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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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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.
The post Exposed: How Green ‘Philanthropy’ Writes Scripts for Ulez ‘Clean Air’ Activists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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.
The post British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Czechs Let US Control Security for NATO Summit
by Ian Traynor
The Czech president, Vaclav Havel, last night signed into law a bill handing responsibility for his country's security to the Pentagon during the two-day NATO summit next week, amid mounting fears of terrorist attack and street violence.
Prague police have arrested five Czechs, at least two of them teenagers, on suspicion of plotting sabotage during the first NATO meeting of its kind since George Bush came to power - and the first since the September 11 atrocities.
The first detachments of an estimated 250 US troops are expected in Prague today to play a central role in ensuring security during the summit, which will inevitably have its agenda hijacked by the preparations for war on Iraq.
The initial agenda concentrated on the "transformation" of NATO, in which up to seven new members from the former Soviet bloc would be admitted to the alliance.
US F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft will patrol the skies over the Czech Republic throughout the summit next Thursday and Friday.
The Americans are to deploy at least 10 fighter aircraft, using an air base 50 miles south of Prague. Under special legislation rushed through the Czech parliament, the US troops and aircraft will be under US command. But the Czech government, in the person of the defense minister, has to give the green light for any US use of force.
Mr Havel cut short a holiday in the Canary Islands, where he was recuperating from bronchitis, to sign the bill last night after it was endorsed by the Czech senate. The bill passed parliament's lower house by a large majority last week.
Thousands of anti-globalization protesters turned central Prague into a battlefield during the International Monetary Fund and World Bank summit in the city two years ago. The Czech authorities and the Americans appear determined to prevent a repeat performance now when tensions are greater because of the Middle East crisis and widespread warnings of imminent al-Qaida attacks in Europe.
The five arrested yesterday were Czechs, including two 19-year-olds from Ostrava, 200 miles east of Prague. A police spokeswoman described them as "extremists" and claimed they were plotting to disrupt power supplies in Prague and in the underground metro system during the summit.
The police have also been given powers to arrest any masked demonstrators who decline a request to show their faces.
An umbrella group of four anti-globalization organizations called "Anti-NATO" is preparing for protests against the summit delegates, who include 46 heads of state, almost 3,000 delegates and a 3,000-strong media entourage.
Police expect 12,000 people to protest on the streets; they will be matched by similar numbers of security services personnel.
A senior police official said he expected at least one in five protesters to be violent. Around 2,000 foreign protesters have been blacklisted and will be prevented from entering the country.
Wenceslas Square, the city center avenue where the great drama of 1989's velvet revolution was enacted, will be the central venue for the protests which are scheduled to start on Sunday.
on Food not bombs....
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=17384
on Irish attendance at Prague.. (irish times).
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=17097
Washington Post on NATO future:
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=16852
new terror EU legislation
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=16674
Znet on non-lethal weapons and gas.
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=16453
source of figures:
http://www.praguepost.com/P03/2002/Art/1023/news1.php
on strange use of non-lethal weapons and one of the key areas to be discussed (Russia, Kalingrad and future co-operation with Moscow)...
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=16106
on another key member Turkey:
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=17398
and if you think protesting is just a normal and neccesary part of the "democratic contract" and that expresion of opinion and freedom of association are enshrined rights then read and consider.
http://ireland.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=18043
or go "abroad" to "broaden" your mind...
consider
another Neutral countries advice on visiting Praha.
http://austria.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=17276&group=webcast
english version at the bottom scroll through the German.
* There are already situations where people have been stopped on
Polish-Czech
border. Border police gave "transit stamps" to the passports -
those with transit stamps must leave the Czech Republic in 2 days.
If you are in Wroclaw and need help and info -
call the
number +48 609 089 523 or go to the address
Kromera 6A.
PLEASE - if you successfully cross the border or you have been stopped
-
inform us about the details!!!!!
GOOD LUCK,
Grupa Wsparcia Granicznego
www.csaf.cz