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Better Offline

By: Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts
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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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  • How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry

    How Shareholders Are Destroying The Tech Industry
    Jul 12 2024

    The shareholder supremacy has eaten the tech industry, driving private and public companies to chase unprofitable, unsustainable ideas like generative AI as a means of expressing eternal growth to the markets. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through how this destructive mindset has created an entirely new kind of manager - one disconnected from labor and creation - and how the dark hand of shareholder supremacy is behind everything strange and bad in tech in the last few years

    LINKS: https://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

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    56 mins
  • The Shareholder Supremacy

    The Shareholder Supremacy
    Jul 10 2024

    In this episode, Ed Zitron tracks the history of the growth-at-all-costs rot economy to a court case in 1916 that established the Shareholder Supremacy, and set the terms for General Electric's Jack Welch to fundamentally break capitalism, an era where companies moved away from building lasting, sustainable companies that created things and instead began focusing on pleasing shareholders - and how it leads to today's terrible tech companies and leaders.

    LINKS: https://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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    34 mins
  • I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Ft. Nik Suresh & Robert Evans

    I Will Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again Ft. Nik Suresh & Robert Evans
    Jul 3 2024

    A few weeks ago, an Australian tech worker called Nik Suresh wrote an evisceration of the current AI hype boom called "I Will F**king Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again." Ed Zitron and Robert Evans sat down to talk about the blog - and the wider problems that Nik sees in the tech industry at large.

    LINKS:

    Nik's blog: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

    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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    45 mins
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worth a listen

fairly objective but critical, good patter. a much-needed more upbeat addition to cooler zone. thus far not much Doom or gloom

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