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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News Links

• Vote for us at the Webby’s!
• The U.S. ban on foreign internet routers
• Explainer on the router ban
• 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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Find Jess Rauchberg:

• The lolcow paper

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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.

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

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Find Elizabeth Wissinger:

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

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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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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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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.

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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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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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.

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia