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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.
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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.
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
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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
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Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims Sun Nov 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
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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
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8These are just the usual creationist arguments trotted out
again and the so called evidence listed is pure lies.
This posting is simply an attempt to try and get attention
from those elements of the Left who are not so knowledge on
science and will happily fall for the ploy that this is pushed
by Capitalist and therefore worth getting suckered into the
creationist argument.
Science while in those areas touched by money has been
corrupted, but otherwise in general works well and is
always utimately validated against nature itself and
not someone's political agenda.
Please save us from these futile reglious debates.
In the same way that God is unproveable, so to is evolutionary theory. Mabye the truth consists of a combination of both. Unproveable regardless.
Terry if you say the "evidence listed is pure lies" - that is quite a bland comment. Can you state how each individual piece of argument is a pure lie.
What's next, an astrology column? Posts about the giant lizards that rule the world? Warnings that the end is nigh?
This kind of uninformed, ignorant crap doesn't belong on here.
Be it Daivd Icke, Timeshares, Pyramid Schemes, Scientology or this rubbish there will always be the ignorant (easily seperated from their money) to listen to this crap.
And it dosen't have any place here. The author can take his/her/lizardself up to those head cases on middle abbey steet. And tell them they can shove their personality test up their ass.
I usually have to bit my lip when I read this site because of the usual rantings of anarchists trying to persuade us to abandon government and live in trees in communes, or socialists trying to convince us that Leninist dictatorships are better than democracies, but this evolution debate is just taking the piss. What next, is evolution a CIA conspiracy designed to get us all working in McDonalds by 2010? Grow up.
A variety of people trawl these Indymedia sites posting a variety of views.
I very much doubt the person who wrote this is an anarchist, alot of divergant groups use Indymedia to espouse their views. Whether they are crack pot or not. Conversatives, Anti Semites, Anarchists, pro Israeli, Pro Capitalism and Anti Capitalist groups post stories.
My favourite is the guy who suggested all the World gold reserves should be melted down and used to build a Golden Temple in Bethelhem, so all the peoples of the earth come together and worship god.
#1. Yes there are, this is a lie. For example since Darwin's day thousands of transitional forms have been found. By all means this does not amount to a complete record of all transitions but this can be explained by a number of factors, primarily 1) that climatic conditions in some epochs were not conducive to the preservation of fossils and 2) that evolution is now understood to be a process that does not occur at a uniform rate, instead large leaps seem to occur during periods of environmental change when a large number of transitional forms occur in a relatively short amount of time (geologically speaking), rendering it extremely improbable that fossils of these short lived forms will survive.
#2. The concept of a 'Higher order' is hocus pocus mysticism. Evolution of the brain and intelligence is 100% consistent with evolution.
#3. What happens is by its definition a possibility of the natural world. The theory of DNA resulting from a cosmic soup of amino acids is entirely possible. Who ever said that matter came from nothing? I think you've just made this up. And as for one type of animal (man) evolving from another type of animal, what evidence do you have to call this impossible.
#4. All of the palaeontologists are in a giant conspiracy to pretend that hominid fossils exist showing markedly different bone formations than modern man? Puhleez!
#5. Says who? Again these hominids show clear evolutionary differences from the great apes and from modern man. Man is just another of the great apes, what is ape and what is man is just a matter of where you draw your classification line, it is meaningless in itself. The important things is that these species show clear and distinct differences from all modern life forms.
#6 Oh yeah, Neanderthals are fully modern humans, it's just that all of the surviving fossils come from deformed humans who had strangely shaped skulls, stunted postures and eyebrow ridges.
#7. Bullshit. Natural selection is a beautiful and powerful theory. The theory is simple yet powerful enough to account for all known evidence of life on this planet. There are no known inconsistencies with the theory per se.
#8. You're just restating the bullshit from #7, call this evidence?!
#9. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. So countless different strata of rocks, each of which, according to geologists, must have formed over millions of years, can be best explained by a flood?????
Really you creationists should not bother with this science thing, keep to your mysticism and don't go wasting our time. The thing is that religion never really got over the theory of evolution, which basically says that the entire history of life, from the first microbe to the human being, is explicable without assuming the existence of god. So, in explaining all life on this planet, we can say that 'god is a hypothesis that we have no use of', thus, with a nod to Occam, we can assume that god does not exist.
What about extinct species? God's little mistakes? God testing our faith? what nonsense.
And I've never met an anarchist who disputed the theory of evolution, even the nutty primitivists who call themselves anarchists don't dare question evolution. In fact I'd say that Darwin's theory of natural selection would be one of the favourite theories of anarchists, most admired for it's simplicity and power. Kropotkin, the famous anarchist from the late 19th century, even wrote an entire book on evolution, called 'mutual aid', outlining how evolution tends to favour those species which evolve the ability to best cooperate through mutual aid. The bulk of Kropotkin's work on evolution remains unchallenged to this day, as far as I know.