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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 something inherently fascistic about these technologies? Also: OPEIU Local 153 is union PROUD! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ [https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/] for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable [https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form] * Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links * Vote for us in the Signal Awards! [https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2025/shows/genre/technology] * Friend.com ads backlash [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/style/friend-ai-subway-ads-new-york.html] * ICE looking to create social media surveillance team [https://www.wired.com/story/ice-social-media-surveillance-24-7-contract/] * Apple and Google remove ICE tracking apps [https://www.wired.com/story/apple-and-google-pull-ice-tracking-apps-bowing-to-doj-pressure/] * The bots come for Cracker Barrel [https://gizmodo.com/cracker-barrel-outrage-was-almost-certainly-driven-by-bots-researchers-say-2000664221] – AI and New American Fascism * White House Posts Ghoulish AI Cartoon Showing Woman's Deportation [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-deportation-ai-ghibli-animation-cartoon_n_67e5b4ace4b0455df70b41c2] (Huffpost) * With Manifest Destiny art, DHS goes hard on ‘white makes right’ [https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-26/dhs-manifest-destiny-american-progress-painting] (LA Times) * Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop [https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/intensification/6782975/eating-the-future-the-metabolic-logic-of-ai-slop] (e-flux) * The Other Side of the Canvas [https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-other-side-of-the-canvas] (Unpopular Front) * Ur-Fascism [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism] (The Anarchist Library) * In Unhinged Speech, Pete Hegseth Says He's Tired of ‘Fat Troops,’ Says Military Needs to Go Full AI [https://www.404media.co/in-unhinged-speech-pete-hegseth-says-hes-tired-of-fat-troops-says-military-needs-to-go-full-ai/] (404 Media) * Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline [https://www.neverpo.st/everything-old-embeds-again/] from Ep. 13 * Generated-ish [https://www.neverpo.st/dont-panic/] from Ep. 22 – Thank you to Dannel Jurado for recording the Kickstarter picket [http://kickstarterunited.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. Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

We respond to your questions and comments! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ [https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/] for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” -- ☎️ Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voice mail 🗣️ Drop us a voice note via airtable [https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form] 📧 Email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com 🌐 Leave a comment at neverpo.st -- Head to neverpo.st [https://neverpo.st/] to see the extensive morning alarm routine -- 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.

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 Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ [https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/] for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable [https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form] * Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links * Vote for us in the Signal Awards! [https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2025/shows/genre/technology] * Google to reinstate banned YouTube accounts censored for political speech [https://www.foxnews.com/politics/google-reinstate-banned-youtube-accounts-censored-political-speech] * Alex Jones sports Hitler mustache in shocking broadcast: 'It had a wild effect on women' [https://www.rawstory.com/alex-jones-2674040002/] * U.S. Secret Service disrupts telecom network that threatened NYC during U.N. General Assembly [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-secret-service-disrupts-telecom-network-threatened-new-york-city-u-n-general-assembly/] * TProphet on bsky [https://bsky.app/profile/tprophet.org/post/3lzjlmomhas2f] * The Irresistible Rise of On Tyranny [https://slate.com/culture/2025/08/tyranny-fascism-trump-tiktok-timothy-snyder.html] * Here’s what’s happening right now with the US TikTok deal [https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/26/heres-whats-happening-right-now-with-the-us-tiktok-deal/] * Inside Trump's deal to save TikTok [https://www.axios.com/2025/09/22/tiktok-bytedance-trump-algorithm-lease] * Paramount Skydance eyes takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery as high as $24 a share: report [https://nypost.com/2025/09/19/media/paramount-skydance-eyes-takeover-bid-for-warner-bros-discovery-report/] * LimeWire acquires Fyre Festival, has vague plans to offer 'real experiences' [https://www.engadget.com/general/limewire-acquires-fyre-festival-has-vague-plans-to-offer-real-experiences-200158421.html?guccounter=1] * LimeWire, Former File-Sharing Service, Is Revealed as Buyer of Fyre Festival [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/us/limewire-crypto-fyre-festival.html] * Bop Spotter [https://walzr.com/bop-spotter] – Teaching AI * Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College [https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/openai-chatgpt-ai-cheating-education-college-students-school.html] Find Everyone: * Megan Fritts on X [https://x.com/freganmitts] * Dr. Rui Sousa-Silva on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/rui-sousa-silva-83a38731/?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Egoogle%2Ecom%2F&originalSubdomain=pt] * Tori Dominguez Peek on Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/toridp98.bsky.social] * Press Start Pod on Bluesky [https://linktr.ee/press_startpod] – 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 and is distributed by Radiotopia

Hans talks with adult content creator Siri Dahl about age verification online; Georgia talks with James Beard Award-nominated producer and recipe developer Gabriella Lewis about the state of recipe sharing online; and also: sonification! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ [https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/] for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable [https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form] * Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Intro Links * TShirt Preorder!!!!!! [http://neverpost.bigcartel.com/] - https://neverpost.bigcartel.com * A hacker used AI to automate an 'unprecedented' cybercrime spree, Anthropic says [https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/hacker-used-ai-automate-unprecedented-cybercrime-spree-anthropic-says-rcna227309] * 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law [https://www.404media.co/4chan-and-kiwi-farms-sue-the-uk-over-its-age-verification-law/] * Silicon Valley is pouring millions into pro-AI PACs to sway midterms [https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/silicon-valley-is-pouring-millions-into-pro-ai-pacs-to-sway-midterms/] * A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers [https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influencers/] * twitch.tv/theneverpost [http://twitch.tv/theneverpost]  – Sonification * Listen to Wikipedia [http://listen.hatnote.com/] * Listening Back [https://echo.orpheusinstituut.be/article/listening-back] * Sonificator [https://aklaswad.github.io/sonificator/?utm_source=chatgpt.com] – Age Verified Down a Slippery Slope Find Siri: * Her website [https://siridahl.com/] * Her Bluesky [https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k6j2c44fs4eb5mlyxdgbgyr3] – Recipes as Vibeposting  Find Gabriella: * Her website [https://www.gabriellalewis.xyz/] * Her instagram [https://www.instagram.com/gurl.jpg/] * Eater [https://www.eater.com/authors/gabriella-lewis] * New York Times Cooking [https://cooking.nytimes.com/author/gabriella-lewis] – 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. Enough of this observing said the child to her respondent. Explain the astonishment of the abashed articulate before the table of the circle of friends washed up on the shore of the foreign country we all hoped to leave for medicine. An alien name had already gone and we were left to drink; health had no opponents Excerpt of The Beautiful, by Jean Day Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

An episode-long staff round-table with special guest Meghal Janardan. Recorded LIVE with chat during the Never Post Member Stream Week, the team discusses the future tech that was made to seem inevitable - have we reached it? Will we ever? – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ [https://www.neverpo.st/#/portal/] for access to extended and bonus segments, and our side shows like “Slow Post”, “Posts from the Field” and “Never Watch” – * Call us at 651 615 5007 to leave a voicemail * Drop us a voice memo via airtable [https://airtable.com/appIvXY8gz5ikRbF0/pagjGcjdYg2alw8cD/form] * Or email us at theneverpost at gmail dot com – Links * TShirt Preorder!!!!!! [http://neverpost.bigcartel.com] - https://neverpost.bigcartel.com [https://neverpost.bigcartel.com] * Subscribe to our Twitch channel - twitch.tv/theneverpost [http://twitch.tv/theneverpost] – 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 and is distributed by Radiotopia