Listening to Better Offline (Saving Games Journalism With Giant Bomb): https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/saving-games-journalism-with-giant-bomb
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Dan Ryckert, Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb, the new owners of gaming website Giant Bomb, to talk about the hopeful, independent future for games journalism - and media at large.
I'm angered by the news #mozilla #pocket is shutting down, and not really at Mozilla.
I've scaled back most of my tech optimism to the simple challenge of salvaging web 1.0 and the mobile revolution with a "read it later on my pocket size e-ink device" button on mobile and my web browser, and pocket + #Firefox + #Kobo was exactly that thing.
This was the quietest part of my internet and anything fussier is a tragedy, both for users like me and the many users who seem to be saying they never got around to reading anything they saved to pocket. It was a treasure to find my kobo when I had some unexpected spare time on the move. I curated that algorithm, and it was better suited to me than any of the generators of breadcrumbs to lowest-common-denominator engagement pipelines masquerading as "for you". It was "for me".
#BetterOffline has re-radicalized me. I care about this thing, and I want it for others. Where's my #FOSS replacement, not just for pocket but also for a commercially available e-reader and sync service that work together? I feel entitled to an answer. It should be here by now given the promises made to me when I was young and idealistic.
Hopefully you can tell me I'm wrong and there's something everyone else is using, but it's their quiet part of the internet too so I've somehow missed it. I suspect the answer is that it's not there at all because it's too quiet and my answer is something about the lack of analytics for authors. If so then let me log in with my #library card and let the public sector tell us what we're all reading about, securely and without assuming I'm old enough to sell stuff to.
Gosh, this episode of #EdZitron's ( @Zitron ) #BetterOffline should be mandatory for school classes and family gatherings. How #techMedia is ignoring the #RotEconomy, how #Apple is profiting from its #AppStore actively harming customers, and what we should be fighting for pushing against #Meta, #Google, #Microsoft & Co.
https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/what-were-fighting-for
Listening to Better Offline (The BS Bubble): https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/the-bs-bubble
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through why it’s so harmful that the media keeps taking OpenAI at its word - and responds to the most common critiques from AI boosters.
We truly live in a techtopian hypeocracy and it is driving me insane, having just received yet another training course advertisment for “Generative AI for Everyone”, promising “Practical Exercises in crafting AI Prompts and optimising Outputs.”
#techtopian #hypeocracy #betteroffline #antiai cc:bsky
It is also a #BetterOffline podcast episode if you'd prefer to listen to it:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ADf1vjcspGtvOzQyIldAl
@seachanger
If they like podcasts, @Zitron does a good job of explaining this on his podcast #BetterOffline.
The latest Better Off Line episode is hilarious. #BetterOffLine #EdZitron #AI #podcasts
https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/radio-better-offline-cherlynn-low-alex-cranz-victo
[Better Offline] How Growth Is Killing Video Games #betterOffline
https://podcastaddict.com/better-offline/episode/193551900 via @PodcastAddict
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-were-fighting-for/id1730587238?i=1000694611783
What We're Fighting For
#EdZitron walks you through how #techmedia miss the stories that hurt billions of people daily
It's hilariously jarring hearing advertisements for AI products on Ed Zitron's 'Better Offline' podcast. Being on iHeartRadio I guess he doesn't have control over ad placements? #BetterOffline #ai #podcasts
Ed Zitron is on good form this week ☺️
Listening to Better Offline (What We're Fighting For): https://omny.fm/shows/better-offline/what-were-fighting-for
In this episode, Ed Zitron walks you through the how the tech media misses the stories that hurt billions of people every day - and how deep down, most people really do like technology and miss when it wasn’t so actively harmful.
I've started listening to "How Sports Gambling Apps Are Rotting Society", a recent episode of the #BetterOffline #podcast.
Ed Zitron and his guests put a lot of efforts to explain the relationship #sport people have to their hobby, before delving into the gambling itself.
From someone who's not into sport (like me), it's quite interesting. For example, they talk about sport as social lubricant, shared experience.
#Facebook and #Meta has not made a right-wing turn. They've always been like this. They've actively promoted extreme RW channels for years.
What is new is that they're now doing it way out in the open.
I strongly suggest you listen to the new #BetterOffline #podcast from #EdZitron and #CoolZoneMedia
@NEIGHBORZ @WheresYourEdAt_rss
this article is also quickly summarized by this episode of Ed Zitron's podcast #BetterOffline #EdZitron #PeakAI
https://open.spotify.com/episode/25fGpciCyVMQbacxThkVZb?si=x45MmjiURrOehppDE9TUSA&t=214&context=spotify%3Ashow%3A2dBPt1j2DoNij1kVdx8Ig6
#BetterOffline "Blame the tech industry for the rise of authoritarianism. Blame a news media handicapped by a deference to power and a fear of bias. Blame the fact that our digital lives are unchecked ecological disasters. In this episode, Ed Zitron draws a direct line from the rot of the digital ecosystem for what happened on November 5."
They also make the obvious point that return to office mandates are partly because CEOs don't realise why profits might be lower.
I really enjoyed following #CES2025 through the #BetterOffline and #ItCouldHappenHere podcasts
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/better-offline-ces-2025-day-1-255316485/
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/better-offline-ces-2025-day-2-255637370/
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/ces-2025-listen-to-ai-executives-255637112/
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/better-offline-ces-2025-day-3-255946137/
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/better-offline-ces-2025-day-3-256009150/
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/the-ai-ick-what-big-tech-255994244/
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/better-offline-ces-2025-day-4-256257601/
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/better-offline-ces-2025-day-4-256290576/
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/ces-2025-robert-and-gare-meet-256338253/
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/better-offline-ces-2025-day-5-256612849/
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/better-offline-ces-2025-day-5-256658254/
- https://www.iheart.com/podcast/139-better-offline-150284547/episode/better-offline-ces-2025-day-6-256909605/
Another fantastic episode of Better Offline and how bad being online feels for most people. When you're tech savvy you can dodge some of this crap. But it's hell for the average user.
