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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
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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".
The post National Trust Sacks Volunteer Gardeners for Not Being Inclusive Enough appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Now He?s Dead, the Truth About Purple Aki Can Finally Be Said Sun Sep 21, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Now he's dead, the truth about Purple Aki can finally be said, says Steven Tucker. A forerunner of all the sex-offending migrants that judges make excuses for, he targeted children in Liverpool for decades.
The post Now He’s Dead, the Truth About Purple Aki Can Finally Be Said appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Sun Sep 21, 2025 00:05 | Will Jones
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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Seems to me that people are complaining that Noam Chomsky made a mistake. Wow, is that news? He is only human.
Barney writes:
"Old Noam makes a few mistakes along the way but the real problem with this charlatan is what he omit from his 'analysis'."
And as evidence links to James Donald's webpage. Not convincing. For those who don't know James, he is a well-known liar who absolutely hates Noam Chomsky.
Bordering on mad, James also really hates the left. Having discussed various issues with him I know how he regularly lies to "prove" his point, referencing books for "facts" which turn out not to be true.
In other words, a less than reliable source!
Old Noam makes a few mistakes along the way but the real problem with this charlatan is what he omit from his "analysis".
Chomsky writes a lot. and talks a lot. Are you seriously prepared to dish him over one paragraph? I suppose that Mr Chomsky has good days and bad days, I'm sure he bloggs, I'm sure before the essay gets spellchecked and edited, there is loads of invective, and I'm sure he gets emotional. And thats cool, he's a very good writer, but he's not scripture.
= backpeddle away Mr Chomsky.
When a passing commentator has chalked even a tenth of the volume of work and text then they can have a go. Anyway on his linguistic side, Chomksy has since the 1960s been subject to accusations of inconsistency, yet it seems more of the same "begrudgery". Yep, he backtracks, but he does it well. He says "2+2=5" someone else says that's drivel. total bollox.
Noam goes off, thinks about it, next semestre comes back "2+2=4" AHA! now you've got it say all of them.
Great man. still I doubt he could admonish Bush with quite the same effect as the other great man Il Papa.
I think your comment is completey devoid of any content and that you need to actually say what's "devastating". Otherwise I'm entitled to assume that you're full of it.
This is fairly devastating for Chomsky. I'm begininning to have my doubts about his reliability.
More disinformation from the desperate anti-chomsky brigade. I have actually been following this 'debate' about Chomsky's various alleged lies for quite some time now, and have noticed several things:
Firstly, critics of Chomsky very rarely attempt to counter his arguments -ie "Chomsky is wrong that the US is a terrorist state, and here is why..." or "When Chomsky says that there was a credible peaceful route that could have been tried in the Gulf Crisis in 1991 he is wrong because...".
Instead they throw insults or slander or bring up things he said years ago and distort them to try show that he got things wrong.
Insults and slander include accusing him of anti-semitism (apparently even jewish people like Chomsky can hate jews), Holocost denial (too absurd to detail here), and 'anti-americanism' because he criticises US foreign policy.
Alternatively they bring up old accusations like the Cambodia thing (mentioned in this post) that Chomsky has answered a million times, and which Chomsky and others have shown many many times to be complete bollocks. See here for example:
http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/albertnov97.htm
or alternatively you can go to the original text which has caused all this petty controversy -its a small paragraph in 'After the Cataclysm', also known as 'The Political Economy of Human Rights Volume 2'. I very much doubt that this self-styled thought policeman has even bothered to check it up.
Another accusation is the one put forward here that Chomsky, by repeating the warnings made by many NGOs that the Afghan Bombing campaign endangered milllions of lives, was wrong to voice those warnings because millions did not in fact die (instead the numbers were in the tens of thousands). By this logic it would be wrong to point out a DANGER sign to someone driving along a cliff edge, unless they actually go on to fall to their death!
According to this poster: "Chomsky... made the absurd leap that since aid shipments were being cut in half that the U.S. and its allies were planning to murder 3.5 million people."
Of course anyone who has read 'Power and Terror', '9-11', or any of the other stuff Chomsky has written that deals with the bombing of Afghanistan knows that nowhere does he say that "the U.S. and its allies were PLANNING TO MURDER 3.5 million people."
It really does show the desperation that is caused among apologists for US crimes by the analysis Chomsky makes that in order to counter such offensive arguments they have to go digging up the same old discreditted misinterpretations of Chomsky's work, year in year out. This is undoubtedly far easier for these people than actually trying to address his arguments, or in fact than thinking for themselves at all.
AFGHAN MASSACRE tells of the horrific forced journey undertaken by thousands of prisoners who surrendered to America’s Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz.
Bundled into containers, the lucky ones were shot within minutes. The rest suffered an appalling road trip lasting up to four days, clawing at the skin of their fellow prisoners as they licked perspiration and even drank blood from open wounds.
Up to 3,000 now lie buried in a mass grave, but this was NOT a simple matter of Afghans killing Afghans.
AFGHAN MASSACRE tells of how American Special Forces took control of the operation, re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead into the desert and stood by as survivors were shot and buried.
And it details how the Pentagon lied to the world in order to cover up its role in the greatest atrocity of the entire Afghan War. This is the documentary they did not want you to see.
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http://www.acftv.com/more.asp?id=271&catid=5
Video sample at...
http://www.acftv.com/streaming/wmedia.asp?stream_id=4