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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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  • Monologue: The Agony Of GPT-5

    Monologue: The Agony Of GPT-5
    Aug 15 2025

    In this week’s monologue, Ed Zitron walks through the rough launch of GPT-5, and how ChatGPT’s fandom-like following has become a huge problem for OpenAI.

    The Enshittification of Generative AI: https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshittification-of-generative-ai/

    The Wall Street Journal - The Next Great Leap in AI Is Behind Schedule and Crazy Expensive:
    https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-gpt5-orion-delays-639e7693?ref=wheresyoured.at

    Live service game post: https://bsky.app/profile/catharsis23.bsky.social/post/3lw5jvotgfk2

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    LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks

    Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/

    Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/

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    11 min
  • CZM Rewind: The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS

    CZM Rewind: The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS
    Aug 13 2025

    In a paper released earlier this year, three academics from the University of Glasgow classified ChatGPT's outputs not as "lies," but as "BS" - as defined by philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt in "on BS" (and yes I'm censoring that) - and created one of the most enjoyable and prescient papers ever written. In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by academics Michael Townsen Hicks, James Humphries and Joe Slater in a free-wheeling conversation about ChatGPT's mediocrity - and how it's not built to represent the world at all.

    Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
    Michael Townsen Hicks: https://www.townsenhicks.com/
    Joe Slater: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/humanities/staff/joeslater/

    Original Air Date: 7.18.24

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    57 min
  • Monologue: The Anker Nebula X1 Is The Best Projector I've Ever Used

    Monologue: The Anker Nebula X1 Is The Best Projector I've Ever Used
    Aug 8 2025

    In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed talks about Anker’s Nebula X1, an expensive, excellent-looking and adaptable projector that can work just about anywhere.

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    Nebula X1 Projector: https://amzn.to/45645dR
    Nebula Wireless Satellite Speakers: https://amzn.to/45E2EmZ
    Nebula gimbal stand for projectors: https://amzn.to/47qi8wa
    Epson Duet 80” Projector Screen: https://amzn.to/45o5Odr

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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

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    https://www.instagram.com/edzitron

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    10 min
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