NET Society

The Net Society crew compares notes on AI’s accelerating capabilities, from Chris leaving increasingly complex projects to his agents to a debate over whether humans remain at the center of work. They explore robotics, the return of relationship-driven business, and whether local AI can soften the impact of data center constraints. Delaware’s corporate filing dominance becomes a lens for thinking...

The Net Society crew reunites for episode 100 with a return from Marfa and plenty to unpack. They revisit standout shows from Michael Kozlowski and Summer Wagner at Glitch, Chris’s latest world-building experiments, and a debate over how Art Blocks Weekend is changing as more of the NFT community joins in. From there, they discuss Nathan Fielder’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary and what makes a work...

The Net Society crew checks in from Marfa as Aaron, Chris, and Pri imagine trapping AI agents in municipal bureaucracy before turning to a more immediate concern: whether the internet can withstand the next wave of AI-driven attacks. They explore vulnerable legacy software, banking infrastructure, and whether crypto offers a more resilient foundation. Pri’s drive through West Texas leads into a co...

The Net Society crew welcomes Michael Connor, Executive Director of Rhizome, for a conversation about preserving digital culture as the organization celebrates thirty years. Michael traces Rhizome’s evolution from an artist mailing list to a memory institution for digital art, including its role in the early history of NFTs. The crew explores what blockchains can preserve and where institutions st...

Aaron and Chris take the mic for a two-person edition of Net Society, opening with Seedphrase’s seven-trait CryptoPunk sale and a debate over rarity, taste, and NFT financing. They unpack the case for a crypto recovery, from clearer regulation to stablecoins and real-world assets finding practical uses. From there, Anthropic’s culture and a controversial AI pain experiment spark a debate over cons...

The Net Society crew is deep in the prompt mines as Chris, Pri, and Aaron compare notes on AI obsession, productivity maxing, and whether talking to the box is making them less interesting. They explore the trade-offs of turning inward, from ambitious solo projects and automated life admin to spending less time absorbed in internet culture. From there, they revisit the collective energy of Ethereu...

The Net Society crew is back together in New York, with bullish ETH takes setting the stage for a wide-ranging conversation about crypto, AI, and everyday life. They kick things off with the CLARITY Act, agency rulemaking, and a debate over where meme coins fit in crypto’s future. From there, they explore whether agentic finance, stablecoins, and tokenized assets could drive Ethereum’s next wave o...

The Net Society crew is back as Pri brings a story from a dinner where the guests’ AI agents had a conversation of their own, setting the stage for a wide-ranging discussion about digital companions and the cost of compute. They dig into AI safety messaging and regulatory capture, before debating what AI-driven math breakthroughs mean for academia and human expertise. From there, they check in on...

The Net Society crew is back together as Aaron, Chris, and Pri dig into the latest AI model race, from OpenAI’s Astra buzz to shifting momentum around Anthropic. Aaron then floats a provocative question: what if Skynet is actually a good thing? That sets off a debate about agent swarms, market coordination, and whether there’s any alpha left when AI runs the economy. The crew explores agents commu...

The Net Society crew checks in with Pri, who reports from Los Angeles on its booming hard-tech scene built around defense, space, rare-earth minerals, and American reshoring. From there, they examine geopolitical tensions, mounting US debt, fragile markets, and whether another economic reckoning is approaching. The conversation shifts to eye-popping AI valuations, Silicon Valley groupthink, emergi...

The Net Society crew dives into the arrival of “normie harnesses” as Pri shares her obsession with Instinct, an iMessage-based AI assistant that handles reservations, appointments, shopping, and the administrative backlog of everyday life. They debate whether standalone agent apps can stay defensible as OpenAI, Anthropic, Apple, and Grok absorb similar capabilities—and what happens when agents, ra...

With Aaron and Derek out, Pri and Chris hold down the fort and kick things off with Pri’s breakup with Claude, unpacking why AI models feel increasingly different in tone, usefulness, and cost. And why power users are becoming their own routers. From there, they move into “Woke 3,” AOC’s political rebrand, prediction markets, and renewed movement around crypto’s CLARITY Act. The conversation turns...

The Net Society crew kicks things off with Pri’s costly Stonkbrokers miss and a look at Robinhood’s growing onchain ambitions, asking whether established companies may be better positioned to deliver crypto’s promise than crypto-native players. From there, Chris takes the group deep into the enclosure movement, sparking a debate over property rights, internet commons, and whether NFTs can create u...

The Net Society crew dives into a timeline overtaken by “cabal” discourse, using the drama to examine the state of crypto art and the surprisingly small group still shaping its narratives. They debate whether open blockchain markets reliably surface great work or simply reproduce the gatekeeping, prestige, and conflicts of traditional institutions. From there, the conversation turns to quality, pr...

Aaron, Chris, and Pri begin with Miami real estate, New York’s enduring appeal, and whether AI could hollow out the white-collar industries that support the city. Pri then shares her developing thesis around spiritual technology, exploring how AI, longevity, space exploration, ancient philosophy, and a renewed interest in the cosmos may push people to look inward. Chris takes the idea further with...

With Aaron away, Chris, Pri, and Derek unpack Glitch’s latest release with die with the most likes, Dying Is Not Enough. Derek explains why Glitch operates without a fixed calendar or revenue targets, choosing projects artist by artist and treating its Marfa gallery as only one tool within a broader internet-native model. They explore the collection’s grief-soaked animations, poems, and extended t...

The full Net Society crew is back together to confront the arrival of disturbingly dexterous robot fingers and what increasingly capable humanoid machines could mean for work, athletics, warfare, and everyday life. From there, they examine AI future scenarios involving regulation, universal basic income, recursive improvement, and the tendency for technologists to build toward decades-old science...

The Net Society crew is back together for a holiday-weekend episode. They begin with Chris’s frustrations around Fable before examining Meta’s struggling engineering culture, copycat tendencies, and surprising progress in brain-signal decoding. From there, the conversation turns to custom models, expert investor judgment, and the growing push for AI sovereignty as enterprises question how much con...

Special guest Jared Poz of 8NAP ART joins Aaron and Pri for a wide-ranging conversation about where digital culture, crypto, and emerging technology are heading next. They begin with Jared’s long-term outlook on NFT art, exploring smaller generative art collections, algorithmic outliers, and why larger sets can produce unexpected cultural icons. From there, the group dives into the resurgence of t...

The Net Society crew dives into Midjourney’s unexpected move from AI image generation to medical imaging, exploring its underwater full-body scanner and what the company’s unconventional path says about founder freedom, bootstrapping, and technological ambition. From there, they examine how better measurement, massive datasets, and preventative healthcare could transform longevity, before imaginin...

The Net Society crew welcomes collector and digital art advocate Redbeard for a wide-ranging conversation about where crypto art goes next. They begin with the upcoming Basel exhibition and the challenge of building a genuine art movement without losing the strange, internet-native culture that made the space compelling. From there, the group examines the need for more collectors, contributors, ar...

The Net Society crew is back together for a wide-ranging conversation on crypto, AI, art, and the strange timing problems shaping the current market. They begin with the disconnect between crypto prices and onchain growth, weighing durable signals like stablecoins, RWAs, ETH activity, and agent standards against leverage, volatility, and renewed concerns around Zcash. From there, the episode turns...

The Net Society crew is joined by Alejandro from Fellowship for a full-episode debate on the state of NFTs, crypto art, and digital art in 2026. Sparked by Pri’s essay and Alejandro’s response, the conversation digs into what made NFTs feel new in the first place, from internet-native markets and global distribution to transparent ownership and community formation. Alejandro pushes on the limits o...

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...

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 wrapp...