I'm going to yell at you about this again later on in the newsletter, but this is your PENULTIMATE reminder to vote for us at the Webby's for Best Live Podcast Recording! If we win this I will surely cry tears of joy, and wouldn'
April 17, 2025
How does the internet help us become ourselves? Why is LinkedIn like that? And also: HANDS OFF!
April 09, 2025Before I begin delivering you the news in the way only I have perfected, LET IT BE KNOWN WE ARE NOMINATED FOR A WEBBY! Our live show episode from XOXO Fest (which you can listen to here) is nominated for Best Live Podcast Recording. I'll tell you more
April 03, 2025Our thoughts on your thoughts about our thoughts
April 02, 2025
The 75 Day Hardstyle Challenge, and Threats to Section 230 – also, Typing Tests!
March 26, 2025[SUDDEN EXPLOSION OF GLASS SHATTERING AS I LAUNCH THROUGH YOUR WINDOW IN AN EVEL KNIEVEL JUMPSUIT AND HELMET] Have you heard the news? Well, as your dedicated news deliverer I, Producer Georgia, will tell you: NEVER POST HAS JOINED RADIOTOPIA!!! [DEAFENING AIRHORN SOUND] Fine, okay, enough theatrics. But in case
March 20, 2025
As of today, Never Post is distributed by Radiotopia!
March 19, 2025
For members only: an extended cut of Georgia's interview with David Mack, from the segment "Cameo's Reputation Machine".
March 12, 2025
It was the f*cking around of times, it was the finding out of times.
March 12, 2025
Welcome one, welcome all to Never News, the every-two-weekly newsletter that I, Producer Georgia, pen for you with great reverence and humility. No time to dilly dally, on to the news! Some Internet aperitifs... In schadenfreude news, a Facebook group for Cybertruck owners (lots to say here already) showcases how
March 06, 2025
Georgia talks with Matt Pearce 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!
February 26, 2025[You wake up alone in a grand library, seated next to a fire in a leather arm chair. Around you are dark wooden shelves crowded with books, their gilded spines frosted with dust. On the other end of the room, framed by two oak cabinets, is an enormous, ovular mirror.
February 21, 2025
Friends! Better late that later. A new episode of Never Post for you, finally. In this'n, Mike talks with artist, researcher and online harassment expert Caroline Sinders about blocking people online. What’s it for, and what kinds of feeling do we have when using it? Then, friend
February 14, 2025
[We find our narrator sitting criss cross apple sauce on the floor of her study. Around her are strewn scraps of paper in pink, white, and red, along with a variety of craft supplies: glitter glue, puffy paint, white and red lace ribbon, and so on. She's currently
February 06, 2025
Who on the staff spent the most time at the mall as a teen! And also: what ruins fun on the internet? The answer will not surprise you one bit! Listen wherever you pod, on the website, and members: ad-free in your brand spanking new private feeds! Enjoy! – ☎️ Call us
February 05, 2025
Friends! Never Post is here again, fresh and ready for your ears. Georgia talks with politics and internet reporter David Mack about whether disgraced politicians are attempting to launder their reputations on Cameo. Plus, Hans finds out what it feels like to answer an unanswerable question about how many cameras
January 29, 2025
Hello angels! This week on the newsletter, I, Producer Georgia, am sharing with you some of the findings from our end-of-year audience survey. It was so helpful to hear from all of you about what you love about Never Post, where you think we should pay more attention, and how
January 23, 2025[It's a cold, gray day, though not chilly enough to deter you from an afternoon walk across the grounds of this gothic estate. You've crossed through the woods, the vegetable patch, and finally the gardens, where you were flanked by the pupil-less, silent gaze of a
January 16, 2025
To celebrate the 1-year anniversary of launching Never Post, Mike, Jason and Hans gather to talk about how it went; and to break down how many people listened, how much money changed hands, and what to expect from the show in 2025. Listen here on the website, and wherever you
January 16, 2025
Folks! An auspicious start to 2025! Here, for you, POST-MORTEM: 2024, a three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off one year, and welcome another. – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable * Or email
January 02, 2025
Friends! A new Never Post for you, on this momentous day. 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. Listen on the website, and wherever you get your pods.
