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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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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.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits are Cooling on Global Warming appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:07 | 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.
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We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture Thu Sep 18, 2025 19:00 | Noah Carl
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
The post We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech Thu Sep 18, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump?urged?Keir Starmer?to deploy the military to stop the Channel small boats crisis that is "destroying" the country, drill in the North Sea and uphold free speech at a tense joint press conference today.
The post Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1You're not a former member of the Khmer Rouge by any chance?
The Archives are an important - probably THE most important - repository of our history, and that includes the history of Irish working people. Maybe you should visit some time and clear your head of all that nonsense.
I can only conclude that you are a crank.
They are of no benefit. The working class will have to foot the bill at the end of the day as the middle class sing of 'culture'.
Only the government and the bourgeois benefit.
Labouring along side others on the same shift, doing the same type of work yet receiving a fraction of the wage as the agency takes their slice of the cake and more often than not it normally the largest slice. Working on a temporary contract.
The working classes have more immediate concerns with banks and loan sharks choking many households.
Drug and alcohol abuse is widespread, so too is the cronic health and social problems that come with it from domestic and street, burglaries and so-called ‘joyriding’ effecting people of all ages. But who benefits from all the archives? Certainly not our class! They are little comfort to those of us who feel threatened by the spiralling levels of city centre violence.
In terms of the building social housing the cities politicians have ignored the cities housing crisis were our class have been unable to enter the housing markets as houses in their own communities remain out priced and out of reach.
The Archives, as I have already stated, are an insult to the people of Ireland we intend to focus in on this throughout the coming year. A total farce!
No risk assessments have been carried out regarding the effects these works will have on the Archives. I'm not talking about "rays" from mobiles. I refer to the physical alterations to the building.
The contractors cannot say there is no danger to the the records or staff if they have not carried out such a risk impact assessment. The contractors are acting like your typical cowboy builders. No need for plans, no consultation. Just slap it up.
The Garda Representative Association have protested against the mobile masts as well. In many Garda stations, builders arrived without notice and left a mess behind them, damaged windows, doors and roofs.
"Its mostly Garda Stations which have had these masts imposed on them and they have also been left in a sorry state. I'm sure some garda monitoring this site could confirm this."
Eh, No.
All garda stations already had communication masts and the mobile phone element was tagged on.
Also, I assume none of the people who work in National Archives ever use mobile phones. And if that is the case, then more power to their campaign.
Please explain your cultural vandalism nonsense. What possible evidence of that is there?
This is being done without any agreement. The OPW just says its going to happen. there has been no risk assessment. Its not OPW staff who will be carrying out the work, its a telecom firm, Vilicom. You have all seen the havoc these firms leave in their wakes when they dig up the roads.
Its mostly Garda Stations which have had these masts imposed on them and they have also been left in a sorry state. I'm sure some garda monitoring this site could confirm this.
At the very least if such a mast was to be erected there should be extensive consultation with the archivists and unions. A risk assessment should be carried out. Then an agreed plan whgich would ensure that neither staff nor documents would be put at risk would besigned off.
None of this has happened. Its the Usual Cowboy Parlon PD tactics.
This case isnt really comparable to the M3, Carrickmines or anything of that nature. The National Archives building in Bishop street is a very modern high rise building with five or six stories. It contains some very important historical documents, maps and photographs. but how is a mobile phone mast going to domage either the documents or the aestethic qualities of a large modern high rise building? Better the mast be put on a modern building than atop the G.P.O. or in Stephens Green. Lets not run away with ourselves. The real acts of heritage vandalism are being carried out on archaeological and historical sites and buildings supposedly protected by the national Monuments act 1994. If there are prooven health dangers to the staff of the national archives and the historians useing the facilities that would be a different matter.
do you really intend on frying the illuminated manuscripts of ireland the way you fried the gardaí siochana with the antennae / aerials / mobile masts?
enough of this.
sort of thing.
write that letter now!