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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
Public Inquiry >>
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The Tories Need to Renounce Their Climate Authoritarian Past Tue Oct 07, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
"There?s no point arguing about it, the decision has been made," said one senior Tory in 2020 about the party's commitment to Net Zero. It's this attitude that got us in this mess, says Ben Pile, and it needs to change.
The post The Tories Need to Renounce Their Climate Authoritarian Past appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Tue Oct 07, 2025 01:15 | 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.
Does Trump Not Realise How Globally Toxic Tony Blair Is? Mon Oct 06, 2025 19:30 | Ramesh Thakur
Trump's peace plan for Gaza might yet succeed, but why on earth does Tony Blair feature, asks Professor Ramesh Thakur. Does Trump not realise how globally toxic the Blair brand is?
The post Does Trump Not Realise How Globally Toxic Tony Blair Is? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Stupidologiology Mon Oct 06, 2025 18:15 | James Alexander
William Davies has written an article titled 'Stupidology' which Prof James Alexander summarises as: 'Trump is stupid. Brexit was stupid. I am not stupid. Neither are my friends. Why do stupid people have power?'
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Backlash as Nando?s Limits Customers to One Coke per Visit Under New ?Nanny State? Rules Mon Oct 06, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
Nando's has sparked a backlash after restricting customers to a single glass of Coca-Cola Classic under new 'nanny state' Government rules aimed at cutting sugar consumption.
The post Backlash as Nando’s Limits Customers to One Coke per Visit Under New ‘Nanny State’ Rules appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9The presumed venue is the CCCB (contemporary centre of culture Barcelona) Montalegre 7 Barcelona just off Placa Angel where the skaters board.
http://www.cccb.es/cat/cccb.htm
The dates will clash with bourgoise types in Dublin who think James Joyce was about period dress and wanted his love letters put on display for the agrandisement of the state and Senator D. Norris and the whole sad miserable North Great Georges Street crew.
Those who wish to participate ought consider-
What specific contribution can you make as a representative / delegate of a northern country?
(if its just a holiday and t-shirt gig don't bother)
Got that...
On what bases of communality can we create for the peoples of the Mediterrean, a sea of Peace, Justice and Fraternity?
What can we do _*concretely*_ from the north?
€$%.:.*+@
organisers of the preliminary meeting-
Àgora nord sud, ATTAC, CC.OO, CGT, CIEMEN, Desenvolupament Comunitari, Fundació A. Comín, Fundació per la Pau, IAC, Intermón-Oxfam, Justícia i Pau, Marcha Mundial de Dones, Observatori del Deute en la Globalització, RAI, SODEPAU, Xarxa de Consum Solidari, Xarxa de Mobilització Global…
(entities adhering to the promotional assembly of Forum Social Mediterrean).
Arcadi Oliveres chair of economics Univ Autonomous Barcelona
Madjid Benchikh, prof. of international law Univ. Cergy-Pontoise, ex chair of law univ Algiers.
Alima Boumedienne, ex-deputy Nordic Green Group €U parliament and a current senator of France.
Mohàmmed el-Amine Ragala, of Fez Univ. Morrocco. and spokesperson for al-Badil Alhadari.
will speak tomorrow at the preliminary gig at CCCB, Bcn to attract people "of their type" to the convoked Mediterrean Social Forum.
they're very clever, and have good jobs, and know their lines, and don't write on napkins. They may some have dodgy names, but none of them wear tweed or write sonnets. Thus they will attract the "right" sort of lefty.
one lefty group-
http://www.revoltaglobal.net/WEB/noticiaweb_050314b.htm
to colloborate (english page not ready yet)
(makes sense though english is a third language for most of the mediterreneans- if they get that glotal)
http://www.fsmed.info/colabora-ct.htm
ulysses will bloom! J16 - J18 med. social forum
They've been busy, asking can "plurilingual education help kids stop balding or getting progressively more stupid" and listening to the considerations of the Madrid conference on Terror, Democracy and Security which shall yearly be held for March 11.
in which they more or less agreed with everything in "the big boy who sign things way" and then went on to issue a call to reconsider the Barcelona Doctrine on M14 the anniversary of the election.
you may read the speech by €U exterior minister,
Nic Schmit here-
http://www.eu2005.lu/en/actualites/discours/2005/03/14nscaire/index.html
The next summit (number 7) of mediterrean foreign ministers (mostly boys) will be held on May 30 and May 31 in Luxembourg. This will be one of the last acts of their presidency before they hand over everything to the UK team who "pray" will not be led anymore by u know who...
