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| Reanimator: AI and Shared Histories | 04 Jun 2025 | 00:51:05 | |
Hans confronts the technological, moral, and philosophical impacts of using Artificial Intelligence to animate still photos, including those of both personal and historical significance. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” –
– Intro Links
– Animating History
– 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 | |||
| Hentai and the Post-Platform Internet | 23 May 2025 | 00:54:46 | |
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. – Become a Never Post member –
– Intro Links
– Ask an Expert – The Post-Platform Internet
– MFW They Come for the Little Treats
– 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 | |||
| The Day The Vibes Died | 26 Feb 2025 | 01:01:42 | |
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
– Tiktok’s Leftovers Hours
– What Is Going On Here
– 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 | |||
| Mad Chat | 14 Feb 2025 | 00:52:57 | |
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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– 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: – From the Files of Madison Finn Find Laura: – 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 | |||
| Mailbag #6 | 05 Feb 2025 | 00:58:10 | |
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| Here’s Looking at You | 29 Jan 2025 | 00:58:46 | |
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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– Cameo’s Reputation Machine Find David: – How Many Cameras Are There? Segment Links:
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| State of the Pod: 2025 | 15 Jan 2025 | 00:50:56 | |
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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| Post-Mortem: 2024 | 31 Dec 2024 | 01:07:10 | |
A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2024 – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! –
– Thanks to EX Research and The Pudding for their help writing questions for Post-Mortem 2024! – Our Esteemed Panel: Nerds of a Feather / The Lilybrary of Tomgress
The Dog Hots
The Garbage Men
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| The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself | 18 Dec 2024 | 00:52:23 | |
Georgia talks with beauty reporter and critic Jessica DeFino about the capitalistic excesses of – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! –
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– The Horrors Persist, But So Do The Little Treats Find Jessica: Segment Links: – Touching Trail Find Rusty:
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 | |||
| Leaving Social Media Roundtable | 04 Dec 2024 | 01:07:45 | |
Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their experiences leaving social platforms behind. – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! –
– 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 Excerpt of Eleven Planets At The End Of The Andalusian Scene by Mahmoud Darwish Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure | |||
| Looks Great! | 20 Nov 2024 | 00:55:45 | |
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! – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! –
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– Food Gore Find Jon:
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| Don't Panic | 07 Nov 2024 | 00:58:26 | |
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 | |||
| A Remembrance of Things Flash | 07 May 2025 | 00:54:16 | |
Dr. Martin Shelton tells us what Signal is, and how end-to-end-encryption works. Then: was this show always going to devolve into a poetry reading? Probably. Finally: contributing producer Tori Dominquez Peek wonders what happened to the COUNTLESS FLASH GAMES of the early aughts. Also: Wildflowers! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” –
– Intro Links
– What Is Signal?
– Are You There, Chat? It’s Me, Mike.
– A Remembrance of Things Flash – 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. You are so opaque to me your brief moments of apparent transparency seem fraudulent windows in a Brutalist structure everyone admires The effort your life requires exhausts me. I am not kidding Excerpt of They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century by Maureen N McLane Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure | |||
| Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain | 06 Nov 2024 | 01:01:04 | |
Episode coming later this week. For now: something meaningless. -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail
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| Mailbag #5 | 01 Nov 2024 | 01:12:01 | |
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| A Feed to Call One’s Own | 23 Oct 2024 | 00:50:22 | |
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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– Are We Dating the Same Guy?
