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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.
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News Round-Up Sun Sep 21, 2025 00:05 | Will Jones
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.
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.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22Fargo is a completely fictional plot, the movie however opens with a "this is a true story" caption. Several years after Fargo was made, a japanese girl who had seen the movie, made the long journey from her home town to Fargo, and went searching for the buried treasure _in the snow_.
She was found dead. (exposure) in her hand was the map she had made from careful study of the movie, and she had made an attempt to enlist local police help. But the sheriff's deputy who had taken her in (on account of only wearing a miniskirt and looking "cold") to her a few nights before her death spoke no japanese and could not hold her without charge.
If it's not an Urban Myth then that stupid bitch is up for a Darwin Award. Some people are just a waste of oxygen.
Comrades!
I have not seen this Mel Gibson film and i have no plans to go see it.
Death in the snow
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,970908,00.html
A body is found in the frozen North Dakota woods. The cops say the dead Japanese woman was looking for the $1m she saw buried in the film Fargo. But the story didn't end there....
The Passion of the Christ is nothing more than crude fascist propaganda that encourages superstitious ignorant faith in a non-existant god and blind obedience to a corrupt and oppresive institution.
Denzel, your warm humanity is touching.. that poor girl was someones sister or daughter. The Darwin Awards are extremely insensitve and callaous.
Jesus was a sham. Barabas was the real Christ. Religon is farcical!! Religon holds the human race back!!
I could never work out why it was called The Passion of the Christ and not The Passion of Christ .What's the subtle nuance all about? Perhaps someone out of Catholic Worker might be able to explain it . Maybe the Ciaron fella.
I thought the world socialist website had the best review of the movie :
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/mar2004/pass-m05.shtml
It wasn't like his surname.
The special effects won me over I must say. From now on badman is a devout worshipper of the christ. I used to worship rocks but the worship of a phantom tripartite palestinian man-god is much more credible.
Hubba-Jubba-Wubba (that's praise be to the man-god in tongues)
foot washing?
vegetarian food?
chanting?
vivienne westwood?
reincarnation?
comfortable cars?
you can't trust these single issue Gurus.
The reference to Jedi in the main story is completely incorrect. As far as I know, there was a campaign to have Jedi Knight included as an option for religion in the UK census (if they got more than 10,000 respondents putting it down as their religion or something like that). The idea was to take the piss out of that particular question in the census!
thanks for the info on that. Must brush up on my Armaic. Still, The Passion of The Annointed doesn't really make much more sense than Passion of Annointed, does it ? Maybe the film makers were just trying to sound mysterious and spooky .
Mel Gibson was well into the whipping and flaying thing in Braveheart as well if I remember rightly. Liked him in Chicken Run though.
as well.Everything that michael moore has put on film has been distorted to moores view of the USA.Blowing for Columbine broke every rule for the qualification as a documentary under the Oscar rules.Yet Moore has never been taken to task on this either. Farheniet 911 is more of Moores distortion of the facts.Yet no one takes fat man to task?
American's were persuaded that Saddam Hussein was responsible for September 11. Bush managed to pass himself off as a liekable ordinary joe, rather than an American aristocrat. And Al Gore was successfully portrayed in people's minds as an eastern liberal absent minded professor. And just watch the American news (CBS, Fox, etc).
Its unfortunate, but I think some propaganda is needed to seep into Americans perceptions, balance their views. Moore's film is perfect for this.
So, if the facts are distorted, how come he hasn't been sued? Be honest, you don't like Moore because you like Bush and Co, but haven't got the balls to say it.
Moore is being sued.For fraud in the Oscars .Not that you would hear much about that in the media.
Funnily enough fatboy doesnt like his own tactics been used against him.He issued a barring order against a moviemaker who was "stalking " him to get an interview ala Roger and me.
He also charged a students union in Kansas $30000 to do an hour lecture in the university.
Moore is no more than another on the take Hollywood greedyboy.His down home working Joe image doesnt fool most people.Considering that he claims to live in a humble working house.That is only worth about $4.5 million[apart from gullible liberals who think everything he says is gospel].
Have a read of a new book coming out in ireland this month.
Michael Moore is a stupid fat white man
Give u an eye opener.
About having balls to say wether I like Bush or whomever......
Your point is that I am a raving right winger because I dont swallow bullshit whole?????
