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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.
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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
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National Trust Puts Vegan Tampons in Men?s Toilets Fri Oct 10, 2025 17:28 | Will Jones
The National Trust is under fire for putting vegan tampons in men's lavatories, dispensing them from a large box fixed to the wall near the urinals with the message: "Got a period situation going on? We got you."
The post National Trust Puts Vegan Tampons in Men’s Toilets appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
BREAKING: Hamit Coskun?s Conviction for Burning Quran Overturned by Crown Court Fri Oct 10, 2025 14:13 | Will Jones
Hamit Coskun's criminal conviction for burning a copy of the Quran while shouting "f*** Islam" in a protest outside the Turkish consulate in London has been overturned by the Crown Court in a victory for free speech.
The post BREAKING: Hamit Coskun’s Conviction for Burning Quran Overturned by Crown Court appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
It?s Time to Make Judges Accountable Again Fri Oct 10, 2025 13:26 | Dr David McGrogan
Nearly 80% of Britain's 'Establishment' is Left-wing. No wonder our 'independent' judges keep making lunatic decisions. It's time they were made accountable to voters once again, says Dr David McGrogan.
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Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump was today snubbed by Nobel Peace Prize judges ? who instead awarded the prize to a Venezuelan politician ? despite the President bringing peace to the Middle East.
The post Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails Fri Oct 10, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The technocrats are falling across the West as their ideology founders on reality. The cracking of the Net Zero consensus, like the end of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, is a moment of hope, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
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Jump To Comment: 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Marx wasn't an authoritarian.
"Today the socialist movement internationally is divided into various currents, many of which are retreating from Marxist politics"
Maybe that should read 'today the revolutionary movements ... are abandoning and even fighting Marxist politics" Face it, that authoritarian shit just doesn't have a future.
After all the lessons of the past just who do you think is going to fight to have a new, more vicious boss class rule over them?
social democracy, stalinism, leninism, trotskyism ... just so many names for oppression.
Could I just ask, perhaps it is irrelevant and rude, but what is this 'regroupment' actually planning to do?
How can anyone say that China isn't relevant? One billion people live there, one sixth of the worlds population. That's like someone in Africa saying that the political system in Europe isn't relevant.
I mean sure if you're consistent and say that you don't support the dictatorship of a politcal party then you've dealt with China and you don't really need to develop on your objection much further. But Trots like these advocate a one party dictaorship. Which is what they have in China. So it's relevant to them. Stupid as it/they may seem. They can't just advocate a one party dictatorship and then smirk and say "Ah yeah but or one party dictatorship wouldn't be like the one in china. Sure snowball, i mean trotsky, i mean trotskyites (the real revolutionary vanguard) would be in power in our dictatorship, so everything would be okay."
Trots can't shrug off the oppression of a billion people.
What space time continum do do you live in?
Does your mamy let you out at night?
you think you will become world leaders when you need your mothers to wash your socks!
The only left groups that MUST have an agreed analysis of China, Cuba, Russia, or the former Soviet Republics are those who are organizing (or who would if they could) within those states.
What is essential for any left group organizing in Ireland, the US, Britain etc is to have an agreed analysis of their own respective countries.
You could not make this up. Thus we read:
'Today the socialist movement internationally is divided into various currents, many of which are retreating from Marxist politics. We stand firmly alongside those who are trying to defend the basic principles of Marxism and of revolutionary politics'
Translation: we ae jopelessly divided into micro sects. We propose to unite people by - restating our sectarian shibboleths, and demanding absolute agreement with the most contentious aspects of leninist theory (precisely those issues on which most peopel are divided).
I read today that they are resissuing the Life of Brian. Those involved in this regroupment might want to watch it.....
For Pat, this is what the statement says on Stalinism:
"We agreed that the historic question of Stalinism, which our traditions have analysed differently, should not by itself be a barrier to unity. Obviously the analysis of the bureaucratic dictatorship previously existing in Russia, and the current Chinese and Cuban regimes, raise important theoretical questions. Any differences are not, however, of immediate programmatic relevance. We are agreed that these regimes are not socialist and do not in any sense offer a way forward. Our concept of unity is not that it is based on theoretical agreement, but that it is based on acceptance of a common programme. "
For the SP members who have nothing better to do than bang on about the USFI:
"In pursuit of this goal we will retain Socialist Democracy’s existing status as a sympathising section of the Fourth International. This organisation offers a sphere in which to organise to advance the struggle for a revolutionary socialist international. We are Fourth Internationalists in the sense that we recognise the need for a World Party of Socialist Revolution, and that Trotskyism, as the only significant Marxist current to survive the treachery of Social Democracy and Stalinism, will necessarily be at the core of building a new International.
