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Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise

Flashing Eyes In Which My Hopes Rise

Update: 2024-09-111
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Mike talks with Know Your Meme Editor-in-Chief Don Caldwell about the prevalence and decline of the Laser Eyes Meme, and the ever shifting place of internet memes in presidential election season; the staff then talks about posts that baffle and confound us. And also: fair play.



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Intro Links

  • EU top court ruling paves way for Apple to pay Ireland over €13bn in taxes – Irish Times
  •  Judge Rules $400 Million Algorithmic System Illegally Denied Thousands of People’s Medicaid Benefits – Gizmodo.com
  • Brazil Blocks Musk’s X After Company Refuses to Comply Amid Feud With Judge – Time
  • Elon Musk Has Backed Himself Into a Corner in Brazil – WIRED
  • What to know about Elon Musk’s ‘free speech’ feud with a Brazilian judge – AP
  • Who are Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin? The 6 commentators linked to Tenet indictment – USA Today
  • Who Are Tim Pool And Benny Johnson? What To Know About The Six Right-Wing Commentators DOJ Alleges Were Funded By Russia. – Forbes
  • YouTube Deletes Tim Pool’s Embarrassing Kremlin-Backed Videos – Gizmodo
  • Media start-up from Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, and Dave Rubin was secret Russian influence campaign, indictment alleges – DailyDot
  • cohost to shut down at end of 2024 – cohost 

Laser Eyes

  • Laser Eyes – KYM
  • Dark Brandon – KYM
  • Dark Brandon Explained – KYM
  • Fell Out of a Coconut Tree – KYM
  • What Can Be, Unburdened By What Has Been – KYM

Find Don:

What Is Going On Here?

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. 

All day we leave and arrive at the hive,

concelebrants. The hive is love,

what we serve, preserve, avowed in Latin murmurs

as we come and go, skydive, freighted

with light, to where we thrive, us, in time’s hum,

on history’s breath,

        industrious, identical…


Excerpt of Hive by Carol Ann Duffy


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