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offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.

offsite link 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

offsite link 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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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.
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offsite link 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".
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offsite link 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.
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offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.
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Black Bloc Tactics

category dublin | summit mobilisations | opinion/analysis author Tuesday May 04, 2004 00:54author by ZXBarcalow Report this post to the editors

One good thing?

I have been thinking about the mayday protest for a while now, particularly the confrontation with the gardai. Yet while I can think of plenty of negative results of the black bloc's decision to try force their way through the police lines, I cant think of ONE good thing that came from it.

Can anyone out there give me one reason why the day's events would have done less good if the anarchists HADN'T done that? In other words, what was the point? Can anyone give me one good result? And please, I'm not looking to start an argument -I was there too getting soaked with the watercannon, and I'm sure some of the gardai were heavy handed, AND i've nothing against anarchism but that's not the point. How in god's name did this decision contribute to the various causes we were protesting about more than it hindered them?

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   In defence of the Black Bloc     James Kelly    Tue May 04, 2004 01:53 
   Reply to James Kelly     XZBarcalow    Tue May 04, 2004 02:22 
   I understand their spirit but not the logic!     improver    Tue May 04, 2004 02:39 
   One good thing     p    Tue May 04, 2004 03:01 
   Black Bloc?     k    Tue May 04, 2004 09:47 
   Saturday Night/Tuesday Morning     Ciaron I Could be wrong?    Tue May 04, 2004 10:12 
   sing a long :-     great Gazebo Builder.    Tue May 04, 2004 10:49 
   Response     Response    Tue May 04, 2004 11:42 
   Bin Tax     Crusty the Clown    Tue May 04, 2004 11:50 
 10   Contrary Crusty...Homey Don't Play That!     Homey    Tue May 04, 2004 12:02 
 11   support of frontline     Joe Murphy    Tue May 04, 2004 12:26 
 12   Echoing Joe     Chekov    Tue May 04, 2004 13:36 
 13   Courage, liberty and our basic rights was what the stand-off at Ashtown gate was about last Saturday     Indy Reporter    Tue May 04, 2004 15:08 
 14   Responce to Checkov     Crusty the Clown    Tue May 04, 2004 15:44 
 15   Boring Crusty     Ashtown roundabouter    Tue May 04, 2004 16:01 
 16   Who then?     Trade Unionist    Tue May 04, 2004 16:08 
 17   So Trade Unionist or cop     GGer    Tue May 04, 2004 16:21 
 18   Who did what     Joe    Tue May 04, 2004 16:45 
 19   to bloc or not to bloc     lish    Tue May 04, 2004 16:54 
 20   "trade unionist"- is s/he a SP member?     SP member    Tue May 04, 2004 17:01 
 21   to bloc or not to bloc     lish    Tue May 04, 2004 17:11 
 22   Well I can't be 100% sure     Joe    Tue May 04, 2004 17:15 
 23   Trade Unionists and their May Day March     Bob    Tue May 04, 2004 17:53 
 24   Great Demo     Sir Mixalot    Tue May 04, 2004 18:11 
 25   Funny socialists     Me    Tue May 04, 2004 18:12 
 26   A Question Nobody Has Been Asking     righteous pragmatist    Tue May 04, 2004 18:52 
 27   not an new item     lish    Tue May 04, 2004 19:01 
 28   Oh I see..     Righteous Pragmatist    Tue May 04, 2004 19:16 
 29   piss heads     disappointed    Tue May 04, 2004 20:09 
 30   About the goals of the bloc     Karl    Tue May 04, 2004 21:44 
 31   Feck sake lads     G    Tue May 04, 2004 22:57 
 32   Why we tried to push through police lines:     @    Wed May 05, 2004 12:42 
 33   "Our Passion for Freedom is stronger than their Prisons"     BushCheney'04    Wed May 05, 2004 13:01 
 34   and you achieved...     AE    Wed May 05, 2004 13:38 
 35   Always important to push police lines     hooded idiots international    Wed May 05, 2004 13:57 
 36   one good things     bonz    Wed May 05, 2004 17:36 
 37   Why we tried to push through police lines: response to @     CJ    Wed May 05, 2004 19:35 
 38   viva black bloc     Bite The Hand    Wed May 05, 2004 19:54 
 39   some morons in black block     pat c    Sun May 09, 2004 19:44 
 40   were the costumes needed.     ben    Sun May 09, 2004 20:54 
 41   black bloc     steve    Sun May 09, 2004 21:37 
 42   steve     pat c    Sun May 09, 2004 23:19 
 43   pat c     steve    Mon May 10, 2004 15:50 


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