Voice of reason
Where do you get your news from.?
If Al Gore was in charge and 9/11 happened .Do you think the outcome would have been any different?Methinks not!If the intelligence was as flawed as it seems to be.Gore would have orderd the attack on Iraq as well.If he had refused,there would have been a quick removal of another president.Legally or otherwise.
'Moore is being sued.For fraud in the Oscars .Not that you would hear much about that in the media.'
Is this the massive news story that you speak off? :
http://www.washingtondispatch.com/culture/archives/000400.html
What a world shaking event. Moore must be crapping it.
" the intelligence was as flawed as it seems to be.Gore would have orderd the attack on Iraq as well."
What?
Bush's people were lobbying for action against Iraq before 9/11. After that event they began building the case for Iraq involvement in 9/11. The "intelligence" was only flawed because they got the answer they were looking for. I cant say Gore would have done a better job overall, I like to think he would. I dont think he would have attacked Iraq though because there wasnt a good enough reason to do so.
That is only one of the plantiffs.There is also the lawsuit against Moore brought by the film industry for the faked evidence in Blowing for Columbine which was supposed to be a "factual" documentary.
Try moorewatch.com for more on fat man.
As for Gore and evidence.If the intelligence agencies wanted the evidence to fit the crime,it would have been done.If Saddam was to be made out to be a very nice guy and a paragon of human virtue,any intell agency could have made him look so.
There was every reason to go to Iraq! After Afghanistan had been sorted out,more importantly. Trouble is Gore wouldnt have stayed the pace in Afghanistan nor when the proper time or reason came to go to Iraq would he do so.Gore was /is too self absorbed in trying to reduce greenhouse gas and other projects.
Have a read of his book on his plans for America. you would have to conclude that [a] He is a total Nut [b] deluded and idealistic [c] All of the above. Not exactly a man you want in control of the button.
this idea, popular in Europe and among US liberals, that things reagarding Iraq would be different under Gore needs to be knocked on the head. By the reckoning of Iraq bodycount Bush's war has killed somewhere less than 30 000 Iraqis. Lets call it 50 000. Clinton Gore killed closer to 1 million (according to the UN) Iraqis without even formally going to war! So Gore's anti war strategies are actually far more lethal and murderous than the looney serial kilers around bush. But sanctions were a price that could be paid because it is industrial death on the cheap and it can be ignored cos no americans or white people are dying. this explains how people here in the US can send kerry their donations, embrace moores lack of analysis and pretend that a democrat in the whitehouse can actually improve things. the democrats and most of the left have now signed up to this idiocy. A kerry victory will change nothing in Iraq nor will it change the US's increasingly agressive posture towards iran. But perhaps those who believe that bush (a personality) is the problem will feel better. Thats what this sort of empty thinking amounts to, it is essentially an emotional response to a political crisis. It will also allow these liberals to feel betrayed, and so wronged and victimised, as Kerry continues the slaughter.
Those are figures put together by activists. If a donkey died of mange in Iraq it went on the list.
Clinto/Gore did not kill anyone. Saddam Hussein and the inept, corrupt UN are responsible for those deaths (a few thousands BTW, nowhere near a million).
Get your propaganda right Commies, you're losing the plot.
Mel; Gibsons film is a marvellous gift to future generations. When all religions begin to go haywire and mankind is confused about what the truth is, Gibsons's film will remain one of the most important documentations of all time.
This film is truth. Jesus was born Son of God, lived as a man, had the feelings of a man and felt the pain that any mortal man does. Yet at the same time he was God. He fulfilled his destiny, and that was to make humanity aware of how they were to behave and how they were to treat one another. He suffered the utmost of degradation and tortue and he did this willingly. He showed us what true humility and true love is. As quoted in the film "There is no greater love than a man lay down his life for his friends". Jesus did this for us. He took the burden and magnitude of the world's sin upon himself, wiped the slate clean that we may have eternal life. Jesus made this sacrifice. He is truly the Sacrifical Lamb filled with love and mercy and forgiveness for all of mankind, even those who smited him. Mel Gibson's masterpiece portrayed this message clearly and concisely.
It was painful to watch, stirred emotions deep within the well of one's soul, yet at the same time left you
with a feeling of understanding of the meaning of life. No one else in the history of mankind has done it better.
Christina Biernacki Melbourne Australia