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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 >>
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The Sceptic | Episode 52: Why Family Policy Is Back on the Agenda, Anywheres vs Somewheres, Migratio... Fri Sep 26, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred In Episode 52 of the Sceptic: David Goodhart on why family policy is back on the agenda, anywheres vs somewheres and migration, and Eugyppius on German media craziness and how he evades the woke Stasi.
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News Round-Up Fri Sep 26, 2025 00:45 | Toby Young 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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Small Boat Migrant Takes Eight-Week Holiday Back to Afghanistan Thu Sep 25, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones An Afghan granted asylum after arriving in the UK on a small boat took an eight-week holiday in the country from which he had fled.
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Reeves Under Pressure to Spend Even More on Welfare as Cabinet Ministers ?Demand Removal of Two-Chil... Thu Sep 25, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones Cabinet Ministers are ramping up the pressure on Rachel Reeves to spend even more on welfare by lifting the two-child benefit cap, sparking warnings that Britain is entering an "economic doom loop".
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Every Adult in Britain to Be Forced to Have a Digital ID Card Under New Keir Starmer Plan Thu Sep 25, 2025 15:38 | Will Jones Every adult in Britain will be forced to have a Government-issued digital ID card under "dystopian" proposals designed to tackle illegal immigration set to be announced by Sir Keir Starmer. Papers, please!
The post Every Adult in Britain to Be Forced to Have a Digital ID Card Under New Keir Starmer Plan appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >>
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IRSCNA: Remember the Paris Commune!
A statement celebrating the 140th anniversary of the Paris Commune. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
18 March 2011
Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
Remember the Paris Commune!
On behalf of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement, the Irish
Republican Socialist Committees of North America issues the following
statement in celebration of the 140th anniversary of the beginning of
the Paris Commune.
The establishment of the Paris Commune in 1871, although short-lived,
was a revolutionary step forward in the history of class struggle and
alternative forms of political administration.
The roots of the Commune lie in the French defeat in the Franco-
Prussian war. The disastrous results of the ruling class's military
campaign coupled with the growing sense of grievance on the part of
workers, which could be seen as early as the 1830s with the revolts
of silk workers in Lyon and Paris, were the tinder for the spark of
revolution to set aflame.
At the time, large numbers of Parisians were members of the National
Guard citizens' militia, and a Central Committee of the National
Guard was formed by republicans and socialists to defend both the
city if necessary and the republican government against the threat of
a royalist restoration after the election of a pro-monarchist
majority.
Fearing the rising power of the Central Committee, French Head of
State Adolphe Thiers ordered troops to seize the cannons of the
National Guard on 18 March 1871. General Claude Martin Lecomte
ordered his troops to open fire on the National Guard and civilians
alike. He was dragged from his horse and later executed, while
regular army soldiers joined with the National Guard and the people
of Paris.
The Central Committee issued a manifesto, which stated: "The
proletarians of Paris, amidst the failures and treasons of the ruling
classes, have understood that the hour has struck for them to save
the situation by taking into their own hands the direction of public
affairs...They have understood that it is their imperious duty, and
their absolute right, to render themselves masters of their own
destinies, by seizing upon the governmental power."
The Central Committee of the National Guard arranged elections for 26
March, and the 92 delegates elected to the Communal Council, a
mixture of reformist republicans and more radical socialists,
proclaimed the Paris Commune on 28 March under the banner of a red
flag.
During the two months of its existence, the Communal Council enacted
such measures as the separation of church and state, making church
property the property of the Commune, the right of employees to take
over and run an enterprise if it were deserted by its owner, the
secularization of education, and in general provided for the
progressive and secular organization of the Commune. Further reforms
to provide free further education and technical training were
proposed but not enacted before the Commune's destruction.
Female Communards formed the Women's Union for the Defense of Paris
and Care of the Injured, which advocated for gender equality in wages
and the right of divorce, and for secular and professional education
for girls and women. Everywhere, the Commune opened new spaces for
workers and other oppressed groups to put forward their own political
demands. Sympathetic uprisings in Lyon, Grenoble, and other cities
created other short-lived Communes, as the fire of revolution was
contagious.
However, as Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin both remarked later, the
Communards failed to capitalize on their success by immediately
taking the fight to the national government and the ruling class.
Precious time was lost, allowing the government to organize a
military campaign to subdue the rebellious city of Paris.
Beginning in April, government forces rallied outside the city walls
of Paris, and began to put pressure on the defenses of the National
Guard. On 21 May, government forces finally entered the city and time
ran out for the Communards.
Street battles were waged for the next week, with some of the
fiercest resistance found in working class districts, but by 28 May
it was all over. The Paris Commune, what Marx described as workers
"storming heaven," had been smashed and the forces of reaction began
their reprisals. Tens of thousands of Communards and their supporters
were executed, including women and children, while thousands were
exiled. Paris remained under martial law for five years.
Despite the destruction of the Paris Commune, it represented the
first embryonic form of the dictatorship of the proletariat. If it
was never a purely socialist revolution and was always beset with the
problems of a hastily created government under external threat, it
was at least a new example of revolutionary organization, the
democratic self-organization of the masses. This remains the enduring
gift handed down by the Communards to the revolutionary workers of
the future, a gift baptized in the blood of martyrs.
As long as the class struggle engendered by the class dictatorship of
capitalism continues, then the Paris Commune will continue to shine
a light on a path to a better world.
In the words of Communard Edouard Vaillant, "If socialism wasn't born
of the Commune, it is from the Commune that dates that portion of
international revolution that no longer wants to give battle in a
city in order to be surrounded and crushed, but which instead wants,
at the head of the proletarians of each and every country, to attack
national and international reaction and put an end to the capitalist
regime."
Onward to victory, workers of the world!
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Irish Republican Socialist Committees of North America
PO Box 5174
Champaign IL 61825
USA
irscna@irsm.org
http://www.irscna.org/
http://www.irsp.ie/irscna.html
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