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The Year I Learned to Pay Attention

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Show Notes

Meghal! shares her journey trying to rebuild her attention span and then chats with Emily Mazo and Mohamed Ali, organizers of the conference “New Luddism: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace” Also: MACHINES! – Become a Never Post member at https://www.neverpo.st/ – It’s the Radiotopia Fundraiser! Click here to donate to all your faves! Intro Links

Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archive

https://andotherstuff.org/

https://bsky.app/profile/kalina2hu.bsky.social/post/3m5ucuht7vc2e

Why the closure of 'Teen Vogue' is a bigger deal than you realize

Roosevelt Institute on Closure of Teen Vogue

https://kickstarterunited.org/

iHeartMedia and TikTok Launch Partnership

TikTok Shop Is Now the Size of eBay

Fixing My Attention Span (*Deep Breath*)

Meghal on IG (which she is not checking as often) Man vs Machine: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace

New Luddism Conference

NYC off Tech

Collective Action in Tech

Tech Workers Coalition

Mohamed Ali (email link)

Emily Mazo

Brian Merchant Blood in the Machine

Gavin Mueller Breaking Things at Work

Jathan Sadowski The Mechanic and the Luddite

– Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. This weeks friend of the show is Meghal Janardan. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta. This week's poem is an excerpt of Dalmation People by Jessica Bet Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

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