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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.
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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News Round-Up Sun Sep 21, 2025 00:05 | 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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Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
The post Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7So the clarified story is that at the moment they're pulling out of cluster bomb makers. (The upcoming Cluster Munitions Conference in Croke Park in May has something ot do with this).
But once the legislation is changed it will allow investment policy to be made on ethical grounds as well as financial, so it will set a great precedent for calling on the government to withdraw our money from the peddlers of nuclear and other types of weaponry.
This conference centre and pitch is being used to house and refresh makers in weaponry
and killing machines?
Mostly we agree that the knackers who attempt to lead us but abuse office to further crony
interests have done their time-
According to a report by A.F.R.I. in 2006 the Irish government profit up to FIVE BILLION EURO in taxes alone from the arms trade here in Neutral Ireland. Manufacturers here make the software and hardware installed for missiles which are what make them 'smart bombs', We also make the triggers for cluster bombs in Galway.
When it comes to ethics the Irish government has zero. They could care less about the suffering we cause and participate in as witnessed by an activist when approached during the election on this issue. As minister for trade and enterprise Harney denied that Ireland was participating in the arms trade saying....'they probably make kettles for all I know'...her get out clause is the ...'dual use purpose'...
Thet are all guilty of warcrimes.
Minister for defense Willy O Dea invested in Petrel Resources just before Shock and awe and his stock rose by 410 % just after the massacre started and he dosent see a conflict of interest.
The Irish Government is nothing but a Parasite Fascist morally bankrupt gohst of what it pretends to be. Im sure the women and men who sacrificed their lives to create an Irish State are turning in their graves to see what the current cabal of greedy warmongering self serving cowards have done with their dream of Soverigenty and Independence.
Dermot Aherne is the man who pleaded with the newly installed Iraqi government to Spare the life of Sadam Hussein and never spared a single word for the 1.2 million civilians we have killed.....he probably thought he could still sell Sadam beef like the Govt did in the 80's while he earned the name 'The Butcher Of Baghdad'
I wonder Mr Aherne, does this mean you will remove and re-invest the money already turned over to arms manufacturing....or as your article says they will ' no longer' invest in unethical stock and leave their initial investment alone??.
The event in croke park in May is an iNTERNATIONAL ANTI CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONFERENCE.
There is an organisation operating now here in Ireland and they will be running a speaking tour round the country- when I get their proper name etc i'll post it.
The conference and Campaign are welcome but let's not let it distract us by thinking if we stop investing in one particular type of weapon through campaining that we are achieving the political sea change we need. In the words of a Palestinian mate of mine 'the day i found myself on foot ,facing a tank and i was wearing a 'control small arms' T shirt - I was forced to reevaluate my priorities'..........
CTL, Galway, which does research for the merchants of death, including Lockheed and Raytheon, is subsidized by the Irish and British governments.
http://www.entemp.ie/press/2005/20051006.htm
http://home.eircom.net/content/irelandcom/topstories/12...omnet
t was now proposed to withdraw these investments. The spokesman said five of the companies were US-based: Raytheon, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Alliant Techsystems and L3 Communications. The sixth was a French company, Thales.
Time for some all Ireland thinking on Raytheon and Thales then.
Is anyone interested in trying to exert pressure on the government in a co-ordinated fashion to divest from nuclear weapons manafacturers? I think it's a good time to start moving on it, and Ireland (believe it or not) has a good record in setting precedents on Nuclear Disarmament. fleetinggentleman@yahoo.co.uk if so.