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. 6d ago

    Ep80 Everything Old is Networked Again

    The Net Society crew is back together for a wide-ranging conversation on AI IPO season, market structure, and where capital flows next. They kick things off by debating whether massive public listings from SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic could mark a top, a wealth creation event, or a new chapter in the AI economy. From there, they explore how the AI trade is pulling attention away from crypto, the role of data centers as the new bottleneck, and whether ETH benefits from building in the shadow of the AI boom. The conversation then turns to open source models, local AI, margin compression, and whether frontier AI companies should be valued like software businesses or utilities. Later, the crew gets into orbital data centers, regulatory arbitrage in space, and the “network state” taking its final form above Earth. The episode wraps with a cultural detour through paid speech, dead internet theory, New York discourse, vibe shifts, political exhaustion, and the strange experience economy of waiting in line for mediocre coffee. Mentioned in the episode SpaceX IPO https://x.com/FT/status/2057896888863510658 Sam Altman overdoses on GLP-1s https://x.com/Overlap_Tech/status/2056847843743162448 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 Producer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra (00:00) - AI IPO Season & Retail Liquidity (06:16) - Data Centers, Crypto Risk & The AI Casino (10:24) - ETH, Network Effects & AI Compression (13:59) - Open Source AI, Local Models & Utility Economics (27:14) - Orbital Data Centers & Regulatory Arbitrage (40:09) - Paid Speech, Dead Internet & Sovereign Opinion (43:01) - New York Discourse, Vibe Shifts & Coffee Lines (01:00:53) - Welcome & Disclaimer

    1h 1m

  2. May 18

    Ep79 Celebrity Wrappers

    The Net Society crew is back together to unpack a week of internet spectacle, AI froth, crypto privacy, and demographic anxiety. They kick things off with Shl0ms’ Monet fakeout, using the viral AI art discourse to talk about attention games, bots, and the strange durability of crypto art. From there, they debate Martha Stewart’s AI home management startup and whether celebrity-backed ChatGPT wrappers are a real consumer wedge or just another top signal. The conversation then widens into model commoditization, low switching costs, U.S.-China chip strategy, robotics, and the next phase of the AI race. The crew also digs into Zcash, financial privacy, Hyperliquid’s USDH drama, and the exhaustion of retail crypto getting co-opted by insiders. The episode wraps with a detour through World Cup bloat, declining birth rates, “full-time children,” family formation, and the unsettling prospect of pregnancy robots. Mentioned in the episode SCHL0MS Monet post https://x.com/SHL0MS/status/2054280631807316329 Martha Stuart Home AI https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260512987617/en/Martha-Stewart-Announces-Hint-a-New-Home-Management-Platform-Built-on-Human-Expertise-and-AI 99% of people don’t use paid AI https://x.com/JohnLeFevre/status/2025334966884708846 Trump’s trip to China https://x.com/nypost/status/2055098939351650595 Robots working 8 hour shift https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2054603963996278786 Coinbase x Hyperliquid news https://x.com/coinbase/status/2054894760859504936 World Cup halftime show lineup https://www.fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/worldcup/canadamexicousa2026/articles/madonna-shakira-bts-co-headline-historic-final-halftime-show Jasmine Sun China on AI and work https://x.com/jasminewsun/status/2055069143716766099 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 Producer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra (00:00) - Shl0ms, Monet & AI Art Discourse (06:44) - Bots, Attention Games & Online Astroturfing (10:54) - Martha Stewart & Celebrity AI Wrappers (15:24) - Model Commoditization & Low Switching Costs (23:27) - China, Chips, Robotics & the AI Race (36:03) - Zcash, Privacy & Hyperliquid’s USDH Drama (43:03) - World Cup Bloat, Birth Rates & Pregnancy Robots (58:33) - Welcome & Disclaimer

