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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/– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for –Intro Links Google Cut Back AI Overviews in Search Even Before Its ‘Pizza Glue’ Fiasco – WIRED Ikea is hiring UK workers for its new store in Roblox – Eurogamer How 7 Brands Are Engaging Gen Zers with Roblox Experiences – Obsessar Nebula Strikes Deal With Spotify to Stream Video Content (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety Spotify demonetises all tracks under 1,000 streams – Musictech Spotify Announces New Price Increases for Premium Plans – Yahoo Tech Spotify raising prices by up to $3 as frustrated subs beg it to “just do music” – Ars Technica A New Lawsuit Accuses Spotify of Cheating Songwriters Out of Royalties – Time We'll Miss You: Pioneering instant messaging program ICQ is finally shutting down after nearly 30 years – PC Gamer Internet Sleuths Finally Find Origin of 'The Backrooms' Creepypasta Image – 404 Media Backrooms Research Doc –Why Is It (Hiring) Like This? with Hilke SchellmannFind Hilke: hilkeschellmann.com The Algorithm: How AI Can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future Other Sources: OpenAI GPT Sorts Resume Names With Racial Bias, Test Shows – Bloomberg <a href="https://www.forb

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/– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for –Intro Links Belle Delphine earned over $90K selling jars of her bathwater in 2019. PayPal only released her money this week – Katie Notopulous, Business Insider Slack has been using data from your chats to train its machine learning models – Will Shanklin, Engadget It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It – Lauren Goode, WIRED Uber and Lyft agree to deal with state lawmakers on minimum pay rates for drivers – Max Nesterak, Minnesota Reformer IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more – Christopher Dring, gameindustry.biz IGN buys Eurogamer, VG247, and Rock Paper Shotgun – layoffs have already started – Game Central, Metro.co.uk Never Post at XOXO 2024 12 Best Podcasts of 2024 (So Far) – Lauren Passell, Lifehacker Mike on Blocked Party –Dating Apps (derogatory) Dating Apps: The Uncertainty of Marketised Love https://www.tiktok.com/@officialbrept/video/7028325781537393925?_t=8lrDLmaKbTa&amp;_r=1 https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahgraser/video/7117094997484309806?_r=1&amp;_t=8ly4uYqQrPD https://www.tiktok.com/@harmonythread/video/7262952885158235435?_t=8lwOVY3O0LP&amp;_r=1 https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahgraser/video/7125991346489314603?_t=8lwOSDK1l3H&amp;_r=1 <a href="

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 Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for –Everyone is a Journalish Find Joan at her website and at publicinterestinter.net –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 nuancesdon’t drown in their rapiditychoose the nuances you loveand settle down with themExcerpt of #45 - butter colored slacks and rubber rum balls by Wayne KoestenbaumNever Post is a production of Charts &amp; Leisure

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- Drop us a voice memo via airtable- Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com- See what interstitials we need submissions forNever 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 &amp; Leisure

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– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –Intro Links The House just voted on a potential TikTok ban (again). Now what? – CNN Biden signs a bill that could ban TikTok — after the 2024 election – NBC News Steve Mnuchin seeks AI partner to rebuild TikTok’s algorithm in takeover bid: sources – NY Post Google blocks California news in response to bill that would force tech giant to pay – NPR When Facebook bans the news – Matt Pearce Nvidia drops 10% as investors see risk in Big Tech shares – FT Super Micro And Nvidia Stock Woes Could Mean Trouble For Generative AI – Forbes AuthorJMac Tweet Mike on The Eurowhat Podcast If You Love Podcasts, Dump Spotify – Alex Sujong Laughlin, Defector –Twin Cities Transit Vacuum Minnesota Reformer Uber Archives Max Nesterak is on Twitter –The American Car Garlic Naan And Butter Chicken Fountain?! – Tiktok David After Dentist – YouTube Taco Reacts – Tiktok The American Room – Paul Ford, Medium It is NOT My day – Tiktok forget a rage room, ima just rent out my car so y’all can scream in it – Evelyn, Tiktok Shanin Blake – Tiktok Dear single parents ~ when I was 18 I got pregnant with my daughter and her dad went to prison right a

😷--❤️‍🔥 Become a member at https://neverpo.st☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com--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 manExcerpt of Rest Before You SleepBy Dionisio D. MartínezNever Post is a production of Charts &amp; Leisure.

