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News Post: How The Brazilian Left Won An Election with the Internet
Mike talks with Caio Almendra — writer, podcast host and organizer with Brazil’s Socialism and Liberty Party — about how the internet helped Lula de Silva win the Brazilian Presidential Election. Also, news! – Become a Never Post member at
Georgia Is Terrified of the Titanic - Proxy With Yowei Shaw [CROSSPOST]
For a special Halloween-themed feed drop, we've got something particularly spooky for you. Georgia was recently on Proxy with Yowei Shaw — another amazing Radiotopia show — to discuss an especially...creepy conundrum that plagues her digita
Mr. TIFF - An Oral History of a Format
Stephen Carlsen died in 2025. His family knew vaguely that he had worked on creating the file format TIFF, but it was his nephew, Nathan Carlsen, who kicked off a quest for the full story. This week, senior producer Hans Buetow talks with N
Can The Internet Ruin Your Sense of Self? [Archive Pull]
Originally published on April 9th, 2025, enjoy this episode in which Mike talks with psychotherapist Kurt White about how the internet may help us become ourselves. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/ for access
Luxury Groceries Have Replaced Luxury Fashion
Georgia chats with Ludwig Hurtado of MOLD Magazine's "Food Futures" podcast about luxury grocery brands and the Highsnobiety “Status Report,” that says fashion is dead and food is in. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/#
How Do You Stop A Datacenter In Your Town?
Mike chats with Maia Woluchem and Cella Sum – co-authors of The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania – about the fight against Data Centers happening across Pennsylvania. – Become a Never Post memb
What Does The Internet Sound Like? [Archive Pull]
Originally published on April 10th, 2024, enjoy a conversation between Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop and Executive Producer Jason where they talk about what pop-musical acts have sounded like the internet. – Become a Never Post member
The World's Most Special Boys Building the Apocalypse
After a confusingly whirlwind week on the AI battlelines, senior producer Hans Buetow seeks the counsel of researcher Dave Karpf to understand what the heck even happened in the past week with all the tweet storms, screeds, panics, and prog
Paper Report Live: Special Slop Edition
The Never Post staff meet to discuss four academic papers on how the internet is getting worse, each from a special edition of the European Journal of Cultural Studies. How is slop like gelatin? In many more ways that you might immediately
News Post: DemonAI
Georgia talks to Matt Sitman, host of the podcast Know Your Enemy, about Pope Leo XIV's recent comments about the algorithm, and why so much of his papacy seems concerned with the cultural impact of AI. -- Become a Never Post member (https:
Memberdrive Streamweek Starts Aug. 17th!
Here's the schedule (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ckaZMWMNaFSzBimsQBbsfq71j-1GghJCvxxlFKdcU7M/edit?usp=sharing)! The stream is here on twitch (https://twitch.tv/theneverpost)! Become a member today (https://www.neverpo.st/#/porta
AI At Work? In This Economy?
With the help of listener submissions and the insight of experts Drs Casey Fiesler and Alex Hanna, Senior Producer Hans Buetow investigates how people resist the integration of AI into the workplace, why folks might feel hesitant to broadca
Doxxing Yourself For Science
Mike talks to security researchers Jan Pennekamp and Johannes Lohmoller about how many academics are allegedly doxxing themselves in the process of publishing their own research, and why it’s so hard to get sensitive, secretive information
Mailbag #13: Tinky Tiny's Post-Party Palooza
We respond to your questions and comments! – Become a Never Post member (https://neverpo.st/) for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content – ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice note via
Posting From the American Car [Archive Pull]
Originally published on April 26th, 2024, enjoy this episode where Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video. – Become a Never Post member (https://neverpo.st/) for an ad-free version of the show
The Happiest Car On The Internet
Georgia talks with automotive journalist Rory Carroll about the memetic rise of the Renault Twingo, its debut on the racing game Gran Turismo, and what the popularity of this dorky car says about online car culture. – Become a Never Post me
A New Type of Grief: Inheritance Posting
Senior producer Hans Buetow and contributing producer Kurt White tackle a new type of post - people making content out of the things they inherit from dead people. They talk with Nikki from Dad’s Vinyl Stash, and speculate about whether or
What Happens When Search Goes Full AI
Producer Audrey talks with Mols Sauter and Erin Kissane about what AI hallucinations actually are. – Become a Never Post member (https://neverpo.st/) for an ad-free version of the show and all kinds of bonus content – • Call us at 651 615 5
🍹💀 Memberdrive Streamweek and Member Feed Update
Long and short: • Memberdrive Streamweek is Aug 17 - 21 at https://twitch.tv/theneverpost • Sideshow specific feeds are being retired; members will have one feed! • Once monthly members' only content will include things like Team Chats, WIG
Burnt Toast Audio Says “🖕 Your Levels” [Archive Pull]
Originally published on March 27th, 2024, enjoy this episode where Georgia and guest producer Luis López wonder why there is so much audio online that seems to sound bad on purpose, and decide to give this practice a name: burnt toast audio
Did The Feed Ruin Taste?
Georgia talks to New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka about the state of personal taste on our algorithmic feeds. When popularity reigns supreme and it feels like everything is an ad online, how do we trust our own personal taste? – Become a
Why Does Everything Run Doom?
Mike talks with two game designers, a nuclear physicist and sound artist about how the iconic videogame became what it is today: something that runs on every piece of technology (and increasingly: biology) known to man – Become a member at
Computer Says Kiss
Georgia chats with Sydney Bradley of Business Insider about dating app Bumble’s termination of the swipe, and the dating app market’s overall pivot to AI – Subscribe to the Trustfnd Independent Media Collective bundle here (https://trustfnd
The Internet Is A Megadungeon [Archive Pull]
Originally published on March 27th, 2024, enjoy Mike's conversation with Gabriele de Seta and Paolo Berti about how the “megadungeon” is a productive model for understanding the internet. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.
Hunting for Trash in Disneyland
Contributing producer Rose Witmer and her sister Maggie explore the nature of collecting — specifically, collecting Disney branded enamel pins — in an age where social media dominates hobbies across the board, and clicking "purchase" is eas
How Hard Is It To Stop Using American Tech?
Mike talks with the German Federal Center for Digital Sovereignty’s Head of Open Source Product & Delivery about Digital Sovereignty and the process of divesting the German state from American technology products. – Become a Never Post memb
Why No One Wants to Hard Launch Their Man
Georgia speaks to writer, researcher, and academic Carolina Bandinelli about embarrassing boyfriends and the online culture of cynicism, shame, and blame that has spread throughout the modern dating scene. – Become a Never Post member at ht
Georgia Gets Banned From Hinge Forever [Archive Pull]
Originally published on May 22nd, 2024 in our episode Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places, enjoy Georgia's segment where she investigates the walled garden of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. – Become a Never Post member at ht
Should You Trust MrBeast With Your Money?
Business and finance journalist Kit Pulliam examines MrBeast Financial, a soon-to-be-launched financial services platform spearheaded by MrBeast — A.K.A Jimmy Donaldson — himself. But what does it mean for this one, rich (is he rich?) YouTu
Mailbag #12: We're Not Built For This
We respond to your questions and comments! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/ for an ad-free version of the show and bonus content -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice note vi