December 18, 2024On a snow-fallen night, in a house on a hill We see our narrator, stood on the sill Across the eaves of the windows, she's hung garlands high Though beautiful, they're...strange, though it's hard to say why At first they look lovely, panes
December 12, 2024
Friends! A new Never Post, just for you! In this one, Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their experiences leaving social platforms behind. Listen on the website, and wherever you get your pods. Members, an ad free version awaits you in your feed! – Take the Never Post Audience Survey! – * Call
December 04, 2024
Friends! A new episode, cooked up just for you. Mike talks with Jon Greenaway, aka litcritguy, about the horror of online food videos; Georgia talks with Katie Notopoulos about why you can’t personalize your social profiles a la MySpace anymore; ALSO leaf crunches! Listen on the website, wherever you
November 20, 2024[A forest of evergreens. It's a sunny day, unusual for this time of year in the Pacific Northwest, and through the trees sunlight leaves a shimmering, dappled effect on your path. Around you are the sounds of life — percussive birdsong, the rustle of squirrels darting across branches. And
November 15, 2024
Friends! Here is a new Never Post for you, slightly delayed. Mike talks about how and why some authentic media looks like it was generated by AI; Hans talks about KOSA – the Kids Online Safety Act – and how it is shaped by not one, but two concurrent moral panics. Also:
November 07, 2024
Friends! Listeners! Herein: Tori Dominguez-Peek, producer of To BRB or Not To BRB joins us, and we respond to your voicemails, voicememos and emails. Listen on the website, where pods are, and members – please find an ad-free upload in your feed. -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave
November 01, 2024[The exterior of a large Victorian mansion sat against an ink black sky. As you walk up the gravel path, you're flanked by dozens of lit Jack-o-lanterns, their faces ghoulish and grinning as they watch you pass. Approaching the house, you see standing next to the great wooden
October 31, 2024
Friends! What for you but only the finest, most bespoke tales of Internet Exploration. A greatly, doubly themed episode for you on this beautiful near-Halloween Wednesday. First, Georgia talks with communications scholar and privacy researcher Alice Marwick about “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups, and how hard it is
October 23, 2024[Today, shockingly, we find our narrator not crawling out of a grave or summoning the dark energies beyond the veil, but in the grand entryway of her home. There she is, teetering at the top of a step ladder, dusting the curled arms of the large, elegant chandelier that hangs
October 17, 2024
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Never Post is the sun! In this, a new episode of Never Post: a tale of star crossed lovers. We visit the funeral for CrowdTangle, a social listening app that was used by disinformation and human rights
October 09, 2024
[You find yourself walking down a dirt path through the black, dense woods. Somewhere behind you, you can hear a bell tower tolling twelve, lonely tones - midnight. Why did you come here, anyway? It's hard to remember. But just now - what was that? A shape flitting
October 03, 2024
Friends! A Very Special Never Post for you this afternoon! In this ep, senior producer Hans Buetow leads a conversation with three makers and thinkers in the podcast space — Mia Lobel (Freelance Cafe, fmr. Pushkin Industries), Lauren Passell (Tink Media) and Ronald Young, Jr. (Weight For It). They perform a
October 03, 2024
Well would you look at that, a brand spanking new Never Post for you all! In this episode, Georgia talks to Cliff Lampe, Professor of Information at the UMich School of Information about how Find My has become indispensable technology of friendship in a hypergamified social-media landscape. Then, Hans talks
September 25, 2024[Imagine me clanging a very loud and unpleasant-sounding bell] HEAR YE HEAR YE! This is a reminder to you all that it is outrageously easy to become a member of our paid subscriber list, where you shall reap in the delights of extended segments! No ads on our episodes! An
September 19, 2024
Friends! A new Never Post for you on this fine, late summer day. It's a fun one: * Mike talks with Know Your Meme Editor-in-Chief Don Caldwell about the prevalence and decline of the Laser Eyes Meme, and the ever shifting place of internet memes in presidential election season
