Better Offline CES 2025: Day 2
Better Offline
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4.6 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2025
⏱️ 101 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Better Offline’s coverage of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show - a standup radio station in the Venetian with an attached open bar where reporters, experts and various other characters bring you the stories from the floor. In the second episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Health Physicist Phil Broughton, actual priest Gabriel Mosher, journalist Ed Ongweso Jr., and eventually Robert Evans and Gare Davis of It Could Happen Here, to talk about turning our health into an analytics nightmare, the amount of made-up stuff on the floor, how we beat the generative AI slop, and something called a "suicide helicopter."
Ed Ongweso Jr.: https://bsky.app/profile/bigblackjacobin.bsky.social
Robert Evans: https://bsky.app/profile/iwriteok.bsky.social
Gare Davis: https://bsky.app/profile/hungrybowtie.bsky.social
Gabriel Mosher: https://bsky.app/profile/eighthway.com
Phil Broughton: https://bsky.app/profile/funranium.bsky.social
Linda Yaccarino’s CES Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R9LtHiZ74w
Meta ends fact-checking program: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-ends-fact-checking-program-community-notes-x-rcna186468
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| 0:37.3 | Chosen by God perfected by science. My name's Ed Zittron. You're listening to Better Offline. |
| 0:51.6 | This is day one technically, but really day two of the Better Offline This is day one technically but really day two of the Better Offline CES saga, the consumer electronics show here from beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| 1:03.0 | My home, my Van Helsing like curse, but also my job. |
| 1:08.5 | I must be in Vegas. |
| 1:09.8 | Our beautiful slot machines must be filled with |
| 1:11.7 | beautiful dollars. I am joined today by a remarkable co-tory of people. Edonguoso Jr., of course, |
| 1:18.0 | joins me for another episode. Ed, lovely to see you. It's really great to be back. Thanks for |
| 1:23.2 | having me again. So just before we go any further, as people think, why did I say that at the beginning |
| 1:27.6 | other than the fact it's true? Where did you hear the phrase chosen by God perfected by science today? |
| 1:33.7 | Also on a giant, a giant banner above CES on the Venetian Expo floor. Nice. It was advertisement for |
| 1:42.8 | germ pass, which is this automatic, ultraviolet light technology |
| 1:49.9 | that automatically kills 99.99% of germs on any high touch surface. |
| 1:56.9 | Oh, right. |
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