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Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build. 

Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners understand the who, how and why of how tech’s most powerful players are changing the world - for better or for worse.

Better Offline

Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by Ryan Barwick of Marketing Brew to talk about how the entire tech ecosystem is controlled by ads - and whether companies like OpenAI and Perplexity can hope to plug the gaps in their leaky revenue models.
 
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https://www.marketingbrew.com/contributor/ryan-barwick
 
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https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com
 
https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

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Everything Is Advertising with Ryan Barwick

In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by 404 Media's Jason Koebler to talk about the state of both the tech industry and the tech media, and how 404 Media has built a worker-owned outlet that genuinely works.
 
Follow Jason:
 
https://www.404media.co/ https://x.com/jason_koebler https://bsky.app/profile/jasonkoebler.bsky.social
 
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LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks
 
Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/
 
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ 
 
Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at
 
Ed's Socials:
 
https://twitter.com/edzitron
 
https://www.instagram.com/edzitron
 
https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com
 
https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

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Watching the Watchmen with Jason Koebler

In a special live-to-tape episode of Better Offline, Ed is joined by The Verge's Alex Cranz and YouTube influencer Michael Fisher to talk about what they're actually enjoying in the tech industry - and why things don't feel quite as magical and exciting as they used to.
 
https://www.youtube.com/@TheMrMobile
 
https://www.theverge.com/authors/alex-cranz 
 
Original Air Date: 6.26.24
 
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Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/
 
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ 
 
Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at
 
Ed's Socials:
 
https://twitter.com/edzitron
 
https://www.instagram.com/edzitron
 
https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com
 
https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

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

FTC Chair Lina Khan joins Ed Zitron to talk about competitiveness in the tech industry, controlling the cloud giants, and what should give you hope as we head into 2025.
 
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Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/
 
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ 
 
Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at
 
Ed's Socials:
 
https://twitter.com/edzitron
 
https://www.instagram.com/edzitron
 
https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com
 
https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

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FTC Chair Lina Khan: The Better Offline Interview

In this year's two-part finale, Ed Zitron enumerates the damage being done to billions of people by the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy - and why you need to have solidarity with your fellow user.
 
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LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks
 
Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/
 
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ 
 
Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at
 
Ed's Socials:
 
https://twitter.com/edzitron
 
https://www.instagram.com/edzitron
 
https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com
 
https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Invisible War

In part 2 of the 2024 Better Offline finale, Ed Zitron tells you how to fight back against the growth-at-all-costs Rot Economy and its destruction of the tech ecosystem - by pushing the media to improve their coverage, telling everybody you know who's responsible, and remembering what it is you truly love about technology.
 
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LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks
 
Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/
 
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ 
 
Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at
 
Ed's Socials:
 
https://twitter.com/edzitron
 
https://www.instagram.com/edzitron
 
https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com
 
https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Invisible War Criminals

Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s growing influence over society, and how startups, venture capitalists and big tech firms are looking to change the future - for better or for worse.

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Introducing: Better Offline

Apple's $3500 face computer is here, and after spending far too many hours inside it, Ed Zitron has found Apple's vision of the future to be equal parts exciting and frustrating - and a dark omen for the future of tech. He also sits down with the Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern to talk about her experience as one of the early reviewers of the Vision Pro.

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An Autopsy of Apple's Vision Pro

Ever wonder why Google results are getting worse, or why you aren't seeing your friends on Instagram? It's all because of the growth-at-all-costs economy that's swallowed the tech industry, where the user experience takes a back seat to monetizing every interaction with the platforms you used to love. Ed Zitron is joined by Cool Zone Media's Robert Evans to walk you through the economic theory that's destroying the tech industry from within.

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The Rot Economy ft Robert Evans

Though the Winklevoss brothers are best known for their role in the early days of Facebook, you'll be surprised to learn that they recently lost customers at their cryptocurrency exchange over a billion dollars through a shady loan scheme. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how the two identical riverboat giants went from being conned by Mark Zuckerberg to conning over a hundred thousand people into putting their cryptocurrency in the hands of the world's worst investor. 
 
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How The Winklevoss Twins Lost A Billion Dollars

In this episode, Ed Zitron tells you the disgraceful story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to the outright decay of the most important website on the internet. 
 
Original Air Date: 4.25.24
 
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Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/
 
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/ 
 
Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at
 
Ed's Socials:
 
https://twitter.com/edzitron
 
https://www.instagram.com/edzitron
 
https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com
 
https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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