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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 >>
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RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
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Irish Film Institute Evening Course - Film and Human Rights: Screening Realities
‘Dignity and justice for all of us’
The theme of the year-long campaign marking the 60th Anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights informs our six-week evening course this term. With a range of titles covering aspects of human rights, the Anniversary is an ideal opportunity for us to engage with filmmakers and human rights practitioners on the significance of this genre of filmmaking.
Our course will feature six documentaries, previously unscreened in Ireland. Each evening, a special guest from the world of film or human rights will speak on the film and their own work. The course will be of interest to IFI members and friends, film enthusiasts, human rights workers and all who are interested in challenging and provocative cinema.
Oct 7th 6.30 pm
Opening Address by director and writer, Alan Gilsenan, one of Ireland’s most prolific and respected documentarists and filmmakers. With work that includes The Importance of being Irish, The Hospice, Paul Durcan: The Dark School, Asylum, Timbuktu and Zulu 9, Alan will introduce the course and talk about documenting stories in a human rights context.
Screening: Taking Liberties
Filmmaker Chris Atkins has been compared to Michael Moore for this unflinching examination of how Britain’s New Labour has systematically eroded basic civil liberties. Combining real situations, many of which have resonance for us here, with stunts and comments, he offers a scathing attack on what serves for British democracy today.
Chris Atkins will attend the screening.
UK /2007 /101 mins /Documentary/Director: Chris Atkins
Oct 14th 6.30 pm
The Devil came on Horseback
Darfur in Sudan, is the subject of this gripping documentary, where former US Marine Brian Steidle served for six months as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. With broader access than a journalist, Steidle observed and recorded the systematic destruction of the black African population by the Government backed Janjaweed militia. Frustrated at the inaction of the international community, he resigned and returned to US to expose the images he’d recorded and provoke people into action.
US / 2007 /85 mins /Documentary /Director: Annie Sundberg & Ricki Stern
Prof. William A. Schabas OC MRIA Director, Irish Centre for Human Rights National University of Ireland, Galway will attend the screening.
Highly renowned and respected, Prof Schabas will talk about his work in Sudan, on film and human rights and the issues arising from this film
Oct 21st 6.30 pm
Till The Tenth Generation
Dublin resident Tomi Reichenthal survived Belsen concentration camp where he was deported in November 1944, travelling for seven days in cattle carriages along with 12 family members. Only five survived. Tomi first began to speak out about his experience when ethnic and racial tensions began to emerge in a changing Ireland. This challenging documentary brings him back to his home village in Slovakia and then to Belsen for the first time since 1945.
Tomi Reichenthal and director Gerry Gregg will attend the screening.
Ireland /2008 /85 mins /Documentary/Director: Gerry Gregg
October 28th 6.30pm
Suffering and Smiling
Femi Kuti is a Nigerian political activist, trying to change lives through his music. Son of legendary and highly politicised Fela Kuti, Femi continues his work, travelling up and down Nigeria, using his songs to speak out against the country’s corrupt leaders. Filmmaker Dan Ollman contrasts the upbeat tempo and message with images of the lives of poverty led by many Nigerians, despite the oil-wealth of the country.
US/Nigeria /2006 /65 mins /Documentary /English/English subtitles / Director: Dan Ollman
Benedicta Attoh, Chairperson, board of directors of the Africa Centre and founder, Women from Minorities Network, will speak about the film and her own experiences in Nigeria.
Also showing: Under Pressure. Short film by Eamon deStaic on Willie Corduff, Shell to Sea campaigner.
Nov 4th 6.30 pm
Manufactured Landscapes
World renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky’s depictions of destroyed natural landscapes are the subject of this oddly beautiful documentary. Recreating massive scenes from as far afield as a breaking yard in Bangladesh or a factory in China, director Jennifer Baichwal’s camera also reveals the human participants in this grand portrait of the ecological disasters brought about in the pursuit of progress.
Canada /2006 / 86 mins / Documentary /Director: Jennifer Baichwal
Nov 11th 6.30pm
Waltz with Bashir
Director Ari Folman’s animated feature manages to convey the tragedy, violence and futility of war in this unique, must-see film about the Sabra and Shatila massacre of the 1982 Lebanon War. Spurred on by a friend’s recurring nightmare years later, which the men connect to their wartime Israeli army mission, Ari tries to recall the period, needing to discover the truth about the time and about himself. Events are recreated using a bold and graphic animation style, under the Art Direction of David Polonsky. David Polonsky will attend the screening and participate in a follow-up Q&A about the film’s style and the use of animation and film to deliver a political narrative.
Israel/Germany/France /2008 /90 mins /Documentary/Animation/Biography /Director: Ari Folman
Cost: €120 (€105 concessions).
BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL
For more information and to sign up for the course, please call (01) 612 9415
All Evening Course events take place in the Irish Film Institute, 6 Eustace Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.
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