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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
Public Inquiry >>
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Children to Be Able to Choose Their Own ?Gender? at Any Age Under New EU Rules Thu 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.
The post Children to Be Able to Choose Their Own ‘Gender’ at Any Age Under New EU Rules appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Gaza Ceasefire Will Begin Tonight, Israel Announces Thu 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.
The post Gaza Ceasefire Will Begin Tonight, Israel Announces appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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.
The post Are Advertisers Finally Realising They Need to Stop Over-Representing Black People? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Cutting CO2 Emissions Remains Conservative Party Policy, Says Environment Network Head Thu 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-Up Thu 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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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17In the run up to these elections, indymedia can clearly expect to be bombarded daily with party political broadcasts from SF and others no doubt at times masquerading as press releases around apparantly unrelated incidents yet featuring quotes from candidates who just happened to be free to make a comment. These postings will no doubt clog up large amounts of debating space and will involve the pasting of candidates pictures to drive the point home.
Great.
Yeah ABC cuz Anarchism is the solution that will truly change Ireland - stop whinging ABC......
Vótáil Sinn Féin Number 1 - Great Video
Church /State Separation.
Gender Balance?
Has OSF a progressive approach to dealing with the fact that politics are currently dominated by young
and old males?
is there a stated approach to ensuring women candidates?
This would have to happen at both grass-root and committee level, or it is just
a transforminf SF with the same issues as the (older) SF?
In an article, written a few months ago, oSF committed to Church/State separation
true representation by political groups involves bringing in those that are alienated
by the sameness of political debate.
We can certainly say we are tryin to change things for the better .Sinn Fein can no longer even claim to be trying to change society: endorsing policing, little change in corpoate tax, little change in anything, the last thing we need in this country is a new version of Fianna Fail to manage our society and lives for us for another 80 years. I'm actually interested why you think that irelands solutions do not lie with in anarchist thought. Most leftwing critics of anarchism will say its impossible but a good idea you seem to be inferring that its not a good idea?
Vote Sinn Fein if you want to change nothing but the faces.
Keep the debate lit with all the sectarian squabbling amonst the loony lefties - we all see what great work it did for the Scottish Socialist party!
Lets build progressive aliances - even with those cynical anarchists - there not all bad!
Vótáil Sinn Féin!
Since when did pointing out the hypocrisy of $inn Feign become Sectarian? They might have aligned themselves to the DUP but no one is hurling religious abuse at them or the DUP for that manner, then it would become sectarian and abhorrent.
The $hinners have already built their Political alliances not only with the DUP, but also with the British and American Governments. Adams commended Blair on his contribution to the peace process while the man is to blame for countless deaths in Iraq. Why no condemnation of the war in Iraq when he had the chance to do so in front of the world's media?
When those in power start referring to revolutionaries as 'stupid' you know they have reached their smug high point, im thinking "sit down you stupid woman" (Nigel Dodds to Monica Mcwilliams).
Im also glad to see that the new labour types with their talk of 'loony left' have jumped to your aid, just get the suited free state types on board now and you will be shouting 'stick to your kebabs'.
Lets remember what i said, i was referring to the fact that parties not just yours are probably going to clogg up debating space with improvised political broadcasts disguised as debates, press releases etc, i didnt even touch on the validity of Anarchist struggle versus parlimentary politics.
So when you say 'its the way to get things done' what are you referring to? clogging up debating space with election propaganda or lying down with Paisley, Orde, Ahern, Blair & Bush. yeah now theyre people true revolutionaries can do business with not those principled idiots outside on the grass fighting the RUC. 'VINCEREMOS'
You know what I am stupid im replying to you, what a waste of two minutes..
By the way i wasnt suggesting that Monica McWilliams was a revolutionary, i also note that the stormont supporter never said 'the way to get things done'. I guess that does make me sort of stupid.
How many splits in Sinn Fein?
