Tag: Better Offline

• Better Offline: Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron on Enshittification and the Rot Economy

  November 14, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/HXT4xur This week’s Better Offline is a recording of a panel held by Clarion West in Seattle earlier this year with Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron, discussing enshittification, The… more ›

• Better Offline: The AI Money Trap, Part Two

  August 23, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/DRhLwYP 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… more ›

• Better Offline: CZM Rewind: The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS

  August 13, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/0Q7efTG 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… more ›

• Better Offline: Building A Newspaper Out of the Internet with Molly White

  August 6, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/ydMztEu In this episode, Ed is joined by writer and critic Molly White to talk about how RSS can purify your news experience, the challenge of the newsletter economy,… more ›

• Better Offline: The Hater’s Guide To The AI Bubble, Pt. 3

  July 25, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/EOIDG8S In part three of this week's three-part Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks you through how AI agents don’t really exist, how deceitful AI marketing has become, and why… more ›