Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, enjoy Mike's segment on the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media.

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Mike, Hans, and Georgia discuss the recent U.S. deal with TikTok, how it?s changed the app,  whether it?s worth sticking around to see what happens, or if it's better to just log off for good. 

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DuckDuckYesNo

Kalshi gets banned Court order against Kalshi - Mass Gov Boston Globe Hackers against ICE - Techdirt EFF vs ICE tracking apps France bans Zoom - Politico Shopify comes to ChatGPT The new era of AI storefronts - McKinsey Craig Newmark pulls back on funding journalism - Neiman Lab NoAI for DuckDuckGo YesAI for DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo?s statement on their study The U.S. / TikTok deal - ABC News

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There is no promise like the present
though the present?s not promise at all.
The grifter flashes a glimmer like it was
a sure thing. Clinging to these turns
blindsides what?s before the eye, a fist
behind dice. I want distraction even
more than you, but both of us lost
the duel when our seconds went missing.

Excerpt of Against Hope By Charles Bernstein

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Never Post is live streaming their very own Olympiad!

Join us on Monday, February 2nd at 11:30am ET to watch intrepid competitors try to win the internet by doing various internet-related tasks for points.

Want to compete? Go to neverpo.st/olympiad to find out how! Tryouts must be submitted by 11:59pm ET on Wednesday, January 28.

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To celebrate Never Post's second birthday, Mike, Jason, Hans, and Georgia gather to talk about how it went; and to break down how many people listened, how much money changed hands, and changes coming in 2026.

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Producer and Minnesota resident Hans Buetow talks with journalist and Minnesota resident Em Cassel about Minnesota - the fraud, ICE raids and killings, and how it?s all about the posts.

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Eat Hot Chip, Post and Lie

RacketMN Em Cassel on Bluesky 2024 Auditor Report on Department of Education Feeding Our Future timeline - Axios Feeding Our Future timeline - Sahan Journal FBI Investigates Autism Schemes - Minnesota Reformer DHS Suspends Housing Stabilization - MNDHS The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer - City Journal Key Source Disputes Reporting - Star Tribune I Investigated Minnesota?s Billion Dollar Fraud Scandal - Nick Shirley Health Department Pauses Child Care Payments - NYTimes Child Care Centers Operating As Expected - MPR News Charlie Warzel Don Moynihan Cooper Lund  Ryan Broderick Right-Wing Influencers at Whipple Building - Ryan Broderick

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A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2025

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Our Esteemed Panel:

The Dog Hots

Akilah Hughes! Rebel Spirit on iHeart Jamie Loftus! The Bechdel Cast; jamieloftus.xyz

6-7 Nights At Freddy?s

Ryan Broderick! Garbageday.email Adam Bumas! Garbageday.email

2 Nerds 2 Furious

Lily Alexandre! youtube.com Tom Lum! tomlum.com

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Special thank you to Annie Rauwerda from Depths of Wikipedia, Kurt White of the podcast Unravelling, and Morgan Sung of the podcast Close All Tabs.

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Assorted links you may be interested in:

NY City Mayoral Election Day Stats - Pornhub Le Poisson Steve The dice game Hazard - Wikipedia Act 2, Scene ii of Richard II

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Dexter Thomas of the tech podcast kill switch interviews Jeremy Busby about his work as a journalist from solitary confinement, within a maximum security facility.

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social media reveals life behind bars. prisons want to block it

kill switch podcast kill switch episode about prison tablets Dexter Thomas Freedom of the Press Foundation

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Audrey talks with cloud-server DIYer Drew Lyton about what its like trying to rebuild the internet in your living room. Also: LASERLAKE

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Reservation of IPv6 Address Block 44::/16 for Amateur Radio Digital Communications (44Net) Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators iHeartRadio Exec Says Company Won?t ?Play AI Music? or Use ?AI Generated Personalities? in Staff Memo The Current No. 1 Christian Artist Has No Soul Forrest Frank on IG Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon Dating algorithms? Investigating the reciprocal relationships between partner choice FOMO, decision fatigue, excessive swiping, and trust in algorithms on dating apps

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Don?t Do It Yourself 

Drew?s blog Drew?s website

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Tresspasser. A high stone wall. I continue to obsessively study ?improving your hurdle technique? online, the red curve of the track guiding from the right to the left of the image as drills, minidisciplines, are suggested. Over and over. I was young when I heard recounted to me the terror and excitement of being chased of farmland, thinking there was a gun, scaling over to escape with superhuman force. Even then, I wanted to be a part of the chase.