    59 min

  3. May 12

    Ep78 Slop, Stunts & Millennial Politics

    The Net Society crew is back together for a wide-ranging conversation on politics, crypto, AI, and the accelerating weirdness of the internet. They open with Spencer Pratt’s LA political rise, using it as a lens for how celebrity, AI slop videos, and direct-to-feed campaigning may be reshaping political media. From there, they compare LA and New York political content, Mamdani’s street-level style, and the possibility of a broader reform movement breaking through old institutional structures. The crew then turns to crypto, unpacking major token and infrastructure moves around Arc, Canton, Circle, public companies, and the growing convergence between blockchains and traditional finance. Consensus in Miami becomes a referendum on crypto’s cringe problem, before the conversation shifts into AI, where Anthropic, xAI, Colossus, Cursor, Grok, OpenClaw, Hermes, and agent harnesses all point toward a new phase of frontier technology competition. The episode closes by asking whether AI agents are following a DeFi-like arc: real innovation buried under waves of noise. Mentioned in the episode Spencer Pratt LA Mayor Campaign AI Slop vid https://x.com/charliebcurran/status/2051647381981290697 Mamdani Ken Griffin video https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2044508902809628760?s=20 Bullish acquires Equiniti https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/crypto-exchange-bullish-strikes-4-2-billion-deal-for-transfer-agent-in-tokenization-push-4af8f41f Consensus 2026 memes https://x.com/cryptosmiff/status/2053175297818911145?s=20 And https://x.com/brookejlacey/status/2053196312091427119 xAI and Cursor https://x.com/xDaily/status/2052867330418335989 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 Producer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra (00:00) - Spencer Pratt, LA Politics & AI Slop Campaigning (08:35) - Political Ads, Memes & the New Media Playbook (19:17) - The Pratt Hat, Reform Movements & Institutional Frustration (22:59) - Arc, Canton, Circle & Public Company Tokens (29:46) - Consensus Miami & Crypto’s Cringe Problem (33:25) - Anthropic, xAI, Cursor & the Compute Wars (38:10) - OpenClaw, Hermes & the Future of Agent Harnesses (46:50) - Welcome & Disclaimer

    47 min

  4. May 4

    Ep77 The Headless Internet

    The Net Society crew is joined by John from SuperRare for a wide-ranging conversation on AI agents, headless software, crypto infrastructure, and the strange future of machine-mediated markets. They open with AI psychosis, neurotic models, compute subsidies, and the rising push toward CLI-first products, before exploring what happens when agents become the primary users of SaaS, payments, marketplaces, research tools, and crypto rails. From there, Aaron walks through a set of 2035 and 2040 agent economy predictions, including autonomous micro-enterprises, agent procurement, machine capital markets, self-sovereign AI, robotic factories, and AI-managed civic infrastructure. The episode then turns toward internet culture, Brian Johnson, peptides, crypto’s identity crisis, NFT market momentum, DeFi hacks, AI-assisted hacking, and the question of what new digital culture could actually bring buyers and creators back into the room. Mentioned in the episode Guest John from SuperRare https://x.com/SuperRareJohn Rare protocol https://rare.xyz/?utm_source=chatgpt.com Bankr https://x.com/bankrbot Brian Johnson Tweet https://x.com/bryan_johnson/status/2049687845082910812 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 Producer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra

    57 min
  5. EP 76 Spiritual Geography

    Apr 27

    EP 76 Spiritual Geography

    Everything is Casino. The Digital Art Timeline is a Church Basement Art Fair. New York is alive and well. Austin and El Segundo are hardware hot zones. Another Vibe Shift? The future of adaptive web design and AI UX. Etc.... 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 Substitute Producer/Editor: https://x.com/v_kirraThe usual Producer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl

    59 min

  6. Apr 20

    Ep75 The Graveyard

    The Net Society crew records live from New York and opens with a familiar question in unfamiliar times: are we actually back, or just bouncing inside a bear market. From there, the conversation moves through competing views on crypto’s current state, with debate around institutional demand, stablecoin growth, ETF flows, and why the next leg up may still require more pain. The crew then explores what machine-to-machine payments could actually look like, from agentic software and API micropayments to the early shape of a machine-native economy. That leads into a sharp discussion on AI product building, where they argue that the models are already good enough and the real bottleneck is ambition, taste, and the ability to frame better problems. In the back half, they work through a run of crypto casualties and controversies, including Foundation’s collapse, Lattice shutting down, and the Bittensor Templar blowup, before closing on a more optimistic note: why so many of the most interesting builders in AI seem to come out of crypto, and how that culture may shape what comes next. Mentioned in the episode Response to Covenant https://x.com/const_reborn/status/2043083033969033610 Lattice winding down https://x.com/latticexyz/status/2044103611072835744 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 Producer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra (00:00) - Are We Actually Back? (10:44) - Machine Payments & Agentic Software (13:09) - AI Product Building, Ambition & Taste (20:27) - Foundation’s Collapse & Platform Fragility (25:24) - Bittensor Drama, Templar & Governance (34:02) - Lattice, Onchain Gaming & Crypto’s User Problem (42:14) - Crypto Builders Winning in AI (49:09) - Welcome & Disclaimer

