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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 Public Inquiry >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Monday September 29, 2025 05:28
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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.
Farage?s Mass Deportation Plan Is Racist, Says Starmer Sun Sep 28, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
Sir Keir Starmer has slammed Reform UK's mass deportation plan as "racist", warning that Nigel Farage's idea of kicking out hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants would "tear Britain apart".
The post Farage?s Mass Deportation Plan Is Racist, Says Starmer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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The NHS is under fire for defending cousin marriage as a cultural "benefit" despite the serious health risks, claiming it brings "stronger extended family support systems and economic advantages".
The post Fury After Woke NHS Supports First-Cousin Marriages Despite Risk of Birth Defects ? and Oppression Against Women appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Is the Tech Giant Who Gave Blair ?257 Million in Line for Huge ID Card Contract? Sun Sep 28, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
A cronyism row has hit the Government after it emerged Tony Blair secretly lobbied for his tech billionaire backer, who gave him ?257 million and could rake in millions from Labour's digital ID cards.
The post Is the Tech Giant Who Gave Blair ?257 Million in Line for Huge ID Card Contract? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sir Keir Starmer Under Pressure to Scrap Angela Rayner?s Plan to Roll Out Official Definition of Isl... Sun Sep 28, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Steve Reed, the Communities Secretary, has made it clear he?s unsympathetic to his predecessor's plan to roll out an official definition of Islamophobia, telling newspapers he'll block it if it stifles free speech.
The post Sir Keir Starmer Under Pressure to Scrap Angela Rayner?s Plan to Roll Out Official Definition of Islamophobia appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >>
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Egypt Critical News Update #27
 international |
miscellaneous |
news report
 Saturday February 26, 2011 04:26 by Adrian Boutureira
Demonstrators Under Attack-Live tweets
These were a series of tweets received earlier tonight (late night, early morning Egypt time) from activists that had been demonstrating against the government in Tahrir Square. The most disturbing thing as someone receiving and trying to report these, was the media blackout that came along with the attacks. Al Jazeera was MIA. It has been on Egypt for a while. The Egypt Live Blog has been dormid for days and is now actually not even found in AJ's blogs page. There were NO news networks there to report on these attacks. Hours later, AJ produced a report, this after we bombarded their Libya live blog with pleas for coverage.
This is what we received between and around the hours of 8 and 10 pm US Eastern time.
(Thanks to the comrades of APIC(APICONG) for putting these together. http://apicong.blogspot.com/)
Mona Seif:
Military police prevented my mother passage to demo and encircled her
This is not good. They are completely & tightly circled by military
police. I can't get to them
Military police removing the tents in Tahrir square now
They threatened wt arresting ppl, ppl r leaving,I insisted I won't leave
wt out my family, I think I will be left alone
Screw them! Screw the military wt all its members! Screw them 4 not
tolerating ppl peacefully protesting
Number is dramatically decreasing by the parliament and military police
encircling the protesters
just received a testimony of a protester who was detained last week.
Beating up, electrocution, and special sexual harassment 2 girls
PLZ SPREAD: Masked ppl wt walkie talkies and machine guns along wt
military police in Tahrir square trying to shut down the strike
Let me be clear, the machine guns weren't used but they were obviously
there to intimidate ppl
They are dispersing ppl wt violence from Tahrir square, ppl r being
chased by military police
Mosa'ab Al Shami:
Keep up your brutality, Egyptian army. We'll be back in millions soon,
setting tents & barricades and finishing what we started.
25 February 2011 15:28
..
Rowan Al Shimi says:
I've been wondering all week why we still have curfew. Now I am sure
it's because they want an excuse to disperse protest.
