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AI and the Paranoid Classroom, by @JDMadden3 open.substack.com/pub/jdmadden/p…

It's been a longtime coming, but @JaredZimmerer and I have finally gotten around to discussing Nietzsche's notion of the Overman. youtu.be/9ncxzNGOlbs?si… open.spotify.com/episode/5M3Thw…

@JDMadden3 and I dive into Nietzsche’s essay on the ways in which history can either build or destroy a culture. This was a fun one. youtu.be/Ov4UJj5ndZM?si… open.spotify.com/episode/57Spaj…

@kellychasemedia Thanks Kelly!

What if the real problem with AI in education isn’t cheating—but how we’ve defined learning? James Madden argues that our obsession with correctness, surveillance, and control is creating the very conditions that make chatbots irresistible. And the cure might be… learning how to be wrong again. Worth your time. 👇

@@JaredZimmerer and I are coming back hard on the GDB with Nietzsche and the deceptions of language. youtu.be/0gQD1_P3DM4?si… open.spotify.com/episode/0URJFk…

@kellychasemedia @EKaretny I guess there are worse ways to spend a Friday night. 😉

@JDMadden3 @EKaretny Will read it tonight! We gotta catch up soon.

Virtually every path of inquiry that I’ve taken with regard to the UFO phenomenon has brought me back to the same topic—mind control. The bedrock of all of this, in the realm of both the human and the non-human, is the systematic shaping of belief systems at the individual and the cultural level. The control mechanism is not esoteric or abstract. It’s very real. I’m going to be writing and speaking about that a lot more this year.

@kellychasemedia @EKaretny Thanks Kelly!!!!! Speaking of mind control: open.substack.com/pub/jdmadden/p…

@EKaretny @JDMadden3 Madden is the GOAT.

Stranger Things in the Heartland of the Real, by @JDMadden3 open.substack.com/pub/jdmadden/p… Stranger Things? Tim McVeigh? Kurt Cobain? Oh my! @BirdWendy2

#Philosophy has no single map or finish line. Where would you start if there were no rules to follow? — Insight shared by James Madden at our Leeways of Philosophy conference in Puerto Rico. Stay tuned for more from the sessions. #PhilosophyOfOrientation #PlayingWithFire

@JohnGBrungardt First in a small field! 😂

@JDMadden3 To be fair, I already know the best book on the epistemology of UFO’s!

What are the best books, from or amenable to a Catholic perspective, on the philosophy of technology, written in the past 50 years? Not just the ethics of technology—that’s too narrow. Thoughts?

Given our recent episodes, current events, and my going obsession with work by our fellow commentators on the spectacle, @BirdWendy2 and @fourthreichpod, @JaredZimmerer can't keep this episode behind the paywall any longer! open.spotify.com/episode/4YfRUx… youtu.be/HOT4E7JfyDA?si…

@KrysDevine @JaredZimmerer Are you moding me?

@JDMadden3 @JaredZimmerer You are the coolest! 😎

The Sadism-masochism dialectic as the inner truth of authoritarianism and mass hypnosis as the underpinning of consumer society - this week @JaredZimmerer and I continue to learn a great from Fromm. youtu.be/A22sf641Pxk?si… open.spotify.com/episode/3CWobO…

@KrysDevine @JaredZimmerer We are proud contributors to @KrysDevine's infinite abyss of synchronicity.

Continuing my “accidental” 😂 synchronous contact with @JDMadden3’s podcast yesterday (see previous tweet)… I’ve had a slight cold this week and dozed off. My YouTube “accidentally” 😉 played THIS episode. After I posted, I accidentally found the podcast again. But honestly — it just came up in my feed out of nowhere. As I drifted in and out of sleep, pieces of the conversation kept sliding into my consciousness. Then they start talking about S&M and I’m like: “Holy crap — THIS!!” That whole discussion about wanting to feel pain rather than nothing in today’s world… 😭🤼‍♂️ It hit hard. Then the reference to Heavy Metal music and the theme of PAIN by @JaredZimmerer — a genre I haven’t really listened to since the 80s — also lands in that weirdly perfect, synchronistic way. Fast-forward an hour after I wake up… A brand-new @Aerosmith album drops onto my YouTube feed. Out of nowhere. Cool — but I mostly listen to country??? How is Heavy Metal 🎸 showing up for me? And then I find out my favorite country singer, @laineywilson, is collaborating on the album. Wild Woman. And the lyrics? I don’t wanna be alone So hurt me some more… The synchronicities lately are unreal. music.apple.com/us/album/wild-… I need obvious messages from the universe. 👽💚🤔👀🎸

@KrysDevine @KrysDevine, you're one of the few who can out GenX me. You're a true gangsta.

😂 Dang …I’m Moded! 🫠 Lol! Nice catch. There are no accidents. 👽💚👀 For those too young to know what ‘Moded’ means (including @JDMadden3), here’s a little throwback! Source (Chat GPT) ✅ 1980s Slang Usage In California youth slang, “Moded!” was a popular taunt meaning: •“In your face!” •“Busted!” •“You got embarrassed!” Variants included: •Moded •Molded •Moted (your word!) Kids would shout it when someone got proven wrong, failed a joke, got caught, or lost a playful back-and-forth. It was often used jokingly, not cruelly, like a light roast among friends. This is documented by slang historians who note that “Moded, molded, and moted” were all used interchangeably as expressions for being proven wrong or humiliated in a playful way. 🎯 Example How It Was Used Someone drops their ice cream? ➡️ “Haha! Moted!” Someone tries to insult you but stumbles over the words? ➡️ “Oooh, moded!” Someone talks big and gets proven wrong? ➡️ “Bro, you’re moted.” 🧩 Why It Sounds Familiar This slang shows up in memories of kids from California, Arizona, and even parts of New Mexico during the 1980s and early ’90s. It faded after that, so it’s one of those “if you know, you know” regional generational slang terms. If you remember people saying it on the playground, at school, or among siblings — your memory is spot on. Have you heard “Moded” before?

Accidentally discovered that Dr. James Madden @JDMadden3 — philosopher, author of Unidentified Flying Hyperobject, professor, and friend of the UAP community — has a podcast!! I may be late to the game (again 😅) but I’m thrilled now. If you crave deep thinking, real dialogue, and practical wisdom, give “The Great Dangerous Books” podcast a follow! 🎧 youtube.com/playlist?list=… Description Below ⬇️

@JaredZimmerer Think of Fromm's identification of the inner connection between masochism and sadism in the authoritsrian personality. 🤔

These “catholic bros” so concerned about a woman’s place are operating from a place of insecurity. The minute the leader of any institution has to remind people who’s boss, they’ve already lost the respect of those in their care. Leaders know they don’t know everything.