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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
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Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
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What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine Fri Nov 21, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous
Read what happened when an Extinction Rebellion meeting was disrupted by a protester. Seems they can give it out but have no intention of putting up with it themselves.
The post What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon? Fri Nov 21, 2025 15:00 | Mark Durie
First they were 'Asian' grooming gangs, then 'Pakistani'. But the most important thing to grasp is that almost all of them ? 87% of convictions ? are Muslim, says Mark Durie. This must not be covered up.
The post Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Free Speech Documentary Cancelled by London Cinema Fri Nov 21, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
London cinema Rich Mix has banned a documentary by Spiked about free speech because it does not "align with our values and mission".
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The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
The Covid Inquiry module two report fails to question faulty assumptions and draws conclusions without engaging with the evidence, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson in a damning assessment.
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Debunking the BBC?s Claim That Pakistan?s Floods Are Made Worse by Climate Change Fri Nov 21, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
If the BBC's Standards Committee, which is reviewing the corporation's coverage of climate change, wants a good example of bias, it should take a look at its report of recent floods in Pakistan, says Paul Homewood.
The post Debunking the BBC’s Claim That Pakistan’s Floods Are Made Worse by Climate Change appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7are not immediately the types you want to sit down and plan a campaign with on prisoner issues, but....
McDowell, stands a poor chance of being minister for justice in 2008. He is about to leave future ministers and the public a whole rake of problems, ranging from equipment used by gardaí, to the singular lack of a non-garda based study on juvenile offenders, the obvious lack of a proper complaints procedure, and the beginning of "out-sourcing" and privatisation of key elements of penology.
= Get along to all the meetings.
Please - I am not trying to put in a dig against this article or the people protesting. I'm just warning everyone concerned with "one issue" that there is a portfolio of issues which together spell bad news ahead across the board. Get along to all the meetings and see who will be in the flotilla of little opinion makers.
......then they should at the very least habitable meeting basic human rights needs of prisoners and workers employed in prisons. Mountjoy has to be demolished because the conditions in the prison are appauling. Some cells have five prisoners held in them, locked up for 12 hours, no toilet (a slop bucket instead) imagine 12 hours of a small cell reeking of excrement and urine! Apart from anything else its a health hazard.
I am concerned about the groups who oppose the new prison. They dont want it to be built in their area but will be quiet happy if it goes into another - in other words NIMBYism. The prison should be built - as socialists we should be campaigning for the new prison to be devoted to the rehabilition of prisioners providing training / education opportunities - providing supports for prisoners after they finish their sentences to help them 'get back on their feet' and try to have supports that encourage them not to return.
Huh, I agree that the prison system should be about rehabilitation, but then the problem goes further than that.
Anyhow, you ought to know that this FF/PD government under the direction of McDowell at Dept of Justice have actually CUT BACK on rehabilitation programs. And there is some small prison somewhere, I can't remember the name, it's not a big place and was near the city centre, but it was kitted out for all sorts of good stuff and it is being closed. No doubt the site will be sold off to developers for apartements.
Regarding Mountjoy, why don't the government just reuse that site? Why should the families have to spend half the day visiting their relatives miles away outside Dublin. It is not only time consuming but expensive. This will lead to further break down in family relationships as both sides are further isolated, thus making the problem worse.
At least Mountjoy was relatively easy to get to for those visiting.
Also not lost is the fact that protests to prisons near city centres are much more visible than ones way way out in the countryside.
Below is some further reading on the prison system, mainly in the US, but there are interesting statistics on it, for the number of prisoners per 100,000 people. BTW Ireland's rate is around 70 to 80 per 100k and rising.
In the United States it is now a big business, and growing. Any attempt to privatise the prison system here must be resisted. If people have to be contained it should not be allowed to become just a meal ticket for investors who would have no real interest in preventing crime, just in lining their own pockets by profiting from human misery. Business by its very nature always seeks new ways of increasing itself, rather than abolishing itself.
Speaking of prisons, over on anothr thread it says McDowell might reopen Spike Island prison right beside two toxic incinerators. Its a dead cert that anyone in that prison (screws or prisoners) would be likely to become ill if they are exposed to enough of the pollution. What kind of person would delbierately plan to trap a group of people in a place like that, eh? Will we ever get to the bottom of the nastiness of Mr McDowell.
See:
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71766
Its easy to dismiss all protesters as NIMBY's - the Government have been doing it for years. The simple fact of the matter is that Thornton Hall is a farm in a small rural community. The people of the area were not consulted and have more or less been told to like it or lump it. The Minister won't even meet with local residents. The roads around the site are small rural roads - the type where you pull over when you meet a car. Is it Nimbyism to want to protect your home and environment? Should the residents just accept a massive development that will change completely the place where they live? Also I take issue with the statement that the protesters 'would be happy to see it go anywhere else' this is most certainly not the case. The group opposing this development have consistently said that a policy to increase the prison population by 000's is wrong - regardless of where the proposed prison is.
Are the Save Tara group Nimby's, the Rossport 5? Take the time to read through the case being put by protesters before labelling them.
The group set up to oppose the prison have had several meetings with the IPRT and have made it their businees to find out about all the other relevant issues. We have been to Mountjoy to meet the Governor. The conditions are atrocious and have been for years. There are many people in there that should not be in prison. If the Government build a prison under PPP then they will be be losing money unless they fill it!! They will rent out the entire building from the PPP people so they will make it their business to ensure its always full! Please please take time to look at the issues here before calling us Nimby's. We don't want this super prison to be built anywhere! Its not in anyones interests. We are of course concerned about the effect it will have on our small rural community - who wouldn't be? We have taken the time to look at all the issues and its been an eye opener in more ways than one!