Excerpt of The [blank] jumped over the [blank] (along a line a leap a landing) by Rowan Powell

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Meghal! shares her journey trying to rebuild her attention span and then chats with Emily Mazo and Mohamed Ali, organizers of the conference ?New Luddism: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace? Also: MACHINES!

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Intro Links

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine?s video archive https://andotherstuff.org/ https://bsky.app/profile/kalina2hu.bsky.social/post/3m5ucuht7vc2e Why the closure of 'Teen Vogue' is a bigger deal than you realize Roosevelt Institute on Closure of Teen Vogue https://kickstarterunited.org/ iHeartMedia and TikTok Launch Partnership TikTok Shop Is Now the Size of eBay

Fixing My Attention Span (*Deep Breath*)

Meghal on IG (which she is not checking as often)

Man vs Machine: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace

New Luddism Conference NYC off Tech  Collective Action in Tech Tech Workers Coalition  Mohamed Ali (email link)  Emily Mazo  Brian Merchant Blood in the Machine Gavin Mueller Breaking Things at Work Jathan Sadowski The Mechanic and the Luddite

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This week's poem is an excerpt of Dalmation People by Jessica Bet

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Hans talks with Paul Levy about the case of Pool World vs Prepared Food Photos; A WIGOH for the broken hearted; Tokyo!

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Polidashboard.org No degree, no discussion? China tightens the grip on influencers Not Verified? Not Welcome. China?s Influencer Policy Sends a Message Paid Armies of 'Clippers' Boost Internet Stars Like MrBeast Australia sues Microsoft for misleading M365 users about Copilot subscription options Internet Pricing Is About to Get a Lot Less Transparent

Making Trolls Pay Their Own Tolls

Paul at Public Citizen Paul?s Blog Paul Levy, the Web Bully?s Worst Enemy Pool World The Complaint and letter

WiGOH

?i don?t even know how to process this #cheater  #toxic  #betrayl?

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Georgia talks with Mahigan St. Pierre about witches Etsy-and-not, and Ph.D candidate in forensic psychology Alex Frampton about the image of witches today. 

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Too burned out to travel? This new app fakes your summer vacation photos for you Photography, Or The Writing Of Light by Jean Baudrillard X will start selling inactive usernames to paid users A digital dark age? The people rescuing forgotten knowledge trapped on old floppy disks Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration?s request 2025 Fiscal Year Among the Deadliest in ICE History for Detained Migrants Nearly two years after the ?Chicago Rat Hole? became a viral sensation, scientists have weighed in on the debate over what type of critter made the splat. 'Chicago Rat Hole' was not made by a rat, say rodent researchers

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Elvira II - Jaws of Cerberus (Amiga version) Beetlejuice (NES version) Pinball Jam - Elvira and the Party Monsters Sweet Home Noctropolis (MS-DOS version) Spear of Destiny Rise of the Dragon (MS-DOS version) Monster Bash (MS-DOS version) Thrill Kill Castlevania Chakan - The Forever Man (Sega Genesis Version) Castlevania II - Simon?s Quest Gauntlet Dark Legacy  (Arcade Version)

The Business of Digitized Witchcraft

Find Mahigan
 Kitchen Toad   Their Patreon (where you can also find their podcast) Find Alex?In The Broom Closet?

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Mike asks if there?s anything in the connection between fascism and the aesthetics of A.I.. And if they are connected, how are they? Is there something inherently fascistic about these technologies? Also: OPEIU Local 153 is union PROUD!

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Vote for us in the Signal Awards! Friend.com ads backlash ICE looking to create social media surveillance team Apple and Google remove ICE tracking apps The bots come for Cracker Barrel

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AI and New American Fascism

White House Posts Ghoulish AI Cartoon Showing Woman's Deportation (Huffpost) With Manifest Destiny art, DHS goes hard on ?white makes right? (LA Times) Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop (e-flux) The Other Side of the Canvas (Unpopular Front) Ur-Fascism (The Anarchist Library) In Unhinged Speech, Pete Hegseth Says He's Tired of ?Fat Troops,? Says Military Needs to Go Full AI (404 Media) Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline from Ep. 13 Generated-ish from Ep. 22

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Tori Dominguez-Peek returns to look at the prevalence of AI in the college classroom, and what it takes to ban it. Also: BOP SPOTTER!

