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12 stories from share.transistor.fm have been shared on Kiwi News since 26 March 2024, with 20 upvotes and 3 comments in total. The latest was shared on 4 November 2025. They are listed below, most upvoted first.
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- From PvP to Exocapitalism and Gooning
This NET Society episode, hosted by Aaron, Chris and Pri, traces links from Bill Ackman discourse to exo-capitalism, covering prediction, automation and financial nihilism. The conversation opens with the hosts airing cultural grievances, including fatigue with the Substack class and dead internet theory. Chris criticizes Ackman, calling him a hypocrite who believes money equals speech, while Aaron says some of Ackman's concerns about universities had valid points. Pri says the US is in a fairly good position technologically and economically, while Aaron says he tends to be optimistic about the youth.
- Signal in the Sprawl
This episode of the Net Society podcast covers NFTs, the metaverse, and crypto's cultural direction, without stating a single conclusion of its own. It reviews Crypto Twitter's declining engagement and what that says about attention and the fragmentation of online communities. The hosts discuss crypto refocusing on infrastructure and transaction layers rather than speculation, the role of AI agents, and the Moodeng token's reappearance on Robinhood as a signal about longevity and narrative in crypto.
- The Call is Coming From Inside The Blockchain
The Net Society podcast, hosted by Derek Edwards, Chris Furlong, Aaron Wright and Priyanka Desai, features artist 113 discussing the intersection of art, crypto and programmable cryptography. Aaron argues that Ethereum will become more useful for art, culture and media than for financial primitives, and that Ethereum is undergoing a metamorphosis similar to Bitcoin's shift from payment system to store of value. Artist 113 describes a "third era" of crypto economic programs that function as artworks, arguing that artists have paid little attention to Ethereum's scaling tools and that such work now has a possible market. The transcript also covers whether NFTs are art or a product, crypto's search for legitimacy, and state control versus digital sovereignty.
- #29 – Martin Köppelmann: AI agents as onchain actors
Sina Habibian's podcast episode is a conversation with Martin Köppelmann, cofounder of Gnosis, about AI agents as onchain actors. The episode covers Gnosis Pay as an onchain bank account, security through passkeys and recovery, privacy and Tornado Cash, and AI agents as a new form of life. It also discusses training with prediction markets as RLHF and why prediction markets are relevant now, and the show notes link to Prediction Prophet, an agent by Polywrap in collaboration with Autonolas and Gnosis.
- Baron Von Rainbows
This episode of the NET Society podcast features VonMises as a guest for a discussion of NFTs, crypto art and AI. The hosts begin with Grant Yun's recent Fellowship drop, which VonMises says sold for more than he expected. Derek argues that AI is a tool artists can use to extend their practice, and Chris says the drop stayed consistent with Grant's visual style. The conversation also covers whether early hand-coded generative art may come to be seen as a golden era, ETH versus NFTs as stores of value, and Squiggles.
- Death by a Thousand Turnings
Hosts of the NET Society podcast discuss the recent content coin launch tied to Zora and Base, which they describe as a case of repeated design failures and growing exhaustion in crypto. Chris recounts that a Zora content coin launched by Jesse and dis saw someone acquire about 21% of supply near launch, after which the holder removed the liquidity pool and the token cratered. Chris argues the core problem is product design, not technology, and that middleman platforms face no cost for repeated failures. Pri says the real risk is malaise, since social and meme token rebranding offers little innovation, while Chris says the ecosystem needs competence rather than new technology.
- The Quine is Now
This is a podcast-style conversation among Aaron, Pri and Derek about the Art Blocks "Quine" drop, which they say is still climbing in price with about 22 minutes left at the time of recording. Derek predicts it will clear the 70s, and Aaron says there are about 500 works in the drop. Derek and Aaron call it Art Blocks' best work aesthetically, and Derek credits the studio with consistently pushing its generative art forward. The speakers also discuss the upcoming final exhibition on Saturday, which Derek says will be slightly larger than last year and spread across more satellite locations.
- Low-risk Podcasting
This podcast episode discusses a recent token launch tied to CryptoPunks and Bored Ape-related activity, with Chris and Aaron arguing that the design worked as intended after early problems. Chris says the launch was buggy because the protocol relied on market arbitrage bots without clearly communicating that behavior, and an unidentified actor reportedly netted about 750,000 bucks by repeatedly directing protocol buys of a listed ape. Aaron notes that as of that day, 613 ether in protocol fees had been collected and calls the model an elegant mix of ERC20 fungibility and NFT nonfungibility, though he sees challenges in enforcing the fee on chain.
- Punk Devs, AI Doomers & Robot Fight Clubs
Hosts of the NET Society podcast discuss public backlash against AI, with guest Seth Goldstein, in an episode titled "Punk Devs, AI Doomers & Robot Fight Clubs." Aaron says polls from YouGov and Pew indicate that roughly half of at least U.S. adults think AI will be worse for society than good, and he calls the fear largely unwarranted, saying AI is mainly changing software development. Derek says tech companies such as Coinbase are moving much development to agents, with Brian Armstrong citing 40% of Coinbase code, while Seth argues that falling cost per unit of intelligence could eventually erode salaried work.
- Hansel & Gretel Are Dead
Hosts Chris and Pri use Hansel and Gretel and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as metaphors for being lost in digital culture, where critiques and claims of authenticity become performances themselves. Pri says Kanye's newly launched token fell from about a $2 billion market cap to roughly $300 million within hours, and Chris cites CoinGecko showing $102 million. Chris believes the launch followed a judge unfreezing $57 to $60 million tied to the Libra project. In the final segment, Chris says his kids have heard the anti-AI slur "clanker" but rarely use it, while Pri notes that some AI supporters now object to the term.
- Holy Toledo Gen Art is Dead
The Net Society podcast episode discusses the Toledo Museum of Art's generative art show, with hosts Pri and Aaron arguing that the work displays well and that interest is growing among institutions even as public sentiment cools. Pri describes the show as the best display of this work she has seen, noting its layout across rooms and the mix of screens, plotters and printed pieces, and says curators from other global institutions attended the opening. Aaron says the speed of the movement is unprecedented and does not match the demand for instant gratification, and Chris jokes about the claim that generative art is dead.
- #34 – Stephane Gosselin: OneBalance, credible accounts and credible commitments
Sina Habibian hosts a podcast conversation with Stephane Gosselin, cofounder of Flashbots, Frontier Research, and OneBalance, covering crypto, global consensus, and system architecture. Topics include OneBalance and Credible Accounts, credible commitment machines, the trust model, the CAKE framework and the Credible stack, privacy, and global consensus blockchains alongside LLM foundation models. The episode also covers permissions for solvers, and it closes with segments on a company as a mirror of one's state of being and on having a strong why. Sponsors are Optimism and Privy.