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Better Offline — 236 episodes
The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil
CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
Monologue: AI's Compute Demand Story Is A Lie
Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC
Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle
Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization
Monologue: On Dangerous Rhetoric
More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker
Investigating Altman With Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz
The Reality of AI Economics With Paul Kedrosky
Monologue: AI Isn't Too Big to Fail
Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?
Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You
NVIDIAdrome with Steve Burke of GamersNexus
Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech
Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor
Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History
Hater Season: Henry Zebrowski
Hater Season: Corey Quinn
Monologue: Analyslop And The Death of Critical Thinking
Hater Season: Victoria Song & Alex Cranz
Monologue: AI Isn't Replacing Software Companies, Calm Down About Claude Code
Hater Season: Caleb Wilson, Juniper and Arif Hasan
Monologue: No, Something Big Isn't Coming
Hater Season: Cal Newport on AI Reporting
Monologue: Is Oracle Screwed?
Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Four
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Three
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Two
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One
Working In The Dot Com Bubble ft. Matt Rosoff
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Four
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Three
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part Two
The Enshittifinancial Crisis: Part One
Monologue: The Year Ahead
The Anti-Consumer Electronics Show with Steve Burke
CES 2026: Part Ten (Epilogue)
CES 2026: Part Nine (Friday)
CES 2026: Part Eight (Friday)
CES 2026: Part Seven (Thursday)
CES 2026: Part Six (Thursday)
CES 2026: Part Five (Wednesday)
CES 2026: Part Four (Wednesday)
CES 2026: Part Three (Tuesday)
CES 2026: Part Two (Tuesday)
CES 2026: Part One (Monday)
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 4)
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 3)
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 2)
CZM Rewind: The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1)
Part Three: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
Part Two: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
Part One: NVIDIA Isn't Enron - So What Is It?
Monologue: The Questions I'm Asking
The State of Consumer Tech with Lisa Eadicicco
The State of the Games Industry with Nathan Grayson
Monologue: AI Isn't Getting A Bailout
Is Valve Taking On Microsoft? with Steve Burke
A Thanksgiving Monologue
CZM Rewind: The Truth About Software Development with Carl Brown
What People Actually Use ChatGPT For With Gerrit De Vynck
Exclusive: Here's How Much OpenAI Spends On Inference And Its MSFT Revenue Share
Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
Monologue: AI's Desperation Era
Vibe Coding is BS w/ Charlie Meyer
Monologue: Dealing With The Weight Of History
The Internet Is The World's Worst Pharmacy w/ Paris Martineau & Ashwin Rodrigues
Monologue: Don't Be Scared Of Sora
Exclusive: Here's How Much Anthropic Spends on AWS
Monologue: ChatGPT's Growth Is Collapsing In Europe
The Interview: Steve Burke of GamersNexus
The World of AI Regulation with Brian Merchant
Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 4)
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 3)
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 2)
The Case Against Generative AI (Part 1)
Monologue: OpenAI and NVIDIA's Deal Is BS
Radio Better Offline: Adam Becker
AI Isn't Making Engineers 10x As Productive with Colton Voege
Radio Better Offline: Edward Ongweso Jr. & Allison Morrow
How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Three
How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Two
How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part One
Monologue: Tech Skepticism Is Going Mainstream
The Black Market for AI GPUs with Steve Burke
Monologue: What If I'm Right?
Radio Better Offline: Kyle Barr, Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher
Exclusive: How GPT-5 Actually Works
The AI Money Trap, Part Two
The AI Money Trap, Part One
Monologue: The Agony Of GPT-5
CZM Rewind: The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS
Monologue: The Anker Nebula X1 Is The Best Projector I've Ever Used
Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White
Monologue: Annualized Revenues Are BS
Radio Better Offline: Mia Sato & Dave Lee
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 3
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt, 2
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 1
Monologue: The Updated Pale Horses of the AIpocalypse
Radio Better Offline: Brian Koppelman, Cherlynn Low & Mike Drucker
Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 2
Monologue: Is Anthropic Killing Cursor?
Make Fun Of Them, Pt. 1
Monologue: You Should Get Into Vinyl
Radio Better Offline: Gare Davis, Victoria Song, Allison Morrow
Monologue: Did OpenAI Steal Another Startup's Idea?