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Google to reinstate banned YouTube accounts censored for political speech Alex Jones sports Hitler mustache in shocking broadcast: 'It had a wild effect on women' U.S. Secret Service disrupts telecom network that threatened NYC during U.N. General Assembly TProphet on bsky The Irresistible Rise of On Tyranny Here?s what?s happening right now with the US TikTok deal Inside Trump's deal to save TikTok Paramount Skydance eyes takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery as high as $24 a share: report LimeWire acquires Fyre Festival, has vague plans to offer 'real experiences' LimeWire, Former File-Sharing Service, Is Revealed as Buyer of Fyre Festival



Bop Spotter

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Teaching AI

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

Find Everyone:

Megan Fritts on X Dr. Rui Sousa-Silva on LinkedIn Tori Dominguez Peek on Bluesky Press Start Pod on Bluesky

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Hans talks with adult content creator Siri Dahl about age verification online; Georgia talks with James Beard Award-nominated producer and recipe developer Gabriella Lewis about the state of recipe sharing online; and also: sonification!

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A hacker used AI to automate an 'unprecedented' cybercrime spree, Anthropic says 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers twitch.tv/theneverpost 

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Sonification

Listen to Wikipedia Listening Back Sonificator

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Age Verified Down a Slippery Slope

Find Siri:

Her website Her Bluesky

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Recipes as Vibeposting 

Find Gabriella:

Her website Her instagram Eater New York Times Cooking

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Enough of this observing

said the child to her respondent.

Explain the astonishment of the abashed

articulate before the table

of the circle of friends

washed up on the shore of the foreign country

we all hoped to leave

for medicine. An alien

name had already gone and we were left

to drink; health

had no opponents

Excerpt of The Beautiful, by Jean Day

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An episode-long staff round-table with special guest Meghal Janardan. Recorded LIVE with chat during the Never Post Member Stream Week, the team discusses the future tech that was made to seem inevitable - have we reached it? Will we ever?

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Links

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Mike talks with David Huerta about age verification laws, VPNs, and Bluesky being blocked in Mississippi; The team asked chat WHAT (?!) Is Going On Here; ALSO: Never Post Plays

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You've got mail no more: AOL to shutter dial-up internet service An Open Letter to Kickstarter Creators & Allies: Why We, Kickstarter United, Are Fighting for a Four-Day 32-Hour Workweek YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing twitch.tv/theneverpost 

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Never Post Plays

Date Everything Pancito Merge NBA Jam

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Agewalled Gardens

An In-Depth Guide to Choosing a VPN

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WIGOH LIVE: Memberdrive Streamweek Ed.

Kurt Cobain Will Have His Revenge on the Straights Most iconic thing in pop culture (warning: X link)

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Reader unmov?d and Reader unshaken, Reader unseduc?d

and unterrified, through the long-loud and sweet-still

I creep toward you. Toward you, I thistle and I climb.

I crawl, Reader, servile and cervine, through this blank

season, counting ? I sleep and I sleep. I sleep,

Reader, toward you, loud as a cloud and deaf, Reader, deaf

as a leaf?

Except of Sweet Reader, Flanneled and Tulled

by Olena Kalytiak Davis

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How do social algorithms perceive and prescribe gender? Contributing producer Toby Martin investigates. Then Mike goes deep on the ins-and-outs of RSS. Also: Internet Instruments!

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-Reddit to block Internet Archive

-OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train AI on your posts

-Google cut deal with Reddit for AI training data

-OpenAI may pay Reddit $70M for licensing

-Wikipedia legal challenge

-?AI slop? on Wikipedia

-IL bans AI therapists

-K-12 cellphone ban

-Tasteland 51: ft. Mike Rugnetta

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Internet Instruments

10kdrummachines Nest 303-gen

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Gender By Algorithm

Toby@astroacespace on Tumblr Adam Aleksic  The Etymology Nerd Algospeak Thank you Lily, Adam, and George for their voices

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Terms & Conditions: RSS

RSS and Atom The Rise and Demise of RSS RSS 2.0 at Harvard Law On shutting down Google Reader

Find Justin:

Bsky

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Hans looks into the tactical archiving efforts of our nation?s librarians, and Mike unboxes a bussin glow-up of an alt big mood to brainrot. Also: Ask an Expert!

