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Better Offline

Monologue: The Questions I'm Asking

Better Offline

Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

Technology

4.6687 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron lists the questions he’s asking - and the things he’s looking for - that he believes will actually burst the bubble. 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:06.7

Quarzo Media.

0:09.5

You know what time it is?

0:10.9

It's your better offline monologue for the week, and I'm Ed Zittron.

0:18.9

Better offline.

0:21.9

Now, today's monologue is an attempt to bring you further into my work, which I've kind of already been doing with multiple listeners materially contributing to the report behind this show.

0:30.7

So many of you are eager to help, and if you want to help, well, reach out to me with information and do so on Signal at EZitron.76. That's EZ-I-T-R-O-N or E-Z-I-T-R-N, if you're Canadian or British.

0:46.3

Dot 76 on Signal. Also, before I go any further, I've had a lot of emails and Reddits and the such.

0:52.2

If you're wondering about my thoughts on the Open AI Disney deal,

0:55.0

they are as follows. Wow, Disney invested a billion dollars in Open AI. That's about a month's worth

1:00.6

of inference. This only delays the inevitable. No one cares. They're threatening Google with legal

1:06.2

action. Google will settle and they'll do exactly the same crap with VO. Nothing will happen. A bunch of money

1:11.7

will get lost. Similarly, if you've heard about time naming AI executives as its person of the year,

1:17.3

remember that Mark Benioff of Salesforce, a huge AI booster, owns the publication, and literally

1:22.2

ran advertorial for Salesforce's agent force wank. It's nothing. Nothing's happening. It's just more money being

1:30.7

passed around so it can all get blown on nothing. But back to the rest of the monologue.

1:35.6

I'm going to tell you about the things I need to do a better job. Not, don't literally mean the

1:40.6

research. I mean, if you know this stuff, I need your help. Let's start with a big one.

1:45.5

If you have firsthand knowledge of GPUs being warehoused, this is Nvidia AI GPUs. Please God,

1:51.5

if you reach out with this about gaming GPUs, I'll be genuinely pissed off of you. But I need to know

1:57.0

about this. I want pictures if you can get them. I want numbers. I want to know whose

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