Mike Rugnetta
@mikerugnetta.com
words and sounds and the sounds of words
🚫 https://neverpo.st 🐉 https://funcity.ventures 🪦 https://ripcorp.biz
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🆕 Never Post! The Year I Learned to Pay Attention
Choose life
www.neverpo.st
Pals! A new @neverpo.st, thank god. Friend of the Show Meghal spent a year fixing an attention span broken by scrolling; hear what she learned in the process.
Then! Meghal speaks w/ the organizers of a New Luddism conference about reclaiming agency from encroaching technology.
Also: MACHINES!
Then! Meghal speaks w/ the organizers of a New Luddism conference about reclaiming agency from encroaching technology.
Also: MACHINES!
Me, 8pm: oh dang some of these packages are outdated and cant be upgraded. Time to update my OS i guess.
Me, 2am:
Me, 2am:
November 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Me, 8pm: oh dang some of these packages are outdated and cant be upgraded. Time to update my OS i guess.
Me, 2am:
Me, 2am:
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Pals! A new @neverpo.st, thank god. Friend of the Show Meghal spent a year fixing an attention span broken by scrolling; hear what she learned in the process.
Then! Meghal speaks w/ the organizers of a New Luddism conference about reclaiming agency from encroaching technology.
Also: MACHINES!
Then! Meghal speaks w/ the organizers of a New Luddism conference about reclaiming agency from encroaching technology.
Also: MACHINES!
🆕 Never Post! The Year I Learned to Pay Attention
Choose life
www.neverpo.st
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Pals! A new @neverpo.st, thank god. Friend of the Show Meghal spent a year fixing an attention span broken by scrolling; hear what she learned in the process.
Then! Meghal speaks w/ the organizers of a New Luddism conference about reclaiming agency from encroaching technology.
Also: MACHINES!
Then! Meghal speaks w/ the organizers of a New Luddism conference about reclaiming agency from encroaching technology.
Also: MACHINES!
“Critics who actually watch a great deal of streaming television for the purpose of appraising it these days are somewhat like children staring directly at the sun. You’re not supposed to watch it! The whole point is that it’s supposed to just be there, glowing, while you do something else.”
Everything Is Television
A theory of culture and attention
www.derekthompson.org
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 AM
“Critics who actually watch a great deal of streaming television for the purpose of appraising it these days are somewhat like children staring directly at the sun. You’re not supposed to watch it! The whole point is that it’s supposed to just be there, glowing, while you do something else.”
joyce carol oates : elon :: zohran : us gov't
4 senior House Dems — Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, & Ted Lieu — voted for a Republican-led resolution to “CONDEMN SOCIALISM,” a symbolic measure that passed the chamber on Wed. The vote comes as NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is set to meet with Pres. Donald Trump at the WH today.
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
joyce carol oates : elon :: zohran : us gov't
Pals! A new @neverpo.st, thank god. Friend of the Show Meghal spent a year fixing an attention span broken by scrolling; hear what she learned in the process.
Then! Meghal speaks w/ the organizers of a New Luddism conference about reclaiming agency from encroaching technology.
Also: MACHINES!
Then! Meghal speaks w/ the organizers of a New Luddism conference about reclaiming agency from encroaching technology.
Also: MACHINES!
🆕 Never Post! The Year I Learned to Pay Attention
Choose life
www.neverpo.st
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Pals! A new @neverpo.st, thank god. Friend of the Show Meghal spent a year fixing an attention span broken by scrolling; hear what she learned in the process.
Then! Meghal speaks w/ the organizers of a New Luddism conference about reclaiming agency from encroaching technology.
Also: MACHINES!
Then! Meghal speaks w/ the organizers of a New Luddism conference about reclaiming agency from encroaching technology.
Also: MACHINES!
🚨NEW LOSCIL🚨
Ash, by loscil
6 track album
loscil.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
🚨NEW LOSCIL🚨
People who use this technology do not want to be taught about a topic; they want the end result of having learned, without learning. I would guess for many this describes a feature, not a bug, of the technology.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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November 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
People who use this technology do not want to be taught about a topic; they want the end result of having learned, without learning. I would guess for many this describes a feature, not a bug, of the technology.
