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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. –

Oct 15
26 min

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 an

Oct 8
23 min

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

Oct 1
56 min

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-musi

Sep 24
25 min

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

Sep 17
49 min

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. H

Sep 10
1 h 00 min

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

Sep 3
39 min

Memberdrive Streamweek Starts Aug. 17th!

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Aug 12
5 min

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 integrat

Aug 6
44 min

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 r

Jul 29
35 min

Mailbag #13: Tinky Tiny's Post-Party Palooza

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Jul 23
57 min

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 Ne

Jul 15
23 min

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

Jul 9
24 min

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 t

Jul 3
44 min

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 for an ad-free version of the show and a

Jun 25
40 min

🍹💀 Memberdrive Streamweek and Member Feed Update

Long and short: Memberdrive Streamweek is Aug 17 - 21 at twitch.tv/theneverpost Sideshow specific feeds are being retired; members will have one feed! Once monthly memb

Jun 18
5 min

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

Jun 11
22 min

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 everythi

Jun 3
27 min

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 tec

May 28
55 min

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

May 21
31 min

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What listeners say

A curated, balanced selection of Apple Podcasts reviews.

I am two episodes in and I already know that I am going to make time to catch up and look forward to the newest ep to drop. This is achievable because it’s a bimonthly podcast and there is only thirteen episodes so far. That said, I don’t think you need to play from the start. If you see a topic covered you like or are interested, listen to that one. I can guarantee an intelligent (but accessible), sincere (but sometimes humorous), discussion of the topic that you can start and finish on your average lunch break. Each ep has two stories/topics and they really make you about the influence (and sometimes lack of influence) of the internet in all its forms. I highly recommend, especially if you liked anything Mike Rugnetta has been involved with or shows like Radiolab. To steal from Joe Bob Briggs, ‘Five stars. Chris says check it out.’

modotrobot · Jul 2024

This podcast is a lovely look into topics, ideas, and viewpoints I would otherwise have missed. It’s a delightful break from doomscrolling.

ThomasSixten · Jun 2024

Quality show about all the stuff that happens because of the internet and everything that happens in order to make the internet happen. It’s like Car Talk or This American Life, but instead of talking about the whirring and buzzing in your vintage Studebaker or the whimsical ennui wrought by the de-industrialization of your town or city, it’s like looking at yourself from the other side of the screen while you’re doom-scrolling, post-composing, liking, tweeting, ticking-and-tocking, followed by the vacuous flutter in the quiet air after you’re done…and you contemplate the fact that you haven’t logged out of anything for more than a decade. Nice to know they get it, and that there’s more to it. Talk tech to me, team. It’s really good.

Akruzuzu · Jun 2024

Never Post is a great show about the internet and how it shapes our lives in big and small ways. They’re not chasing the latest viral sensations, instead they dig deep and find really interesting stories and angles.

PorcupineSchool · Jun 2024

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