The Year I Learned to Pay Attention

The Year I Learned to Pay Attention

Author: Charts & Leisure November 21, 2025 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! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/  – It’s the Radiotopia Fundraiser! Click here to donate to all your faves! Intro Links Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive https://andotherstuff.org/ https://bsky.app/profile/kalina2hu.bsky.social/post/3m5ucuht7vc2e Why the closure of 'Teen Vogue' is a bigger deal than you realize Roosevelt Institute on Closure of Teen Vogue https://kickstarterunited.org/ iHeartMedia and TikTok Launch Partnership TikTok Shop Is Now the Size of eBay Fixing My Attention Span (*Deep Breath*) Meghal on IG (which she is not checking as often) Man vs Machine: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace New Luddism Conference NYC off Tech  Collective Action in Tech Tech Workers Coalition  Mohamed Ali (email link)  Emily Mazo  Brian Merchant Blood in the Machine Gavin Mueller Breaking Things at Work Jathan Sadowski The Mechanic and the Luddite – Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This weeks friend of the show is Meghal Janardan. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. This week's poem is an excerpt of Dalmation People by Jessica Bet Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

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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Betting On Whatever [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:38
Mike thinks through the amount of gambling we are forced into, and contributing producer Melissa Locker tells us the story of a very special 90’s online newsletter. Also: Book reviews! – Become a Never Post member at htt…
Ohhhhh I Wanna Dance With Somebody [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:39
Georgia talks with Tim Lawrence about the posts emptying dancefloors, and the team gathers to ask What Is Going On Here. Also: Signoffs! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and…
Mailbag #8: I will not become food for monsters [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:40
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Reanimator: AI and Shared Histories [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:05
Hans confronts the technological, moral, and philosophical impacts of using Artificial Intelligence to animate still photos, including those of both personal and historical significance. – Become a Never Post member at h…
Hentai and the Post-Platform Internet [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:46
Mike talks with Morgan Sung of KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast and PhD Media and Technology researcher Aurelie Petit about hentai and platforms. Georgia talks with WIRED gear reviews editor Boone Ashworth about the tariffs…
A Remembrance of Things Flash [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 54:16
Dr. Martin Shelton tells us what Signal is, and how end-to-end-encryption works. Then: was this show always going to devolve into a poetry reading? Probably. Finally: contributing producer Tori Dominquez Peek wonders wha…
Roundtable: Is The Internet Driving You To The Brink? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 59:23
Friends! A Very Special Never Post for you! In this one, Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their screen time stats and habits and what it even means to be informed. -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mai…
Smooth Moves [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 57:04
Jason talks with Hannah Pivo about charts, graphs, truth and proof; Georgia talks with Julian Chokkattu about where all the buttons went. And also: DATA CENTERS – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ – C…
Any Rigid Idea About Yourself Is a Prison [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:01:58
Contributing producer Youngna Park looks at why people talk *like that* on LinkedIn. Mike talks with psychotherapist Kurt White about how the internet may help us become ourselves. ALSO: The people united will never be d…
Mailbag #7: On Ads, The RSS Resurgence and More [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:06
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