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Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results A Second Tea Breach Itch.io Suddenly Pulls NSFW Adult Content Update on NSFW content YouGov poll results European project Eurosky eurosky.social

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Ask an Expert!

Micah Loewinger Adopt-A-Station

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Tactical Archiving

Tracking Government Information Data Rescue Project UChicago Data Mirror Federal Data Forum America?s Essential Data Internet Archive?s Wayback Machine

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Tralalero Tralarot

Ryan:

Garbage Day Panic World

Emilie:

?It speaks to me in brain rot? emilieowens.ca hf.uio.no

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An episode-long staff round-table about device customization with special guest Meghal Janardan. 

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Mike thinks through the amount of gambling we are forced into, and contributing producer Melissa Locker tells us the story of a very special 90?s online newsletter. Also: Book reviews!

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What to know about online age verification laws Trial reveals flaws in tech intended to enforce Australian social media ban for under-16s Australia regulator and YouTube spar over under-16s social media ban French city of Lyon ditching Microsoft for open source office and collab tools

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Posting In The Age of Chance

 Trapped - the secret ways social media is built to be addictive (and what you can do to fight back) Everything in America is Gambling Now - Adam Conover Tiny Subversions (2014) - Darius Kazemi Tiny Subversions (2024) - Darius Kazemi The Online Gambling Epidemic - Drew Gooden You?re Not Addicted to Content, You?re Starving for Information - Hank Green

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Whatever

https://oasisinet.com/ And After All - Melissa?s book on Oasis

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Never Post?s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This episode's contributing producer was Melissa Locker. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show?s host is Mike Rugnetta.

Look,

this is not the West, this is

the 21st Century but still as desolate

cottonwood pollen blowing through

abandoned mansions, the ball-bearing factory,

strikers with their flapjack placards

waving at a glance of traffic

At the discount cinema, gunfighters name

a young Cherokee guide ?Look?

because of the way she stares, because

of the way they look at her. And everyone

keeps their eyes on the horizon,

Look, you?ve won a set of false teeth.

Excerpt of Look by Sarah Messer

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Georgia talks with Tim Lawrence about the posts emptying dancefloors, and the team gathers to ask What Is Going On Here. Also: Signoffs!

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WhatsApp is bringing subscription model and ads to its messaging platform Disney, Universal sue image creator Midjourney for copyright infringement Download festival rockers told to take off smartwatches after moshpits spark emergency alerts Thirst Traps and Quick Cuts: The Effects of TikTok ?Edits? on Evaluations of Politicians Nexus Mods' new owner is a company whose co-founder has already had to reassure folks that NFTs and crypto aren't incoming  End of an era: Nexus Mods has change in ownership after 24 years following "stress-related health issues" An Update From Dark0ne

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An Exuberance Entombed

Find Tim Dancing In The Streets by Barbarba Erenreich 

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What Is Going On Here

Reembot r/FifthWorldPics r/WackyTicTacs The Sufi Blower https://www.tiktok.com/@maydonoztadi/video/7322541177171971333?lang=en @haqkhattebhussain

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Hans confronts the technological, moral, and philosophical impacts of using Artificial Intelligence to animate still photos, including those of both personal and historical significance.

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Why Academics Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky This Cybersecurity Startup Is Quietly Moderating X?s Community Notes to Fight Crypto Scams Scam Sniffer Nancy Mace ran bot army, had staff run fake accounts to boost profile, report claims: ?It?s what she does for fun? RFK Jr.'s MAHA Report Cites Research Studies That Don't Exist The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don?t Exist Roblox?s Hit Farm Game Spurs Underground Digital Fruit Economy

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Animating History

Falcon Heights, MN City Council Meeting - March 26, 2025 Errol Morris at NYPL Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from the 3,000 year old Mummy, Nesyamun ?True of Voice? Making a Dead Lion Roar Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Saigon Execution Oral History with Eddie Adams oldphoto.ai Intersubject Synchronization of Cortical Activity During Natural Vision Ways of Seeing 'I Loved That AI:' Judge Moved by AI-Generated Avatar of Man Killed in Road Rage Incident

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Mike talks with Morgan Sung of KQED?s Close All Tabs podcast and PhD Media and Technology researcher Aurelie Petit about hentai and platforms. Georgia talks with WIRED gear reviews editor Boone Ashworth about the tariffs coming for your fashion microtrends. ALSO: Ask an Expert with Avery Dame-Griff.

