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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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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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The BBC?s ?1 Billion Pension Bailout Sun Sep 21, 2025 19:47 | Richard Eldred
The BBC has poured over ?1 billion into its gold-plated pension scheme, gobbling up nearly ?850 million of licence fee money ? and it looks like the bill could keep climbing.
The post The BBC?s ?1 Billion Pension Bailout appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11The anti Israel Propaganda and Rhetoric is alive and healthy on the anti Jew Indy media leftist loving islamists
Moreover, having personally been under Syrian shell fire from the Golan, I heartily agree with Israel's decision to annex the heights from its depraved neighbour.
Describing another nation as being "depraved" looks to me like racism. Stop to think before banging off that type of comment. Israeli soldiers fire live ammunition at unarmed protestors. Would you not consider that "depraved", Avi?
As for the previous comment, indymedia have also been accused of being pro-Israel, so they must be making an effort to strike a fair balance, but I suppose it's impossible to satisfy extremists of one sort or another.
Also what is wrong with loving "islamists"? Should we not try to be fair to people of all backgrounds?
Well, when the guy next to you has his head blown off by arbitrary firing, it really sets you thinking. Try these links on the existence (or rather, non-existence of human rights in Syria). Consider that this is the neighbourhood in which Israel has to live, before you sound off on the Middle East:
http://hrw.org/doc/?t=mideast_pub&c=syria
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/nea/8298.htm
I was told by someone who was in both Saddam Hussein's jails and Assad's jails, that the Syrian ones were worse. By the way, this is how they treat their Jews:
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/anti-semitism/syrianjews.html
On that basis, I think it's fair to call Syria a depraved country.
It would be more accurate to say that a state is depraved, rather than a country. A country consists of ALL the people, whereas a state is the government and it's institutions. You cannot condemn an entire race for the wrongs carried out by a government, and let's face it, ALL governments are depraved, including of course the Israeli one.
and stop pointing the finger of blame at your neighbours Avi.
You claim that your country is a beacon of "democracy" in your region.
I put it to you that a democratic state does not engage in the Anschluss of the West Bank, and the killing of unarmed protestors, and internment and torture of political opponents in secret jails.
No amount of accusation by you and your Zionist excusenik fellow travellers will change this fact.
Israel is a renegade state and needs to be brought to its knees by sanctions just as South Africa was in the 80s.
Boycott Israel!
welcome and all as the potential prosecution of Tom Hurndall's assassin is the British media forgot all about their own military's litany of murder of unarmed civilians.
The murder of Aidan McAnespie in Aughnacloy by a single shot from 300m range while he walked to a football match is a good example:
Aidan McAnespie
On Saturday, February 21st, 1988 the 23 year old Aughnacloy footballer walked to see his Gaelic football team play a match on a field close to the border. As he approached the checkpoint, a British Army soldier fired his weapon, piercing the man in the back, killing him.
The official reason for the alleged accident is that a British soldier's wet hand slipped as he was cleaning his gun, causing him to release the trigger, discharging three rounds. One of which ricocheted off the road, striking McAnespie in the back. The soldier responsible was never prosecuted. He was subsequently charged with manslaughter, but the charges were dropped. The McAnespie family, friends, and colleagues believe it was premeditated and intentional because he was one of the few Catholic men in the area to go back and forth on a regular basis.
This case just adds to the list of victims of the security force. Killings and injustices that every family and persons had to endure and make part of everyday life in the north before peace proceedings commenced. Aidan McAnespie will never be forgotten in the border towns of County Tyrone. A memorial marker has been erected at the spot where Aidan was shot at the border.
In Boston, his memory has been continued with this football club bearing his full name, established in November 1995. The Club has come a long way in the past few years by being one of the most competitive and widely supported clubs in Boston.
I note that the editors remove my comments when they don't like them. Is this the freedom of expression this site stands for, I wonder?
[hidden] clip edit unhide upgrade to story Yawn... by avi H. Monday, Jan 5 2004, 1:59pm Er, that's it.
On 4 January, 2004 Five conscripted Conscientious Objectors were sentenced to an additional year in prison on top of the year they have been held for refusing to serve
in the IDF. The sentence is, in effect, an unlimited one as the prosecution intends to
jail them till they agree to serve. That's the price they will pay for refusing to be part
of the brutal occupation.
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update:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62916