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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
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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
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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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A ceasefire in Gaza will come into effect this evening ahead of the release of the remaining hostages after the first?stage of a peace agreement was signed by Israel and Hamas this morning.
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Black people make up 4% of the UK but appear in over half of adverts, according to a new Channel 4 report. Is the industry finally realising that such fake over-representation is off-putting, asks Lee Taylor.
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Cutting CO2 Emissions Remains Conservative Party Policy, Says Environment Network Head Thu Oct 09, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
The head of the Conservative Environment Network has just confirmed that cutting CO2 emissions remains Conservative Party policy. So it's Net Zero by the back door, says Paul Homewood.
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Garda at the entrance to the Ballinaboy Refinery construction site
The Convergence Centre at the picket of the main gate at Ballinaboy
These Iggy Madden Lorries Which are to Carry Peat Away From Ballinaboy Have Been Unable to Move Since the Rossport Five Were Jailed
Likewise with this Roller...
Ballinaboy - A Shut Down Construction Site
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Putting together the Marque at camp in Rossport
Finally it is up...
Public-Private Partnership in Glengad - One is on 8.20 an hour and the other on maybe 3 times more
Since the 19th of June all deliveries of construction materials to the Sicim-Roadbridge compound at Rossport have been halted.
Since the 30th of June that compound has been closed to engineers, managers, white collar workers and all other employees of Sicim and Roadbridge
The Rossport compound is the base of operations for the construction of the over land pipelines.
Installation of the pipelines was due to begin on the 25th of February. It hasn’t.
Pipelines, as this includes the gas pipeline, and one for waste, and another for hydraulic fluid and another for electric cables.
Since the 30th of June pickets, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, have closed down the refinery construction site at Ballinaboy, which is effectively the only part of the on shore development that any work has been done on.
That work has been merely the removal of peat to the peat storage facility at Srahmore.
Once we get into late Autumn, due to climatic conditions, or rain in English, and geologic conditions, better known as bog, major construction work will have to cease.
Pickets are placed at gates one and two at Ballinaboy, and the compound at Rossport.
The solidarity camp has a presence in both Rossport and Glengad.
Glengad is the location of the landfall, that is, where the sea pipelines come on land, the Tideway compound there has yet to be built. Construction was due to start there on the 1st of June. Glengad is divided from Rossport by a large expanse of water.
The Solidarity Camp has thus far included people from Mayo, Holland, London, the North of England, Cork, Dublin, Kilkenny, Galway, Antrim, Kildare, Tipperary, Austria, Louth, Wales and probably from other places that I forget. Some come for a few days, some for a few months, all of us have been made to feel very welcome.
Food donations have come from as far away as Roscommon.
We have been picketing the compound at Rossport, and, when we have time, doing some secretarial work for the campaign and some gardening or farm work for locals who are busy with campaigning. We are also keeping a watch on the site at Glengad.
On Thursday the 14th the much-heralded increased Garda presence came into effect, and is only noticeable in view of their hitherto marked absence.
At the moment each site has two Garda, all uniformed but in unmarked cars, often quite flashy ones, they are in a very cosy relationship with Brendan Gilmore security usually sharing the latter’s facilities.
On Monday the 18th at Rossport compound we were ready for the ending of Shell’s supposed cessation of construction operations.
A few engineer types arrived in the early morning, but the more interesting developments took place at 10.30 a.m.
At 10.25 a.m. 3 Garda arrived in an unmarked 05-D-12611 reg. car, and five minutes later top boy Roadbridge engineer, the sour faced never smiling and usually never speaking Kevin Houlihan, came on the scene.
Kevin was positively begging to get into the compound to clear out materials, such as the planks which make the road which is to go alongside the pipelines, and which were apparently needed at a site in Galway, such is the world shortage of wood.
Kevin grew progressively more frustrated in his search for a leader with which to negotiate before finally, fruitless, turned in vain to the Garda.
The Garda told him that they were not taking part in any negotiations, but that the matter was between him and the picketers and eventually, after much prodding they told him to contact their superiors and contact Shell.
The scene was set for the next day, Tuesday the 19th, the one calendar month anniversary of the day things really started to go wrong for Kevin and his colleagues.
See: http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70426
At 07.49 a.m. some engineers arrived and were not allowed in, they arrived later at 08.00 a.m. with a superior and were still not allowed in. At 08.26 a.m. Kevin comes back, this time with two Scania low-loader trucks hired from Careys Plant Hire (097 83018). One was empty and on the other a tractor with forklift and telescopic arm.
In true Rossport fashion they were turned around and went right back out the way they came in. Kevin looked, in the words of one local resident, so upset that you would think he owned the company.
I’ve been asked to include some amusing anecdotes from the frontlines…
Special mention must go to the Garda at Ballinaboy on Tuesday morning who asked me when the trucks, that is the trucks hired by Shell, were going to start moving out again..but nothing equals the security guard who came up to three hairy mollies, as us campers are affectionately termed around here (perhaps oblivious to the very clean cut types among our numbers), and asked us where he was supposed to be stationed.
Capping it all is the bizarre case of the flying Scotsman aka Rob Roy, who turned up at the Rossport compound gate with a green suit, kilt and full “traditional” scotch costume, complete with mullet, with bag pipe music blearing from the stereo of his green car and bollox about 800 years of oppression blearing from his mouth, when it wasn’t begging to get into the compound. He had to get into the site to get his medicine, apparently.
More camp stories here:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70762&results_offset=30