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| The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself | 18 Dec 2024 | 00:55:24 | |
Georgia talks with beauty reporter and critic Jessica DeFino about the capitalistic excesses of – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! – 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” –
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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. – 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 Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Leaving Social Media Roundtable | 04 Dec 2024 | 01:10:45 | |
Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their experiences leaving social platforms behind. – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! – 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” –
– 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 ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise | 11 Sep 2024 | 01:06:40 | |
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. – 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” –
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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 Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| XOXO Fest Live | 28 Aug 2024 | 00:52:20 | |
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! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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– 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 of Charts & Leisure ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| #MemeingTheNews | 14 Aug 2024 | 00:57:35 | |
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! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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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 Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Mailbag #4 | 07 Aug 2024 | 00:52:04 | |
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| To BRB Or Not To BRB | 31 Jul 2024 | 01:02:12 | |
Contributing producer Victoria Dominguez attempts to understand the practice of digitally resurrecting deceased loved ones using artificial intelligence. Also: home movies. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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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 ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic | 17 Jul 2024 | 00:50:26 | |
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. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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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 ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Everything Old Embeds Again | 03 Jul 2024 | 01:01:11 | |
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: Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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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, Excerpt of “Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| The Sound Files of Summer | 19 Jun 2024 | 00:48:57 | |
An episode-long staff round-table about music library management with special guest Meghal Janardan. -- Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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| Mailbag, Episodes 7-10 | 14 Jun 2024 | 01:05:15 | |
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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 there are a ton of frameworks for understanding what one was before transition, and—rightfully—everyone has a different approach: Shall I define myself in opposition to my past? Shall I cut the past off and build myself in the now? Should my transition be understood as an attempt to work with my past, to heal my past, and to continue what is good from it? Is transition not at all a dividing line between me and my past—is it simply an event in a continuous life? Is transition not an event but a continuous process that has been operating since the very moment of my birth? (How many of these are at play at once!?) This makes understanding what is conveyed by the after very difficult. There's a sense in which the before and after flattens all these possibilities into the idea of CONTRAST, of cutting off, of opposition, without precisely exploring what kind of contrast is meant, or whether it is meant at all. There's also a tendency that I've noticed in the commentary (from both the original poster and commenters) on these posts to read them in terms of well-known transition narratives, where before the being was miserable, and after the being is happy and thriving. There's kind of an assertion that this is somehow visible in the picture—that a moment of photography can capture years of pain, years of pleasure—when, of course, life is so complicated, so variegated, even when transition does mark a huge change for the better (and it really does). 3) There is a pretty complicated interaction between the before and after pic and the values of the audience, when the audience is trans (I could also talk about the beings trying to figure out whether they should transition, but I don't want to make this too long). If I come across a before and after pic displaying a change in weight, I might (will) have a complicated emotional reaction, but I myself may not have committed to changing that aspect of myself, and there's a sense that a weight before and after is aimed at a pretty broad swath of the poster's community. But if I come across a before and after transition pic, not only does the pic feel in some sense aimed at me as a member of the trans community, but I in fact have as a trans being already accepted the underlying goals and values of this by committing myself to transitioning—it is something that I myself am trying to accomplish (but of course, not necessarily by the same methods as the being in the pics, and not the same goals). This is not to say that this kind of in-community targeting of before and after pics is unique to the trans community—think for example of before and afters shared in a weight-loss subreddit vs. ones that show up from a friend on your general feed. However, there's a kind of weird way in which being connected to trans people on social media, just as your friends and peers, puts one into a community rather than general discourse. In any case, I think I have rambled enough—it's a big can of worm spaghetti. Hopefully there's enough wiggle room and questioning here that all beings might find a place to be nurtured from it. Thank you all for your wonderful work on this enjoyable podcast, and thank you for encouraging community input. Keep it up! Moss ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Who Hires the Hiring Bots? | 05 Jun 2024 | 00:53:04 | |
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:
– Main Characters, with Jamie Loftus Find Jamie: – 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 on tiny threads. That twisted, and got smaller. One door led to a more economical room Perhaps a more economical view. The girl across the hall was the same girl Except, “Persuasion” by Joyelle McSweeney Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Looks Great! | 20 Nov 2024 | 00:58:46 | |
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! – 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” –
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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 we need is a crane & to chain chains around this blood-soaked ________. The kitchen workers hang from the vents with duct tape. We need the _____ put on a slide, there were signs of struggle. There is always some precedent: You have heard, I think, about H., whoever he was, & how he met his death because his father had too much suspicion, this you will not believe, and I can hardly prove it, but I am that same H… Excerpt of Forensics, by Ben Doyle Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places | 22 May 2024 | 00:59:07 | |
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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– 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 Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Everyone is a Journalish | 11 May 2024 | 01:01:55 | |
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. Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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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 ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| ICYMI x NP: How Kate Middleton's Disappearance Redefined Monoculture | 08 May 2024 | 00:54:08 | |
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 ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Car Tok | 26 Apr 2024 | 00:58:23 | |
Senior producer Hans Buetow investigates the transit vacuum that’ll be left 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 Become a member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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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. To understand what was going on it is perhaps necessary to have participated in the freeway experience, which is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can “drive” on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participants think only about where they are. Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over. A distortion of time occurs, the same distortion that characterizes the instant before an accident. Except from The Bureaucrats, by Joan Didion Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Interlude: Important Emails, Extended Cut | 24 Apr 2024 | 00:41:52 | |
😷 -- ❤️🔥 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 | 00:56:41 | |
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| Switched on Post | 10 Apr 2024 | 00:57:45 | |
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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– – 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 Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure. ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| OO🚫⛔❌ H M🙅💥🕳️ GO🛑🔇💃 | 27 Mar 2024 | 00:56:52 | |
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! – Become a member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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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. Expand the sense of urgency with which you communicate. Installing this machine in your environment will ensure that your temper matches the tenor of the world as it crosses your threshold. Instantly you will match emergent problems in volume and strain -- no longer will you be trumped by sirens or fear. Use the multilayered time matrix to detect radiant torpor. Object #5923 - from Catalog of Nothingness by Kate Armstrong Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure. CC-BY Licensed Audio used in this episode
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| As Per My Last Podcast Episode... | 13 Mar 2024 | 00:59:00 | |
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. Become a member at https://www.neverpo.st/ –
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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.
