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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
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Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV Wed Oct 08, 2025 13:00 | James Alexander
Not until Leo XIV did we have a picture of a holy man staring at an ice cube with his hand on it, respectfully gazing as if imagining the whisky that could go with such a rock, says Prof James Alexander.
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Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations Wed Oct 08, 2025 11:17 | Sallust
Sir Lenny Henry has called for Britain to pay ?18 trillion in reparations to black people, arguing in a new book that high rates of black crime and unemployment are "all because of the slave trade".
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How Representative is X of UK Public Opinion? Wed Oct 08, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Britain's political class is addicted to X, but how representative Is the platform? According to recent YouGov polls, only 1 in 6 people uses X daily, and most people view it unfavourably.
The post How Representative is X of UK Public Opinion? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Hugh Grant Teams Up With Climate Activists Wed Oct 08, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Last week Hugh Grant, one of several celebrities behind press censorship campaign group Hacked Off, announced a joint campaign with 38 Degrees, a radical climate activist group. Charlotte Gill investigates what's going on.
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News Round-Up Wed Oct 08, 2025 01:19 | 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 8One member of a citizen's inspection team was arrested while attempted to board the U.S.S. Essex carrying 4,000 marines to Talisman Sabre exercises. The Essex is presently docked in Cairns for R & R - a growing local industry as 3 direct flights from Guam to Cairns land three times a week.
Cairns Post report and photos on Citizen's Inspection action
http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2009/06/29/49335_local....html
On June 26th. we conducted a vigil in ANZAC Square
(photo http://talismansabre.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/resist-mi...1402/ ) Brisbane to remember the dead of the Af/Pak war. Our number included children of military veterans, nurses, a nun, teachers, Irish, English, Australian and New Zealand born.
ANZAC (Australia New Zealand Army Corp) Square embodies the creation myth of Australia with statues of soldiers who have served in farflung wars on rquest of British and American empires. There is little visible mention of the civilian dead.
The Square is centred on the creation myth of Gallipoli, rarely challenged, and the illusion that our security depends on service to empire. The Gallipoli creation myth has been hyped in the past decade by both Conservative and Labor governments to stimulate contemporary recruitment. Eric Bogle's "The Band Played Walting Matilda" remains a solid response. Here performed by The Pogues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lE-YjjZhwc&feature=related
We circled, placing our demands on the perimiter
-Bring Our Toops Home
-Resist Talisman Sabre Military Exercises
-War is Terror is War
We read some of the names of the dead of the AfPak war
* 5 Afghani children killed by Australian SAS
http://www.theage.com.au/world/australian-troops-kill-5....html
* Australian military killed in Afghanistan
http://icasualties.org/oef/byNationality.aspx?hndQry=Au...ralia
* Other foreign military killed in Afghanistan
http://icasualties.org/oef/
*Afghani civilian dead
http://www.j-n-v.org/Afghanistan/Afghan_civilians_death...n.htm
We recalled military resisters presently in brigs and facing the courts for refusing to deploy and resisting the war www.coragetoresist.org
Gary MacLennan (whose father aged 16 fought at the Battle of the Somme) gave an inspring speech about the horrors of war and the roots and the need to resist the escalating Af/Pak War. (Photo http://talismansabre.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/resist-mi...1395/ )
Simon Wells with his squeeze box concluded proceedings leading us in song.
On Saturday 4th. of July 9.30 a.m. to Amberley Air Force Base
http://www.raaf.gov.au/bases/amberley.aspx
for an "Independence (from America) Day" vigil.
The RAAF(Royal Australian Air Force) bombed Iraq, transport troops and military to Afghanistan and presently have Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Detachment and the Air Force Control and Reporting Centre (CRC) deployed in Afghanistan. The CRC have 70 personnel based at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.
http://www.defence.gov.au/opEx/global/opslipper/index.htm
Guardian - Biggest U.S. Offensive ("Strike of the Sword") in Afghanistan in 5 years underway today
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/02/us-offensiv...lmand
First British Commander to be Killed in Combat since the Falklands
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/02/british-regime...istan
Guardian Interactive Guide to new "Strike of the Sword" offensive
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/jul/02...istan
For updates through July check this site
http://talismansabre.wordpress.com/
AUDIO LINK - ABC Radio Interview with Ciaron O'Reilly on Resistance to Talisman Sabre 09
(shit title but not a bad interview?)
http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2009/07/the-peaceful...nings
Today we are taking action against the war of our society. So we will be creating a roadblock at the army depot in rockhampton in the position of prostration.
