Georgia chats with Sydney Bradley of Business Insider about dating app Bumble’s termination of the swipe, and the dating app market’s overall pivot to AI

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• Google Search as you know it is over
• What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use It
• How a government contest launched a revolution in AI-based bug hunting
• ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App
• ICE Mobile Fortify: Biometric Surveillance in Every Agent's Pocket
• X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay for a blue checkmark
• Kickstarter faces pressure from payment processors to restrict adult content
• An Apology: Rethinking Our Mature Content Guidelines
• Navigating Stripe Mature Content Reviews
• Bumble Kills The Swipe To Help 'Exhausted' And 'Fatigued' Singles, CEO Confirms
• Dating app Bumble is ending swipe feature, introduces AI assistant for matchmaking
• Bumble introduces an AI dating assistant, ‘Bee’

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Swipe No More

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• Her coverage on new dating apps 

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Originally published on March 27th, 2024, enjoy Mike's conversation with Gabriele de Seta and Paolo Berti about how the “megadungeon” is a productive model for understanding the internet.

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Megadungeons

• Megadungeon: A Model for Media Complexity, Magazen
• Megadungeon: New Digital Volumetries in Art and Media, YT Playlist
• paranom.asia, Gabriele de Seta
• unive.it, Paolo Berti

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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.

Contributing producer Rose Witmer and her sister Maggie explore the nature of collecting — specifically, collecting Disney branded enamel pins — in an age where social media dominates hobbies across the board, and clicking "purchase" is easier than hunting for something IRL. 

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Mike talks with the German Federal Center for Digital Sovereignty’s Head of Open Source Product & Delivery about Digital Sovereignty and the process of divesting the German state from American technology products.

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• Brazil Bans 27 Prediction Platforms
• MSN on Brazilian ban
• Brazil tightens rules to curb 'bet-like' products
• Soldier charged in $400K Polymarket bet
• Kalshi, Polymarket lobby as insider trading, betting eyed by Congress
• RedNote after the 'TikTok refugee' moment
• Judge rules in favor of Indiana man in ICE tracking app lawsuit
• Co-Writing with AI
• Mor Naaman and Advait Baht on bsky
• Aadam Jacobs Collective 
• 98% of IT leaders want digital sovereignty 
• Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

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ZenDis, and Digital Sovereignty

• https://www.zendis.de/
• https://www.opendesk.eu/en

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Georgia speaks to writer, researcher, and academic Carolina Bandinelli about embarrassing boyfriends and the online culture of cynicism, shame, and blame that has spread throughout the modern dating scene.

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• Vogue — Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?

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Originally published on May 22nd, 2024 in our episode Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places, enjoy Georgia's segment where she investigates the walled garden of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. 

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Business and finance journalist Kit Pulliam examines MrBeast Financial, a soon-to-be-launched financial services platform spearheaded by MrBeast — A.K.A Jimmy Donaldson — himself. But what does it mean for this one, rich (is he rich?) YouTuber to own a bank (is it a bank?)? And how did he get to this position? 

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• AskDegree

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In the latest installment of Terms & Conditions, Georgia chats with author, professor, and digital piracy expert Aram Sinnreich about torrenting. Peer-to-peer file sharing isn’t new, nor is the legal controversy surrounding it. But what is torrenting? Why does it have such a marred reputation, and what role does it play in our online lives? 

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• The U.S. ban on foreign internet routers
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• Hachette pulls “Shy Girl” off shelves
• Meta loses NM lawsuit on child endangerment
• Meta and Youtube fined for creating addictive social platforms
• Judge demands DOGE deposition be removed from YouTube
• DOGE depositions are back online
• Supreme Court rules in favor of Cox Media in piracy suit

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Terms & Conditions: On Torrenting

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Executive Producer Jason Oberholtzer speaks to Dr. Jess Rauchberg about how the lolcow — a vulnerable Internet persona interacting with an unreliable and often malicious audience — relates to contemporary politics online and historic medieval spectacle.

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Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, enjoy Georgia's segment talking to Professor Elizabeth Wissinger about how the social internet helped erase an entire fashion demographic — namely, tween fashion for girls.

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• This Year's Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour

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