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| Mailbag, Episode 1-3 | 06 Mar 2024 | 01:08:49 | |
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. 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. ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Don't Panic | 07 Nov 2024 | 01:01:27 | |
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! 📼 – 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” –
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| Eternal Return | 28 Feb 2024 | 00:51:39 | |
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. – Share the show with a friend! https://www.neverpo.st/ – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail – Intro Links
– Online Mourning Find Tamara:
Adriana’s tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3BfJxc/ – Trickshot Timeworkers Watch some Trickshotters:
Kierkegaard, Repetition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetition_(Kierkegaard_book) Antonia Pont, A Philosophy of Practising With Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, https://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30155974 Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Sisyphus Tara Asgar:
– Citizen DJ Citizen DJ -- https://citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov/ Brian Foo -- https://brianfoo.com/ A brief guide to the law and ethics of the digital sampling of recorded sound materials Send us your tracks! We might use them on an upcoming episode. Interstitial 1 contains samples of "Off the record interview with Barry White, 1987-04-03" by Smith, Joe (1928-) (Interviewer) and White, Barry (1944 - 2003) (Interviewee). Retrieved from Joe Smith Collection at the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Interstitial 2 contains samples of "Off the record interview with Randy Newman, [1986-1988?]-04-15" by Smith, Joe (1928-) (Interviewer) and Newman, Randy (Interviewee). Retrieved from Joe Smith Collection at the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Interstitial 3 contains samples of "Bull frog blues" by Brown, Tom -- Composer, Six Brown Brothers -- Musical Group, Klickmann, F. Henri -- Arranger, Shrigley, Guy -- Composer, Brown, Fred -- Instrumentalist -- Alto Saxophone, Brown, Alec -- Instrumentalist -- Baritone Saxophone, Brown, Vern -- Instrumentalist -- Bass Saxophone, Brown, Tom -- Instrumentalist -- Alto Saxophone, Fink, Harry -- Instrumentalist -- Tenor Saxophone, and Brown, William -- Instrumentalist -- Tenor Saxophone. Retrieved from Library of Congress, National Jukebox. - 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. We have undertaken something, the consequences of which we know not We imagine we will be forced to choose Something in us dramatizes the choice We have created a universe of opposites Which cannot be reconciled We have created a dichotomy The parts of which we cannot interpret Except of HEADLINES from ATALANTA, Acts of God by ROBERT ASHLEY Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| People in Places | 14 Feb 2024 | 01:00:00 | |
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. - Become a member at https://www.neverpo.st/ – 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/ TikToks sampled:
– The Great YouTube Retirement
– Birdsong ID app, Merlin: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
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. I want to be famous to shuffling menwho smile while crossing streets, sticky children in grocery lines, famous as the one who smiled back. I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous, Excerpt of Famous, by Naomi Shihab Nye. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure. ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here | 31 Jan 2024 | 00:52:29 | |
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 – Join us at https://twitch.tv/mikerugnetta on Friday, February 9th at 2pm ET to hang out and chat about the show
Intro Links
– Disappearing Tween Fashion 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 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 ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Episode 0: Independent Media Roundtable | 31 Jan 2024 | 00:37:07 | |
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. | |||
| Never Post Is A Podcast About The Internet | 18 Jan 2024 | 00:04:21 | |
Welcome to my hometown. First episode in early 2024. Become a member at https://neverpo.st Thanks to our guests Michael, Rob, Amanda, Vanessa, Tara, Jason and Bijan ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain | 06 Nov 2024 | 01:01:05 | |
Episode coming later this week. For now: something meaningless. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/
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| Mailbag #5 | 01 Nov 2024 | 01:15:02 | |
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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. ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| A Feed to Call One’s Own | 23 Oct 2024 | 00:53:22 | |
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??? 🎃 👻 – 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” –
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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 ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| Our Dearly Decommissioned | 09 Oct 2024 | 00:54:43 | |
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! – 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” –
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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 ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||
| The State of Podcasting Roundtable, Oct. 2024 | 03 Oct 2024 | 00:58:41 | |
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. – 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” –
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| Where I'm At Right Now | 25 Sep 2024 | 00:56:27 | |
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] – 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” –
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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 signs are strident, all exits goodbye. Except of [Now I promise…] by Karen Volkman Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure ★ Support this podcast ★ | |||