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The Never Post staff meet to discuss four academic papers on how the internet is getting worse, each from a special edition of the European Journal of Cultural Studies. How is slop like gelatin? In many more ways that you might immediately assume! Tune in to hear about them all!
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Brainrot, AI slop, and the enshittification of the Internet

Intro 

Georgia, Doing the numbers: The operational aesthetics of AI slop

Hans, Feed them slop: Alignment, attunement, and the affective lure of slopaganda

Jason, Degenerative AI: AI slop, brainrot, and the gimmick of generative culture

Mike, Computational Gallerte: Compressions of culture

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our contributing producer is Kurt White. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.
Jesus Christ, my dusty socialist,
“There’s enough sun for everyone,” you state,
your crown chipped like a front tooth
after a bar fight. Behind you a red curtain.

Excerpt of Ephphatha by Spencer Reece

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia.
Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

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Georgia talks to Matt Sitman, host of the podcast Know Your Enemy, about Pope Leo XIV's recent comments about the algorithm, and why so much of his papacy seems concerned with the cultural impact of AI. 
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News Links

NVIDIA could buy HuggingFace 

HF valued at $4.5 billion

HF turned down earlier deal 

News on AI doctors from Harvard Health, Futurism, 404 Media

NYT on AI meds ads

Substack post on fake doctor accounts

Dangers of mushroom foraging

CDT on bot traffic online

Cable faults affect Vietnam's internet 

Pope Leo XIV warns AI could lead to tech domination

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The Pope and AI

Algorithm could be "subtle form of domination"

Pope Leo XIV encyclical warns against AI 

Find Matt:
Know Your Enemy
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suck up stork torso
into the jet engine
like a fork in the throat so the engine goes
yolo bogo putt-putt
flashing its famous lights like
teeth tho

excerpt of Day of Being by Joyelle McSweeney
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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.

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

With the help of listener submissions and the insight of experts Drs Casey Fiesler and Alex Hanna, Senior Producer Hans Buetow investigates how people resist the integration of AI into the workplace, why folks might feel hesitant to broadcast that resistance, and why this topic feels so different from just a year ago. 
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AI At Work? In This Economy?

The Luddite Lab (DAIR)

The Luddite Lab launch stream

Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI Over Time (HBS)

Find Dr. Casey Fiesler:

Bluesky

Website

Casey’s video about AI incentivizing cheating

Find Dr. Alex Hanna:

Bluesky

Website

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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.

Of course there are victims in this poem:
victim victim victim victim victim 
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victim victim victim victim victim 
victim victim victim victim victim 
victim you are here victim victim 
victim victim victim victim victim 
victim victim victim victim victim 

Excerpt of History by Tracy K Smith

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Mike talks to security researchers Jan Pennekamp and Johannes Lohmoller about how many academics are allegedly doxxing themselves in the process of publishing their own research, and why it’s so hard to get sensitive, secretive information off the internet after it lands there. 

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News Links

Hbo Max introduces shorts 

Streaming platforms try to beat TikTok at their own game

France bans social media for teens

Vietnam proposes social media ban for teens

Doom is a top influential piece of American culture

Doom as part of Trump's election strategy

arxiv.org 

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Doxxing Yourself For Science 

Read the paper here

See Jan and Johannes’ other work here

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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.

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia