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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 users of minus US$28 for TikTok and minus $10 for Instagram.

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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.

NoOne kneads us again of earth and clay,

noOne conjures our dust.

Noone.

Praised be thou, NoOne.

For your sake we

want to flower.

Toward

you.

Psalm, by Paul Celan 

Trans. Pierre Joris

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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

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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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• and tell us about POSTS THAT CHANGED YOUR LIFE

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Intro Links

• EU top court ruling paves way for Apple to pay Ireland over €13bn in taxes – Irish Times
•  Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits – Gizmodo.com
• Brazil Blocks Musk’s X After Company Refuses to Comply Amid Feud With Judge – Time
• Elon Musk Has Backed Himself Into a Corner in Brazil – WIRED
• What to know about Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ feud with a Brazilian judge – AP
• Who are Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin? The 6 commentators linked to Tenet indictment – USA Today
• Who Are Tim Pool And Benny Johnson? What To Know About The Six Right-Wing Commentators DOJ Alleges Were Funded By Russia. – Forbes
• YouTube Deletes Tim Pool’s Embarrassing Kremlin-Backed Videos – Gizmodo
• Media start-up from Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, and Dave Rubin was secret Russian influence campaign, indictment alleges – DailyDot
• cohost to shut down at end of 2024 – cohost 

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Laser Eyes

• Laser Eyes – KYM
• Dark Brandon – KYM
• Dark Brandon Explained – KYM
• Fell Out of a Coconut Tree – KYM
• What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has Been – KYM

Find Don:

• https://x.com/doncald
• https://x.com/knowyourmeme
• https://www.instagram.com/knowyourmeme
• https://www.tiktok.com/@knowyourmeme
• https://www.youtube.com/knowyourmeme
• https://www.snapchat.com/p/41102048-8d2d-4288-b54e-c9e89b1afa44/1147140847384576

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What Is Going On Here?

• Twitter — runwildkian
• Reddit — Celebrity Number Six
• Reddit — The fabric
• Google Docs — Hugh’s work
• Reddit — Hugh’s situation
• TikTok — fembasecon

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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. 

All day we leave and arrive at the hive,

concelebrants. The hive is love,

what we serve, preserve, avowed in Latin murmurs

as we come and go, skydive, freighted

with light, to where we thrive, us, in time’s hum,

on history’s breath,

        industrious, identical…

Excerpt of Hive by Carol Ann Duffy

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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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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

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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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Intro Links

• Google has an illegal monopoly on search, judge rules. Here’s what’s next – MSN.com
• Crooked Media, Producer of ‘Pod Save America,’ Reaches Deal With Union, Which Withdraws Claim Company Engaged in Union-Busting Tactics – Variety.com
• After Walkout, Crooked Media Union Reaches Tentative Deal With ‘Pod Save America' Company – MSN.com
• Spotify is full of AI music, and some say it’s ruining the platform – FastCo
• Cartoon Network Website Shuts Down, Warner Bros. Discovery Kicks Visitors Over to Max – Variety.com
• 5 Podcasts for the Constantly Online – NYT
• XOXO 2024 Schedule!

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#DeathoftheHashtag

Find Lia:

• ICYMI newsletter
• Website
• Twitter
• LinkedIn

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Meming the News, Newsing the Memes

Find Whitney:

• University of Oregon site
• Twitter
• The Ambivalent Internet book

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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 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

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Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure.

