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offsite link 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.

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
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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.

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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.

offsite link 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

offsite link 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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offsite link The Devil?s Algorithm: Unplugging from the Climate Matrix Thu Oct 02, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
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offsite link News Round-Up Thu Oct 02, 2025 00:41 | 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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Kerry - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

LISTOWEL "No to the Fiscal Treaty"

category kerry | eu | event notice author Tuesday May 08, 2012 11:17author by Josh Report this post to the editors

Public Meeting

Speakers are Vanessa O'Sullivan (People Before Profit) and Martin Ferris TD (Sinn Fein)

Venue: The Three Mermaids, Listowel, Wednsday 9th May @ 8pm.

All Welcome

The Fiscal Treaty is a small document, consisting of 19 points or articles. It was created in December 2011, to act as a control against government spending.

The details boil down to two important articles, Article 3 and Article 4.

Article 3 insists that countries run a balanced budget, with a small lee-way allowed of 0.5%. The definition of a balanced budget is where the state only spends what it takes in in revenue. Obviously, during a recession, a depression, that rule would result in tiny state spending. And that would mean poverty for state employees, and people on social welfare, and pensioners.

Article 4 insists that if government debt exceeds 60% of Gross Domestic Product the excess must be reduced by 5% a year. (Gross Domestic Product refers to the value of all the goods and services produced within a country.) That article would mean that further austerity measures would have to be introduced as state spending would be diverted into paying down the excess of state debt. So not only would we have to endure the cuts that we have done, and are to continue to endure, under the Troika programme, we would have to put up with EU Fiscal Treaty cuts.

The countries that fail to stick to these two rules would be brought into line in three ways. Firstly, they can be “named and shamed” by the EU and be forced to enter a partnership programme with the EU to correct their errors. This can include what are called “structural reforms”. Structural reforms are fundamental changes to a country’s economy, such as the removal of state subsidies; that mite include subsidies to the elderly such as the removal of cheaper electricity, free travel, and medical cards. Secondly, the treaty establishes in each country so-called Fiscal Councils, whose job is to police government spending. Thirdly, and most shockingly, one EU country can take another EU country to the European Court of Justice and charge it with excessive public spending, with the result that the country can be fined 0.1% of its Gross Domestic Product. In this last scenario, we could have a situation where Germany takes Ireland to court and gets us fined.

Running a balanced budget, and paying a price for it if it is wrong, is complicated by the fact that there are different ways of measuring how balanced a country’s budget is, and the different methods therefore give different results. In addition, even using the same method can give wildly different results; for example, in 2007, the IMF announced that the budget balance of Ireland was a surplus of 0.7% of GDP, then they issued a revised figure which stated that the balance was in deficit by 8.7%. If we were to vote Yes to the Fiscal Treaty we would have to go on and insert into our constitution a reference to a difficult-to-establish idea and then to treat this concept as a golden rule.

Where does this madness come from? Yes, some of it comes from Germany; after all, the Germans introduced a balanced budget rule into their constitution in 2009. But more of it comes from the business lobby groups which surround the EU bodies. In the year 2000 the European Round Table of Industrialists stated that they were tired of the powers of the nation-state and wanted different structures to be established at a higher level, that of the EU. Another lobby group, called BusinessEurope demanded that the EU have “greater responsibility in improving economic governance” and called for “strong enforcement mechanisms to ensure compliance”, as well as “a system of gradual penalties and sanctions in the case of repeated indiscipline”. What this represents is a trend towards greater rule through EU organisations and less through national democracies which mite be subject to some degree of popular control or pressure. Angela Merkel commented: “The debt brakes will be binding and valid forever. Never will you be able to change them through a parliamentary majority.”

The balanced budget rule was tried during the 1930s during the Great Depression in the United States. Economist Frederick Hayek said at the time, “We are of the opinion that many of the troubles of the world at the present are due to imprudent borrowing and spending on the part of the public authorities.” President Herbert Hoover agreed, saying, “Nothing is more important than balancing the budget with the least increase in taxes.”. The push for a balanced budget at that time led to tens of thousands of Americans losing their jobs and their homes and being forced to live in tent cities and shanty towns, humorously known as Hoovervilles.

The combined desire of the EU and the world of business to cut government spending is extremely foolish. In a recession private investment in economic activity tumbles. Those businesses and investors with surplus savings or profits hold onto their money instead of injecting it into new business activities. There is an investment strike. Economies stagnate and unemployment rises. That is why people on the Left always advocate government spending programmes on job creation schemes: the state has to step in and take up the slack left by business inactivity. During the American Depression change only began to come about when President Roosevelt increased public spending and gave a stimulus to the economy.

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