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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!– Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –Intro Links Why a near-miss cyberattack put US officials and the tech industry on edge – Reuters When Facebook fails, local media matters even more for our planet’s future – Kansas Reflector We can slay giants – Handbasket FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump – Reuters LinkedIn plans to add gaming to its platform – Techcrunch Mike’s Twitch Mike on the Alarmist! –Before and After Photos Find Marie at her website and on X. Mark Gaetano is on IG and YT Special thanks to Hannah Meacock-Ross for editorial support–What (Pop Music) Does the Internet Sound Like?You should listen to Switched on Pop generally, but also here’s the interview they did with 100 gecs.–Unrequited Love Song for the Panopticon was used with permission –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 hadthe phrase after the accident.Also this: before the accident.We had a drawer markedbefore and after, and afterand before happeningswe'd add atrocities andincidents and the wildasters someone beforeand after keeps leaving.After By Andre

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!– ☎️ Call us at `651 615 5007` to leave a voice mail 🎙️ Drop us a voice memo via airtable 📧 Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –Intro The House passed a TikTok ban bill. But is the app really a national security threat? – Bobby Allyn, NPR Members of Congress are getting pushback on the TikTok ban from their own angry Gen Z kids – Lindsay Dodgson, Business Insider US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones – Lauren Feiner, Verge United States v. Apple is pure nerd rage – Sarah Jeong, Verge Catherine, Princess of Wales, Reveals She Has Cancer – NYT The great Kate Middleton backtracking – Embedded Facebook is trying to make ‘poking’ cool again – Aisha Malik, TechCrunch –Burnt Toast Audio https://www.tiktok.com/@tiaraskye_ https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4WXquxJWxG/?igsh=ZGx6eWJiODRxcDg1 https://www.tiktok.com/@cbc/video/7285762769880714501?_r=1&amp;_t=8ktpSHiLKYQ https://www.tiktok.com/@theporktornadoes/video/7179733641092746542?_r=1&amp;_t=8ktqqvEJL2d https://www.tiktok.com/@inf1n1temusic/video/7195244395220749574?_r=1&amp;_t=8ktqPN6UmMx https://www.tiktok.com/@cchiphop/video/7232580386759380267?_r=1&amp;_t=8ktpfRDu1uR https://www.tiktok.com/@epic.cammy1933/video/7348992219698826539?_r=1&amp;_t=8ktunEQdWZy https://www.tiktok.com/@notamine/video/7347043430738054406?_r=1&amp;_t=8ktqF4oIwpD https://www.tiktok.com/@tiaraskye_/video/7310222966363573537?_r=1&amp;_t=8kqgpZcBXPb <a href="https://www.tik

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.– ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🎙️ Drop us a voice memo via airtable 📧 Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com –Intro Links The Media-Sensational Rise and Fall of “Jim Spanfeller Is a Herb” – Ashley Feinberg, Slate Deadspin’s entire staff has been laid off after the sports site was sold to a startup – Liam Reilly, CNN Second Iteration Of Deadspin Now Also Dead – Samer Kalaf, Defector GMG Union on Deadspin Layoffs – gmgunion.bsky.social “Amidst the tide of layoffs plaguing the media industry…” – Meera Pattni, LinkedIn Google now wants to limit the AI-powered search spam it helped create – Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica Discord to Offer Rewards for Gamers as CEO Considers IPO – Cecilia D'Anastasio, Bloomberg House GOP moves ahead with TikTok vote as Trump voices opposition to possible ban – AP via NPR U.S. Bill Targets TikTok’s Future and Threatens the Open Web – Tianyu Fang, New America Trump's TikTok ban reversal comes after meeting megadonor who has stake in TikTok – Adam Carlson and Max Zahn, ABC News Mike on Object Worship Critical Ignoring Links https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09637214221121570 Stephan Lewandowsky -- https://www.lewan.uk/ Important Emails Links https://www.tiktok.com/@mattbooshell/video/7161110027124690218?lang=en, reposted at https://hive.com/blog/generational-email-writing-stereotypes/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/wesgay/2017/08/29/millennials-email-adobe/?sh=18c9b

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.--This conversation contains a single, brief mention of suicide.--☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st--Nick's thoughts on "Never Post" and the internet: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'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 &amp; Leisure.

