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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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Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Oh yes, bring back the Taliban, they were "authentic," weren't they? They didn't finish destroying all the Buddhist statues and killing all the homosexuals in the country.
Oh, yes, what was your source for the absurd assertion that "20,000" were killed by bombing in Afghanistan?? taliban.com?
Claims of 20,000 deaths are absurd? Hardly.
Prof. Marc Herold's exhaustive study documents more than 3,500 civilan casualties from the US/UK bombing campaign. Given that the targets were Taliban and Al Queda forces, it seems probable that more than a few of them were killed as well!
As we fall down like trolls for NATO , in semi-secrecy, you want to argue about the number of civilians killed by the US bombing ? I don't. It's grotesque. How many is a war crime?
As for the number of gay men or women killed in Afghanistan, I would love to see some references. I have heard rumours of four men killed in Khandahar for having young boys as sex slaves? Is that who you mean? They were warlords who were kidnapping and raping but I don't know how "homosexual" they were as they also had wives and families too.
Mr Bush has sentenced more homosexuals to death as governor of Texas. How many homosexuals were among the victims of the US bombing campaign? Do you care or do you only care if it has propaganda value.
The Taliban did come to power because the people approved of their direct action against the warlords who were systematically raping and kidnapping young boys and girls from villages. The Taliban were students who took up rifles to protect their brothers and sisters from rapists , kidnappers and murderers. It was the US who in it's "plan" to control a unified Afghanistan for the oil pipeline convinced them to take more and more of the country and set up a government. Only a united Afghanistan could guarntee the safety of a precarious pipeine.
Then in July/August 2001 the stupid white men realised the Taliban are fundamentalists who see them as the devil and no amount of gold was ever going to buy their co-operation with what they see as the work of Satan. Then the propaganda, then the Pentagon and World Trade attacks, then the bombing of Afghanistan , then the US picked puppet government in Kabul PROTECTED BY THE IRISH ARMY, then lawlessness , then.......
Ummm, Norb, if "Prof. Marc Herold's exhaustive study" documents 3587 civilian casualties, what does that say about McKenna's credibility, given that he claims "more than 20,000 innocent lives?"
Oh, I get it. The Al-Qaeda and Taliban killed are "innocent?" Is that it? Or is it just a simple lie? Please tell me.
It's not like we might have had some reason to attack them after September 11, 2001, they weren't promising our destruction and acting on that promise, were they? We just asked the Taliban to turn over bin Laden and his crew. The Taliban made their choice, chose to die with it.
And McKenna, what about the WOMEN killed by the Taliban for alleged assorted "indecency" or "adultery" type crimes. That's on videotape, part of the grotesqueries formerly committed at the Kabul football stadium. Cant' deny it. See the documentary "Afghanistan: Behind the Veil."
McKenna says: "What are you going to believe? Me or your lyin' eyes?"
And now the Irish Army is in league with all those horrible imperialist fascist armies: the Canadians, the French, the Germans, the USA, the Romanians, the Italians.
McKenna would say they would be better off in the mountains, fighting with the Taliban and al-Qaeda men to defend their right to keep their women down, by God and all that is decent, Allahu Akbar. Insha' Allah that McKenna would join them!!