Mike, Hans, and Georgia discuss the recent U.S. deal with TikTok, how it’s changed the app,  whether it’s worth sticking around to see what happens, or if it's better to just log off for good. 

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DuckDuckYesNo

• Kalshi gets banned
• Court order against Kalshi - Mass Gov
• Boston Globe
• Hackers against ICE - Techdirt
• EFF vs ICE tracking apps
• France bans Zoom - Politico
• Shopify comes to ChatGPT
• The new era of AI storefronts - McKinsey
• Craig Newmark pulls back on funding journalism - Neiman Lab
• NoAI for DuckDuckGo
• YesAI for DuckDuckGo
• DuckDuckGo’s statement on their study
• The U.S. / TikTok deal - ABC News

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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.

There is no promise like the present
though the present’s not promise at all.
The grifter flashes a glimmer like it was
a sure thing. Clinging to these turns
blindsides what’s before the eye, a fist
behind dice. I want distraction even
more than you, but both of us lost
the duel when our seconds went missing.

Excerpt of Against Hope By Charles Bernstein

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Never Post is live streaming their very own Olympiad!

Join us on Monday, February 2nd at 11:30am ET to watch intrepid competitors try to win the internet by doing various internet-related tasks for points.

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To celebrate Never Post's second birthday, Mike, Jason, Hans, and Georgia gather to talk about how it went; and to break down how many people listened, how much money changed hands, and changes coming in 2026.

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Producer and Minnesota resident Hans Buetow talks with journalist and Minnesota resident Em Cassel about Minnesota - the fraud, ICE raids and killings, and how it’s all about the posts.

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Eat Hot Chip, Post and Lie

• RacketMN
• Em Cassel on Bluesky
• 2024 Auditor Report on Department of Education
• Feeding Our Future timeline - Axios
• Feeding Our Future timeline - Sahan Journal
• FBI Investigates Autism Schemes - Minnesota Reformer
• DHS Suspends Housing Stabilization - MNDHS
• The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer - City Journal
• Key Source Disputes Reporting - Star Tribune
• I Investigated Minnesota’s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal - Nick Shirley
• Health Department Pauses Child Care Payments - NYTimes
• Child Care Centers Operating As Expected - MPR News
• Charlie Warzel
• Don Moynihan
• Cooper Lund 
• Ryan Broderick
• Right-Wing Influencers at Whipple Building - Ryan Broderick

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A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2025

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Our Esteemed Panel:

The Dog Hots

• Akilah Hughes! Rebel Spirit on iHeart
• Jamie Loftus! The Bechdel Cast; jamieloftus.xyz

6-7 Nights At Freddy’s

• Ryan Broderick! Garbageday.email
• Adam Bumas! Garbageday.email

2 Nerds 2 Furious

• Lily Alexandre! youtube.com
• Tom Lum! tomlum.com

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Special thank you to Annie Rauwerda from Depths of Wikipedia, Kurt White of the podcast Unravelling, and Morgan Sung of the podcast Close All Tabs.

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Assorted links you may be interested in:

• NY City Mayoral Election Day Stats - Pornhub
• Le Poisson Steve
• The dice game Hazard - Wikipedia
• Act 2, Scene ii of Richard II

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Dexter Thomas of the tech podcast kill switch interviews Jeremy Busby about his work as a journalist from solitary confinement, within a maximum security facility.

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Intro Links

• Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
• Pew, Striking findings from 2025
• Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy
• The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Reach Landmark Agreement to Bring Beloved Characters from Across Disney’s Brands to Sora
• Michael Weinberg on Bluesky
• Michael Weinberg website

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social media reveals life behind bars. prisons want to block it

• kill switch podcast
• kill switch episode about prison tablets
• Dexter Thomas
• Freedom of the Press Foundation

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We respond to your questions and comments!

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

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Audrey talks with cloud-server DIYer Drew Lyton about what its like trying to rebuild the internet in your living room. Also: LASERLAKE

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Intro Links

• Reservation of IPv6 Address Block 44::/16 for Amateur Radio Digital Communications (44Net)
• Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators
• iHeartRadio Exec Says Company Won’t ‘Play AI Music’ or Use ‘AI Generated Personalities’ in Staff Memo
• The Current No. 1 Christian Artist Has No Soul
• Forrest Frank on IG
• Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
• Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps

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Don’t Do It Yourself 

• Drew’s blog
• Drew’s website

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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.