Please feel free to amend -
1921 - Sinn Fein - Cumman Na nGaedheal
1926 - Sinn Fein - Fianna Fail
1934 - Sinn Fein - Republican Congress
1969 - Official Sinn Fein - Provisional Sinn Fein
1986 - Sinn Fein - Republican Sinn Fein
1997 - Sinn Fein - 32 County Soverignty Committee
2007 - Sinn Fein - Eirigi
and I do not believe that the opposing forces in Scotland have taken to assassinating one another yet!
Im not interested in empty rhetoric or sectarian attacks. Any objective observer will acknowledge this fact: the SF Ard Comhairle met and agreed to drop the core of the party's agreed taxation policy. SF went from advocating increased taxes on the super-rich, as agreed at the last Ard Fheis, to advocating no tax increases at all. I dont believe the party leaders did this to woo wealthy voters. The only logic I can see behind this move is that takes away any remaining excuse that the right-wing parties have to refuse SF a place in coalition.
Now I expect the party-loyalist will just hurl abuse but I put a reasonable question to the many genuine activists in SF: whats your bottom line? How far to the right does the party go before you check out? What policy do they have to drop before you've had enough? Will you end up being just like the few socialists left in the Labour Party, forever declaring your determination to 'stay in and fight' even when that fight is hopeless? It may not have come to that yet but thats the direction its going. You could waste years of your life fighting a hopeless battle within, without a fiddlers chance of altering the rightward drift.
Would'nt it be much more productive to bail out now and play a positive role in building a radical grassroots movement from the bottom up. Don't get me wrong, Im not a recruiting seargent for the far-left: great if you end up joining Eirigi, SP, SWP, WSM, ISN etc etc but the main thing is that you will play a positive role, as opposed to defending the indefensible and watching the party you built end up as just another Labour Party, a pillar of the establishment.
Give it some thought. There is life after the party!
Pragmatism dear boy - who here can definitively say that coalition can not become a site of struggle and progress us to our primary and ultimate objectives.
Unity for Freedom!
....and still they prattle on about primary and ultimate objectives. Well, PON, what are $inn Feign's primary and ultimate objectives and how do they intend to achieve them?
You'll not get anywhere if your party leaders keep doing u-turns.
"Pragmatism dear boy - who here can definitively say that coalition can not become a site of struggle and progress us to our primary and ultimate objectives."
Your objectives are in according to the SF manifesto are a wishy washy version of social democracy thats reflected in the rheteoric of building an ireland of equals. We will accept that SF genuinely believe this and they actually try to build their Ireland of equals and redistribute wealth etc.
After the election it is entirely possible SF will be a "king maker" in a hung Dail. FIne gael are unlikely to do a deal with you as they will opt for the greens and some mad collection of independants. Enter Bertie......he will do a deal with Satan or SF in this case. THis is SF's problem- bertie wants power and Enda has a different Satan - the green party.
If Bertie openly says he will do a deal and makes an open offer saying vague stuff on the north without commitment and also offers three ministerial portfolios he will seem reasonable. If SF play hard ball and stick to more "hardline" social democratic ideas and you are screwed. Bertie will say "please be reasonable" knowing he can't/won't deliver on a more social democratic deal because it would reverse loads of policy etc. Sinn fein could say no and appear as only a vote for opposition and another election would have to be called and SF would lose seats because they turned down coalition that seemed "reasonable" and the blame for the second election is on them.
Will SF do this- obviously not, It would be ideogically correct but electorally suicidal. Bertie will throw them a morsal and Gerry will have to sell it to the ardfheis as some step to socialism, irish unity of which a rejectin would scorn the pariot dead....some site of struggle.
Fair enough all the arguments and that...
what do people actually think about the video? I think its the best video from an Irish youth wing to date although I think it could have been made better by inclusion of a few shots of protest etc.
What do others think?
The ogra youth election video is very good, i especially like the intro from the sinn fein youth organiser, good camera work whoever did it! Well done.
Has any other youth wing done an election broadcast?
What will you be doing about the new MI5 headquarters in Holywood? You seem to be making a lot of noise about Brit fortifications which they are dismantling anyway, why are you and your leadership in SF remaining silent on something which proves that the British Government has no intention of leaving this part of the country?