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Scientists Blasted Human Cells With 5G to See What Would Happen 5G-exposed human skin cells do not respond with altered gene expression and methylation profiles Open Access The Hidden Game: How Scammers Use ?Chameleon Ads? to Bypass Meta?s Moderation 23andMe Sale Shows Your Genetic Data Is Worth $17 Regeneron Enters into Asset Purchase Agreement to Acquire 23andMe® for $256 Million; Plans to Maintain Consumer Genetics Business and Advance Shared Goals of Improving Human Health and Wellness The Kids Online Safety Act is back

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Ask an Expert

Avery Dame-Griff

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The Post-Platform Internet

Close All Tabs Morgan?s website Morgan on X Aurelie?s website The hentai streaming platform wars Hentai Music 2018 AH OH UH

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MFW They Come for the Little Treats

Right to Repair in the age of tariffs Find Boone Ashworth on Wired Boone on X Boone on Bluesky To send in tips, contact Boone on Signal at Boone.10

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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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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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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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Friends! A Very Special Never Post for you!

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 Hannahhttps://arthistory.columbia.edu/content/hannah-pivo

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Where Have All the Buttons Gone?

Find JulianWired Touchscreen rollback on cars
  Car and Driver Automotive News The Verge The LA Times Haggerty

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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

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Contributing producer Youngna Park looks at why people talk *like that* on LinkedIn. Mike talks with psychotherapist Kurt White about how the internet may help us become ourselves. ALSO: The people united will never be defeated.

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Vote for us in the Webbies!

Elon Musk?s X Sues Twitch for Alleged Advertising Boycott Elon Musk's X sues Twitch in lawsuit alleging advertisers conspired to boycott the platform Twitch appears to have settled with X Meta blocks livestreaming by teenagers on Instagram Online Safety Act: explainer The UK?s Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law A deepfakes bill is flying through Congress. Critics say it?s flawed. Fake Social Media Posts Can Tank The Stock Market Now New York introduces data collection tax and digital advertising tax ? again Confirmed: Microsoft stops new data centres worldwide

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The Ultimate Platform of Capitalism

Youngna Park

Website Making it Work newsletter

Melanie Ehrenkranz

Laid Off substack

Sara M. Watson

Website

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Brick by Brick

Kurt White

Unravelling podcast LinkedIn

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Your business in this world

Your nakedness and terror

Your sanctity remains

the crucial battle

Dearly beyond

We are scattered here today

amongst commodities

This town isn?t big enough

for trust

Excerpt of The Concept of Dread by Pam Rehm

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How a false story about an anti-Trump band went viral Musk?s X Shuts Down Political Opposition Accounts in Turkey Existing ByteDance investors emerge as front-runners in TikTok deal talks Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers Delete your DNA from 23andMe right now

Influence with Matt Silverman Unravelling, with Kurt White and Mary Wilson

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The 75 Day Hardstyle Challenge

Mandy Lee?s 75 Day Hard Style No Buy Challenge: TikTok, Substack, Instagram Find Avery: Articles of Interest , Twitter, her website, Substack Find Kyle: The New Yorker, The Longing for Less

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One Particular Toothpick

TechDirt Mike Masnick on Bluesky Protocols not Platforms Eric Goldman?s Blog, Technology & Marketing Law Blog Jeff Kosseff, The 26 Words That Created the Internet EFF on Section 230 ACLU on Section 230

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By the sparkle of certain ciliates, cesium

   practices its cricket song.

Am I supposed to be impressed? My smoothie

   comes with GPS.

Excerpt of We Have the Technology, by Michael Robbins

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Mike talks with Stephen Harrison about why authoritarian governments hate Wikipedia and Georgia talks with Kyle Chayka about how to have fun on the internet. Also: Kidpix!

