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

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https://x.com/ArifHasanNFL
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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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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.&nbsp;
The Athletic story on sports gambling: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5777632/2024/10/14/sports-betting-addiction-problem-fans/">https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5777632/2024/10/14/sports-betting-addiction-problem-fans/</a>
Wide Left article about sports gambling:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.wideleft.football/p/has-legalized-gambling-poisoned-the">https://www.wideleft.football/p/has-legalized-gambling-poisoned-the</a>
Arif Hasan:&nbsp; <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/arif.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/arif.bsky.social</a> <a href="https://x.com/ArifHasanNFL">https://x.com/ArifHasanNFL</a> Wide Left: <a href="https://www.wideleft.football">https://www.wideleft.football</a>
Caleb Wilson: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/birdrespecter.bsky.social">https://bsky.app/profile/birdrespecter.bsky.social</a> Western Kabuki: <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/western-kabuki/id1647062210">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/western-kabuki/id1647062210</a>
The 60 Minute Drill Podcast (Ed, Arif and Caleb&rsquo;s NFL podcast): <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/60-minute-drill/id1768225605">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/60-minute-drill/id1768225605</a>
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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.

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.

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 better or for worse.

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.

How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society

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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about hyperscalers allowing non-technical workers to ship code, and how the over-reliance on LLMs and push to ship as much code as possible is setting big tech up for a calamity.

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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about hyperscalers allowing non-technical workers to ship code, and how the over-reliance on LLMs and push to ship as much code as possible is setting big tech up for a calamity. This week&rsquo;s free newsletter: <a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-still-doing-this/">https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-still-doing-this/</a>&nbsp; Save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter: <a href="https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1">https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1</a>&nbsp;- I&rsquo;d be so grateful! The Information piece: <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-meta-rogue-ai-agent-triggers-security-alert?rc=kz8jh3">https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-meta-rogue-ai-agent-triggers-security-alert?rc=kz8jh3</a>&nbsp; Business Insider piece: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-tightens-code-controls-after-outages-including-one-ai-2026-3">https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-tightens-code-controls-after-outages-including-one-ai-2026-3</a>
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Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech

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In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor of Barron’s to talk about the legalities of prediction markets, their effect on society, and how everyone is operating on the bleeding edge of financial regulations.

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Story (from both of them!): JPMorgan Is Considering New Prediction Market Guidance for Employees
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In this week&rsquo;s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor of Barron&rsquo;s to talk about the legalities of prediction markets, their effect on society, and how everyone is operating on the bleeding edge of financial regulations. Nick Devor: <a href="https://www.barrons.com/authors/nick-devor">https://www.barrons.com/authors/nick-devor</a>
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Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor

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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the end of tech’s hypergrowth era, generative AI’s failure as a business model, and why we need to stop looking to the past to prove that the future will work out.

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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the end of tech&rsquo;s hypergrowth era, generative AI&rsquo;s failure as a business model, and why we need to stop looking to the past to prove that the future will work out.
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Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History

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How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society

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