{"podcast":{"title":"NET Society","slug":"net-society-7073603","podcast_index_feed_id":7073603,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/net-society","website_url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/netsociety","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/rWS_6xiBg5sPPfPEb7aJR4qYeu6r_oaLBKrbPz35G78/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDBk/Y2Q3ZWU5MjQwZDI5/MmIxYzgxMjM2OGNj/ZjE0Yi5qcGc.jpg","author":"NET Society","episode_count":95,"summary":"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)","last_synced_at":"2026-09-14T02:20:47.897111+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/net-society-7073603"},"episode":{"title":"Ep86 Dead Air","slug":"ep86-dead-air","published_at":"2026-07-05T22:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/net-society-7073603/ep86-dead-air","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/net-society-7073603","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/30a9c71f","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/30a9c71f/cbc7ad97.mp3","summary":"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 control they should hand to frontier labs. The crew considers whether open-source models, fine-tuning, and intelligent routing will create a more fragmented AI ecosystem where models are selected by cost, reliability, and specialization. They also ask what happened to the inventive energy of the last NFT cycle and whether better tools, cheaper blockspace, and a little AI could make crypto fun again. The episode closes with America’s 250th anniversary, Europe’s resistance to air conditioning, and an unexpectedly serious debate over whether AC belongs among humanity’s greatest inventions. Mentioned in the episode Fable 5 returns https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072163884430229756 Meta Engineering Culture https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/12/metas-months-old-ai-unit-is-a-soul-crushing-gulag-say-the-engineers-stuck-inside-it/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Nature Article decoding brain activity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02303-2 Bridgewater and Thinking Machines https://x.com/ziv_ravid/status/2072171186620960908?s=46&t=3cJ-BS7Y1NeBdjntkS2hZQ Backseats tweet https://x.com/backseats_eth/status/2072020616400757233 AC being a hot topic https://x.com/NYCMayor/status/2072411003170472359 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 De…","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2761,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/net-society-7073603/episodes/ep86-dead-air/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/net-society-7073603/ep86-dead-air.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}