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  • How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Two

    How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part Two
    2025/09/11

    In part two of this week's three-part Better Offline Guide To Arguing With AI Boosters, Ed Zitron walks you through why the AI bubble is nothing like the dot-com bubble, how the cost of inference is actually going up, and why OpenAI’s massive burnrate is nothing like Uber’s.

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    33 分
  • How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part One

    How To Argue With An AI Booster, Part One
    2025/09/10

    In part one of this week's three-part Better Offline Guide To Arguing With AI Boosters, Ed Zitron walks you through through why AI is nothing like the early days of the internet, why it isn’t the early days of the AI industry, and why every booster argues in the future tense.

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    35 分
  • Monologue: Tech Skepticism Is Going Mainstream

    Monologue: Tech Skepticism Is Going Mainstream
    2025/09/05

    In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed walks you through how tech and business skepticism has begun to go mainstream, and how it can be the force to push back against the Rot Economy.

    Ed On CNN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGVKZQQSJkg&t=2s
    Ed On BBC (July): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AxrpXF7MWw&t=1s
    Ed On BBC (August): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI9cjWDpmSY
    Ed On Bloomberg’s Everybody’s Business Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2F4heaeJIE
    Ed On Newcomer Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxyNHv3cQvY&t=14s
    Ed On Last Week In AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rma3FzaWi3Y

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    13 分
  • The Black Market for AI GPUs with Steve Burke

    The Black Market for AI GPUs with Steve Burke
    2025/09/03

    In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Steve Burke of GamersNexus to talk about the black market for AI GPUs in China - and how Bloomberg suspiciously forced YouTube to take his video down.

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    Our Channel Could Be Deleted (GamersNexus) https://youtu.be/tUnRWh4xOCY?si=AD2hyE6z5-ZiyInW
    Mirror of NVIDIA AI GPU Black Market Story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyWelvEP_CQ
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    37 分
  • Monologue: What If I'm Right?

    Monologue: What If I'm Right?
    2025/08/29

    In this week’s Better Offline monologue, Ed considers what would happen if he’s right about the AI bubble bursting - and the consequences of three years of myth-peddling journalism and markets addicted to growth at all costs.

    FT: Microsoft talks set to push OpenAI’s restructure into next year
    https://www.ft.com/content/b81d5fb6-26e9-417a-a0cc-6b6689b70c98

    Sherwood: Nvidia, the asset manager, had a massive Q2 thanks to CoreWeave’s rally
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    21 分
  • Radio Better Offline: Kyle Barr, Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher

    Radio Better Offline: Kyle Barr, Alex Cranz & Michael Fisher
    2025/08/27
    Welcome to Radio Better Offline, a tech talk radio show recorded out of one of iHeartRadio's satellite studios in New York city. Ed is joined by Kyle Barr of Gizmodo, freelance writer Alex Cranz and content creator Michael Fisher (AKA Mr. Mobile) to talk about the weird and fun gadgets that are still getting made, both in the US and abroad. Latest newsletter: How To Argue With An AI Booster - https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-to-argue-with-an-ai-booster/ Latest premium newsletter: How Does GPT-5 Work? - https://www.wheresyoured.at/how-does-gpt-5-work/ Meshtastic Explainer: https://www.reddit.com/r/meshtastic/comments/1bpa7hu/explain_meshtastic_to_me_like_i_have_a_learning/ CyberDecks: https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/ Alex Cranz:https://bsky.app/profile/cranz.bsky.socialhttps://x.com/alexhcranz Kyle Barr: https://x.com/KyleBarr5 https://gizmodo.com/author/kylebarr Screw Foldables: Lenovo’s Rollable Laptop Proves There Are Better Uses for Flexible Screenshttps://gizmodo.com/lenovo-thinkbook-plus-gen-6-rollable-review-2000637995 Framework Laptop 13 Review: Wait, Did I Actually Have Fun With a PC? https://gizmodo.com/framework-laptop-13-review-wait-did-i-actually-have-fun-with-a-pc-2000590685This Gaming Handheld’s External Battery Isn’t as Dumb as You Think https://gizmodo.com/this-gaming-handhelds-external-battery-isnt-as-dumb-as-you-think-2000639520 I Flew Insta360’s First Drone With a 360-Degree Camera, and It’s DJI’s Worst Nightmarehttps://gizmodo.com/after-using-this-360-drone-ill-never-look-at-flying-cameras-the-same-way-again-2000641466 Michael Fisher:http://threads.com/captain2phonesChannel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSOpcUkE-is7u7c4AkLgqTw Motorola Razr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGTkjchlVJk Light Phone https://youtu.be/fRRNSEb1DAQ?si=uTZ6lOw1925K2y05 The Minimal Phone https://youtu.be/atYcpCoghnc?si=uxybVX3iyyCVn1Tu TRMNL https://youtu.be/Ax792f2RbIY?si=bRCEmDh_Bd362WwgGalaxy Z Flip 7 https://youtu.be/1WLIY7oObvU?si=4KIgxuROrMHCJCEx 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 YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. BUY A LIMITED EDITION BETTER OFFLINE CHALLENGE COIN! https://cottonbureau.com/p/XSH74N/challenge-coin/better-offline-challenge-coin#/29269226/gold-metal-1.75in --- 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/edzitronSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Exclusive: How GPT-5 Actually Works

    Exclusive: How GPT-5 Actually Works
    2025/08/22

    In a bonus third episode, Ed Zitron reports exclusively on how OpenAI’s new "router-based" ChatGPT-5 makes it impossible for the company to cache the static prompt for any model or tool it uses every single prompt, doubling token burn for mediocre gains.

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    29 分
  • The AI Money Trap, Part Two

    The AI Money Trap, Part Two
    2025/08/21

    In part two of this week's two-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how America’s economic growth has become dependent on Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta’s AI capital expenditures - and how this inevitably harms both the economy and our markets.

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    42 分