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Ed Zitron

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Here’s this week’s Better Offline. I’m joined by @davidjroth.bsky.social and @vicmsong.bsky.social to talk about Sora 2, Meta’s AR glasses, the “friend” pendant, and why none of these products can ever truly deliver meaningful friendship.

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Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 10/08/2025 · 51m

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1h

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3h

sorry man i am not going to take you seriously if your name is Billy Peebles

Bill Peebles, head of Sora at OpenAI, says the app hit 1M downloads less than five days after its launch on September 30, which is even faster than ChatGPT did — OpenAI's short-form artificial intelligence video app Sora hit 1 million downloads less than five days after its launch in late September, according to an executive.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 5h

He said this in January lol

A world in which human wages crash from AI -- logically, necessarily -- is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero. Consumer cornucopia. Everything you need and want for pennies.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 6h

While my work is critical and often brutal, my personal life is full of love and compassion, and I love working out (though this has been a slower week)

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 6h

Yes, and Steve is awesome. We did a 90 minute interview and he's a compassionate, witty and incredibly smart guy who speaks with clarity and vigor. I love GamersNexus and it was an honour to sit down with him.
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Jeroen Baert @jbaert.bsky.social · 23h

YOU MET TECH JESUS

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

Edited down?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

some combination.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

this is like asking what piece of wood kept a fire burning...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

I am quite literally the healthiest physically and mentally i've ever been

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

I’ve got plenty of other things to go through

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 7h

My recent 18,000 word newsletter took me maybe 7 hours total between note taking, research and writing, and maybe 15 diet cokes, the human brain is truly remarkable

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 18h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
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It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

Yeah honestly @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social we should at some point

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Radio Better Offline: Victoria Song and David Roth

Podcast Episode · Better Offline · 10/08/2025 · 51m

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

they seem to be renting the turbines! Which is probably really expensive

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 17h

Oh for sure

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

1. @matthewhughes.bsky.social has done this both personally and professionally
2. My editor at Penguin (Megan Wenerstrom) has been excellent precisely for saying “great idea but what if we did it this way” avoiding a bunch of shitty work and somehow making it more fun

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 22h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Matthew Hughes @matthewhughes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest newsletter is about how generative AI doesn't just need money to survive, but faith.

Every time we see another big genAI foul-up, that faith will waver, and its end becomes all the more likely.

whatwelost.substack.com/p/generative...

Generative AI’s Impending Death By A Thousand Rake-Smacks

Give it enough rope...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 20h

Based on every conversation @matthewhughes.bsky.social and I have had and our research it genuinely seems there’s that Abilene - if it ever gets built - may not have much more than 50% power until 2027 at the earliest, if not longer, and they’re going to rely on an expensive fracked gas generator

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

The craziest thing I’m chasing down: I don’t believe that stargate abilene has even close to enough power, nor is it possible for them to build it before the year 2027. They have a 200mw substation and an unfinished 350mw gas turbine plant.

They need 1GW+ and it’s still in the design phase!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21h

He says he “hates me and loves AI,” but won’t explain what he means in either case

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 21h

Best you can ask honestly at this point

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 22h

Does this change your overall opinion?

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23h

When you say that much spare power how do you mean? I am still learning

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23h

He already informed me he “deeply hates me”

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23h

Bill will be joining me as the new co-host of Better Offline

Ollie Connolly @ollieconnolly.bsky.social · 23h

Per sources: Bill Belichick has discussed buyout options with North Carolina’s hierarchy. Belichick has signaled a willingness to trigger his own $1 million buyout if he can find a soft landing with another team or in media

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 23h

Honestly sure!