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Fraud and mismanagement at University College CorkThu 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-5Sun 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 GodSat 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.
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 OvernightWed 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.
Children to Be Able to Choose Their Own ?Gender? at Any Age Under New EU RulesThu Oct 09, 2025 13:18 | Will Jones Children will be able to choose their own?'gender'?at any age under new EU rules set to be imposed across the continent with penalties for countries that refuse to comply.
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Gaza Ceasefire Will Begin Tonight, Israel AnnouncesThu Oct 09, 2025 11:13 | Will Jones A ceasefire in Gaza will come into effect this evening ahead of the release of the remaining hostages after the first?stage of a peace agreement was signed by Israel and Hamas this morning.
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Are Advertisers Finally Realising They Need to Stop Over-Representing Black People?Thu Oct 09, 2025 09:00 | Lee Taylor Black people make up 4% of the UK but appear in over half of adverts, according to a new Channel 4 report. Is the industry finally realising that such fake over-representation is off-putting, asks Lee Taylor.
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Cutting CO2 Emissions Remains Conservative Party Policy, Says Environment Network HeadThu Oct 09, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood The head of the Conservative Environment Network has just confirmed that cutting CO2 emissions remains Conservative Party policy. So it's Net Zero by the back door, says Paul Homewood.
The post Cutting CO2 Emissions Remains Conservative Party Policy, Says Environment Network Head appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-UpThu Oct 09, 2025 01:07 | Richard Eldred 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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Irish Anarchist Organistion, the Workers Solidarity Movement, today launched a campaign to encourage public understanding of our democratic system in the run up to the general election. The campaign will focus on groups such as young people, the working class and ethnic minorities, who have a history of high rates of abstention.
The campaign launched with a nationwide canvas in which members of the public were asked to give the reasons that motivate them to go out there and vote for the politician of their choice. Activist Sean Browne remarked on the strong feelings on show - "politicians are highly respected members of our society and many of the ordinary people on the streets and boreens of Ireland feel a genuine sense of affection for their wily ways, they just can't wait to elect them back into power (give or take a few changes of course!)".
Below, we include a list of the most enthusiastic responses we received on our canvas. We will be circulating a newsheet with their opinions and enthusiasm to marginalised groups around the country in the hope that everybody else will be just as excited as they are when it comes to casting their votes!
The People's Voice
Shania Murphy, Refuse Worker, 25, Caherciveen.
"It's very important that everybody has their say in deciding which group of gombeens will lie to us, ignore our wishes and give our country's wealth away to their rich cronies."
"Although I know next to nothing about what politicians actually do, I'm thinking about voting Fianna Fail, due to their brave decision to come out in favour of "going forward together". That'll really put the wind up those who are in favour of going backwards, divided."
Fatima Murphy, Weight Lifter, 33, Dundalk.
"The right to vote is an important democratic right. It allows me to vote for the politician whose policies are closest to my own - until he decides to change his mind, that is."
"Even though all of the important decisions have already been made in unaccountable centres of power such as the global financial markets, the WTO, the EU commission, the boardrooms of corporations and a host of unelected and unaccountable committees and management structures, It's our chance to have a say!"
Finbar McFealty, Swimming Instructor, 32, Moate.
"The dail seems to be a talking shop for immature people with immense egos who think they are still the dashing rhetoricians of the Phil, the Hist, the L&H and other pretentious debating societies from across the land, it's our civic duty to decide who gets to hang around the Dail bar being ignored by the population"
Jesus Gonzalez, Hemp Weaver, 19, Ballsbridge.
"Over the last decade our elected politicians have been falling over themselves to give the power vested in them away to private corporations, unelected bureaucrats and hand-picked quangos of their mates. I'm really excited to be given the right to choose which ones get the 'brown envolopes' when my power is given away."
Sean "Shirley" Waters, Exotic Dancer, 23, Dingle.
"I normally vote for Fianna Fáil because of something or other that my great grandfather did, but I noticed a Labour party poster that asked: "but, are you happy?". Suddenly I realised that, since my boyfriend left me, I've been quite unhappy altogether - I'm voting labour!"
Péig Ó Muircheartaigh, Hairdresser, 18, Ballymun.
"Enda Kenny stands for safer communities. It's really important that people vote for him and his courageous stance against the powerful 'more dangerous communities' lobby."
Pól Ó Bradaigh, Masseuse, 28, Dalkey.
"Sinn Féin say that they are different to the rest and although the details of how they are different constantly change, I trust that they would never compromise their principles for power. Not a bullet, not an ounce, disband the RUC!"
The Party Political Broadcast
In case you didn't notice, the above press release is satirical. However, this campaign is real and is attempting to get across a serious point. There is very little democracy in our system of "representative democracy" and the results of elections make very little difference to what happens in practice.
However, happily there are other ways in which people can have a say in how our society operates. Large numbers of people are active in political life and involved in campaigns, trade unions, community groups and residents associations. If people want to regain some democratic control over how our society operates, we're going to have to do it from the bottom up. If democracy is to have any meaning in our lives, we are going to have to get involved in our communities, stand up to the government and the other centres of unaccountable power and insist that we have a say in the decisions that affect us.
This post proves something that I've been thinking for a long time - that commies/anarchojackets or whatever they call themselves have no sense of humour.
This, on the other hand, is funny (see link)
DO YOU remember when we voted to give away the €51 billion Corrib gas field to Shell and Statoil? No, well maybe you remember the day we voted to join the Iraq war by allowing US warplanes to re- fuel at Shannon? Or the time we voted to give tax breaks to private hospitals for the rich? It’s amazing how few decisions we are allowed to take. We do get to vote in the very occasional referendum and about a dozen general elections in an average lifetime, and that’s it. What's wrong with electoral democracy and what can we do about it? Find out more at the below link.
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Saturday May 12, 2007 04:14
by Anarchist - Workers Solidarity Movement
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4This post proves something that I've been thinking for a long time - that commies/anarchojackets or whatever they call themselves have no sense of humour.
This, on the other hand, is funny (see link)
DO YOU remember when we voted to give away the €51 billion Corrib gas field to Shell and Statoil? No, well maybe you remember the day we voted to join the Iraq war by allowing US warplanes to re- fuel at Shannon? Or the time we voted to give tax breaks to private hospitals for the rich? It’s amazing how few decisions we are allowed to take. We do get to vote in the very occasional referendum and about a dozen general elections in an average lifetime, and that’s it. What's wrong with electoral democracy and what can we do about it? Find out more at the below link.
My God.... This is more patronising than the PD's slogan 'Dont throw it all away'....
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