Never Post
Charts & LeisureNever Post
A podcast about and for the internet, hosted by Mike Rugnetta
© 2025 Charts & Leisure
A podcast about and for the internet, hosted by Mike Rugnetta
© 2025 Charts & Leisure
What can you even do once the secret's out?
Questions, queries, and two word graffiti
Behind the nation’s steering wheel, with Tiktok
How the Renault Twingo became the darling of online car culture
How posting through it brings us together
Spoiler: it's bad
It turns out we're on vacation this week
RIP Headphone Users
Trying to find something to eat at the endless content buffet
How a 30 y/o fps became a platform for technological and artistic experimentation
On the increasing prevalence of AI features across dating apps
No, it's not the backrooms
A devoted collectors search, online and (mostly) off
Literally the whole world hates Teams
Inside the panopticon of modern dating
Entering (and exiting) the walled garden of dating apps
On the ins and outs of MrBeast Financial
Questions, queries, and two word graffiti
On the past, present, and future of peer-to-peer file sharing
On the complex nature of virtual gawking
How the algorithm became the new Delia's
If you can’t have the internet, you can at least have chicken kabsa
What stands in the way of developing a shared reality?
What to do when the chips are, quite literally, down
When we can’t go there anymore, can we get away?
What do record searches for SFW content mean when done on Pornhub?
On how to exist online without going mad
On whether it's worth sticking around, or logging off for good
Competing for the Glory of the Internet
Checking in on finances, audience, and upcoming changes
How fraud and ICE came to dominate the headlines in Minnesota
Closing out the year with friends and quizzes
Jeremy Busby, and the tenuous case of internet access from prison
Featuring your feedback
Unless you know what you’re doing
Choose life
On © trolls and cheating boyfriends
Eye of newt, episode of podcast…
Is a generated aesthetic the look of our times?
Your questions and comments make us happy
An episode in three acts
Plus - is that post a vibe, or can I eat it?
What future tech were we promised by childhood media that has yet to arrive?
Plus! A What (?!) Is Going On Here recording LIVE during the Memberdrive Streamweek
RSS Feed Me, Seymour! A Terms & Conditions segment about the ultimate webfeed format
We respond to your comments!
Also! Brainrot, and the future of public media in the US
The whole point of runways is that they end, I guess...
The team chats about how much we each make our devices OUR DEVICES.
So I don’t look back in anger.
With somebody who knows what’s going on here
We respond to your comments!
Immediate and eternal, but not beautiful
Hentai and tariffs and KOSA OH MY!
You’re never alone with Chat by your side
Team screen time stats! Strategies for being informed!
Charts, buttons, and whirring, oh my!
How does the internet help us become ourselves? Why is LinkedIn like that? And also: HANDS OFF!
We respond to your comments!
The 75 Day Hardstyle Challenge, and Threats to Section 230 – also, Typing Tests!
Here's what that means for your weekend
Mad Chat
Mailbag #6
Here’s Looking at You
State of the Pod: 2025
Post-Mortem: 2024
The One Thing You Can Do For Yourself
Leaving Social Media Roundtable
Looks Great!
Don't Panic
Post from the Field: Mike Goes to the Studio in the Rain
Mailbag #5
A Feed to Call One’s Own
Our Dearly Decommissioned
The State of Podcasting Roundtable, Oct. 2024
Where I'm At Right Now
Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise
XOXO Fest Live
#MemeingTheNews
Mailbag #4
To BRB Or Not To BRB
Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic
Everything Old Embeds Again
The Sound Files of Summer
Mailbag, Episodes 7-10
Who Hires the Hiring Bots?
Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places
Everyone is a Journalish
ICYMI x NP: How Kate Middleton's Disappearance Redefined Monoculture
Car Tok
Mailbag, Episodes 4-6
Switched on Post
OO🚫⛔❌ H M🙅💥🕳️ GO🛑🔇💃
As Per My Last Podcast Episode…
Mailbag, Episodes 1-3
Eternal Return
People in Places
I'm Mad, You're Mad, We're All Mad Here
Episode 0: Independent Media Roundtable
F*cking Around, and Finding Out
March 12, 20251hr 4min
Mike talks with Stephen Harrison about why authoritarian governments hate Wikipedia and Georgia talks with Kyle Chayka about how to have fun on the internet. Also: Kidpix!
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- Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail
- Drop us a voice memo via airtable
- Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com
- See what interstitials we need submissions for
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Intro Links
- ubuweb.com
- Poetica: Three Sound Poets: Jaap Blonk, Amanda Stewart, Christian Bok (2014)), ubuweb.com
- Skilled technologists are being forced out of government, Don Moynihan
- GSA eliminates 18F, NextGov
- Doppelgänger: New disinformation campaigns spreading on social media through Russian networks, Intrinsec
- NEW REPORT: Russian propaganda may be flooding AI models, American Sunlight Project
- Kevin Rose, Alexis Ohanian acquire Digg, TechCrunch
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Authoritarians vs Wikipedia
- Censorship of Wikipedia, Wikipedia.org
Find Stephen:
- Sourcenotes
- Stephen’s novel, The Editors
- Stephen on Bluesky
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Are We Having Fun Yet?
- Find Kyle: Twitter Bluesky Instagram
- Kyle at The New Yorker
- Titanium Daydream (also on YouTube and Instagram)
- Read Kyle’s book Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
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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.
Oh! to be almost loquacious
Rather than fatally over
loquacity’s edge
Excerpt of #36 the-faux-ailing-abacus by Wayne Koestenbuam
Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure