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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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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner?s Daughter Violet Pushes for Mask Mandates at United Nations Wed Sep 24, 2025 11:12 | Will Jones
Violet Affleck,?the daughter of Hollywood stars?Jennifer Garner?and?Ben Affleck, was at the?UN?on Tuesday to push for mask mandates, saying the world was irresponsible for returning to 'business as usual' after Covid.
The post Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s Daughter Violet Pushes for Mask Mandates at United Nations appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Problem with Rupert Lowe?s Argument Against Halal and Kosher Meat Wed Sep 24, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Rupert Lowe has called for halal and kosher meat to be banned. But there's a problem with his argument: he doesn't mention factory farming?a far greater evil.
The post The Problem with Rupert Lowe?s Argument Against Halal and Kosher Meat appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying Wed Sep 24, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
As New York hosts Climate Week NYC ? "the world?s largest climate event" ? the absence of any major global leaders speaks volumes, says Tilak Doshi. Mugged by reality, the Net Zero dream is dying.
The post The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Wed Sep 24, 2025 01:05 | 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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Britain?s Judiciary is Biased to its Core Tue Sep 23, 2025 20:08 | Dr David McGrogan
The Court of Appeal overturned the closure of Epping's migrant hotel because Britain's judiciary is biased to its core, says Dr David McGrogan. The Right must get to grips with this problem ? and fast.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14I'll give a few quid. Who in Limerick should I pass the donation onto?
Where was Avi, he's a big fan of Caoimhe's?
the headline on the herald this eveing as above is a bit much really
did she not get shot in the west or was that the other one?
she didn't get shot here she only got mugged unfortuante but hardly comparable
Shocking to hear about this and very bad misfortune.
I heard her being interviewed on Morning Ireland this morning just before the 9 o clock news.
She was standing at a bus stop heading to the airport. With one very heavy bag around her shoulder she put the bag with the money on the ground for a few secs and before she knew it, it was gone.
Besides some of the money being aid raised for Iraq, a lot of it was money from Iraqi exiles being sent back to their families in Iraq. The country is in such a complete state of collapse at the moment, it is the only way of transferring money there.
She has put back her trip by 2 weeks I think so as to try and raise the amount stolen. She will try and retrieve the money from the thief, but obviously a slim chance of this.
But as "kino" said, "Let's see if she doesn't raise more money out of all of this."
Hopefully she might publicise a verifyable account number to which money can be donated to. Would be good to get a good email with an account number going around.
Some of the papers might help out to get this publicised as well.
This is such a worthwhile and media friendly case, she should be able to raise a lot from it.
Here's hoping.
so we can put money into it
Why should we waste our time raising money for food for the people of Iraq? It is up to the people of Iraq with support from people in the west to rise up agaisnt US imperialism so they can bring a lasting end to domination and hunger. By sending charity and getting caught up with raising money we are confusing consciouness and are deflecting our attention from where it should be going ie the overthrow of imperialist butchers of Bush and Blair and their lackies such as Ahern, FF/PD , FG, Labour etc.
And i don't think our political agenda should get in the way of feeding the innocent people who the world have forgotten. Besides, they can't rise up on an empty stomach
Yes we should come to the Iraqi people aid immediately. We should also help them to become self-sufficent.
Way before you wre born, before the dawn of the Celtic tiger..... The Irish diaspora in the U.S., Australia, et.al. (where one was regulary slam dunked for being Irish) were sending all sorts of stuff back....just as the Iraqi diaspora based in Dublin are doing now. Wake up dude smell the coffee, rise above the historic amnesia you seem to be suffering from......they're here because we were there! And Caoimhe, Kathy and folks take great risks in making the connection.
Ciaran are you not involved in one of the largest charity organisations the catholic church? The fact is that the RC church has been using 'aid' and charity as a cover to push their backward papist ideas and regressive social teachings upon the oppressed peoples of the world.
Catholic Worker gets no funding or official recognition form the Catholic Church. Donations to the Catolic Worker in the U.S. are not tax deductable, we are not registered as a non-profit charity.
There are moves to canonise our founder, which many of us oppose.
When alive Dorothy Day said
"Don't call me a saint, I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Caoimhe went from high to school to work in the Catholic Worker soup kitchen in NYC founded in 1933. CW has been one of many parts of her formation.
did this moron think it wise to carry several thousand euros in cash on her person, without some kind of aide....why the fuck was it not transferred into bonds/some kind of travellers's cheques that would have made a mugging irrelavant? except of course for the photo ops, and an upsurge in publicity for the martyr involved...
Surprised you guys did not blame a zionist or jew from robbing her.
It was an Irish Gurrier eh!
David Lass fits the the description.