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

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

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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

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