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Better Offline

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society

Episodes

Total: 135

In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with famed MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to talk about the econo

CrowdStruck

2024/7/22

On Friday July 19, millions of Windows PCs entered a doom-loop that rendered them non-functional tha

In a paper released earlier this year, three academics from the University of Glasgow classified Cha

When the money gets nervous, so should you. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through a remarkabl

The shareholder supremacy has eaten the tech industry, driving private and public companies to chase

In this episode, Ed Zitron tracks the history of the growth-at-all-costs rot economy to a court case

A few weeks ago, an Australian tech worker called Nik Suresh wrote an evisceration of the current AI

In a special live-to-tape episode of Better Offline, Ed is joined by The Verge's Alex Cranz and YouT

In a special live-to-tape episode of Better Offline, Ed is joined by The Verge's Alex Cranz and YouT

In April, The Onion was acquired by a new entity called Global Tetrahedron, revealed shortly thereaf

Let Tim Cook

2024/6/19

Last week, Apple announced that they're integrating artificial intelligence into your iPhone and Mac

In this episode, Ed Zitron walks through how Sam Altman's ridiculous promises about the future of ar

The Talented Mr. Altman

2024/6/12

Sam Altman has used his power and influence to become a multi-billionaire with stakes in hundreds of

The Rot-Com Bust

2024/6/7

In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through what happens when tech's growth-at-all-costs epoch begi

Tech's hyper-growth era is ending, with online 100 million new people getting online between 2022 an

AI Is Breaking Google

2024/5/29

On May 14th 2024, Google introduced their Search Generative Experience, a service that uses hallucin

For three years, Facebook's monthly active users have been declining dramatically, with Facebook.com

In the last decade, Mark Zuckerberg and his internal growth team have repeatedly and intentionally m

Earlier in the year, OpenAI debuted Sora, an AI that can generate videos that almost look realistic.

On April 26 2024, the NHTSA, the government body responsible for keeping roads safe, found Tesla's A