Never Post

Charts & Leisure

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

  • 1 hour 9 minutes
    The Hardest Thing To Do Is Nothing

    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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    Intro Links

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    The 75 Day Hardstyle Challenge

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    One Particular Toothpick

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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.


    By the sparkle of certain ciliates, cesium

       practices its cricket song.

    Am I supposed to be impressed? My smoothie

       comes with GPS.


    Excerpt of We Have the Technology, by Michael Robbins

    Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia

    26 March 2025, 5:45 pm
  • 10 minutes 4 seconds
    Never Post is joining Radiotopia

    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).

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    • Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail
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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 and – of this upload – distributed by Radiotopia.

    19 March 2025, 10:00 am
  • 1 hour 3 minutes
    F*cking Around, and Finding Out

    Mike talks with Stephen Harrison about why authoritarian governments hate Wikipedia and Georgia talks with Kyle Chayka about how to have fun on the internet. Also: Kidpix!

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    • ubuweb.com
    • Poetica: Three Sound Poets: Jaap Blonk, Amanda Stewart, Christian Bok (2014)), ubuweb.com
    • Skilled technologists are being forced out of government, Don Moynihan
    • GSA eliminates 18F, NextGov
    • Doppelgänger: New disinformation campaigns spreading on social media through Russian networks, Intrinsec
    • NEW REPORT: Russian propaganda may be flooding AI models, American Sunlight Project
    • Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg, TechCrunch

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    Authoritarians vs Wikipedia

    Find Stephen:

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    Are We Having Fun Yet?

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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.

    Oh! to be almost loquacious

    Rather than fatally over

    loquacity’s edge

    Excerpt of #36 the-faux-ailing-abacus by Wayne Koestenbuam

    Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

    12 March 2025, 5:22 pm
  • 1 hour 1 minute
    The Day The Vibes Died

    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!

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    Intro Links

    • William McFarland Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Defrauding Investors And A Ticket Vendor Of Over $26 Million, justice.gov
    • EXCLUSIVE: Fyre Festival 2: Dates, location and how to get tickets, Today
    • Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value, Futurism
    • Microsoft Dropped Some AI Data Center Leases, TD Cowen Says,  Bloomberg
    • How Temu’s supply chain is changing, RetailBrew
    • Temu Overhauls Supply Chain on Tariffs, Risking Price Hikes, Bloomberg
    • UK users are losing a key Apple security feature, raising questions about the future of privacy, CNN

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    Tiktok’s Leftovers Hours

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    What Is Going On Here

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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

    26 February 2025, 5:58 pm
  • 52 minutes 57 seconds
    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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    • 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

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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:

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    From the Files of Madison Finn

    Find Laura:

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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 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

    14 February 2025, 2:00 pm
  • 58 minutes 10 seconds
    Mailbag #6

    We respond to your comments!

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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.

    5 February 2025, 5:03 pm
  • 58 minutes 46 seconds
    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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    Cameo’s Reputation Machine

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    How Many Cameras Are There?

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    29 January 2025, 6:21 pm
  • 50 minutes 56 seconds
    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.

    Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

    15 January 2025, 5:18 pm
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    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!

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    Our Esteemed Panel:

    Nerds of a Feather / The Lilybrary of Tomgress

    The Dog Hots

    The Garbage Men

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    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

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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

    31 December 2024, 7:00 pm
  • 52 minutes 23 seconds
    The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself

    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:

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    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

    18 December 2024, 4:11 pm
  • 1 hour 7 minutes
    Leaving Social Media Roundtable

    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


    Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

    4 December 2024, 5:00 pm
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