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  • Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak
    2026/05/15

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how LLMs and the obsession with AI is actively destroying the fabric of the tech industry.

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    22 分
  • The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil
    2026/05/13

    On this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by the hosts of the Ben & Emil show to talk about how the markets have been driven insane by semiconductor buzz and social media hysteria.

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    55 分
  • CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
    2026/05/06

    This week’s Better Offline is a recording of a panel held by Clarion West in Seattle earlier this year with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron, discussing enshittification, The Rot Economy, and the destruction of modern tech platforms, moderated by Whitney Beltrán.

    Original Air Date: 11.12.25

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    58 分
  • Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie
    2026/05/01

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 70-80% of Amazon and Microsoft’s AI revenue and capacity is taken up by OpenAI and Anthropic, and how capacity constraints across the industry are a result of hyperscalers sacrificing their infrastructure to the least-profitable startups of all time.

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    19 分
  • Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC
    2026/04/29

    On this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into Palantir’s 22-point manifesto with Caleb and June from Kill The Computer.

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  • Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle
    2026/04/24

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how OpenAI must grow its revenue by 1000% in the next three years and raise at least another $200 billion for it to be able to pay its compute deals with Oracle and other providers, and how Oracle dies if OpenAI fails to pay its bills.

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    11 分
  • Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization
    2026/04/22

    In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport to talk about the Claude Mythos marketing scam, the lies around AI job loss, and why LLMs shouldn’t talk like they’re people.

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    59 分
  • Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric
    2026/04/17

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron discusses how AI labs’ dangerous rhetoric around AI capabilities and job loss are antagonizing and terrifying people that are already on edge, and that de-escalation starts with Altman and Amodei talking about LLMs as normal software.

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    12 分