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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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BREAKING: Starmer Abandons Plans for Compulsory Digital ID Tue Jan 13, 2026 19:09 | Will Jones
Sir Keir Starmer has abandoned plans for mandatory digital ID for workers amid concerns that it will undermine public trust in the scheme, though a voluntary version is still expected.
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Trump Cancels All Talks With Iran and Tells Protesters ?Help Is on its Way? Tue Jan 13, 2026 18:02 | Will Jones
President Trump has cancelled all meetings with Iranian officials and told protesters that "help is on its way" as thousands of demonstrators are killed by the brutal theocratic regime.
The post Trump Cancels All Talks With Iran and Tells Protesters “Help Is on its Way” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Politics of Not Wanting to Know Tue Jan 13, 2026 15:49 | Michael Rainsborough
Whether with Islamists or the far Right, modern politics closes its eyes to the underlying causes of discontent, fearing that to understand is to endorse. We no longer know our enemy, says Prof Michael Rainsborough.
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It?s Young Women Not Men Who Are Radicalising Tue Jan 13, 2026 13:23 | Sallust
For all the media talk of young men being radicalised online, it's young women who have shifted their politics most dramatically ? to the Left, with one in three now planning to vote Green at the next election.
The post It’s Young Women Not Men Who Are Radicalising appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Why Aren?t Western Feminists Standing up for Iran?s Women? Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:19 | Will Jones
Why aren't Western feminists standing up for Iran's women? Activists who never miss a chance to condemn microaggressions are oddly silent as protesters bravely attempt to throw off the theocratic yolk, says Clarissa Hard.
The post Why Aren’t Western Feminists Standing up for Iran’s Women? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9The Shell station opposite Glasnevin cemetery is being changed into a "Topaz" station.
But even a cursory glance at the website of the Topaz company shows that it's a "Shell licensee".
All the petrol is still coming from Shell.
What next.
Do not buy or use anything that has been manufactured from shell or statoil, including all secondary products which are utilized by other industries.
Get a grip pal.
Do Shell make diesel? I m wondering if the Tescos spuds are okay, or are they farmed with Shell diesel in the tractors and lorries? Would organic ones be better, or can I still eat inorganic ones because they are half the price?
Consumer boycotts have a part to play in many campaigns- you only have to ask why Topaz are trying to hide their connection with Shell to see how effective the protests had become.
And if you don't believe me, here's a quote from Frank Gleeson, retail director of Topaz, in an Irish Times article, explaining why the Shell signs had to go:
"Events in Mayo were part of the mix," says Mr Gleeson.
"The Shell brand was a little bit tired and hadn't been invested in for many years. In addition it had some negative connotations with the Corrib protests, of which it should be remembered that Statoil was involved too; they are also a shareholder in that."
Yet, all of the fuel sold in Topaz stations is still coming from Shell. Supposedly the consumers will be blinded by the bright new Topaz sign to realise...
I know,
Lets all go back to the stone age…….
Yeah right. Not buying petrol from Shell/Topaz will inevitably lead to the end of industrialisation, and thus civilisation will return to neolithic condidtions. It seems supporting a company which undermines human rights both in Ireland and iin other parts of the world is necessary for modern life to exist.
Get a grip. Buy your fuel somewhere else- or buy a bike, take the bus, or walk.
Supporting a company which uses force to secure profit is much more uncivilised (some might say "stone age") behaviour than taking peaceful action to educate them about the consequences of their actions.
The actions of our friends in Dublin and elsewhere in picketing Shell stations are very important. Back in the 90's at the time of the
Ogoni 9 and Brent Spar, Shell stations all over the world were boycotted and it scared the crap out of them. Admittedly, all they did was to
try to pretend they were adopting a new, ethical approach, which came to nothing as we can now see in Erris, but the fact remains that
they got a real shock when forecourt sales began to tumble. I'm now suggesting that we busy ourselves organising similar action
worldwide, informing anyone who cares to listen about exactly what's happening here. This increased level of awareness will be
needed because I fear that Shell are about to get very nasty indeed here in Erris. They're back, reluctantly I would suggest, in the village
that buried them 3 years ago, and the facade they've been so careful to build is beginning to slip in many small ways, not least with the
business community in Belmullet who're beginning to realise they've been sold a pup. So they're forced on to the commonage and I
expect them to stop at nothing this time to try to push through. But it's a different country now than it was in 2005, and a lot of people are
asking where all the money went. If we can notify as many people as possible nationally and worldwide about what's going on in Erris
it's just possible that this time we mightn't be left to fight the war on our own.
So keep it up guys. They're already trying to change their name; before this is over we'll make them change their tune.
And wasn't it terrible that someone got killed and a petrol station was fire bombed during the Brent saga only for Shell to be then vindicated when Greenpeace announced that they got their facts wrong - way wrong!!! Talk about reacting to erroneous information and ill based data. A great PR stunt based on heresay which all parties involved now admit. Erris looks like it is going the in the same wrong direction because certain people won't listen to the facts and are being driven by emotion. Greenpeace were man enough to say they didn't do their homework correctly on Brent and they would have reacted differently if they had.
Also remember that Shell in Nigeria is over 60% owned by the Nigerian Government and there were pleas for clemency from The Hague regarding the alleged 'act of treason'. Shell had no part in condemning The Ogoni 9 - if you believe so, then show me the proof of their involvement in the conviction of the 9. So you're not comparing apples with apples.
I await to this day a sound engineering justification from S2S as to why the pipeline shouldn't be where it is (I told you a number of weeks ago that you weren't going to like its new location!) and why the terminal is so dangerous.
Just shows the utter contempt Shell have for the local people by basically ignoring the events of the past 3 years and coming up with the same dodgy route and project which caused all the problems in the first place. By coming up with this route Shell consultants RPS even took the mickey out of the widly discredited Cassles report which Shell championed for so long. Suprising for a company with Shells resources that its PR dept is so inept as further evidenced by the sad little troll who goes by the name of "Erris Exile".