Never Post – Details, episodes & analysis

Hans confronts the technological, moral, and philosophical impacts of using Artificial Intelligence to animate still photos, including those of both personal and historical significance.

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Intro Links

• Why Academics Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky
• This Cybersecurity Startup Is Quietly Moderating X’s Community Notes to Fight Crypto Scams
• Scam Sniffer
• Nancy Mace ran bot army, had staff run fake accounts to boost profile, report claims: ‘It’s what she does for fun’
• RFK Jr.'s MAHA Report Cites Research Studies That Don't Exist
• The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist
• Roblox’s Hit Farm Game Spurs Underground Digital Fruit Economy

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Animating History

• Falcon Heights, MN City Council Meeting - March 26, 2025
• Errol Morris at NYPL
• Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ‘True of Voice’
• Making a Dead Lion Roar
• Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
• Saigon Execution
• Oral History with Eddie Adams
• oldphoto.ai
• Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision
• Ways of Seeing
• 'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This episodes contributing producer was Tori Dominguez Peek. 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

Mike talks with Morgan Sung of KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast and PhD Media and Technology researcher Aurelie Petit about hentai and platforms. Georgia talks with WIRED gear reviews editor Boone Ashworth about the tariffs coming for your fashion microtrends. ALSO: Ask an Expert with Avery Dame-Griff.

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Intro Links

• Scientists Blasted Human Cells With 5G to See What Would Happen
• 5G-exposed human skin cells do not respond with altered gene expression and methylation profiles Open Access
• The Hidden Game: How Scammers Use “Chameleon Ads” to Bypass Meta’s Moderation
• 23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17
• Regeneron Enters into Asset Purchase Agreement to Acquire 23andMe® for $256 Million; Plans to Maintain Consumer Genetics Business and Advance Shared Goals of Improving Human Health and Wellness
• The Kids Online Safety Act is back

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Ask an Expert

• Avery Dame-Griff

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The Post-Platform Internet

• Close All Tabs
• Morgan’s website
• Morgan on X
• Aurelie’s website
• The hentai streaming platform wars
• Hentai Music 2018 AH OH UH

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MFW They Come for the Little Treats

• Right to Repair in the age of tariffs
• Find Boone Ashworth on Wired
• Boone on X
• Boone on Bluesky
• To send in tips, contact Boone on Signal at Boone.10

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This episodes contributing producer was Tori Dominguez Peek. 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 distributed by Radiotopia

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

• 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

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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

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:

• convocation.design
• cord_labs on IG

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From the Files of Madison Finn

Find Laura:

• lauradower.com

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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 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

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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.

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

• FCC -- Carr Welcomes Court Order Invalidating President Biden’s Plan to Expand Government Control of the Internet Through Title II Regulations
• MSN -- Brendan Carr is officially in charge of the FCC
• ALA -- Net Neutrality: An Intellectual Freedom Issue

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Cameo’s Reputation Machine

Find David:

• Bluesky
• Slate
• Rolling Stone
• Buzzfeed

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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

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’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

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’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

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:

• jessica-defino.com
• The Review of Beauty newsletter

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

Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their experiences leaving social platforms behind.

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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.

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