Never Post

We respond to listener comments about independent media co-ops, the disappearance of tween fashion, posting disease, influencer voice, mourning online, and human height throughout history.--This conversation contains a single, brief mention of suicide.--☎️ 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--Nick's thoughts on "Never Post" and the internet:1. One interpretation of ""Never Post"" is that it's like the internet version of the taoist wei wu wei which translates to something like ""do by not doing" and reminds us how often trying to accomplish something makes us less likely to succeed. You install a Ring camera for safety and now you're always paranoid. You complement someone for saying something smart and they stop speaking because they're afraid of sounding dumb.The historian/political scientist/anarchist James Scott borrows the term "iatrogenic" from medicine to describe how many of societies' attempts to control rivers (e.g., levees) only cause the rivers to become more unruly.Iatrogenic illnesses are ailments caused by medicine or medical care. Iatrogenic systems are ferociously hardy because simple attempts to solve them just feed them. You can think of the capitalist work ethic where the only way (besides inheritance) to secure a life of financial independence outside of capitalist pressures is to dive head first into the capitalist waters and work hard at a lucrative job for a long time (see adherents of the FIRE movement).Social media seems like a classic iatrogenic system. You dunk or subtweet an egregious post and it makes the poster post more. The truly skilled poster posts by not posting. Never posts. Learning not to repost bad posts is a major spiritual milestone for the internet citizen.2. An irony is that if the best way to steward the internet is to never post, doesn't the internet disappear under ideal stewardship? Derrida's "Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences" tries to solve a related problem in postmodern discourse. The problem is, every deconstruction, no matter how profound, rests on some logical/linguistic "center" that itself is not real or stable. So every deconstruction can itself be deconstructed and you just have infinite regress. If postmodernists know this, what's even the point of writing for each other any more?Derrida's solution is freeplay which is about recognizing existience as full of other world with their own "centers" that are yet all connected. A mistake is anchoring yourself to any of those single centers. Freeplay is hopping worlds with "the joyous affirmation of the play of the world and of the innocence of becoming, the affirmation of a world of signs without fault, without truth, and without origin which is offered to an active interpretation".--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.

Georgia talks with Tamara Kneese about how the software of the platform internet works against the social flows of grieving, and mourning. Mike then talks about men who throw ping pong balls into solo cups. ALSO: chill, lo-fi, public domain beats.-Share the show with a friend! https://www.neverpo.st/–Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mailDrop us a voice memo via airtable: https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/formOr email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com–Intro Links Rascal News -- https://www.rascal.news/ New York Times -- Supreme Court to Decide How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media The Atlantic -- Texas’s Social-Media Law Is Dangerous. Striking It Down Could Be Worse. NBC News -- Supreme Court justices express free speech concerns about GOP-backed social media laws The Verge -- Yahoo lays off the leaders of Engadget Terrence O’Brien -- layoff announcement LA Times -- Vice.com News Site Shut Down  Reuters -- Vice Media to be acquired by Fortress-led lender group for $350 million Megan Greenwell -- Fortress Investment Group destroys Gannett New Hour – Gannett Journalists Walk Out RIP Corp: VICE Docs Jules Suzdaltsev -- NowThis News video deletion Ernie Smith -- Archiving VICE Jules Suzdaltsev -- Buying VICE archive –Online MourningFind Tamara: https://www.tamarakneese.com/ Death Glitch: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248272/death-glitch/  Adriana’s tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3BfJxc/–Trickshot TimeworkersWatch some Trickshotters: Dude Perfect,

Mike talks with sociophonologist Lisa B. Davidson about why influencer voice exists, and with bass player and YouTuber Adam Neely about the people who have been retiring from YouTube.–Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mailDrop us a voice memo via airtable: https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/formOr email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com–Intro LinksNever Post Ep 1 Hangout Stream VOD: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2057956412News Links: https://www.thewrap.com/coyote-vs-acme-update-offers-warner-bros/ https://twitter.com/JoaquinCastrotx/status/1756190120334545302 https://aftermath.site/coyote-vs-acme-fuck-david-zaslav https://www.computerworld.com/article/3712692/australias-new-right-to-disconnect-law-includes-jail-time-for-now.html https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/crowd-sets-waymo-self-driving-car-on-fire-they-couldn-t-even-recognize-the-vehicle/ar-BB1i9xOo https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/photo-waymo-vehicle-blocks-fire-truck-in-san-francisco/ –Why Does Influencer Voice Exist?Find Lisa:https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/lisa-b-davidson.htmlhttps://wp.nyu.edu/lisa_davidson/https://bsky.app/profile/lisabdavidson.bsky.social–The Great YouTube Retirement This segment contains a portion of the Sungazer track Threshold: https://sungazermusic.bandcamp.com/track/threshold 1.8 Million Subscribers (and no one cares): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RceZ8VS8PbQ Tom Scott retirement video: https://youtu.be/7DKv5H5Frt0?si=SvpIUq7OUQe_M_Uk Adam’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/havic5 Sungazer’s AUS tour dates: https://www.sungazermusic.com/tour –Birdsong ID app, Merlin: https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/–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. 

On the disappearance of tween-specific fashion trends, and the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media. Also: a man on a mission.--Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mailDrop us a voice memo via airtable - https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/formOr email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com–Become a member at https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/–Intro Links Apple Transcripts: https://podnews.net/article/apple-podcasts-transcriptions-faq Ring and the Police: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/ring-announces-it-will-no-longer-facilitate-police-requests-footage-users https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-24/amazon-s-ring-to-stop-letting-police-request-video-from-users Social CEOS on Capital Hill: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-30/social-media-ceos-brace-for-senate-scrutiny-on-child-safety-what-to-expect?srnd=undefined CDC Youth Health Summary: https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/data/yrbs/pdf/YRBS_Data-Summary-Trends_Report2023_508.pdf Evan Greer on KOSA: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjven5/elizabeth-warren-just-backed-an-online-safety-bill-that-will-harm-lgbtq-youth –Disappearing Tween Fashion Links https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcEjae5/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3e7q73/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPRcEhsPD/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3dNn6c/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3etHXa/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3eEMNB/ https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR3dLQ1N/ –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.–CC-BY Licensed Audio Usedhttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/kirk-osamayo/blue-season-4https://freesound.org/people/Qleq/sounds/679130/2010 Pop b

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