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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.
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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
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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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Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
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Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
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Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
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CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran Sat Nov 22, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Afghanistan (No Choice US Diktatorship)
Albania
Australia (Public Opinion (and Senate) against
Azerbaijan
Colombia ( Bananna Republic / Govt are CIA Linked Diktators)
Czech Republic
Denmark
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia (No Choice - Famine coming)
Georgia
Hungary
Iceland
Italy (Dik tatorship - Public opinion 70-80 % against)
Japan
South Korea
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Netherlands
Nicaragua
Philippines
Poland (People against)
Romania
Slovakia
Spain (Majority Public opinion against)
Turkey
United Kingdom (Imperialists disgyuised ads labour Govt - CIA links)- www.deepblacklies.com
Uzbekistan
And that's off the top of my head
Despite the massive marches, petitions, opinion polls and international law the government of the UK has decided to vote for the use of murder of the Iraqi people.
Who's to blame?
It would be easy to pick out organisations like the SWP that bave backed the New Labour project for "tactical" reasons, but the real blame lies at our own doorsteps: we accepted the system called Representative Democracy in which we hand over our power to a non-recallable, non-accountable representative. We accepted that they could do this to us. We accepted that they could decide that our brothers and sisters could be sent to fight a war that none of us want. We surrendered our power.
It is time to reclaim that power, to withdraw our consent to be goverened whether it be by poltroons or paragons. It is time to take direct action against the monster known as the State.
Any one work out a list of the other 15 states that wanted to conceal their support? Ireland is one country.
Just a point there on the UK. The UK government are not 'disguised' as a Labour government. They ARE a Labour governemtn. Labour are completely a bourgeois party through and through. They've not active membership, no internal democracy, no respect from workers (look at FBU strike!).
And a Big Hand for...
The Coalition of the Willing
By DAVID LINDORFF
Here they are, the Coalition of the Willing, courtesy of Colin Powell and your friends at the White House. This is the entire State Department list of the so-called "cCoalition of the Willing" , those countries that are allegedly backing our pre-emptive war on Iraq. Let's take a look at who's with us:
Afghanistan--Well, they should be a big help. Aren't we still trying to help them create an army?
Albania -- Um, okay.
Australia -- Just promised to send over 2000 troops. Thanks mates!
Azerbaijan--Takes one dictatorship to know another.
Bulgaria -- Our ace in the hole on the security council, but they are so important to the campaign that our plucky commander-in-chief forgot to invite them to the Azores.
Colombia -- Taking time out from the war on drugs to take out Saddam. Maybe they'll ship some of those defoliant-spraying helicopters we've provided them with over to the Gulf to help clear away all that messy swamp grass lying between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
Czech Republic -- Let's see Mr. Havel--Mister Peace--explain this one!
Denmark -- To be or not to be part of an independent Europe, that is the question.
El Salvador --This act of solidarity must be in gratitude for America's staunch defense of democracy there over the years.
Eritrea -- I guess they're glad to see the weapons flying anywhere outside their own benighted land.
Estonia -- Russia's against the war, so they're for it.
Ethiopia -- Maybe the U.S. will reward them with some sacks of surplus grain.
Georgia -- Shevrednadze's bid for recognition as still being globally significant.
Hungary -- Count the troops being provided. One, do I hear one?
Italy -- Well, let's say Berlusconi. After deducting all the Italians who have demonstrated against this war, and removing the Vatican, he's about the only one left supporting Bush's war in the entire country.
Japan -- Anxious to move the focus of guns and bombs away from the Korean peninsula. While Japan is not providing any troops for battle, the State Department points out they are willing to help out with the post-war clean-up. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they're good at that kind of thing.
South Korea -- see Japan above. Also Eritrea.
Latvia -- see Estonia
Lithuania -- ditto
Macedonia -- This is a big hard to fathom, but I'm sure they'll make an important contribution to the war effort.
The Netherlands -- seeking relevance before global warming renders the entire country irrelevant
Nicaragua -- see El Salvador
the Philippines -- Hoping to keep American troops busy, so they won't pile into Mindinao, ignoring Filipine government statements, and start mixing it up with Islamic rebels.
Poland -- Needs a diversion from economic disaster at home.
Romania -- see Poland, only more so. Don't expect to see a Romanian battalion marching towards Baghdad. The government's having trouble rustling up boots for them to wear.
Slovakia -- Hey, State Department dudes! Didn't this country change its name a while back. to Slovak Republic? Shouldn't we get our allies' names correct? Oh well, no matter. Whatever they're called, they're on board.
Spain -- See Italy. With only 14 percent popular support for the U.S. war, this is really just the governing elite. There's nobody willing to shoulder a gun and join the Brits and the Americans in battle.
Turkey -- Excuse me? This is one of our partners in the Coalition of the
Willing? Didn't their parliament just stick it to us and say they weren't going to play? Sort of makes you wonder about some of the others being listed as allies. With friends like these...
United Kingdom -- Okay, this one's for real at least. Though with 80 percent of the British public against war, Tony Blair may not be with us for long.
Uzbekistan --And thank goodness for that!