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ubuweb.com Poetica: Three Sound Poets: Jaap Blonk, Amanda Stewart, Christian Bok (2014)), ubuweb.com Skilled technologists are being forced out of government, Don Moynihan GSA eliminates 18F, NextGov Doppelgänger: New disinformation campaigns spreading on social media through Russian networks, Intrinsec NEW REPORT: Russian propaganda may be flooding AI models, American Sunlight Project Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg, TechCrunch

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Authoritarians vs Wikipedia

Censorship of Wikipedia, Wikipedia.org

Find Stephen:

Sourcenotes Stephen?s novel, The Editors Stephen on Bluesky

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Are We Having Fun Yet?

Find Kyle: Twitter Bluesky Instagram Kyle at The New Yorker Titanium Daydream (also on YouTube and Instagram)  Read Kyle?s book Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

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Oh! to be almost loquacious

Rather than fatally over

loquacity?s edge

Excerpt of #36 the-faux-ailing-abacus by Wayne Koestenbuam

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Georgia talks with Matt Pearce ? journalist, former president of Media Guild of the West, and senior policy advisor for Rebuild Local News ? about the info environment on Tiktok around its 12 hour ban in the US. The team asks WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. Also: Computer Whiz!

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William McFarland Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Defrauding Investors And A Ticket Vendor Of Over $26 Million, justice.gov EXCLUSIVE: Fyre Festival 2: Dates, location and how to get tickets, Today Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value, Futurism Microsoft Dropped Some AI Data Center Leases, TD Cowen Says,  Bloomberg How Temu?s supply chain is changing, RetailBrew Temu Overhauls Supply Chain on Tariffs, Risking Price Hikes, Bloomberg UK users are losing a key Apple security feature, raising questions about the future of privacy, CNN

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Tiktok?s Leftovers Hours

Matt Pearce?s substack On Bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt

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What Is Going On Here

Mike: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCNP0atyy0J/ Georgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnBLd93cydQ, https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YqRuDF/ Hans: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pomes/hot/ Jason: https://www.tiktok.com/@aerosangels7?_t=ZT-8uF8Ot7ziWJ&_r=1 Stevie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf8vqQFeH_k

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Mike talks with artist, researcher and online harassment expert Caroline Sinders about blocking people online. What?s it for, and what kinds of feeling do we have when using it? Then, friend of the show Meghal Janardan speaks to children?s book author Laura Dower about her series ?From the Files of Madison Finn?, an early exploration about what it was like being young, and online, at the turn of the millennium. Also: ssshhhhhh library asmr

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Wired Establishes Itself as the Digital Thorn in Elon Musk?s Side, The Wrap  Introducing ChatGPT Gov, OpenAI As Trump Offers Buyout to Get Rid of as Many Government Workers as Possible, OpenAI Announces New Version of ChatGPT Designed to Do Government Work, Futurism Union lawsuit seeks to block ?deferred resignation? program, Federal News Network EU sets out guidance on banning harmful AI uses, TechXplore The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers, Advait.com Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance, Washington Post Google scraps its diversity hiring goals as it complies with Trump?s new government contractor rules, APNews Vance gets the TikTok portfolio, Punchbowl

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What If There Were Fewer Connections?

Journalists? Use of Social Media Disconnection Practices: ?I Try Not to Block People, but??

Dr Dawn Wheatley, dcu.ie

Find Caroline:

convocation.design cord_labs on IG

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From the Files of Madison Finn

Find Laura:

lauradower.com

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The soft rumor of spreading weeds. The sound of things ruined by the wind. The come to me as if I were the heart of all that exists. I would like to be dead, and also to go inside another?s hear

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Georgia talks with politics and internet reporter David Mack about whether disgraced politicians are attempting to launder their reputations on Cameo. Plus, Hans finds out what it feels like to answer an unanswerable question about how many cameras there are in the world. Also: the sounds of our collective TikTok Journey.

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FCC -- Carr Welcomes Court Order Invalidating President Biden?s Plan to Expand Government Control of the Internet Through Title II Regulations MSN -- Brendan Carr is officially in charge of the FCC ALA -- Net Neutrality: An Intellectual Freedom Issue

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Cameo?s Reputation Machine

Find David:

Bluesky Slate Rolling Stone Buzzfeed

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How Many Cameras Are There?

