Georgia talks with communications scholar and privacy researcher Alice Marwick about “Are We Dating the Same Guy?” groups, and how hard it is to keep private communities private. Contributing producer Noah Hertz files a story about the best, smallest social network you’ve never heard of. Also: MIKE DIES??? 🎃 👻

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Intro Links

• Archive.org hacked
• Automattic CEO quadruples down on WP Engine legal battle
• Cracks in the Mr. Beast empire 
• The AI restaurant problem on Instagram

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Are We Dating the Same Guy?

• AWDTSG Wikipedia Entry
• Find Alice on bsky
• Alice’s website

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David Social

• You can find Noah at noahhertz.com
• David Social is at davidsocial.com but don’t bother if you don’t already know David
• Lily Alexandre is on YouTube and X, The Everything Website

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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. 

when I first died, I stole a lock of your hair while you slept

Now I dip it in ink when the mood strikes

and the times you visit and kneel so pretty on the grass above me,

that’s not scratching you hear. It’s writing. 

except of Poem to Line My Casket with, Ramona, by Josh Bell

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