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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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30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do Sun Nov 23, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
Thirty Left-wing MPs have written to Ofcom to press it to censor X under the Online Safety Act. The evidence of 'hate' on the platform is threadbare, but it's obvious why they want to clip its wings, says Laurie Wastell.
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Exposed: How Green ?Philanthropy? Writes Scripts for Ulez ?Clean Air? Activists Sun Nov 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile highlights the work of Charlotte Gill exposing how green 'philanthropy' gives scripts to activists pushing 'clean air' schemes like Ulez as blatant proxies for the climate agenda.
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News Round-Up Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | 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.
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British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
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Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Today's march seems to be a success in terms of turnout and in terms of redicalism that exists. However today also exposes the lackings of the TU leadership.
Labour and the Trade Union bureaucrats are not calling for an end to redundencies and jobs for all, they are content with good redundency payments.
We need to get rid of these bureaucrats and work towards Trade Unions that will fight for their members and will not be afraid to take on the government and bosses.
is obviously to vote for someone different, someone nicer. No? Isn't that it? Voting for someone nice like SF or SP, someone that will take the right decisions for us and will rock the system from within, just like all the other revolutionary parliamentary representatives that we've had since the founding of this Free State.
When Jim Larkin with the assistance of amongst many others Countess Markievicz entered the Imperial Hotel (which is now Clerys) on O´ Connell Street to address striking workers in 1913 he did so in cunning disguise.
He faced the GPO opposite. with its columns an architectural feature of "western civilisation" whose priniciple purpose is aid effective ventilation of the interior of the building.
Now as we know climate change or not the GPO doesn´t need much mediterranean style ventilation.
Therefore the use of columns in northern European architecture has another meaning.
Aesthetics! I hear the attentive reader cry.
No I´m afraid its not aesthetics it is rather to give the impression of "greatness" of "imperial splendour".
Now Jim Larkin as all good Irish socialists know
(socialists whose work on keeping the flame alive I acknowledge and respect and whose activism has been unfailing and contribution to many campaigns outside of purely socialist concern suc has THORP must also be ackowledged)
was a big man. Big man Jim Larkin they used to call him.
Countess Marekievicz however not so big.
Ledean swan or something like that they used to call her.
Don´t dither iosaf get to the point!
Jim Larkin (great big man) famously said
"The great only appear great because you are on your knees arise!"
or something like that, before I am corrected by scripturalist purists might I make the modest proposal that Jim Larkin probably said that line lots, to loads of people, and probably never even any royalties for it.
He may even have said that in the privacy of his bedroom but that would be a matter between himself and the Mrs perhaps? [ah I hear the revisionist Fine Gael historiographers rub their hands in glee, we have an opportunity to discredit Jim Larkin great big man that he was.]
I digress sorry but you know me; all over the place.
Anyway Jim Larkin (great big man) was facing a different O´connell street to today.
No abrakebabra, and no other well loved logos.
and a bloody great pillar with Nelson on top.
Now for the benefit of younger readers (there are a few I believe HIYA GROOVERS!!) Nelson´s pillar was a big column in the middle of O´connell street where nowadays the used abrakebabra wrappers get thrown at Anna Livia (lovely grrrl Anna).
It was removed from Dublin´s skyline in 1966 one night and morning after two explosions.
The first was claimed by the "IRA" (oh they were a different IRA then ask P. de Rossa) and the second was carried out by the "Irish Army" no surprises for which explosion caused more superficial damage to windows and stuff.
--Sure they were up in arms (nearly?!) in Sean Macdermott street.
Anyway it occurs to me that Ireland has moved on from facing the GPO sort of demonstrations.
Why only a little while after Jim Larkin (great big man) another bunch of lads took over the GPO.
That was commerated by a monument of CúChulainn in bronze.
Its a beautiful thing isn´t it? and that´s why over the years its got moved around the GPO, I recall in my youth, and as everyone knows I´m no youngster now, it was tucked away at the back where you weighed the packages, but around the time of the "ceasefire" (wasn´t that great, went doen very well on Sean Mac dermott Street I can tell you) the lovely statue of Cú chulainn got moved to teh front of the GPO with spotlights and a window.
So you see times change and methods to.
have I made my point?
probably not loads more of it to come.
The solution is not to vote for the SP. The SP say that the only way to change things is through mass action. That means the mobilisation of workers in the communities, the workplaces, the streets etc.
Just because we stand for parliament doesnt mean we want 'to work on the inside'. To say that shows a very superficial analysis on your part.
Our TD Joe Higgins, and all our elected representatives, such as Cllr Clare Daly, use their positions to mobilise ordinary people, and do not substitute themselves for them. Clare and Joe have used their positions to voice the opposition of ordinary people on issues such as bin charges, planning corruption, Nice Treaty, the war on Iraq etc. and importantly to organise ordinary people on these issues.