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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
This story is not for republication. I bear responsibility for the things I write. I have read the guidelines and understand that I must not write anything untrue, and I won't.
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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No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for ... Mon Sep 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage?today vowed to block foreign nationals from getting benefits, slashing the welfare bill "by ?234bn", and to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants with 'settled status' by bringing in stricter visa tests.
The post No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for Those Who Fail Under Crackdown on ‘Settled Status’ Migrants appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
When it Comes to Reparations, the Church of England Doesn?t Care About Evidence or Ethics Mon Sep 22, 2025 11:00 | Nigel Biggar
The Church of England has shown that it doesn't care about evidence or ethics, says Prof Nigel Biggar. Why else, when presented with proof its ?100 million reparations giveaway is groundless, would it press on regardless?
The post When it Comes to Reparations, the Church of England Doesn?t Care About Evidence or Ethics appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sensational New Measurements of Uncorrupted Air Temperatures Destroy UK Met Office Constant Claims o... Mon Sep 22, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
New data shows the Met Office's 'record' heat spikes are junk, weaponised by Net Zero activists to scare the public witless and push the no-hydrocarbons fantasy, says the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor.
The post Sensational New Measurements of Uncorrupted Air Temperatures Destroy UK Met Office Constant Claims of ?Records? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Making Tax Digital ? a Disaster in the Making or a Brilliant Innovation? Mon Sep 22, 2025 07:00 | Guy de la B?doy?re
Making Tax Digital is set to hit sole traders and landlords from 2026, promising more admin, costs and chaos than clarity, and Guy de la B?doy?re is already throwing in the towel rather than get swamped.
The post Making Tax Digital ? a Disaster in the Making or a Brilliant Innovation? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Mon Sep 22, 2025 00:43 | 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: 1 2 3 4 5Ó Conaire the Radical
On Friday, 12 December, a group of people linked to Galway’s Left will launch an initiative to reclaim Padraic Ó Conaire from what they term the “grip of the establishment”. Coiste Uí Chonaire will be holding a bi-lingual celebration of Padraic Ó Conaire’s life in Áras na nGael, Dominick St at 8 pm next Friday, 12th December.
The event will include a performance by Diarmuid de Faoite of part of his one-man Ó Conaire show. Rita Ann Higgins, like Ó Conaire another radical Galway writer, will read from both Padraic’s as well as her own work. There will also be two talks on the night, one as Gaeilge by Aindrias Ó Cathasaigh, the biographer of Mairtin Ó Cadhain, and one in English by the labour historian Dr. John Cunningham.
According to Seosamh Ó Cuaig of Coiste Uí Chonaire, the radical Ó Conaire would be turning in his proverbial grave at the sight of establishment figures such as Minister Ó Cuiv or representatives of Galway Corporation holding commemorative ceremonies to mark the 75th anniversary of his death.
“Padraic Ó Conaire was opposed to militarism, he was an internationalist. And if he were alive today he would be protesting against Shannon airport and Irish airspace being used by the US war machine to wage war in Iraq. Padraic Ó Conaire was also a political activist, a pamphleteer, who would have been to the forefront in opposing the attempts by Galway Corporation to suffocate free speech in Galway.”
It is the aim of Coiste Uí Chonaire to make more widely available the radical writings of Ó Conaire on all kinds of issues. Few realise how radical an activist he was. He helped set-up the Transport Union in Galway, he supported the Russian Revolution and was involved at different times in both the Labour and Communist parties.
Seosamh Ó Cuaig says the new committee intends to challenge the myths surrounding the Galway writer: “He was known as “sean” (old) Padraic Ó Conaire, but he was never old. The story of him and a little black donkey is mainly fiction. That he was a hopeless drinker is also greatly exaggerated – as he was one of the pioneers of modern Irish literature, who left a significant body of work despite his early death.”
Nach ionadh é go bhfuil sibh ábalta a rá cén tuairim a bheadh ag an fear seo sa lá inniu? B'fheidir go raibh sé báúil do Reabhlóid na Rúise san am sin ach cá bhfios daoibh nach mbeadh meas madaidh aige ar na cochumannaigh tar éis an scrios agus ár a rinne Stalin ar na daoine bochta thall?
Tá sibh ag maslu an fear maith seo má gcuireann sibh focail ina bhéal agus é gan acmhainn cainte. ba cheart daoibh a chuid scríbhinn a cheiliúradh ach na bí ag ra do dhaoine cen sórt tuairimí a bheadh aige ar chúrsaí an lae innu, mar nil a fhios agaibh.
Thank you Comrades in Galway for keeping the real tradition of Padraic O'Conaire alive. When i go back on a holiday to Galway I always sit a little while with him and with Liam Mellowes and think about their lives and I am strengthened and enriched. John Throne.
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Is aisteach an rud O Cuaig a bheith ag caint ar fhear a bhi ag iarradh cothrom na Feinne do gach duine. Is cuimneach liom O Cuaig ag sciorbh piosa i paipeir "AMARACH" os cionn scor blianta o chionn ag ra go mhaith leis cunai i "CUBA" mar a mbiodh se in ann maireachtail in EIREANN, sea "CUBA" ait a bhfuil cothrom na Feinne ag chuile dhuine.