Fame Ladies on Top — Ep. 119: "Fame Ladies on Top" feat. Asia, Jilly & Flick

Kicking off her segment, Asia (@byasiaminor)^* covered Midjourney V8.2's push toward realism and personalization, and made the case that ChatGPT's image generator now "kills it" on text — while noting she never takes raw output straight out, using it as inspiration to build a real comp in Photoshop.

Citing an Artsy survey of 300+ gallery pros, Asia noted most gallery artists aren't using AI to create, but 60% of galleries report artists using it for ideation and rendering — much like Diego Rivera photographing scenes to sketch his murals.

Flick (@0xFlick)^* drew the synth-and-drum-machine parallel — music once dismissed, now beloved — and expanded it: every groundbreaking medium, from photography to digital tablets, meets traditionalist pushback before it's absorbed.

The room lit up over a report that Anthropic's Dario Amodei worried new hires joined "for the pay." Asia's incredulous riff — do these people not need to eat dinner, and why is he fretting about payroll instead of "creating something that doesn't kill us all" — was the comic peak of the AI news block, capped with a vow to never pay for Claude out of spite.

Flick's big build update: an immutable marketplace tied to the existing FAME contracts, in final testing. Stake a Fame Lady NFT and earn a share of purchase fees; unrevealed NFTs become buyable at a ~5% premium (1,050,000 FAME) payable in FAME, USDC or ETH; and you can finally pick exactly which FAME token to liquidate without the old "side wallet" dance. His summary: "Fame is money." 26:30

Flick's centerpiece — a clear, patient explanation of how a firmware update accidentally swapped a hardware RNG for Python's insecure random generator, shrinking the seed space until attackers could brute-force addresses and drain ~600 BTC in two blocks. A genuinely sad event, he stressed, hitting people who'd stacked for years and done nothing wrong. He then noted the flip side: anyone who used a Cold Card passphrase may be able to use the same exploit to recover their own coins. 45:00

When Bitcoin's technical leaders needed to analyze the hack, US labs refused on guardrail grounds, so the new AI Red Team Bitcoin turned to Chinese open-weight models — now scanning the whole Bitcoin codebase and reporting vulnerabilities. Flick's takeaway: "China knows what's up." 41:16

On MiniMax H3, trained on a mountain of US copyrighted characters, Asia deadpanned that they "must have had their licensing papers in order" — Flick's laughing rebuttal landed the segment's second big laugh, followed by predictions of incoming American lawsuits.

Flick's tour of the 24-hour Google Earth × nano banana 2 experiment — pulled after users mostly generated destruction imagery — and the pointless futility of removing it when anyone can just screenshot and paste into nano banana anyway.

Jilly (@JillyRappaport)^* delivered the emotional finish: the vault at 106 Ladies en route to 200, a fresh 5-Lady donation from Jeremy, council-member versions from the Honeys/FLSoc Seasons collections headed to the vault, and OG artist Nex donating his "fired up" music token — meaning all his future music flows to the vault. Her frame: a community-owned project where "no one owns anything… this is us."