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Better Offline — 236 episodes

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The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil

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

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Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie

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Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC

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Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle

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Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

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Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric

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More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker

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Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz

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The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky

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Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail

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Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?

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Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You

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NVIDIAdrome with Steve Burke of GamersNexus

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Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech

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Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor

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Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History

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Hater Season: Henry Zebrowski

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Hater Season: Corey Quinn

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Monologue: Analyslop And The Death of Critical Thinking

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Hater Season: Victoria Song & Alex Cranz

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

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Hater Season: Caleb Wilson, Juniper and Arif Hasan

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Monologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming

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Hater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting

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Monologue: Is Oracle Screwed?

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Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard

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AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Four

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AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Three

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AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Two

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AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One

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Working In The Dot Com Bubble ft. Matt Rosoff

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The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Four

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The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Three

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The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two

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The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part One

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Monologue: The Year Ahead

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The Anti-Consumer Electronics Show with Steve Burke

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CES 2026: Part Ten (Epilogue)

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CES 2026: Part Nine (Friday)

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CES 2026: Part Eight (Friday)

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CES 2026: Part Seven (Thursday)

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CES 2026: Part Six (Thursday)

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CES 2026: Part Five (Wednesday)

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CES 2026: Part Four (Wednesday)

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CES 2026: Part Three (Tuesday)

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CES 2026: Part Two (Tuesday)

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CES 2026: Part One (Monday)

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CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 4)

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CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 3)

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CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 2)

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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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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 1

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Monologue: The Updated Pale Horses of the AIpocalypse

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Radio Better Offline: Brian Koppelman, Cherlynn Low & Mike Drucker

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Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 2

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Monologue: Is Anthropic Killing Cursor?

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Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 1

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Monologue: You Should Get Into Vinyl

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Radio Better Offline: Gare Davis, Victoria Song, Allison Morrow

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Monologue: Did OpenAI Steal Another Startup's Idea?

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NVIDIA Vs. The Media ft. GamersNexus

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Monologue: OpenAI Vs. Microsoft

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Radio Better Offline: Pablo Torre and David Roth

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The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 3

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The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 2

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The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 1

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Monologue: The AI Job Loss Con

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The Truth About Software Development with Carl Brown

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Monologue: Don't Buy A Switch 2, Get A Handheld Gaming PC

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The Better Offline Mailbag

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Monologue: Jony Ive and OpenAI's New BS Machine

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Saving Games Journalism With Giant Bomb

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Monologue: How Better Offline Saved Me

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Empires of AI With Karen Hao

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Monologue: Sam Altman's BS Eye Scanning Startup

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Tariffs and The End Of Affordable Computing w/ Steve Burke

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I'm Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore

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Monologue: Why We Need Tech Criticism More Than Ever

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The BS Bubble

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Monologue: The Tech I Actually Like

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How Big Tech Is Losing Their Antitrust Trials feat. Jason Kint

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OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry

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Monologue: How The Media Keeps Inflating Bubbles

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OpenAI Cannot Survive

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Monologue: OpenAI's Non-Profit Problem

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Radio Better Offline: Allison Morrow, Paris Martineau & Ed Ongweso Jr.

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Monologue: OpenAI's Albatross

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Radio Better Offline: David "Shingy" Shing

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Monologue: High Noon for CoreWeave & AI

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Radio Better Offline: Andy Richter

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Monologue: We Need To Talk About CoreWeave

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Radio Better Offline: Cherlynn Low, Alex Cranz & Victoria Song

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SoftBank and OpenAI's Dangerous Game

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Monologue: How Does This End?

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Microsoft Cuts The Power To AI

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Monologue: OpenAI Is Getting Desperate

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How Growth Is Killing Video Games

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Generative AI Is Not A Real Industry

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Monologue: What Bursts A Bubble?

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OpenAI Is Not A Real Company

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What We're Fighting For

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Monologue: OpenAI Was Never A Non-Profit

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How The Tech Media Can Beat The Rot Economy

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Monologue: The Super Bowl Showed That Generative AI Is Washed

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How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society

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Monologue: What Happened With DeepSeek?

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How DeepSeek Showed That Silicon Valley Is Washed

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What The Hell Is DeepSeek?

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Radio Better Offline: Jeremy Kaplowitz of the Quorators

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The Slop Society

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Facebook Was Already Zucked

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Radio Better Offline: Paris Martineau, Jeff Jarvis

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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 6 - Epilogue

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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 5 - Pt. 2

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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 5 - Pt. 1

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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 - Pt. 2

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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 - Pt. 1

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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 3 - Pt. 2

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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 3 - Pt. 1

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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 2

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Better Offline CES 2025: Day 1

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The Invisible War Criminals

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The Invisible War

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FTC Chair Lina Khan: The Better Offline Interview

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CZM Rewind: Where Did Tech's Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher

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Watching the Watchmen with Jason Koebler

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Everything Is Advertising with Ryan Barwick

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The Coming Generative AIPocalypse

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Yep, We're At Peak AI

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CZM Rewind: The Man That Destroyed Google Search

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The Rot Society

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William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech

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The Streisand Effect with Mike Masnick

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A Nobel Economist's Plan To Tax Digital Ads

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A Requiem for Prabhakar Raghavan

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Data Vampires with Paris Marx

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Zephyr Teachout On Corruption

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The Subprime AI Crisis

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Why OpenAI Is A Terrible Business

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The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 4

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How To Break the Internet with Chris Stokel-Walker

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The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 3

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The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 2

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Silicon Valley Fashion With The Menswear Guy

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The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 1

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How Google Cheated Their Way To Billions

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How Monopolies Are Making Tech Worse

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Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies

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Algorithms and Oligopolies with Thomas Germain

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Big Tech Is The Enemy of Innovation

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How The AI Bubble Bursts

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Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant

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The State of Tech Journalism with Kylie Robison and Mike Isaac

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Rot Economics with MIT's Daron Acemoglu

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CrowdStruck

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The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS

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Pop Culture

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How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry

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The Shareholder Supremacy

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I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Ft. Nik Suresh & Robert Evans

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Where Did Tech's Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz and Michael Fisher

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The Onion Knight Ft. Ben Collins

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Let Tim Cook

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Sam Altman Is Dangerous To Silicon Valley

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The Talented Mr. Altman

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The Rot-Com Bust

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The Rot-Com Bubble

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AI Is Breaking Google

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We're Watching Facebook Die

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How Mark Zuckerberg Deliberately Made Facebook Worse

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OpenAI's Video Generating AI Is Dead On Arrival

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Enron Musk Ft. Ed Niedermeyer

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The Cult of Failing Upwards

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The Man That Destroyed Google Search

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How Managers Are Breaking The Internet

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How A Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Went Viral ft. Louise Matsakis and Tianyu Fang

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The AI Bubble Is Bursting

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Are We At Peak AI?

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Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left ft. Molly White

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Rich Idiots Are Killing The Media To Please The Tech Industry

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How Growth Is Killing Tech's Innovation, ft. Robert Evans

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Musk's Uncharitable Charity ft. David Fahrenthold

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The Metaverse: How Mark Zuckerberg Lied To The World

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The Rot Economy ft Robert Evans

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An Autopsy of Apple's Vision Pro

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