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Better Offline
259 episodes · 20 with AI analysis
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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DRAM and HBM pricing dynamicsMemory manufacturer market concentration and antitrustHigh-bandwidth memory manufacturing and yieldsAI data center infrastructure buildoutSupply chain coercion and contract termsFab capacity allocation and production decisionsConsumer electronics price inflationCloud gaming and hardware-as-service modelsUsed electronics market dynamicsGovernment subsidies for semiconductor manufacturing
Analyzed Episodes
Jul 15, 2026
AI Made Everything Expensive (ft. GamersNexus)
DRAM and HBM pricing dynamicsMemory manufacturer market concentration and antitrustHigh-bandwidth memory manufacturing and yields
View AnalysisJul 8, 2026
Trashfuture x Better Offline: Goosed In The Shell
SoftBank investor presentation analysis and goose metaphor critiqueMasayoshi Son AI obsession and ChatGPT dependencyOpenAI IPO valuation challenges and $1 trillion target
View AnalysisJul 1, 2026
The WSJ On Polymarket's Questionable Ads
Polymarket deceptive influencer marketing campaignFake replica websites used for fraudulent ad contentCFTC investigation into Polymarket
View AnalysisJul 3, 2026
Monologue: Meta Admits It Bought Too Many GPUs
Meta GPU overcapacity and cloud infrastructure monetisationNvidia financial backstops to GPU cloud providersGenerative AI business model viability
View AnalysisMay 15, 2026
Monologue: AI Is Making The Tech Industry Weak
AI Industry Financial Transparency and Accounting PracticesData Center Construction and Capacity BottlenecksLLM Code Generation Quality and Software Engineering Impact
View AnalysisMay 13, 2026
The Insanity of the Markets with Ben & Emil
Finance Twitter as market-moving hive mind and sentiment indicatorRetail investor coordination and momentum-driven trading replacing fundamental analysisKorean retail traders and KOSPI index parabolic moves
View AnalysisMay 6, 2026
CZM Rewind: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy
Enshittification and platform decayGoogle Search quality degradationAntitrust enforcement and monopoly policy
View AnalysisApr 29, 2026
Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC
Palantir's business model and government contractingAI-driven surveillance and pre-crime systemsTech industry's role in military and defense applications
View AnalysisApr 22, 2026
Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization
AI Reporting and Media CredibilityClaude Mythos Security CapabilitiesAI Agents and Autonomous Systems
View AnalysisApr 24, 2026
Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle
AI data center infrastructure economicsOpenAI financial sustainability and burn rateOracle's Stargate project costs and timeline
View AnalysisApr 15, 2026
More, Everything, Forever With Adam Becker
AI Hype Cycle and Bubble EconomicsJournalist Use of AI Tools and Writing ProcessTech Billionaire Psychology and Lack of Introspection
View AnalysisApr 1, 2026
Monologue: What's Going On At Anthropic?
Claude subscription rate limiting and pricing structureClaude Code source code leak and security incidentAI-generated code quality and review burden
View AnalysisJan 27, 2026
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part One
AI bubble economics and unsustainable GPU infrastructure spendingDepreciation accounting and its impact on reported profitabilityTech industry layoffs and shareholder supremacy
View AnalysisMar 27, 2026
Monologue: The AI Industry Is Lying To You
Sora shutdown and OpenAI product failuresAI industry marketing versus reality gapData center construction and infrastructure delays
View AnalysisMar 25, 2026
NVIDIAdrome with Steve Burke of GamersNexus
DLSS 3 Generative AI Features and Gaming Community BacklashNVIDIA GPU Smuggling and Export Control ViolationsData Center Construction Bubble and Speculative Infrastructure
View AnalysisMar 20, 2026
Monologue: LLM Code Is Already Breaking Big Tech
LLM Code Generation RisksTechnical Debt and Code MaintenanceAI-Assisted Software Development
View AnalysisJan 28, 2026
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Two
AI Bubble Economics and Valuation RiskNvidia Dependency and Market ConcentrationGPU Infrastructure Depreciation and Obsolescence
View AnalysisMar 18, 2026
Prediction Markets with Rebecca Ungarino and Nick Devor
Prediction Markets vs. Gambling RegulationKalshi and Polymarket Business ModelsCFTC Regulatory Framework for Event Contracts
View AnalysisMar 13, 2026
Monologue: It's The Beginning Of History
Anthropic Financial Disclosure and Revenue MisrepresentationAI Industry Profitability and Business Model ViabilityDepartment of Defense AI Supply Chain Risk Designation
View AnalysisJan 29, 2026
AI Is Worse Than The Dot Com Bubble: Part Three
AI Bubble Valuation RiskNvidia Market ConcentrationDot-Com Bubble Comparison
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