XOXO Fest Live

Never Post

Georgia talks with marketing consultant Bryce Whitwam and takes us in and out and further in – maybe further in than any of us have ever wanted to go – to the TikTok shop; Mike talks with media studies professor Shannon Mattern about Drafts – writing while it is still in progress – and how it feels to POST them. Also: Audience participation!

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Find the slides for this live performance on our website.

Intro Links

• J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk Named in Cyberbullying Lawsuit Filed by Algerian Boxer Imane Khelif After Olympic Win (EXCLUSIVE) - Variety
• “it was so nice when you were following legal advice to shut the fuck up” – death angel
• Swifties for Trump? Not so fast-Taylor Swift fires back at Donald Trump's AI-generated endorsement – Marca
• Fans Suspect Taylor Swift Just Subtly Addressed Donald Trump's AI Image Scandal in New Statement – parade.com
• Donald Trump Shares Fake Taylor Swift Endorsement Using AI-Generated Images – Stereogum
• Trump shares AI-generated images of Taylor Swift and her fans supporting him – NBC
• anyway here's the story of how i worked with a cafe (isshiki matcha) to import the olympic village muffins for a popup in nyc… – @kelin_online

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The Shop Zone

More of Bryce Whitwam:

• The TikTok effect
• Shanghai Zhan podcast
• Syracuse University

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Writing is Death

Find Shannon Mattern:

• wordsinspace.net
• shannonmattern.bsky.social

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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.

It’s slow writing

on re-admission of the abyss

so if this body is sleepy-tired

please walk around

Suddenly there’s nothing

in the laws of the alphabet

that breaks open revealing

what buoyancy am I.

Excerpt of Puberty of Puck, by Mark Hyatt

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