Better Offline

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.

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How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society

How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society

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 ...

12 Helmi 20251h 24min

Monologue: What Happened With DeepSeek?

Monologue: What Happened With DeepSeek?

In the first of a new series of weekly monologues, Ed Zitron breaks down what exactly happened with DeepSeek, and how it threatens to pop the AI bubble. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflin...

6 Helmi 20259min

How DeepSeek Showed That Silicon Valley Is Washed

How DeepSeek Showed That Silicon Valley Is Washed

In this episode, Ed Zitron explains how the emergence of a much-more-efficient generative AI model has become an existential threat to the future of OpenAI and Anthropic - and tells a dark story about...

3 Helmi 202542min

What The Hell Is DeepSeek?

What The Hell Is DeepSeek?

In this episode, Ed Zitron explains how DeepSeek, a relatively-unknown Chinese model AI developer incubated in a hedge fund, has punctured the generative AI bubble, throwing the US startup scene (and ...

31 Tammi 202532min

Radio Better Offline: Jeremy Kaplowitz of the Quorators

Radio Better Offline: Jeremy Kaplowitz of the Quorators

Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City. Ed Zitron is joined by Jeremy Kaplowitz of the podcast Quorators to talk about Quora, whi...

29 Tammi 202545min

The Slop Society

The Slop Society

In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how lax regulation and all-too-chummy media coverage has empowered Mark Zuckerberg and other tech companies to intentionally make every digital experience ...

24 Tammi 202542min

Facebook Was Already Zucked

Facebook Was Already Zucked

In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the latest "right-wing turn" for Mark Zuckerberg and Meta is really just formalizing policies on Facebook and Instagram that actively protected and ele...

22 Tammi 202536min

Radio Better Offline: Paris Martineau, Jeff Jarvis

Radio Better Offline: Paris Martineau, Jeff Jarvis

Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City. Ed Zitron is joined by Paris Martineau of The Information and media critic Jeff Jarvis to...

15 Tammi 20251h 25min