Better Offline

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  • Summary

  • 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
  • How The Tech Media Can Beat The Rot Economy

    How The Tech Media Can Beat The Rot Economy
    Feb 19 2025

    In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy has used software to poison so many parts of our lives - and how the tech media can rise to the challenge and fight for a better Silicon Valley by aligning with consumers against big tech.

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    LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks

    Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/

    Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/

    Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at

    Ed's Socials:

    https://twitter.com/edzitron

    https://www.instagram.com/edzitron

    https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com

    https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    28 mins
  • Monologue: The Super Bowl Showed That Generative AI Is Washed

    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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    LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks

    Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/

    Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/

    Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at

    Ed's Socials:

    https://twitter.com/edzitron

    https://www.instagram.com/edzitron

    https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com

    https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    9 mins
  • How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society

    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:
    https://bsky.app/profile/arif.bsky.social
    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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    LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks

    Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/

    Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/

    Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at

    Ed's Socials:

    https://twitter.com/edzitron

    https://www.instagram.com/edzitron

    https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com

    https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    1 hr and 25 mins

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