# Ep70 Bring Back The Good Models

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Podcast: [NET Society](https://stenobird.com/podcast/net-society-7073603)
Published: 2026-03-16T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/1a81b656
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Duration seconds: 3248

## Resource

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…

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