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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.
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National Trust Puts Vegan Tampons in Men?s Toilets Fri Oct 10, 2025 17:28 | Will Jones
The National Trust is under fire for putting vegan tampons in men's lavatories, dispensing them from a large box fixed to the wall near the urinals with the message: "Got a period situation going on? We got you."
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BREAKING: Hamit Coskun?s Conviction for Burning Quran Overturned by Crown Court Fri Oct 10, 2025 14:13 | Will Jones
Hamit Coskun's criminal conviction for burning a copy of the Quran while shouting "f*** Islam" in a protest outside the Turkish consulate in London has been overturned by the Crown Court in a victory for free speech.
The post BREAKING: Hamit Coskun’s Conviction for Burning Quran Overturned by Crown Court appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
It?s Time to Make Judges Accountable Again Fri Oct 10, 2025 13:26 | Dr David McGrogan
Nearly 80% of Britain's 'Establishment' is Left-wing. No wonder our 'independent' judges keep making lunatic decisions. It's time they were made accountable to voters once again, says Dr David McGrogan.
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Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump was today snubbed by Nobel Peace Prize judges ? who instead awarded the prize to a Venezuelan politician ? despite the President bringing peace to the Middle East.
The post Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails Fri Oct 10, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The technocrats are falling across the West as their ideology founders on reality. The cracking of the Net Zero consensus, like the end of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, is a moment of hope, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
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Jump To Comment: 5 4 3 2 1It is fascinating to read the self-described republican nationalists take on "Russian" history, especially the mourning for "Mother Russia". Read a couple of non-Soviet books on the topic and you'll quickly find that "Mother Russia" was herself a savage murderous imperial oppressor for several centuries. The crimes of the British empire pale to insignificance in comparison to what Russia has done to her colonial subjects throughout the centuries, especially the 80 horribly brutal soviet years. The Chechen-Ingush were first oppressed by goons controlled by inbred czars, later by the wild eyed bloodthirsty psychotic Bolsheviks and stalinists, and now the present re-branded KGB led russian nationalists.
Another nonsense in the previous post was that during the second great war, the Chenchen-Ingush people fought valiantly against the Nazis. The truth is that they fought equally valiantly against both the invading Nazi's as well as their historical oppressors in the Red Army. For this the soviets slaughtered them by the tens of thousands and forcibly exiled them throughout the soviet empire.
As a reaction to the current KGB controlled Russian nationalist occupation of Chechnia, in desperation the formerly proud and savagely oppressed Chechen-Ingush people have sold their souls and relinquished what was left of their sanity to fight the post-soviet dictators by soliciting funding and support from the ragged bearded psychotics of the jihad brigade. The Chechen-Ingush were not historically fanatical islamists but they have been driven to it recently by oppressive Russian and Soviet imperialist policies. I sympathise with the chechens but their present leadership's islamist tactics have made them an international pariah - an enemy of freedom - and thus I cannot support their present efforts. But I certainly do support a democratic Chechnia free of russian colonial oppression. Hopefully some day the Chechnians will get rid of both the russians as well as the jihadis and live a peaceful existance.
Mother Russia was protected from the fascist filth by Chechens during the Great Patriotic War. As an ethnic minority they and the Kamluks recieved the Order of the Red Banner in higher ratio than their Russian brothers fighting in the Red Army. When Russian army conscripts were being taken prisoner in Grozny, they were astonished to find Red army battle standards in the Chechen positions.
Mother Russia died when they sold their souls for a place on the G8.
The war against the Russian invaision is a war of national liberation, not an Islamic war. Yet again the Islamaphobic rhetoric comes from the depth of ignorance..by the way when you harp on about child killers are you including the British / US / Isreali armed forces who daily destroy young lives..or is your righteous ignorance just another sad reflection on your sad sectarian politics?
Firstly the 32csms goal is not a marxist state nor is it our intention to try and take power , our constitution states 32csm must dissolve itself once Irish sovereignty has been acheived . Nor is 32csm even a political party . The 32csm did not blow up anyone , whether in Omagh or anywere else .
One presumes you are a supporter of the baby killers of Haditha and the sexual perverts and degenerates of Abu Greib and elsewhere . Your insults directed against ourselves and the chechen people are therefore of little consequence while your ignorance is quite apparent and most likely wilful.
Your post is hypocritical. Have a look at the history of the Chechen resistance and you will see that the 32 CSM ( as an organisation dedicated to ending British imperialism in Ireland ) should be in solidarity to these resistance fighters.
When you have researched the plight of the Chechen people, you yourself might see how the use of Islamophobia has reduced any person or organisation who opposes imperialism a "nutter" or a "terrorist".
These people are fighting for the rights that you take for granted and the freedoms that you were given through the sweat and blood of others.
However your post reeks of right wing ignorance, both of an organisation ( which I am not a member of ) and an colonial situation, which the west has ignored ( because the USA and the UK need Russian support for its war against terror ).
The Chechens have suffered national and human rights abuses, from Russain state forces who have been given free reign to suppress the national liberation struggle.
I assume that your post means that you are a supporter of the Russian governments policy in this region ?
I find it truly bizarre that a group who would call themselves Irish revolutionary republican freedom fighters would ally themselves with Chechen Islamic fundementalist fanatics.
I presume that the goal of the 32 county sovereignty committee is a 32 country Marxist state?
I think your crazy especially after blowing up 29 people at Omagh in 1998 to think you have any hope of succeeding but I think you are really gone over the edge by allying yourselves with religious fanatics who blow up stifling school gymnasiums full of naked children or gun them down as they flee in terror.
This "Chechen President" was a baby killing throat slashing murdering bombing Islamic fanatic nutjob.
If you find common cause with sociopaths like these then how the hell do you expect the people of Ireland to accept that you can govern a unified 32 country Irish republic?