In 2021, Mark Zuckerberg renamed Facebook to Meta, claiming that it was now a "Metaverse company," throwing the entire tech industry into one of its most specious hype cycles. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the tech industry wasted nearly two years chasing a concept that nobody could define, burning billions of dollars on an idea that would cost thousands of people their jobs.

CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
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Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie
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Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC
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