Never Post
Never Post

Never Post

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A podcast about and for the internet, hosted by Mike Rugnetta

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Mad Chat
FEB 14, 2025
Mad Chat

Mike talks with artist, researcher and online harassment expert Caroline Sinders about blocking people online. What’s it for, and what kinds of feeling do we have when using it? Then, friend of the show Meghal Janardan speaks to children’s book author Laura Dower about her series “From the Files of Madison Finn”, an early exploration about what it was like being young, and online, at the turn of the millennium. Also: ssshhhhhh library asmr


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Intro Links

  • Wired Establishes Itself as the Digital Thorn in Elon Musk’s Side, The Wrap 
  • Introducing ChatGPT Gov, OpenAI
  • As Trump Offers Buyout to Get Rid of as Many Government Workers as Possible, OpenAI Announces New Version of ChatGPT Designed to Do Government Work, Futurism
  • Union lawsuit seeks to block ‘deferred resignation’ program, Federal News Network
  • EU sets out guidance on banning harmful AI uses, TechXplore
  • The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers, Advait.com
  • Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance, Washington Post
  • Google scraps its diversity hiring goals as it complies with Trump’s new government contractor rules, APNews
  • Vance gets the TikTok portfolio, Punchbowl

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 heart.


Summer Goodbyes, by Alejandra Pizarnik


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55 MIN
Mailbag #6
FEB 5, 2025
Mailbag #6

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59 MIN
Here’s Looking at You
JAN 29, 2025
Here’s Looking at You

Georgia talks with politics and internet reporter David Mack about whether disgraced politicians are attempting to launder their reputations on Cameo. Plus, Hans finds out what it feels like to answer an unanswerable question about how many cameras there are in the world. Also: the sounds of our collective TikTok Journey.



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Intro Links

Cameo’s Reputation Machine

Find David:

How Many Cameras Are There?

Segment Links:

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.

Slowly the fog did what fog does, eventually: it lifted, the way

veils tend to at some point in epic

 verse so that the hero can

see the divinity at work constantly behind

all things mortal, or that’s

 the idea anyway, I’m not saying I do or don’t

believe that, I’m not even sure that belief can change

any of it, at least in terms of the facts of how,

 moment by moment, any life unfurls, we can

call it fate or call it just what happened…


Excerpt, Sing a Darkness, by Carl Phillips


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61 MIN
State of the Pod: 2025
JAN 15, 2025
State of the Pod: 2025

To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of launching Never Post, Mike, Jason and Hans gather to talk about how it went; and to break down how many people listened, how much money changed hands, and what to expect from the show in 2025.



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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

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53 MIN
Post-Mortem: 2024
DEC 31, 2024
Post-Mortem: 2024

A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2024

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Thanks to EX Research and The Pudding for their help writing questions for Post-Mortem 2024!

Our Esteemed Panel:

Nerds of a Feather / The Lilybrary of Tomgress

The Dog Hots

The Garbage Men

Assorted links you may be interested in:

  • Why Chappell Roan Told MTV VMAs Attendee to "Shut the F--k Up" - E!Online
  • Netflix, Paramount Ask Canada Court to Amend New Trudeau Tax – Yahoo! Finance
  • Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop – The Verge
  • The #3 Most Viral Song in the World Is an AI-Generated, Xenophobic Parody – PCMag
  • “Dodgers Gawr Gura” on eBay
  • “mistakes into miracles” on DeviantArt (potentially NSFW)
  • emojistats.bsky.sh
  • The Willy Wonka Event’s Lead Actor Speaks Out: ‘It Was Just Gibberish’ - WIRED

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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69 MIN