Better Offline
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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 i...
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Episodes (437)
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1)
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Part Three: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
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Part Two: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
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Part One: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
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Monologue: The Questions I'm Asking
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The State of Consumer Tech with Lisa Eadicicco
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The State of the Games Industry with Nathan Grayson
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Monologue: AI Isn't Getting A Bailout
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Is Valve Taking On Microsoft? with Steve Burke
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A Thanksgiving Monologue
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CZM Rewind: The Truth About Software Development with Carl Brown
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What People Actually Use ChatGPT For With Gerrit De Vynck
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Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference And Its MSFT Revenue Share
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Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
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Monologue: AI's Desperation Era
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Vibe Coding is BS w/ Charlie Meyer
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Monologue: Dealing With The Weight Of History
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The Internet Is The World's Worst Pharmacy w/ Paris Martineau & Ashwin Rodrigues
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Monologue: Don't Be Scared Of Sora
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Exclusive: Here's How Much Anthropic Spends on AWS
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Monologue: ChatGPT's Growth Is Collapsing In Europe
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The Interview: Steve Burke of GamersNexus
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The World of AI Regulation with Brian Merchant
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Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth
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The Case Against Generative AI (Part 4)
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The Case Against Generative AI (Part 3)
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The Case Against Generative AI (Part 2)
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The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1)
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Monologue: OpenAI and NVIDIA's Deal Is BS
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Radio Better Offline: Adam Becker
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AI Isn't Making Engineers 10x As Productive with Colton Voege
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Radio Better Offline: Edward Ongweso Jr. & Allison Morrow
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How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Three
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How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Two
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How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part One
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Monologue: Tech Skepticism Is Going Mainstream
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The Black Market for AI GPUs with Steve Burke
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Monologue: What If I'm Right?
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Radio Better Offline: Kyle Barr, Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher
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Exclusive: How GPT-5 Actually Works
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The AI Money Trap, Part Two
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The AI Money Trap, Part One
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Monologue: The Agony Of GPT-5
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CZM Rewind: The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS
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Monologue: The Anker Nebula X1 Is The Best Projector I've Ever Used
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Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White
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Monologue: Annualized Revenues Are BS
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Radio Better Offline: Mia Sato & Dave Lee
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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 3
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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt, 2
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