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UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7There have been at least two attempted murders of police officers - a car bomb led to PSNI officer losing his leg and previous attack resulted in the wife of another officer recieving injuries.
In another incident a .50 calibre machine gun (a heavy weapon used in warfare against aircraft and vehicles) sprayed Crossmaglen barracks with bullets.
There have been numerous attempted vehicle and IED bomb attacks intercepted which could have caused deaths and injuries.
And of course last year a police officer and two soldiers were murdered in gun attacks.
It stands to reason therefore that in order to prevent the acitivities of terrorists and their supporters , who masquerade as civilians, from launching attacks or moving around weapons and explosives, that people are going to be searched by the security forces.
If criminals were not so active in shooting and attacking police officers, dealing drugs and commiting violant crime the searches wouldnt be needed.
Maybe the answer is for RIRA to actually listen to the people and accept democracy.
"It stands to reason therefore that in order to prevent the acitivities of terrorists and their supporters , who masquerade as civilians, from launching attacks or moving around weapons and explosives, that people are going to be searched by the security forces."
Thats usually the excuse used for any kind of civil liberty violation you care to name. Where do you draw the line? Technically if you imprison everyone naked in solitary confinement then that is the only way to be sure.( except for the police of course, and our lords and masters and their rich friends )
Terror is a scam. Real terrorism is reduced not by fake security but by honestly addressing the genuine grievances of the terrorists.
Fake security is about maintaining power and control over the citizenry and keeping them frightened and malleable
Republican Network for Unity
Two Belfast RNU Activists arrested by the RUC/PSNI....
Speaking to the Irish News last night; Danny McBrearty (National Chairperson of the Republican Network for Unity) said;
'It is no coincidence that both men arrested are currently taking legal action against the RUC/PSNI concerning the constant abuse of Section 44'.
He also called; 'for the immediate release of both RNU members and an end to political policing in Ireland'.
So we should roll over and give what every terrorist in the world wants? Thats the answer?
How do you give the IRA a united Ireland while also giving the UDA a divided Ireland? Across the entire globe you have terrorists in complete opposition so please, think and engage your brain before trotting out some tired old mantra
Lose the strawman rhetoric and Please show some nuance in YOUR thinking. Addressing the grievances of terrorists honestly does not mean what you say. I suggest you engage YOUR brain and then tell me exactly what the behaviour of the US in Afghanistan, pakistan, and collusion with Israel has achieved?
Then next time you hop on a plane and get a rubber glove up your ass or someone going through your underwear in your luggage, or when your retina and fingerprints are scanned and stored in a criminal database even though you have committed no crime, or when your personal emails are being scanned and retained routinely by government organisations for 3 years+, or when your bare ass is scanned in high resolution by those new airport wavelet scanners and the person operating it is perving or giggling at you, Tell me whether the terrorists have won or not?
The fact is, none of these military / policing approaches will ever solve the problem, only restrict our civil liberties and create more terrorists because of what is being done in their countries. It is clear that there are more terrorists running around hating the US and wanting to kill westerners now than before 9/11 . And protecting against movie plot terrorism is just fake security as suggested by Bruce schnier
http://www.schneier.com/essay-299.html
http://www.schneier.com/essays-airline.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts02042009.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/blum12022008.html
It is not just the 'stop and search' that ordinary civilians in the 6 counties have to contend with, but some have to endure threats to their lives and homes from MI5 agents and their ever ready assistants in the loyalist paramilitaries.
There will never ever be any form of justice or peace in the six counties whilst British imperialist intelligence agents remain here to threaten the lives and livelihood of Irish civilians, and are aided and abetted in doing so by the so-called 'forces of law and order' in both jurisdictions.