Segment Links:

Archive.org -- Opening the Era of Outer Space Union of Concerned Scientists -- Satellite Database FAA -- Drones By the Numbers IHS Markit -- Video Surveillance Datasheet Allied Market Research -- Video Surveillance Market CNET -- Google Maps has now photographed 10 million miles in Street View NYC DOT -- Cameras List 404 Media -- Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool Electronic Frontier Foundation -- Atlas of Surveillance International Telecommunications Union -- Facts and Figures 2023 Business Wire -- Amazon's Ring Remained atop the Video Doorbell Market in 2021 Decision Research -- Psychic Numbing Daniel V

To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of launching Never Post, Mike, Jason and Hans gather to talk about how it went; and to break down how many people listened, how much money changed hands, and what to expect from the show in 2025.

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A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2024

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Our Esteemed Panel:

Nerds of a Feather / The Lilybrary of Tomgress

Tom Lum! tomlum.com Lily Alexandre! youtube.com

The Dog Hots

Akilah Hughes! Rebel Spirit on iHeart Jamie Loftus! Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) on iHeart

The Garbage Men

Ryan Broderick! Garbageday.email Adam Bumas! Garbageday.email

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Assorted links you may be interested in:

Why Chappell Roan Told MTV VMAs Attendee to "Shut the F--k Up" - E!Online Netflix, Paramount Ask Canada Court to Amend New Trudeau Tax ? Yahoo! Finance Not even Spotify is safe from AI slop ? The Verge The #3 Most Viral Song in the World Is an AI-Generated, Xenophobic Parody ? PCMag ?Dodgers Gawr Gura? on eBay ?mistakes into miracles? on DeviantArt (potentially NSFW) emojistats.bsky.sh The Willy Wonka Event?s Lead Actor Speaks Out: ?It Was Just Gibberish? - WIRED

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Georgia talks with beauty reporter and critic Jessica DeFino about the capitalistic excesses of
?self-care? online; Mike talks with Today in Tabs? Rusty Foster about logging off. Also: UNBOXING.

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TikTok CEO meets with Trump while asking for Supreme Court to take up ban appeal ? UPI Hawk Tuah Haliey Welch's Crypto Team Nets £2.59M Amid Botched Token Launch, Fans File SEC Complaints ? IBTimes Researchers Consider the Relationship Between Misinformation, Outrage, and the Sharing of Content on Social Media ? TechPolicy Online influencers need ?urgent? fact-checking training, warns Unesco ? The Guardian Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 ? Pew Research

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The Horrors Persist, But So Do The Little Treats

Find Jessica:

jessica-defino.com The Review of Beauty newsletter

Segment Links:

Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light ? WorldCat Studies on retail therapy ? here, here, here and here 

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Touching Trail

Find Rusty:

Rusty on Bluesky Today in Tabs Today on Trail

Would you pay to quit TikTok and Instagram? You?d be surprised how many would - The Conversation

Most of the TikTok users (64%) and almost half of the Instagram users (48%) were prepared to pay to be off them, so long as others were off them, resulting in average valuations across all use

Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their experiences leaving social platforms behind.

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On the last evening on this earth, we sever our days
from our trees, and count the ribs we will carry along
and the ribs we will leave behind, right here . . . on the last evening
we bid nothing farewell, we don't find the time to end who we are . . .
everything remains the same, the place exchanges our dreams
and exchanges its visitors. Suddenly we are incapable of satire
since the place is ready to host the dust . . . here on the last evening
we contemplate mountains surrounding clouds: a conquest and a counterconquest
and an ancient time handing over our door keys to the new time

Excerpt of Eleven Planets At The End Of The Andalusian Scene by Mahmoud Darwish

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Mike talks with Jon Greenaway, aka litcritguy, about the horror of online food videos; Georgia talks with Katie Notopoulos about why you can?t personalize your social profiles a la MySpace anymore; ALSO leaf crunches! 

