We respond to your comments!--Links:Head to neverpo.st to see OKRA and GarfiesIsaac Varzim's “Groovy” setsHumano Studio’s guest setsBoilerroom setsUltima ThuleVivrant Radio — Jeremy OlanderAbove and Beyond — Group TherapyReal Synthetic Audio — Todd ClaytonA State of Trance — DJ Armin Van BurenSong of the Day — The CurrentMorning Becomes Eclectic — KCRWVegetative Electron MicroscopySource Article from 1959Article with correctionThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism — Shoshana Zuboff--☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.stSee what interstitials we need submissions for--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.
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The Hardest Thing To Do Is Nothing
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–Intro Links
How a false story about an anti-Trump band went viral
Musk’s X Shuts Down Political Opposition Accounts in Turkey
Existing ByteDance investors emerge as front-runners in TikTok deal talks
Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers
Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now
Influence with Matt Silverman
Unravelling, with Kurt White and Mary Wilson
–The 75 Day Hardstyle Challenge
Mandy Lee’s 75 Day Hard Style No Buy Challenge: TikTok, Substack, Instagram
Find Avery: Articles of Interest , Twitter, her website, Substack
Find Kyle: The New Yorker, The Longing for Less
–One Particular Toothpick
TechDirt
Mike Masnick on Bluesky
Protocols not Platforms
Eric Goldman’s Blog, Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Jeff Kosseff, The 26 Words That Created the Internet
EFF on Section 230
ACLU on Section 230
–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.By the sparkle of certain ciliates, cesium practices its cricket song.Am I supposed to be impressed? My smoothie comes with GPS.Excerpt of We Have the Technology, by Michael RobbinsNever Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia
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Never Post is joining Radiotopia
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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F*cking Around, and Finding Out
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
–Authoritarians vs WikipediaCensorship of Wikipedia, Wikipedia.org
Find Stephen:
Sourcenotes
Stephen’s novel, The Editors
Stephen on Bluesky
–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
–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.Oh! to be almost loquaciousRather than fatally overloquacity’s edgeExcerpt of #36 the-faux-ailing-abacus by Wayne KoestenbuamNever Post is a production of Charts & Leisure
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1:03:51
The Day The Vibes Died
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!–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
–Tiktok’s Leftovers Hours
Matt Pearce’s substack
On Bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt
–What Is Going On Here
Mike: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCNP0atyy0J/
Georgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnBLd93cydQ, https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YqRuDF/
Hans: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pomes/hot/
Jason: https://www.tiktok.com/@aerosangels7?_t=ZT-8uF8Ot7ziWJ&_r=1
Stevie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf8vqQFeH_k
–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