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Ed Zitron

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2180 total appearances

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Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

The declining quality of tech products, the scourge of growth hacking, the cancerous growth at all cost mindset. These are all the things that need to be raised in every single piece. And judgments must be unrelenting. The companies will squeal, ooh, that they're being so unfairly treated by the biased legacy media. Ooh, ooh, save me. Hey, Nileh Patel, interview with Sondar Pichai.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

The declining quality of tech products, the scourge of growth hacking, the cancerous growth at all cost mindset. These are all the things that need to be raised in every single piece. And judgments must be unrelenting. The companies will squeal, ooh, that they're being so unfairly treated by the biased legacy media. Ooh, ooh, save me. Hey, Nileh Patel, interview with Sondar Pichai.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

This is how you sounded when you handed him your phone. It was pathetic. They should be scared of you, Nileh. The powerful should be scared of the media. They shouldn't be sitting there sending letters to the editor like fucking customer support. No. They should see this podcast. They should see these newsletters. They should see everything published by the tech media and go, uh-oh.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

This is how you sounded when you handed him your phone. It was pathetic. They should be scared of you, Nileh. The powerful should be scared of the media. They shouldn't be sitting there sending letters to the editor like fucking customer support. No. They should see this podcast. They should see these newsletters. They should see everything published by the tech media and go, uh-oh.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

This is how you sounded when you handed him your phone. It was pathetic. They should be scared of you, Nileh. The powerful should be scared of the media. They shouldn't be sitting there sending letters to the editor like fucking customer support. No. They should see this podcast. They should see these newsletters. They should see everything published by the tech media and go, uh-oh.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And there can be good people. There can be good boys and girls and others. There can be plenty of people that make good products and get great press for it. But do you really think Meta, Google, Apple to an extent, frankly, do you think Amazon looks good right now? Do you think it's easy to find stuff or do you think it's slop, full of more slop?

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And there can be good people. There can be good boys and girls and others. There can be plenty of people that make good products and get great press for it. But do you really think Meta, Google, Apple to an extent, frankly, do you think Amazon looks good right now? Do you think it's easy to find stuff or do you think it's slop, full of more slop?

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And there can be good people. There can be good boys and girls and others. There can be plenty of people that make good products and get great press for it. But do you really think Meta, Google, Apple to an extent, frankly, do you think Amazon looks good right now? Do you think it's easy to find stuff or do you think it's slop, full of more slop?

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

Mark Zuckerberg said on an earnings call the other day that he intends there to be an AI-specific slop feed. That should... These are harmful things. This is... Pouring vats of oil into rivers and then getting told you're the best boy in town. These companies, they're poisoning the digital world and they must be held accountable for the damage they're causing. Readers are already aware.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

Mark Zuckerberg said on an earnings call the other day that he intends there to be an AI-specific slop feed. That should... These are harmful things. This is... Pouring vats of oil into rivers and then getting told you're the best boy in town. These companies, they're poisoning the digital world and they must be held accountable for the damage they're causing. Readers are already aware.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

Mark Zuckerberg said on an earnings call the other day that he intends there to be an AI-specific slop feed. That should... These are harmful things. This is... Pouring vats of oil into rivers and then getting told you're the best boy in town. These companies, they're poisoning the digital world and they must be held accountable for the damage they're causing. Readers are already aware.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

But are and... This is really thanks to members of the media, by the way. They're gaslighting themselves into believing that, oh, I just don't keep up with technology. It's getting away from me. I'm not technical enough to use this.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

But are and... This is really thanks to members of the media, by the way. They're gaslighting themselves into believing that, oh, I just don't keep up with technology. It's getting away from me. I'm not technical enough to use this.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

But are and... This is really thanks to members of the media, by the way. They're gaslighting themselves into believing that, oh, I just don't keep up with technology. It's getting away from me. I'm not technical enough to use this.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

When the thing that they don't get, that the average person doesn't get, is that the tech industry has built legions of obfuscations, legions of legal tricks, and these horrible little user interface traps specifically made to trick you into doing things, to make the experience kind of subordinate to getting the money off of you. And I think that this is one of the biggest issues in society.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

When the thing that they don't get, that the average person doesn't get, is that the tech industry has built legions of obfuscations, legions of legal tricks, and these horrible little user interface traps specifically made to trick you into doing things, to make the experience kind of subordinate to getting the money off of you. And I think that this is one of the biggest issues in society.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

When the thing that they don't get, that the average person doesn't get, is that the tech industry has built legions of obfuscations, legions of legal tricks, and these horrible little user interface traps specifically made to trick you into doing things, to make the experience kind of subordinate to getting the money off of you. And I think that this is one of the biggest issues in society.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And yes, of course, I'm biased. I'm doing a podcast about tech. But for real, though, billions of people use smartphones. Billions of people are on the computer every day. It's how we do everything. And it stinks. It stinks so bad. This is the rot economy. We're in the rot society. But things can change. And for them to change, it has to start with the information sources.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And yes, of course, I'm biased. I'm doing a podcast about tech. But for real, though, billions of people use smartphones. Billions of people are on the computer every day. It's how we do everything. And it stinks. It stinks so bad. This is the rot economy. We're in the rot society. But things can change. And for them to change, it has to start with the information sources.

Behind the Bastards
Behind the Bastards Presents: Better Offline

And yes, of course, I'm biased. I'm doing a podcast about tech. But for real, though, billions of people use smartphones. Billions of people are on the computer every day. It's how we do everything. And it stinks. It stinks so bad. This is the rot economy. We're in the rot society. But things can change. And for them to change, it has to start with the information sources.