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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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30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do Sun Nov 23, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
Thirty Left-wing MPs have written to Ofcom to press it to censor X under the Online Safety Act. The evidence of 'hate' on the platform is threadbare, but it's obvious why they want to clip its wings, says Laurie Wastell.
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Exposed: How Green ?Philanthropy? Writes Scripts for Ulez ?Clean Air? Activists Sun Nov 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile highlights the work of Charlotte Gill exposing how green 'philanthropy' gives scripts to activists pushing 'clean air' schemes like Ulez as blatant proxies for the climate agenda.
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News Round-Up Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | Will Jones
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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British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
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Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6This is a clear mandate fro the students to push ahead with more militant tactics.
The CFE should now seriously step up fight against fees. There should be no compromises with so called "class reps" that oppose the CFE on the SU Council.
The CFE should put forward their own programme for militant action against fees and tell all unrepresentative SU hacks to fuck off.
Well done . Your poll just prove's that people don t like paying for things. No shit people would rather get free college then pay for it.You must be learning a lot in UCD. Well done
If you ask train/bus users 100% of them would like to see free train/bus. Why should the tax payer pay for you to go to college when it's the student that will benefit in the long term?
that public transport should be free
=so you jump the barrier.
that education should be free
=so you join a library /attend seminars / sneak into lecture halls. [remember a university just accredits study with examination and "degree"]
and if you are capable of teaching = you do so.
if however the students want to better their lives and those of the wider community they should widen their anti-education fees campaign, as has been suggested to them.
That would mean "militant" (????ŋ?) student action against the subversion of educational institutions by multi-national corporations many of whom have launched educational services "to bolster or compete directly" with state sponsered education.
It also might be worth pointing out that most students are wasting their time and actually hindering the prospects of "postive individuation" and developement of their abilities by being in institutions like UCD in the first place. So I really canīt agree with Luke (who thinks Iīm an asshole anyway) that the only people who benefit are the students.
Arts students learn nothing and just go on to become unhappy twenty something year olds wondering why they didnīt get a "proper" job. Or they go back to the institution and pursue postgraduate qualifications so they can go on pereptuating the whole charade.
Agricultural students and they are a fearsome lot in UCD no(?) learn very little that couldnīt be learnt in a similar length of time on a farm, not always the same farm, they could wander from farm to farm for four years no?
Science students now maybe they can justify the four years spent in UCD, and afterwards having actually learnt something they mostly go and get jobs with multi-national-corporations.
Free and wider access to third level education went from being a "wish" to a "right" by an emergent post 1960īs european and lately Irish middle class.
That class developed to meet the employment demands of post war european reconstruction.
We no longer need such a class, so I see no reason why so much effort is put into its preservation by young fine minds.
We ought to be rethinking the purpose of education and indeed its timing. The notion of forcing youngsters at their most maleable and impressionable age through such formidable conditioning worries me greatly.
If students donīt want to pay fees, very well.
Neither did I, I was a scholarship student.
But if students really want to be worthy of education then they must think deeply on its significance and wider social effects.
...........manners maketh man..............
...........mol na oige is tiocfaidh siad...
Yeah, opposition to GATS and so on has always been something which the left have tried to make relevant to people, and especially in the context of college activism, something leftist students have tried to make an issue within the colleges.
However, it is quite difficult to fight the abstraction that is GATS, without any root in reality. In UCD, with the opening of the new Commerce building all the no-logo-esque descriptions of educational institutes taking on the appearance of malls, theatres sponsered by Unilever and AIB, the Smurfit school of business, the Fergal Quinn school of busines and Tony O'Reilly hall. In UCD we have it all in a concreted reality. The re-introduction of fees despite the governments attempts to provide a justification in arguments about wealth redistribution, has to be placed in a wider context and that is part of a wider process of attacks on education, and most fundamentally on the provision of public services. If fees are an attempt to create a situation which facilitates easy privatisation and increased interference from the private sector in public education, then the most effective way to resist this changing nature of education is through action against fees.
Nice ideas iosaf but unfortunately in this capitalist world most of us need to work to eat, and we need access to univesities and the accredetation for same reason. We can't all afford to live in squats, some people have families. Congratulations to CFE again.