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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Mailbag #7: On Ads, The RSS Resurgence and More [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:06
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The Hardest Thing To Do Is Nothing [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:09:03
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” – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemai…
Never Post is joining Radiotopia [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:04
We're very excited to let you know that as of today, Never Post is distributed by Radiotopia. We wanted to tell you what that means for us (hopefully a lot), for you (hopefully not too much) and what it changes about the…
F*cking Around, and Finding Out [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:03:51
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! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail D…
The Day The Vibes Died [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:42
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…
Mad Chat [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:57
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 s…
Mailbag #6 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:10
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 See what interstitials we…
Here’s Looking at You [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:46
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 que…
State of the Pod: 2025 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:56
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 sh…
Post-Mortem: 2024 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:10
A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2024 – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice memo via airtable Or email u…