NVIDIA Vs. The Media ft. GamersNexus
Monologue: OpenAI Vs. Microsoft
Radio Better Offline: Pablo Torre and David Roth
The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 3
The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 2
The Era of the Business Idiot, Part 1
Monologue: The AI Job Loss Con
The Truth About Software Development with Carl Brown
Monologue: Don't Buy A Switch 2, Get A Handheld Gaming PC
The Better Offline Mailbag
Monologue: Jony Ive and OpenAI's New BS Machine
Saving Games Journalism With Giant Bomb
Monologue: How Better Offline Saved Me
Empires of AI With Karen Hao
Monologue: Sam Altman's BS Eye Scanning Startup
Tariffs and The End Of Affordable Computing w/ Steve Burke
I'm Mad As Hell, And I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore
Monologue: Why We Need Tech Criticism More Than Ever
The BS Bubble
Monologue: The Tech I Actually Like
How Big Tech Is Losing Their Antitrust Trials feat. Jason Kint
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry
Monologue: How The Media Keeps Inflating Bubbles
OpenAI Cannot Survive
Monologue: OpenAI's Non-Profit Problem
Radio Better Offline: Allison Morrow, Paris Martineau & Ed Ongweso Jr.
Monologue: OpenAI's Albatross
Radio Better Offline: David "Shingy" Shing
Monologue: High Noon for CoreWeave & AI
Radio Better Offline: Andy Richter
Monologue: We Need To Talk About CoreWeave
Radio Better Offline: Cherlynn Low, Alex Cranz & Victoria Song
SoftBank and OpenAI's Dangerous Game
Monologue: How Does This End?
Microsoft Cuts The Power To AI
Monologue: OpenAI Is Getting Desperate
How Growth Is Killing Video Games
Generative AI Is Not A Real Industry
Monologue: What Bursts A Bubble?
OpenAI Is Not A Real Company
What We're Fighting For
Monologue: OpenAI Was Never A Non-Profit
How The Tech Media Can Beat The Rot Economy
Monologue: The Super Bowl Showed That Generative AI Is Washed
How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society
Monologue: What Happened With DeepSeek?
How DeepSeek Showed That Silicon Valley Is Washed
What The Hell Is DeepSeek?
Radio Better Offline: Jeremy Kaplowitz of the Quorators
The Slop Society
Facebook Was Already Zucked
Radio Better Offline: Paris Martineau, Jeff Jarvis
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 6 - Epilogue
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 5 - Pt. 2
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 5 - Pt. 1
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 - Pt. 2
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 4 - Pt. 1
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 3 - Pt. 2
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 3 - Pt. 1
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 2
Better Offline CES 2025: Day 1
The Invisible War Criminals
The Invisible War
FTC Chair Lina Khan: The Better Offline Interview
CZM Rewind: Where Did Tech's Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher
Watching the Watchmen with Jason Koebler
Everything Is Advertising with Ryan Barwick
The Coming Generative AIPocalypse
Yep, We're At Peak AI
CZM Rewind: The Man That Destroyed Google Search
The Rot Society
William Lazonick on How The Stock Market Killed Tech
The Streisand Effect with Mike Masnick
A Nobel Economist's Plan To Tax Digital Ads
A Requiem for Prabhakar Raghavan
Data Vampires with Paris Marx
Zephyr Teachout On Corruption
The Subprime AI Crisis
Why OpenAI Is A Terrible Business
The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 4
How To Break the Internet with Chris Stokel-Walker
The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 3
The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 2
Silicon Valley Fashion With The Menswear Guy
The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 1
How Google Cheated Their Way To Billions
How Monopolies Are Making Tech Worse
Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies
Algorithms and Oligopolies with Thomas Germain
Big Tech Is The Enemy of Innovation
How The AI Bubble Bursts
Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant
The State of Tech Journalism with Kylie Robison and Mike Isaac
Rot Economics with MIT's Daron Acemoglu
CrowdStruck
The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS
Pop Culture
How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry
The Shareholder Supremacy
I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Ft. Nik Suresh & Robert Evans
Where Did Tech's Magic Go? feat. Alex Cranz and Michael Fisher
The Onion Knight Ft. Ben Collins
Let Tim Cook
Sam Altman Is Dangerous To Silicon Valley
The Talented Mr. Altman
The Rot-Com Bust
The Rot-Com Bubble
AI Is Breaking Google
We're Watching Facebook Die
How Mark Zuckerberg Deliberately Made Facebook Worse
OpenAI's Video Generating AI Is Dead On Arrival
Enron Musk Ft. Ed Niedermeyer
The Cult of Failing Upwards
The Man That Destroyed Google Search
How Managers Are Breaking The Internet
How A Chinese Glycine Manufacturer Went Viral ft. Louise Matsakis and Tianyu Fang
The AI Bubble Is Bursting
Are We At Peak AI?
Wikipedia Is All The Web Has Left ft. Molly White
Rich Idiots Are Killing The Media To Please The Tech Industry
How Growth Is Killing Tech's Innovation, ft. Robert Evans
Musk's Uncharitable Charity ft. David Fahrenthold
The Metaverse: How Mark Zuckerberg Lied To The World
The Rot Economy ft Robert Evans
An Autopsy of Apple's Vision Pro
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