Better Offline

Hater Season: Caleb Wilson, Juniper and Arif Hasan

February 18, 2026·59 min·2-min readroundtabletechnology
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The podcast is a scathing, darkly humorous critique of Silicon Valley's current obsession with AI, evangelical tech religion, and performative centrism, arguing that billionaire technocrats are promoting AI evangelism and faux-spirituality while pushing environmentally costly, aesthetical

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Juniper

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