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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
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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
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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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This is the final timetable of meetings at the 2012 Dublin Anarchist Bookfair
It would be great if someone could record the 'is it kicking off in ireland?' talk (i wont be able to attend).
[My pessimistic wag says "the audio of the word 'No' wont take up much space on your hard drive" :-)]
thanks
This session of the 2012 Dublin Anarchist Bookfair looks at the value of paper and ink when the net is usually declared the real frontier. We're asking our panel to track some of the connections between todays underground radical press, and what went before. Do these organs represent something of a collective organiser, agitator and voice for our movements or are we simply shouting slogans at the bewildered to keep ourselves busy? Where are the similarities in our projects and where are the fundamental differences? How do we judge our successes and more importantly what blinds us to our failures? Should we be building consciousness, communities or organisations?
The session will be hosted by Ciaran Moore of Dublin Community Televison.The panel will feature banter from people involved in Look Left, Rag, rabble, Liberty Paper and Workers Solidarity.
On Facebook? RSVP at http://www.facebook.com/events/356726934389494/
In response the the precious comment - yes we will be trying to audio record all sessions where the speakers are in agreement with this - we have found in the past that the hectic nature of organising on the day does result in some failures to record though so no promises
Many on the left see a vote against the 'Austerity treaty' as a contribution to building resistance against the austerity agenda. But does participating in the referendum campaign just sow illusions in a democratic sham, and is the referendum in reality a no-win situation for those who want to build resistance to austerity and who have a vision for a socialist world?
Mark Hoskins from WSM debates MEP Paul Murphy (Socialist Party) in the Main hall of Liberty Hall 13:00 until 14:30
RSVP on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/events/364794170244639/
..it wont make a huge difference..the bulldozing juggernaut is coming through anyway...but, it will sent a signal that ireland has not yet succumbed to the PR smogsturm und drang assault from the nEU Reich of neo-liberal totalitarian anti-democratic eradication of opposition to TINA Thatcherist une voce homogenisation...it might cheer up the Greeks...
And it might even stir the local turgid turds out of their apathy and complacency...this country does have a long and respectable history of not dying out altogether...despite long sessions of Hibernationalism.
And the beginning of the clearing of that 'democratic sham' must be the exposure and dismissal of the current septic head on the political body of the Labour Party...or else the decent burial of its rotten cadaver.
The PDs haven't gone away you know..they've just metamorphed throughout, including through the Ibecification of both Labour and the unions. They have actually swallowed and digested the doctrines and become, as they say, what they ate.
What a shocking (but not so shocking in some ways) response from Irish anarchists on the austerity treaty.
The analysis tries to suggest falsely that those advocating a No vote believe a NO vote is the way to beat austerity. Reality is that many of those who are campaigning for a no vote- actively argue for and encourage oragnising resistance to austerity.
Absenting yourself from the vote and debates for and against is a mistake and thankfully the left- the SP, ULA, SWP, CP, etc are not doing this.
The vote- if a NO vote wins- will NOT in itself defeat austerity but it will certainly shake the government and give confidence to many workers who want to see resistance build to austerity.
It is entirely possible to encourage a NO vote and in the course of doing so discuss with people that voting along will not change things. By doing so it affords you the opportunity to speak to people.
This kind of nonsense will ensure the anarchist movement in Ireland remains small, insular and on the margins
Every so often you find yourself taking a different position to the rest of the left, an interesting experience as the shrill denunciations pour in because you've dared to depart from orthodoxy. The so called 'Austerity' or 'Stability' referendum in Ireland has proved to be one of those occasions because the WSM has dared to argue that they referendum is in fact meaningless. And in particular we disagree with the standard left line that it can be treated as a referendum on austerity.
Read on at http://anarchism.pageabode.com/andrewnflood/controversy...reaty
In the foyer during the bookfair
This collaborative exhibition features photographs by activists and photographers Andrew Flood, William Hederman, Aileen O’Carroll and Paul Reynolds.
In the context of street protest, official history has often relied on images captured by photographers positioned behind police lines, or in some way mediating events from the perspective of authority. By contrast, the photographs in this exhibition record resistance from the viewpoint of the resister.
‘A Decade of Resistance’ documents an array of anti-capitalist, anti-war, pro-choice, environmental and other protests, starting with a mass trespass at Shannon Airport in October 2002 and ending with a Reclaim The Streets in Dublin in April 2012.