Car Tok

Car Tok

Author: Charts & Leisure April 26, 2024 Duration: 55:03
Senior producer Hans Buetow investigates the transit vacuum that’ll result when Uber and Lyft leave the Twin Cities; Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video. Also: PLANES, TRAINS… BIKES – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links The House just voted on a potential TikTok ban (again). Now what? – CNN Biden signs a bill that could ban TikTok — after the 2024 election – NBC News Steve Mnuchin seeks AI partner to rebuild TikTok’s algorithm in takeover bid: sources – NY Post Google blocks California news in response to bill that would force tech giant to pay – NPR When Facebook bans the news – Matt Pearce Nvidia drops 10% as investors see risk in Big Tech shares – FT Super Micro And Nvidia Stock Woes Could Mean Trouble For Generative AI – Forbes AuthorJMac Tweet Mike on The Eurowhat Podcast If You Love Podcasts, Dump Spotify – Alex Sujong Laughlin, Defector – Twin Cities Transit Vacuum Minnesota Reformer Uber Archives Max Nesterak is on Twitter  – The American Car  Garlic Naan And Butter Chicken Fountain?! – Tiktok David After Dentist – YouTube Taco Reacts – Tiktok The American Room – Paul Ford, Medium It is NOT My day – Tiktok forget a rage room, ima just rent out my car so y’all can scream in it – Evelyn, Tiktok Shanin Blake – Tiktok Dear single parents ~ when I was 18 I got pregnant with my daughter and her dad went to prison right after she was born, so I was on my own. – Shanin Blake, Instagram This is our home her name is Nancy 🚐 – Shanin Blake, Instagram Good morning! I love living in a mom van!!! – Shanin Blake, Instagram – 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.  To understand what was going on it is perhaps necessary to have participated in the freeway experience, which is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can “drive” on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participants think only about where they are. Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over. A distortion of time occurs, the same distortion that characterizes the instant before an accident. Except from The Bureaucrats, by Joan Didion Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure

Mike Rugnetta, known for his thoughtful and often playful analysis of digital culture, guides each episode of Never Post. This isn't a series about quick social media tips or gadget reviews; instead, it digs into the deeper currents of online life. The conversations explore how the internet shapes our identities, our art, our politics, and our very sense of reality. You'll hear discussions that feel like the best kind of late-night talk with a deeply curious friend-ranging from the absurdity of memes to the profound implications of network theory. Produced by Charts & Leisure, the podcast operates from a simple, powerful premise: that the digital world is now inseparable from the human one, and it deserves this kind of careful, critical, and celebratory attention. Tuning in feels like getting a clearer map to a territory we all inhabit but rarely stop to examine. Each episode asks us to reconsider our daily scrolls, clicks, and shares, making the familiar strange again. It’s for anyone who has ever felt exhilarated, exhausted, or utterly bewildered by life online, offering a space to step back and make sense of the noise.
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Ringtones and Customization: Summer Yapfest 2025 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:49
An episode-long staff round-table about device customization with special guest Meghal Janardan. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot…
Betting On Whatever [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:38
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! – Become a Never Post member at htt…
Ohhhhh I Wanna Dance With Somebody [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:39
Georgia talks with Tim Lawrence about the posts emptying dancefloors, and the team gathers to ask What Is Going On Here. Also: Signoffs! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and…
Mailbag #8: I will not become food for monsters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:40
We respond to your comments! -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable 📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com 🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st -- Head to neverpo.st to s…
Reanimator: AI and Shared Histories [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:05
Hans confronts the technological, moral, and philosophical impacts of using Artificial Intelligence to animate still photos, including those of both personal and historical significance. – Become a Never Post member at h…
Hentai and the Post-Platform Internet [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:46
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…
A Remembrance of Things Flash [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:16
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 wha…
Roundtable: Is The Internet Driving You To The Brink? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:23
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. -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mai…
Smooth Moves [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:04
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 – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ – C…
Any Rigid Idea About Yourself Is a Prison [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:58
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 d…