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 mailDrop us a voice memo via airtable: https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/formOr email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com–Intro Links Rascal News -- https://www.rascal.news/ New York Times -- Supreme Court to Decide How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media The Atlantic -- Texas’s Social-Media Law Is Dangerous. Striking It Down Could Be Worse. NBC News -- Supreme Court justices express free speech concerns about GOP-backed social media laws The Verge -- Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget Terrence O’Brien -- layoff announcement LA Times -- Vice.com News Site Shut Down Reuters -- Vice Media to be acquired by Fortress-led lender group for $350 million Megan Greenwell -- Fortress Investment Group destroys Gannett New Hour – Gannett Journalists Walk Out RIP Corp: VICE Docs Jules Suzdaltsev -- NowThis News video deletion Ernie Smith -- Archiving VICE Jules Suzdaltsev -- Buying VICE archive –Online MourningFind Tamara: https://www.tamarakneese.com/ Death Glitch: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/ Adriana’s tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3BfJxc/–Trickshot TimeworkersWatch some Trickshotters: Dude Perfect, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/corycotto

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 mailDrop us a voice memo via airtable: https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/formOr email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com–Intro LinksNever Post Ep 1 Hangout Stream VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2057956412News Links: https://www.thewrap.com/coyote-vs-acme-update-offers-warner-bros/ https://twitter.com/JoaquinCastrotx/status/1756190120334545302 https://aftermath.site/coyote-vs-acme-fuck-david-zaslav https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712692/australias-new-right-to-disconnect-law-includes-jail-time-for-now.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/crowd-sets-waymo-self-driving-car-on-fire-they-couldn-t-even-recognize-the-vehicle/ar-BB1i9xOo https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/photo-waymo-vehicle-blocks-fire-truck-in-san-francisco/ –Why Does Influencer Voice Exist?Find Lisa:https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/lisa-b-davidson.htmlhttps://wp.nyu.edu/lisa_davidson/https://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social–The Great YouTube Retirement This segment contains a portion of the Sungazer track Threshold: https://sungazermusic.bandcamp.com/track/threshold 1.8 Million Subscribers (and no one cares): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceZ8VS8PbQ Tom Scott retirement video: https://youtu.be/7DKv5H5Frt0?si=SvpIUq7OUQe_M_Uk Adam’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/havic5 Sungazer’s AUS tour dates: https://www.sungazermusic.com/tour –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. <

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 mailDrop us a voice memo via airtable - https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/formOr email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com–Become a member at https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/–Intro Links Apple Transcripts: https://podnews.net/article/apple-podcasts-transcriptions-faq Ring and the Police: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/ring-announces-it-will-no-longer-facilitate-police-requests-footage-users https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-24/amazon-s-ring-to-stop-letting-police-request-video-from-users Social CEOS on Capital Hill: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-30/social-media-ceos-brace-for-senate-scrutiny-on-child-safety-what-to-expect?srnd=undefined CDC Youth Health Summary: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/pdf/YRBS_Data-Summary-Trends_Report2023_508.pdf Evan Greer on KOSA: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjven5/elizabeth-warren-just-backed-an-online-safety-bill-that-will-harm-lgbtq-youth –Disappearing Tween Fashion Links https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcEjae5/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3e7q73/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcEhsPD/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3dNn6c/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3etHXa/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3eEMNB/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3dLQ1N/ –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 Usedhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/kirk-osamayo/blue-season-4https://freesound.org/people/Qleq/sounds/679130/2010 Pop b

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.

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