FameLadySociety Presents: "Fame Ladies on Top" — Ep. 123 (feat. Asia, Jilly & Flick)

Host: FameLadySociety (@FameLadySociety) · Tue, Sep 8, 2026 · ~1:02 · 4 participants

TL;DR

• The host (FameLadySociety)^* recapped NFT NYC — billboard artworks, several parties, and a lot of IRL networking [4:41].
• Flick (@0xFlick) ran a security-heavy AI news segment: subscription tokens (Claude/ChatGPT) are now prime hacking targets, and "protect your shit" was the through-line [8:58].
• Two big AI stories dominated: a gray-hat exploit that drained ~4,000 BTC from the Liquid/Blockstream protocol before returning most of it [15:48], and a math-proof race where OpenAI reportedly spawned 10,000 agents and ~$1M in compute to beat an Anthropic-linked researcher [27:59].
• A running thread on whether AI is a "nothing burger" or a 2030 doomsday — Flick landed on "definitely not a nothing burger," with big societal shifts likely later than 2030 [33:20].
• Hardware sticker shock: Apple's M5 Studio starting north of $11K, plus GPUs/memory getting pricier thanks to AI demand [40:46].
• Fame housekeeping: new marketplace features (shareable art pages, a market-cap calculator) and a deep dive on how thick Fame's locked liquidity is [54:30].

Highlights

[4:41] NFT NYC field report. The host walked through a "small, quaint" but lively NFT NYC — the billboard artwork moment that unexpectedly moved a lot of people who couldn't see their own pieces, the Honey Bee Royale high-roller crowd, the OpenSea park party, the Canal Street new-artist show, a Decentraland ping-pong-bar rager, and a comedy-show/party mashup down on the Lower East Side.

[8:58] Hijacked Claude tokens. The host told the story of an independent UK consultant ("Grant") whose Claude usage spiked 20x while he wasn't even using it, ending in a suspended account and a partial refund. Flick's diagnosis: almost always poor security posture, not the provider — info-stealers and shady OAuth logins are draining people's inference tokens, and there are services quietly paying users to lend out their "leftover" subscriptions [12:40].

[15:29] "More valuable than your wallet." Flick's blunt takeaway on why AI accounts are now such juicy targets — your OpenAI/Claude Code login may be worth more than your crypto wallet, so don't sell your subscription and don't log into weird sites.

[15:48] The Liquid/Blockstream gray-hat heist. A DeFi exploit siphoned the majority of a Bitcoin protocol; the hacker returned ~3,400 BTC and kept a few hundred. Jilly needled the "charitable criminal" framing [17:01], while Flick flagged the genuinely fun part: the protocol owner and the hacker negotiated on-chain via op_returns, half in plaintext, reading like a DM thread [19:29].

[27:59] The million-dollar math-proof race. Flick unpacked the day's kerfuffle: an academic working with an Anthropic-affiliated researcher was closing in on a 90-year-old fluid-dynamics proof when OpenAI got wind, spawned ~10,000 agents on an unreleased internal model, and burned ~88 hours and ~$1M of compute to publish its own solution. OpenAI's denial that it peeked at his codex sessions drew Flick's dry skepticism [29:19] — and a real point that personal-tier sessions do get used for training.

[32:22] Nothing burger, or the end of the world? Jilly relayed the two extremes she keeps seeing online. Flick's grounded answer: not a nothing burger — vibe coding, music, Blender work are all real now — but the doomsday timeline is probably later than 2030, and it all hinges on whether intelligence keeps scaling. This rolled into a nicely nerdy tangent on Moore's law going horizontal and shorts on the AI trade eventually being right but getting blown out first [38:43].

[40:46] Hardware pain. Apple's M5 Studio starting around $11K (with a rumored ~$20K 512GB config) prompted Flick's line about it "shitting in my oatmeal" and second-guessing that car purchase — and Jilly's deadpan "why don't they just buy an Xbox?" [40:39]. Flick also noted his 2021 GPU is now worth more than he paid, with gamers redirecting their old crypto-mining rage at AI.

[50:33] History rhymes: Adobe then, AI now. The host recalled the uproar when Photoshop first hit and physical artists dismissed digital as garbage; Flick added that his airbrush-painter uncle paid $10–20K for print-grade Macs in the late '80s — making today's AI-capable Macs arguably cheaper, inflation-adjusted. The parallel to current AI-art (and AI-flyer) backlash was the point.

[54:30] Fame updates and thick liquidity. Flick shipped shareable marketplace art pages (indexed by art hash so links survive metadata swaps) and a market-cap calculator. Jilly and Flick then dug into Fame's unusually deep, locked liquidity versus even blue-chip NFTs — and closed on the recurring frustration that searching "fame" on X keeps surfacing rugged copycats [1:00:18].

Topic timeline

Notable quotes

• "Your open AI and Claude Code accounts, I mean, for a lot of people, is probably more valuable than your wallet at this point." — Flick [15:29]
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• "That's so charitable of them, right? Like that means they're not criminals because they only kept, you know, four to six hundred Bitcoin, right?" — Jilly [17:01]
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• "We didn't like look at your sessions… because yeah, you know, we would never do that." — Flick, on OpenAI's denial [29:19]
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• "That is really shitting in my oatmeal… maybe I shouldn't have bought a car, I guess." — Flick, on the M5 Studio price [40:46]
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• "I'm old and lazy… I don't even drive, you know, I let AI drive me around at this point." — Flick [47:06]
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• "Our liquidity is so thick that it actually kinda hurts." — Flick, on Fame [57:17]
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Who said what

• FameLadySociety (host^*: Opened the show, delivered the NFT NYC recap, and drove the AI news roundup (token theft, the Bitcoin heist, Astra/GPT-6, image 2.5).
• Flick (@0xFlick^*: The technical anchor — security guidance, the math-proof and bubble analysis, hardware pricing, Meta's agent framework, and all the Fame marketplace/liquidity updates.
• Jilly (^*: Co-host and foil — kicked off the "nothing burger vs 2030" thread, pressed Flick with the big questions, and carried the Fame liquidity and copycat-search discussion (plus the week's family update).
• Asia (^*: Handled the intro/outro vocals.

Worth a full listen

• [27:59]–[30:47] — The math-proof race is full of nuance (who reached out to whom, why the academic said no, whether the win came from spying vs. training) that a bullet flattens.
• [32:22]–[38:43] — The nothing-burger-vs-doomsday exchange plus the Moore's-law-goes-horizontal tangent is the most fun stretch of tech talk, capped with "bears go home, eat the shorts."
• [50:33]–[52:48] — The Photoshop-then, AI-now parallel, grounded in Flick's uncle paying $20K for a print Mac, is a genuinely good historical frame for the current art-backlash debate.

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