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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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- 2 days agosolo53 min5-min read
The Truth About Data Centers w/ Paris Marx
Data centers, especially those powering AI, are consuming vast amounts of water, electricity, and land while operating in secrecy, and communities are increasingly pushing back against their unchecked expansion. The tech industry’s narrative of progress masks environmental harm, regulatory capture, and a growing disconnect between corporate ambition and public interest.
- 1 weeks agonarrative10 min4-min read
Monologue: Amazon Is Warehousing Billions In GPUs
Ed Zitron delivers a fiery monologue accusing NVIDIA of artificially creating GPU scarcity through forced early deliveries — a practice he labels as channel stuffing — which has inflated consumer electronics prices and worsened global supply chains, all to boost quarterly earnings at the expense of ordinary people.
- 1 weeks agoconversational1h 1m6-min read
The Mind of Larry Ellison w/ Tom Dotan
On the 80th anniversary of the Allied liberation of southern France, Ed Zitron welcomes writer Tom Dutton to dissect Larry Ellison, the Oracle co-founder and Silicon Valley’s most leathery, debt-magnetizing goblin-ghoul capitalist, whose life reads like a Shakespearean tragedy written by a hedge fund manager. The conversation traces Ellison’s rise from Yosemite river bum to tech titan, his company’s aggressive acquisition spree, stock buybacks that funneled wealth to himself, and his current AI-fueled Hail Mary: building $300 billion in data centers for OpenAI while personally drowning in margin loans—all while trying to buy love, legacy, and yachting respectability.
- 1 weeks agoconversational3 min4-min read
Introducing: Knowledge Fight Country
Dan Friesen, after a decade of dissecting Alex Jones’ InfoWars empire on his podcast Knowledge Fight, reveals his journey from sincere inquiry to disillusionment, exposing how Jones weaponizes context to evade accountability. Now launching Knowledge Fight Country, Friesen expands his mission beyond Jones to tackle a wider ecosystem of conspiracy theorists and context manipulators.
- 2 weeks agosolo14 min4-min read
Monologue: Anthropic Slows Down
Anthropic's leaked Q3 financials, showing $16.8 billion in revenue and 46% quarter-over-quarter growth, have sent shockwaves through AI boosters who were expecting parabolic growth and a $100 billion annualized run rate. The reality? The numbers expose a deeply flawed economic model built on fake metrics, distillation-driven revenue from Chinese competitors, and a customer base dominated by unprofitable AI startups. Worse, the media’s uncritical regurgitation of 'adjusted' margins and magical 'run rates' has turned journalism into marketing, delaying the inevitable reckoning.
- 2 weeks agointerview42 min6-min read
The Hater's Guide To Bonds With Rob Wigglesworth
Bonds are the invisible backbone of the global financial system, far larger and more influential than the stock market, yet widely misunderstood. As tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon issue massive amounts of debt to fund AI data centers, the bond market is undergoing a structural shift — but fears that this is driving up U.S. borrowing costs are overblown compared to larger forces like inflation and geopolitical risk.
- 3 weeks agosolo10 min3-min read
Monologue: Australia's Dodgiest AI IPO Is A Pale Horse
Firmus, an NVIDIA-backed Australian AI data center startup, is collapsing ahead of its planned $5.5 billion IPO, revealing a pattern of inflated valuations, unfulfilled infrastructure promises, and investor skepticism—exposing the fragility of the AI data center boom. The episode uses Firmus as a case study to indict the broader ecosystem of American 'NeoCloud' companies like CoreWeave and Lambda, whose financial models rely on speculative future capacity rather than existing operations.
- 3 weeks agoconversational49 min6-min read
"Cycular" Financing w/ GamersNexus
Ed Zitron and Steve Burke of Gamers Nexus dive into the absurdity and fragility of the current AI hardware bubble, focusing on NVIDIA’s circular financing schemes, the mysterious disappearance of GPUs into data center purgatory, and the broader collapse of trust in tech self-regulation. The conversation is a darkly comedic autopsy of an industry running on debt, delusion, and denial.
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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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