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Georgia chats with Sydney Bradley of Business Insider about dating app Bumble’s termination of the swipe, and the dating app market’s overall pivot to AI
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Google Search as you know it is over

What Is Claude Mythos—And Why Anthropic Won’t Let Anyone Use It

How a government contest launched a revolution in AI-based bug hunting

ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to ‘Supplement’ Its Facial Recognition App

ICE Mobile Fortify: Biometric Surveillance in Every Agent's Pocket

X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay for a blue checkmark

Kickstarter faces pressure from payment processors to restrict adult content

An Apology: Rethinking Our Mature Content Guidelines

Navigating Stripe Mature Content Reviews

Bumble Kills The Swipe To Help 'Exhausted' And 'Fatigued' Singles, CEO Confirms

Dating app Bumble is ending swipe feature, introduces AI assistant for matchmaking

Bumble introduces an AI dating assistant, ‘Bee’

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Swipe No More

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Twitter 

Her coverage on new dating apps 

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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

Originally published on March 27th, 2024, enjoy Mike's conversation with Gabriele de Seta and Paolo Berti about how the “megadungeon” is a productive model for understanding the internet.
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Megadungeons

Megadungeon: A Model for Media Complexity, Magazen

Megadungeon: New Digital Volumetries in Art and Media, YT Playlist

paranom.asia, Gabriele de Seta

unive.it, Paolo Berti

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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.

Contributing producer Rose Witmer and her sister Maggie explore the nature of collecting — specifically, collecting Disney branded enamel pins — in an age where social media dominates hobbies across the board, and clicking "purchase" is easier than hunting for something IRL. 
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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.
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Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Mike talks with the German Federal Center for Digital Sovereignty’s Head of Open Source Product & Delivery about Digital Sovereignty and the process of divesting the German state from American technology products.
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Brazil Bans 27 Prediction Platforms

MSN on Brazilian ban

Brazil tightens rules to curb 'bet-like' products

Soldier charged in $400K Polymarket bet

Kalshi, Polymarket lobby as insider trading, betting eyed by Congress

RedNote after the 'TikTok refugee' moment

Judge rules in favor of Indiana man in ICE tracking app lawsuit

Co-Writing with AI

Mor Naaman and Advait Baht on bsky

Aadam Jacobs Collective 

98% of IT leaders want digital sovereignty 

Exclusive: US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives

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ZenDis, and Digital Sovereignty

https://www.zendis.de/

https://www.opendesk.eu/en

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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

Georgia speaks to writer, researcher, and academic Carolina Bandinelli about embarrassing boyfriends and the online culture of cynicism, shame, and blame that has spread throughout the modern dating scene.
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Vogue — Is Having A Boyfriend Embarrassing Now?
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Her study on dating apps and marketized love

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