25 February 2011 15:31
monasosh monasosh
Here we go again, they r pissed and they encircled us again #Jan25
1 minute ago Favorite Retweet Reply
monasosh monasosh
The army is now asking ppl to leave, 1st nicely, then now angrily in the
mic
They released the detained, and the big shot army guy is apologizing and
hugging him!!!! #Jan25
1 minute ago
monasosh monasosh
They snatched 2 of us #Jan25
3 minutes ago
Rouelshimi Rowan El Shimi
Perfectly put! RT @beleidy: واضح إن حظر التجول هو قانون الطوارئ الجديد
-- It seems the curfew is the new emergency law
3 minutes ago
monasosh monasosh
Military police r threatening us now, they have orders to evacuate, ppl
should either leave or risk getting detained #Jan25
3 minutes ago
»
Rouelshimi Rowan El Shimi
For those saying these are rumours RT @ahramonline: Military police is
dispersing protesters by force in Tahrir Square. #Jan25
6 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
8 minutes ago
25 February 2011 15:48
Mona Seif tweets:
Beating and electric teasers , we've been evacuated
25 February 2011 15:52
kidnapped another we insisted we won't leave without him, young officer
was abusive then a bigger 1 came & shouted at them to get boy
25 February 2011 15:58
APIC(APICONG) said...
Mona Seif tweets:
We are safe, they released the boy, he was badly beaten up, his face was
bleeding
25 February 2011 16:09
Rowan Al Shimi:
Chants in #tahrir via @RamyRaoof. On bambuzer saying "3askar 3askar
leih? e7na fi #libya walla eih?
Mona Seif:
We saw them kidnapping one on the side and kicking the crap out of
him,we'd scream &say they r beating him they say no they aren't.
25 February 2011 16:17
Note from Freedom4Yemen:
Today #AlJazeera Betrayed #Yemen protesters, it seems there is too much
Pressure from Gulf countries on them
25 February 2011 16:19
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Mona Seif:
Some protesters are injured and on the street, @RamyRaoof and other
there sent out for medical help for them.
25 February 2011 16:48
Mona Seif:
Today both the military police & Army officers were less disciplined &
more abusive in their manners & threatening.
The irony of it is 5 mins b4 they beat us they staged a whole
sentimental show of army officer hugging 1 of the protesters
RT @JanoCharbel Army forcefully dispersed protest out Soldiers
punched,kicked,slapped me, clubbed me w/ an electric prod in face
Rowan Al Shimi:
Egyptian news channel "elmasria" has absolutely no news about #tahrir.
They are talking about Lybia.
25 February 2011 17:08
alaa Alaa Abd El Fattah
by moftasa
Military police used electric prods, thistime regular infantry joined in
the beating, many injuries #Jan25
25 minutes ago
alaa Alaa Abd El Fattah
by moftasa
Among the arrested: shadi el ghazaly harb a youth leader who was
involved in talks with the army, and taqadom el khatib a univ prof
#Jan25
27 minutes ago
alaa Alaa Abd El Fattah
by moftasa
The army showed its true face tonight using extreme violence to disperse
the two sitins and arresting many #Jan25
29 minutes ago
Mona Seif:
They released 2 of them, the remaining 4 they kept them, beat them bad &
now falsely accusing them of having a gun.
The guy they falsely accuse of having a gun,is the same guy whom they
beat earlier & released him to us bleeding.
25 February 2011 17:30
Muhammad Abdalfattah:
We were electrocuted, beaten, people passed out. Some sustained
injuries.
25 February 2011 17:38
Muhammad Effat:
Army attacked peaceful protesters using batons, electrifying sticks and
chased us down Al Qasr al eini holding machine guns!!
25 February 2011 17:40
Yusuf Al Kalay:
They are playing the same tricks Musharraf played in Pakistan back in
1999, stalling instead of ceding control over to civilians.
25 February 2011 17:47
Mona Seif:
Via @Maswad tasered some1 as he was running,fell shaking on ground then
went motionless,heard them say get him,dont know where he is
Video of Army as they forcefully dispersed peaceful protesters in Tahrir
square http://tinyurl.com/64wv4qt #Jan25
Mona Seif:
One of the detainees who was just released say they r detaining alot of
ppl. All are beaten up badly #Jan25
1 minute ago
Reminder:Protesters were out 2day becoz Shafik's Cabinet & emergency law
still exist,statesecurity r back, detainees weren't relased
25 February 2011 18:27
Mona Seif:
The army were extremely hostile,constantly threatening us wt detention
but they refrained coz we had an old woman wt us AKA My mother
25 February 2011 18:42
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