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Published: June 5, 2025 01:00
They are so unbelievably and terribly desperate. You don’t do things like this unless you are scraping the bottom of the barrel for revenue and adoption. This is the ultimate form of the tech industry: a despicable, wretched, entitled, destructive, abusive…
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Published: June 4, 2025 21:54
one day it's going to come out that the total revenue for the entire generative AI industry is like $20-$25bn in 2025, and the cost to make that revenue was $50bn-$100bn+
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Published: June 4, 2025 21:49
...so a little over $4m a month in revenue? And a $1.4bn valuation?
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Published: June 4, 2025 21:21
$500m in revenue - not profit! - for the one Microsoft ai product people actually like. Pathetic!
Also back in 2023 the WSJ reported that Microsoft lost $20 for every $10 copilot a month subscriber. Amazing stuff everybody
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Published: June 4, 2025 21:12
I am watching every single person who publishes crap like this and will remember it when the bubble bursts
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Published: June 4, 2025 19:52
Just a few more dominos left before the rise of Woke Elon
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Published: June 4, 2025 18:34
Oh my GOD. According to The Information, Microsoft is projected to only make $3bn of revenue from AI sales outside of OpenAI's revenue share and the massive amount they spend to run their services on Microsoft's Azure Cloud. $13bn total revenue from AI is…
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Published: June 4, 2025 05:43
I am honestly curious as to where people listen to Better Offline. The car? At home? In the bathroom? During work? At gunpoint?
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Published: June 4, 2025 04:26
Here's the latest episode of Better Offline. I'm joined by @internetofbugs.com to talk about the realities of software development, what coding LLMs can actually do, and how the media gets it wrong about software engineering at large.
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Published: June 4, 2025 01:42
Alright look. Don't all get mad at me. It's almost like he doesn't have a coherent ideology and will do whatever he thinks is most advantageous? Maybe I'm going too far
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Published: June 4, 2025 00:59
https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
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Published: June 4, 2025 00:37
This is exactly how i talk in real life
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Published: June 4, 2025 00:16
We love the computer and hate what’s been done to it by The Bastards
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Published: June 4, 2025 00:16
This is why most of my newsletter headlines are vague. That and I hate writing headlines
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Published: June 4, 2025 00:13
Saw Knack at a Cubs game the other day drunk off his ass, dropping relics everywhere
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Published: June 4, 2025 00:01
I don't understand how or why but the better offline Reddit is both insanely active and growing incredibly fast.
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Published: June 3, 2025 23:49
Nobody ever learns, ever. The Washington Post has some of the best reporters in the business, in particular their tech desk, and every single move like this weakens the hard work they do. Utterly stupid, the Business Idiots are out of control
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Published: June 3, 2025 23:40
Andrew Cuomo running the “tenacious d drive through sketch” playbook
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Published: June 3, 2025 21:32
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Published: June 3, 2025 06:22
Simple argument here: if this was happening you'd be able to point to a company that was actually doing it. You'd be able to point to the jobs and the ways in which they'd replaced them with AI and the ceo would talk about it openly. Is that really too…
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Published: June 3, 2025 06:22
@dennycarter.bsky.social every time I do a certain yoga routine they say "get fancy with it" during a particular pose and every time I think "I have never "got fancy with it"
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Published: June 3, 2025 05:06
This is a god damn perfect version of “correlation does not equal causation.” Anything else happen economically in the last few years? Any other large come-down from over hiring and overspending? No? Okay well it’s ChatGPT. that’s the only thing that…
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Published: June 3, 2025 05:00
Pulling together decades of random crap to put on the wall of the new Zitron Studio
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Published: June 3, 2025 04:24
Why would I yell at their consumer graphics cards? I live in Las Vegas and New York. there's literally a CoreWeave data center in LV and their HQ is in New Jersey. I could probably get them to let me cuss out a GB200 if I asked nicely enough
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Published: June 3, 2025 04:19
JESUS: Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
LONGINUS: grok, is this true?
GROK: Regarding "white genocide" in South Africa, some claim it's real, citing farm attacks and "Kill the Boer" as evidence, However,
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Published: June 2, 2025 21:49
no they haven't
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Published: June 2, 2025 20:40
We just put new merch up on the Better Offline merch store. A new zip-up hoodie, wordmark shirt and Better Offline Hat. Use code free99 for free shipping on orders over $99.
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Published: June 2, 2025 20:25
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/
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Published: June 2, 2025 20:09
1. Too expensive, way too expensive, companies like Ticketmaster doing "Platinum" sales which is them literally scalping
2. Hard to get into and out of, uncomfortable, expensive
3. Festivals increasingly exploitative with different tiers
4. Massive…
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Published: June 2, 2025 17:04
saw a "parody disney" account on here and blocked it faster than I've ever blocked anything in my life, evil stuff
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Published: June 2, 2025 16:00
Is that good
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Published: June 2, 2025 05:58
Oh you know I'm about to do some video
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Published: June 1, 2025 17:45
I really only send two kinds of text
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Published: June 1, 2025 16:20
This was probably my favourite concert of all time
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Published: June 1, 2025 03:39
Kendrick in Vegas
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Published: May 31, 2025 19:27
Checked out some goat names
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Published: May 31, 2025 18:45
Beached Babou
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Published: May 31, 2025 16:58
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Published: May 31, 2025 16:42
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Published: May 31, 2025 05:23
I have really missed these, tears in my eyes
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Published: May 31, 2025 05:18
Every time i hit post this plays from 1:23 onward
youtu.be/I0jICyk7QLE
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Published: May 31, 2025 04:41
Impressive. Very nice. Now let's see the investors.
