Better Offline podcast

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.

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.

 

#236

CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

This week’s Better Offline is a recording of a panel held by Clarion West in Seattle... more

06 May 2026

57 MINS

57:34

06 May 2026


#235

Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 70-80% of Amazon and M... more

01 May 2026

18 MINS

18:58

01 May 2026


#234

Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC

On this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into Palantir’s 22-point manifes... more

29 Apr 2026

1 HR 07 MINS

1:07:25

29 Apr 2026


#233

Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how OpenAI must grow its r... more

24 Apr 2026

11 MINS

11:04

24 Apr 2026


#232

Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by computer science professor and writer... more

22 Apr 2026

59 MINS

59:02

22 Apr 2026


#231

Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron discusses how AI labs’ dangerous ... more

17 Apr 2026

12 MINS

12:06

17 Apr 2026


#230

More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by journalist and astrophysicist ... more

15 Apr 2026

47 MINS

47:50

15 Apr 2026


#229

Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz

In a special episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by writers Ronan Farrow and An... more

09 Apr 2026

43 MINS

43:10

09 Apr 2026


#228

The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to tal... more

07 Apr 2026

40 MINS

40:48

07 Apr 2026


#227

Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron breaks down why AI isn’t too big ... more

03 Apr 2026

17 MINS

17:58

03 Apr 2026


#226

Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron discusses Anthropic’s aggressive new ... more

01 Apr 2026

11 MINS

11:23

01 Apr 2026


#225

Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about OpenAI killing Sora, and ho... more

27 Mar 2026

10 MINS

10:43

27 Mar 2026


#224

NVIDIAdrome with Steve Burke of GamersNexus

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk ab... more

25 Mar 2026

57 MINS

57:56

25 Mar 2026


#223

Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about hyperscalers allowing non-t... more

20 Mar 2026

11 MINS

11:39

20 Mar 2026


#222

Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor of Ba... more

18 Mar 2026

48 MINS

48:50

18 Mar 2026


#221

Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the end of tech’s hyp... more

13 Mar 2026

14 MINS

14:58

13 Mar 2026