Senior producer Hans Buetow investigates the transit vacuum that’ll be left when Uber and Lyft leave the Twin Cities; Mike looks at how the car has become a default setting for vertical, short form video. Also: PLANES, TRAINS… BIKES

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Intro Links

• The House just voted on a potential TikTok ban (again). Now what? – CNN
• Biden signs a bill that could ban TikTok — after the 2024 election – NBC News
• Steve Mnuchin seeks AI partner to rebuild TikTok’s algorithm in takeover bid: sources – NY Post
• Google blocks California news in response to bill that would force tech giant to pay – NPR
• When Facebook bans the news – Matt Pearce
• Nvidia drops 10% as investors see risk in Big Tech shares – FT
• Super Micro And Nvidia Stock Woes Could Mean Trouble For Generative AI – Forbes
• AuthorJMac Tweet
• Mike on The Eurowhat Podcast
• If You Love Podcasts, Dump Spotify – Alex Sujong Laughlin, Defector

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Twin Cities Transit Vacuum

• Minnesota Reformer Uber Archives
• Max Nesterak is on Twitter 

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The American Car 

• Garlic Naan And Butter Chicken Fountain?! – Tiktok
• David After Dentist – YouTube
• Taco Reacts – Tiktok
• The American Room – Paul Ford, Medium
• It is NOT My day – Tiktok
• forget a rage room, ima just rent out my car so y’all can scream in it – Evelyn, Tiktok
• Shanin Blake – Tiktok
• Dear single parents ~ when I was 18 I got pregnant with my daughter and her dad went to prison right after she was born, so I was on my own. – Shanin Blake, Instagram
• This is our home her name is Nancy 🚐 – Shanin Blake, Instagram
• Good morning! I love living in a mom van!!! – Shanin Blake, Instagram

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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. 

To understand what was going on it is perhaps necessary to have participated in the freeway experience, which is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the same as participating in it. Anyone can “drive” on the freeway, and many people with no vocation for it do, hesitating here and resisting there, losing the rhythm of the lane change, thinking about where they came from and where they are going. Actual participants think only about where they are. Actual participation requires a total surrender, a concentration so intense as to seem a kind of narcosis, a rapture-of-the-freeway. The mind goes clean. The rhythm takes over. A distortion of time occurs, the same distortion that characterizes the instant before an accident.

Except from The Bureaucrats, by Joan Didion

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