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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.
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
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Net Zero Crumbling Slowly at First, Then Suddenly Sun Oct 05, 2025 13:00 | David Turver
Net Zero has been crumbling for over year and beginning the sudden collapse stage, says David Turver. Now the only people backing Net Zero are the reality denying zealots of DESNZ and the Climate Change Committee.
The post Net Zero Crumbling Slowly at First, Then Suddenly appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
I Asked a Simple Question at a Pro-Palestine Protest and It Turned Ugly Sun Oct 05, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
At a pro-Palestine protest, Times journalist Matthew Syed asks a simple question about Hamas ? and is met with abuse, denial and antisemitism. What he found in Trafalgar Square wasn't protest but a mob drunk on hate.
The post I Asked a Simple Question at a Pro-Palestine Protest and It Turned Ugly appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Met Office Deletes Huge Chunks of Historic Temperature Data After Fabrication Claims Sun Oct 05, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
The Met Office has all but admitted that huge chunks of its UK temperature data are fabricated after it quietly deleted swathes of 'readings' from closed weather stations. Time for it to come clean, says Chris Morrison.
The post Met Office Deletes Huge Chunks of Historic Temperature Data After Fabrication Claims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
When Will the Left Accept That Public Anger is Not ?Manufactured?? Sun Oct 05, 2025 07:00 | Laurie Wastell
"Anti-immigration attitudes are manufactured," says one Left-wing thinker. Demographic change is a "political myth", says another. When will the Left accept that public anger is well-founded, asks Laurie Wastell.
The post When Will the Left Accept That Public Anger is Not “Manufactured”? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Sun Oct 05, 2025 00:09 | Will Jones
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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...You Crazy Diamond.
Last monday was the anniversary of the birth of Tulsa. A scientific genius who invented amongst other things the term "microtulsa" which measures the ambient threat to the protesters in Bantry for example. His death got me thinking of how lives intertwine and brought me to wanting to mention the passing of Barrett a few days earlier. Tulsa lived most of his life in the USA but never disclaimed his twin Croatian / Serbian heritage on the contrary saying he loved both his "birth countries" equally. Thus last Monday the Belgrade Airport saw representatives from both Croatia and Serbia change the name to Tulsa airport in his memory. Tulsa was supposedly working on a "Death Ray" at his death, which led to the FBI seizing and confiscating all his papers, research that they still have classifed as "above top secret".
But apart from inventing AC electricty and death rays (which the press ofthe time called a "peace ray") Tulsa also pioneered the psychedelik orb - where a current jumps from a central coil to the outer sphere - and in some ways Syd Barrett played his part in making people want one of those pschedelik orbs and lava lamps (which were more a commercial interpretation of the Soviet thermodynamic and chaos theoretician Pyrogine) in their homes.
And yes kids - there really was a time when people lay about on synthetic furry rugs, wearing very little if any clothing, gurgling to themselves with happy smiles on their faces and eyes the size of saucers.
& it was all mostly innocent post war generation fun.
RIP.
"Death is the sanction of everything the storyteller
can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
(Walter Benjamin)
or:
Kaspar is dead (Hans Arp-Trans: Ralph Manheim)
alas our good Kaspar is dead.
who will now carry the burning banner hidden in the pigtail of clouds
to play the daily black joke
who will now turn the coffee mill in the primeval barrel
who will now entice the idyllic deer out of the petrified paper box.
who will now confound the ships on the high seas by addressing them as
parapluie and the winds by calling them keeper of bees ozone spindle
your highness
alas alas alas our good Kaspar is dead. holy ding dong kaspar is dead.
the cattlefish in the bellbarns clatter with heart-rending grief when his
christian name is uttered. that is why i keep on moaning his family name
Kaspar kaspar kaspar.
why have you left us. into what shape has your beautiful great soul migrated.
have you become a star or a watery chain attached to a hot whirlwind light or a transparent brick on the groaning drum of jagged being.....
a hundred letter for fall and rise again. (fin again....
The death of Syd struck a chord with me and my mid-month podcast at The Best Radio You Have Never Heard (http://www.bestradiopodcast.com) is a tribute to the great rock visionary.
"Here To Do My Parts" is a tribute to Syd Barrett. Even though of course there is some Pink Floyd music in the show, it is more of a tribute to Syd’s vision. I like to think of it as traveling music for Syd’s iPod as he makes the trek to the Gates of Dawn, or perhaps some gardening music for the great beyond as, in his recent past, gardening was one of Syd’s few hobbies.
Have a listen and let me know what you think.
Perry/Chicago
http://www.bestradiopodcast.com