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How Hard Is It To Stop Using American Tech?
01 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mike talks with the German Federal Center for Digital Sovereignty’s Head of Open Source Product & Delivery about Digital Sovereignty and the pro...
Why No One Wants to Hard Launch Their Man
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia speaks to writer, researcher, and academic Carolina Bandinelli about embarrassing boyfriends and the online culture of cynicism, shame, and bl...
Georgia Gets Banned From Hinge Forever [Archive Pull]
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Originally published on May 22nd, 2024 in our episode Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places, enjoy Georgia's segment where she investigates the wal...
Should You Trust MrBeast With Your Money?
10 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Business and finance journalist Kit Pulliam examines MrBeast Financial, a soon-to-be-launched financial services platform spearheaded by MrBeast — A...
Mailbag #12: We're Not Built For This
07 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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News Post: A Primer on Torrenting
02 Apr 2026
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In the latest installment of Terms & Conditions, Georgia chats with author, professor, and digital piracy expert Aram Sinnreich about torrenting. ...
Lolcows and the Internet's "Digital Freakshow"
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Executive Producer Jason Oberholtzer speaks to Dr. Jess Rauchberg about how the lolcow — a vulnerable Internet persona interacting with an unreliabl...
The Disappearance of Tween Fashion [Archive Pull]
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, enjoy Georgia's segment talking to Professor El...
When The Taliban Turned the Internet Off in Afghanistan
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Contributing producer and Kabul-based journalist Ali Latifi tells the story of a roughly 48-hour period, at the end of 2025, when the Taliban turned o...
Not What You Know, but How You Know: Science Communicators Roundtable
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mike talks with science communicators Alex Dainis, Trade Dominguez and Joe Hanson about what it’s like trying to do their job in today’s informati...
News Post: On the Impending Silicon Goods Shortage
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mike chats with Jeffrey Parkin of Rogue and Rory Carroll of Alloy about the impending chip shortage caused by the construction boom in AI Data centers...
What Kind of Place is the Internet?
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Producer Georgia Hampton looks to writer and blogger Katherine Dee and academic Charles Soukop to help her figure out how to visualize the internet. A...
Pornhub Goes SFW
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Senior Producer Hans Buetow digs into the data from the 2025 Pornhub Year-in-Review, and wonders aloud to sexual wellness educator Courney Brame, and ...
Posting Disease, with Bijan Stephen [Archive Pull]
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Originally published in our first episode I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here on January 31, 2024, enjoy Mike's segment on the epidemic of Posting...
News Post: Is It Time To Delete TikTok?
30 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mike, Hans, and Georgia discuss the recent U.S. deal with TikTok, how it’s changed the app, whether it’s worth sticking around to see what happe...
Announcement: 2026 Never Post Olympiad
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Never Post is live streaming their very own Olympiad!Join us on Monday, February 2nd at 11:30am ET to watch intrepid competitors try to win the intern...
State of the Pod: 2026
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate Never Post's second birthday, Mike, Jason, Hans, and Georgia gather to talk about how it went; and to break down how many people listened...
What Is Going On In Minnesota
10 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Producer and Minnesota resident Hans Buetow talks with journalist and Minnesota resident Em Cassel about Minnesota - the fraud, ICE raids and killings...
Post-Mortem: 2025
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2025–Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for a...
Posting from Inside
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dexter Thomas of the tech podcast kill switch interviews Jeremy Busby about his work as a journalist from solitary confinement, within a maximum secur...
Mailbag #11: Someone To Tell Us How To Be
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We respond to your questions and comments!–Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our ...
Don’t Do It Yourself
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Audrey talks with cloud-server DIYer Drew Lyton about what its like trying to rebuild the internet in your living room. Also: LASERLAKE–Become a Nev...
The Year I Learned to Pay Attention
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meghal! shares her journey trying to rebuild her attention span and then chats with Emily Mazo and Mohamed Ali, organizers of the conference “New Lu...
When We Fight We Win
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hans talks with Paul Levy about the case of Pool World vs Prepared Food Photos; A WIGOH for the broken hearted; Tokyo!–Become a Never Post member at...
