Aaron and Derek are both out this week, leaving Chris and Pri to hold down the fort for Net Society’s first ever two-person episode. Things get a little unhinged as they wander into the woods of digital culture, comparing fairy tales and existential plays to the state of crypto. The conversation turns to Kanye’s short-lived token and the meme coin churn, then drifts through waterparks, slang, and the curious emergence of “clanker” as an AI slur. From there they unpack the world of AI boyfriends and what it says about loneliness in 2025, before diving into Jerome Powell’s latest remarks and the Fed’s shifting policy stance. The back half of the episode revisits radicalizing moments from the Iraq war to the 2008 bailouts, connecting them to Bitcoin’s origins, and closes with a hopeful turn as the pair find themselves excited again about generative art.

Mentioned in the episode

Kanye launches $YZY memecoin https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1958708989576806714

American Dream Mall Waterpark https://www.americandream.com/venue/dreamworks-water-park

My Boyfriend is AI Subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/

Fed Chair Jerome Powell announcement https://x.com/WatcherGuru/status/1958893683299717477

Quantizer by Harm van den Dorpel https://verse.works/series/quantizer-by-harm-van-den-dorpel

Scribbs by Fingacode https://verse.works/series/scribbs-by-fingacode

Dominoes in Fluxus by Ivona Tau https://braindrops.cloud/projects/24

Zach Lieberman https://x.com/zachlieberman

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

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