Originally published on April 9th, 2025, enjoy this episode in which Mike talks with psychotherapist Kurt White about how the internet may help us become ourselves. 

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Any Rigid Idea About Yourself is a Prison

Kurt White

• Unravelling podcast
• LinkedIn

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Your business in this world

Your nakedness and terror

Your sanctity remains

the crucial battle

Dearly beyond

We are scattered here today

amongst commodities

This town isn’t big enough

for trust

Excerpt of The Concept of Dread by Pam Rehm

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Georgia chats with Ludwig Hurtado of MOLD Magazine's "Food Futures" podcast about luxury grocery brands and the Highsnobiety “Status Report,” that says fashion is dead and food is in.

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The Tyranny of Taste

• Highsnobiety’s Status Economy Report
• Highsnobiety’s report on groceries specifically
• In the status economy, even groceries are a flex
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• Food Futures
• Play zine

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spore print of mushroom in the retina, in my dreams

lens displacement in the multi-cellular dark

abyssal sound of leaves in the wind

rushing cloud dance before the sky closes in

except of It Is Difficult to Exaggerate the Importance of Mushrooms as Food, by Chris Torrance

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Mike chats with Maia Woluchem and Cella Sum – co-authors of The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania – about the fight against Data Centers happening across Pennsylvania.

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News Links

• ICE agents could be targeted by fake "tradwife" dating profiles
• Discord Launches Delayed Age Verification Measures
• OpenAI agent hacked Australian govt website
• Railroad work crews cut fiber optic cable, grounding flights
• Trump fires FAA air traffic control employees post-DC plane crash
• Did Trump’s FAA slash the staffing target for air traffic control?
• Bill would require blocking piracy sites
• Church groups ask Microsoft for 1% of data center costs
• PA town pushes back on data center despite $10k payout

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The AI Factory

• The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania
• Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit

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These newfangled ghosts haunt by telephone and airwave. Acumen will finally languish in a good sense: type would bottle a new motto in live numbers and wine were they only not printers with so many thoughts to slip in media res or the thick of things at grasp root level up a slope on themselves. Our notion of productive labor becomes narrowed to the use of censure and science to ensure I am baffled as Yeats by those voices that still speak to Oddysseus but as the bats.

Excerpt of Shadow Recension by Alan Halsey

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Originally published on April 10th, 2024, enjoy a conversation between Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop and Executive Producer Jason where they talk about what pop-musical acts have sounded like the internet.

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What Does the Internet Sound Like?

• You should listen to Switched on Pop generally, but also here’s the interview they did with 100 gecs.

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After a confusingly whirlwind week on the AI battlelines, senior producer Hans Buetow seeks the counsel of researcher Dave Karpf to understand what the heck even happened in the past week with all the tweet storms, screeds, panics, and prognostications - is AI going to kill us all in 10 years or not?!?!??

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The World's Most Special Boys Building the Apocalypse

Find Dave Karpf:

• Website
• Bluesky
• Blog
• New book - Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present

Links:

• Jacob Coxon’s thread (X)
• Dario Amodei’s response (blog)
• Lina Khan’s response (X)
• Sam Alman and Elon Musk’s responses (News18)
• Cal Newport (podcast)
• Kat Tenbarge (Spitfire)
• Ciaran Martin (The Economist)
• Will Knight (Wired)
• How Much of the Internet is Written With AI? (Pew)
• Young Adults in the US Are Increasingly Wary of AI (Pew)
• Half of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work (Reuters)
• Pro-Human Assembly (MSN)
• AI Diplomacy (Politico)

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The Never Post staff meet to discuss four academic papers on how the internet is getting worse, each from a special edition of the European Journal of Cultural Studies. How is slop like gelatin? In many more ways that you might immediately assume! Tune in to hear about them all!

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Brainrot, AI slop, and the enshittification of the Internet

• Intro 
• Georgia, Doing the numbers: The operational aesthetics of AI slop
• Hans, Feed them slop: Alignment, attunement, and the affective lure of slopaganda
• Jason, Degenerative AI: AI slop, brainrot, and the gimmick of generative culture
• Mike, Computational Gallerte: Compressions of culture

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Jesus Christ, my dusty socialist,

“There’s enough sun for everyone,” you state,

your crown chipped like a front tooth

after a bar fight. Behind you a red curtain.

Excerpt of Ephphatha by Spencer Reece

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Georgia talks to Matt Sitman, host of the podcast Know Your Enemy, about Pope Leo XIV's recent comments about the algorithm, and why so much of his papacy seems concerned with the cultural impact of AI. 

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News Links

• NVIDIA could buy HuggingFace 
• HF valued at $4.5 billion
• HF turned down earlier deal 
• News on AI doctors from Harvard Health, Futurism, 404 Media
• NYT on AI meds ads
• Substack post on fake doctor accounts
• Dangers of mushroom foraging
• CDT on bot traffic online
• Cable faults affect Vietnam's internet 
• Pope Leo XIV warns AI could lead to tech domination

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The Pope and AI

• Algorithm could be "subtle form of domination"
• Pope Leo XIV encyclical warns against AI 

Find Matt:

• Know Your Enemy

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suck up stork torso

into the jet engine

like a fork in the throat so the engine goes

yolo bogo putt-putt

flashing its famous lights like

teeth tho

excerpt of Day of Being by Joyelle McSweeney

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With the help of listener submissions and the insight of experts Drs Casey Fiesler and Alex Hanna, Senior Producer Hans Buetow investigates how people resist the integration of AI into the workplace, why folks might feel hesitant to broadcast that resistance, and why this topic feels so different from just a year ago. 

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AI At Work? In This Economy?

• The Luddite Lab (DAIR)
• The Luddite Lab launch stream
• Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI Over Time (HBS)

Find Dr. Casey Fiesler:

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• Website

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Of course there are victims in this poem:

victim victim victim victim victim 

victim victim victim victim victim 

victim victim victim victim victim 

victim victim victim victim victim 

victim victim victim victim victim 

victim victim victim victim victim 

victim victim victim victim victim 

victim victim victim victim victim 

victim you are here victim victim 

victim victim victim victim victim 

victim victim victim victim victim 

Excerpt of History by Tracy K Smith

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Mike talks to security researchers Jan Pennekamp and Johannes Lohmoller about how many academics are allegedly doxxing themselves in the process of publishing their own research, and why it’s so hard to get sensitive, secretive information off the internet after it lands there. 

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• Hbo Max introduces shorts 
• Streaming platforms try to beat TikTok at their own game
• France bans social media for teens
• Vietnam proposes social media ban for teens
• Doom is a top influential piece of American culture
• Doom as part of Trump's election strategy
• arxiv.org 

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Doxxing Yourself For Science 

• Read the paper here
• See Jan and Johannes’ other work here

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