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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.
The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
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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Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
The post Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9good old shosty. although his musical output was stunted and censored by stalin he produced some good stuff. my own favourite is his jazz album.
but the national concert hall is showing:
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Fri 12th May, 8:00pm
Mozart Overture Don Giovanni
Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
Shostakovich Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
Anitti Siirala Piano
Gerhard Markson Conductor
In the Shadow of the Hammer and Sickle: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 - It was claimed that Stalin's customary toast during the 1940s was: 'Smash all of the intelligentsia. Death to all Russians!' How can you possibly portray a tyrant like that? Symphony No. 10 - a 'true' document of the age...
Fri 26th May, 8:00pm
Mozart Overture La Clemenza di Tito
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Shostakovich Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 ('The Year 1905')
Ioana Petcu-Colan Violin
Willaim Eddins Conductor
The Russian Bear: Shostakovich's Symphony No. 11 ('The Year 1905') - Oppressed peoples, the roar of engines, the clatter of tank-tracks, rockets and machine guns...
info@nch.ie
Box Office: Tel: +353 (0)1 417 0000
Fax: +353 (0)1 475 1507
http://www.nch.ie/default.asp
:-)
Happy Birthday
Mstislav Leopoldovich Rostropovich!
Happy Anniversary
Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich
amnesty for all political prisoners!
(great line puts the wind up them in its simplicity just like "papers for everyone!")
Dmitir and friends enjoy a football match.
The scene painted as "The beheading of Holofernes by Judith" by
Donatello (1386 - 1466)
Sandro Botticelli, (1445 - 1510)
Andrea Mantegna, (1431 - 1506)
Giorgione (1477-1510)
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472- 1553)
Caravaggio (1571 - 1610)
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 - 1653)
Horace Vernet (1789 - 1863)
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918)
And In addition the story which appears in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's .:. lord of light (1756 1791)
opera "Betulia Liberata" now forgotten.
And "Holofernes" is athe name of a character in William Shakespeare's (1564 - 1616)
"Love's Labour's Lost".
is taken from the Book of Judith :-
["The Book of Judith is a deuterocanonical book, included in the Septuagint and in the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Christian Old Testament of the Bible, but excluded by Jews and Protestants. It has been said that the book contains numerous historical anachronisms, which is why many scholars now accept it as unreliable history — it has been considered a parable or perhaps the first historical novel." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Judith ]
Please Note the popularity of the allegory at the turn of the 16th century, and the dominance of RC patroned (but known initiated radicals and malcontents) who depicted (almost all in the same way, a beautiful young Judit, shocked Holofernes and an un-indentified haggard woman holding the man down, but the most well known version by Caravaggio shows the old woman with a bag ready to bring the severed head back to the jewish camp).
See the brushstrokes and the implications? = Know thy enemy and their weakness & enter their tent.
google or use any search engine for images of "judit holofernes"
Learn from our Western Artistic Tradition, it will help you understand who you are and where you're going.
Thats why we keep it around.:..
"She's doing it for the granny"
a mixed bag of anarchists and trots were in the foggy dew last night discussing shostakovich and your goodself. various aspects of music were discussed from which a fw questions arose.
1. are you an organist; in particular have you worked as a church organist.
2. how old are you? some (callow youths) thought you were ancient but i reckon you are in your 40s. which is it?
Yes, if I recall correctly he was some kind of an organist for the C.O.I (Irish branch of the Anglican church). Lived in London for a long time. Then for some inexplicable reason moved to Barcelona.
Won't be returning to Ireland in a hurry now that Mammy Harney has banned the 'shrooms ..
Very crafty that. Who would have thought. wu minging smelly & no doubt about it. How can you live if you don't have a CV?
I am in the middle 30's. & yes, I am classical musician, and my main instrument was / is organ, and yes that meant going up and down the dreary steeples of many different denominations and being the key-holder of many listed buildings. But I also play piano and viola da gamba (A rennaisance instrument) and the penny whistle and guitar, and spent years in London running from mixing kicking sessions of trance on the free party scene saturday night to playing the morning service for the 7 anglikhan widows who turned up, to ensure a continued good relationship with the parson and the use of the parish hall for squat resistance and other bla@ bla@ meetings. It was an arrangement which worked well, even if my eyes were out on stalks now and again. Playing hymns is never so difficult when everyone hears you but no-one sees you.
tell the wicked to go away now & leave us alone -
you have the hymn sheet, we'll get it right with a bit of practise.
here endeth the lesson.
pass the plate.
+*@.:.% = (€/$)
3 April 1922 - In the USSR, Stalin was appointed as general secretary of the Communist Party.
Iosaf,
why were'nt you at the Moonbase last night?
Schostakovitsh loved his Uncle Joe and refused to take the capitalist schilling. You toerags cannot rewrite that piece of history.
but the more exclusive one, you social climber!!!