A Remembrance of Things Flash

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 (wired.com/story/2025-4chan-hack-admin-leak)

• Next steps for Privacy Sandbox and tracking protections in Chrome (privacysandbox.com/news/privacy-sandbox-next-s…)

• Google won’t kill third-party cookies after all (blog.lukaszolejnik.com/google-wont-kill-third-…)

• Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive (theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search…)

• Congress approves a revenge porn bill backed by first lady Melania Trump (npr.org/2025/04/28/nx-s1-5380236/take-it-down-…)

• Shein and Temu will cost more, thanks to massive tariffs going into effect (npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5383909/trump-china-s…)

• Epic v. Apple Contempt order (documentcloud.org/documents/25924283-epic-v-ap…)

• A judge just blew up Apple’s control of the App Store (theverge.com/news/659246/apple-epic-app-store-…)

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What Is Signal?

• Dr. Martin Shelton at Freedom of the Press Foundation (freedom.press/people/martin-shelton)

• Signal, the secure messaging app: A guide for beginners (freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-beginners)

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Are You There, Chat? It’s Me, Mike.

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Because one once willed you… (lyricstranslate.com/en/daraus-da%C3%9F-einer-d…), Rilke

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Culture and Value (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_and_Value), Wittgenstein

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A Remembrance of Things Flash

• Flashpoint Archive (flashpointarchive.org)

• Video Game History Foundation (gamehistory.org)

• Tori Dominguez Peek (bsky.app/profile/toridp98.bsky.social)

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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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