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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.
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
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News Round-Up Sun Sep 21, 2025 00:05 | Will Jones
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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Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4"To-day is a sad day for politics, for Ireland and for what is left of our democracy."
It's not that sad a day for democracy since the election was democratic and the mainstay of the previous government were heavily backed by the voters. Democracy, innit.
It is a sad day for ireland when the people vote with their wallets and support the government who are currently involved in comitting war-crimes-which , by the way was never raised or discussed in any of the national debates on RTE-(Refuse to Tell the Electorate).prior to the election.
If any of the opposition had raised these issues we would have a different outcome yesterday I'm sure, but they diddnt. By not raising the involvment Ireland has in murdering Iraqi citizens the opposition actually support this massacre
We are no better now than the Nazis and the German people who knowingly stood by and let their government exterminate Jews by the million, Hitler was voted in democratically, much the same way as Bush. We have lost the right to condem the Nazis, something we stood against at one time, now we are participants in, international war-crimes .
Its a sad day for politics to see the opposition offer.....well....no opposition. They oppose none of the major issues, only what seems to me to be pre agreed debate over hospital bed numbers, police numbers etc.
And if you think we actually live in a functioning democracy I urge you to question your beliefs, the dictionary is a good place to start. So it was a sad day for democracy also.-Even if you support Fianna Fail.
"It is a sad day for ireland when the people vote with their wallets and support the government who are currently involved in comitting war-crimes-which , by the way was never raised or discussed in any of the national debates on RTE-(Refuse to Tell the Electorate).prior to the election.
If any of the opposition had raised these issues we would have a different outcome yesterday I'm sure, but they diddnt. By not raising the involvment Ireland has in murdering Iraqi citizens the opposition actually support this massacre"
The opposition tend to trot out the main issues that they've been hearing on the doorsteps as they canvass so as to curry favour with the watching public. That they didn't address it means that they didn't think there was enough there to sway enough people. If there were so many people calling for the opposition to change the situation in Shannon, they'd have brought it up as a stick to beat FF with. They did actually want to get into power. That they didn't is indicative of the priorities of the people.
The comparison with the Nazis is laughable.
The fact that Bertie said shannon is a dead issue and that there is a percieved threat of dis-investment into Ireland from the US if we dont leave shannon open and continnue participating in war is the only reason I believe none of the opposition will tackle the issue. Not talking / debating the irrational fear of disinvestment if you mention our participation in mass murder is a choice. Their choice. Not mine.
To completely ignore the issue as both political sides and RTE have done, dosent mean it dosent exist. This is exactly what I was saying and I agree with you about the priorities of the people.
The politicians 'tend to trot out what they are hearing on the doorsteps' is an example of the public voting with their wallets, and shows a lack of moral leadership in our politicians. Political cowardice.
Dont under estimate the power of the media and the gullibility of the public. People believe that what they here on the radio is the truth, what they read is fact, and that the news is impartial, nothing could be further from the truth. If you think we get balanced unbiased media coverage you arent living on the same planet as I am. Look at the outporing of emotion, the vigils the coverage the moments of silence over Maddie McGann on Rupert Murdocks Sky News. He hasnt shown any interest in any of the 265,000 children he supported killing.
As one American CIA agent said recently ...'the second world war diddnt end , the epicentre just shifted to Washington'...Believe what you will about the Nazi reference, believe we live in a democracy if you want, and trust the media all you want. good luck.