NET Society

NET Society

NET Society is unraveling the latest in digital art, crypto, AI, and tech. Join us for fresh insights and bold perspectives as we tap into wild, thought-provoking conversations. By: Derek Edwards (glitch marfa / collab+currency), Chris Furlong (starholder, LAO + Flamingo DAO), and Aaaron Wright & Priyanka Desai (Tribute Labs)

  1. 5D AGO

    Ep72 Agents Will Need a Mall

    Aaron, Derek, and Chris open the episode reflecting on a recent tech manifesto and what it means for crypto's original vision, before diving into a wide-ranging conversation covering the role of speculation in blockchain ecosystems, the rise of Bittensor and AI-native agent economies, and where AI model capabilities are headed by end of year. The crew also explores a thought-provoking tangent on whether AI could eventually replace political parties and governance systems, before wrapping up with news on Apple's AI strategy, the latest stablecoin legislation, and a Google research breakthrough in AI compression. Mentioned in the episode Crypto was supposed to be for everyone https://x.com/awrigh01/status/2037534072457609246 Bittensor https://bittensor.com/ Simone Weil https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22747485-on-the-abolition-of-all-political-parties Clavicular arrested https://x.com/TMZ/status/2037521275946488101 Google Research TubroQuant https://x.com/GoogleResearch/status/2036533564158910740 Apples’s AI strategy https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/apple-skipped-ai-arms-race-081939950.html Crypto regulatory clarity updates https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/coinbase-just-pulled-support-crypto-075306381.html Show & Hosts Net Society: https://x.com/net__society Aaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01 Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0x Derek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedws Priyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesai Production & Marketing Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra

    57 min

  2. MAR 23

    Ep71 GStack to the Future

    Derek is back this week for the first time in a while, and the crew wastes no time diving into the strange mental effects of AI-heavy workflows, from agent overload and “productivity psychosis” to the hype around GStack and the growing importance of context engineering over traditional engineering. From there, they unpack the messy state of today’s AI tooling, touch on Cursor and the broader developer stack, and close with a look at private credit, crypto regulation, and the Vanity Fair article that sparked fresh debate about how the industry is seen from the outside. Mentioned in the episode Billionaire Marc Andreessen says he has "zero" introspection https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/2033583724311286051 Finding acceptance after your AI "oh f*ck" moment https://mattsavage.substack.com/p/finding-acceptance-after-your-ai Gmoney fatigue with agentic productivity https://x.com/gmoneyNFT/status/2034743292881948697?s=20 Cursor releases Composer 2 https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2034668943676244133 Bernie Sanders talks to Claude https://x.com/SenSanders/status/2034715260259557597 Vanity Fair profiles big crypto names https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/cryptos-true-believers?srsltid=AfmBOopTkswvbOnRK_m8SFe8EMLscZQK-BOSyxk-YOfPFXLsoC5-Qpjl Show & Hosts Net Society: https://x.com/net__society Aaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01 Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0x Derek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedws Priyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesai Production & Marketing Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra (00:00) - Zero Introspection (08:52) - AI Psychosis (12:14) - G Stack and Agent Overload (24:46) - The Messy Middle of AI Tools (29:12) - Cursor’s New Model (37:28) - Private Credit and Crypto Rules (45:36) - Vanity Fair and Crypto’s Image (59:55) - Welcome & Disclaimer

    1h 1m

  3. MAR 16

    Ep70 Bring Back The Good Models

    This week on Net Society, the conversation moves from AI infrastructure and model slowdowns into a broader look at how these systems are actually landing in everyday life, from productivity gains and context switching to brain fry, screen addiction, and the growing appeal of dumb phones. Along the way, the group unpacks the politics shaping frontier models, the corporate control forming around compute and distribution, the fog of modern war coverage online, and why so much of the current AI moment still feels split between real utility and overhyped theater. The episode closes by widening back out to crypto, payments, and the friction between ambitious everything app visions and the messy reality of how people actually use technology. Mentioned in the episode Pri’s tweet, lobster vs the bull https://x.com/pridesai/status/2031783971047051445 Fearless girl statue https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fearless-girl-statue-will-face-wall-street-bull-another-year-n738991 Daniel Day Lewis flip phone https://x.com/karenyhan/status/981997310577119232 $50M USDT Aave trade mishap https://x.com/StaniKulechov/status/2032193345414664659 Show & Hosts Net Society: https://x.com/net__society Aaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01 Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0x Derek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedws Priyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesai Production & Marketing Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra (00:00) - Model Slowdowns and Data Center Politics (07:58) - AI Hype, Lobster Theater, and Who Actually Knows How to Use It (17:07) - Brain Fry, Context Switching, and the Limits of AI Workflows (24:14) - Dumb Phones, Screen Addiction, and the AI Buffer Theory (31:10) - War Coverage, Information Fog, and Corporate Control of AI (41:18) - AI Subscriptions, Frontier Model Politics, and Sam Altman Fatigue (48:05) - Crypto, X Money, and the Everything App Problem (53:38) - Welcome & Disclaimer