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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Intro Links

• People searching X for updates on California's largest wildfire encounter torrent of porn spam – SF Gate
• I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Fraud – YouTube
• MrBeast employee hits back against whistleblower who called YouTube star a ‘fraud’ – Metro
• The news about MrBeast 'Beast Games' is disturbing – Rosanna Pansino, TikTok
• More 'Beast Games' Allegations Break My Heart – Rosanna Pansino, TikTok
• MrBeast 'Beast Games' Keeps Getting Worse… – Rosanna Pansino, TikTok
• Hoarding Chocolate, Seizures, and Broken Bones — Messages Depict Bad Conditions on 'Beast Games' Project – Distractify via MSN
• ‘Skibidi Toilet’ Film and TV Franchise in the Works From Michael Bay, Adam Goodman — Listen to the Exclusive Interview – Variety 

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BRB AI Links

• BRB2ME -- https://btwinai.com/bring-mom-back

Find Tori: 

• Press Start Podcast (Episode 106, ft. Mike Rugnetta) 
• Twitter: @Tori_as_always
• Website: vdominguez.net

Find Elreacy Dock:

• Website: https://www.elreacydock.com/

Find Elizabeth Schandelmeier:

• Website: Howling Lion Grief Support

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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 

when she slinked away on our dirt road alone, 

sheepish, depress. He held me as the constellations 

mingled through the torn curtain.

– Excerpt of My Pietá by Thomas Heise

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

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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Intro Links

• War Thunder does it again, this time with classified documents relating to 3 Russian tanks, cyberdaily.au
• It’s happening again: War Thunder players continue to leak classified military documents, dotesports.com
• Commission sends preliminary findings to X for breach of the Digital Services Act, europa.eu
• Musk says EU wanted “secret deal” to “censor free speech” after fine threat, msn.com
• Chasing YouTube, Spotify adds comments to podcasts, techcrunch.com
• An Illinois law requires parents to give 15% of earnings to children who star in their videos, tubefilter.com

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Once Day, We’ll All Be In There

• What’s the deal with Roblox? An EX Special Report – exresearch.co

• Roblox fruit jumpscares, x.com
• This Brokkhaven Roleplay In ROBLOX Be Weird…, tiktok.com
• Pretending to be a spying christmas tree in roblox, youtube.com
• ROBLOX DOORS BUT IT'S ME, youtube.com
• Roblox is down.., youtube.com
• ROBLOX DIFFICULTY CHART, youtube.com
• The nuggets gonna get ya, tiktok.com
• The Strange Origins of "Old ROBLOX Music", youtube.com

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Love Island Face

• https://www.tiktok.com/@jackmacbarstool/video/7379780711802309930
• https://www.tiktok.com/@barrettplasticsurgery/video/7380161281510231326
• https://www.tiktok.com/@anniereneau3/video/7205726511478115630
• https://www.tiktok.com/@boldglamour/video/7206238027528637742
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb6CKuD1GTk
• https://www.tiktok.com/@drgarynyc/video/7384530805407829294

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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. 

What can I tell you? It was a summer that seemed to be

making history — their personal history — almost before

it began, and they stood back slightly, still in it, but

observing it, saying “the summer this,” “the summer that,”

all the while it was going on. They became obsessed with

a fountain, for example, one they walked past each day,

how abundantly it would reach upwards and yet be pouring

back down itself the whole time — all winter this fountain

had been dry, not saying a word. What more can I tell you?

Oh, everything…

Excerpt of No Name by Emily Berry

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

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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Intro Links

• Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers -- Ars Technica
• The Spotify conspiracy theories about “Espresso,” explained -- Vox
• MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline -- Variety
• Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone -- LateNighter
• Why Major Labels Are Suing AI Music Startups Udio and Suno For Mass Copyright Infringement -- Forbes
• Succor borne every minute -- FTC

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vxTwitter with Dylan

Find Dylan:

• GitHub
• Twitter
• Ko-fi

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Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline, with Tallulah Trezevant

Find Tallulah:

• The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline -- workingclassicists.com

Other Sources of hope in Antiquity:

• Dan-el Padilla Peralta
• Sarah Debrew
• Ky Merkley

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Favorite Corners of the Internet

• Rad Pro Calculator
• Serebii
• Sporcle Geography Quizzes
• crouton.net
• The Academic Family Tree

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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. 

So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.

Excerpt of “Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye

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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. 

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure