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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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Council Insists Women Be Called ?People With Ovaries? Tue Sep 23, 2025 13:27 | Will Jones
Bristol City Council has been accused of offending women with "virtue-signalling madness" after insisting that women be called "people with ovaries" and claiming that defining sex as biological "misgenders trans people".
The post Council Insists Women Be Called “People With Ovaries” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Jimmy Kimmel?s Comeback Derailed as Major ABC Affiliate Refuses to Air Show After Charlie Kirk Comme... Tue Sep 23, 2025 11:04 | Will Jones
Jimmy Kimmel's comeback after his Charlie Kirk comments has been dealt a massive blow with ABC affiliates refusing to air it in nearly 40 major markets after Disney announced the liberal talk host will return Tuesday.
The post Jimmy Kimmel’s Comeback Derailed as Major ABC Affiliate Refuses to Air Show After Charlie Kirk Comments appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Labour Will Regret Defending the Boriswave Tue Sep 23, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
When Nigel Farage announced on Monday that Reform would end benefits for migrants and abolish settled status, Left-wing MPs rushed to denounce him. Labour will regret defending the Boriswave, says Laurie Wastell.
The post Labour Will Regret Defending the Boriswave appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Farms to Switch Off Whe... Tue Sep 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Suddenly, green activists have started getting outraged at the billions wasted paying wind farms to switch off when it's too windy. The hypocrisy and chutzpah beggars belief, says Ben Pile.
The post Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Farms to Switch Off When it’s Too Windy? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Tue Sep 23, 2025 01:12 | Richard Eldred
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.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14Although huge rallies in support of pro-Russian presidential candidate and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich barely make it to television screens, audiences around the Western world have probably all seen the laser-lit, plasma-screened Yushchenko rock concerts.
"The two candidates ... have their roots in the same anti-democratic ruling elite which divided the wealth of the country after the collapse of the Soviet Union"
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/8CF314BD-0BD9-4A59-89B6-95E989034DFE.htm
US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,15569,1360236,00.html
If you want to know how to beat a regime that controls the mass media, the judges, the courts, the security apparatus and the voting stations, the young Belgrade activists are for hire.
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Stickers, spray paint and websites are the young activists' weapons. Irony and street comedy mocking the regime have been hugely successful in puncturing public fear and enraging the powerful.
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The Democratic party's National Democratic Institute, the Republican party's International Republican Institute, the US state department and USAid are the main agencies involved in these grassroots campaigns as well as the Freedom House NGO and billionaire George Soros's open society institute.
So, you're endorsing Yanukovich as the better option?
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... then what is the solution? I don't believe it's right for us in the West to criticize the Ukranian people's grasp for democracry and freedom from criminality because there was American money partly behind it - you can leave that kind of posturing to the marginalised of counterpunch.org and their confederates. You can be damn sure that there was even more Russian money propping up the current status quo of Yanukovich et al.
if "we" in the "west" can fund we can criticise, one corrupt democracy for another hurray!!!
its seem to me even more now it was a complete sham
Yes. Why not? Indeed, why not?
Yes the NED and others funded much of the opposition and so on. $65 million was one number I read somewhere.
But it disturbs me very much how quite many on the Left are quick to condemn the changes happening in Ukraine. It seemed after the first rigged election every leftie in western europe was an overnight arm-chair expert in all things Ukraine!
Obviously we should be suspicious whenever Bush and his cronies put their hand in anything anywhere - that goes without saying on this website. But lets not insult the Ukrainian people who want change from the current Soviet-ish Regime. We should be celebrating progressive change, knowing that it is always less than perfect or ideal.
And this is where I get suspicious of some of the lefties who have been so quick to condemn Yushchenko and the entire Orange effort. Remember, some in the left still think Milosevic is innocent of war crimes.
For some it is hard to let go of their secret admiration of the hammer and sickle. Its easy to admire when you're not the one being hammered and sickled. (some only put that Hammer and Sickle in the closet, ya know?)
Ukraine is a split country, but a majority has chosen - in what seems to be a free and fair election - to break from Soviet-ish past and look toward the EU and maybe someday even join it. Whatever one's critique of the EU is this is not hard to understand.
Many in that part of the world fear a potential future where a resurgent Russia will be dominant again. Free and fair elections and a self-governing sovereignty is a small protection against that possibility. This should be celebrated.
-redjade
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As Marc Cooper says:
http://marccooper.typepad.com/marccooper/2004/12/the_orange_and_.html
''Lamentable it has been that some on the British and American left actually seemed upset over Yuschenko’s movement. Support from the Bush administration, they say, tainted the whole process. Many U.S. critics of Yuschenko are quick to point out that his American-born wife once worked for the Reagan administration. And the family of his opponent? Or his opponent himself ?
