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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.
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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
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
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Are Advertisers Finally Realising They Need to Stop Over-Representing Black People? Thu Oct 09, 2025 09:00 | Lee Taylor
Black people make up 4% of the UK but appear in over half of adverts, according to a new Channel 4 report. Is the industry finally realising that such fake over-representation is off-putting, asks Lee Taylor.
The post Are Advertisers Finally Realising They Need to Stop Over-Representing Black People? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Cutting CO2 Emissions Remains Conservative Party Policy, Says Environment Network Head Thu Oct 09, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
The head of the Conservative Environment Network has just confirmed that cutting CO2 emissions remains Conservative Party policy. So it's Net Zero by the back door, says Paul Homewood.
The post Cutting CO2 Emissions Remains Conservative Party Policy, Says Environment Network Head appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Thu Oct 09, 2025 01:07 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose C... Wed Oct 08, 2025 19:36 | Will Jones
Two-tier justice was on full display as three Epping protesters received longer prison sentences than the asylum seeker whose sex attack on a child they were protesting about, says Laurie Wastell.
The post Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose Crime They Were Protesting appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
British Steel Industry Faces ?Existential Threat? as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer?s ?EU R... Wed Oct 08, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Britain?s Net Zero-ravaged steel industry is facing an "existential threat" as the EU threatens the UK with tariffs of up to 50% despite Keir Starmer's recent 'EU reset' giveaway on fishing rights and youth mobility.
The post British Steel Industry Faces “Existential Threat” as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer’s ‘EU Reset’ Giveaway appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 6 5 4 3 2 1Science Fiction. You have summed it up nicely.
Only I'd put much more emphasis on energy consumption, use of resources, decision-making and what we can all collectively and individually do to create resilient communities and economies. Models exist for all of this.
We don't know how will they work long term but we for sure have enough info, skills and resources within our reach to get started, which beats sitting around waiting for the big boys to sort it out for us/ screw us over, or alternatively for some manmade or natural disaster to finish us off.
Many of those on the climate change bandwagon just see an angle and want to use it as a political tool to limit china's, india's and africa's growth and impose new laws and lucrative cap and trade carbon taxes on their own populations. We've already seen raw scientific data "disappear"
On the other side you have Large corporations such as shell and Exxon mobil funding biased research to build the case for digging up and using every last drop of the highly lucrative fossil fuel deposits they can find, whilst making sure other methods of energy production get scant funding in comparison. Their corrupt activities in the Niger delta and closer to home in erris have been an eye opener to some.
Then you have the nuclear industry, a corrupt and profitable controllable centralised means of energy production who see an angle which might get their toxic and dangerous product back into the game under the guise of it being safer than fossil fuels for the environment
We can't really trust any of them.
All we can truly say is that it is no harm to be careful with our energy consumption and be mindful of any waste in our lives, but be slow to trust the messages coming from large corporate or government sources and their directly paid PR and scientific lapdogs on the matter.
Ultimately for things like energy, GM and climate science, what we need is some independent "open source" non corporate, non governmental new type of copyleft scientific endeavour not based on patents, secrecy, proprietary ownership of data and extending grants and which does not benefit directly from the particular results they might or might not get. I'm not sure this pipe dream is even remotely possible in this broken system right now.
Right now "truth" in science is no longer solid. It depends on who is controlling the money. There are lots of different ways of interpreting and charting the same data. And it is easy to lie with statistics. Politicians do it all the time.
It is likely that both sides of the debate have valuable and useful points to make. The problem is that both sides now have large interests to protect and so will resort to less than honourable means to defend these interests rather than entering into a process of dialogue to reach some level of truth.
At some point though, each individual has to make a decision to act, or not, on the information they do have which will by the nature of information be incomplete and less than perfect.
I have made my decision.
Here is another interesting clinate change video to add to the above list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKrw6ih8Gto
I've been looking at the renewed global warming/ climate change controversy a bit over recent weeks since the climategate incident.
I'm neither a scientist nor a researcher. I would have been coming at the issue from an eco-anarchist perspective (whatever that means?).
