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…
Ed Zitron delivers a 10-minute monologue examining Firmus, an Australian AI data center company whose IPO collapsed into what he characterizes as a "36-hour spiral of doom." The episode focuses on three main angles: the brittleness of Firmus' IPO prospects, the questionable underlying financial numbers that supported…
Worth it if you follow Australian tech finance, care about how media covers AI hype, or want a sharp 10-minute take on why Firmus' IPO imploded.
Better Offline episode "Cycular" Financing features Ed Zitron and Steve Burke of GamersNexus discussing four major tech industry topics. The primary focus appears to be NVIDIA's "cycular" financing practices—a term suggesting circular or cyclical financial arrangements that likely relates to how NVIDIA structures…
Worth it if you follow tech industry criticism and want informed takes on NVIDIA's business practices, gaming sector health, and AI policy from analysts known for challenging mainstream narratives.