– David Social
– 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 Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure | |||
| Our Dearly Decommissioned | 09 Oct 2024 | 00:51:42 | |
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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– CrowdTangle, We Barely Knew Thee – Why Do Podcasts Sound Like That, with Dallas Taylor
– 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. 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 Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure | |||
| The State of Podcasting Roundtable, Oct. 2024 | 03 Oct 2024 | 00:55:40 | |
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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| Where I'm At Right Now | 25 Sep 2024 | 00:53:26 | |
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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– Find My Friend Surveillance
– Vulnerableposting
– 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. 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 | 11 Sep 2024 | 01:03:40 | |
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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– Laser Eyes
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| XOXO Fest Live | 28 Aug 2024 | 00:49:19 | |
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! –
– Find the slides for this live performance on our website. Intro Links
– The Shop Zone More of Bryce Whitwam: – Writing is Death Find Shannon Mattern: – 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 | |||
| #MemeingTheNews | 14 Aug 2024 | 00:54:34 | |
Hans talks with Lia Haberman of the newsletter ICYMI about the ostensible death of the hashtag; Georgia talks with media scholar Whitney Phillips about catching breaking news via internet memes. Also: Hit Em! –
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– #DeathoftheHashtag Find Lia: – Meming the News, Newsing the Memes Find Whitney: – 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 idea, the teacher said, was that there was a chaos left in matter – a little bit of not-yet in everything that was – so the poets became interested in fragments, interruptions– the little bit of saying lit by the unsaid– was it a way to stay alive, a way to keep hope, leaving things unfinished? as if in completing a sentence there was death– – Excerpt of Ars Poetica (the idea) by Dana Levin< | |||
| Mailbag #4 | 07 Aug 2024 | 00:49:03 | |
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| Roundtable: Is The Internet Driving You To The Brink? | 30 Apr 2025 | 00:59:23 | |
Friends! A Very Special Never Post for you! In this one, Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their screen time stats and habits and what it even means to be informed. -- Links:
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| To BRB Or Not To BRB | 31 Jul 2024 | 00:59:12 | |
Contributing producer Victoria Dominguez attempts to understand the practice of digitally resurrecting deceased loved ones using artificial intelligence. Also: home movies. –
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– BRB AI 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. One winter, he held a rope, lowered me by the ankles to the wells bottom. I ascended upside-down through the dark thermometer with a blood orange in my teeth. He had a beard of new snow. I held cold to his pant leg while our dog left and snapped at a sound in the air only he could hear. When I fell in love, he reached out to me and held me down
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| Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic | 17 Jul 2024 | 00:47:25 | |
Mike chats with EX Research about their new report which goes deep on Roblox, the massively multiplayer online game played by HALF of all American teenagers. Georgia takes a look at Love Island UK – as many people have over the last few weeks – and asks why so much of that looking is preoccupied with plastic surgery. Also: the sound of touching grass. –
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– Once Day, We’ll All Be In There
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| Everything Old Embeds Again | 03 Jul 2024 | 00:58:10 | |
Mike talks with unsung internet pillar DylanPDX, steward of vxTwitter and others, who single-handedly does what Big Social doesn’t want - keeping your embeds working. Senior producer Hans gets the ambrosia from Tallulah Trezevant, an antiquities scholar who ran an experiment to see how fast she would get flushed down the alt-right pipeline when expressing an interest in ancient history online. Also! Some of your favorite hidden corners of the internet. Show Notes:
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– vxTwitter with Dylan Find Dylan: – Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline, with Tallulah Trezevant Find Tallulah:
Other Sources of hope in Antiquity: – Favorite Corners of the Internet – 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. So much of any year is flammable, | |||
| The Sound Files of Summer | 19 Jun 2024 | 00:45:56 | |
An episode-long staff round-table about music library management with special guest Meghal Janardan. –
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| Mailbag, Episodes 7-10 | 14 Jun 2024 | 01:02:14 | |