Tresspasser. A high stone wall. I continue to obsessively study ‘improving your hurdle technique’ online, the red curve of the track guiding from the right to the left of the image as drills, minidisciplines, are suggested. Over and over. I was young when I heard recounted to me the terror and excitement of being chased of farmland, thinking there was a gun, scaling over to escape with superhuman force. Even then, I wanted to be a part of the chase.

Excerpt of The [blank] jumped over the [blank] (along a line a leap a landing) by Rowan Powell

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Meghal! shares her journey trying to rebuild her attention span and then chats with Emily Mazo and Mohamed Ali, organizers of the conference “New Luddism: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace” Also: MACHINES!

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Intro Links

• Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive
• https://andotherstuff.org/
• https://bsky.app/profile/kalina2hu.bsky.social/post/3m5ucuht7vc2e
• Why the closure of 'Teen Vogue' is a bigger deal than you realize
• Roosevelt Institute on Closure of Teen Vogue
• https://kickstarterunited.org/
• iHeartMedia and TikTok Launch Partnership
• TikTok Shop Is Now the Size of eBay

Fixing My Attention Span (*Deep Breath*)

• Meghal on IG (which she is not checking as often)

Man vs Machine: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace

• New Luddism Conference
• NYC off Tech 
• Collective Action in Tech
• Tech Workers Coalition 
• Mohamed Ali (email link) 
• Emily Mazo 
• Brian Merchant Blood in the Machine
• Gavin Mueller Breaking Things at Work
• Jathan Sadowski The Mechanic and the Luddite

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

This week's poem is an excerpt of Dalmation People by Jessica Bet

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Hans talks with Paul Levy about the case of Pool World vs Prepared Food Photos; A WIGOH for the broken hearted; Tokyo!

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Intro Links

• Polidashboard.org
• No degree, no discussion? China tightens the grip on influencers
• Not Verified? Not Welcome. China’s Influencer Policy Sends a Message
• Paid Armies of 'Clippers' Boost Internet Stars Like MrBeast
• Australia sues Microsoft for misleading M365 users about Copilot subscription options
• Internet Pricing Is About to Get a Lot Less Transparent

Making Trolls Pay Their Own Tolls

• Paul at Public Citizen
• Paul’s Blog
• Paul Levy, the Web Bully’s Worst Enemy
• Pool World
• The Complaint and letter

WiGOH

• “i don’t even know how to process this #cheater  #toxic  #betrayl”

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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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Georgia talks with Mahigan St. Pierre about witches Etsy-and-not, and Ph.D candidate in forensic psychology Alex Frampton about the image of witches today. 

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Intro Links

• Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you
• Photography, Or The Writing Of Light by Jean Baudrillard
• X will start selling inactive usernames to paid users
• A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks
• Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request
• 2025 Fiscal Year Among the Deadliest in ICE History for Detained Migrants
• Nearly two years after the “Chicago Rat Hole” became a viral sensation, scientists have weighed in on the debate over what type of critter made the splat.
• 'Chicago Rat Hole' was not made by a rat, say rodent researchers
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Interstitial Music from the Trick or Beep Collection

• Elvira II - Jaws of Cerberus (Amiga version)
• Beetlejuice (NES version)
• Pinball Jam - Elvira and the Party Monsters
• Sweet Home
• Noctropolis (MS-DOS version)
• Spear of Destiny
• Rise of the Dragon (MS-DOS version)
• Monster Bash (MS-DOS version)
• Thrill Kill
• Castlevania
• Chakan - The Forever Man (Sega Genesis Version)
• Castlevania II - Simon’s Quest
• Gauntlet Dark Legacy  (Arcade Version)

The Business of Digitized Witchcraft

• Find Mahigan
   
  • Kitchen Toad
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  • Their Patreon (where you can also find their podcast)

• Find Alex
  • “In The Broom Closet”

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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 is distributed by Radiotopia