The Year I Learned to Pay Attention

21/11/2025 56 min
The Year I Learned to Pay Attention

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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 BetNever Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia