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Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
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This is a public interest story about a complete failure of governance and management at UCC.
Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
Socratic Dialog Between ChatGPT-5 and Mind Agent Reveals Fatal and Deliberate 'Design by Construction' Flaw
This design flaw in ChatGPT-5's default epistemic mode subverts what the much touted ChatGPT-5 can do... so long as the flaw is not tickled, any usage should be fine---The epistemological question is: how would anyone in the public, includes you reading this (since no one is all knowing), in an unfamiliar domain know whether or not the flaw has been tickled when seeking information or understanding of a domain without prior knowledge of that domain???!
This analysis is a pretty unique and significant contribution to the space of empirical evaluation of LLMs that exist in AI public world... at least thus far, as far as I am aware! For what it's worth--as if anyone in the ChatGPT universe cares as they pile up on using the "PhD level scholar in your pocket".
According to GPT-5, and according to my tests, this flaw exists in all LLMs... What is revealing is the deduction GPT-5 made: Why ?design choice? starts looking like ?deliberate flaw?.
People are paying $200 a month to not just ChatGPT, but all major LLMs have similar Pro pricing! I bet they, like the normal user of free ChatGPT, stay in LLM's default mode where the flaw manifests itself. As it did in this evaluation.
AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
Evaluating Semantic Reasoning Capability of AI Chatbot on Ontologically Deep Abstract (bias neutral) Thought
I have been evaluating AI Chatbot agents for their epistemic limits over the past two months, and have tested all major AI Agents, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, for their epistemic limits and their negative impact as information gate-keepers.... Today I decided to test for how AI could be the boon for humanity in other positive areas, such as in completely abstract realms, such as metaphysical thought. Meaning, I wanted to test the LLMs for Positives beyond what most researchers benchmark these for, or have expressed in the approx. 2500 Turing tests in Humanity?s Last Exam.. And I chose as my first candidate, Google DeepMind's Gemini as I had not evaluated it before on anything.
Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
We have all known it for over 2 years that it is a genocide in Gaza
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has finally admitted what everyone else outside Israel has known for two years is that the Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in Gaza
Western governments like the USA are complicit in it as they have been supplying the huge bombs and missiles used by Israel and dropped on innocent civilians in Gaza. One phone call from the USA regime could have ended it at any point. However many other countries are complicity with their tacit approval and neighboring Arab countries have been pretty spinless too in their support
With the release of this report titled: Our Genocide -there is a good chance this will make it okay for more people within Israel itself to speak out and do something about it despite the fact that many there are actually in support of the Gaza
China?s CITY WIDE CASH SEIZURES Begin ? ATMs Frozen, Digital Yuan FORCED Overnight Wed Jul 30, 2025 21:40 | 1 of indy
This story is unverified but it is very instructive of what will happen when cash is removed
THIS STORY IS UNVERIFIED BUT PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO OR READ THE TRANSCRIPT AS IT GIVES AN VERY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT A CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL LOOK LIKE. And it ain't pretty
A single video report has come out of China claiming China's biggest cities are now cashless, not by choice, but by force. The report goes on to claim ATMs have gone dark, vaults are being emptied. And overnight (July 20 into 21), the digital yuan is the only currency allowed.
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Kneecap Terror Case Thrown Out After Legal Blunder Sat Sep 27, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
The terrorism charge against a?Kneecap rapper over his 'support for Hezbollah'?has been dropped after police and prosecutors failed to get the consent of the Attorney General in time.
The post Kneecap Terror Case Thrown Out After Legal Blunder appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Labour Has Turned Britain?s Constables into Commissars Sat Sep 27, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
As yet another scandalous arrest over a tweet shows how Labour has turned Britain's constables into commissars, the public are right to draw a link between this clampdown on speech and 'two-tier Keir', says Laurie Wastell.
The post Labour Has Turned Britain’s Constables into Commissars appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Major Poll Finds Nigel Farage on Track for No 10 With 311 MPs Sat Sep 27, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
A major poll has put Nigel Farage on track to be Britain's next Prime Minister with 311 MPs as Labour is set to lose more than 250 seats and the Tories are pushed into fourth.
The post Major Poll Finds Nigel Farage on Track for No 10 With 311 MPs appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Why the Right Must Take the High Ground When it Comes to Free Speech Sat Sep 27, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
Tempting though it is, Donald Trump and his allies should refrain from trying to cancel their political opponents. Free speech is one of the core values that the defenders of Western civilisation should uphold.
The post Why the Right Must Take the High Ground When it Comes to Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Can the Radical Left Be Trusted With Free Speech? Sat Sep 27, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Can the radical Left ? increasingly wedded to violence to achieve its unpopular ideals ? actually be trusted with free speech, or will it just keep using it to call for and celebrate our deaths, asks Steven Tucker.
The post Can the Radical Left Be Trusted With Free Speech? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21Good spoof. Almost thought you were serious until I read the "Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" bit. And doncha just love the bit about maintaining the dignity of the occasion. Priceless. Nothing like taking the piss out of the grandiose bombastic language these dictators used. Well done, A.D.D.
Given the author I fear it is for real. Now that Kim has passed away (1,000 crocodiles wept) perhaps he could be included in the commemoration.
