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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
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Education Secretary Launches Fresh Attack on Private Schools Sun Sep 21, 2025 17:13 | Richard Eldred
In a fresh raid that could force more closures and squeeze parents' wallets, Bridget Phillipson is hitting private schools again, this time tripling Ofsted inspection fees.
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Keir Starmer Confirms Britain Will Ignore US and Israeli Anger and Recognise a Palestinian State Sun Sep 21, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Keir Starmer has sparked fury by pledging to recognise a Palestinian state even though critics say it rewards Hamas, angers Israel and the US and won't help hostages or feed Gaza's starving.
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North Sea ?Has Three Times More Oil and Gas? Than Government Claims Sun Sep 21, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Britain's North Sea could have 14 billion barrels of oil and gas ? three times what the Government reckons ? but sky-high taxes and drilling bans are leaving it in the ground while jobs and cash go begging.
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Met Office Staff Given Record Bonuses Despite String of Forecast Failures Sun Sep 21, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
The Met Office might struggle to predict the weather, but it seems staff can always count on a downpour of cash: they walked away with record bonus payments of ?8.1 million last year and ?31.5 million over five years.
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National Trust Sacks Volunteer Gardeners for Not Being Inclusive Enough Sun Sep 21, 2025 09:00 | Sallust
Thirteen volunteers say they have been forced out by the National Trust, which told them their "attitude and values" did not align with the charity's "respectful and inclusive culture".
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by Jo - Anti Fascist Action
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11for a different point of view be might be worth sitting in on
but
"His story proves how physical confrontation can change minds." ?????
THE FULL QUOTE IS
"The book ends with a testimony from an ex-fascist who was on the receiving end of several beatings from anti-fascists. He explains how they helped him to realise fascists were not the undefeatable master race they claimed to be. He subsequently became a committed anti-fascist and was involved in many attacks on his former comrades. His story proves how physical confrontation can change minds."
FAIR ENOUGH, REALLY.
IT GOES ON TO SAY;
No Retreat highlights the dangers of leaving the fight against racism and fascism to the placard-waving middle classes or the professional, well-salaried anti-racist lobby.
one might need to take a much harder line and the point about their actions being unreported but that quote stands on it own and worries me
militant anti-fascists is a contradiction in terms.
all of the Partisans who fought the facists in WWII. Does the fact they fought against the facists make them no longer anti-facists? According to your rationale should we all just lie down and accept defeat as soon as facists start to throw their weight around??
the fight on the street was important, a show of solidarity for tolerance of all beings... the idealogical battle however, was what it was all about... Suggested reading: the Searchlight publication of "White Noise" by Nick Lowles and Steve Silver, analysing the promotion of fascism through music in the 90's... there's a multi-million euro white-power-punk industry out there, increasingly prevalent in our new EU joinees, (Poland particularly), and mostly based from Sweden, where free-speech laws do not include measures against "incitement to hatred"...
When I was living in Berlin I was witness to much neo-nazi activity, generally directed towards the community of Kurdish refugees with which I was living... in 1999 I fought with 200 black-bloc activists against a gathering of several hundred nazis at the Brandenberg Tor... that made international news... The following year I was hospitalized after being attacked by two skinheads in Bremen, they called shouted "Auslander Raus" while they kicked me unconcious...
I don't believe that Fascism (as in the outmoded 20thC "3rd politick") is any more a threat in Europe... but it does exist... I don't believe it will ever gain a real foothold in Ireland, but the Irish should be concious at least that this is in some parts of their new expanded EU community, quite normal for nazi skinheads to hold recruitment drive in low-income neighbourhoods and organize actions of hostility towards people of any different colour, religon, sexual orientation,etc...
As a footnote, I have read recently that there is an ongoing scandal in Russia (of all places, who suffered so much from the German invasion of 1941-1944) of several (Kremlin) politicians implicated in funding and organizing neo-nazi youth gangs in several major cities (and in particular St. Petersburg)... in the last 2 years hate-crimes against foreign workers andjews have exploded there...
anyway...
would it not be more productive to help educate the people they want to recruit then having scraps with them?
