What We're Fighting For
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the how the tech media misses the stories that hurt billions of people every day - and how deep down, most people really do like technology and miss when i...
21 Feb 202534min
Monologue: OpenAI Was Never A Non-Profit
In this week's monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the early days of OpenAI - and the simmering war between Elon Musk and Sam Altman over its non-profit status. Suit: https://www.courtlistener.com/...
20 Feb 202510min
How The Tech Media Can Beat The Rot Economy
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy has used software to poison so many parts of our lives - and how the tech media can rise to the challenge and fight...
19 Feb 202527min
Monologue: The Super Bowl Showed That Generative AI Is Washed
In this week's monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how the AI industry’s limp Super Bowl commercials show how little this industry has to offer - and how much contempt they have for consumers.OpenA...
14 Feb 20259min
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