Has JD Vance done anything as VP besides go on podcasts and complain?
November 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Has JD Vance done anything as VP besides go on podcasts and complain?
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Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
The project, which will include some 50,000 songs from private record collections, is a collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the Dust-to-Digital Foundation.
laist.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Thousands of rare American recordings — some 100 years old — go online for all to enjoy
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
A collaboration between UC Santa Barbara and the nonprofit Dust-to-Digital Foundation
laist.com/news/arts-an...
100% best feature of this platform
after experimenting for a while I have to say the “followers only” reply setting is absolutely worth it
I still get nonsense; at this account size that’s pretty unavoidable
what I get less of is open hostility, surprisingly few people are willing to follow you in order to leave a rude reply
I still get nonsense; at this account size that’s pretty unavoidable
what I get less of is open hostility, surprisingly few people are willing to follow you in order to leave a rude reply
November 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
100% best feature of this platform
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Writing code is the act of weaving a series CPU instructions. Every row of pixels is a weft of a byte groups retrieved from computer memory.
November 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Writing code is the act of weaving a series CPU instructions. Every row of pixels is a weft of a byte groups retrieved from computer memory.
hello. this rips.
No One Moves Alone, by Ma Sha, Hodge
4 track album
kindergartenrecords.bandcamp.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
hello. this rips.
> “The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
who is this legend
who is this legend
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
> “The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
who is this legend
who is this legend
The undercurrent that long precedes and will long outlive “everything is gambling” is “everything is defense contracting”, and surely the two are linked.
Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics
DeepMind’s chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.
link.wired.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
The undercurrent that long precedes and will long outlive “everything is gambling” is “everything is defense contracting”, and surely the two are linked.
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Oh hey! It’s me on Normal Gossip talking about Vampires!
Anne Rice's Email With A Vampire with Mike Rugnetta
Podcast Episode · Normal Gossip · 11/19/2025 · 52m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Oh hey! It’s me on Normal Gossip talking about Vampires!
"Her 6-year-old daughter Leslie asked what the right way to put your hands up was when a gun was pointed at you, and she told her mother she didn’t want to go to school."
NEW: Federal agents busted into an Elmhurst apartment early last Thursday morning and pointed guns at a woman and her four children, according to video and an account from the family.
On Camera, Fed Agents Point Guns at Mother and Four Kids in Queens
The agents came looking for a relative who no longer lived in the apartment, the shellshocked mother told THE CITY. Days later, her children are terrified to leave their parents' sides.
www.thecity.nyc
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"Her 6-year-old daughter Leslie asked what the right way to put your hands up was when a gun was pointed at you, and she told her mother she didn’t want to go to school."
Reposted by Mike Rugnetta
Oh hey! It’s me on Normal Gossip talking about Vampires!
Anne Rice's Email With A Vampire with Mike Rugnetta
Podcast Episode · Normal Gossip · 11/19/2025 · 52m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Oh hey! It’s me on Normal Gossip talking about Vampires!
These LA jazz folks cannot keep getting away with this.
How You Been, by SML
13 track album
intlanthem.bandcamp.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
These LA jazz folks cannot keep getting away with this.
I have been publishing things on the internet long enough that I know – and tell people! – to not let things like ratings and comments get you down, but for a while there Never Post had a pretty bad Apple Podcasts rating, but it's been creeping up the last couple months and it *does* make me happy.
November 19, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I have been publishing things on the internet long enough that I know – and tell people! – to not let things like ratings and comments get you down, but for a while there Never Post had a pretty bad Apple Podcasts rating, but it's been creeping up the last couple months and it *does* make me happy.
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New @neverpo.st will be out end of the week; various personal matters have popped up for the staff. We gotta deal with those, and don't wanna rush the ep. It's gonna be a good one – about the work of addressing a waning attention span, and neo-luddism.
November 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
New @neverpo.st will be out end of the week; various personal matters have popped up for the staff. We gotta deal with those, and don't wanna rush the ep. It's gonna be a good one – about the work of addressing a waning attention span, and neo-luddism.