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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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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.
The post Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
It's bad enough that all UK TV users are forced to fund the BBC via a TV licence. But it's worse than that, says Charlotte Gill: millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are handed to the corporation via backdoor channels.
The post Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran Sat Nov 22, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing against the acquittal of Hamit Coskun, who was convicted of burning the Quran in a protest, reigniting fears Britain could introduce blasphemy laws by the back door.
The post CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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US Columnist tries explaining 'Anti-Americanism' by throwing in some Anti-Europeanism....
The Gulf of World Opinion
Robert J. Samuelson
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34664-2003Mar26.html
'What explains the anti-American fury, particularly in Europe? Simple. It makes people feel good. It gives them a sense of moral superiority. It doesn't cost them anything. It diverts attention from domestic discontents. It doesn't require hard decisions or hard thinking. It's a convenient moral exhibitionism that, on inspection, is full of delusion, shortsightedness and moral hypocrisy.'
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Blasts in Baghdad - 15 dead
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2003/03/26/international/27BAGH_slideshow_hicks_1.html
The Dead
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2003/03/26/international/26cnd-cas.slideshow_1.html
Anonymous analysis of why 'Shock and Awe' failed
http://www.dailykos.com/archives/002147.html
''In case you have not heard yet, the Canadian web site, YellowTimes.org,
was shut dow for two hours until they removed content that their hosting
company deemed offensive. The 'offensive' content was a photo of an
American POW and a photo of a dead Iraqi child.''
You can find YellowTimes side of the story here:
http://www.yellowtimes.org./article.php?sid=1206&mode=thread&order=0
more info at http://www.politechbot.com/p-04581.html
Google rejects adverts from Anti-War websites
http://www.unknownnews.net/google.html#saturday
''Google AdWords does not allow the advertisement of sites that promote hate, violence, racial intolerance, or advocate against any individual, group, or organization. Ad text, site content, or keywords should not be hate/anti related.''
White House prepares to feed 24-hour news cycle
from PR Week magazine
http://www.prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=174751&site=3
Written by Douglas Quenqua
Published on March 24 2003
WASHINGTON: The eruption of war in Iraq last week set in motion a massive global PR network, cultivated by the Bush administration during the months-long buildup of forces.
The network is intended not only to disseminate, but also to dominate news of the conflict around the world.
Before the attacks began, Suzy DeFrancis, deputy assistant to President Bush for communications, outlined the daily media relations hand-off that was about to begin.
"When Americans wake up in the morning, they will first hear from the (Persian Gulf) region, maybe from General Tommy Franks," she said. "Then later in the day, they'll hear from the Pentagon, then the State Department, then later on the White House will brief."
Before anyone goes on air, however, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer will set the day's message with an early-morning conference call to British counterpart Alastair Campbell, White House communications director Dan Bartlett, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, Pentagon spokesperson Torie Clarke, and White House Office of Global Communication (OGC) director Tucker Eskew - a routine that mirrors procedure during the conflict in Afghanistan.
The OGC, an office born out of post-September-11 efforts to combat anti-American news stories emerging from Arab countries, will be key in keeping all US spokespeople on message. Each night, US embassies around the world, along with all federal departments in DC, will receive a "Global Messenger" e-mail containing talking points and ready-to-use quotes.
While an obvious benefit to having communicators spread across time zones is the ability to dominate the 24-hour news cycle, DeFrancis said the White House would enforce clear jurisdictions between departments.
For example, "this being a military conflict, operational questions will be handled from the Pentagon," she said.
In a dramatic shift from past conflicts, administration officials have made it clear they'll rely on independent journalists, "embedded" by the Pentagon with military units, to act as one of their most reliable PR vehicles.
"That's the first time it's ever been done," DeFrancis offered.
Thursday February 14, 2:31 PM
U.S. planes rain dollars on Afghanistan
http://in.news.yahoo.com/020214/64/1gefq.html
CHAMAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - U.S. aircraft over southern Afghanistan have scattered $100 bills tucked into envelopes bearing a picture of President George W. Bush, witnesses said on Thursday.
Timely Studios
http://www.timelystudios.com/
Location shooting for "Codename Courage"
http://www.timelystudios.com/courage.html
TO: Anita Lavine, Sr. VP Production
http://www.timelystudios.com/bios.html
FROM: Taylor Donahue, VP Production
http://www.timelystudios.com/bios.html
SUBJECT: Location shooting for 'Codename Courage'
read the memo at
http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php?memo_id=1445
WHO LIED TO WHOM?
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
Why did the Administration endorse a forgery about Iraq’s nuclear program?
http://newyorker.com/printable/?fact/030331fa_fact1
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Internet Resources for Covering Iraq
http://www.newslab.org/iraqlinks.htm
Links to online resources for journalists covering the conflict with Iraq, focusing on the region and the work of war journalism. From NewsLab (a non-profit organization associated with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism), the Project for Excellence in Journalism, and the Park Foundation.
Iraq Crisis Bulletin
http://www.iraqcrisisbulletin.com/
A great quick-reference site that provides daily worldwide news reporting on the Iraq Crisis.
CBC: Indepth Iraq
http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/iraq/
This site profiles the background of the conflict, the weapons inspections controversy, Kurds in Iraq, and more.
Iraq Action Coalition
http://leb.net/iac/
This is an online media and activists' resource center for groups and activists who are working to end the war against the people of Iraq.
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Iraq Special Weapons: Nuclear, Biological Chemical and Missile Proliferation News
http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/
From The Federation of American Scientists, a comprehensive compilation of news sources, news reports, analysis and official documents on nuclear,biological and chemical weapons and delivery systems. Iraq and the United Nations provide in-depth information, resolutions, documents, and related resources on the world's core conflicts.
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