Ed Zitron

Hello and welcome to this week's Better Offline.

I'm your host, Ed Zittron.

So this week is going to be a recording of a panel held in Seattle at the Seattle Public Library with my good man, Corey Doctorow.

And we were discussing in shitification, the rot economy and the destruction of modern tech platforms.

We were moderated by the wonderful Whitney Beltran and Big Up to Clarion West, a wonderful group out there, non-profit you should definitely support.

Everything in the episode notes.

Have fun with this.

I certainly did.

All right, so yeah, let's open up this pit.

I'm Ed Zitron.

I'm the host of a podcast called Better Offline about technology and the decay of society.

I also write a newsletter called Where's Your Ed At that I mostly started because I was depressed.

It's got 82,000 subscribers now somehow.

But yeah, I write about tech, decay of society, and had to learn a bunch of economics to do it, which was extremely exhausting, but I enjoy it.

Thank you for being here.

Prabhagaur Raghavan.

Love saying that motherfucker's name.

So...

I don't know if any of you have read The Man Who Killed Google Search, which was a piece that I wrote by accident.

I found a bunch of notes from the Department of Justice.