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Mike chats with Maia Woluchem and Cella Sum – co-authors of The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania – about the fight against Data Centers happening across Pennsylvania.
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News Links

ICE agents could be targeted by fake "tradwife" dating profiles

Discord Launches Delayed Age Verification Measures

OpenAI agent hacked Australian govt website

Railroad work crews cut fiber optic cable, grounding flights

Trump fires FAA air traffic control employees post-DC plane crash

Did Trump’s FAA slash the staffing target for air traffic control?

Bill would require blocking piracy sites

Church groups ask Microsoft for 1% of data center costs

PA town pushes back on data center despite $10k payout

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The AI Factory

The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania

Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit

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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.
These newfangled ghosts haunt by telephone and airwave. Acumen will finally languish in a good sense: type would bottle a new motto in live numbers and wine were they only not printers with so many thoughts to slip in media res or the thick of things at grasp root level up a slope on themselves. Our notion of productive labor becomes narrowed to the use of censure and science to ensure I am baffled as Yeats by those voices that still speak to Oddysseus but as the bats.

Excerpt of Shadow Recension by Alan Halsey

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

Originally published on April 10th, 2024, enjoy a conversation between Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop and Executive Producer Jason where they talk about what pop-musical acts have sounded like the internet.
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What Does the Internet Sound Like?
You should listen to Switched on Pop generally, but also here’s the interview they did with 100 gecs.
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Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

After a confusingly whirlwind week on the AI battlelines, senior producer Hans Buetow seeks the counsel of researcher Dave Karpf to understand what the heck even happened in the past week with all the tweet storms, screeds, panics, and prognostications - is AI going to kill us all in 10 years or not?!?!??
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The World's Most Special Boys Building the Apocalypse
Find Dave Karpf:

Website

Bluesky

Blog

New book - Vaporware, Inc.: How Silicon Valley Sells the Future to Control the Present

Links:

Jacob Coxon’s thread (X)

Dario Amodei’s response (blog)

Lina Khan’s response (X)

Sam Alman and Elon Musk’s responses (News18)

Cal Newport (podcast)

Kat Tenbarge (Spitfire)

Ciaran Martin (The Economist)

Will Knight (Wired)

How Much of the Internet is Written With AI? (Pew)

Young Adults in the US Are Increasingly Wary of AI (Pew)

Half of Americans fear AI could put someone in their household out of work (Reuters)

Pro-Human Assembly (MSN)

AI Diplomacy (Politico)

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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

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 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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