The Intersection of Self-Care and Beauty

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 Audience Survey!

–

• 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

• TikTok CEO meets with Trump while asking for Supreme Court to take up ban appeal – UPI
• Hawk Tuah Haliey Welch's Crypto Team Nets £2.59M Amid Botched Token Launch, Fans File SEC Complaints – IBTimes
• Researchers Consider the Relationship Between Misinformation, Outrage, and the Sharing of Content on Social Media – TechPolicy
• Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco – The Guardian
• Teens, Social Media and Technology 2024 – Pew Research

–

The Horrors Persist, But So Do The Little Treats

Find Jessica:

• jessica-defino.com
• The Review of Beauty newsletter

Segment Links:

• Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light – WorldCat
• Studies on retail therapy — here, here, here and here 

–

Touching Trail

Find Rusty:

• Rusty on Bluesky
• Today in Tabs
• Today on Trail
  
  
• Would you pay to quit TikTok and Instagram? You’d be surprised how many would - The Conversation

Most of the TikTok users (64%) and almost half of the Instagram users (48%) were prepared to pay to be off them, so long as others were off them, resulting in average valuations across all use