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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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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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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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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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• 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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Mike asks if there’s anything in the connection between fascism and the aesthetics of A.I.. And if they are connected, how are they? Is there something inherently fascistic about these technologies? Also: OPEIU Local 153 is union PROUD!

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• Vote for us in the Signal Awards!
• Friend.com ads backlash
• ICE looking to create social media surveillance team
• Apple and Google remove ICE tracking apps
• The bots come for Cracker Barrel

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AI and New American Fascism

• White House Posts Ghoulish AI Cartoon Showing Woman's Deportation (Huffpost)
• With Manifest Destiny art, DHS goes hard on ‘white makes right’ (LA Times)
• Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop (e-flux)
• The Other Side of the Canvas (Unpopular Front)
• Ur-Fascism (The Anarchist Library)
• In Unhinged Speech, Pete Hegseth Says He's Tired of ‘Fat Troops,’ Says Military Needs to Go Full AI (404 Media)
• Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline from Ep. 13
• Generated-ish from Ep. 22

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We respond to your questions and comments!

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Tori Dominguez-Peek returns to look at the prevalence of AI in the college classroom, and what it takes to ban it. Also: BOP SPOTTER!

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• Google to reinstate banned YouTube accounts censored for political speech
• Alex Jones sports Hitler mustache in shocking broadcast: 'It had a wild effect on women'
• U.S. Secret Service disrupts telecom network that threatened NYC during U.N. General Assembly
• TProphet on bsky
• The Irresistible Rise of On Tyranny
• Here’s what’s happening right now with the US TikTok deal
• Inside Trump's deal to save TikTok
• Paramount Skydance eyes takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery as high as $24 a share: report
• LimeWire acquires Fyre Festival, has vague plans to offer 'real experiences'
• LimeWire, Former File-Sharing Service, Is Revealed as Buyer of Fyre Festival
  
  
  
  
• Bop Spotter

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Teaching AI

• Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

Find Everyone:

• Megan Fritts on X
• Dr. Rui Sousa-Silva on LinkedIn
• Tori Dominguez Peek on Bluesky
• Press Start Pod on Bluesky

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Hans talks with adult content creator Siri Dahl about age verification online; Georgia talks with James Beard Award-nominated producer and recipe developer Gabriella Lewis about the state of recipe sharing online; and also: sonification!

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• A hacker used AI to automate an 'unprecedented' cybercrime spree, Anthropic says
• 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law
• Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms
• A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
• twitch.tv/theneverpost 

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Sonification

• Listen to Wikipedia
• Listening Back
• Sonificator

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Age Verified Down a Slippery Slope

Find Siri:

• Her website
• Her Bluesky

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Recipes as Vibeposting 

Find Gabriella:

• Her website
• Her instagram
• Eater
• New York Times Cooking

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Enough of this observing

said the child to her respondent.

Explain the astonishment of the abashed

articulate before the table

of the circle of friends

washed up on the shore of the foreign country

we all hoped to leave

for medicine. An alien

name had already gone and we were left

to drink; health

had no opponents

Excerpt of The Beautiful, by Jean Day

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An episode-long staff round-table with special guest Meghal Janardan. Recorded LIVE with chat during the Never Post Member Stream Week, the team discusses the future tech that was made to seem inevitable - have we reached it? Will we ever?

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Mike talks with David Huerta about age verification laws, VPNs, and Bluesky being blocked in Mississippi; The team asked chat WHAT (?!) Is Going On Here; ALSO: Never Post Plays

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• You've got mail no more: AOL to shutter dial-up internet service
• An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators & Allies: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek
• YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality
• MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
• twitch.tv/theneverpost 

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Never Post Plays

• Date Everything
• Pancito Merge
• NBA Jam

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Agewalled Gardens

• An In-Depth Guide to Choosing a VPN

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WIGOH LIVE: Memberdrive Streamweek Ed.

• Kurt Cobain Will Have His Revenge on the Straights
• Most iconic thing in pop culture (warning: X link)

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Reader unmov’d and Reader unshaken, Reader unseduc’d

and unterrified, through the long-loud and sweet-still

I creep toward you. Toward you, I thistle and I climb.

I crawl, Reader, servile and cervine, through this blank

season, counting – I sleep and I sleep. I sleep,

Reader, toward you, loud as a cloud and deaf, Reader, deaf

as a leaf…

Except of Sweet Reader, Flanneled and Tulled

by Olena Kalytiak Davis

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