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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 >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Friday September 19, 2025 22:22
Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
The post Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >>
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 Friday January 23, 2004 00:01 by BigMac
But is there an Irish party suitable for membership?
In Berlin recently, eleven European leftist and (reformist) communist parties established a new European Party of the Left. On January 11, 2004, 19 European leftist and communist parties met in Berlin to discuss the foundation of a united European Left party (EL), with eleven of these parties agreeing after ten years of discussion and debate to establish it. The remaining eight are to continue as observers, waiting for confirmation from their home countries or considering the founding premature.
The meeting went unreported in the Irish media, most likely due to the fact that there seems to be no party in the country interested in or eligible for membership. This new pan-European party, which is the first of its kind, is undoubtedly far too radical for the Irish Labour Party, and would prove a difficult reformist home for the anti-EU SP, the anti-parliamentary SWP, and the insignificant Communist Party of Ireland. Sinn Féin would hardly be interested and it is unlikely that the other member parties would accept it.
Some statements suggest that membership can occur on a collective or a individual basis, meaning that Irish citizens will be able to join even though no Irish party will be affiliated to the new organisation.
The eleven parties who decided to sign up to the new party have a combined membership of about a half a million. They agreed on a common program and have left the debate on the statute for another meeting to be held in Spring.
In the new program, which will feature in the manifestos of all the eleven founding member parties in the forthcoming European elections, stressed eight main demands:
1. No weapons of mass destruction from the Atlantic to the Urals but rather a Europe of collective security without NATO or any military alliance of the European Union.
2. A redistribution from rich to poor, solidarity, and social policies aimed at full employment and job training, investment in ecology, taxation of capital speculation. People not profits must become central.
3. No attacks on human rights in the name of fighting terrorism but an open Europe with human rights and asylum for refugees.
4. No trade war at the expense of the less developed countries but courageous initiatives for just economic and political partnership.
5. Opposition to the concentration of the media in fewer and fewer hands and a plurality of opinions, information, culture and education with cultural variety, knowledge and information for all.
6. Ecological goals against CO2 emission, export of garbage, the exploitation of energy resources and forests.
7. A rollback of growing sexist discrimination caused by globalization, for equal rights for men and women.
8. A fight against the domination by capital and the rule of capitalism. We want a different culture of life, work, production and distribution.
"We orient ourselves toward the fight for peace, for anti-fascism, anti-racism, democracy, social justice, feminism and ecology. We remain open to all who cannot yet or do not wish to join us. We deeply respect varied forms of cooperation and practice them so our continent becomes more democratic, social and peaceful. "
The reasoning behind the new party was outlined by Lothar Bisky, chair of the host party, Germany's Party of Democratic Socialism : 'The time is ripe for a party of European leftists. A Europe of peace, of justice, of openness and democracy is impossible without a strong visible and self-assured Left. We will be treading new paths and abandoning old models of thought," he said, adding that the party should become more than simply a loose umbrella organization. It should be a party open to varying work methods and to democratic cooperation. The answer as to what kind of Europe the Left wants will be more convincing "if we ourselves demonstrate the answer: democracy, equality, transparency and tolerance are consensus and prerequisite for our alternatives." Not party bureaucracy and party diplomacy, but active engagement in politics, with changes in the everyday life of the people as our goals.
The meeting and the founding of the new alliance or party - unions of rightwing, Social Democratic , Green and other groups in the European Parliament already exist, did not hide sharp differences of opinion on the left in some countries. One of these was in the host country, whose PDS still faces sharp controversy in its ranks about its present course, especially its participation in a coalition with the Social Democratic Party in the Berlin government, involving sharp cuts in social programs in order to stave off bankruptcy.
These parties are (with internet links to English-language websites where possible):
- Austria. Kommunistische Partei Österreichs/Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) www.kpoenet.at/
- Czech Republic. Komunistická strana Čech a Moravy/Communist Party of Bohemia & Moravia (KSČM) www.kscm.cz/index.asp?jazyk=2
and
Strana demokratického socialismu/Party of Democratic Socialism (SDS) www.sds.cz
- Estonia. Estonian Social-Democratic Party (ESDLP) www.esdtp.ee/inglise.htm
- France. Parti communiste français/French Communist Party (PCF) www.pcf.fr
- Germany. Partei des demokratischen Sozialismus/Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) www.sozialisten.de/partei/international/fremdsprachige_dokumente/index.htm
- Greece. ΣΥΝΑΣΠΙΣΜΟΣ/SYNASPISMOS. Coalition of the Left of Movements and Ecology (SYM) www.syn.gr/index/en/enmainframe.htm
- Italy. Partito della Rifondazione Comunista/Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) www.rifondazione.it/pg/internazionale/english.html
- Luxembourg. déi Lénk-la Gauche/The Left. www.dei-lenk.lu
- Slovakia. Komunistická strana Slovenska/Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS) www.kss.sk/anglicky2.php
- Spain. Izquierda Unida/United Left (IZ) www.izquierda-unida.es/
The eight remaining observer parties are:
- Catalonia/Spain: 2 leftwing parties.
- Cyprus: Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL) www.akel.org.cy/English/akel.html
- Czechoslovakia: Czech Communist Party
- Netherlands. Socialistische Partij/Dutch Socialist Party (SP) www.sp.nl/en/
- Norway. Sosialistisk Venstreparti/Norwegian Socialist Left Party (SV) www.sv.no/hvem/english/
- Finland: Vasemmistoliitto/Left Alliance (V) www.vasemmistoliitto.fi/en.html
- Greece: Κομμουνιστικό Κόμμα Ελλάδας/Greek Communist Party (KKE) www.kke.gr/kke_en.html
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