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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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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17The Washington Post asked Obama a loaded question...
DailyKos.com's mcjoan writes:
read carefully, there will be a test...
All of the above scraped from the longer article:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVkHC...ANV84
• Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/guantanamo/
• Review of Detention Policy Options
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/detention/
• Ensuring Lawful Interrogations
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/interrogation/
• Review of the Detention of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/al-marri/
The case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is unique and required its own Executive Order:
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Chris Arendt, a former guard at the prison camp
and Moazzam Begg an ex-detainee spoke to the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7843339.stm
. . . . .
Chris Arendt
'How to Become a Concentration Camp Guard Without Even Trying'
http://www.alternet.org/asoldierspeaks/79980/
Moazzam Begg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moazzam_Begg
'Guantánamo and back: an interview with Moazzam Begg'
http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-terrorism/moazzam...8.jsp
Moazzam Begg & Chris Arendt
Tonight Reuters has a story on closing the Guantanamo concentration camp.
"Some of those being held include Chinese Muslim Uighurs who Washington says would face persecution if they returned home, together with Libyans, Uzbeks and Algerians who are also at risk."
So the five years of torture and imprisonment without trial was to protect their civil rights?
Beggars beleif.
For me, this is the action I have been waiting for. GTMO was always an intentional media distraction. 'Hey media! Look over there at Cuba! and ignore the secret prisons in Romania, Poland and Shannon (maybe)'
The fact that Obama is openly and publicly addressing the issue of Black Sites shows he is willing to go beyond the symbolic. Time will tell, of course, the reality of these executive orders.
More great stuff! Let's see what he does (or if he does anything) about the School of the Americas... http://www.soaw.org/
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC or WHINSEC), formerly the School of the Americas (SOA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hemisphere_Institu...ation
some more
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/....html
But for the people of the Middle East, the absence of the word "Gaza" - indeed, the word "Israel" as well - was the dark shadow over Obama's inaugural address. Didn't he care? Was he frightened? Did Obama's young speech-writer not realise that talking about black rights - why a black man's father might not have been served in a restaurant 60 years ago - would concentrate Arab minds on the fate of a people who gained the vote only three years ago but were then punished because they voted for the wrong people?
Fisk, really now.... this is silly. Shame on Obama for not mentioning another country by name? In his inauguration speech?
Obama was elected president of the USA, not Israel or Palestine. Did Fisk mention that Obama didn't mention any other country either? No.
Did Fisk mention that in Obama's inaugural speech he said the word Muslim twice while he mentioned the word Jew only once? - No. Does that really matter? - No. Does it signify something important - perhaps. I do suspect this was the first inauguration speech ever to mention Islam at all.
Inauguration speeches are supposed to be Poems not Prose. In the next 4 years we will have to see if Obama can do prose, as well.
I've lost the link now but I read on a blog by an Iranian-American that the phrases 'mutual interest' and 'mutual respect' are identical phrases that have been used in the past by the Iranian elites when peace offerings to the USA were made (and ignored) in the past. If this was intentional, who knows - but just these few words could open up things between the USA and Iran.
Of where & when the dark prisons were.
But Jayzhus in these euphoric post Bush times does it matter if they were/are in Poland, or Romania, Pakistan or Georgia or some tax amnestied anonymous industrial estate of the Celtic Tiger?
Does this mean the US will take no prisoners?
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Please take a look at this interview with Michael Ratner, President of the US Center for Constitutional Rights.
This is a balanced legal and historical view of how much has changed this week.
Essentially, he seems to be quite surprised by the speed and scope of the changes....
Center for Constitutional Rights
http://ccrjustice.org/
Michael Ratner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ratner
His blog http://www.michaelratner.com/blog/
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Keith Olbermann & RawStory article:
Pentagon's terror 'recidivism' claims blasted as 'propaganda'
• text and video: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Olbermann_debunks_release....html
Glenn Greenwald:
The newest fear-mongering campaign from the Right and the media
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/23/al_qa....html
this photo was taken in Iraq last week.
obviously sticky labels would not only be overbudget but less unusual & cruel.
Your example is correct - now imagine imagine a worse fate for those same Iraqi Detainees now by the US...
You can register and download a letter to post to Prez Obama and Sec of State Hillary here:
• http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/call-prote...-iraq
'President Obama's plans to expeditiously determine the fates of about 245 terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and quickly close the military prison there were set back last week when incoming legal and national security officials -- barred until the inauguration from examining classified material on the detainees -- discovered that there were no comprehensive case files on many of them.
Instead, they found that information on individual prisoners is "scattered throughout the executive branch," a senior administration official said. The executive order Obama signed Thursday orders the prison closed within one year, and a Cabinet-level panel named to review each case separately will have to spend its initial weeks and perhaps months scouring the corners of the federal government in search of relevant material.
Several former Bush administration officials agreed that the files are incomplete and that no single government entity was charged with pulling together all the facts and the range of options for each prisoner....'
• more at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20....html