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 ran an experiment to see how fast she would get flushed down the alt-right pipeline when expressing an interest in ancient history online. Also! Some of your favorite hidden corners of the internet.
Show Notes:
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Intro Links
Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers -- Ars Technica
The Spotify conspiracy theories about “Espresso,” explained -- Vox
MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline -- Variety
Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone -- LateNighter
Why Major Labels Are Suing AI Music Startups Udio and Suno For Mass Copyright Infringement -- Forbes
Succor borne every minute -- FTC
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vxTwitter with Dylan
Find Dylan:
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Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline, with Tallulah Trezevant
Find Tallulah:
The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline -- workingclassicists.com
Other Sources of hope in Antiquity:
Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Sarah Debrew
Ky Merkley
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Favorite Corners of the Internet
Rad Pro Calculator
Serebii
Sporcle Geography Quizzes
crouton.net
The Academic Family Tree
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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.
So much of any year is flammable,
lists of vegetables, partial poems.
Orange swirling flame of days,
so little is a stone.
Excerpt of “Burning the Old Year” by Naomi Shihab Nye
Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure