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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
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
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Climatism in Europe is Dying Tue Sep 30, 2025 19:00 | Eugyppius
Climatism in Europe is dying as its grassroots support evaporates and Left-wing activists move onto other concerns. Eurocrats are well-insulated from public opinion but they can't ignore it forever, says Eugyppius.
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Blow to Miliband as Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling and Union Boss Calls for Him to Be... Tue Sep 30, 2025 17:36 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves has signalled support for drilling in the North Sea in a blow to Ed Miliband ? as the boss of the Unite union calls on Keir Starmer to sack the "disastrous" Net Zero Secretary.
The post Blow to Miliband as Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling and Union Boss Calls for Him to Be Sacked appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Wes Streeting Says Nigel Farage is ?Racist? Tue Sep 30, 2025 15:30 | Will Jones
Health Secretary Wes Streeting?has said Nigel Farage is "racist", joining Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson in using the insult of the Reform party and its leader.
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Is the ?Friend-Enemy Distinction? Right-Wing Critical Race Theory? Tue Sep 30, 2025 13:00 | Noah Carl
Perfectly neutral institutions will never be attainable, argues Noah Carl, but that doesn?t mean that reasonably neutral institutions aren?t worth striving for.
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Europe Has Never Looked More Pathetic Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:27 | Will Jones
With Trump's announcement of a peace plan backed by both Israel and Arab leaders, Europe, with its toothless alternative proposal to reward terror, has never looked more pathetic or weaker on the global stage.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13Anyone buying a kitchen should think again.
Given that a lot of Irish people are losing their jobs at the moment I think it would be wise to shop at home. The abuse of workers is just another symptom of the neo-liberal agenda.
Thank you Des! that little article has inspired me to let people be aware that I have for a few months been on an ALL IRELAND DIET and I feel its time to extend these values into an ALL IRELAND CONSUMERIST LIFE FULL STOP. And the more people take on this same respect the more we promote All Ireland Abu! The British kitchen sink co. would do better to give their products to those in their own country who are in need of them and as a gesture of their good will,give them free too....it would be a gold star in terms of decreasing pollution of the planet that it would take to cargo the awful idea here.
I built my kitchen from (sustainably grown) iroko - is that haram too, or is English / British the only "foreign" that SF bigotry applies to? Personally, I was hugely dissapointed by the cultural damage when RnaG ceased its embargo on "foreign" music (i.e. English / British lyricists, excepting the Pogues and British-resident Irish tax exiles), but it is time to grow up nearly a century after independence. I also vote SF, but please base these statements around sound economic and ethical principles rather than national hatred. It's a pity we don't have any non-nationalist socialist candidates...
Buy local, build sustainable, minimise waste, maximise local economy and it works to pretty much the same end, without dredging up the rhetoric of hatred.
"Buy local, build sustainable, minimise waste, maximise local economy and it works to pretty much the same end, without dredging up the rhetoric of hatred."
Where is the rhetoric in the statement? "British" was only mentioned one time and it was hardly used in a hateful manner.
This statement is reiterating Republican Sinn Féin's support of the workers and the BATU in Athy.
Shameless Plug: If you're interested in discussing sustainable, localised economies and environmental practices, you're more than welcome to at the Irish Republican Bulletin Board.
The complaint against the 'British' kitchens is the title of the piece.
This is nothing to do with BATU's dispute.
RSF are not trying to help the dispute, they are trying to piggyback their 1930's era nationalist agenda onto the workers struggle.
With all due respect Anarchist, I think you might be commenting out of prejudice towards Sinn Féin. RSF have publically (and consistently) stated their support for worker's rights and trade unions, including BATU.
I am curious, have you ever read any Sinn Féin proposal documents such as Saol Nua or Éire Nua? Are there any specific points that you disagree with? I've included a link to Saol Nua in case you're interested.
Des, you are at a disadvantage here as you sound like a gent but it is the ladies who say if a kitchen is OK or not.
They don't care if the washing-machine is Bosch or Miele (German), or Whirlpool (US). They just want to have a washing machine that works. That in turn reflects on how they respect us men who provide (or not).
Nobody seems to care if any fixture, fitting or appliance is local, efficient or supports their own economy - new wealth obviously needs flaunting. Ever tried to view the range of (Irish) Qualceram toilets and basins? Or are those Italian, Spanish and Indonesian ones just so much more of a classy statement? Mine's local, but I had to order it from a catalogue.
Of course this wouldn't interest RSF because their brand of nationalism is only aroused by English / British foreign produce, although they probably never noticed their daily intimate interactions with their own Twyfords or Shires, or the Adamants installed in most public conveniences. A bit like all that "British Warship" hysteria in Cork that ignores any other military vessels contributing to global conflict and oppression, or that half the visiting British Naval vessels are actually on fisheries patrol in Irish seas and not bombing Iraqis.
In relation to the Kitchens. There are a lot of Irish people working at manufacturing Kitchens, and with the major turn down in the building industry these jobs are in risk. Its seems nobody in Ireland is producing bathroom furniture - so thats really not an issue. You dont hear Sinn Féin asking people not to buy Armitage Shanks, do you?
"You dont hear Sinn Féin asking people not to buy Armitage Shanks, do you?"
You just prove the point that this is a ridiculous anti-Brit rant, not a political argument for local jobs, local goods or sustainable employment - of course Irish businesses build bathroom furniture, bathroom fittings, toilets and plumbing. Try these: http://www.smurfitkappa.ie/ - http://www.qualceram-shires.com/ - http://investor.graftonplc.com/ - http://ie.wavin.com/master/master.jsp
But then the whole issue of housing, the housing "crisis" (a crisis with 30% of all properties unoccupied?) and the building downturn are based around the politics of greed, globalised growth and increasing social inequality. Who is complaining about the Italian, Spanish and Indonesian kitchens, the Turkish tiles, the Spanish paving stones, the deforestation wood decking?
Ranting about the "abusive British" contribution to inequalities driven by native behaviours doesn't get us far, especially when it is one of the largest export markets for Irish building products and skills. (yeah, we bought Shires, Plumbase, Jacksons, Buildbase, etc in the last couple of years - now more than a fifth of the Irish building trade in profit and employment).
The real housing crisis (homelessness and social housing lists) is worse than ever. The lack of appropriate shopping, healthcare facilities and schools in housing developments is worse than ever. The commitment on class sizes is now officially not public policy. The mental health panels promised in the 2001 act aren't in place, and mental health spending has gone down. Multinationals have been invited to co-site their "partnerships" on the grounds of our public hospitals (and run the newly-installed parking meters for patients and visitors). WE did all that, all by our selves - on a per capita GDP greater than Britain's.
Somehow I suspect that if the kitchens in question were air freighted halfway across the world from a hellhole sweatshop in some brutal repressive gawdforsaken country nobody would give a damn ?
As for Irish radio stations (especially RnaG given that theyre entirely publicly funded) playing CD’s by "Irish tax exiles” they shouldnt play a bloody note !
DIY Kitchener, I suggest that you have a look at the IRBB website, or just read Saol Nua, and you will find that Republicans are in general agreement with you. Except that "we" didnt buy those companies you mention. Some of those 5% of the population that "own" 40% of the nation's wealth did. Another little fact that you seem to ignore is that Britain is occupying part of our country, so we can be forgiven for being a little cool towards them.