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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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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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Eurostar Unveils Gender-Neutral Uniform for Staff Wed Oct 01, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Eurostar has unveiled its first gender-neutral uniform, introducing a collection featuring skirts, trousers and Dr Martens boots designed to be "interchangeable and made to fit all genders".
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Fact-Checking Starmer?s Claim That Brexit Created the Small Boats Crisis Wed Oct 01, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has claimed that Brexit created the small boats crisis and the migrant boats should be called 'Farage boats'. This is nonsense, says David Barrett, and even Oxford University's Migration Observatory agrees.
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Why is ?Pandemic Preparedness? a Major Theme of the New US Global Health Strategy? Wed Oct 01, 2025 15:43 | Dr David Bell
Why is 'pandemic preparedness' a major theme of the US Government's new 'America First' Global Health Strategy, asks Dr David Bell. There are some sound public health principles in there, but the 'pandemic' con lives on.
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Ed Miliband Pledges Legislation to Ban Fracking ?Forever? Wed Oct 01, 2025 13:22 | Will Jones
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Lammy Backtracks on Claim Farage ?Once Flirted With Hitler Youth? Wed Oct 01, 2025 11:21 | Will Jones
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has been forced to row back on his bizarre claim that Nigel Farage "once flirted with the Hitler Youth", which Farage has denied.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12The Peruvian state has of today at the order of its President synchronised watches and clocks to the Peruvian Navy at 12h00 local time. This is stop the Peruvian habit of being late. It really gets up the presidente's nose - and he's sure is costing the Peruvians credibility and dollars on the international stage. So at noon - they were all urged to set their watches and clocks as sirens and claxons sounded.
The thing is - procrastination which is generally called mañana mañana in the English language has no direct translation to the Spanish language. I find it quite difficult to express the concept - "demora" is the closest. Sometimes people just stare at me vacantly - "the ango-saxons have a word for this?"........"you noble and rebellious Irish accepted this??????"
better late than never.............. a BBC round-up of who is punctual and who is tardy (it's got to do with protestantism seemingly)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6405379.stm
It might have been the first minute of silence most people in Peru didn't observe at exactly the same time. If you read the last comment you understand that Peru is running to clock now. Or at least the very loyal bits of it. I do not come to html now to update & append Peruvian or Indiginous obituaries.
I go to html too much. It would be better to put it all in one journal & select only kind of individual whom could be examined thoroughly on the subject and sold a bit of coloured nylon and old-fashioned paper. Oh you fools. No-one really wears hats like that.
Thank you Japan. You have evolved our language. The Japanese are to be credited with ignoring the 4th digit of the year. It is the first conceptual leap since Y2K. Today's feature article as linked to from the international bit illustrates it for you. They want you do MayDay 007. Cool. Next year it will be 008. We my friends, opponents, sparring mates, critics, peers & lurkers in ".ie state" are going to Reclaim 016 Everyone is going to get a poster.
arigato - is what it sounds like. The japanese in their announcement are inviting us to drop two millenia of history they don't share for an ergonomically typed & beautifully filed new century.
ribbid ribbid ribbid ribbid ribbid ribbid ribbid
http://japan.indymedia.org/feature/display/2203/index.php
http://japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3372/index.php
The time change which came into effect on Dec 9th seems to have been a quiet hit amongst the people of Venezuela. & like most examples of the extent of state power in that country been ignored in Europe. But not by either Microsoft or Linux who have both had to patch computer networks to deal with the first ever half hour adjustment .
Yep. You read right. Venezuelans changed their clocks not by one hour (the way we all do thank Bennie Franklin) but by 30 minutes. This means you to must change your clock 30 minutes during the winter if you fly to either of Venezuela's new time zone of -4:30 GMT or -4:30 UTC.
if you're bringing a PC or microsoft laptop to the state, it will help you to go here
http://www.microsoft.com/venezuela/cambiohorario/
if you've a linux based computer go here - http://rodria1.blogspot.com/2007/12/nuevo-huso-horario-....html
Of course you could just obey your diary instructions or travel on Brazilian time & be either half an hour late or early depending on what way you look at it. Hugo Chavez speaking from Argentina confirmed that this new half-hour change will ensure the future health and efficiency of the Venezuelan people.
Up until 1965 Venezuela was 4 1/2 hours behind GMT. Chavez is just returning things to the way they were.
In an article I hadn't seen when putting up the comment (I'd just been thinking about the computer links)
http://www.microsoft.com/venezuela/cambiohorario/
http://rodria1.blogspot.com/2007/12/nuevo-huso-horario-....html
the BBC explains how ..."Canada's Newfoundland province is half-an-hour out of step with other Atlantic provinces. Pakistan is only half-an-hour behind India, while Nepal is a mere 15 minutes ahead of its large southern neighbour. Western Australia and South Australia observe a 90-minute time difference across the state boundary. However, the remote border town of Eucla and the surrounding area, home to a few hundred people, operates on its own time zone, 45 minutes ahead of Western Australia and 45 minutes behind South Australia......"
Personally this is not strange to me, I operate an internal clock which is 15 minutes behind the exigencies of any employer & rely on a spanish train service to get to work, which is anything from five minutes fast to my experience yesterday of two hours late. (of course the Catalans think independence would change that).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7134927.stm
The national institute of standards and technology of the USA has as usual prepared a FAQ for those of ye who might wonder why yanks with nuklear clocks get to squeeze extra seconds into your life.
http://tf.nist.gov/general/leaps.htm
this of course will be the 24th time since 1974 that an extra second has been snuck into New Year's Eve.
that's almost half a minute.
Just one day before global awareness day to fight back against surveillance, that tiny slither of a second or parsec on one server being different to others could allow gazumphing massive data to be rerouted. For it never simply goes away. They gurggle that the hack happened at 400gigabits per second over at cloudflare who told the BBC about it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26136774
Then today our international day to fight back against all the hoovering™ of our data and secrets which are then outsourced to people who do long division sums and carry portable hard drives with them from Hawaii through Maryland to Hong Kong and Moscow............
Then today............ Bitcoin came tumbling down.
The dark deep web might be as sticky as any other woven but at least now it's harder to buy shit.
and buy kids. and buy bones. and sell and sell.
I feel safer-
But then all my secrets will be safe just like pencil notes to be sold on..,
if there is an "on".
time belongs to nobody - Tor is peace, Wikipedia is truth, Google is the internet and the NSA are behind schedule
Hi iosaf. Glad to see you still visiting and posting on the site :-)
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2016 was just so wonderful and atomic clocks are just so unreliable that an extra second will be squeezed in again tonight.
The extra atomic second hasn't affected me by a single heartbeat. If we are busy in our working and leisure hours, mentally and physically, we needn't sense that time has increased or decreased.
Hi iosaf. Glad to see you still visiting and posting on the site :-)