Better Offline

Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak

15 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how LLMs and the obsession with AI is actively destroying the fabric of the tech i...

The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil

13 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by the hosts of the Ben & Emil show to talk about how the markets have been driven insane...

CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

06 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s Better Offline is a recording of a panel held by Clarion West in Seattle earlier this year with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron, discuss...

Monologue: AI's Demand Story Is A Lie

01 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how 70-80% of Amazon and Microsoft’s AI revenue and capacity is taken up by Open...

Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC

29 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

On this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into Palantir’s 22-point manifesto with Caleb and June from Kill The Computer.The Manifesto:...

Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how OpenAI must grow its revenue by 1000% in the next three years and raise at least a...

Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

22 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport to talk about the Claude Mythos marketing scam,...

Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric

17 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron discusses how AI labs’ dangerous rhetoric around AI capabilities and job loss are antagonizin...

More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker to talk about introspection-free venture capital...

Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In a special episode of Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by writers Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz of the New Yorker to talk about their massive i...

The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 pur...

Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail

03 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 le...

Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?

01 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron discusses Anthropic’s aggressive new rate limits, the leak of Claude Code’s source code, an...

Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You

27 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about OpenAI killing Sora, and how the majority of announced data centers are either barely g...

NVIDIAdrome with Steve Burke of GamersNexus

25 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about NVIDIA’s strange and embarrassing GTC, DLSS5, and ...

Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about hyperscalers allowing non-technical workers to ship code, and how the over-reliance on ...

Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor of Barron’s to talk about the legalities of prediction mark...

Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron talks about the end of tech’s hypergrowth era, generative AI’s failure as a business mo...

Hater Season: Henry Zebrowski

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed is joined by Henry Zebro...

Hater Season: Corey Quinn

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Corey Quinn, ...

Monologue: Analyslop And The Death of Critical Thinking

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the "analyslop" phenomenon of speculative, lie-ridden fan fiction that gets frame...

Hater Season: Victoria Song & Alex Cranz

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Victoria Song...

Monologue: AI Isn't Replacing Software Companies, Calm Down About Claude Code

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why AI isn’t replacing all software companies, and why the hype behind Clau...

Hater Season: Caleb Wilson, Juniper and Arif Hasan

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with Kill The Comp...

Monologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through why Matt Shumer’s “Something Big Is Coming” is deceptive misinf...

Hater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - continues as Ed talks with computer scie...

Monologue: Is Oracle Screwed?

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the world finally realizing that NVIDIA’s $100bn deal with OpenAI was BS, a...

Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the first episode of Better Offline’s “Hater Season” - an ongoing roundtable with tech’s greatest haters - Ed is joined by ...

AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Four

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the final part of this week’s Dot Com Bubble series, Ed Zitron walks you through to the logical endpoints of his arguments about the AI bubbl...

AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Three

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In part three of this week’s Dot Com Bubble series, Ed Zitron explains how the economics of the AI bubble are much, much worse than the dot com ...

AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Two

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In part two of this week’s Dot Com Bubble series, Ed Zitron explains the flimsy mythology used to convince the world to run millions of miles of...

AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In part one of this week’s series, Ed Zitron explains how the AI bubble could be so much worse than the dot com bubble - and how people are too ...

Working In The Dot Com Bubble ft. Matt Rosoff

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

To kick off this week’s Better Offline Dot Com Special, Ed Zitron is joined by The Register’s Matt Rosoff to talk about what it was like t...

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Four

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the final part of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how ignoring the horrify...

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Three

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In part three of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how the imaginary demand for...

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In part two of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through how companies like AMD, Broadc...

The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part One

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In part one of this week’s four-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special, Ed Zitron walks you through the enshittification of the st...

Monologue: The Year Ahead

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the seeming collapse of Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines, and why the AI bub...

The Anti-Consumer Electronics Show with Steve Burke

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about AMD, Lenovo, NVIDIA and Intel’s CES keynotes - and how the tech...