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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
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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Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc
Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark
Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc
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Human Rights in Ireland >>
West Midlands Police Won?t Commit to Arrests for Chanting ?Globalise the Intifada? Sat Dec 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
West Midlands Police, already reeling from an antisemitism scandal after banning Israeli fans from attending a football match, has refused to commit to arresting all protesters who chant 'globalise the intifada'.
The post West Midlands Police Won’t Commit to Arrests for Chanting ‘Globalise the Intifada’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
How the Blob Destroys its Opponents Sat Dec 20, 2025 13:00 | Dr David McGrogan
Should a Right-wing, reforming government gain power at the next election, it will face the full resistance of the Blob. The 2023 ousting of Dominic Raab is instructive in how this will run, says Dr David McGrogan.
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Comedy Like It Ought to Be Sat Dec 20, 2025 11:00 | Dr Roger Watson
Roger Watson's jaws are still aching following the FSU Christmas Comedy Benefit, hosted by Dominic Frisby. "This was comedy like it used to be: offensive, insightful and most importantly, hilarious."
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The Bizarro-World of the Forever Maskers Sat Dec 20, 2025 09:00 | Sallust
A committed hardcore of forever maskers and Zero Covid fanatics continues to live as though it's 2020, refusing to share any air with other people lest they get sick. The Telegraph investigates this strange new cult.
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Political Conjugations Sat Dec 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
Everyone assumes that words have straightforward meanings. Philosophers because they want them to and politicians because they need them to. But the first law of politics is that words are ambiguous, says James Alexander.
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Lockdown Skeptics >>
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Wednesday October 26, 2005 20:52
by Nessa Darcy - NCAD Students' Union
ncadsu at gmail dot com
100 Thomas Street Dublin 8
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10It'll be a sad day for the city if NCAD is banished to Belfield. It's funny to think that the college management say they have no money for redevelopment of the Thomas Street site- this would imply a degree of financial mismanagement that is hard to believe. The college should be thriving, every course is oversubscribed, and since the artworld is booming, you'd think that there would be plenty of opportunities for sponsorship, endowments etc.
Still, when you look at some of the amadáns that run the place it's no surprise that they are in a mess...
Didn't the gov shove millions and millions at MIT to use arces of old buildings around there, how it is that the couldn't expand a college I don't know.
Perhaps because I'm a grown-up I read :- "The relocation of NCAD would have a detrimental effect on the local economy of the Thomas Street area". I wonder have the SU contacted those "suppliers" and "small businesses" &c.., in the area to ask them about their views on losing their customer base? Quite probably budding artists will remain loyal to their crayon shop in the future, but many other businesses who supply daily essentials such as sandwiches, alcohol, and cigarette papers will be effected.
who is the TD for the constituency?
Handing NCAD and the old powers distillery over to the Developers would probobly make a lot of money for Brertie. Butv Past and future generations of irish artists would surly lose out. I spent a few years there and the building has a unique atmosphere which could not be replicated in a surburban site like belfield. NCAD thrives on its city cenre location One of the reasons that many students chose NCAD over Dilat in Dun Laogharie is that you feel part of the fabric of the city If you move it You will kill everything which makes it what it is.
Fuck this is depressing
This would be a disaster for NCAD. UCD has a very specific agenda as to its direction over the coming years. UCD is driving itself forward as a mecca for R&D, its marketing message is industry. A university that is based around the logic of capital otherwise referred to as knowledge based. The commodification of art. Organise and oppose
saw the grafiti on the walls<
would be a tragedy if it moved> having an art college in the city means that as you learn the theory you learn same time from the city< having NCAD in the oasis island of UCD< would be a huge loss< i learned my architecture from walking the streets< speanding time wandering around and understanding the city< i was in bolton st< beside moore st< and thankful that that was the case
i know that not all artees are into city and people stuff< but many are and with that in mind you and those who support you should fight to keep things as they are
I seem to recall something like this in the mid 80s.
I think that it would be better to keep colleges in the city centre. NCAD makes a great contribution to the life of the Liberties. They will say it is because of lack of money! But surely it would cost more to build a new building in Belfield. Why don't they campaign for money off the state. UCD is quickly becoming a corporate college with lower academic standards at undergraduate level. NCAD should keep its distance from this. However you should not keep your distance from UCD students who are your allies in this attack on your college.
Thank you all for your support, I knew there wouldn't be a single person out there in their right mind who would be in favour of this move. Below is a link to some photos of our protest last Thursday. We have many more planned, and we'll post the details up here in the hope that some of you our supporters will be able to join us. At the protest on Thursday Centra across the road from the college donated some crates of water to us and many other local businesses have expressed their support for our campaign. We will be providing them with posters to display in their shop windows. We will also be meeting with Aengus O Snodaigh the local Sinn Fein TD very soon. The article in the UCD Observer was disappointingly one-sided, so it's very reassuring to hear that UCD students are supporting us! Please don't take anything we say against UCD personally, trust me it's not aimed at the students! Let the battle continue!
Do not let the move go ahead. Rather than an art College, it will soon become an arts building if the move goes ahead. Imagine trying to talk to some UCD office clerk about funding, when he or she is putting extra funding in to the latest government pushed degree, (I.T in the mid nineties, engineering at present).
I'm a communications student in DCU, in our building we have Multi-media, Communications and Journalism degree students. The facilities are poor, with two C.D./D.V.D burners for the entire faculty. While our P.C./Macs crash or simply do not work other more popular and less media orientated degree courses have better facilities and better I.T. equipment. It's a popularity contest when it comes to funding. In N.C.A.D Thomas Street, art students are not fighting for funding with other non-art affiliated faculties. Do not let your college be used for the profit of whom ever pays Bertie enough for the permission to build more dog box apartments on your current campus. Let's face it, it's all about profit at the back of it.