Suddenly the KGB is purer than the American Enterprise Institute?''
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as Stephen Zunes says:
http://www.fpif.org/papers/ukraine2004.html
Furthermore, the left’s lukewarm response has given both the right and the mainstream media an opportunity to brand the entire progressive community with allegations that we oppose freedom and democracy.
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And don't forget Timothy Garton Ash's six questions...
Bitter lemons
Six questions to the critics of Ukraine's orange revolution
By Timothy Garton Ash - Dec 2, 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ukraine/story/0,15569,1364361,00.html
1. Can't you see the wood for the trees?
2. Do you think Ukrainians don't deserve democracy?
3. Are you reluctant to support the orange movement just because the Americans do?
4. Why is Russia entitled to a sphere of influence, including Ukraine, if the United States is not entitled to a sphere of influence, including Nicaragua?
5. Would you rather have George Bush or Vladimir Putin?
6. If you don't like the Americans taking the lead in Ukraine, why don't we?
if it was wrong for NED to interfere in Venezuala how is it good for them to do it in the Ukraine I guess the best question is wheher the people will be better off in the long ru use it as steppin stone to independence but an accountable state...
umm pc, sorry that rant wasn't directed at you, by the way - i know yer not a secret admirer of ol uncle Joe :-)
yeah but did I hope I stumbled upon a good question... personally I put those links up because I was intrigue by the stuff in the Guardian article describing that student revolutionary group _partly_ funded by US thinks tanks, I remember them getting the Free your Mind award at the MTV awards a few years back... holding a black and white fist flag (instead of Red and Yellow?)... them and Bono... Chavez is no saint but I wonder what brand of democracy is being spread to the Ukraine if Chavez's continued (working class? ) popular support is not the right flavour of free and fair democracy? Do they want democracy or markets? Im presuming NED is made up of the left and right of the US... is western plutocracy better then former communist authoritarianism? does one choose the lesser of two evils and hope its step in the right direction like in the US or discount it on some sort of principle... (from afar) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_Democracy
'Do they want democracy or markets?'
precisely.
Jonathan Steele has a good op/ed in the Dec 30 04 Guardian.....
''As with "humanitarian interventionism", which was much debated in the 90s, "electoral interventionism" needs to be thrashed out. Why is so much of it selective? Why do western governments (for they are the prime interferers) that claim to be fostering democracy take only one side, rather than being above the fray? Why are only certain countries picked? Georgia, but not Azerbaijan. Serbia, but not Croatia. Zimbabwe, but not Egypt.''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1381326,00.html
In contrast to Yanukovych’s supporters, the opinion poll in Den found that 70 per cent of Yushchenko’s supporters saw the election as a choice between interest groups and rule of law, while only 22.7 per cent felt it was an East-West struggle. In general, the perception that it was a tug-of-war between East and West was engendered by Yanukovych’s negative campaign against Yushchenko, which raised issues such as language (an issue that was resolved with the passage of the constitution in 1996 that made Ukrainian the state language but gave official status to other languages), and charged that Yushchenko stood for a complete rejection of Russia in favor of the West. While the west did contribute to pressure to hold a fair election rerun, the race and its outcome was a national matter for Ukrainians, funded by Ukrainian interest groups and its results, if free, would have been recognized by the West regardless of who won.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/infoservice/sw/details.cfm?ID=10482
Withdrawing Ukraine Troops from Iraq Priority, Yushchenko Says
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0109-11.htm
KIEV - The winner of Ukraine's presidential vote Viktor Yushchenko said that withdrawing the nation's troops from Iraq will be a priority for him once he takes office, after an accidental blast killed seven Ukrainian soldiers there.
"Viktor Yushchenko sends deep condolences to the families of Ukrainian peacekeepers who died in Iraq Sunday," said a statement released by his press office late Sunday.
"Insofar as withdrawing Ukraine's peacekeeping contingent from Iraq, it remains one of Yushchenko's priorities once he assumes office," the statement said.
The EU trade commissioner has said that, if Ukraine continues its reforms, an EU-Ukraine free trade agreement would be possible.
http://www.euractiv.com/Article?_lang=EN&tcmuri=tcm:29-134285-16&type=News
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Yushchenko assumes the Ukrainian presidency in a largely-polarized country with deep political, social and economic divisions. He faces an intransigent Russia that feels it has lost a major public relations battle; a number of former Soviet states that see Ukraine as a threat to their regimes; and a largely supportive West. Having emerged as a winner in the new, fast "Great Game" that just unfolded in Eastern Europe, Ukraine has to chart a careful course between its prior economic and political commitments and a new, democratic future. As one of the key states that separates the new West from the former Soviet space, Ukraine stands to benefit greatly if Yushchenko can capitalize on his democratic victory and avoid further dissent to the new government.
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?ID=10557