# Ep79 Celebrity Wrappers

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Podcast: [NET Society](https://stenobird.com/podcast/net-society-7073603)
Published: 2026-05-18T12:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/0f561249
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Duration seconds: 3542

## Resource

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/n…

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