Hater Season: Openclaw with David Gerard
This episode of Better Offline is a scathing, darkly humorous takedown of the AI hype cycle, focusing on the absurdity of AI personal assistant projects like OpenClaw, MaltBot, and Gastown. Host Ed Zitron and guest David Gerard mock the technical incompetence, financial waste, and cult-
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