Then two weeks later, we'll do the first Mediterranean Social Forum.
Now in case you don't know what the BCN declaration is, it was enshrined in 1995 and in a "big boy sign things way" & outlines loads of shite for everyone. just like Lisbon and Shengen did. Mr Spring signed it for Ireland, Mr Bouez for the lebanon, and Mr Barak for Israel.
Mr Sharon rejected the BCN doctrine "you cvan come here and have a chat if you want" clause earlier this year, just about the time he also said "piss off" to Blair, (to show he doesn't really like any of us) but we'll ask him again, coz he's certainly a big boy who signs things (and not a little rose), and he might like to reconsider coming here to chat to everyone, since he became the first Israeli leader ever to be invited to the Texan "the ranch / bunker" in history last night, and word is, they don't have a spoon long enough.
If you can't think of anything useful to say, or do at either of these events, or can't even write a decent TV/ radio / print bit of media on the topic, send a really long spoon to the Knesset.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/euromed/bd.htm
info:-
http://www.fsmed.info/
Program (its an excel file):-
ENGLISH--> http://www.fsmed.info/programa-en.xls
and all the mediterranean is excited!!!!
Italy:-
http://www.unita.it/index.asp?SEZIONE_COD=HP&TOPIC_TIPO=&TOPIC_ID=43156
Serbia:-
http://see.oneworld.net/article/view/113240/1/3260
but not without hiccups, of the 800 or so expected, many have had / are having problems with their visas.
Today the arrival of the squad of 300 interpreters & translators of the Babels org, is expected and will give an indication of the "visa" problem. I'll write up reports in other press about it, once its happened.
25 talks have happened the day began with thoughts on feminism, refugees here [spain] and farming issues [seeds & peasant rights]. The best attended thing this morning/noon (and there are still a lot of people battling the registration queues) was a manistream union talk on GATTS. There are a lot of people, I've got an impression of the beautiful diversity of the peoples of the mediterranean which I must admit I don't think I've ever had before. And what makes them even more cute is that they're probably all lefties, its quite -quite -too much & I feel faint.
hi iosaf and med people
i made another little post re the sf there
http://easa.antville.org/stories/1147603/
i hope it wont be wiped, could though
and you saw blooms story is gone
i dont know-
and on bloomin stuff:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70090&search_text=monks%20garden#comment110212
: "you're a lefty? how strange so too am I".
The FIRA placa madrid is a big complex, and the forum is spread throughout two areas, one a big hall with stalls, (the usual suspects paid 300€ each for a stall) and the other which sometimes is a multi-level car park, which has lots of different talks and things going on, exchanges of opinion, and the Babels crew are doing very very well in translating it all.
"you've lovely hair, have you ever thought of wearing it in a tress or plait looped over your brow?"
The delegates have now faced the choices of-
* a conference entitled "by defending rights we expand peace"
* water
* free trade as a mediterranean model"
* going for a drink and then home with their new pal.
most seemed to be into the "free trade consequences and alternatives" option, but I'm learning basic serbian and going through my favourite haircut pictures. Tomorrow will be another day.
Oh well you can't miss it, there is a palpable air of braininess. Another thing you can't really miss is the difference between west and east and north and south mediterranean. They're not having a good time on the southside, and they're very articulate about expressing it, but they show no interest in the annual SONAR festival, which is happening this weekend in barcelona and is the yearly progressive and electronic music festival http://www.sonar.es/
And this is a little clue to the great yawning divide between north & south - west & east. Younger delegates (love that term) from western europe suggest taking in the SONAR festival during their visit to catalonia. I have not as of yet met anyone who has suggested availing of the couch service from the RC church to demonstrate in Madrid on Saturday "for the family". Yet aye here's a thing, many delegates from the south and east draw the line on social progression with same sex unions classified as marriage with adoption rights to children. I know coz I asked them. "exercise your braininess" is my motto.
Friday was heavy-weight communist day, oh well there were a lot of them, dour lot mostly, not many giggles around the inner cadres of mediterranean 4th internationalist socialism. But they do seem to know what they believe and want and have agreed somewhere in the dim recesses of time on exactly what language to use with it.
But Seriously :-
The mediterranean has many war and militarised zones, we know that, Palestine, the Balkans, and other situations "just over the horizon" such as western sahara. Delegates (the inner cadre types of those socialist parties and unions) who have become very used to travelling to those zones "to inspect" are finding it increasingly more difficult, and this was an off-side topic of conversation. Thus in the last month we have seen an Irish TD party treated badly in Palestine, and a Catalan green party hassled by the morroccans on the way to western sahara.