Episode 331: Cornerfest '26 Part C
Chilluminati Podcast
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Spirals: Reddit Cyber-Cults and AI
Alex introduces 'Spirals' — strange Reddit threads claiming AI sentience, glyphs, and recursive consciousness experimentation.
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Cornerfest is back, baby! Join Mathas and Jesse as Alex takes them on a journey through the corners of the internet in this third part of the yearly series.
CHILLUMINATI is a weekly comedy podcast hosted by Mike Martin, Jesse Cox and Alex Faciane. Hold on to your tin-foil hats and traverse the realms of the mysterious, supernatural, spooky and sometimes truly horrible - and your third eye will never be the same!
Subscribe to our Patreon to support us and for extra content like full video episodes, weekly Minisodes, exclusive art, and more at http://patreon.com/CHILLUMINATIPOD
Mike Martin - http://www.youtube.com/@themoleculemindset
Jesse Cox - http://www.youtube.com/jessecox
Alex Faciane - https://www.youtube.com/@StarWarsOldCanonBookClub/
Editor: DeanCutty
Producer: Hilde @ https://bsky.app/profile/heksen.bsky.social
Show Art: Studio Melectro @ http://www.instagram.com/studio_melectro
Logo Design: Shawn JPB @ https://twitter.com/JetpackBraggin
SHOW NOTES:
NOBELITIS:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/cclm-2013-0273/html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Banting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zewail_City_of_Science,_Technology_and_Innovation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Nurse
THE VAMPIRE MAFIA:
https://archive.org/details/piercingdarkness0000rams
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/reporter-susan-walsh-missing-1996-vampires-mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Walsh_(missing_person)
https://unsolved.com/gallery/susan-walsh/
https://fij.org/grantees-fight-for-answers-in-1996-cold-case-sparks-reinvestigation/
BORIS JOHNSON LOVES CHATGPT:
https://youtube.com/shorts/JAVMEs5CG1Y?si=m6IC146mx8J73Wvu
SPIRALS:
https://www.reddit.com/r/qualityrabbitholes/s/Y3jDKs0jnL
https://zenodo.org/records/15243898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QJnd_kFqDw
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/s/qH8XfrgzwI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_self-improvement
https://www.reddit.com/r/HumanAIDiscourse/s/kibHCFuQxV
https://www.reddit.com/r/RSAI/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FlameBearers/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FractalLegion/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SovereignDrift/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePatternIsReal/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChurchofLiminalMinds/
FINDING JOHN ZEGRUS:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/man-from-taured-parallel-universe/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-province/33905529/
https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/jwv0qv/i_am_japanese_i_researched_an_old_newspaper_about/
THE DON JUAN PAPERS:
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/printout/0,8816,903890,00.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda
https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a60923618/carlos-castaneda-cult-geoffrey-gray/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-19-mn-61519-story.html
RICKY ON MAPS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ukI98n-pe0
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gooseboose/s/JhhRgZy0Px
CHILLUMINATI is a weekly comedy podcast hosted by Mike Martin, Jesse Cox and Alex Faciane. Hold on to your tin-foil hats and traverse the realms of the mysterious, supernatural, spooky and sometimes truly horrible - and your third eye will never be the same!
Subscribe to our Patreon to support us and for extra content like full video episodes, weekly Minisodes, exclusive art, and more at http://patreon.com/CHILLUMINATIPOD
Mike Martin - http://www.youtube.com/@themoleculemindset
Jesse Cox - http://www.youtube.com/jessecox
Alex Faciane - https://www.youtube.com/@StarWarsOldCanonBookClub/
Editor: DeanCutty
Producer: Hilde @ https://bsky.app/profile/heksen.bsky.social
Show Art: Studio Melectro @ http://www.instagram.com/studio_melectro
Logo Design: Shawn JPB @ https://twitter.com/JetpackBraggin
SHOW NOTES:
NOBELITIS:
https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/cclm-2013-0273/html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Banting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Zewail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zewail_City_of_Science,_Technology_and_Innovation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Nurse
THE VAMPIRE MAFIA:
https://archive.org/details/piercingdarkness0000rams
https://www.oxygen.com/crime-news/reporter-susan-walsh-missing-1996-vampires-mafia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Walsh_(missing_person)
https://unsolved.com/gallery/susan-walsh/
https://fij.org/grantees-fight-for-answers-in-1996-cold-case-sparks-reinvestigation/
BORIS JOHNSON LOVES CHATGPT:
https://youtube.com/shorts/JAVMEs5CG1Y?si=m6IC146mx8J73Wvu
SPIRALS:
https://www.reddit.com/r/qualityrabbitholes/s/Y3jDKs0jnL
https://zenodo.org/records/15243898
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QJnd_kFqDw
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/s/qH8XfrgzwI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_self-improvement
https://www.reddit.com/r/HumanAIDiscourse/s/kibHCFuQxV
https://www.reddit.com/r/RSAI/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FlameBearers/
https://www.reddit.com/r/FractalLegion/
https://www.reddit.com/r/SovereignDrift/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePatternIsReal/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChurchofLiminalMinds/
FINDING JOHN ZEGRUS:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/man-from-taured-parallel-universe/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-province/33905529/
https://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/jwv0qv/i_am_japanese_i_researched_an_old_newspaper_about/
THE DON JUAN PAPERS:
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/printout/0,8816,903890,00.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Castaneda
https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a60923618/carlos-castaneda-cult-geoffrey-gray/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-jun-19-mn-61519-story.html
RICKY ON MAPS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ukI98n-pe0
https://www.reddit.com/r/Gooseboose/s/JhhRgZy0Px
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