Practical Magic: A Witch’s Guide to Etsy Witches
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia talks with Mahigan St. Pierre about witches Etsy-and-not, and Ph.D candidate in forensic psychology Alex Frampton about the image of witches t...
A.I. and New American Fascism
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike asks if there’s anything in the connection between fascism and the aesthetics of A.I.. And if they are connected, how are they? Is there someth...
Mailbag #10: Bring Back Ringbacks
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Is It Even Possible To Ban A.I. In The Classroom?
26 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tori Dominguez-Peek returns to look at the prevalence of AI in the college classroom, and what it takes to ban it. Also: BOP SPOTTER!–Become a Never...
The Pornstar Cassandras of Our Internet Era
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hans talks with adult content creator Siri Dahl about age verification online; Georgia talks with James Beard Award-nominated producer and recipe deve...
Where Are My Flying Cars?: A Team Chat
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An episode-long staff round-table with special guest Meghal Janardan. Recorded LIVE with chat during the Never Post Member Stream Week, the team discu...
The Cat and Mouse Game of Age Verification Online
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike talks with David Huerta about age verification laws, VPNs, and Bluesky being blocked in Mississippi; The team asked chat WHAT (?!) Is Going On He...
Assigned Male At Login
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do social algorithms perceive and prescribe gender? Contributing producer Toby Martin investigates. Then Mike goes deep on the ins-and-outs of RSS...
Mailbag #9: Don't Livestream at The Club
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Rescuing Public Datasets the U.S. Gov't Deletes
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hans looks into the tactical archiving efforts of our nation’s librarians, and Mike unboxes a bussin glow-up of an alt big mood to brainrot. Also: A...
Never Post Funding Update
28 Jul 2025
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Ringtones and Customization: Summer Yapfest 2025
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An episode-long staff round-table about device customization with special guest Meghal Janardan. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail Dr...
Betting On Whatever
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 on...
Ohhhhh I Wanna Dance With Somebody
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ne...
Mailbag #8: I will not become food for monsters
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Reanimator: AI and Shared Histories
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hans confronts the technological, moral, and philosophical impacts of using Artificial Intelligence to animate still photos, including those of both p...
Hentai and the Post-Platform Internet
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike talks with Morgan Sung of KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast and PhD Media and Technology researcher Aurelie Petit about hentai and platforms. Georg...
A Remembrance of Things Flash
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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? Pr...
Roundtable: Is The Internet Driving You To The Brink?
30 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 mea...
Smooth Moves
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jason talks with Hannah Pivo about charts, graphs, truth and proof; Georgia talks with Julian Chokkattu about where all the buttons went. And also: DA...
Any Rigid Idea About Yourself Is a Prison
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Contributing producer Youngna Park looks at why people talk *like that* on LinkedIn. Mike talks with psychotherapist Kurt White about how the internet...
Mailbag #7: On Ads, The RSS Resurgence and More
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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The Hardest Thing To Do Is Nothing
26 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts fro...
Never Post is joining Radiotopia
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're very excited to let you know that as of today, Never Post is distributed by Radiotopia. We wanted to tell you what that means for us (hopefully ...
F*cking Around, and Finding Out
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike talks with Stephen Harrison about why authoritarian governments hate Wikipedia and Georgia talks with Kyle Chayka about how to have fun on the in...
The Day The Vibes Died
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia talks with Matt Pearce – journalist, former president of Media Guild of the West, and senior policy advisor for Rebuild Local News – about...
Mad Chat
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mike talks with artist, researcher and online harassment expert Caroline Sinders about blocking people online. What’s it for, and what kinds of feel...
Mailbag #6
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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Here’s Looking at You
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia talks with politics and internet reporter David Mack about whether disgraced politicians are attempting to launder their reputations on Cameo....
State of the Pod: 2025
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Post-Mortem: 2024
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A three-round trivia game with 6 of our favorite internet professionals to send off 2024–Take the Never Post Audience Survey!– Call us at 651 615 ...