September 11, 2024[Lit only by the ghostly haze of the moon, you see the mist-covered silhouette of a centuries-old graveyard. Passing through the wrought iron gate, you can clearly hear the wet chrk and slap of a shovel plunging into the earth. Someone is digging. And sure enough, at the base of
September 05, 2024
Never Posters! Hot on the heels of those extended segments published earlier today, a new episode for you! This one? Extremely special! A recording of our first ever live show, performed on stage at XOXO Fest 2024. We hope you enjoy! Listen wherever you get your pods, in the member
August 28, 2024
As you're reading this, Mike, Hans, Jason, and I (Georgia) are in Portland preparing for our liveshow at XOXO Fest on Friday! So hooray to the lucky ducks who are able to attend this historic and sure-to-be life-altering event — we'll be performing at Revolution Hall on
August 22, 2024
Happy Wednesday to you all! Here, thankfully, is a new episode of Never Post for you! This week, Hans talks with Lia Haberman of the newsletter ICYMI about the ostensible death of the hashtag; Georgia talks with media scholar Whitney Phillips about catching breaking news via internet memes. Also: Hit
August 14, 2024
BEFORE I GET INTO ANYTHING ELSE, a reminder to you all that it is profoundly easy to become an elite member of our paid subscriber list, where you shall reap in the delights of extended segments! No ads on our episodes! An AI version of my own voice helping you
August 09, 2024
What do we do? We respond to your comments! Listen in your podcatcher, here on the website or the member only feed for an AD-FREE EXPERIENCE. See you next week, with a new episode! -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice
August 07, 2024
Y'all! A new episode on this fine Wednesday for you. In this one, contributing producer Victoria Dominguez attempts to understand the practice of digitally resurrecting deceased loved ones using artificial intelligence. Also: home movies. Listen on the website, if you aren't already, and wherever you get
July 31, 2024No dramatic intro today because…I can’t believe I’m saying this…but there’s more Charli XCX news. Like….like there’s so much……When I tell you it took quite a lot of restraint from me to not make this week’s newsletter *only* about Charli news…
July 25, 2024
Friends! Listeners! Lookers-on! A new – that's right – Never Post for you on this fine day! In this ep, Mike chats with EX Research about their new report which goes deep on Roblox, the massively multiplayer online game played by HALF of all American teenagers. Georgia takes a look
July 17, 2024[Our narrator stands before a table in the library, dressed in safety goggles, a rubber apron, and rubber gloves. She holds two vials of strange liquid in each hand. On the left, a pitch black, foaming potion that bubbles and squelches. On the right, a lime green, dare I say
July 12, 2024
Hello! Just in time for your holiday needs, a new episode! Mike talks with unsung internet pillar DylanPDX, steward of vxTwitter and others, who single-handedly does what Big Social doesn’t want - keeping your embeds working. Senior producer Hans gets the ambrosia from Tallulah Trezevant, an antiquities scholar who
July 03, 2024[We find our narrator standing by the book shelf, reading intently from a large, thick book titled “Rich Husbands: How To Find Them, Woo Them, and Get Rid Of Them Discreetly.” Noticing you enter, she glances up and hurriedly slams the book shut, though not before making sure that her
June 27, 2024
Howdy, Never Posters! What we have here for you is our Summer Vacation Special: an episode-long staff round-table about music, streaming, and music library management, with special guest Meghal Janardan. You can listen on the website (if you're not already), and wherever you get your pods. Members: there
June 19, 2024
Friends! Great news: I lied! I said we would be back in the main feed on June 19th with a Summer Vacation special and that, very plainly, is not true. Here, for you, we have the third ever Never Post Mailbag ep. We hope you enjoy, have a great Friday
June 14, 2024[Lights up on a glamorous, moody library. Old, leather-bound books crowd the shelves. Somewhere in the corner, a gramophone plays an unidentifiable jazz tune. Outside it’s raining, but in this room all is warm, lamp-lit, and smelling of woodsmoke. A stag, a five-pointer, is mounted proudly over the mantle,
