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 Feb 20251h 24min
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 Feb 20259min
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 Feb 202542min
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 Jan 202532min
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 Jan 202545min
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 Jan 202542min
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 Jan 202536min
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 Jan 20251h 25min