    54 min

  4. MAR 9

    Ep69 Biologic Copy Machines

    This week on Net Society, we’re joined by special guest Gmoney to talk through how AI is moving from novelty to daily utility, and what that shift means for software, media, and business. The conversation opens with changing AI workflows and the growing importance of combining models, tools, and interfaces that actually work in practice, before expanding into the geopolitical race around compute, open models, and national advantage. From there, the episode turns to Gmoney’s personal AI stack, the rise of synthetic podcasts and AI-generated media, and the strange new entertainment layer forming around simulations, betting, and algorithmic content. The back half explores open source pressure, where durable moats may still exist, and why the next phase of AI could feel less like a single product revolution and more like a messy rewrite of everything. Mentioned in the episode Special guest Gmoney https://x.com/gmoneyNFT Epstein files podcast with Claude https://x.com/levychain/status/2021713744406229262 AI baby standup comedy video https://x.com/pridesai/status/2029780577843355802 Micro Drama’s https://medium.com/@AT24/the-micro-drama-craze-how-90-second-soap-operas-are-disrupting-global-entertainment-e4030e6a86c3 Show & Hosts Net Society: https://x.com/net__society Aaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01 Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0x Derek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedws Priyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesai Production & Marketing Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra (00:00) - AI Adoption and Agent Workflows (06:11) - Model Reliability and Multi-Model Stacks (13:11) - AI Power Politics (22:25) - Gmoney’s AI Assistant Stack (29:13) - Synthetic Podcasts and AI Media (38:33) - Simulations, Betting, and AI Entertainment (49:20) - Open Models, Business Moats, and the Weird Future (01:08:53) - Welcome & Disclaimer

    1h 9m

  5. MAR 2

    Ep68 The Great Mess

    This week on Net Society, we’re joined by special guest Poof to talk through why agents are suddenly moving from demo to deployment, and what that shift breaks across markets, labor, and security. The conversation opens with a war game lens on “agent warfare,” including how coordination, speed, and execution change when software can act continuously instead of waiting on humans. From there, Poof unpacks what DX Terminal Pro is actually doing, why the product is positioned around real operator workflows, and how the UI and constraints matter as much as the model. The episode then zooms out to the underlying unlock, why agents feel more viable now, where the bottlenecks really are, and why “context engineering” is starting to look like the practical craft layer that separates toys from tools. In the second half, the group debates AI doom, layoffs, and the messy transition cost, including what gets automated first, where humans stay in the loop, and why incentives will shape outcomes more than ideology. The conversation then turns to finance, market structure, and the Jane Street discourse, using it as a wedge to talk about manipulation, edge, and how fragile public narratives get when systems are too complex to explain. The episode closes on security and alignment in the real world, agents running into adversarial environments, incentive design, and why RL harnesses, evals, and constraint systems might matter more than raw model IQ as we hand models more autonomy. Mentioned in the episode Special guest Poof: https://x.com/poof_eth DX Research Group / DX Terminal Pro https://x.com/dxrgai Jane Street https://www.janestreet.com/ War Games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames Show & Hosts Net Society: https://x.com/net__society Aaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01 Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0x Derek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedws Priyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesai Production & Marketing Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra (00:00) - Cold Open: War Games and Agent Warfare (04:48) - Poof Explains DCS Terminal Pro (08:06) - Why Agents Are Suddenly Viable (18:29) - AI Doom, Layoffs, and Labor Debate (38:27) - Jane Street and Market Manipulation (47:14) - Agents, Incentives, and Security Risk (01:00:53) - RL Harness, Context Engineering, and the Big Picture (01:30:07) - Welcome & Disclaimer

