Here’s Looking at You

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. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links 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 – Cameo’s Reputation Machine Find David: Bluesky Slate Rolling Stone Buzzfeed – 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 Västfjäll, Paul Slovic, Marcus Mayorga, Ellen Peters -- Compassion Fade: Affect and Charity Are Greatest for a Single Child in Need The Journalist’s Resource -- The effect of CCTV on public safety: Research roundup Ars Technica -- Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison – 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. Slowly the fog did what fog does, eventually: it lifted, the way veils tend to at some point in epic verse so that the hero can see the divinity at work constantly behind all things mortal, or that’s the idea anyway, I’m not saying I do or don’t believe that, I’m not even sure that belief can change any of it, at least in terms of the facts of how, moment by moment, any life unfurls, we can call it fate or call it just what happened… Excerpt, Sing a Darkness, by Carl Phillips Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure