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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.
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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
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Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose C... Wed Oct 08, 2025 19:36 | Will Jones
Two-tier justice was on full display as three Epping protesters received longer prison sentences than the asylum seeker whose sex attack on a child they were protesting about, says Laurie Wastell.
The post Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose Crime They Were Protesting appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
British Steel Industry Faces ?Existential Threat? as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer?s ?EU R... Wed Oct 08, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Britain?s Net Zero-ravaged steel industry is facing an "existential threat" as the EU threatens the UK with tariffs of up to 50% despite Keir Starmer's recent 'EU reset' giveaway on fishing rights and youth mobility.
The post British Steel Industry Faces “Existential Threat” as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer’s ‘EU Reset’ Giveaway appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun Wed Oct 08, 2025 15:27 | Ferro
The public's indifference to art has never been greater. No wonder, says Ferro: it's all just tired Left-progressive politics by another means. But the fightback for real art that moves the human soul has begun.
The post The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV Wed Oct 08, 2025 13:00 | James Alexander
Not until Leo XIV did we have a picture of a holy man staring at an ice cube with his hand on it, respectfully gazing as if imagining the whisky that could go with such a rock, says Prof James Alexander.
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Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations Wed Oct 08, 2025 11:17 | Sallust
Sir Lenny Henry has called for Britain to pay ?18 trillion in reparations to black people, arguing in a new book that high rates of black crime and unemployment are "all because of the slave trade".
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10A huge victory again for the Boycott Killer Coke campaign in Ireland and internationally. Congrats to all in Trinity on a magnificent success, and hopefully its one we can all build on.
This is a very good message of solidarity with the Colombian Coca-Cola workers & to the workers and oppressed of Latin America generally. I think that the people that are doing Coke's work in trying to get their products re-introduced should just let it rest. The 'Freedom of choice' argument does not wash. You can still get a can of Coke around the corner, and anyway many shops do exclusive deals with a soft drinks firm - I never saw you be motivated against that!. The people that want Coke back in are in reality opponents of workers' rights (or at best, willfully turning a blind eye to human rights abuses). The TCDSU verdict is clear.
When will Trinity students start a campaign for equality of access to third level education for all. It seems when people get their bums on the revered pews at Trinity they stop seeing the gross injustices close to home. Or maybe they need an underclass on their doorsteps to exploit when they graduate!
Can you still buy Coke in the Buttery?
'Can you still buy Coke in the Buttery'
Oh yeah. Its only banned in su shops.
I hope that Trinity student Union maintains the awarenss surrounding the reasons why Coke is banned and dont just hold a referendum and leave it at that as its what happend in UCD.
I expect there to be a joint nestle and coke referendum at some stage this year in belfield but I expect the outcome to be a lot differnt to Trinitys.
Coke may be banned but are all the other brands owned by the coca cola company banned also eg Deep River Rock,Fanta etc?
Including Fanta, Lilt, Powerade, River Rock etc.
Can't see why a vote in UCD would be any different - the boycott was never as strong in Trinity as it was in UCD - this vote now shows once and for all that students in Ireland are overwhelmingly in support of human rights and the right to join a union in Colombia.
Another vote in UCD would be a great way of increasing the pressure on Killer Coke.
The boycott killer coke campaign seems to be more interested in generating publicity for itself than supporting trade unionists in Colombia or anywhere else. They aren't really all that interested in coke either from what I can see , or otherwise they would have surely made a bit of a fuss about the coke workers fight against the Venezualan branch of the company last year. I don't even remember any mention of it on indymedia .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6079334.stm
No-one can say whether of not the "political climate" of UCD students has changed. There is no way of measuring that. SU Council is not necessarily representative of UCD students. There are loads of rotten boroughs with no compeditive elections especially since the Constitutional Change recently. This assists the Right as they get more of their type elected without being answerable to a public vote, while elections suit campaigners. The victory of the anti-Coke side twice in 03-04 was due to a few things. Firstly the camapigning work by a large number of students. If I remember the 3 left-wing Sabbatical Officers did campaign but no more than many regular students. In fact, due to their other work committments they probably did less on the Coke vote than others! Secondly there was a general swing to the left among students in 2002-05 due to threat of fees and cuts in College budgets. This certainly did assist the 2 victories on the Coke ban.
Plato:
When will you start such a campaign? What position are the students of Trinity in to affect the educational system in Ireland? And why ask them anyway? It's akin to asking workers to start a campaign about unemployment, surely those affected should initiate it (like, for example, SINALTRAINAL did in the case of the Coke boycott). Your point makes no sense and is a petty attempt to detract from this victory.