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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. The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
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
Waiting for SIPO Anthony Public Inquiry >>
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News Round-Up Wed Sep 24, 2025 01:05 | 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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Britain?s Judiciary is Biased to its Core Tue Sep 23, 2025 20:08 | Dr David McGrogan The Court of Appeal overturned the closure of Epping's migrant hotel because Britain's judiciary is biased to its core, says Dr David McGrogan. The Right must get to grips with this problem ? and fast.
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Muslim Who Attacked Koran Burner Hamit Coskun With Knife Spared Jail as Judge Says He ?Lost His Temp... Tue Sep 23, 2025 17:08 | Will Jones The Muslim man who attacked Koran-burning protester Hamit Coskun with a knife has been spared jail after the judge said he "lost his temper". Hamit, meanwhile, remains in hiding, as concerns about two-tier justice grow.
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The Exaltation of the Cross Tue Sep 23, 2025 15:00 | Chris Larkin Church leaders are too quick to condemn Tommy Robinson and the Unite the Kingdom march, says Chris Larkin. We don't know what Jesus would have made of our politics, but we can?t just assume he?d have been a Lib Dem voter.
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Council Insists Women Be Called ?People With Ovaries? Tue Sep 23, 2025 13:27 | Will Jones Bristol City Council has been accused of offending women with "virtue-signalling madness" after insisting that women be called "people with ovaries" and claiming that defining sex as biological "misgenders trans people".
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Wednesday January 18, 2012 17:35 by Cathal Larkin - Cork Against Fascism - personal capacity

From this week's UCC Express, the Newspaper of Cork University. It doesn't have an online edition. “If we, as a modern society, don’t believe in free speech for those whom we disagree with, then perhaps it should be questioned whether we believe in free speech at all”, wrote Chair of the Government and Politics Society, Ben English, in a recent letter to the Irish Times. This was after the Society proved their uncompromising commitment to free speech by inviting British fascist Nick Griffin to a debate in UCC. Of course there are many other, far more interesting, ways the Politics Society could demonstrate that commitment. They could hold a talk on control of the media, or invite a speaker from a marginalised group. Or to understand more about fascism and the rise of far-right parties across Europe, they could host a discussion among experts in the field.
Instead, the Society decided British National Party leader, Nick Griffin, is the man to spend the university’s money on. A contributing factor was hardly the desire for an intellectually stimulating evening, but him being an idiot most people disagree with is not a reason to oppose the debate happening. Nor is the fact that he has two convictions for racial hatred, denies the holocaust and is homophobic to the point of celebrating the bombings of gay bars. Neither should he be stopped speaking because his party have likened rape to being force-fed chocolate cake. To give a platform to someone who holds such views obviously shows terrible judgement on the part of those who invited him; but if these were the only issues, it would be better to just ignore the debate. Griffin and his party, however, don't just hold racist, misogynistic and homophobic views, but are also fascist organisers and the event will be used for fascist organising. This is the key reason why we should all pressure the university to cancel it.
Since the 1930s, Ireland has been luckily free of fascist street violence; however Britain has not. There we see a direct correlation between areas of BNP strength and racially motivated attacks. If you walk a little bit camp or are not white where the BNP have a gang organised, you are at serious risk of vicious assault. A few months ago The Sunday World published two stories revealing, thanks to an undercover reporter, that the BNP are trying to get a foothold in Ireland and already have in the country a network of contacts. While we are yet to see visibly active fascist gangs, “Keep Ireland White” and other racist stickers do intermittently appear on street poles showing there is a far-right presence.
Fascist organising at the February debate of course won’t happen with Griffin passing around a sign-up sheet, or from the platform inviting any wannabe fascists to a private meeting. Rather, organisers in the crowd will approach people who seemed impressed by Griffin after the meeting. And from that the nucleus of a ‘beat the snot out anyone who’s not white or straight’ gang could be formed. Alternatively, Griffin’s presence in the city could be used online to organise a private gathering of fascists.
“No no”, the Politics Society would no doubt respond, “Griffin’s views will be robustly challenged by the other speaker and from the floor, and the strength of our rational arguments will leave him looking ridiculous.” Not to question the quality of the arguments, and their most likely brilliant delivery; but the Politics Society don’t understand how fascism attracts people. It’s not like someone comes home from work one day and says to their wife, “honey, I’m thinking of becoming a homophobic racist, tonight I'll go to the university and check out the Nick Griffin debate to see how well these ideas stand up to rational scrutiny.” When the BBC had Griffin on Question Time in 2009, he was predictably made to look like an idiot by smarter people, but the party still grows. Modern fascism is the product of severe social exclusion and a sense of total powerlessness in an alienating, subjugating world. To think it can be stopped with a well held debate is delusional, risky, and irresponsible.
Nonetheless, Society chair Ben English thinks: “Freedom of speech is not, nor should it ever be subjective”. The BNP have a website and an online TV channel, but English seems to conceptualise free speech as the right to speak at a UCC debate, and then puts his dubiously constructed conception above people’s safety. That is of course, other people’s safety, as it's probably safe to assume that not many of the Politics Society's members live in the kind of marginalised areas where fascists usually organise. It’s revealing to note how university societies so often invite fascists to debates but never invite, for example, a supporter of a group like Al Qaeda. Obviously the threat that a small group of ruthless and organised terrorists pose to innocent people is recognised. To which innocent people is quite unpredictable, unlike with the group assaults delivered by fascists. The predictable victims of their attacks pay the price for the Government and Politics Society's irresponsibility.
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