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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.
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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. The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
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Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
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Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Tuesday October 07, 2025 09:10
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The post The Tories Need to Renounce Their Climate Authoritarian Past appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Does Trump Not Realise How Globally Toxic Tony Blair Is? Mon Oct 06, 2025 19:30 | Ramesh Thakur
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Stupidologiology Mon Oct 06, 2025 18:15 | James Alexander
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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
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FRANCE: 50 universities occupied/on strike, also schools; unions in solidarity!
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news report
 Tuesday March 14, 2006 19:41 by jeanette
What the hell is going on in France?
- On march the 7th, 400.000 people demonstrated against a new law concerning workers, CPE. CPE "deregulates the job market. CPE means e.g. anyone who gets a new job can be fired within 2 years - at any day, without a cause...
- On march the 10th, 1 million people all over France protested against CPE
- Schools and universities all over France have been taken over by students - to protest against CPE...
 50 from 81 universities on strike/ some occupied by students
1 million people on the streets of France:
In Paris 200 000 in Marseille 100 000, in Bordeaux 70 000, in Toulouse 35 000,
in Nantes 30 000, in Grenoble 20 000, in Rennes 20 000, in Montpellier 15 000, in Lyon 15 000, Pau 15 000, Brest 14 000 , in Metz gingen 12 000 and so on...
Direct Action - gives Satisfaction:
All over France riots and Clashes with the police....some protesters heavily injured... In Toulouse protesters managed to occupy states´buildings... 300 pupils stopped a high speed train (TGV)... In Marseille 5000 pupils attacked police and police stations afters some arrests of demonstrators... schools are occupied by teachers and pupils, e.g. le college de france, or a school in Lannion and and and... in Lille states bulindings were occupied...
50 universities are on strike and/or occupied by students:
among them:
Aix-Marseille 1,
Aix-Marseille 2,
Amiens,
Angers,
Brest,
Caen,
Chambéry (IUT),
Clermont Ferrand 2,
Dijon,
Grenoble II,
La Rochelle,
Le Havre,
Le Mans,
Lille 1,
Lille 2,
Lille 3,
Limoges,
Lorient,
Marne la Vallée,
Metz,
Montpellier 2,
Montpellier 3,
Nancy,
Nantes,
Niort (IUT)
Orléans,
Pau,
Poitiers,
Rennes 2,
Reims,
Rouen,
Toulouse 2,
Toulouse 3,
Tours,
Paris 1,
Paris 3,
Paris 4,
Paris 5,
Paris 6,
Paris 7,
Paris 8,
Paris 10,
Paris 13,
Evry
and others...
At the weekend police stormed into Sorbonne university, Paris, beating people, using teargas. Police was attacked militantly by the students - ladders, chairs, and so on were thrown on them from the top of the building.
Video: marseille.indymedia.org//uploads/2006/03/06.03.11tf11_13h00evacuationsorbonnest_400_64.avi
Unios stand in solidarity with the pupils and students. They now plan actions together. On thursday they will start nationwide demonstrations
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reports and pics:
german
indymedia feature: www.germany.indymedia.org//2006/02/138903.shtml
french
paris.indymedia.org/
toulouse.indymedia.org/
grenoble.indymedia.org/
lille.indymedia.org/
other links:
www.univ-paris1.fr//
www.unef.asso.fr//deliaGo/zoomArticle/article_id-1599/topic_id-0.html
www.stopcpe.net/
www.telepolis.de//r4/artikel/21/21996/1.htmlhttp://www.lemonde.fr/web/portfolio/0,12-0@2-3224,31-749751@51-725561,0.html
permanent.nouvelobs.com//social/20060311.OBS0145.html
www.lemonde.fr//web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-749741@51-725561,0.html
"peace among the peoples - war between the classes!"
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12eyewitness reports here
Inside the occupation movement: ‘Together we are recreating our university’
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id...=8486
French students in new rebellion
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id...=8483
Unity between workers and the young has put the Tory government onto the back foot
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id...=8484
This is the spirit of the 1960s
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id...=8485
Keep up to date with our English-language updates on the struggle, now online and updated 24 hours a day at http://libcom.org/blog
Here's hoping that the actions of the students in France help jolt consciousness at home!
Tuesday evening: massive riots all over France.
On the pics: Paris. 10.000 protesters in Paris... Police was attacked when using teargas
France is a dump.
