Contributing producer and Kabul-based journalist Ali Latifi tells the story of a roughly 48-hour period, at the end of 2025, when the Taliban turned off the entire internet in Afghanistan.

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Cord Cutters

• https://bsky.app/profile/netblocks.org/post/3mgrehog7wk23
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_massacres
• Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project
• The Internet, Switched Off  
• Internet Shutdown: How Governments Weaponize Connectivity
• Iran’s regime has shut down the internet in the middle of war
• How Iran shut down the internet and built a sophisticated system of digital control
• Afghanistan imposes internet blackout: What has the effect been so far?
• The Kremlin says the internet is turned off to stop drone attacks. Russians are fed up
• Blocked and Bypassed: Russians Evade Internet Censorship 

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Find Ali

• https://authory.com/Ali

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Thank you to Suha, Fara, Saeed, Samir, Ramin, Mohammad, Hamed, Jabar, Sanam Muradi, Haroun Rahimi, Naser, Ahmad Azizi and Saeed.

This episode’s Contributing Producer is Ali Latifi. 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.

1. These are the vague demands you make on me

2. (that I) assemble
(to) recollect
(to) decode
(   ) associate

3. that I admit, fraught with difficulty, reintegration
is no day at the beach in eggshell tints
“The inmates start to get brave and a little crazy”
when they hear that friendly voice–the matron

4. (But that’s also my mind, lost)
Her epic poem on the constraints society places on the

5. misunderstood

Excerpt of Sybil by Rebecca Wolf 

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Mike talks with science communicators Alex Dainis, Trade Dominguez and Joe Hanson about what it’s like trying to do their job in today’s information environment.

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Alex Dainis

• https://www.instagram.com/AlexDainis/
• https://bsky.app/profile/alexdainis.bsky.social
• https://www.helicasemedia.com/

Trace Dominguez

• https://www.instagram.com/tracedominguez/
• https://www.threads.com/@tracedominguez
• https://www.youtube.com/tracedominguez
• https://thatsabsurdshow.com/

Joe Hanson

• https://www.instagram.com/drjoehanson/
• https://www.youtube.com/@besmart
• https://www.youtube.com/@pbsterra

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teach us about life

gently

implored the little beings

and stretched their arms

for love of the other shore

 Canto XVII (for Diana) by Alejandra Pizarnik

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Mike chats with Jeffrey Parkin of Rogue and Rory Carroll of Alloy about the impending chip shortage caused by the construction boom in AI Data centers. How did this happen, why is there no easy way out, and how should you – as a consumer – be thinking about this these things?

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News Links

• New Mexico's Internet Affordability Program
• https://acpdashboard.com/
• Affordable Connectivity Program
• TikTok's usership steadies post-sale
• TechCrunch on TikTok's usership steadying
• Temu’s global rise runs into a regulatory wall
• The political effects of X’s feed algorithm
• Pope says beware of the internet
• Exclusive: Goldman Sachs launches AI-free index
• Substack, Polymarket announce partnership
• Looming Taiwan chip disaster
• U.S. aim to curb China's chipmaking access
• Will Intel deliver leading-edge chips?
• Taiwan won't move chip production to U.S.
• Why Taiwan Fears ‘America First’ Risks Eroding Its ‘Silicon Shield’

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Chip Chat

• Rogue.site
• Alloymag.com

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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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Producer Georgia Hampton looks to writer and blogger Katherine Dee and academic Charles Soukop to help her figure out how to visualize the internet. As in, what kind of a place is it, if it’s even a space at all?

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Find Charles Soukop:

• Charles’s 2006 study on virtual third places

Find Katherine Dee:

• default.blog
• NYT: The phone as a portal to the Otherworld

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Senior Producer Hans Buetow digs into the data from the 2025 Pornhub Year-in-Review, and wonders aloud to sexual wellness educator Courney Brame, and co-founders of SWR Data, MelRose Michaels and Mike Stabile - what’s going on with the sudden rise in SFW content on a decidedly NSFW platform?

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Pornhub Is Entering Their FrictionMaxxxing Era

• Courtney Brame
• MelRose Michaels
• Mike Stabile
• SWR Data Website
• SWR Data Substack
• Pornhub 2025 Year-In-Review
• Mia Khalifa on Always Open
• In 2026, We Are Friction-Maxxing (The Cut)
• How I Frictionmaxx (P.E. Moskowitz)
• THUTT! (Jessica DeFino)

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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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Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, enjoy Mike's segment on the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media.

Listen to the original episode here: https://www.neverpo.st/never-post-2/

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Find Bijan:

His blog: https://newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/

Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/bijan.bsky.social

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CC-BY Licensed Audio Used

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/kirk-osamayo/blue-season-4
https://freesound.org/people/Qleq/sounds/679130/
2010 Pop by Akira Sora at Free Music Archive
Dream Pop by Holizna CC0 at Free Music Archive
Retro Synths by Holizna CC0 at Free Music Archive

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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.

Want to compete? Go to neverpo.st/olympiad to find out how! Tryouts must be submitted by 11:59pm ET on Wednesday, January 28.

To watch the 2026 Never Post Olympiad, head over to twitch.tv/theneverpost.

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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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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