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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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Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
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Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
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Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
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Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1"If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? / Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? / If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him? / And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb. And it came to pass, when the devil was gone out, the dumb spake; and the people wondered."
Ian, I first wrote to you when I lived,
just off the SCR Dolphin's Barn a few hundred yards from Fatima's mansions and the worst affected "scag" areas of Dublin in the early 1990s. I too saw people die. I too saw the terror of the modern world unleashed upon a generation. I too notice the gap in demography.
I wrote to you about "peace" and what I saw as the common civilised values which belong at the hearth of almost every Irish home.
I wrote to you about the "fraility" which poorly suits those who lead, of the malfunction of leadership, of the snare of demogoguery in any way shape or form.
You didn't reply.
The Presbyterian church in Ireland did reply.
They sent me over two hundred pages of carefully considered and very well written criticisms of what was at that stage a very early version of the agreement which was later voted upon by the peoples of the island of Ireland. I had already learnt my psalter thanks to them, and had taken by leave of their company for choosing wayward ways.
The Orange Order replied, they sent me their tricentenary glossy brochure and ever since I started using the internet I've been tempted to upload the pictures. But they sent me nothing more.
You've come a long way, and you're not sitting in a hammock photographing your feet. You're still at the helm, saying the good words, and i wonder of your thoughts when Rev. Billy Graham came to Europe, and of your generation of evangelists, of your generation of calvinists, of your rôle not only in ulster but far far beyond.
If anyone were to give you a scorpion when you asked for boiled eggs in the diplomatic mission of the republic of Ireland to the court of St James, I'd be very very angry. Are we to believe the BBC when they still counted on so many hard working capable staff, that you really felt so threatened?
Or was this an example of "your sense of humour".
Mr Paisley of Ulster , you are very like Mr Fraga of Galicia and very different.
You have always been an oppositionist.
He has always been in government.
You are as protestant as is possible.
He isn't.
You denounce trickery, proclaim covenants, detect sorcery, and ask for humiliation.
He just kept saying :- "there isn't a problem".
In short to conclude, I and many of my generation, would be very angry were you to be poisoned, we got used to you and your antics, we like in you in a
"better the devil you know than the devil you don't"
sort of way.
You have been finally elected to lead a government,
and the company of princes,
and the responsibility of lords.
= It's your choice.
= it always was your choice.
I made a mistake, not my first, Zaptero didn't attend the breakfast in Kent, he was still hanging out with Chirac celebrating a Spain/France summit and supporting Kofi against the USA "food for oil" attack.
over 450,000,000 people don't get brekkie.
People like U2 are doing the best to support a campaign at the moment to get the people over in the UN building and those at the brekkies to worry about this.
Times are very tough for sensitive types.
Inicidents of psychological breakdown are peaking where they are monitored - in the prisons of Europe, and in the hospitals and schools. Even today the local telly soap opera focussed on such problems.
Why are people going potty?
- Because the world is strange. Terror has moved into the age of modernity now, and is felt in all lives in all quarters, and not a one of us, be we Rev. Paisley or the brekkie crew really understand it anymore. It's "the fear".
I still recommend origami.
I stll recommend talking to your mates and recognising that we all read the papers, watch the TV, but it isn't our fault.
We are not responsible, guilty or in any way to allow ourselves to be so finely scared silly by the surreality of the modern world.
We need to tell each other jokes more.
Maybe we ought joke a little less about Ian Paisley, the man who said-
"Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust."
It surprises me, for in the psalter of David is it not written "sign a new song unto the Lord" followed by "Praise him in the dance, on the cymbal, on the organ" et cetera...
Perhaps the grand old man's palpable fear, very extensive paranoia and mistrust is a sign of his experiencing "dejávù", certainly it is not showing any signs of getting better. Mr Paisley is "cracking up". Mr Robinson it is surely your time to take the reins of responsibility, for "humiliation" and "atonement" and such concepts though sincere professions of your understandable posititions are not helping "normal christian life" appear in the province, the vat majority of those who voted for your opposite numbers have played no part in the sins or crimes done against you, and they have suffered humiliation since paritition. Humiliation in the name of ignorant taunts, prejudice, bigotry, jerrymandering, and war which was made upon them. From far away, it seems, that once the reverend Paisley is allowed "rest" to recuperate from his obvious problems and anxiety, then the peoples of ulster, northern ireland, the north of ireland may live better lives, enjoying concensus, peace, good schools, hospitals and take away food.
For verily you are not "god's chosen people".
Now deep breathing. it's easy.
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can anyone decipher this?
Madrid's government can't update me, coz Mr Aznar doesn't techincally work there anymore. And number 10 have due to the embarrasment side of things let nothing more be mentioned than "the sale of a house at 2,000,000 [dont know if its $/€/stg] and the health of Mr Blair".
Oh, yeah, tomorrow Mr Zapatero will have breakfast with Mr Blair in a big Kent mansion along with several other people (whom they generally refer to as mandarins) [though to be honest they very rarely wear chinese clothing] { a good latin accent and west london club tie suffices }
They're also going to be joined by Mr Caruno the first minister of Gibraltar (who was re-elected the same day our grand old man Ian Paisley won the majority of the unionist vote after trying his best for more than thirty years and José Pons the spanish minister charged with the responsibility for negotiation between HMG UK NI and GIB and HMG España.
The treaty of Utrecht which gave Gibraltar to the UK also covered the first acceptance be the UK and Ireland of the Spanish state's rule of Catalonia (where I live).
Tomorrow I will be joining my flatmates for a brekkie of cheap coffee and some discount chocolate cakes from the local discount supermarket, thanks to free market economics and globalisation, we can still afford these items, we will naturally be talking more about such key issues that effect us "plebians" as -
1. the insecurity of our jobs.
2. the absence of any guaranteed state pension for us when we are old.
3. and why some of us, even though beautiful enough to win miss world can't live and work in europe or spain or the UK or gibraltar without undue hassle despite speaking the languages.