I have reached the following conclusions that are open to constant change;
The concept of anthropogenic global warming/climate change has become a focus for action for a large chunk of humanity.
The climate sceptic argument is largely but not exclusively propagated by the hydro-carbon industry who are looking to protect their profits and keep us in a state of business as usual.
The climate change/global warming movement has been picked up on by other financial interests who have found a way to profit from this latest phenomenon by imposing top-down solutions of dubious effectiveness like carbon taxes that have pissed off lots of ordinary people causing them to move towards the climate sceptic position.
Climate change researchers have resorted to dubious means themselves to protect their findings and interests (Politics and economics distorting science)
I do not know what the effects of emitting all this carbon will be. I have found convincing arguments of all stripes but it seems common sense that causing such a large change in our planet's ecosystem will set of a chain of events that we cannot control.
As such it seems sensible to try to slow down our carbon emissions but this is made next to impossible by the momentum of the carbon industry and our culture's reliance on fossil fuels.
It seems to boil down to; do we change our behaviour re fossil fuels or not? Given the above and also the other negative effects of the hydrocarbon industry. Wars, pollution, respiratory diseases etc the choice seems obvious.
Not that it will be easy .... at all, but so much of the climate sceptic argument seems to be an excuse for carrying on as usual. As such I ain't interested, though I am grateful for the heads up re the financial skullduggery re cap and trade etc. Not surprised though. That's just the way high finance operates. Opportunists
As an anarchist I'm interested in what I can do, in what we can do at the level of our communities to prepare for whatever happens be it global warming or other climate changes or just more of what we have been putting up with already.
For anyone else who's interested in taking effective action to look after themselves rather than arguing I'd recommend the transition towns movement that offers a balanced method for pulling ourselves through this time, together. Maybe..
"This really isn’t about polar bears any more" says wakeupfreakout.org. Indeed it isn't. That lie has been put to bed. The polar bear numbers have been growing substantially. Indeed I notice there is no mention of Global Warming in this story or the links. I suppose this isn't about Global Warming anymore, just 'Climate Change'? Like the polar bears, the Global Warming angle is now losing it's propaganda value since more and more studies are showing that the earth is in fact now in a cooling cycle.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,662092....html
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/26/satellite-measure...here/
http://www.ecoworld.com/global-warming/the-real-facts-o....html
as the lies of the IPCC are being exposed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8387737.stm
as more and more scientists are calling for an end to the Global Warming Scam
http://www.petitionproject.org/index.php
Why don't you watch Phelim McAleers 'Not Evil Just Wrong' film? It has some real scientists in it, not the ones who have sold out to the billionaire corporations for soft money, like most of the 'Environmental' NGO's have.
http://www.worldwildlife.org/climate/climatesavers2.html
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=246
In that film and many others real scientists show how sea levels have risen and fallen dramatically in the earths history, just as it's temperature has. Sea level is not a constant and neither is temperature but there are those who deny this and try to push the myth of a constant temperature and sea-level. You might also consider that a warmer temperature would be better for life on earth as would more CO2. Plants grow better with more CO2 and heat. That's another fact that can't be denied.
Or look at this little talk
http://www.discovery.org/v/30
Here are good sites for current information
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/
http://www.climatedepot.com/
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/
I don't care if silly people want to have a 'theory' about Global warming or Polar Bears drowning but when they intend to use it to found a global government with funding from the carbon taxes, so that they may kill billions of people then it is time to shout stop. All while the rich carry on as usual by paying carbon credits to the Rothschilds.
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/1756...y.htm
Environmentalists want billions to die off. This is the new Green Fascism of modern Eugenics.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5...2.ece
http://www.optimumpopulation.org/reducingemissions.pdf
http://www.overpopulationisamyth.com/overpopulation-the...-myth
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sierra-club/news/article.cfm?...num=1
Why not organise an event around the real information instead of Leo Murrays little idea to "chat bollocks about climate chaos". Enough of the "bollocks about climate chaos".