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– Moss’ Email Hi Never Post! My name is Moss (she/her) and I am trans. Your recent segment on before and after pics got me thinking about the particular variety of before and afters that are shared online in the trans community. I think that this became a lot more visible to me after being witness to the early chaos of unconstrained trans horniness and wild openness in the early formation of Bluesky last year, which is a whole fascinating bit of platform ecosystem history, especially seeing how much Bluesky has leveled out into something much more "presentable" and twitter-like now that it's operating at scale—but I digress. On sites like Twitter and Bluesky (and surely elsewhere...) there is an established trend of trans beings (queer beings) sharing before and after pictures of themselves. These are occasioned by trans holidays, like Transgender Day of Visibility, by personal events like transition anniversaries, and by quote chains of such pics (not to mention special occasions of steps taken towards transition). I think it's important to mention these not only as a queer phenomenon, but as something that illuminates how before and afters work for everyone in a variety of situations (as is the case with many things related to transness—it's not [only] about being trans: it's about living more freely). The trans case highlights a few aspects that I want to explore here: 1) The pics, by virtue of being in a trans discourse, would seem to point to something deeper about how life is structured—an identity, a gender—rather than merely an aspect of life—weight, appearance, dwelling, &c.—not of course that identity and gender are not merely aspects of life nor that what seem to be mere aspects are not structuring, but thinking about the weight these are given culturally. What does it mean to see one photo and then another and think, and be encouraged to think by the poster, to see the second as more in line with their gender, as "more woman," "more animal," "more thing," "more man," "more..."? But perhaps above all "MORE THEMSELF." I think we can reasonably be quite ambivalent about this: as your segment points out, the after of the before and after is actually a changing state, and that perhaps it's harmful to over-fix (and that it might fix norms that should be taken as fluid and contextual), but, on the other hand, the fixing function of the before and after photo may be precisely the point for the trans poster—a trans performance to reinforce self. We might further ask, what is visible and what is invisible about transition—does the before and after pic over-reinforce the visible (and how does it then interact with the endless discourse of "passing")? There is also of course a great potential for rupture with norms with queer people—the after often completely rejects standard norms (but then is it rejection or creation...? and so on and so on and so on). 2) The before pic is possibly quite contentious for trans beings, when it is understood to be a pre-transition pic (and not say, both before and after being after the start of transition). This is because | |||
| Who Hires the Hiring Bots? | 05 Jun 2024 | 00:50:03 | |
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. Show Notes: Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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– Why Is It (Hiring) Like This? with Hilke Schellmann Find Hilke: Other Sources: | |||
| Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places | 22 May 2024 | 00:56:06 | |
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*. Show Notes: Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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– Dating Apps (derogatory)
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| Everyone is a Journalish | 11 May 2024 | 00:58:54 | |
The second and final installment of our two part collab with Slate’s ICYMI! Mike talks with mis- and disinformation researcher Joan Donovan about the line between gossip and conspiracy; then ICYMI’s Candice and Rachelle join us to talk about what it feels like swimming in the wide open sea of monocultural event discourse. Also: C-SPAN’s earliest internet memories! Special thanks to Candice, Rachelle, Se’era, Daisy and the whole ICYMI team! Please listen to them on slate.com and wherever you get your podcasts. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail
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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. vertigo of too many nuances don’t drown in their rapidity choose the nuances you love and settle down with them Excerpt of #45 - butter colored slacks and rubber rum balls by Wayne Koestenbaum Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure | |||
| ICYMI x NP: How Kate Middleton's Disappearance Redefined Monoculture | 08 May 2024 | 00:51:07 | |
This week, we got TWO episodes coming at you - one today and one on Saturday. Both are a collaboration with the incredible team at the Slate Podcast ICYMI. In today's episode, the first of our collaboration, Mike guests on ICYMI, where they break down one of 2024’s biggest internet stories and ask: what's the recipe for a rare monocultural event? It's been more than a month since Kate Middleton announced she'd started preventative chemotherapy treatments following a cancer diagnosis. Which means it's also been just over a month since conspiracy theories about the princess ran rampant across the internet. As an increasingly algorithmic internet silos us further into our own little content niches, all-consuming events like Kate Middleton's disappearance are fewer and far between. So what does it take, in 2024, to capture the internet's attention and create these rare monocultural moments? ICYMI is produced by Se'era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim and Rachelle Hampton. --- To get ahold of the Never Post team: - Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 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 | |||
| Car Tok | 26 Apr 2024 | 00:55:03 | |
Senior producer Hans Buetow investigates the transit vacuum that’ll result when Uber and Lyft leave the Twin Cities; Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video. Also: PLANES, TRAINS… BIKES –
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– Twin Cities Transit Vacuum
– The American Car
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| Smooth Moves | 23 Apr 2025 | 00:57:04 | |
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 – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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– Charts & Curves
– Where Have All the Buttons Gone?