That does not mean, however, that the new International will emerge from only one of the existing organised currents. The International will be created by the future struggles of the working class, and by the intervention of Marxists into those struggles, creating real parties. That does not mean we are content to sit back and wait for a mass International to fall from the sky. The main task for socialist groups today on the international level is to seek out and develop elements of a common programme and methods of communication, debate and joint activity. Open discussion can help us clarify our ideas.
Today the socialist movement internationally is divided into various currents, many of which are retreating from Marxist politics. We stand firmly alongside those who are trying to defend the basic principles of Marxism and of revolutionary politics."
The complete text is at the link below, under "Statements".
This is yet another ridiculous thread. Let us take one example:
'For example how can these two groups come to a common analysis of Russia today or the strength of the workers movement in the ex USSR? What about China? Cuba?'
It is simply assumed here that for socialists to work together then they should or even must have a common analysis of these issues. No attempt is made to explain why.
And yet the very nature of any mass movement is that there will be differences of opinion on many issues, and even on very major issues at that. Complete agreeement NEVER has occurred and never will. To insist on it is to insist that every socialist should, in logic, have his or her own organisation - or, at best, a micro sect. And this is the position of the Irish left - a warring proliferation of micro sects. The fusion of two them, no doubt in preparation for five more to emerge the day after tomorrow from the inevitable split, solves nothing, because nothing has been reappraised, nothing throught throught and no new direction established. It is just sectarian posturing, ignored by the outside world and of interest only to conniseurs of the absurd.
Moreover, what this all reflects is a complete refusal to think through the nature of the left's sectarianism over many decades. It has never been weaker! Could it be (heretical thought) that the mind patterns revealed on this thread and unthinkingly trotted out across Indymedia everyday have something to do with it? I am just gobsmacked at the low level of analysis this all shows... Folks, with these mindsets most of you will remain in a well deserved obscurity.....
Unity beginning on the left - Coalition against racism - 2 features one after another - bloody hell, are people starting to get their shit togther! - Great work to all involved and long may it last.
It is an issue. The collapse of the USSR was a significant event in world history that we are still seeing the consequences of. Your opinion on it will effect how you view the world today.
For example how can these two groups come to a common analysis of Russia today or the strength of the workers movement in the ex USSR? What about China? Cuba?
Would be if the left (both reformist, Trotsktist, et al) could agree on a common electoral programme of bottom up democratization of both states of Ireland.
That would be worth celebrating, not the merger of two tabloids posing as movements.
With the demise of the Soviet Union and just about every Stalinist regime the debate on the nature of those states is totally academic.
It is not something that should be an issue on whether two groups can unite (or divide).
Yeah you're dead right Pat. It would seem that this is a completely unprincipled alliance. Just goes to show how bankrupt the USFI are now at this stage.
i was only kidding. didnt want to spread the silly debate. but these were 2 trot groups who had conflicting views on the nature of the stalinist states. just wondering how they squared the circle.
So what! Lets face it this new group still wont be able to fill a taxi. They represent nothing among the working class.
Oh goody, the old debate about whether North Korea is a Deformed Workers State or State Capitalist, not forgetting Degenerated Workers State, Progressive Bureaucratic State and so on. tee hee
Is this new common organisation still affiliated to USFI?
Is it only a Northern organisation or are there members in the south?
Does the new group see North Korea as a Deformed Workers State or a State Capitalist State?
All you need to know about "the left" is in the Monthy Python classic, 'Life Of Brian'.
It's not the only "regroupment of the left" in 25 years. Very recently the Anarchist Fed and the Anarcho-Syndicalist Fed fused to form Organise!.
That was an example of two organisations with more letters in their names than activists joining together to form one organisation with more activists than letters in its name. An admirable step in other words.
This is an example of two organisations with more letters in their name than activists joining together to form one organisation with more letters in its name than activists. Little change in other words.
I checked out the website and it tells us that the new organisation sees part of its future activist base being recruited from the existing left groups. That sets certain alarm bells ringing round here - is the word "Sparts" familiar to any of you?
Anyway, I hope I'm wrong and the six of you do some day lead the world revolution.