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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
This story is not for republication. I bear responsibility for the things I write. I have read the guidelines and understand that I must not write anything untrue, and I won't.
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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RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
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Sarah Mullally Appointed as First Female Archbishop of Canterbury Fri Oct 03, 2025 11:24 | Will Jones
Dame Sarah Mullally has been announced as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, with conservative Anglicans condemning the liberal bishop's appointment as "committing live action, slow-mo (but not that slow) suicide".
The post Sarah Mullally Appointed as First Female Archbishop of Canterbury appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Kemi?s Pledge to Repeal the Climate Change Act Must Be Just the Start Fri Oct 03, 2025 09:00 | Ben Pile
Kemi Badenoch's pledge to repeal the Climate Change Act ? which commits the UK to Net Zero ? must be just the start of the dismantling of the Westminster Uniparty consensus on climate catastrophism, says Ben Pile.
The post Kemi’s Pledge to Repeal the Climate Change Act Must Be Just the Start appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Sceptic | Episode 53: Starmer?s Bizarre Bid to Brand Reform Racist, the Real Danger Posed by Lab... Fri Oct 03, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 53 of the Sceptic: Tom Jones on Keir Starmer's bizarre bid to brand Reform racist, Andrew Orlowski on the real danger posed by Labour's digital ID and Kathryn Porter on the colossal cost of Net Zero.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 53: Starmer?s Bizarre Bid to Brand Reform Racist, the Real Danger Posed by Labour?s Digital ID and the True Cost of Net Zero appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Fri Oct 03, 2025 01:58 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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The WHO Pandemic Accords Consolidate the Power of the Covid Clerisy on a Global Scale Thu Oct 02, 2025 19:07 | Ramesh Thakur
The WHO Pandemic Accords, the first part of which came into effect last month, consolidate the power of the Covid clerisy on a global scale, warns Professor Ramesh Thakur. Expect more of the same.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5This is typical of the Left in general. It is a measure of how navie they can be because in general they totally refuse to believe in any Machevellian motives of the Capitalist powers because that implies a conspiracy and they are totally scared of the consipiracey label and outright refuse to believe in any of any kind.
It is quite simple to manipulate the consensus of the Left because the Capitalist powers just have to use their propaganda machinery -i.e. the state and corporate media to suggest that thinking in a certain way is consipatorial. The Left then immediately falls into line by taking a stance that is opposite.
A really good example is the fact that the Western powers had planned the Libyan campaign at least a year well in advance. In general most of the Left totally denies this. In fact General Wesley Clarke (of NATO) gave an interview at least 5 years ago, in which he outlined the planned theatre of operations and laid out that these would be Libya, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Somilia and Sudan. Funny enough he was spot on. The current rhethoric in the media is to impose a no-fly zone in Syrira and once they bomb the shit out of that, then they have a clear run to Iran, where covert operations have already been extensively under way, including two terrorists attacks recently with explosions at their nuclear facilities.
But returning to the main point, it is the way that the Left goes out of their way to avoid the consipiracy word that they fall into the trap of the Capitalists and thus become their tool and they are then able to use them to convince the fairly large liberal section of the Middle Class that indeed bombing the crap out of various places is in fact the correct and just course of action to take.
Since 2001 the Left has abdicated its moral authority and totally handed it over to the PR machinery of the war-mongers by refusing to address head on the issue of conspiracies.
It should be plain office that all the wars and all the fake terrorists attacks are part and parcel of the whole package. The War on Terror which should be called the War Of Terror is simply a new form of the Class War. The Financial Crisis is really just a Financial Coup d'Etat. This is what the West has done on the Third World since the late 70s and early 80s. It is now been done this us. Yes it has all been planned. Yes it is a conspiracy. And yes the wars, every one of them were planned, and the Arab uprisings were things they were able to tap into and use.
The Left is just too busy trying to make things fit into their theory of the World and how events unfold. One thing they hate to think is that the masses can be manipulated because in all Left theories the masses rise up in revolution. This is the purity of thinking of the Left and while I wish it was true, the fact is that the Capitalist understand the grievances of the masses and are able to foresee and use this and thereby direct these movements to their own needs quite easily. For the Left though this is a sacrosant and really upsets them and they cannot accept that the central feature of where all the hopes and desires lie has been inflitrated and manipulated.
The anonymous introduction to this Other Press article gives the impression that Douglass' piece concerns “some English anarchists’ .......support for Islamic rebels in Libya". From my reading of it ,this is quite the opposite of what the article is supposed to be about . It's almost as if the author of the introduction hadn't read what Dave Douglas had to say beyond the first paragraph .
That first paragraph does indeed talk about ……“ Libyan rebels, many of whom are trying to impose some form of fundamentalist, theocratic Islamic state. ” But Douglass immediately insists in the second paragraph that this should not be the main issue .He wants readers to be “quite clear” that the support given by the "rebels" ,and the likes of anarchist Ian Bone ,to NATO’s military agenda should be the main concern . For Douglass , the Islamic nature and goals of the “rebels” is “almost unimportant” :
“However, let us be quite clear here. The nature of the forces involved and their goals is almost unimportant, compared to the main issue: that of calling for and supporting Nato’s military agenda in Libya”.
Joe you must have some eel DNA. The support for the rebels is mentioned in six other paragraphs of the story. You are relying on people not going to the link to check. Trouble with that is now no one believes a word that you post here.
joe has a specific agenda on this site
to attack imperialism in muslim countries
while defending Islam from "Islamophobes"
I have no problem with the first part but when will joe see that Islam is just another oppressive religion that is actually being used a lot lately by imperialists to achieve their goals.
How did the imperialists topple gadaffi? by sending in their religious nutjob al qaeda operative to lead the "rebels"and arming them and promising to turn a blind eye to the imposition of an islamic state and sharia law in Libya if they play ball regarding the oil.
Useful idiots dying to make the imperialists rich. No gods or masters!
Religion is not necessarily the demon you paint. Its when it goes fundamentalist dogmatic it becomes toxic..whether Christian, Judaic, Muslim ot Hindu..the four that seem most rancid at present. The founders of the universalist religions were trying to elevate the consciousness of their followers beyond local tribal gods and initiate a bigger mindframe, and human perspective. The problem is when the exclusive priesthoods get cemented into place and feel they have a monopoly on the 'one true church'. Atheism itself can lead to a dogmatic rejection of the healthy impulses still exercised and practised by many honest religious individuals, who use their belief systems to understand the world, and particularly to form ethical foundations in what otherwise can be a moral desert of commerce and animal competion. I agree blind belief is psychologically pathological, but most believers, whatever their codes, are not so naive. And the really dangerous fundamentalism at present is the combo of 'muscular Christianity' and Zionist Judaism, which with its imperial crusading totalitarian 'vision' is largely reponsible(along with the Wahabbi Saudis)for driving the reactionary Muslim variety. I've travelled in Islamic countries, and never once encountered anything but tolerance, which is not surprising when you realise Muslims accept the Judaic and Christian theologies as precursors of their own creed. Most people, whatever their overt beliefs, will return respect for respect. And then you have the religious belief in the 'invisible hand of the market', possibly the most fundamentalist and toxic blinder of them all.