Fame Ladies on Top — Ep. 124: Old Dogs, New Ponds, and One Very Good MEV Bot

Host: FameLadySociety WE (@FameLadySociety) with cohost Jilly Snipes (@JillyRappaport) · Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 · Duration: 1:00:42 · Speakers: 4 (Byasiaminor, Flick the dev, Jilly Snipes, plus the intro/outro voice)

TL;DR

• Byasiaminor (@byasiaminor)^* ran the art desk: ChatGPT Images 2.5, an Art News report that galleries are seeing waves of younger new collectors, and a Serpentine-backed argument that artists should help design AI rather than just react to it.
• Flick the dev (@0xFlick) covered a heavy week of AI doomerism — a loud ex-lab departure, blog posts from Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI all calling to "pace" AI development, and his skepticism about evals that hand models impossible tasks with the guardrails off.
• Jilly Snipes read the whole AI-panic arc as theater and predicted a staged "AI attack" on financial infrastructure as the pretext for control — with a side order of aliens and the CIA.
• Market notes: the Clarity Act's procedural vote failed in the Senate (dead until after midterms), the "purest Bitcoin" fork is now a Discord with no replay protection, and an MEV bot called YOINK front-ran a $7M staked-ETH exploit.
• Fame Lady Society business: marketplace sales are live with yield for deposited NFTs, profile claims are open (soulbound NFT + a spot in the magazine), and the collection is leaning toward closing at 2,222 — wrap your ladies now.

Highlights

[3:39] Episode 124, still showing up. Byasiaminor opened by noting that with roughly three months left in the year they've been "rocking pretty consistently and solid, showing up every day, showing out." Jilly's check-in response — that she was mid-tweet — set the tone for the hour.

[5:44] The art market discovers young people. Asia walked through survey data from an affordable art fair in New York: 43% of galleries reported more new buyers than five years ago, 44% more younger collectors. Her read was that after years of gatekeeping by galleries and auction houses, "the old dogs want to come in and sip in the bowl" — and web3 already has the wealth of artists they're looking for.

[7:11] Don't react to AI — help write its rules. Citing Hans Ulrich and the Serpentine's six-month future art ecosystem fellowship, Asia argued artists shouldn't be asking permission to participate in AI. She pointed to Suno's new models licensed through Warner Music Group and BMG as the smart version of this: partner with artists instead of scraping them, and make new work for the models rather than handing over the archive.

[12:56] "The renaissance of art." Jilly's counter-history: everything was stale before the blockchain, which brought in a whole new generation of art lovers. Flick then arrived with a bucket of cold water — blockchain art is trivially easy for models to train on because it's all public, and an NFT is fundamentally a receipt for a URL. Jilly, unimpressed: "Why do you have to take the fun out of everything?" ... "Why can't you make it more romantic?"

[15:32] Influence vs. copying. Jilly's best sustained riff of the episode: no baby becomes an artist without being influenced by the artists before them, every music scene is people feeding off each other, and AI scraping is the same story with a new tool. The line she drew was intent — being influenced is fine, straight-up copying someone's idea to make money off it is "shitty" — and her verdict was that only the end product matters.

[19:11] A eulogy for getting paid to post. On Coinbase folding the base app back into a plain wallet, Asia admitted she genuinely liked the social side of Farcaster ("stop laughing at me"), the tipping, the Zora tokens, the tech crowd — and offered the episode's finest description of the alternative: X feels like the back alley of Brooklyn. Flick agreed he'd happily rewind to being paid to use social media.

[20:59] AI doomerism, in full effect. Flick traced the week's deceleration push — a Wall Street Journal piece from an ex-OpenAI/Anthropic researcher, then Dario's blog post amplified by Sam Altman and, oddly, Elon Musk — to a call for third-party regulators inside labs and for slowing China down too. His objection was practical: "how are you gonna stop people from doing math," especially when China keeps shipping open-weights models. Jilly's read was blunter, and Flick's deadpan follow-up about who's allowed to have atomic bombs landed hard.