"Dave Hann is co-author with Steve Tilzey of ‘No Retreat’. Both are veterans of the many physical confrontations which took place between the militant anti-fascists of AFA and members of the National Front, the BNP and Combat 18 in Manchester in the period 1977 to 1997, a tactic that eventually forced the fascists off the streets across Britain........"
.......... and meanwhile "the streets" had a new set of Red, anarchist thugs calling the shots.
Whether Combat 18 OR anarchists - they're just all scumbags with little to do only break limbs and windows. Thugs like Dave Hann and Steve Tilzey have nothing to cheer about.
I don't like where this thread is going...
I am going to be as blunt as possible... if neo-nazi youth gangs were not kept in check in the 80's in Britain and in the 90's in Germany and Poland, there would be very serious problems today and probably many thousands of people dead in racial murders, and open street warfare.
I do not truck with any argument that anarchists stomp about breaking peoples limbs... I have been a commited activist for 15 years and have NEVER seen or heard of such a thing occur...
I have, however, witnessed violence towards immigrant, traveller, and left-wing communities... in the form of petrol-bombs, snatch-squads and punishment-beatings...
I want to say something in praise of the German Anti-Fa in particular... during the 90's when many Kurds and Kosovans fled to Germany (possibly a half million), these refugees struggled to survive (and a vital part of cheap-labour for the German economy) under constant threat of attack on the streets or in their shelters (remember the massacre at Rostock?)... when such attacks occured, these people could not approach the authorities (the Law) because of their illegal status... the only form of protection they had, anywhere in the world, was from the commited AntiFa, who (for all intents and purposes) acted as widely and efficiently as a police force, acting intelligently enough not to resort to revenge, but to look at prevention... establishing community centers, educational initiatives, creating local festivals, restoring buildings... the Anti-Fa achieved more through vision and will than any government could have done in some of Germany's most run-down urban-areas... and that, simply, is incredible...
I tire of reading the cynical outlook of the Irish Indymedia, that I visit less and less frequently...
All I can do is be like the old man and tell my stories...
In 1997 I stood in Dover and faced the BNP with about a hundred activists from Brighton... the police came from all the surrounding counties, over a thousand of them, in boats, choppers, horseback, vans, with dogs, in helmets etc, to "prevent a confrontation" but in fact just to help the Nazi's do their march (they came far and wide, most from Brum)... we stood together and faced them down... and got our asses kicked... but we (the Anti-Fa) took a good look at each other that day... we were few, but we were the ones they wanted to wipe out... the wops, the queers, the pakis, the paddies....
Don't make me laugh, bernie.
You cannot be so naive as to think that thugs exist on only one side.
This condemnation of a physical opposition to fascism is absolutely ridiculous! The nature of fascism both then and now involves physical confrontation and intimidation. Football firms ('hooligans') today, are full of fascists and loyalists who still embrace violence and extreme right wing politics....and as no retreat reports violence and intimidation were tactics of fascists then. Are those who label AFA members 'thugs' better because they seek peaceful resolutuions to the problem of fascism? Fascist ideology supports conflict and struggle so opposition to fascism must be one of conflict and struggle too...whether physically or ideologically. How can one rationalise their argument against fascism with someone who believes something as irrational as supremacy of a race?? Those who engage in rascist violence and intimidation understand only the means by which they behave....and must receive what they are happy to dish out! Violence is a reality and cannot be condemed absolutely...this taking the 'moral highground' is all very well but do chanting, placards and distributing educational papers to already like minded people on fascism stop it? I think not. I for one support the actions of AFA 100% and i think they should be held with the very highest regard. I wonder how many of those who have condemed AFA's actions are too scared to physically oppose fascism themselves? Each to their own and all that but don't judge something that has undeniably helped the fight against these morons.