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Bluesky hits 20 million users and counting - ZDNet Here?s Why I Decided To Buy ?InfoWars? ? theonion.com https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3law7zmt6522x The Onion Wins Bid to Buy Infowars, Alex Jones?s Site, Out of Bankruptcy ? NYTimes Donald Trump names Project 2025 author to oversee the internet & media ? LGBTQ Nation FCC commissioner calls for TikTok ban ? CNN A Conservative Path Forward on Big Tech | Opinion ? Newsweek America?s News Influencers ? Pew

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Food Gore

Find Jon:

Capitalism: A Horror Story, Jon?s Book (HIGHLY recommended) Horror Vangaurd, Jon?s horror podcast The Haunt, Jon?s writing

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15 Recipes For Anyone Who Loves Fries - YouTube Garlic Bread & Meatball Sub ? Chefclub Spaghetti-O Pie ? Tiktok Your Least Favorite Gross Viral Food Videos Are All Connected to This Guy ? Eater chefclub comments on X Are Those Disgusting Food Hack Videos a Sex Thing? ? Inside Hook

Mike talks about how and why some authentic media looks like it was generated by AI; Hans talks about KOSA ? the Kids Online Safety Act ? and how it is shaped by not one, but two concurrent moral panics. Also: RARE TAPES! ?

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https://x.com/MikeIsaac/status/1854202822600106162 Facebook Took More Than $1 Million For Ads Sowing Election Lies - Forbes EU launches action against shopping website Temu over illegal products - Guardian Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division - TechCrunch Looks like a random AI slop site based in Illinois, aided by social media, has coaxed hundreds of people on to the main street of Dublin for a Halloween parade that was never happening. ? X

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https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1gfij22/comment/luhu6kz/ How can you tell if text is AI-generated? Researchers have figured out a new method Discover the most common AI vocabulary words RIP Baudrillard https://x.com/TheRidleyJones/status/1848214407211311466 Kamala Rally photo, and indication it was shot on an iPhone warped, surrealist, why?d you generate the background people

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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTFdNh7yj/ https://x.com/Meelsie143/status/1832795190794342539 https://x.com/Solomosos/status/1848367541665583473 https://www.reddit.com/r/shitpost

Episode coming later this week. For now: something meaningless.

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Georgia talks with communications scholar and privacy researcher Alice Marwick about ?Are We Dating the Same Guy?? groups, and how hard it is to keep private communities private. Contributing producer Noah Hertz files a story about the best, smallest social network you?ve never heard of. Also: MIKE DIES??? ? ?

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Archive.org hacked Automattic CEO quadruples down on WP Engine legal battle Cracks in the Mr. Beast empire  The AI restaurant problem on Instagram

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Are We Dating the Same Guy?

AWDTSG Wikipedia Entry Find Alice on bsky Alice?s website

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David Social

You can find Noah at noahhertz.com David Social is at davidsocial.com but don?t bother if you don?t already know David Lily Alexandre is on YouTube and X, The Everything Website

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when I first died, I stole a lock of your hair while you slept

Now I dip it in ink when the mood strikes

and the times you visit and kneel so pretty on the grass above me,

that?s not scratching you hear. It?s writing. 

except of Poem to Line My Casket with, Ramona, by Josh Bell

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We visit the funeral for CrowdTangle, a social listening app that was used by disinformation and human rights researchers. Mike talks with Dallas Taylor, host of the podcast 20k Hertz, about why podcasts sound the way they do. And also: videogame menu music!

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Brazil's top court says X paid pending fines to wrong bank ? Reuters Musk's X paid $5 million in fines to the wrong bank, Brazil's Supreme Court said - Business Insider After weeks of drama, SF tech CEO gives workers $30,000 to quit ? SFGate 159 employees are leaving Automattic as CEO?s fight with WP Engine escalates ? TechCrunch How to Delete Your 23andme Data Amid the Company's Turmoil ? MSN California enacts laws to protect child influencers' financial security ? NBC DoNotPay has to pay $193K for falsely touting untested AI lawyer, FTC says ? ArsTechnica 

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CrowdTangle, We Barely Knew Thee

RIP Crowdtangle David Karpf Kevin Roose?s Twitter Bot

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Why Do Podcasts Sound Like That, with Dallas Taylor

Dallas? LinkedIn Post - LinkedIn 20k Hertz DeFacto Sound

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Having been taught by fools, how else could i have ended up but as I am? a man who panics at the sound of his own voice, a blusterer, afraid that within the five pointed maple leaf there lies another name he never knew; ready, always, to be found wrong. 

Excerpt of ON FIRE by Andrew Feld

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