About this episode
This week on Tasteland we're joined by writer, producer, and podcaster, Mike Rugnetta. Mike is the host of Never Post, a podcast that asks questions about why the world of the internet – and the world, because of the internet – is the way it is.
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Timestamps
00:00 Sunday summer derangement
03:25 Changing the way the world changes
08:50 The age of the platform has ended
14:16 The rise of the agentic web
17:06 Hentai explains everything
22:50 Bob Geldof's flaming pitchfork
27:48 Attention is a zero-sum game
33:00 You cannot recreate attention
39:18 AI vs. the library
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Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers.
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