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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.
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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Last Retry Wednesday September 24, 2025 10:28
The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying Wed Sep 24, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
As New York hosts Climate Week NYC ? "the world?s largest climate event" ? the absence of any major global leaders speaks volumes, says Tilak Doshi. Mugged by reality, the Net Zero dream is dying.
The post The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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.
The post Britain’s Judiciary is Biased to its Core appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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.
The post Muslim Who Attacked Koran Burner Hamit Coskun With Knife Spared Jail as Judge Says He “Lost His Temper” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9Joe, I have to wish to represent the FARC as cuddly freedom loving hippies. They are not, they are armed revolutionaries who are fighting what they see as the injustice of the state and the methods they use are those that are always used by those with the small bombs (ie "terrorists") such as the IRA, ETA, PLO, etc. Some agre with their cause but not their methods, some agree with both but anyone with an inkling of the situation in Colombia would know that the people there have good reason to be extremely pissed off with their government. Obviously, when peaceful protest and union organising results in death, some people say, "well fuck this, I'm not waiting around to be killed!", so they form a guerilla army.
In relation to your copied article above, the only evidence linking the deaths to the FARC is the line:
"Authorities blamed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for the murders."
Well, they would, wouldn't they. You should try to back up your allegations with better evidence. In a previous newswire item you tried to slander the author of the piece, avoided answering the allegations (presumably because you know them to be true), then posted something completely unrelated. I would suspect you of being some state sponsored troll except that you're too crap.
Sorry, meant to add link to previous newswire item where joe outdoes himself with the level of his arguement.
All us indymedia users are well acquainted with your views on FARC. Could I ask what your views are on the AUC, the Colombian military and the Colombian Government. Surely their crimes are just as atrocious as those of FARC?
Its hard to decide which side of the resistance to the system are dumber sometimes.the left of the right.
So this is how the Colombian/US governments treat their pals in the right wing paramilitary groups (deniable military allies). Hmmmmm, check out the link.
Someone asked me how I feel about the AUC, the Colombian Army and the Colombian government. I am surprised that these three are linked in this question, but I will answer in any case:
AUC:--murderers, as bad as the FARC
Colombian Army:--had a patchy human rights record, but has improved considerably in recent years. Most armies abuse human rights, see Brits in Ireland, US in Afghanistan etc. Colombian Army no different. Certainly ignorant and outrageous to equate Col Army with those they fight.
Colombian Government: ELECTED DEMOCTRATICALLY, though unattractive in personnel and policies. Bit like FF-PD Coalition in this regard.
Friend Yossarian still hasn't a clue, since he keeps speculating about links between Col Army and paramilitaries. Impossible to convince him, since he doesn't deal in logic and evidence, but here goes anyway. Read this, Yoss:
July 9, 2003 3:30 AM
Colombia kills 16 militiamen in bombing
BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - Colombia's armed forces have killed 16 outlawed far-right gunmen, bombing their convoy as it travelled across cattle ranching savannah, authorities say.
The joint offensive by the army and the air force took place about 85 miles southeast of the nation's capital in a lawless zone
of Meta province disputed by the far-right paramilitaries and Marxist rebels, an army spokesman said.
That's a good word isn't it "Joe"? Maybe it might be better to tell us who "suspects" it was leftists and not one of the many US backed death squads?
I wonder who we can "suspect" of influencing your contributions to Indymedia a "Joe Ranii"?
Do you "suspect" there are any weapons of mass destruction in Colombia?
"Colombian Army:--had a patchy human rights record, but has improved considerably in recent years. Most armies abuse human rights, see Brits in Ireland, US in Afghanistan etc. Colombian Army no different. Certainly ignorant and outrageous to equate Col Army with those they fight."
A) I would seriously question the first line.
B) So the fact that other armies are bastards means that its a-ok for the colombian army to be bastards too?
C) Who gets called in by the bosses every time there is a strike? How may trade unionists are murdered every year in Colombia? How many death threats to trade unionists are sent every year?
D) Democratically elected? Aye, but who the fuck paid for their election campaigns? (Clue, see point C)
As for the Farc, i don't think their tactics will work, and - {{if true}} - i definatley don't agree with their drug racketeering (and by this i mean levying** taxes on drug farmers). But i don't see them as any different from any other army fighting a war of liberation. OK I'd imagine the leadership is corrupt as fuck, but many people join these organisations because they see no alternative. Should we condemn these people for this? No. Who are any of us sitting here in ireland to judge what someone in a rural province 6000 miles away accepts as a means to overthrow the state?
KKKilled for being a trade unionist? Now thats some serious shit. Thats Mafia shit. And who paid for JFKs election...? (Isn't history a wonderful thing?)
** by the way, isnt it strange how everybody forgot about Sandra Levy (murdered intern) in recent times?
should be chandra , not sandra. curse my culchie accent.
also. the basics of this story are that some kids get killed in the jungle. And the govt has convienently blamed it on 'leftist rebels'. Eeeeh, have you ever seen, for example, Deliverance? The world is full of freaks. Now what would the Farc have to gain from butchering some kids? Nothing, unless, of course, they are simply all bloodthirsty depraved lunatics who probably get off on fucking dead boys corpses. (As joe would have us believe).
Joe if you're so committed to 'peace and justice' in Colombia, why don't you post an article every time a trade unionist is killed there?