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Published: May 31, 2025 02:26
Take me out to the freaking ball game bro
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Published: May 31, 2025 02:00
It's always alarmed me how many parents think their kids owe them and thus can never be held accountable. Nonsense! Cut them off if they suck (if you're able to), good riddance, end the cycle of freaks being allowed to wield influence
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Published: May 31, 2025 01:50
Son of Sam Altman
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Published: May 31, 2025 00:32
Microsoft AI CEO and abusive bully Mustafa Suleyman has been posting on Bluesky for a few weeks and deliberately turning off quote posts, knowing that everybody would dunk on him constantly …
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Published: May 30, 2025 23:46
This is from a document called "ChatGPT H1 2025" *and it's May 30th*. We're at the end of H1 2025 and they have done basically nothing they said here! The news here isn't that this is their strategy document, the news here is that *OpenAI has failed to…
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Published: May 30, 2025 23:31
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Published: May 30, 2025 23:11
Waited my entire career to have a platform big enough to make fun of Mary meeker and I finally can. Citations for this chart are "some guys I talked to and OpenAI" for example
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Published: May 30, 2025 18:31
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Published: May 30, 2025 17:28
Is there a mr. Anthropic 🥴
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Published: May 30, 2025 17:28
Groimes oi cornt pees
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Published: May 30, 2025 16:01
This is one of the best mainstream pieces of A.I. criticism I've ever read, and it is somehow on CNN. @amorrow.bsky.social is far ahead
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Published: May 30, 2025 06:36
Here's this week's Better Offline monologue. I talk about the awesome world of handheld gaming PCs - and why you should pick one up over a Nintendo Switch 2.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/better-offline/id1730587238?i=1000710513207…
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Published: May 29, 2025 23:51
Had a lot of people recently reaching out to do off the record “on background” interviews where they ask me to explain a bunch of stuff to them. This is not something to do to people you do not know! I am not your free research partner. If you do this to…
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Published: May 29, 2025 23:30
Working on my pivot to video…
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Published: May 29, 2025 22:55
Man this company is such a dog. What kind of "work" could they reasonably be doing? They can barely make a functional social network! They went around the valley begging for money! Desperate.
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Published: May 29, 2025 22:48
Basically anything. I don't have to engage in good faith right? I can just ask them to define every other word. Oh you want to ask me about Christianity? Not sure what that is. Explain it. Jesus? Who? God? What? You've lost me man
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Published: May 29, 2025 22:46
This comes up in this week's better offline monologue. Windows is terrible for handhelds, it doesn't have to be, Microsoft just doesn't give a damn despite this definitely being something they would make money on!
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Published: May 29, 2025 19:16
we have failed as a society to train people to communicate, the way we teach students to write (when we bother to) is the most bland, anodyne crap, all while making them go to college for reasons that even we can't explain beyond "you need it to get a…
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Published: May 29, 2025 16:52
Howl
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Published: May 29, 2025 16:06
Good morning Babou!
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Published: May 29, 2025 15:39
They took out create a player last year so I'm never giving them another dime
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Published: May 29, 2025 05:52
You can think about what others think about you and have whatever emotions you want, but know who you are and believe in it and have rigorous reasons for doing so, loving your friends and those closest to you is the only counterbalance to being a gigantic…
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Published: May 29, 2025 05:14
Emailing this to my doctor with the subject "the game is afoot!!"
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Published: May 29, 2025 05:09
CES 2026 is going to be the most mentally healthy tech podcast series of all time. I barely got started telling everyone why i loved them this year
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Published: May 29, 2025 05:04
No thanks
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Published: May 29, 2025 04:57
Hi Pokey!
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Published: May 29, 2025 03:49
Hello Pokey!
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Published: May 29, 2025 02:54
Reality trying to bring my "woke Elon" plot idea to life
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Published: May 29, 2025 01:35
I think there are many problems in media that can be traced back to a death or drought of sincerity in mass media, a fear of discussing love or solidarity, or unabashedly loving your friends. It’s “vulnerable” if you talk about feeling bad or sad. Doesn’t…
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Published: May 29, 2025 00:11
GAVIN NEWSOM: so you’ve got a really interesting history in the biosciences, why don’t you tell me more about that?
NEMESIS: STARS!
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Published: May 28, 2025 22:04
damn never heard this guy speak and it's exactly what i expected
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Published: May 28, 2025 20:53
why cover it then? Why trust what they are saying? The "announcement video" of this "agentic browser" is 3 minutes long and features a robot and a robot dog.
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Published: May 28, 2025 20:49
regular people seem pissed!
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Published: May 28, 2025 20:33
yeah the answer is that all of these letters are nonsense. ITHOER? TLELDV? the Times has really fallen behind
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Published: May 28, 2025 19:51
First time I actually believe there's any kind of rift between Trump and Musk. Musk tried to stop the OpenAI-UAE data center play and they just ignored him lol
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Published: May 28, 2025 19:44
It's hard to be more disappointed in Axios than I already was, jesus christ. "lawmakers don't get it or don't believe it" because it isn't happening, 50% of entry-level jobs are not going away "in the next one to five years" and printing this has no…
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Published: May 28, 2025 18:00
"especially when compared to his famously sheltered predecessor...and look how that turned out" what are you TALKING about
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Published: May 28, 2025 17:54
Is this the return of Kara Swisher? Maybe he does lex fridman again. Maybe The Technology Brothers (this is a real channel)
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Published: May 28, 2025 17:32
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Published: May 28, 2025 17:22
...how many Blackwell chips has NVIDIA actually delivered? This reads like they haven't shipped many and have only just worked out how to cool them right. Good luck to Core Scientific and Crusoe on making these work at scale!
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Published: May 28, 2025 17:18
20 Christians versus One Grungy Looking Guy From Oregon