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Matt Stoller Explains Monopolies
In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with Matt Stoller, author of the BIG Newsletter and Research Director of the American Economic Liberties Project…
1 year, 9 months ago
Algorithms and Oligopolies with Thomas Germain
In the fourth live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron sits down with the BBC's Thomas Germain to talk about breaking up big tech, and how w…
1 year, 10 months ago
Big Tech Is The Enemy of Innovation
As the AI bubble collapses, it's time for the tech industry to repent, and to recognize that the future cannot be decided entirely by four or five tr…
1 year, 10 months ago
How The AI Bubble Bursts
After a year of opulent spending, the markets have begun to sour on big tech's $200 billion bet on generative AI, unfortunately timing with the delay…
1 year, 10 months ago
Enzittification with Cory Doctorow & Brian Merchant
In the third live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio in Los Angeles by Cory Doctorow and Brian Merchant to talk about t…
1 year, 10 months ago
The State of Tech Journalism with Kylie Robison and Mike Isaac
In the second live-to-tape episode of Better Offlive, Ed Zitron is joined in-studio by the New York Times' Mike Isaac and The Verge's Kylie Robison t…
1 year, 10 months ago
Rot Economics with MIT's Daron Acemoglu
In this episode, Ed Zitron sits down with famed MIT economist Daron Acemoglu to talk about the economics of the tech ecosystem, the ridiculousness of…
1 year, 11 months ago
CrowdStruck
On Friday July 19, millions of Windows PCs entered a doom-loop that rendered them non-functional thanks to an update sent by a little-known company c…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Academics That Think ChatGPT Is BS
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 de…
1 year, 11 months ago
Pop Culture
When the money gets nervous, so should you. In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through a remarkable report from global investment bank Goldman Sach…
1 year, 11 months ago