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Better Offline

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Better Offline
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    Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs

    03/07/2026 | 6 min
    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through Meta’s plans to sell its AI compute, and how this is an admission to the grim fact that there isn’t really a reason for anyone to be building all these AI data centers.

    Ed Zitron on CNBC: Generative AI's Business Model Does Not Work, And Tech Is Out Of Hypergrowth Ideas
    https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/comments/1ulm3a6/ed_zitron_on_cnbc_generative_ais_business_model/
    Bloomberg - Meta Is Planning a Cloud Business to Sell AI Computing Power
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-01/meta-is-building-a-cloud-business-to-sell-excess-ai-compute
    The Information - Nvidia Says It Will Take a Cut of Some Customers’ Cloud Revenues
    https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-says-will-take-cut-customers-cloud-revenues?rc=kz8jh3

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    The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads

    01/07/2026 | 34 min
    In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with the Wall Street Journal’s Caitlin Ostroff and Katherine Long about how Polymarket is working with influencers to show videos of fake bets cashing out - and how the prediction markets have grown into a large, barely-regulated operation.

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    They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real - https://www.wsj.com/business/media/polymarket-social-media-bets-prediction-market-441cdeb5?st=57dR12&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

    Caitlin Ostroff
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    https://www.wsj.com/news/author/caitlin-ostroff
    Katherine Long
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    https://x.com/ByKLong
    https://www.wsj.com/news/author/katherine-long
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    Monologue: Tokenpocalypse Now

    26/06/2026 | 23 min
    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how organizations are freaking out after having to pay the real cost of AI tokens, and how the surge of competitive open weight models could lead to the post-bubble locally-run future of LLMs.
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    Monologue: Silicon Valley is A Cargo Cult

    24/06/2026 | 8 min
    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through how AI is the pinnacle of Silicon Valley monoculture, and a monument to the cargo cult desperation of a tech industry that celebrates mediocrity and has run out of ideas.
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    The AI Industry Must Stop Doom Trolling w/ Cal Newport

    19/06/2026 | 1 h 2 min
    In this week’s Better Offline, Ed talks with computer science professor and writer Cal Newport about AI companies “doom trolling” consumers using scary stories about conscious computers, and how we need to make fun of the scare-mongering and ridicule the executives peddling in it.

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    Cal Newport’s “Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs To Stop https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/opinion/ai-dangerous-openai-anthropic.html
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    Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/
    Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at
    Ed's Socials:
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    https://www.instagram.com/edzitron
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    Email Me: ez@betteroffline.com
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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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