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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
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.
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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
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Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
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Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
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The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
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News Round-Up Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:07 | Richard Eldred
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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Jump To Comment: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1The dripping paint on the red shell one is particularly evocative. And the remote control one is good too. :)
This is rather cool graffitti. Sadly most of the stuff I normally see is stupid mindless name writing and defacing by morons. IMHO this makes difficult areas even more depressing to live in and usually acts as a signal that it is ok for vandals to start messing the place up further because it's already run down. I've never understood what good graffitti-ing up and vandalising your own fucked up neighbourhood does. Now if it was all smart stuff like this, that might be different.
"The ascent of the car caused the descent of the horse.
I defy any one to counter my 4 legs good 4 wheels bad theory. We can stop global warming in one generation."
em, do you plan to shift the cultural mindset that much?i used to think inside an activist bubble....it burst... now i have realistic ideas/thoughts....i am all for reducing emissions, recycyling etc but do you actually own a horse and ride it to work/social activities and just tie it up outside?how would all your food get transported before it goes off?do you grow your own food at home?
i`m curious.and not to sound overtly pessimistic but sure we can change the way people think in western society, but whats the plan for countries like China and India which are sprawling beyond belief??? i heard a fact that, if you imagine all of the structures and buildings in the whole of Manhatten, New York, well thats how much China is buliding each year.So the aim of stopping global warming in one generation is just a tad over ambitious.I dunno, I am no authority on the subject but time will tell and I hope, sincerely, that I am wrong.
4 wheels good but yes when the world population was 1/6 of what is now and nobody could actually afford any of the goods/services they crave now.its gonna take alot longer than one generation to quench that thirst for materialism.
Thank you Sergeant Chaffer of CIRCA-US.
"The Revolution will not be Motorised" is not intended as an attack on ordinary motorists. It's merely supposed to encourage people to use green transport where possible, and to think along the lines of reducing carbon emissions.
while promoting an alternative to motoring, "the revolution will not be motorized" doesn't explicitly attack morotists. It is a complex situation, and surely no one individual (or cohort of people) is to blame..... the whole motoring/transportation industry needs to evolve.
But anyway, Hurrah! for bio-diesel!
being in colorado, usa, we don't have quite the same intensity of congestion as in ireland, but we do have too many suvs! and i have heard rumblings that our suv fad is catching on over there... that true? if so, that's a big problem for ye! there's no room for monster trucks!
(however, a lot of our public transportation vehicles are run on bio-diesel which would be great to push for in Eire. again, Hurrah!)
big LUV! and Viva la Revoluccion!
The horse is thought to have been domesticated (in the service of the great ape of the order homo sapiens (sapiens)) at some point in the last 7,000 years. It is thought to have completely replaced slave labour as the main tool of heavy lifting and pulling about 200 years ago leaving only 3 other quadrapeds competing its status as "number one beast of burden". The others being oxen, camels and the related donkey. Even today the principle cause of death in road accident in Latin America is a donkey or mule. A horse replenishes itself every 335 days and after only one year may be trained - it is thus quicker to produce and bring to end consumer than a car. A horse lasts an average of 25 to 30 years - a car does not. A horse is intelligent - a car is not. A horse is sexy - a car needs a naked big titted woman lying on it.
I'd also like to remind people that the perfectly functional simian village of "planet of the apes" had seen fit to keep only a few important attributes of its predecessor human civilisation -
Horses.
Magazine loaded rifles which the gorillas used.
Religion which Dr Zeus used to hide the truth.
Science - which gave the chimpanzees something to get their mind off constant shagging.
The ascent of the car caused the descent of the horse.
I defy any one to counter my 4 legs good 4 wheels bad theory. We can stop global warming in one generation.
The raw materials which make the car are extracted and refined using fossil fuels with little regard to environmental damage. Just as the tarmac a car requires to run efficiently is a by-product of the petro-chemical industry.
What we need is a return to the horse, but one which has been modified or carefully bred to reduce its manure producing side-effects.
Nice Art. But what's wrong with being a motorist? If a car is run on biofeuls what's your problem? Anyway surely it's the urban planners and Car firms that are to blame for car emmissions not regular punters that rely on cars as their only means of transport. You seem to blame them.
I like the evolve thing - so wanted to add a little evolution thing i've got.
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A couple more pics