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Better Offline

Better Offline

By: Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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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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Episodes
  • The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky

    The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky
    Apr 7 2026

    In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about the large amount of speculative data center land purchases, the brittle NVIDIA GPU economy, and the economic realities of AI.

    https://paulkedrosky.com/

    The Nick, Dick and Paul Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFbDiETo29GTIjg6Lk4imig

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    41 mins
  • Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail

    Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail
    Apr 3 2026

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron breaks down why AI isn’t too big to fail, why no bailout is coming, and how people need to learn more about history before using it to justify burning billions of dollars.

    This week’s free newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-ai-crisis-is-here/
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    18 mins
  • Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?

    Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?
    Apr 1 2026

    In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron discusses Anthropic’s aggressive new rate limits, the leak of Claude Code’s source code, and the dread consequences of having software written 100% by LLMs.

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    Peak hours announcement: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/anthropic_tweaks_usage_limits/?ref=wheresyoured.at
    https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/anthropic_claude_code_source_code/
    Boris on 100% of his code: http://x.com/bcherny/status/2004897269674639461
    Lenny interview with Boris: https://x.com/lennysan/status/2024896611818897438

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    11 mins
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No one else can get across how frustrating it is that silicon valley promised a bright future and instead delivered a corporate dystopia.

Exposing the rot

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fairly objective but critical, good patter. a much-needed more upbeat addition to cooler zone. thus far not much Doom or gloom

worth a listen

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