Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places

Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places

Author: Charts & Leisure May 22, 2024 Duration: 56:06
Georgia digs deep into the enshittification of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. Mike talks to Aftermath co-founder Luke Plunkett about recent, massive changes to Google’s Page Rank algorithm, and the risk of reconfiguring entire industries to pander to search traffic. And also: An AI Voice Clone of Mike is set to *maximum chaos*.  Show Notes: Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ – 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 See what interstitials we need submissions for – Intro Links Belle Delphine earned over $90K selling jars of her bathwater in 2019. PayPal only released her money this week – Katie Notopulous, Business Insider Slack has been using data from your chats to train its machine learning models – Will Shanklin, Engadget It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It – Lauren Goode, WIRED Uber and Lyft agree to deal with state lawmakers on minimum pay rates for drivers – Max Nesterak, Minnesota Reformer IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more –  Christopher Dring, gameindustry.biz IGN buys Eurogamer, VG247, and Rock Paper Shotgun – layoffs have already started – Game Central, Metro.co.uk Never Post at XOXO 2024  12 Best Podcasts of 2024 (So Far) – Lauren Passell, Lifehacker  Mike on Blocked Party – Dating Apps (derogatory) Dating Apps: The Uncertainty of Marketised Love https://www.tiktok.com/@officialbrept/video/7028325781537393925?_t=8lrDLmaKbTa&_r=1 https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahgraser/video/7117094997484309806?_r=1&_t=8ly4uYqQrPD https://www.tiktok.com/@harmonythread/video/7262952885158235435?_t=8lwOVY3O0LP&_r=1 https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahgraser/video/7125991346489314603?_t=8lwOSDK1l3H&_r=1 https://www.tiktok.com/@jordanzhang13/video/7036251495951535366?_t=8m88ojNTm3y&_r=1 – Google Scruples Find Luke at Aftermath.site Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change Workers At The Gamurs Group Of Video Game Websites Describe It As ‘Hell’ The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms  – 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.  Foot, how you press  me to keep that  old contact alive the repeated daily sentiment  of pace so  grim, always that untrusting silence untitled, by JH Prynne, from The White Stones 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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Announcement: 2026 Never Post Olympiad [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:55
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 compet…
State of the Pod: 2026 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:31
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. – Become a…
What Is Going On In Minnesota [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:31
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. – Become a Never Post member at ht…
Post-Mortem: 2025 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:06:37
A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2025 – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Po…
Posting from Inside [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:01
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. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/…
Mailbag #11: Someone To Tell Us How To Be [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:28
We respond to your questions and comments! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch”…
Don’t Do It Yourself [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:49
Audrey talks with cloud-server DIYer Drew Lyton about what its like trying to rebuild the internet in your living room. Also: LASERLAKE – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and b…
The Year I Learned to Pay Attention [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 56:46
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…
When We Fight We Win [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:49
Hans talks with Paul Levy about the case of Pool World vs Prepared Food Photos; A WIGOH for the broken hearted; Tokyo! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, an…
Practical Magic: A Witch’s Guide to Etsy Witches [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:21
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. – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for acce…