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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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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
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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 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13as I am sure you are aware by now Indymedia.ie does not seek to be a discussion group, or a debating forum. As I am sure you are also more than aware there is a problem with the newswire moving too fast and articles disappearing off it. Your "news" above is another of the "here's a story I read: discuss" type posts that a small number of people are foisting upon other newswire users. Please don't do this. Confine yourself to trolling on issues of Zionism,Palestine and US Imperialism. After all that's what you're good at.
I find both the content and tone of your post insulting. Moreover, it looks like an attempt at censorship: you only want me to post on an 'approved subject', simply because of my identity. How do you justify any of this? Surely, it is both inherently repugnant and undemocratic?
I find the tone of your post insulting. Moreover, it looks like an attempt at censorship: you only want me to post on an 'approved subject', simply because of my identity. How do you justify any of this? Surely, it is both inherently repugnant and undemocratic?
The nature of posts is no different to the vast majority that are permitted without comment. Why single out me?
We can argue but our country is dying.
It is important to keep political disputes in perspective. Humans are treating the Palestinians of the Earth with terrible arrogance. In a very real way, this is the big picture. We are literally killing the Palestinians for the purpose of consumerism. Giving a public talk in London, a US expert said yesterday that most Palestinians will become extinct without the human race ever knowing about their existence in the first place.
In any case, the question arises, for how long can this go process go on, before the planet takes its revenge, and we become extinct?
We can argue but our country is dying.
It is important to keep political disputes in perspective. Humans are treating the Palestinians of the Earth with terrible arrogance. In a very real way, this is the big picture. We are literally killing the Palestinians for the purpose of consumerism. Giving a public talk in London, a US expert said yesterday that most Palestinians will become extinct without the human race ever knowing about their existence in the first place.
In any case, the question arises, for how long can this go process go on, before the planet takes its revenge, and we become extinct?
These questions posed for the first time this post, fourth time overall, still no response:
Give us a break. Tell us about something relevant, like how far Israelis are prepared to go for peace. Would they stop building settlements? Would they remove all existing settlements on occupied territory? Would they leave a Palestine administration control all thw water under their land? Would they cede control of the currently occupied territories as contiginous entities instead of strips of land criss-crossed by Israeli highways as proposed in the "best deal ever" offered by Clinton and Barak? How about control of the borders wuth Jordan and Egypt, would Israel cede control of these?
Or what?
planet.
http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3?id_article=3108
whose eyes?
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ check NCSA-CRAY2
Maybe that's something we should be thinking about. Sorry, but at the level what we humans are doing COLLECTIVELY (both oppressors and oppressed alike) to the ecosphere of the planet how we treat each other doesn't matter. Nature doesn't care if we humans treat each other with justice or not, and we are certainly not an endangered species -- quite the contrary, there are close to an order of magnitude too many of us for LONG TERM balance.
BUT THAT SAID -- it IS perhaps pertainent to consider the consequences of human injustice. For those of us directly involved, for whom it is OUR survival and the survival of our children, a case can be made that we WILL NOT pay attention to the environmental destruction until out social justice issues are settled.
To which there is the contrary arguement, available to those NOT directly involved, that there can be no "justice" on a dead planet. Except perhaps the equality of the grave.
Avi -- I have seen little to no interest on any IMC site towards considering the question that perhaps we SHOULD be paying more attention to the environmental struggle than the social struggles, at least with regard to those with whihc we are not PERSONALLY involved. I rather suspect that too many here have some "religious" faith that if only we humans managed to solve our social probelms then the environmental ones would "fall into place". A belief that the environemntal crisis isn't real, that it's just an artifact of capitalism (for example), and that if we divided the "wealth" of the world fairly there would be plenty fo go around for everybody. Sort of like the Christian story about the loaves and fishes. They have this faith, in spite of the fact that the soil fertility and water to grow the grain to make this bread is rapidly being depleted and the seas have been emptied of fish.
You'll need to go elsewhere to find news/discussion of environmental concern.
By all means, if you all would like to squabble on blithely while the planet dies, that tells me something...
Avi.. you vile sanctimonious holier than-thou fork-tongued pontificating ass.
Mike..much of the same to you, less vile more sanctimonious perhaps.
Leaving them all aside and the political turmoil even of the middle east or northern ireland: all these will be just a detail of history, when we find that the fish stocks in the sea have collapsed, the air is unbreathable, most of the planet's species are extinct, there has been a type of nuclear or volcanic winter for several years meaning no growing seasons, while humans die in their millions from starvation and civil strife...
A sneak preview of what awaits us later on this century, folks - if anyone's interested...
you should check out some of the info available about the building of 'the aparteid wall'. Where it is being build, huge swathes of land are being cleared by IOF bulldozers, which not only has devastating consequences for the flora and fauna in the areas, but also is splitting delicate ecosystems and dividing populations of various animals(which will lead to a decrease in the gene pools of particular species, which can lead to extinction) as well as interupting the migratory routes of several species including some of the native deer species.
So before you go harping on about the bigger picture, try to sort out the mess you guys are creating in PALESTINE.