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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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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11Ar an drochuair níl mé in ann bheith libh inniu chun tacaíocht fhisiciúil a thabhairt daoibh nó tá mé thar sáile.
Mholfainn go mór do éinne a gcreideann gur chóir an daonlathas a chosaint in Éirinn dul agus tacaíocht a thabhairt do na h-agóidí atá a reachtáil ar fud na tíre, fiú muna bhfuil tú i do bhall d'aon pháirtí.
Tá súil agam go n-éiríonn go mór libh!
En solidaridad con los Irlandeses quienes defienden la libertad y la democracia.
Euskal Herria.
Given the old twin strategy of "the ballot box in one hand and the armalite in the other" does the cancellation of elections mean Sinn Féin is going back to its favourite strategy, especially since you haven't put your guns verifiably beyond use?
Sinn Féin activists in Dublin were leafleting commuters at train stations and in the city centre. A protest is currently taking place outside Leinster House.
Pickets are also being staged in Dublin along major thoroughfares and in Navan, Drogheda, Dundalk, Longford, Mullingar, Kinnegad, New Ross, Kilkenny city, Naas, Carlow, Enniscorthy, Wicklow and Bray.
Protests were also planned in Cork city, Clonakilty, Mallow, Waterford, Tralee, Tuam, Ballinasloe, Westport, Ballina, Charlestown, Castlebar and Sligo.
the problem with elections is that they give unwarranted legitamacy to the beurocratic institutions of the modern state, what exactly this has to do with the aims of inclusion and participation of the people by the agencies that rule them I have no idea, @ least when you are not allowed to vote, you find something else meaningful to do with your time, and your posters...
But it's irrelevant whether the arms had been put verifiably beyond use because new ones could be obtained. But let me ask you something, and be honest with yourself in how you answer. WHY do you see what is happening as THEIR choice to use weapons to settle things rather than the ballot? Exactly who here is making the choice that ballots will not be used? Who has decided that their interests are better served, that their side more likely of victory, if it's decided by force of arms?
Now I personally do NOT think the only (or best) alternative to struggle when the ballot is denied is "guns" -- there ARE other methods possible. But the issue at hand isn't MY preferred tactics but the moral justification of somebody who DOES choose to pick up the gun. In other words, what precisely can I say to them. Certainly NOT "you should instead fight by the ballot rather than the bullet".
BTW --- As an "outsider" I did not put this here as specific to the situation in Ireland. It's a GENERAL moral issue in social conflict when one side or the other decides that "democratic" means will not be available.
Could you possibly explain how the IRA could return to the "armalite/ballot box" strategy when the British Government has cancelled the election?
If you can't write something intelligent, don't write anything at all...
Yes, it is absurd to critcize the IRA without a minimal acknowledement of the terrorism of the British Empire. The same goes with the PLO, however flawed, with respect to Israel. I'm an American of Irish descent. I'd like to learn Irish Gaelic. Does anyone recommend a site to purchase tapes. I don't want to take an online course. And advice?
There´s a bookshop in the Cultúrlann that specialises in Book, tapes, in general anything that may be of interest to someone with an interest in Irish.
The Bookshop is called Ceathrú Poilí (Kah-ru Polly).
Cultúrlann MacAdam/Ó Fiaich
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Anyone able to right up a report on yesterdays day of action?
Up to 20 members of Ógra Shinn Fein staged a sit-in protest at the main Belfast electoral office in Church Lane in Belfast City Centre last week. As the group forced their way into the building, they were confronted by a staff member, who warned them that he would call in the PSNI police.
Undeterred, the activists took over the entrance hall of the building, where they staged their peaceful protest. When the PSNI did come on the scene, the protesters told them they would continue the protest but that they would not hinder anyone with business in the electoral office.
The protesters left after 45 minutes.