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Better Offline

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Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who,...

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Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.
Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

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Episodes 284 episodes in the feed

  1. The Truth About Data Centers w/ Paris Marx

    53 min

  2. Monologue: Amazon Is Warehousing Billions In GPUs

    10 min

  3. The Mind of Larry Ellison w/ Tom Dotan

    1 h 1 min

  4. Monologue: Anthropic Slows Down

    14 min

  5. The Hater's Guide To Bonds With Rob Wigglesworth

    42 min

  6. Monologue: Australia's Dodgiest AI IPO Is A Pale Horse

    10 min

  7. "Cycular" Financing w/ GamersNexus

    49 min

  8. Monologue: Anthropic's $413bn Burden

    6 min

  9. Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI

    7 min

  10. Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild

    10 min

Show 40 older episodes

  1. The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky

    54 min

  2. Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!

    8 min

  3. Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport

    1 h 5 min

  4. Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift

    16 min

  5. Managing The Situation

    17 min

  6. Monologue: Concentration Risk

    10 min

  7. LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan

    42 min

  8. Monologue: Into The Jensenverse

    8 min

  9. No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport

    1 h 5 min

  10. Monologue: AI Hits A Wall

    9 min

  11. The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus

    44 min

  12. AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr.

    45 min

  13. Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump

    11 min

  14. Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive

    16 min

  15. The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson

    54 min

  16. Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer?

    13 min

  17. AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making w/ Nik Suresh

    58 min

  18. Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?

    Bonus10 min

  19. The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy with Ed Elson

    58 min

  20. Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle

    Bonus15 min

  21. AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)

    1 h 3 min

  22. Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive

    Bonus8 min

  23. Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell

    59 min

  24. Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs

    Bonus6 min

  25. The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads

    34 min

  26. Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now

    23 min

  27. Monologue: Silicon Valley is A Cargo Cult

    8 min

  28. The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

    1 h 2 min

  29. Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X

    4 min

  30. CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble

    30 min

  31. Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down

    Bonus6 min

  32. Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky

    47 min

  33. Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI

    Bonus11 min

  34. The AI Industry Is Losing

    19 min

  35. Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs

    Bonus13 min

  36. AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus

    50 min

  37. Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak

    Bonus22 min

  38. The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil

    55 min

  39. CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

    57 min

  40. Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie

    Bonus18 min

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