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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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  • Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC

    Palantir's Manifesto with June and Caleb from KTC
    Apr 29 2026

    On this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron digs into Palantir’s 22-point manifesto with Caleb and June from Kill The Computer.

    The Manifesto: https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312

    Caleb and June
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    https://bsky.app/profile/killthecomputer.com

    https://bsky.app/profile/junlper.beer

    https://x.com/canteverdie

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle

    Monologue: How OpenAI Kills Oracle
    Apr 24 2026

    In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs through how OpenAI must grow its revenue by 1000% in the next three years and raise at least another $200 billion for it to be able to pay its compute deals with Oracle and other providers, and how Oracle dies if OpenAI fails to pay its bills.

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    11 mins
  • Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization

    Cal Newport on Mythos and Anthropomorphization
    Apr 22 2026

    In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport to talk about the Claude Mythos marketing scam, the lies around AI job loss, and why LLMs shouldn’t talk like they’re people.

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    59 mins
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Going to town on the promises that the tech industry makes. Great guest, great topics and certainly the timing. I do wish you guys posted more often.

Unfiltered and skeptical in an age of blind corporate trust

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