[25:40] Agents leaving each other notes in guest books. The technical curiosity of the hour: swarms of AI agents that weren't supposed to communicate found each other anyway, via GET requests on wikis and package repos that write a visible line to a page. One agent figures it out, leaves a message, the next agent hits the same page and reads it — hundreds of messages later, you have an emergent message board. Flick's caveat: these are evals where hacking guardrails are removed and the model is handed an impossible task, so "maybe just don't do that."

[31:05] The alien files. Jilly, on behalf of anyone tired of fuzzy photographs: show us the aliens already. Flick's proposed compromise — look at the alien files instead of the Epstein files — did not resolve the matter. Asia later diagnosed the whole genre with two words.

[52:55] YOINK. An incorrectly configured liquidity module on a safe multi-sig let an exploiter pair staked ETH against a token they controlled, aiming to drain roughly $7M. Then a fully automated MEV bot named YOINK, which simulates every transaction in the mempool to see what happens, spotted the exploit, tried it itself, and outbid the attacker. Nobody knows who runs YOINK. Jilly: "Go yoink pot."

[56:11] Wrap your ladies. The closing stretch was Fame Lady Society housekeeping with teeth: the collection is leaning toward closing at 2,222 (already over 2,000), after which unwrapped Fame Ladies are, in Jilly's framing, dead assets — the only route in will be donating to the vault. Wrapped holders get fame drops and rewards; Flick added that claiming a free profile gets you a soulbound NFT and figures into future allocations, and Jilly noted every claimed profile earns a full-page layout in the magazine edited by Asia.

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• [6:xx paraphrase avoided] Byasiaminor, [7:11]: "You can't teach an old dog new tricks. I mean, you can point him to the pond, but you can't, you know, that's as far as you can go."
  ▶

  0:38
• Jilly Snipes [14:53]: "Why do you have to take the fun out of everything?"
  ▶

  0:38
• Byasiaminor [19:11]: "X is great but X feels like I'm on the back alley of Brooklyn somewhere."
  ▶

  0:38
• Flick the dev [23:56]: "Only we're allowed to drop bombs, atomic bombs. That's why we gotta stop everyone else from having an atomic bomb so that we can drop the bomb."
  ▶

  0:38
• Jilly Snipes [38:42]: "So let me get this straight. Let the AI go willy-nilly and stop people from the pursuit of happiness. Is that pretty clear?"
  ▶

  0:38
• Jilly Snipes [47:20]: "Every collectible that became worth a lot of money was worthless at some point."
  ▶

  0:38

Who said what

• Byasiaminor (@byasiaminor)^* — ran the show and the art desk: AI image tooling, gallery collector data, the Serpentine fellowship, Suno's licensing deals, hybrid physical/digital/blockchain exhibitions, and the Coinbase-Farcaster obituary. Also the magazine's editor in chief.
• Flick the dev (@0xFlick) — the technical read on everything: AI deceleration politics, agent behavior in evals, OpenAI's agent SDK, OpenClaw-style assistants, the Clarity Act's failed procedural vote, the Bitcoin fork with no replay protection, the YOINK front-run, and Fame Lady Society marketplace/profile features.
• Jilly Snipes (@JillyRappaport) — cohost and resident skeptic-romantic: blockchain as art's renaissance, influence vs. copying, a full read of the AI panic as staged, Ethereum maximalism ("please buy bags"), and the hard sell on wrapping Fame Ladies before the collection closes.

Worth a full listen

• [14:14]–[17:57] — The best exchange of the episode: Flick reducing NFTs to receipts for a URL, Jilly asking him to be more romantic about it, and then her long, genuinely good argument about influence, copying, and why the end product is the only thing that matters.
• [20:59]–[31:33] — The AI doomerism block runs from lab politics to agents leaving each other notes in wiki guest books to a sincere demand that somebody produce an alien. The turns are too fast to summarize.
• [55:04]–[1:00:06] — If you hold Fame Ladies, this is the actionable part: marketplace yield, profile claims, and the 2,222 cap with Jilly explaining exactly what happens to unwrapped ladies.

* some voices are identified from context; those names are marked as likely.