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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.
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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Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
The post Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The ?Far Left? Finally Gets Its Comeuppance Sat Sep 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
For years the Left has smeared its opponents as 'far Right'. Now, the spike in Leftist political violence has led to a turning of the tables. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Guardian, says Prof James Alexander.
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Jump To Comment: 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1I applaud the NBRU and SIPTU members for standing up to corporate beauocracy.Minister brennan is too indulged in Neo Liberal Fantasies to consider the practical implications of privatisation.Is a profiteering private company going to maintain non profitable routes or concessions for schoolchildren and the elderley?,I think not as a private company`s first duty is always to deliver profits to its shareholders.Transport must remain democratically accountable to the public.Look what happened after the privatised the transport system in britan.
Privatisation=Disaster, this is epitomized also by the break up of Telecom.
The no fares day was a good idea that I would like to see repeated but it unfortunatly it does not have the same impact as a transport strike. The power of a transport strike is as much if not more in the disruption it causes for every business and employer as it is in the revenue loss it causes Dublin Bus. Arguably the government is not that worried by 'no fares' causing a loss for a public service they want to privitise anyway.
Why does it have to be a strike? How about another 'No Fares Day'? Surely that would make more sense.
(related to the thread earler in the week)
See Dave? Its not that difficult to put up a post. Anyone can be an indymedia contributor. You can shape the content of the news on the site.
I heard him speak at the Irish Social Forum amongst other events and, while he will state that ihe is not a rrrevolutionary socialist he clearly is engaged in opposing privatisation.
Good report Dave - do you know how solid the mandate they have is? Surely the earlier strike notice must be approaching 6 months now?
Kevin most people in Ireland could be members of a union and indeed a majority of purblic service workers are. So individual members are likely to hold a very large range of views indeed and some will be what you or I might consider to be quite obnoxious. That is because their unions of workers rather then self selected bunches of activists.
I'm also in SIPTU and I spent quite a bit of time on the bin tax blockades as did other SIPTU members I knew. Other SIPTU members who are bin workers were willing to take action at the time as they reckoned it was a good moment to act in their interests as well as ours (and as most are low paid workers who also pay the bin tax our interest was also theirs) .The SIPTU leadership on the other hand not only failed to do anything but the most token mumurings against the jailings but actively defused the situation on the ground on those occasions where it looked like workers were going to walk out of the depots.
If it was a situation where all those concerned realised their common interests and struck together we'd be able to look for a lot more than the abolition of the bin tax. That's not the case, unfortunatly the working class is endless divided into groups that don't recognise themselves in others. All too often solidarity is a slogan rather than a practice and its good to see the SIPTU busworkers treating it otherwise.
You are missing the point here. This was a decision of the Dublin Bus Branch Committee of SIPTU to support a strike, something that anyone who is supportive of the trade union movement should welcome.
The SIPTU bureaucracy is one of the most entrenched and right wing of any Irish union. You don't have to go as far as the bin tax dispute to show that. You don't even have to bring up the "no industrial action" sweetheart deal they have done with Connex. The union leadership had previously called off a strike on much the same issues by SIPTU members. That the Dublin Bus membership want to support their NBRU colleagues who are taking action is an important step.
You need to distinguish between the trade union movement and membership and the union bureaucracy.
The unions just want their share of the public cake. They will be bought off with a share of the company. Look at the ESB, they are going on strike not for wages but for 20% of their company. Its not their company it belongs to the people. So do Bus Eireann Dublin Bus and Iarnoid Eireann.
SIPPTU showed what a bunch of scabs they are during the Anti Bin Tax fight. A lot of them were only too happy not to collect bins. Lazy gits. It was also a SIPTU member who knocked Joe Mooney down. SIPTU are defending this psycho driver.