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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
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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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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
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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.
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Jump To Comment: 1 21997 May 1: Labour election landslide.
May 6: Independence of Bank of England announced.
Aug 31: Blair tribute to Diana as the "people's princess" after her death in a Paris car crash.
Sept: Referendums on Scottish parliament and Welsh assembly.
Oct 13: Blair meets Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams at Stormont.
Oct 27: Gordon Brown says Britain will not join launch of euro.
Nov 16 : Blair apologises over £1 million donation to Labour from Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone.
1998 Apr 10 : Good Friday agreement signed at Stormont.
Aug 15: Real IRA bomb in Omagh leaves 29 dead.
Dec 16: US and British forces launch air attacks on Iraq.
1999 Mar 24: Nato launches air strikes against targets in Yugoslavia over attacks on Kosovo Albanians.
Jun 10: Yugoslav generals sign peace deal with Nato, ending the Kosovo war.
Oct 11: Mandelson appointed Northern Ireland secretary.
Oct 26: Agreement to end right of most hereditary peers to sit in the Lords.
2000 Jan 1: Millennium Dome opening.
Mar 11: Blair first EU leader to meet acting President Putin.
May 4: Ken Livingstone defeats official Labour candidate to become mayor of London.
2001 Jan 24: Mandelson resigns from the cabinet for a second time.
Feb 20: Britain's first case of foot-and-mouth for 20 years.
Feb 23: Blair first EU leader to meet US president George Bush.
June 7: Labour re-elected in a second landslide.
Sept 11: Blair vows to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with US after Twin Towers and Pentagon attacks.
Sept 21: Afghan government rejects ultimatum to hand over Osama bin Laden.
Oct 4: Blair sets out evidence against al-Qaeda in Commons.
Oct 7: US and British air strikes against the Taliban begin.
Nov 13: Kabul falls.
2002 Jan 30: Bush names Iraq as part of the "axis of evil".
Sept 7: Blair meets Bush at Camp David, offers support on Iraq but urges need for UN mandate.
Sept 24: Blair publishes dossier on Iraq weapons of mass destruction.
Nov 8: UN Security Council passes resolution 1441 declaring Iraq in "material breach" of its obligations to disarm.
2003 Mar 17: Britain and US abandon attempts to secure a new UN mandate for military action. Robin Cook resigns from the cabinet.
Mar 18: MPs vote 412 to 149 in favour of military action.
Mar 20: US launches first air strikes on Baghdad.
May 29: BBC Radio 4 Today programme reports Downing Street "sexed up" Iraq dossier.
July: Government scientist Dr David Kelly tells MPs he is not source of the BBC story on the Iraq dossier. Days later his body found in beauty spot close to his home.
Dec 13: Saddam Hussein found by US forces hiding in a hole near his home town Tikrit.
2004 Jan 28: Hutton report on Kelly death clears Downing Street of "sexing up" the dossier.
Apr 20: Blair announces plan for poll on new EU constitution.
July 14: Butler report found Blair gave impression intelligence on weapons of mass destruction "fuller and firmer" than the case.
Sept 28: Blair tells Labour conference he was wrong about WMD, but will not apologise for removing Saddam.
Sept 30: Blair announces he will only serve one more term as PM.
Oct 6: Iraq Survey Group concludes Saddam did not have any WMD at time of the invasion.
Nov 18: Bill banning hunting with hounds passed.
Dec 15: Home secretary David Blunkett resigns after an inquiry finds his office was involved in fast-tracking visa application.
2005 May 6: Labour returned with a reduced majority.
Jun 6: Government shelves plans for poll on EU constitution after French and Dutch vote "no".
July 6: London wins bid to host the 2012 Olympics.
July 7: Four suicide bombers kill 52 in attacks on the London Underground and a London bus.
July 8: Blair announces G8 leaders have agreed an action plan for Africa.
July 28: IRA announces the end of its armed campaign.
Nov 2: Blunkett resigns from the cabinet for the second time.
Nov 9: MPs reject plans to hold terror suspects for 90 days without charge in Blair's first Commons defeat in power.
2006 Jan 26: Government announces 3,300-strong military force for Helmand in Afghanistan.
Mar 15: Blair relies on Tories to win vote on school reform.
Mar 21: Scotland Yard launches inquiry into alleged sale of honours by the Labour Party.
May 5: Charles Clarke sacked as home secretary over failure to deport hundreds of foreign criminals.
Jun 1: John Prescott stripped of his departmental duties and his Dorneywood grace-and-favour home after admitting to an affair.
July 12: Blair's chief fundraiser Lord Levy arrested by detectives investigating cash-for-honours affair.
Sept 7: Blair promises to stand down as PM within year.
Dec 4: Blair announces go-ahead for new generation Trident nuclear missile submarines.
Dec 14 : Blair questioned in cash-for-honours inquiry.
2007 Jan : Downing St aide Ruth Turner arrested in cash-for-honours inquiry. Blair questioned for a second time.
Mar 15: Government wins vote on Trident renewal with Tory support.
May 8: Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness take office as First Minister and Deputy First Minister.
Any chance you'd call it a day too Sean?