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Never Post

Charts & Leisure

A podcast about and for the internet, hosted by Mike Rugnetta
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Never Post - Episode 0: Independent Media Roundtable
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01/31/24 • 37 min

To kick things off, we had a roundtable conversation with a trio of makers and thinkers, all of whom are creating independent media. They are Gita Jackson (Aftermath), Alex Sujong Laughlin (Defector Media), and Rusty Foster (Today in Tabs).

We wanted to talk with Gita, Alex and Rusty about the current state of media, and why each of them has decided to strike out beyond the big, legacy media organizations and create something new.

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Never Post - I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here
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01/31/24 • 52 min

On the disappearance of tween-specific fashion trends, and the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media. Also: a man on a mission.

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Disappearing Tween Fashion Links

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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https://freemusicarchive.org/music/kirk-osamayo/blue-season-4

https://freesound.org/people/Qleq/sounds/679130/

2010 Pop by Akira Sora at Free Music Archive

Dream Pop by Holizna CC0 at Free Music Archive

Retro Synths by Holizna CC0 at Free Music Archive

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Never Post - Never Post Is A Podcast About The Internet
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01/18/24 • 4 min

Welcome to my hometown. First episode in early 2024.

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Thanks to our guests Michael, Rob, Amanda, Vanessa, Tara, Jason and Bijan

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Never Post - Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
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05/22/24 • 58 min

Georgia digs deep into the enshittification of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. Mike talks to Aftermath co-founder Luke Plunkett about recent, massive changes to Google’s Page Rank algorithm, and the risk of reconfiguring entire industries to pander to search traffic. And also: An AI Voice Clone of Mike is set to *maximum chaos*.

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Dating Apps (derogatory)

Google Scruples

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.

Foot, how you press

me to keep that

old contact alive

the repeated daily sentiment

of pace so

grim, always that

untrusting silence

untitled, by JH Prynne, from The White Stones

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Never Post - As Per My Last Podcast Episode...
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03/13/24 • 58 min

Hans wonders why ‘being informed’ is so exhausting, and if there’s anything he can do about it (short answer: sorta) and a few members of the Never Post team discuss “important emails”. Also: the hunt for Diet Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper continues.

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Critical Ignoring Links

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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.

You come in

by the same door, you carry

what cannot be left for its own

sweet shimmer of reason, its false blood;

the same tint I hear with the pulse it touches

and will not melt. Such shading

of the rose to its stock tips the bolt

from the sky, rising in its effect of what

motto we call peace talks. And yes the

quiet turn of your page is the day

tilting so, faded in the light.

Excerpt of Rich in Vitamin C by JH Prynne

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Never Post - Switched on Post
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04/10/24 • 57 min

Contributing Producer Marie Kilaru discusses the emotional impacts of making and seeing Before and After posts; Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop joins Jason to talk about what pop-musical acts have sounded like the internet. Also: Georgia reads Franny Choi’s “Unrequited Lovesong for the Panopticon”

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Before and After Photos

Special thanks to Hannah Meacock-Ross for editorial support

What (Pop Music) Does the Internet Sound Like?


Unrequited Love Song for the Panopticon was used with permission

Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer this episode is Marie Kilaru. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

After the accident we had

the phrase after the accident.

Also this: before the accident.

We had a drawer marked

before and after, and after

and before happenings

we'd add atrocities and

incidents and the wild

asters someone before

and after keeps leaving.

After By Andrea Cohen

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Never Post - Mailbag, Episode 1-3
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03/06/24 • 68 min

We respond to listener comments about independent media co-ops, the disappearance of tween fashion, posting disease, influencer voice, mourning online, and human height throughout history.
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Nick's thoughts on "Never Post" and the internet:

1. One interpretation of ""Never Post"" is that it's like the internet version of the taoist wei wu wei which translates to something like ""do by not doing" and reminds us how often trying to accomplish something makes us less likely to succeed. You install a Ring camera for safety and now you're always paranoid. You complement someone for saying something smart and they stop speaking because they're afraid of sounding dumb.

The historian/political scientist/anarchist James Scott borrows the term "iatrogenic" from medicine to describe how many of societies' attempts to control rivers (e.g., levees) only cause the rivers to become more unruly.

Iatrogenic illnesses are ailments caused by medicine or medical care. Iatrogenic systems are ferociously hardy because simple attempts to solve them just feed them. You can think of the capitalist work ethic where the only way (besides inheritance) to secure a life of financial independence outside of capitalist pressures is to dive head first into the capitalist waters and work hard at a lucrative job for a long time (see adherents of the FIRE movement).

Social media seems like a classic iatrogenic system. You dunk or subtweet an egregious post and it makes the poster post more. The truly skilled poster posts by not posting. Never posts. Learning not to repost bad posts is a major spiritual milestone for the internet citizen.

2. An irony is that if the best way to steward the internet is to never post, doesn't the internet disappear under ideal stewardship? Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" tries to solve a related problem in postmodern discourse. The problem is, every deconstruction, no matter how profound, rests on some logical/linguistic "center" that itself is not real or stable. So every deconstruction can itself be deconstructed and you just have infinite regress. If postmodernists know this, what's even the point of writing for each other any more?

Derrida's solution is freeplay which is about recognizing existience as full of other world with their own "centers" that are yet all connected. A mistake is anchoring yourself to any of those single centers. Freeplay is hopping worlds with "the joyous affirmation of the play of the world and of the innocence of becoming, the affirmation of a world of signs without fault, without truth, and without origin which is offered to an active interpretation".

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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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Never Post - Who Hires the Hiring Bots?
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06/05/24 • 52 min

Georgia chats with Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Hilke Schellmann about the job market, and the increasing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence in hiring. Mike talks with comedian, writer and podcast host Jamie Loftus about her show Sixteenth Minute (of Fame), and the curse of becoming an Internet Main Character . Also! Every YouTube video the team watched in the last two weeks.

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Why Is It (Hiring) Like This? with Hilke Schellmann

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Main Characters, with Jamie Loftus

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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.

Others were more economical than I, but I

had my red marble. I had action

figures weighing down the drapes...

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Never Post - The Sound Files of Summer
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06/19/24 • 48 min

An episode-long staff round-table about music library management with special guest Meghal Janardan.

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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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Never Post - Mailbag, Episodes 4-6
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04/17/24 • 56 min

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FAQ

How many episodes does Never Post have?

Never Post currently has 33 episodes available.

What topics does Never Post cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Media, Social Media, Podcasts, Technology, Internet, Trends and Online.

What is the most popular episode on Never Post?

The episode title 'I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Never Post?

The average episode length on Never Post is 55 minutes.

How often are episodes of Never Post released?

Episodes of Never Post are typically released every 11 days, 10 hours.

When was the first episode of Never Post?

The first episode of Never Post was released on Jan 18, 2024.

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