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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The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:23
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. – Take the Never Post Aud…
Leaving Social Media Roundtable [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:07:45
Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their experiences leaving social platforms behind. – 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…
Looks Great! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:45
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! –…
Don't Panic [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 58:26
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…
Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:04
Episode coming later this week. For now: something meaningless. -- ☎️ 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 ne…
Mailbag #5 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:12:01
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…
A Feed to Call One’s Own [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:22
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…
Our Dearly Decommissioned [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:42
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 th…
The State of Podcasting Roundtable, Oct. 2024 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 55:40
Senior producer Hans Buetow leads a conversation with three makers and thinkers in the podcast space — Mia Lobel (Freelance Cafe, fmr. Pushkin Industries), Lauren Passell (Tink Media) and Ronald Young, Jr. (Weight For It…
Where I'm At Right Now [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:26
Georgia talks to Cliff Lampe, Professor of Information at the UMich School of Information about how Find My has become indispensable technology of friendship in a hypergamified social-media landscape. Then, Hans talks wi…