The position of prostration (The cross) we are taking today is one of humility and repentance. We are doing this to ask God for repentance for our role as part of this society. Our role in which our lives and taxes pay for the military equipment and the means to make and create war. This equipment and resources of human lives are used for the purposes of war, which have killed innocent families. E.G Afghanistan, Ameriacn, Iraq, Pakistan families.
We come as a representation of our Australian society to repent for our sins in this.
We come today as concerned Australians asking that we the people of this country and our government take a stand to abandon war as a means of creating peace. We come in the non-violence of christ and his spirit which dwels within and amoungst us.
Amen
Thankyou,
Philip Yew Mob:0414321451 - We will have photos available.
MEDIA RELEASE: Martin Luther King House of Christian Nonviolence at War Games, July 2009. – Exercise Talisman Sabre, Rockhampton 2009.
Christian Peace Activists are gathering through July in Yeppoon to conduct purposeful, prayerful interventionary action against the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan. Yeppoon is the site of Exercise Talisman Sabre involving 25,000 US and Australian Troops practicing their ‘interoperability’ or ability to act as a single seemless military force. "The US is at war, Australia is at war and civilians are dying as a result of our joint military operations throughout the Middle East," said nonviolence practitioner Margaret Pestorius.
In a loose coalition, Christian nonviolence practitioners have set up the Martin Luther King House of Christian Nonviolence as a nonviolence operations/training centre and residence. "We intend to be a resource for those who are interested in deepening their experience of nonviolent community and action." "We are from many church traditions - the Catholic, Uniting Church, Salvation Army, Baptist and others."
Though somewhat diverse in orientation, the activists come from the traditions of modern Christian nonviolence theorists and activists: Martin Luther King, the Berrigan brothers, Dorothy Day, John Dear and Ched Myers. Moreover we are acting in solidarity with the many ploughshares activists who live out the prophesy "they shall Beat their swords into ploughshares, their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift a hand agains nation and we shall study war no more". [isaiah 2:4]
The MLK House can serve as a place where nonviolent affinity groups can be supported in preparing for and carrying through a wide range of anti-militarism actions. During the excercises, some groups will choose to go into the live-firing range of the exercise area to frustrate the war games through nonviolent presence and witness. Air Commodore Meier, a top official in the Defence establishment, when giving evidence to the Senate Committee on Defence, Trade and Foreign Relations 4th June 2009, stated that the Talisman Sabre Exercises would be suspended if a civilian was known to be in the live fire area.
The nonviolence movements against war have a long history of building the peace movement through the explicit resistance to war. Toward the end of his life, Dr Martin Luther King was a staunch opponent of war – including the Vietnam War. He said: "When a country spends more on military defencethan on programs of social uplift it is approaching spiritual death" [speech to Riverside Church 1967 – You Tube]
Nonviolence practitioners have faced lengthy court cases and prison sentences with soldiers, marines and sailors amongst those playing the most significant roles. [see couragetoresist.org] Activists will provide information on GI Rights to US service personnel visting the Rockhamption area during July. Thousands of US GI’s have resisted the wars in Middle East in various ways since 2003. [www.couragetoresist.org] Members of Christians Against All Terrorism who conducted a citizens inspection Pine Gap in 2005 will also attend.
Christian nonviolence practioners will play various roles in Yeppoon. Some will join and support the gathering of peace activists at the Peace Convergence from the 9th –12th July. Nonviolence training will be conducted. Others will conduct separate autonomous activities drawing from a broad rand of nonviolence tactics chosen to build the peace movement in Australia. These will include street theatre, prayer vigils, prayer services that interrupt or block and nonviolent interruption of activities.
Contact Margaret Pestorius 0403214422
See current media:
http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/story/2009/07/01/n...ater/
Associated media sites
Brisbane Catholic Worker Blog: [Ciaron O’Reilly]http://talismansabre.wordpress.com
Notorious protester hits Shoalwater - no, not Ciaron!!
http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/story/2009/07/01/n...ater/
Vid Dateline - Australian Troops "under fire" in Afghanistan (20 min)
http://www.sbs. com.au/dateline/ story/watch/ id/600111/ n/Diggers- Under-Fire