The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia talks with beauty reporter and critic Jessica DeFino about the capitalistic excesses of“self-care” online; Mike talks with Today in Tabs’...
Leaving Social Media Roundtable
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia, Hans, Jason, and Mike discuss their experiences leaving social platforms behind.–Take the Never Post Audience Survey!– Call us at 651 615...
Looks Great!
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike talks with Jon Greenaway, aka litcritguy, about the horror of online food videos; Georgia talks with Katie Notopoulos about why you can’t perso...
Don't Panic
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode coming later this week. For now: something meaningless.--☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail🗣️ Drop us a voice note via ...
Mailbag #5
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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A Feed to Call One’s Own
23 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia talks with communications scholar and privacy researcher Alice Marwick about “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups, and how hard it is to k...
Our Dearly Decommissioned
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We visit the funeral for CrowdTangle, a social listening app that was used by disinformation and human rights researchers. Mike talks with Dallas Tayl...
The State of Podcasting Roundtable, Oct. 2024
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Senior producer Hans Buetow leads a conversation with three makers and thinkers in the podcast space — Mia Lobel (Freelance Cafe, fmr. Pushkin Indus...
Where I'm At Right Now
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia talks to Cliff Lampe, Professor of Information at the UMich School of Information about how Find My has become indispensable technology of fri...
Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise
11 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 in...
XOXO Fest Live
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia talks with marketing consultant Bryce Whitwam and takes us in and out and further in – maybe further in than any of us have ever wanted to g...
#MemeingTheNews
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hans talks with Lia Haberman of the newsletter ICYMI about the ostensible death of the hashtag; Georgia talks with media scholar Whitney Phillips abou...
Mailbag #4
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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To BRB Or Not To BRB
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Contributing producer Victoria Dominguez attempts to understand the practice of digitally resurrecting deceased loved ones using artificial intelligen...
Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 tee...
Everything Old Embeds Again
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike talks with unsung internet pillar DylanPDX, steward of vxTwitter and others, who single-handedly does what Big Social doesn’t want - keeping yo...
The Sound Files of Summer
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
An episode-long staff round-table about music library management with special guest Meghal Janardan. – Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mai...
Mailbag, Episodes 7-10
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Who Hires the Hiring Bots?
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia chats with Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter Hilke Schellmann about the job market, and the increasing prevalence of Artificial Intell...
Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia digs deep into the enshittification of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. Mike talks to Aftermath co-founder Luke Plunkett about recent...
Everyone is a Journalish
11 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The second and final installment of our two part collab with Slate’s ICYMI! Mike talks with mis- and disinformation researcher Joan Donovan about th...
ICYMI x NP: How Kate Middleton's Disappearance Redefined Monoculture
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we got TWO episodes coming at you - one today and one on Saturday. Both are a collaboration with the incredible team at the Slate Podcast I...
Car Tok
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Senior producer Hans Buetow investigates the transit vacuum that’ll result when Uber and Lyft leave the Twin Cities; Mike looks at how the car has b...
Interlude: Important Emails, Extended Cut
24 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Mailbag, Episodes 4-6
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Switched on Post
10 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Contributing Producer Marie Kilaru discusses the emotional impacts of making and seeing Before and After posts; Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop joi...
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27 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia and guest producer Luis wonder why there is so much audio online that seems to sound bad on purpose; Mike talks to Gabriele de Seta and Paolo ...
As Per My Last Podcast Episode…
13 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ne...
Mailbag, Episodes 1-3
08 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We respond to listener comments about independent media co-ops, the disappearance of tween fashion, posting disease, influencer voice, mourning online...
Eternal Return
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Georgia talks with Tamara Kneese about how the software of the platform internet works against the social flows of grieving, and mourning. Mike then t...
People in Places
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike talks with sociophonologist Lisa B. Davidson about why influencer voice exists, and with bass player and YouTuber Adam Neely about the people who...
I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
Episode 0: Independent Media Roundtable
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 Jac...
Never Post Is A Podcast About The Internet
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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