In what country in Europe is an employer penalised for firing people?
I mean you can't sack people in France no matter how shit they are at their job?
Sorbonne students who all get subsidsed by the State go on the rampage because GOD FORBID they should be made dip their toe in the free market.
It seem the unions can shut out foreigners while French workers get their pick of the jobs, they can work like slobs and not get fired!?
The middle class intellegentsia elite can live the cosy comfortable French "lifestyle" while the pure saps from les colonies who arrive wet shivering on the shores of Marseille have to bend and scrape live in the ghettos and after three generations of their family have lived on French soil - get kicked out.
Fuck the French - they can stick their Bagettes where the sun don't shine!
Ahmed, I'm in France right now. I'm up to my eyeballs in work, so I haven't had any time to participate in protests against the CPE and CNE (the CPE for small businesses).
The CPE/CNE isn't much worse than the standard CDI (permanent contract) for non-managers. I know, because I've just resigned from a CDI job, and I only had to give one months' notice. Likewise, my employer could have fired me with a little over a month's notice. A few empty envelopes sent by registered post (if even), a few weeks pass, and you're out. And that's with a "permanent" oh-my-god-the-French-are-all-commies contract (first year, non-manager). My point is just that a lot of the stuff you read in the FT and other English language media about how good the French workers have it is bullshit actually. And the CPE is even more bullshit! It's not even supported by the main employer's union.
I think it's wonderful that French students are standing up for their rights!
www.libcom.org/blog/ Has great coverage of the situation in France
Some good reading stuff can be got by going to:
http://grcio.org.free.fr/
and for all those like me who DON'T speak French, use:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr
to translate, simply by typing the wed address into the liitle space fo it, saying French to English and click translate and *insert correct spelling of voi-la*
Its very interesting stuff indeed! Heightened class struggle, trhis is what we have to look forward to! Attacks on our basic lives, and the thrill of struggle!
Cya,
Cian
You're not going to get that with the SP, more like the thrill of denouncing struggles unless they're in another country.
Rezo.net is a French news aggregator site (click on "en anglais" for English). It's a one-stop-shop for stuff about the CPE and the like:
http://rezo.net/dossiers/precaires
Mass protests sweep France
The massive 7 March demonstrations, when at least half a million protested, marked a turning point.
Alex Rouillard, Gauche Revolutionnaire (cwi France)
The violent repression of the Sorbonne occupation showed the government is frightened that the strikes will broaden. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin thinks we are idiots and has shown his contempt for young people and workers.
Soon the strikes will have affected all universities, they are gaining ground in secondary schools and more and more workers are saying 'why don't we strike as well?'
The CPE will allow young people to be sacked at any time in the first two years that they're taken on. Everyone understands that after young people, all workers will be subject to the same kind of contract. That's why a large majority of the population reject the CPE.
All the deep discontent which people have is coalescing around this issue. We've had enough of policies that serve the rich.
The situation is beginning to change because of the determination of the striking students. What is needed now is for everyone to come out on strike together. We have to hit the government and the capitalists where it will really make them tremble - in the economy. It's the workers that can do this by going on strike and halting production.
More and more people are thinking this way. The national student coordinating body, in a declaration adopted on 11 March stated: "We ask the trade unions to make 23 March a general strike day with a central demonstration in Paris".
The unions in Bouches du Rhone have also launched a common statement saying: "the next stage in the mobilisation must be a united appeal for a national general strike together with the youth".
Unfortunately, the national trade union leaders (notably the CGT and CFDT) refuse to clearly call for a general strike.
Hundreds of university and school students are available to participate in and organise the struggles. We need committees of mobilisation everywhere that allow real democratic control over the strikes by the people who are on strike themselves. Without such structures it will be the same people who take decisions between mass meetings and demonstrations.
The PS (Socialist Party) is trying to take advantage of the anger against the government in order to be re-elected in 2007. But it doesn't have a programme in the interests of workers and young people. The PCF (Communist Party) sounds more radical but will not break its ties with the PS because it wants to keep its MPs' seats in parliament.
Gauche Revolutionnaire believes that we need a real alternative, a new party to lead struggles and get rid of capitalism which is the root cause of insecurity, poverty and exploitation. Such a party can come out of these strikes. The mobilisation and strike committees, while building for the struggles, are beginning to raise demands that are against capitalism.
we need anarcho-communism, not a new party.