    1h 31m

  6. FEB 23

    Ep67 Fog of Slop

    This week on Net Society, we’re joined by special guest Daniel Keller to break down how policy, infrastructure, and narrative are colliding across AI and crypto. The conversation opens with the Supreme Court’s tariff ruling and what it signals about institutional power, industrial strategy, and second order economic fallout. From there, the group turns to AI, from Claude and the Pentagon to the way labs build legitimacy, sell a story of inevitability, and cycle through “mandate of heaven” moments as hype meets reality. The episode then moves into the physical layer, looking at the data center buildout, local backlash, zoning politics, and why elections shape what actually gets built. In the second half, the discussion widens to cities and status, including K shaped urban outcomes, network state thinking, and why New York’s cultural primacy feels less secure. The episode closes with an info war lens on modern media, the coming regulatory sorting in crypto, why meme coins may get sacrificed while NFTs quietly benefit, and how robots, Waymo, unions, prediction markets, and the dead internet thesis all point to a world where models become the primary interface to reality. Mentioned in the episode Special Guest Daniel Keller https://x.com/dnlklr Supreme Court Tariff Ruling https://x.com/ABC/status/2024864990189044039 Pentagon vs Claude https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/anthropic-pentagon-ai-defense-war-surveillance.html Rand Corporation Firehose of Falsehood https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html Everyone will be slop in 90 days https://x.com/nikitabier/status/2021632774013432061 Next XAI Safety Tsar https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2024703811806515667 Show & Hosts Net Society: https://x.com/net__society Aaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01 Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0x Derek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedws Priyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesai Production & Marketing Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra

    1h 15m

  7. FEB 16

    Ep66 Apocalyptic Eschatology

    This week on Net Society, we’re joined by special guest Jeremy Nixon to dig into what today’s AI boom actually is and what it is not. The conversation opens with Jeremy’s path through early autonomy and self-driving, and why that era made it impossible to dismiss machine intelligence as hype. From there, the group zooms out into bigger questions about intelligence itself, contrasting “alien” intelligence with collective intelligence, and treating LLMs less like minds and more like powerful simulators. The episode then moves into creativity, measurement, and the real constraint on progress, which is not generating ideas but selecting and validating them. In the second half, the discussion turns to how LLMs were built, why major labs and incumbents made different bets, and what that says about institutional risk and ambition. The episode closes with a sharp look at AI apocalypse culture, the moral frameworks that grew around it, and how open models, game theory, and product reality collide with the temptation to turn AI into a new kind of religion. Mentioned in the episode Special Guest Jeremy Nixon https://x.com/JvNixon AGI House https://x.com/agihousesf Thiel on Progress and Stagnation https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Xqcorq5EyJBpZcCrN/thiel-on-progress-and-stagnation Show & Hosts Net Society: https://x.com/net__society Aaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01 Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0x Derek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedws Priyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesai Production & Marketing Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra

    1h 11m

  8. FEB 9

    Ep65 Exit Through The Grift Shop

    This week on Net Society, we’re joined by special guest Brady Dale to talk through a moment that feels like a real inflection point for crypto, AI, and media. The conversation opens with why this cycle feels different, touching on deleveraging, fading speculation, and how AI has absorbed both capital and cultural attention. From there, the group explores what a post casino crypto world looks like, including utility, payments, stablecoins, Ethereum’s internal dynamics, and whether builders are quietly shifting priorities. The episode then moves into regulation, breaking down why legislative clarity may not arrive, why it might not matter, and how rulemaking is likely to shape the industry regardless. In the second half, the discussion widens to AI agents, automation, labor, and whether crypto is foundational infrastructure or simply attaching itself to a larger narrative. The episode closes with a reflection on the collapse of traditional media, the limits of Substack and subscriptions, AI’s impact on writing and news, and how crypto’s evolving aesthetics quietly signal where the industry may be headed next. Mentioned in the episode Guest Brady https://x.com/BradyDale Brady’s Substack https://www.frontstageexit.com/ Multicoin co-founder steps down https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/04/multicoin-co-founder-kyle-samani-steps-down-after-nearly-a-decade-to-pursue-other-areas-of-tech Deleted tweet https://x.com/MiyaHedge/status/2019317927141679190?s=20 Clarity Act https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3633/text Show & Hosts Net Society: https://x.com/net__society Aaron Wright: https://x.com/awrigh01 Chris F: https://x.com/ChrisF_0x Derek Edwards: https://x.com/derekedws Priyanka Desai: https://x.com/pridesai Production & Marketing Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra (00:00) - Crypto Winter, AI Dominance, and the End of Speculation (08:24) - Utility, Builders, and the Post-Casino Crypto Era (17:16) - Ethereum Power, L1 vs L2, and the Commons Problem (24:26) - Regulation, Clarity, and the Real Shape of Crypto Policy (36:10) - AI, Agents, and Whether Crypto Really Matters (47:12) - Media Collapse, Substack, and the Future of News (01:15:45) - Aesthetics, Culture, and What Crypto Communicates Now (01:19:28) - Welcome & Disclaimer

    1h 20m
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NET Society is unraveling the latest in digital art, crypto, AI, and tech. Join us for fresh insights and bold perspectives as we tap into wild, thought-provoking conversations. By: Derek Edwards (glitch marfa / collab+currency), Chris Furlong (starholder, LAO + Flamingo DAO), and Aaaron Wright & Priyanka Desai (Tribute Labs)

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  • Creator
    NET Society
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    72
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © NET Society
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