Ed Zitron walks you through how career manager Adam Mosseri pushed out Instagram's original founders, turning it into an ultra-profitable app that barely works, and how Sam Altman, the so-called hero of the AI boom, is a lobbyist dressed as a technologist best-known for being an absent, self-obsessed demagogue.

Ed Zitron walks you through how career manager Adam Mosseri pushed out Instagram's original founders, turning it into an ultra-profitable app that barely works, and how Sam Altman, the so-called hero of the AI boom, is a lobbyist dressed as a technologist best-known for being an absent, self-obsessed demagogue.

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.

The Cult of Failing Upwards

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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the world finally realizing that NVIDIA’s $100bn deal with OpenAI was BS, and the very real possibility of Oracle’s collapse.

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The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3?st=H2AMjC&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Oracle tweet about the deal: https://x.com/Oracle/status/2018368835363942668?s=20

Altman tweet about deal: https://x.com/sama/status/2018451015272694248?s=20

Jensen Huang on Jim Cramer: https://youtu.be/ZVTZc0j4hDY?si=8XdqTM1SGYH3fJwG&t=913 (15 minutes in)

Hater’s Guide To Oracle: https://www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide-oracle/ 

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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the world finally realizing that NVIDIA&rsquo;s $100bn deal with OpenAI was BS, and the very real possibility of Oracle&rsquo;s collapse. 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 $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3?st=H2AMjC&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink">https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-100-billion-megadeal-between-openai-and-nvidia-is-on-ice-aa3025e3?st=H2AMjC&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink</a>
Oracle tweet about the deal: <a href="https://x.com/Oracle/status/2018368835363942668?s=20">https://x.com/Oracle/status/2018368835363942668?s=20</a>
Altman tweet about deal: <a href="https://x.com/sama/status/2018451015272694248?s=20">https://x.com/sama/status/2018451015272694248?s=20</a>
Jensen Huang on Jim Cramer: <a href="https://youtu.be/ZVTZc0j4hDY?si=8XdqTM1SGYH3fJwG&amp;t=913">https://youtu.be/ZVTZc0j4hDY?si=8XdqTM1SGYH3fJwG&amp;t=913</a>&nbsp;(15 minutes in)
Hater&rsquo;s Guide To Oracle:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide-oracle/">https://www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide-oracle/</a>&nbsp;
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Monologue: Is Oracle Screwed?

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In the first episode of Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - Ed is joined by David Gerard of Pivot to AI to talk about Openclaw/Clawdbot/Moltbot, how seemingly smart people keep being “one-shotted” by AI, and why we’ve been headed toward a calamity in the markets since 2008.

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In the first episode of Better Offline&rsquo;s &ldquo;Hater Season&rdquo; - an ongoing roundtable with tech&rsquo;s greatest haters - Ed is joined by David Gerard of Pivot to AI to talk about Openclaw/Clawdbot/Moltbot, how seemingly smart people keep being &ldquo;one-shotted&rdquo; by AI, and why we&rsquo;ve been headed toward a calamity in the markets since 2008. <a href="https://pivot-to-ai.com/">https://pivot-to-ai.com/</a>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/@PivotToAI">https://www.youtube.com/@PivotToAI</a>
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot-to-ai/id1844698298">https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pivot-to-ai/id1844698298</a>
<a href="https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/">https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/</a>
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Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard

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In the final part of this week’s Dot Com Bubble series, Ed Zitron walks you through to the logical endpoints of his arguments about the AI bubble - a 40%-90% collapse of NVIDIA’s revenues, tens of billions of dollars of impairments for hyperscalers, an existential contraction in venture capital, the near-collapse of Oracle, and $200 billion or more in unpaid data center debt.

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In the final part of this week&rsquo;s Dot Com Bubble series, Ed Zitron walks you through to the logical endpoints of his arguments about the AI bubble - a 40%-90% collapse of NVIDIA&rsquo;s revenues, tens of billions of dollars of impairments for hyperscalers, an existential contraction in venture capital, the near-collapse of Oracle, and $200 billion or more in unpaid data center debt.
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AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Four

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