June 13, 2024
Hello, all! A new Never Post for your gorgeous ears! This week, Georgia chats with Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Hilke Schellmann about the job market, and the increasing prevalence of Artificial Intelligence in hiring. Mike then talks with comedian, writer and podcast host Jamie Loftus about her show Sixteenth Minute
June 05, 2024
Friends! A new episode for you, and it is out! What luck! You can listen on the website, or your podcatcher. Members! An ad free version awaits in your feed. This week, Georgia digs deep into the enshittification of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. Mike talks to
May 22, 2024
Friends! Here it is! The second and final installment of our two part collab with Slate’s ICYMI! Listen on their feed, our feed, slate.com, neverpo.st and everywhere you listen to pods. And as always, ad-free cut is waiting for Members in their feed! Mike talks with mis-
May 11, 2024
Friends! Hello! This week, we have TWO episodes coming at you - one today and one on Saturday. Both are a collaboration with the incredible team at the Slate Internet Culture Podcast ICYMI. You can listen on our feed, on their feed, on our website, on their website and there
May 08, 2024
Friends! Hello! A New Never Post for you today – this week, senior producer Hans Buetow investigates the transit vacuum that’ll be left when Uber and Lyft leave the Twin Cities; Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video. Also: PLANES, TRAINS…
April 26, 2024
Friends! Here is a new Mailbag ep, where we respond to your comments! Listen in your browser on this page, or find the ep in your podcatcher. As always, an ad-free version awaits Members in their feed 😎 -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop
April 17, 2024
Friends! Hello! A New Never Post for you today – this week, our first Contributing Producer Marie Kilaru discusses the emotional impacts of making and seeing Before and After posts; Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop joins Jason to talk about what pop-musical acts have sounded like the internet. Also: Georgia
April 10, 2024
Hey, all! Please join me, Hans and Jason on Friday, April 12th @ 2pm ET on my personal Twitch acct to chat some about how the show is made. The three of us have worked in audio in some form or another for about 20 years, and as such we all
April 09, 2024
Friends! A new Never Post for your ears, brains, maybe a little bit for your teeth and toes. Listen in the embed on this page and wherever you get your podcasts! As always, an ad free version is awaiting Members in their feed... In this ep, Georgia and guest producer
March 27, 2024
Hans wonders why ‘being informed’ is so exhausting, and if there’s anything he can do about it (short answer: sorta) and a few members of the Never Post team discuss “important emails”. Also: the hunt for Diet Caffeine Free Dr. Pepper continues. Listen at neverpo.st and wherever you
March 13, 2024
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.
March 06, 2024
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. Listen wherever you get your pods, and on https:
February 28, 2024
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February 17, 2024
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.
February 14, 2024
On the disappearance of tween-specific fashion trends, and the epidemic of Posting Disease plaguing social media. Also: a man on a mission. Listen to this, and every other Never Post Episode at https://neverpo.st – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Drop us a voice
January 31, 2024
To kick things off, we had a roundtable conversation with a trio of makers and thinkers, all of whom are creating independent media. They are Gita Jackson (Aftermath), Alex Sujong Laughlin (Defector Media), and Rusty Foster (Today in Tabs). We wanted to talk with Gita, Alex and Rusty about the
January 31, 2024
Audrey Evans filed this Post from the Field from her kitchen in Upstate New York
January 30, 2024
In this episode we start, where we should always start, at Miniature Horses.
January 24, 2024We've been working on this show for about 10 months, so it is very exciting to finally get to publish the trailer. It may be that no one sees this post, right now – well, Hans will see it. Hey, Hans! (Hans is the show's senior producer;
January 17, 2024