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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.
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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1The continuation of the 'deal' on Cork City Council means that Fianna Failer Sean Martin, brother of Minister Michael Martin, will be elected as Cork's Lord Mayor this evening.
What was all this talk of the FF/PD government being given a 'good kicking' in the election? All the deals on the city and county councils remain firmly in place, and the establishment politicians carry on as if Fianna Fail didn't get a drubbing in the election. No wonder there is such widespread cynicism about politics.
They've done a deal with 'them' in Sligo as well.
Can't even keep an election promise for more than a week after the elections.
We are about to see some pretty comical manoeuvering in the Dublin City council chamber. Although there is a anti-bin tax majority on the council, there is no chance that this will have any effect on rolling back the tax. Even if SF and the LP were to vote down the charge the council would simply be abolished by the city manager. This was actually reiterated several times by government ministers during the election counts as it became clear that SF would have a good number of councillers.
The council has two basic choices.
1) Refuse to approve the budget estimates that include bin taxes and get abolished.
2) Approve the charges to 'save local democracy'
The first one will not happen as SF will not pass up the opportunities that the council gives them of promoting candidates for the next general election. We already have a precedent for this in Sligo. As Gerry Adams said "Sinn Féin councillors in Sligo, rather than seeing the service go entirely over to privatisation, and seeing the aged, or people on low incomes, suffering, then went for a more pragmatic approach. The same thing has happened in Monaghan. Our position is against it. But in terms of the actual practicalities of working out these matters, as part of local government, the party made compromises on it,"
The Labour party, also have pretty good form on this. Dermot Lacey, slimeball that he is, used his casting vote as mayor to 'save local democracy' last year and pass the bin charges estimates.
The real wrangling in the council chamber will be between the LP and SF and it will not have anything to do with stopping the bin tax, it will be a battle to paint the other party as the ones who sold out on the bin tax. The Labour party, who have less to lose from an abolished council, may try to force the Shinners to approve the tax by going to the brink of abolition. Both parties might play the old "several councillers were sick / hiding in the toilet" card during the vote. Anyway, we're in for some entertainment. Don't you just love the cut and thrust of principled politics.
Good to see people having a go at those dodgy FF-Lab-FG councillors in Cork.
Now that the count in Dublin City is over, who is dealing with who. I believe that there is an "anti bin tax" majority with Labour and Sinn Fein and others having a majority. So why won't the Bin Tax be abolished? Will they call off any attempts to not collect bins? Will Labour fail us all yet again and vote for bin tax?