Better Offline

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through the ousting of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang - and his apparent participation in a multi-billion dollar smuggling ring to sell GPUs to China.

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In this week's Better Offline, Ed is joined by Prof G Markets’ Ed Elson to talk about the Anthropic IPO, the mid-terms, hauling fraudsters in front of congress, and Jensen Huang’s tryst with a Chinese spy.

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In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron walks you through how the Blue Wave is an ill omen for the AI trade, and how we can build a better future by fighting for everyone’s voice.

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https://stateline.org/2026/11/04/voters-across-the-country-reject-data-centers/
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In this week’s Better Offline, Ed is joined by Nick Devor of Barron’s to talk about how gambling is poisoning everything, how legislation is struggling to keep up, and the damage already being caused by sports betting and prediction markets.

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In this episode, Ed is joined by Paris Marx, author of the new data center book “Hyperscale,” to talk about the AI buildout, the community groundswell against data centers, and how both politicians and the media fail to hold the powerful accountable.

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