– 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 | |||
| Interlude: Important Emails, Extended Cut | 24 Apr 2024 | 00:41:24 | |
😷 -- ❤️🔥 Become a member at https://neverpo.st -- 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 easier to read the mind of a fox than to guess what a man’s about to say when he returns from the woods head full of roots veins more like branches shoes in one hand feet blistered and none of this necessarily an indication of how the feet feel what miles uphill and back have done to the soles and to the small bones that propel a man Excerpt of Rest Before You Sleep By Dionisio D. Martínez
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| Mailbag, Episodes 4-6 | 17 Apr 2024 | 00:53:40 | |
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| Switched on Post | 10 Apr 2024 | 00:54:44 | |
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” Join us on Twitch, Friday, April 12th @ 2pm ET to chat about audio production! –
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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?
– – 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 Andre | |||
| OO🚫⛔❌ H M🙅💥🕳️ GO🛑🔇💃 | 27 Mar 2024 | 00:53:51 | |
Georgia and guest producer Luis wonder why there is so much audio online that seems to sound bad on purpose; Mike talks to Gabriele de Seta and Paolo Berti about how the “megadungeon” is a productive model for understanding the internet. Also: posts from the field! –
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| As Per My Last Podcast Episode… | 13 Mar 2024 | 00:56:00 | |
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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| Mailbag, Episodes 1-3 | 08 Mar 2024 | 01:05:48 | |
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. 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". -- Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure. | |||
| Eternal Return | 28 Feb 2024 | 00:48:39 | |
Georgia talks with Tamara Kneese about how the software of the platform internet works against the social flows of grieving, and mourning. Mike then talks about men who throw ping pong balls into solo cups. ALSO: chill, lo-fi, public domain beats.
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| People in Places | 14 Feb 2024 | 00:56:51 | |
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. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable: https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links Never Post Ep 1 Hangout Stream VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2057956412 News Links:
– Why Does Influencer Voice Exist? Find Lisa: https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/lisa-b-davidson.html https://wp.nyu.edu/lisa_davidson/ – The Great YouTube Retirement
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| I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here | 01 Feb 2024 | 00:49:17 | |
On the disappearance of tween-specific fashion trends, and the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media. Also: a man on a mission. -- Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable - https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Become a member at https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/ – Intro 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. – CC-BY Licensed Audio Used https://freemusicarchive.org/music/kirk-osamayo/blue-season-4 https://freesound.org/people/Qleq/sounds/679130/ 2010 Pop b | |||
| Episode 0: Independent Media Roundtable | 31 Jan 2024 | 00:37:06 | |
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. You can find Never Post, including all episodes, at neverpo.st. | |||
| Any Rigid Idea About Yourself Is a Prison | 09 Apr 2025 | 01:01:58 | |
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. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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– The Ultimate Platform of Capitalism Youngna Park
Melanie Ehrenkranz
Sara M. Watson – Brick by Brick Kurt White
– 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 | |||
| Never Post Is A Podcast About The Internet | 18 Jan 2024 | 00:03:06 | |
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| Mailbag #7: On Ads, The RSS Resurgence and More | 02 Apr 2025 | 00:50:06 | |
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| The Hardest Thing To Do Is Nothing | 26 Mar 2025 | 01:09:03 | |
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– The 75 Day Hardstyle Challenge
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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 is joining Radiotopia | 19 Mar 2025 | 00:10:04 | |
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). –
– 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 and – of this upload – distributed by Radiotopia. | |||