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 asks WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. Also: Computer Whiz!

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Intro Links

• William McFarland Pleads Guilty In Manhattan Federal Court To Defrauding Investors And A Ticket Vendor Of Over $26 Million, justice.gov
• EXCLUSIVE: Fyre Festival 2: Dates, location and how to get tickets, Today
• Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value, Futurism
• Microsoft Dropped Some AI Data Center Leases, TD Cowen Says,  Bloomberg
• How Temu’s supply chain is changing, RetailBrew
• Temu Overhauls Supply Chain on Tariffs, Risking Price Hikes, Bloomberg
• UK users are losing a key Apple security feature, raising questions about the future of privacy, CNN

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Tiktok’s Leftovers Hours

• Matt Pearce’s substack
• On Bullshit - Harry G. Frankfurt

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What Is Going On Here

• Mike: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCNP0atyy0J/
• Georgia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnBLd93cydQ, https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8YqRuDF/
• Hans: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pomes/hot/
• Jason: https://www.tiktok.com/@aerosangels7?_t=ZT-8uF8Ot7ziWJ&_r=1
• Stevie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf8vqQFeH_k

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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.

The truth is, I’ve never cared for the National

Anthem. If you think about it, it’s not a good

song. Too high for most of us with “the rockets

red glare” and then there are the bombs.

(Always, always, there is war and bombs.)

Once, I sang it at homecoming and threw

even the tenacious high school band off key.

But the song didn’t mean anything, just a call

to the field, something to get through before

the pummeling of youth. And what of the stanzas

we never sing, the third that mentions “no refuge

could save the hireling and the slave”? Perhaps,

the truth is, every song of this country

has an unsung third stanza, something brutal

snaking underneath us as we blindly sing

the high notes with a beer sloshing in the stands

hoping our team wins.

Excerpt of A New National Anthem by Ada Limón

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