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Better Offline

Better Offline

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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.

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  • Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White

    Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White
    Aug 6 2025

    In this episode, Ed is joined by writer and critic Molly White to talk about how RSS can purify your news experience, the challenge of the newsletter economy, and what gives her optimism for the future.

    Citation Needed Newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news
    Molly on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki

    Better Offline listener deal: Get $15 Off Where's Your Ed At Premium! Deal goes until the end of August.
    https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/better-offline-discount

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    35 mins
  • Monologue: Annualized Revenues Are BS

    Monologue: Annualized Revenues Are BS
    Aug 1 2025

    In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how and why OpenAI and Anthropic use “annualized revenues” to hide that they’re nowhere near their yearly revenue projections.

    https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-revenue-hits-4-billion-annual-pace-competition-cursor-intensifies?rc=kz8jh3
    www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-hits-12-billion-annualized-revenue-breaks-700-million-chatgpt-weekly-active-users?rc=kz8jh3

    Episode note: I say “$5.5 billion” for OpenAI’s potential revenue in 2025. Calculations I’ve run since suggest it could be lower - around $5.25 billion. Both of these numbers are reasonable.

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    https://www.instagram.com/edzitron

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    8 mins
  • Radio Better Offline: Mia Sato & Dave Lee

    Radio Better Offline: Mia Sato & Dave Lee
    Jul 30 2025

    Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of iHeartRadio's studio in New York City.

    Ed Zitron is joined in studio by Mia Sato of The Verge and Dave Lee of Bloomberg to talk how companies like TikTok and Google change the web with their incentives, the nihilism of Pop Mart's viral Labubus, and why people are more game to pay independent writers.

    Mia Sato, The Verge
    https://www.theverge.com/authors/mia-sato
    https://bsky.app/profile/miasato.bsky.social
    https://www.instagram.com/miasato.2/

    Story around “dupes”
    https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/709635/knock-it-off

    Story around “Labubus”
    https://www.theverge.com/analysis/710047/labubu-pop-mart-blind-boxes-scarcity-marketing

    Dave Lee, Bloomberg
    https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AWQ3soOJK0Y/dave-lee
    https://x.com/DaveLeeBBG
    https://bsky.app/profile/davelee.me

    Story around Google and AI
    https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-07-28/google-is-reaping-the-rewards-of-its-unfair-ai-advantage?srnd=undefined

    Google “Web Guide”
    https://blog.google/products/search/web-guide-labs/

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    Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at

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    https://twitter.com/edzitron

    https://www.instagram.com/edzitron

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
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