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.
    2024 iHeartMedia, Inc. © Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from iHeartMedia
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  • Silicon Valley Fashion With The Menswear Guy

    Silicon Valley Fashion With The Menswear Guy
    Sep 13 2024

    After earnings failed to reassure investors about their concerns around generative AI's return on investment, NVIDIA's stock suffered a record $279 billion loss in the space of a day. Nevertheless, the most important NVIDIA story is that of Chief Executive Jensen Huang, who appears to be one of the few tech executives that knows how to dress himself. In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by fashion expert Derek Guy (AKA @dieworkwear on Twitter) to talk about Jensen's swag, and why more men should find ways to enjoy fashion.

    Derek on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dieworkwear

    https://www.dieworkwear.com/

    https://www.putthison.com/

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    Ed's Socials:

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    39 mins
  • The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 1

    The Department of Justice V Google Ads: Part 1
    Sep 9 2024

    In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Jason Kint, CEO of DCN, to set the scene for Better Offline's coverage of the Department of Justice's second antitrust case against Google, one that alleges that "through Serial Acquisitions and Anticompetitive Auction Manipulation, Google Subverted Competition in Internet Advertising Technologies." This is the first in our ongoing coverage of the trial, which Jason will be attending in-person in Washington DC. For more information, visit https://usvgoogleads.com/ and follow Jason at https://x.com/jason_kint

    Newsletter: wheresyoured.at

    Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline

    Discord chat.wheresyoured.at

    Ed's Socials -

    http://www.twitter.com/edzitron

    instagram.com/edzitron

    https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social

    https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    46 mins
  • How Google Cheated Their Way To Billions

    How Google Cheated Their Way To Billions
    Sep 6 2024

    In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how Google used their monopolies over search and search advertising to scam advertisers - and why the entire tech industry should demand that Google is broken up and forced to compete like the rest of us.

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

    Newsletter: wheresyoured.at

    Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/betteroffline

    Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at

    Ed's Socials:

    http://www.twitter.com/edzitron

    instagram.com/edzitron

    https://bsky.app/profile/zitron.bsky.social

    https://www.threads.net/@edzitron

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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    37 mins

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