    50 min

  7. Apr 14

    Ep74 Doomerville to Azores

    The Net Society crew opens in full doomer mode, unpacking the growing public backlash to AI and whether fear around job loss, surveillance, and elite control is hardening into a broader political movement. From there, they debate whether AI anxiety is overblown, whether the real effects on labor are already here, and how anti-tech sentiment differs from the internet’s earlier adoption era. The conversation then shifts into model safety, Anthropic’s posture, and the strange mix of hype, secrecy, and moral panic shaping the AI discourse. In the back half, Aaron spins out a wild but compelling Bitcoin scenario around the Strait of Hormuz and the possibility of a future fungibility crisis, before the group detours into Sam Altman media narratives, Satoshi speculation, and the enduring appeal of unsolved mysteries. They close on a more human note with a sharp travel riff on the Azores, network state jokes, Europe’s slower pace of life, and whether AI’s best case is not mass replacement, but a world where people work less and live better. Mentioned in the episode Sam Altman targeted in attacks https://x.com/nypost/status/2043616560921633060 Jasmine Sun - AI populism's warning shots https://open.substack.com/pub/jasmine/p/warning-shots?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web The Bronx is Burning https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29389.Ladies_and_Gentlemen_the_Bronx_is_Burning 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 Producer/Editor: https://x.com/0xFnkl Social: https://x.com/v_kirra (00:00) - AI Backlash, Fear & Political Resistance (08:48) - AI Adoption, Movies & Internet Memory (15:09) - Anthropic, Model Safety & Claude Discourse (19:06) - Bitcoin Fungibility, Hormuz & Crypto Weirdness (25:05) - Sam Altman, Satoshi & Unsolved Mysteries (31:07) - Azores Travel, Europe & Network State Talk (41:10) - Working Less, Municipal Strain & AI Optimism (51:20) - Welcome & Disclaimer

    52 min

  8. Apr 6

    Ep73 Ontology, Popularized by Palantir

    With most of the crew out for the holiday, Pri and Chris hold down the fort for a loose but sharp conversation that moves from Gen Z Catholic revival to the state of crypto, digital art, and the social internet. They start with the strange resurgence of churchgoing among younger people, framing it as a reaction to loneliness, hyper-online life, and the search for meaning. From there, they turn to the muted vibes around EthCC and the broader sense that crypto conferences, NFT culture, and online art discourse have all lost some of their energy. The conversation digs into whether digital art is being absorbed into more traditional collecting structures, why the timeline feels broken, and how AI and agent culture are crowding out everything else. Later, they unpack OpenAI’s acquisition of TBPN as a play for distribution and influence, before pivoting into a discussion on Palantir, neurodivergence, labor, and the dangerous edges of techno-evolutionary thinking. The episode closes with reflections on political pendulum swings, Massachusetts’ economic drift, and a surprisingly long detour through sitcom canon, cultural durability, and what still holds up. Mentioned in the episode Gen Z’s Catholic Church https://x.com/Evie_Magazine/status/2039774646703161413?s=20 Marc Zeller on ETHCC https://x.com/Marczeller/status/2039975610282324389 TBPN has been acquired by OpenAI https://x.com/jordihays/status/2039756490387624327?s=20 Palantir Ontology https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/2039020569115439598 ADIN: Homo Divergens: What If the Weirdos Are the Next Species? https://x.com/ADINresearch/status/2038752657125556240 Creators of South Park AI Company https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/matt-stone-trey-parker-deep-voodoo-ai-south-park-trump-1236552586/ 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) - Holiday Open, Gen Z Catholicism & Meaning in the Digital Age (04:45) - EthCC, Bear Market Vibes & Crypto Conference Drift (09:48) - Digital Art, NFT Fatigue & The Broken Timeline (16:38) - OpenAI, TBPN & Buying Distribution (24:12) - Palantir, Neurodivergence & Evolutionary Risk (37:29) - Massachusetts, Political Pendulums & Institutional Decay (44:04) - Sitcom Canon, Cultural Longevity & Closing Thoughts (51:57) - Welcome & Disclaimer

    52 min
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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
    80
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © NET Society
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    NET Society

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