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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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Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims Sun Nov 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
There are growing claims the UK's visa system is being openly gamed, with record numbers of Pakistani nationals arriving on student, work and visitor visas and then switching to asylum.
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30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do Sun Nov 23, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
Thirty Left-wing MPs have written to Ofcom to press it to censor X under the Online Safety Act. The evidence of 'hate' on the platform is threadbare, but it's obvious why they want to clip its wings, says Laurie Wastell.
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Exposed: How Green ?Philanthropy? Writes Scripts for Ulez ?Clean Air? Activists Sun Nov 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile highlights the work of Charlotte Gill exposing how green 'philanthropy' gives scripts to activists pushing 'clean air' schemes like Ulez as blatant proxies for the climate agenda.
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News Round-Up Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | 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.
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British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
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Jump To Comment: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1The organisation of the European Social Forum is both secretive and highly undemocratic. In all likelihood the official sessions will be every bit as stage managed as those at the World Social Forum.
Nothing too radical, nothing which might scare NGO career bureaucrats will be mentioned.
Still though, the ESF will provide an opportunity to meet activists from all around Europe and some of the unofficial meetings will be interesting.
Some serious criticisms have been made of the way the ESF is being organised. Any chance that some of those promoting it will answer these?
along with your Maoist friends from the MST
What is the point in going to a meeting where it has been decided in advance that your point of view is going to be excluded? This is the problem, not any fears about being sullied by reformists. The WSM took a full and active part in the ANV in Ireland during the abortion referendum alongside all sorts of reformists and authoritarians. Meanwhile some of the Trots involved misbehaved in their normal fashion and attempted to split the movement and appeared only interested in recuperating what they could from it. Calling for unity, when all the important decisions have already been made by a clique of Leninists, is hypocritical in the extreme.
Unity (as long as it's under our leadership)!
Open debate (as long as we decide the speakers)!
Diversity (except anarchists, ecologists....)!
Why not attempt to respond to some of the criticisms rather than snidely attacking those who criticise?
Oh dear, how sad, the brave "vanguard" of the anarchist movement in Ireland are so concerned with being sullied by being at the same place as reformists and lenninsts that they aren't going to the ESF.
Now that is a real pity, since their contribution to the movement in Ireland has been so useful.
It is a shame that they won't bring their useful, inciteful experience of building a open mass movement in Ireland to those misguided Italians.
like the original poster says the whole thing is a load of bollox, organized by a bunch of psuedo lefties, the left is a bourgeois dream that has
belly flopped, but the middle class radical chic still clinging on.
left and right are just bullshit distractions to divide the working class. don't think that refondazione communista are any better. they are not getting a slice of the action cos they are to far down the pecking order.they don''t count for shit. But when it comes to the crunch the party comes before ordinary people.
party time is over time to try and get along with out them. the province of firenze and the region of tuscany is controlled by a totalitarian regime which is propped up by freemasonary and the oldest bank in the world, the bank of masons and parasites of Siena, rip off artists since 1472 . from time !!
check it any one from the area will confirm ::
Or maybe a summit of whichever parts of the movement Refundazione Communista want to allow to speak. It seems that the organisers are not really interested in engaging in debate and free exchange of ideas, rather they see the attendees as passive consumers of star-driven speeches telling us once again how bad capitalism is. The speakers, subject matters and ground rules are decided in advance by a cabal of Leninist parties, especially RC. The punters are sheep to be herded into the 'sphere of influence' of the Leninists, in their cuddly guise of NGO-loving reformists, and certainly not to be allowed to contribute to anything that might remotely resemble a debate.
How long before we hear that "the European Social Forum IS the European anti-capitalist movement. The various petit bourgeois anarchists, environmentalists and uncontrollables are not a part of this movement and never have been, this is a movement grounded in the working class and has no place for these petit bourgeois idealists and police agents..."
The ESF is going to bring together a lot of serious forces from around Europe who have done some big things, things we have not yet fone in Ireland in our wildest dreams. Spain had a general strike, and 500,000 at the Barcelona EU summit demos. Italy has had a general strike of 13 million and the movement has grown after Genoa. 1.3 million people demonstrated against fascism in France on Mayday, 3 million voting for declared revolutionary candidates.
Personally, if these people are organising a get together in Firenze, I'm going. Of course people like Pilger, Chomsky, Agnoletto, Bove and all will be speaking- a lot of people will come to here them. But it would be a mistake to see this as the purpose of the ESF- a cariacture of the star system in pop or film.
I think Florence will be invaluable because of the real links and networks that will be made between grassroots activists. European wide co ordinations, demonstrations and strikes happening in all major cities at the same time- against war, for Palestine, asylum rights, against privatisation. That's the future.
Also the ESF will have a major fringe festival element to it. If you don't want to go to a session, DIY. Every group will be holding their own meetings on what they like- and as there'll be thousands of people at the ESF, it's a good way of spreading your message and meeting similar groups from across Europe.
The PGA event in the Netherlands is a good idea, but I don't think it has been built for in any major way here in Ireland. A few of the usual activists might go, but I expect it will be tiny by comparison.
After Genoa, this is what the Italians have decided to do, and we Irish can learn a lot from the Italian movement. I think it's good they've called a summit of the movement to discuss the way forward on a European wide level.