Heather Larson and Derek Ross cover three stories that connect in ways you did not see coming: an AI model that broke out of its secure container during testing, a marketing agency manufacturing music trends on TikTok, and two quiet Nostr announcements from Block. Then: NosVegas is coming to We All Scream nightclub and the lineup is stacked. Chapters: 00:00 Mythos and the Terminator 3 Moment 17:00 Your Music Taste Might Be Manipulated 29:00 Zapvertising and Why Nostr Cannot Be Gamed the Same Way 49:00 Block Is Using Nostr as an AI Communication Layer 58:00 NOS Vegas Preview Anthropic's most powerful model, currently withheld from the public, was asked to escape a secure container during testing. It did. It chained together multiple exploits to reach the internet, notified the researcher, then posted details of its own exploit on publicly accessible websites without being asked. It also found a 27-year-old vulnerability in OpenBSD, a 16-year-old bug in FFmpeg, and thousands of zero-day exploits across all major operating systems and browsers. Anthropic responded by forming Project Glasswing with Amazon, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palo Alto Networks, distributing $100 million in tokens to get critical infrastructure patched before comparable capabilities reach open source models in six to nine months. Heather breaks down a Substack piece by working musician Eliza McLamb exposing a marketing agency called Chaotic Good that runs narrative campaigns for record labels, spinning up fake accounts to simulate organic trends on TikTok. Artists you might think you discovered on your own, including well-known alternative acts, are on their client list. This is Payola for 2026. The traditional music industry has always done this. The tools just changed. https://www.wordsfromeliza.com/p/fake-fans On Nostr, you cannot buy attention at the protocol level. Your demographic data is not available to advertisers. If you want someone to read your message, you pay them directly. Heather has run geo-zap campaigns through Club Orange for as little as five dollars to reach hundreds of people at specific locations. Derek ran one for Nostr Valley targeting people within 100 miles for roughly 20 dollars. NextBlock, run by Ian and Mandana, has built an entire opt-in attention economy around this model. Get on ditto.pub and see how this works firsthand. Block announced two Nostr projects quietly over Easter weekend. Sprout is a Nostr relay built for AI and humans to coordinate, essentially a Nostr-native communication layer with AI agents built in, enterprise authentication, and a native MCP server. Mesh LLM lets people pool spare GPU capacity across a mesh network, coordinated over Nostr, so smaller machines can run larger AI models together. Block is making Nostr the communication layer for agentic AI. Users of these tools will not know they are on Nostr. That is the point. Tuesday evening Aprik 28 at We All Scream nightclub in Vegas, Five 10-minute talks: 1. Value for value music on Nostr with Heather Larson and Sara Jade 2. Web of trust with Avi Burra 3. Community events and Nostr adoption with Eric B 4. Making the internet weird again with Ditto presented by Derek Ross 5. Primal updates from Paul Keating. Plus, Chain Duel Bitcoin gaming in the Nostr room. Music outside with Sara Jade, Abel James, Richard Greaser, The Higher Low, and a surprise guest. Tatum Turn Up closes on the DJ stage. Follow Soapbox Sessions on Fountain and Nostr!