Never Post

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

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

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The Shop Zone

More of Bryce Whitwam:

• The TikTok effect
• Shanghai Zhan podcast
• Syracuse University

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Writing is Death

Find Shannon Mattern:

• wordsinspace.net
• shannonmattern.bsky.social

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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.

It’s slow writing

on re-admission of the abyss

so if this body is sleepy-tired

please walk around

Suddenly there’s nothing

in the laws of the alphabet

that breaks open revealing

what buoyancy am I.

Excerpt of Puberty of Puck, by Mark Hyatt

Never Post is a production o

Mike talks with sociophonologist Lisa B. Davidson about why influencer voice exists, and with bass player and YouTuber Adam Neely about the people who have been retiring from YouTube.

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Intro Links

Never Post Ep 1 Hangout Stream VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2057956412

News Links:

• https://www.thewrap.com/coyote-vs-acme-update-offers-warner-bros/
• https://twitter.com/JoaquinCastrotx/status/1756190120334545302
• https://aftermath.site/coyote-vs-acme-fuck-david-zaslav
• https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712692/australias-new-right-to-disconnect-law-includes-jail-time-for-now.html
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/crowd-sets-waymo-self-driving-car-on-fire-they-couldn-t-even-recognize-the-vehicle/ar-BB1i9xOo
• https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/photo-waymo-vehicle-blocks-fire-truck-in-san-francisco/

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Why Does Influencer Voice Exist?

Find Lisa:

https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/lisa-b-davidson.html

https://wp.nyu.edu/lisa_davidson/
https://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social

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The Great YouTube Retirement

• This segment contains a portion of the Sungazer track Threshold: https://sungazermusic.bandcamp.com/track/threshold
• 1.8 Million Subscribers (and no one cares): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceZ8VS8PbQ
• Tom Scott retirement video: https://youtu.be/7DKv5H5Frt0?si=SvpIUq7OUQe_M_Uk
• Adam’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/havic5
• Sungazer’s AUS tour dates: https://www.sungazermusic.com/tour

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Birdsong ID app, Merlin: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/

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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.

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

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