Better Offline

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 (272)

Monologue: Jacob Coxon and the AI Safety Grift

Sep 11, 2026

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Managing The Situation

Sep 9, 2026

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Monologue: Concentration Risk

Sep 4, 2026

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LLMs Will Never Make Art With Caleb Wilson and Arif Hasan

Sep 2, 2026

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Monologue: Into The Jensenverse

Aug 28, 2026

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No, AI Is Not "Autonomously Hacking" with Cal Newport

Aug 26, 2026

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Monologue: AI Hits A Wall

Aug 21, 2026

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The AI Clown Car W/ Gamersnexus

Aug 19, 2026

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AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr.

Aug 14, 2026

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Monologue: NVIDIA's No IT Loads Refused Cash Dump

Aug 12, 2026

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Monologue: The Pale Horsemen Arrive

Aug 7, 2026

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The AI Demand Bubble with Ed Elson

Aug 5, 2026

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Monologue: We Live Inside A Dream, But Who Is The Dreamer?

Jul 31, 2026

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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making w/ Nik Suresh

Jul 29, 2026

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Monologue: What The Hell Are The Hyperscalers Doing?

Jul 24, 2026

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The Cult of the Ultra-Wealthy with Ed Elson

Jul 22, 2026

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Monologue: OpenAI Could Kill SoftBank and Oracle

Jul 17, 2026

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AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)

Jul 15, 2026

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Monologue: Blame AI For Making Everything More Expensive

Jul 10, 2026

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Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell

Jul 8, 2026

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Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs

Jul 3, 2026

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The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads

Jul 1, 2026

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Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now

Jun 26, 2026

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Monologue: Silicon Valley is A Cargo Cult

Jun 24, 2026

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The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

Jun 19, 2026

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Exclusive: OpenAI Spent $34 Billion In 2025, With Losses Up 8X

Jun 16, 2026

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CZM Rewind: The Rot-Com Bubble

Jun 10, 2026

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Monologue: AI Can't Afford To Slow Down

Jun 5, 2026

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Why AI Has No ROI with Paul Kedrosky

Jun 3, 2026

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Monologue: Everyone Suddenly Cares About AI ROI

May 29, 2026

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The AI Industry Is Losing

May 27, 2026

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Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs

May 22, 2026

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AI Versus The PC Industry With GamersNexus

May 20, 2026

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Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak

May 15, 2026

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The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil

May 13, 2026

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CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

May 6, 2026

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Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie

May 1, 2026

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Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC

Apr 29, 2026

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Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle

Apr 24, 2026

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

Apr 22, 2026

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Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric

Apr 17, 2026

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More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker

Apr 15, 2026

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Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz

Apr 9, 2026

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The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky

Apr 7, 2026

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Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail

Apr 3, 2026

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Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?

Apr 1, 2026

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Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You

Mar 27, 2026

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NVIDIAdrome with Steve Burke of GamersNexus

Mar 25, 2026

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Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech

Mar 20, 2026

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Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor

Mar 18, 2026

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