Mailbag #8: I will not become food for monsters

Mailbag #8: I will not become food for monsters

Author: Charts & Leisure June 11, 2025 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 see pictures of graffiti and a screenshot of Tyver's Twitter-leaver's oath -- 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.  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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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…
A.I. and New American Fascism [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 53:12
Mike asks if there’s anything in the connection between fascism and the aesthetics of A.I.. And if they are connected, how are they? Is there something inherently fascistic about these technologies? Also: OPEIU Local 153…
Mailbag #10: Bring Back Ringbacks [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:25
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Is It Even Possible To Ban A.I. In The Classroom? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:51
Tori Dominguez-Peek returns to look at the prevalence of AI in the college classroom, and what it takes to ban it. Also: BOP SPOTTER! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bon…