Georgia digs deep into the enshittification of dating apps, and pays dearly as a result. Mike talks to Aftermath co-founder Luke Plunkett about recent, massive changes to Google’s Page Rank algorithm, and the risk of reconfiguring entire industries to pander to search traffic. And also: An AI Voice Clone of Mike is set to *maximum chaos*. 

Show Notes:

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Intro Links

• Belle Delphine earned over $90K selling jars of her bathwater in 2019. PayPal only released her money this week – Katie Notopulous, Business Insider
• Slack has been using data from your chats to train its machine learning models – Will Shanklin, Engadget
• It’s the End of Google Search As We Know It – Lauren Goode, WIRED
• Uber and Lyft agree to deal with state lawmakers on minimum pay rates for drivers – Max Nesterak, Minnesota Reformer
• IGN Entertainment acquires Eurogamer, GI, VG247, Rock Paper Shotgun and more –  Christopher Dring, gameindustry.biz
• IGN buys Eurogamer, VG247, and Rock Paper Shotgun – layoffs have already started – Game Central, Metro.co.uk
• Never Post at XOXO 2024 
• 12 Best Podcasts of 2024 (So Far) – Lauren Passell, Lifehacker 
• Mike on Blocked Party

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Dating Apps (derogatory)

• Dating Apps: The Uncertainty of Marketised Love
• https://www.tiktok.com/@officialbrept/video/7028325781537393925?_t=8lrDLmaKbTa&_r=1
• https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahgraser/video/7117094997484309806?_r=1&_t=8ly4uYqQrPD
• https://www.tiktok.com/@harmonythread/video/7262952885158235435?_t=8lwOVY3O0LP&_r=1
• https://www.tiktok.com/@hannahgraser/video/7125991346489314603?_t=8lwOSDK1l3H&_r=1
• https://www.tiktok.com/@jordanzhang13/video/7036251495951535366?_t=8m88ojNTm3y&_r=1

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Google Scruples

• Find Luke at Aftermath.site
• Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change
• Workers At The Gamurs Group Of Video Game Websites Describe It As ‘Hell’
• The Perfect Webpage: How the internet reshaped itself around Google’s search algorithms 

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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. 

Foot, how you press

 me to keep that

 old contact alive

the repeated daily sentiment

 of pace so

 grim, always that

untrusting silence

untitled, by JH Prynne, from The White Stones

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