Better Offline
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<p>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. </p> <p>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.</p>
- 14 minutes 58 secondsMonologue: It's The Beginning Of History
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the end of tech’s hypergrowth era, generative AI’s failure as a business model, and why we need to stop looking to the past to prove that the future will work out.
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13 March 2026, 4:00 am - 59 minutes 21 secondsHater Season: Henry Zebrowski
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed is joined by Henry Zebrowski of Last Podcast on the Left to talk about Business Idiots, the metaverse, and the beauty of the human mind.
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11 March 2026, 4:00 am - 46 minutes 41 secondsHater Season: Corey Quinn
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Corey Quinn, Chief Cloud Economist at Duckbill, about the realities of LLMs and the chaotic world of Amazon Web Services.
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4 March 2026, 5:00 am - 7 minutes 43 secondsMonologue: Analyslop And The Death of Critical Thinking
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the "analyslop" phenomenon of speculative, lie-ridden fan fiction that gets framed as meaningful research and promoted by the mainstream media.
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27 February 2026, 5:00 am - 59 minutes 25 secondsHater Season: Victoria Song & Alex Cranz
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Victoria Song of The Verge about “wellness products,” bullshit workout metrics and black market peptides.
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25 February 2026, 5:00 am - 8 minutes 5 secondsMonologue: AI Isn't Replacing Software Companies, Calm Down About Claude Code
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why AI isn’t replacing all software companies, and why the hype behind Claude Code is utterly specious.
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20 February 2026, 5:00 am - 59 minutes 15 secondsHater Season: Caleb Wilson, Juniper and Arif Hasan
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Kill The Computer’s Juniper and Caleb and Arif Hasan of Wide Left about prediction markets, silicon valley’s billionaire whiners, and how Anthropic is trying to redefine “profitability.”
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18 February 2026, 5:00 am - 6 minutes 31 secondsMonologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why Matt Shumer’s “Something Big Is Coming” is deceptive misinformation peddled by a guy who previously tried to defraud the AI community, and why everybody who boosted or republished it should be ashamed of themselves.
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13 February 2026, 5:00 am - 1 hour 6 minutesHater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting
Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about the ways in which the media fails to report the truth about AI.
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11 February 2026, 5:00 am - 8 minutes 11 secondsMonologue: Is Oracle Screwed?
In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the world finally realizing that NVIDIA’s $100bn deal with OpenAI was BS, and the very real possibility of Oracle’s collapse.
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The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3?st=H2AMjC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalinkOracle tweet about the deal: https://x.com/Oracle/status/2018368835363942668?s=20
Altman tweet about deal: https://x.com/sama/status/2018451015272694248?s=20
Jensen Huang on Jim Cramer: https://youtu.be/ZVTZc0j4hDY?si=8XdqTM1SGYH3fJwG&t=913 (15 minutes in)
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6 February 2026, 5:00 am - 38 minutes 7 secondsHater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard
In the first episode of Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - Ed is joined by David Gerard of Pivot to AI to talk about Openclaw/Clawdbot/Moltbot, how seemingly smart people keep being “one-shotted” by AI, and why we’ve been headed toward a calamity in the markets since 2008.
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