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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
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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
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Elon Musk Plans to Take on Wikipedia With ?Grokipedia? Sun Oct 05, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Elon Musk is taking on 'Wokepedia' with Grokipedia, an AI-powered encyclopedia aiming to cut bias, fix errors and add missing context.
The post Elon Musk Plans to Take on Wikipedia With ?Grokipedia? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Pope Leo ? a Chip Off the Old Block (of Ice) Sun Oct 05, 2025 17:00 | Dr Roger Watson
Pope Leo XIV is basically Francis 2.0 ? soft on migration, preaching LGBTQWERTY wokery and now going 'full Greta' by blessing Arctic ice like it's holy water, says Dr Roger Watson.
The post Pope Leo ? a Chip Off the Old Block (of Ice) appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Should we Abandon Liberal Democracy in Favour of the Singaporean Model? Sun Oct 05, 2025 15:00 | Toby Young
For those who think liberal democracy is the best form of government, Singapore poses a challenge. It's a technocratic, one-party state characterised by ruthless central planning. Yet it's been astonishingly successful.
The post Should we Abandon Liberal Democracy in Favour of the Singaporean Model? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Net Zero Crumbling Slowly at First, Then Suddenly Sun Oct 05, 2025 13:00 | David Turver
Net Zero has been slowly crumbling for years and is now entering the sudden collapse stage, says David Turver. The only people still backing it are the reality-denying zealots of DESNZ and the Climate Change Committee.
The post Net Zero Crumbling Slowly at First, Then Suddenly appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Matthew Syed Asked a Simple Question at a Pro-Palestine Protest ? and it Turned Ugly Sun Oct 05, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
At a pro-Palestine protest, Times journalist Matthew Syed asks a simple question about Hamas ? and is met with abuse, denial and antisemitism. What he found in Trafalgar Square wasn't protest but a mob drunk on hate.
The post Matthew Syed Asked a Simple Question at a Pro-Palestine Protest ? and it Turned Ugly appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Saturday November 06, 2010 15:40
by LiamM - Free Education for Everyone NUIM
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Could I make a suggestion that someone lodges a Parliamentary Question via a TD to Dermot Ahern, regarding what 'specific law empowers gardai to strike a person on the head with a baton ?'
I heard of guidelines where they can hit on the legs, arms or shoulders, but not on the head, as a blow to the head can kill and has killed or permanently injured people in the past.
I got my own head split many years ago by a baton but did not have the where-with-all to follow it up.
I am sure in these circumstances it is disproportionate, unlawful and garda heads would roll especially with the film footage, as well as compensation being paid to the injured.
Best regards and solidarity. M.
I reckon you're right. This has been a developing pattern in the guards for decades, and if there was political counterwill it would be less consistent.
Ahern has to outflank the trad LawnOrder stance of FG( and I think he enjoys a little knuckle as long as he's delivery man).
Pearse St is just the retail outlet. Bring it back to HQ.March to the Dail. Before there is a fatality.
...a rotten barrell.
We've been here before.
" At the end of the day though, the Gardai exist as a force controlled by the state not primarily to protect the citizens, but rather to protect capitalist property relations and to keep the citizens in line. Reforms like an independent Ombudsman would be welcome but they obviously won't tackle the fundamental problem of capitalism"
-http://anarchism.pageabode.com/andrewnflood/rts-protest...ality
Images from garda attack on eirigi protest in May at the sid entrance to anglo irish back hq. Just meters from last wed attack on students. Look familiar?
Fair play for organising this.
What time is the demonstration starting?
Cheers,
Denise
The demo begins at 6pm. Please attend and encourage others. This kind of brute force will become common place.
Wewill bring whatever banners we want. I will not be told what I can or cannot bring to a protest. The cheek of that call. We have been campiagninging for years and just becasuse you are affected now you come along and tell ushow to protest. Are you having a laugh pal? See you on the day.
A bit harsh there Shayne. I'm sure if anyone shows up with banners, they won't be asked to remove them, but the call for no banners is from the organisers of the protest, some of whom I know have also "been campaigning for years" around different things. If you had any respect, you'd heed their call.
Shayne, many of the organisers of this demo have been to Rossport, have been on demonstrations against deaths in Garda custody, have been active on the left for years and they are not ashamed of this at all. When meetings were called to discuss the idea of moving forward with a protest, many students wished for this 'single banner' idea to be a part of the protest, something broad to the effect of 'NO POLICE BRUTALITY'. I see where you're coming from in many ways. Some argued it was a response to the line in the media that there is somewhere a line between abusing 'random' protestors and abusing lefties. It was obvious across all the papers. "not all those injured were republican or socialist nutjobs" was basically the editors line of the media in (very lightly) questioning any Garda violence on the day.
Personally, I never put the red and black flag under the bed, but I respect the wishes of the majority and think the demo is a very important one regardless.
I hope this isn't enough to keep you away. As C said, nobody is going to dictate what you can carry on the day Shayne, it's just a request from the students behind the demo.
Shayne
The accusation by the state is that the large student body is being manipulated by extreme micro groups with other agendas. You'd be visually playing into the hands of the state bringing banners and mass produced placards
...wear a t-shirt or badge or carry a home made placard to announce your politics and perspecive. We all know what it is like to be visually conscripted into political groups self promotion attempts at rallies with mass produced placards, product placement banners etc.
I would suggest the organisers pass the hat....to donate to those before the courts and recovering from injury from the Garda attacks at the previous demostration.
I did this at the follow up rally to the RTS cop riot in '02 when I first landed in Dublin. The organisers refused to do it.
I still was able to raise hundreds of euro - street speaking and passing my rasta hat for defendants/casualties from the RTS '02.
If I had didn't have dreadlocks down to my butt and was better known in '02 ( a lto of people probably took one look at me and thought I was going to rush off to the pub or my non-existant drug dealer!)
.....or better still the organisers had done it and could be trusted to distribute it (what happened to all that cash from F15 '03 ?).we could have raised thousands for defendants and casualtied of RTS '02....if everyone there had thrown in a euro! There were 3,000 there at Pearse St. Garda station from memory?
to no flags was WTF? But then, having calmed down I realised it made sense. Why allow the media to have yet another opportunity to portray this as an Eirigi or SWP organised/manipulated march? This is a special case. It is not the usual NGO no politics type nonsense.
At a 1% Network meeting recently there was a report of a complaint about to many red & black & Eirigi flags on a march. My answer to the complainant is FOAD! WSM & Eirigi put a lot of work into the demos and are entitled to have flags on them.
But this is a special case, use tactics.