This would be appropriate on April 1st.
the line of this thread is utterly disgusting-making jokes about the filmed rape and slaughter of a human being no matter who they are is so adolescent it is something who would expect to hear from US soldiers.
about what is disgusting here. I have no time for the US armed forces or other agents of a corporatist/imperialist agenda. I am too well informed and old to think otherwise, however, my comment-I sincerely apologise if it was in bad taste-was a response to the glorification of Ghadaffi. No doubt that the UN/US/Britain has an agenda and cruelly pursued it, however, make no mistake that the enemy of my enemy is not our friend, at least not in this case.
why is it any different to salute the bravery of soldiers in gadaffis army that died bravely in combat than soldiers in any other army that died bravely in combat? They are all doing the same thing. Killing people for money and to keep their governments in power.
So this is as appropriate a use of the garden of rememberance as anything else.
But as the highly conditioned zombie sheep of imperialism we're supposed to think certain wars are special in some way
balderdash.
At least gadaffi helped arm us in our struggle against imperialism. What did the british army ever do for us except kill and oppress us? Why remember troops who fought in their imperialist wars?
When you have a member of your family blown to smithereens by British Forces-as I have-you, if you are mature, learn to despise all war, which I do. Yes, if someone tries to break into my house and kill my family, I will defend myself. Your naive view of the IRA'S noble, anti-imperialist war does not reflect the facts of what started out, in the late 60's, as a rational response to state oppression of catholics, degenerated into thuggery and criminality. Don't give me all that how Ghadaffi was a great supporter of the Irish struggle for freedom crap. Welcome to planet earth, where life is complex and nuanced. Rather than argue about this why not agree that ALL war commemorations be banned and let's celebrate people who work at community level and achieve real things for ordinairy people. They are the heroes.
I still say its time we organised a memorial for the unknown civilian. Too much collateral damage. And the arms industry laughs all the way to the offshore bank cartel.
A full report on this special day can be found at this link: http://tonynicoletti.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/today-we-...ibya/
A video including images and quotes from the above report: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d37NuI0jeV0
Had a peek at your youtube DD - you seem fixated with the dictator Gadaffi. So six or seven dissident republican thugs with a starry plough turned up to your shindig. Well done. But linking the Libyan despot and your mob to Pearse, Connolly etc (true Patriots) is taking the piss! Are you a stand up comic in real life?
It was Libyans who got rid of that thug.
Lybians with the help of thousands of bombardments from NATO, secret services from at least 6 different countries, plus 6,000 Qatar troops. Quite a sovereign movement alright...
When he was alive I used to regard Gadhafi as a bit of a buffoon who 'went native' by living in a heavily guarded tent, and made bombastic speeches about Africa and the imperialst machinations of its enemies. Since the NATO cynical use of the No Fly resolution of the UN and the incompetent and bloody campaign by the rebels I have mixed feelings about the overthrown dictator. I understand that he used a lot of oil revenue to develop the schooling system in his country and to expand the health services. I gather that women improved their lot compared to what happened under previous regimes. I just don't know at the moment if Libyan women and others will get a fair deal under the new administration. I am also not sure if the present government will be able to satisfy the tribal rivalries around the country.
This is a video made by the comrade who wrote the report above: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fclr-EmWHdI&feature=play...edded
After the slavish collaboration of certain degenerate elements in the Irish, so-called, Left, along with certain fake "anti-war" movements (numbering CIA bagmen among their membership), with the racist Nato lynch mobs, it was good to see people who dared to stand up to imperialism and stand by the Green Resistance in Libya. We have received many messages of thanks from our comrades in Libya. It is a great encouragement to them to know that they are not alone. The Libyan people did not leave the Irish people alone in our hour of need. They gave the Irish people the means to defend themselves. The Irish people would show themselves to be spineless curs if we failed to support the Patriots of Libya, as they undertake the great task of defeating the Nato genocidist rats.
Irish republicans didn't give a damn about Libyan people when Giddaffi sent explosives to them on the Marita Ann boat. They didn't give a damn about Irish people either. It was Irish people who were killed.
A good article on Syria, which gives a very clear insight into what has happened in Libya, and why no progressive with half a brain would give any support to this sectarian campaign: http://www.voltairenet.org/Free-Syrian-Army-commanded-by Two slogans of the so called "FSA" : "Every Alawait in his grave, and Christains out of Syria." One thing the article misses in OP is the fact that Qatar are not backing just any Islamists. They are only backing Sunni Islamists. This is primarily a sectarian campaign - against Shia people (the Alawaits are a type of Shia). And that's why Israel and the US are backing these campaigns. The Arab \ Israeli conflict is being replaced with the Sunni \ Shia conflict.
..but I'd second you on that. Yesterdays bombs in Baghdad are from the same Saudi source(mother of all al Qaidas) and play to the racist neo-nazi Zionist strategy of global balkanisation as envisioned by Nazism itself. In short, its just the latest manifestation of the imperial divide and conquer strategy. Hence Gaddafi's AU support had to be binned, as have all chances of Arab unity or Islamic solidarity. Only place it is finally being rolled back is Latin America. Watch THAT space.
..here's a little more of the engineering background http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=28306
Indeed, that is an excellent article Opus. It's well past time that the leaderships of the what's left of the Irish Left put their hands in the air and came clean with their followers. They were seduced and duped by the spectacle of citizens taking to the streets. They totally suspended any critical facility they ever might have had - and ended up supporting crazed racist lynch mobs in Libya - some of whom had been very close to themselves.