Dr. Martin Shelton tells us what Signal is, and how end-to-end-encryption works. Then: was this show always going to devolve into a poetry reading? Probably. Finally: contributing producer Tori Dominquez Peek wonders what happened to the COUNTLESS FLASH GAMES of the early aughts. Also: Wildflowers!

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Intro Links

• Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins
• Next steps for Privacy Sandbox and tracking protections in Chrome
• Google won’t kill third-party cookies after all
• Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
• Congress approves a revenge porn bill backed by first lady Melania Trump
• Shein and Temu will cost more, thanks to massive tariffs going into effect
• Epic v. Apple Contempt order
• A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store

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What Is Signal?

• Dr. Martin Shelton at Freedom of the Press Foundation
• Signal, the secure messaging app: A guide for beginners

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Are You There, Chat? It’s Me, Mike.

• Because one once willed you…, Rilke
• Culture and Value, Wittgenstein

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A Remembrance of Things Flash

• Flashpoint Archive
• Video Game History Foundation
• Tori Dominguez Peek

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This episodes contributing producer was Tori Dominguez Peek. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

You are so opaque

to me your brief moments

of apparent transparency

seem fraudulent windows

in a Brutalist structure

everyone admires

The effort your life

requires exhausts me.

I am not kidding

Excerpt of They Were Not Kidding in the Fourteenth Century

by Maureen N McLane

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In this one, Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their screen time stats and habits and what it even means to be informed.

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Jason talks with Hannah Pivo about charts, graphs, truth and proof; Georgia talks with Julian Chokkattu about where all the buttons went. And also: DATA CENTERS

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Intro

• Google loses ad tech monopoly case
• [2022] Judge says FTC’s antitrust case against Facebook can proceed
• Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wraps up testimony in antitrust case
• Risks to children playing Roblox ‘deeply disturbing’, say researchers
• Nvidia to produce AI servers worth up to $500 billion in US over four years
• France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs

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Charts & Curves

• Find Hannah
  • https://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/hannah-pivo

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Where Have All the Buttons Gone?

• Find Julian
  • Wired
• Touchscreen rollback on cars
  
  • Car and Driver
  • Automotive News
  • The Verge
  • The LA Times
  • Haggerty

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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.

The aim of constructive uncertainty

lies in the corner between two windows. Such that

we, welcoming the indistinct, unlocks the door

because it likes the sound.

We abstracts the whistled body

of the world. The hazards of this opposition

become clear: the ear listens to what

becomes it, the blood flowing through it.

Excerpt of Among the Living by Gary Sullivan

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Contributing producer Youngna Park looks at why people talk *like that* on LinkedIn. Mike talks with psychotherapist Kurt White about how the internet may help us become ourselves. ALSO: The people united will never be defeated.

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• Elon Musk’s X Sues Twitch for Alleged Advertising Boycott
• Elon Musk's X sues Twitch in lawsuit alleging advertisers conspired to boycott the platform
• Twitch appears to have settled with X
• Meta blocks livestreaming by teenagers on Instagram
• Online Safety Act: explainer
• The UK’s Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law
• A deepfakes bill is flying through Congress. Critics say it’s flawed.
• Fake Social Media Posts Can Tank The Stock Market Now
• New York introduces data collection tax and digital advertising tax … again
• Confirmed: Microsoft stops new data centres worldwide

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The Ultimate Platform of Capitalism

Youngna Park

• Website
• Making it Work newsletter

Melanie Ehrenkranz

• Laid Off substack

Sara M. Watson

• Website

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Brick by Brick

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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Real Synthetic Audio — Todd Clayton

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Song of the Day — The Current

Morning Becomes Eclectic — KCRW

Vegetative Electron Microscopy

Source Article from 1959

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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism — Shoshana Zuboff

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Intro Links

• How a false story about an anti-Trump band went viral
• Musk’s X Shuts Down Political Opposition Accounts in Turkey
• Existing ByteDance investors emerge as front-runners in TikTok deal talks
• Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers
• Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now
  
  
• Influence with Matt Silverman
• Unravelling, with Kurt White and Mary Wilson

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The 75 Day Hardstyle Challenge

• Mandy Lee’s 75 Day Hard Style No Buy Challenge: TikTok, Substack, Instagram
• Find Avery: Articles of Interest , Twitter, her website, Substack
• Find Kyle: The New Yorker, The Longing for Less

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One Particular Toothpick

• TechDirt
• Mike Masnick on Bluesky
• Protocols not Platforms
• Eric Goldman’s Blog, Technology & Marketing Law Blog
• Jeff Kosseff, The 26 Words That Created the Internet
• EFF on Section 230
• ACLU on Section 230

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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.

By the sparkle of certain ciliates, cesium

practices its cricket song.

Am I supposed to be impressed? My smoothie

comes with GPS.

Excerpt of We Have the Technology, by Michael Robbins

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Mike talks with Stephen Harrison about why authoritarian governments hate Wikipedia and Georgia talks with Kyle Chayka about how to have fun on the internet. Also: Kidpix!

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Intro Links

• ubuweb.com
• Poetica: Three Sound Poets: Jaap Blonk, Amanda Stewart, Christian Bok (2014)), ubuweb.com
• Skilled technologists are being forced out of government, Don Moynihan
• GSA eliminates 18F, NextGov
• Doppelgänger: New disinformation campaigns spreading on social media through Russian networks, Intrinsec
• NEW REPORT: Russian propaganda may be flooding AI models, American Sunlight Project
• Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg, TechCrunch

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Authoritarians vs Wikipedia

• Censorship of Wikipedia, Wikipedia.org

Find Stephen:

• Sourcenotes
• Stephen’s novel, The Editors
• Stephen on Bluesky

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Are We Having Fun Yet?

• Find Kyle: Twitter Bluesky Instagram
• Kyle at The New Yorker
• Titanium Daydream (also on YouTube and Instagram)
• Read Kyle’s book Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

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Oh! to be almost loquacious

Rather than fatally over

loquacity’s edge

Excerpt of #36 the-faux-ailing-abacus by Wayne Koestenbuam

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