Épisodes

  • Monologue: The Super Bowl Showed That Generative AI Is Washed
    Feb 14 2025

    In this week's monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how the AI industry’s limp Super Bowl commercials show how little this industry has to offer - and how much contempt they have for consumers.

    OpenAI: The Intelligence Age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIhb5pEo_j0

    Google: Dream Job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7e6g11BJc0

    Salesforce: Gate Expectations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZqmBcqDkyw

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    9 min
  • How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society
    Feb 12 2025

    In a live-to-tape recording in Ed Zitron's living room, Wide Left writer Arif Hasan and Western Kabuki Host Caleb Wilson explain in detail the cultural power of sports, and how software has been used to poison every corner of sports with predatory gambling schemes.

    The Athletic story on sports gambling: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5777632/2024/10/14/sports-betting-addiction-problem-fans/

    Wide Left article about sports gambling:
    https://www.wideleft.football/p/has-legalized-gambling-poisoned-the

    Arif Hasan:
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    https://x.com/ArifHasanNFL
    Wide Left: https://www.wideleft.football

    Caleb Wilson:
    https://bsky.app/profile/birdrespecter.bsky.social
    Western Kabuki: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/western-kabuki/id1647062210

    The 60 Minute Drill Podcast (Ed, Arif and Caleb’s NFL podcast): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/60-minute-drill/id1768225605

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    1 h et 25 min
  • Monologue: What Happened With DeepSeek?
    Feb 6 2025

    In the first of a new series of weekly monologues, Ed Zitron breaks down what exactly happened with DeepSeek, and how it threatens to pop the AI bubble.

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    10 min
  • How DeepSeek Showed That Silicon Valley Is Washed
    Feb 3 2025

    In this episode, Ed Zitron explains how the emergence of a much-more-efficient generative AI model has become an existential threat to the future of OpenAI and Anthropic - and tells a dark story about the death of innovation in Silicon Valley.

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    42 min
  • What The Hell Is DeepSeek?
    Jan 31 2025

    In this episode, Ed Zitron explains how DeepSeek, a relatively-unknown Chinese model AI developer incubated in a hedge fund, has punctured the generative AI bubble, throwing the US startup scene (and markets) into disarray.

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    33 min
  • Radio Better Offline: Jeremy Kaplowitz of the Quorators
    Jan 29 2025

    Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City.

    Ed Zitron is joined by Jeremy Kaplowitz of the podcast Quorators to talk about Quora, which he describes as “Reddit with a gas leak.”

    www.youtube.com/@Quorators

    www.patreon.com/Quorators

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    46 min
  • The Slop Society
    Jan 24 2025

    In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how lax regulation and all-too-chummy media coverage has empowered Mark Zuckerberg and other tech companies to intentionally make every digital experience worse for profit.

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    42 min
  • Facebook Was Already Zucked
    Jan 22 2025

    In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the latest "right-wing turn" for Mark Zuckerberg and Meta is really just formalizing policies on Facebook and Instagram that actively protected and elevated right-wing voices - and how we're entering a new era of rot for two of the world's largest social networks.

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    36 min