Hi Better Offline Fans! Take a listen to the trailer of our newest show, Weird Little Guys.

About the show: Investigative journalist Molly Conger takes you beyond the headlines to examine some of the worst people on the planet, most of whom you’ve never heard of. These are the weird little guys trying to ruin life as we know it.

Listen hereand subscribe to Weird Little Guys on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!

Hi Better Offline Fans! Take a listen to the trailer of our newest show, Weird Little Guys.
About the show: Investigative journalist Molly Conger takes you beyond the headlines to examine some of the worst people on the planet, most of whom you’ve never heard of. These are the weird little guys trying to ruin life as we know it.
Listen <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-weird-little-guys-201395214/">here</a> <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-sixteenth-minute-of-fame-172216473/"></a><a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/#:~:text=•%201%20min-,Better%20Offline%20is%20a%20weekly%20show%20exploring%20the%20tech%20industry%27s,for%20better%20or%20for%20worse."></a><a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-call-chelsea-peretti-27911408/"></a>and subscribe to Weird Little Guys on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts!

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.

Introducing: Weird Little Guys

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After a year of opulent spending, the markets have begun to sour on big tech's $200 billion bet on generative AI, unfortunately timing with the delay of Nvidia's new AI-specialized "blackwell" chips. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the pale horses of the AI apocalypse - and what this means for the tech industry at large.

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After a year of opulent spending, the markets have begun to sour on big tech's $200 billion bet on generative AI, unfortunately timing with the delay of Nvidia's new AI-specialized "blackwell" chips. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the pale horses of the AI apocalypse - and what this means for the tech industry at large.
LINKS: <a href="http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks">http://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks</a> 
Newsletter: <a href="wheresyoured.at ">wheresyoured.at </a>
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Discord: <a href="chat.wheresyoured.at ">chat.wheresyoured.at  </a>
Ed's Socials -
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How The AI Bubble Bursts

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In the third live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio in Los Angeles by Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant to talk about the forces that have turned the tech industry away from innovation - and how we might turn the tide against them.

CORY DOCTOROW:

https://pluralistic.net/

https://x.com/doctorow

BRIAN MERCHANT: 

Blood In The Machine Book: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/?lens=little-brown

Newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/

https://x.com/bcmerchant

Ed's Socials:

https://www.twitter.com/edzitron

https://instagram.com/edzitron

https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social

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

Newsletter: wheresyoured.at

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

Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at

In the third live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio in Los Angeles by Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant to talk about the forces that have turned the tech industry away from innovation - and how we might turn the tide against them.
CORY DOCTOROW:
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/">https://pluralistic.net/</a>
<a href="https://x.com/doctorow">https://x.com/doctorow</a>
BRIAN MERCHANT: 
Blood In The Machine Book: <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/?lens=little-brown">https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/brian-merchant/blood-in-the-machine/9780316487740/?lens=little-brown</a>
Newsletter:<a href="https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/"> https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/</a>
<a href="https://x.com/bcmerchant">https://x.com/bcmerchant</a>
Ed's Socials:
<a href="https://www.twitter.com/edzitron">https://www.twitter.com/edzitron</a>
<a href="https://instagram.com/edzitron">https://instagram.com/edzitron</a>
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Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/1877c9a3-e6be-430b-8421-b1c3016630f4/transcript

In the second live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by the New York Times' Mike Isaac and The Verge's Kylie Robison to discuss the current state of tech journalism.

KYLIE: https://x.com/kyliebyteshttps://www.threads.net/@kylie.robison

MIKE: https://x.com/MikeIsaachttps://www.threads.net/@mike_isaac?hl=enhttps://www.instagram.com/mike_isaac

Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline

Discord chat.wheresyoured.at

Ed's Socials -

http://www.twitter.com/edzitron

instagram.com/edzitron

https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

In the second live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by the New York Times' Mike Isaac and The Verge's Kylie Robison to discuss the current state of tech journalism.
KYLIE: <a href="https://x.com/kyliebytes">https://x.com/kyliebytes</a> <a href="https://www.threads.net/@kylie.robison">https://www.threads.net/@kylie.robison</a>
MIKE: <a href="https://x.com/MikeIsaac">https://x.com/MikeIsaac</a> <a href="https://www.threads.net/@mike_isaac?hl=en">https://www.threads.net/@mike_isaac?hl=en</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mike_isaac">https://www.instagram.com/mike_isaac</a>
Newsletter: wheresyoured.at Reddit: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline">http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline</a>
Discord chat.wheresyoured.at
Ed's Socials -
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instagram.com/edzitron
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The State of Tech Journalism with Kylie Robison and Mike Isaac

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/7fc984c4-cab3-4e29-ac2b-b1bd015707f9/transcript

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