts Sound Like That, with Dallas Taylor

Dallas’ LinkedIn Post - LinkedIn
20k Hertz
DeFacto Sound

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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

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The State of Podcasting Roundtable, Oct. 2024 Oct 03, 2024

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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.

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Links:

Alex Goldman’s podcast economics Tweet
Buzzsprout’s podcasting industry stats
IAB’s 2022 Podcasting Advertising Revenue Report

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Find Our Guests:

Mia Lobel — Freelance Cafe
Lauren Passell — Tink Media
Ronald Young, Jr. — Instagram, Threads, TikTok, Twitter

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Where I'm At Right Now Sep 25, 2024

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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]

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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

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Find My Friend Surveillance

Find Cliff on Google Scholar
Gamification and Social Media

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Vulnerableposting

The politics of vulnerability in the influencer economy – Sagepub
Find Brooke @ brookeduffy.com

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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

Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise Sep 11, 2024

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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.

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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

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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:

XOXO Fest Live Aug 28, 2024

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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!

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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 fuck 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