Better Offline
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 b...
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Episodes (286)
The Truth About Data Centers w/ Paris Marx
Oct 28, 2026
Monologue: Amazon Is Warehousing Billions In GPUs
Oct 23, 2026
The Mind of Larry Ellison w/ Tom Dotan
Oct 21, 2026
Introducing: Knowledge Fight Country
Oct 19, 2026
Monologue: Anthropic Slows Down
Oct 16, 2026
The Hater's Guide To Bonds With Rob Wigglesworth
Oct 14, 2026
Monologue: Australia's Dodgiest AI IPO Is A Pale Horse
Oct 9, 2026
"Cycular" Financing w/ GamersNexus
Oct 7, 2026
Monologue: Anthropic's $413bn Burden
Oct 2, 2026
Monologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI
Sep 30, 2026
Monologue: The AI Data Center Overbuild
Sep 25, 2026
The Hidden Recession Beneath The AI Bubble w/ Paul Kedrosky
Sep 23, 2026
Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up, Dario!
Sep 18, 2026
Stopping The AI Safety Cult ft. Adam Becker & Cal Newport
Sep 16, 2026
Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift
Sep 11, 2026
Managing The Situation
Sep 9, 2026
Monologue: Concentration Risk
Sep 4, 2026
LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan
Sep 2, 2026
Monologue: Into The Jensenverse
Aug 28, 2026
No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport
Aug 26, 2026
Monologue: AI Hits A Wall
Aug 21, 2026
The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus
Aug 19, 2026
AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr.
Aug 14, 2026
Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump
Aug 12, 2026
Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive
Aug 7, 2026
The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson
Aug 5, 2026
Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer?
Jul 31, 2026
AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making w/ Nik Suresh
Jul 29, 2026
Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?
Jul 24, 2026
The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy with Ed Elson
Jul 22, 2026
Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle
Jul 17, 2026
AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)
Jul 15, 2026
Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive
Jul 10, 2026
Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell
Jul 8, 2026
Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs
Jul 3, 2026
The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads
Jul 1, 2026
Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now
Jun 26, 2026
Monologue: Silicon Valley is A Cargo Cult
Jun 24, 2026
The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport
Jun 19, 2026
Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X
Jun 16, 2026
CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble
Jun 10, 2026
Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down
Jun 5, 2026
Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky
Jun 3, 2026
Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI
May 29, 2026
The AI Industry Is Losing
May 27, 2026
Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs
May 22, 2026
AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus
May 20, 2026
Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak
May 15, 2026
The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil
May 13, 2026
CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
May 6, 2026