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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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RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
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RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
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Hamas Executes ?Israeli Collaborators? in Streets of Gaza Mon Sep 22, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hamas?has executed three Palestinians accused of "collaborating" with Israel on the streets of Gaza, just hours after the UK, Australia and Canada announced their?recognition of a Palestinian state.
The post Hamas Executes “Israeli Collaborators” in Streets of Gaza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong Mon Sep 22, 2025 17:35 | Dr David Bell
The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to counter an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals, systematically doing what they knew was wrong, says Dr David Bell.
The post The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
School Accused of ?Brainwashing? Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book ?Blaming Them for The... Mon Sep 22, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
A parent has accused a secondary school of "brainwashing" after?he learned that 14 year-old pupils were told to read a book that "blames them for their white skin" ? and his daughter was forced to read it out loud.
The post School Accused of “Brainwashing” Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book “Blaming Them for Their White Skin” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for ... Mon Sep 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage?today vowed to block foreign nationals from getting benefits, slashing the welfare bill "by ?234bn", and to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants with 'settled status' by bringing in stricter visa tests.
The post No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for Those Who Fail Under Crackdown on ‘Settled Status’ Migrants appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
When it Comes to Reparations, the Church of England Doesn?t Care About Evidence or Ethics Mon Sep 22, 2025 11:00 | Nigel Biggar
The Church of England has shown that it doesn't care about evidence or ethics, says Prof Nigel Biggar. Why else, when presented with proof its ?100 million reparations giveaway is groundless, would it press on regardless?
The post When it Comes to Reparations, the Church of England Doesn?t Care About Evidence or Ethics appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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by Gino Kenny - People before Profit .
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18You did very well as an SWP candidate in the Local Elections. I am sure you will do just as well as a PBPA/SWP (I presume you haven't left the SWP in the meantime) candidate this time out.
Just make sure that you remember to mention Socialism in your election literature. Otherwise People might be confused about what you stand for and vote for someone who does call himself a socialist Before they vote for you. No Profit in that.
Hi Gino. This meeting notice isn't very detailed. I wonder could you tell us what constituency you are standing in and for what party?
mark a little initiative please. "Clondalkin goes unplugged"
i would therefore hazrd a guess the gino will stand in clondalkin
"gino kelly people before profit"
hmmmmmmmm wonder what group he will stand under
maybe ehhhhh people before profit
now of course this is all really a set up for your next Q
"oh didnt u stand as swp before"
"are u not a socialist anymore"
"why can i not understand the premise of working with other people in a united front"
blalblalaletc etc etc
Actually Sean, I wasn't making a particular political point so please try to keep your paranoid twitches under control.
I was curious because I hadn't heard somewhere (possibly on this site) that there are just 4 People Before Profit Alliance candidates and Gino wasn't mentioned as one of them. I was verifying that Gino is in fact a PBPA candidate and was wondering what constituency he was standing in. Clondalkin, as you may know, isn't a general election constituency. From memory, I think that most of Clondalkin is in Dublin Mid-West, but I'm not sure if all of it is.
I don't think it's outlandishly hostile to ask where Gino is running and under what banner he is running. Particularly considering that Gino has stood for election under a different name in the past and that the SWP have just stood candidates for two different organisations in the North.
As for all your snide nonsense about "not understanding the premise of working with other people in a united front", I'd rather not get into that kind of bickering with you. If you really feel the need, please feel free to explain it to me. My understanding of the united front is that it is a coming together of different strands of the workers movement to fight for particular joint objectives. While the different groups work together, they also freely and openly criticise each other and raise their different ideas. Have I misunderstood something?
Perhaps you could also explain exactly how this relates to the People Before Profit Alliance, given that so far the PBPA seems not to actually involve any significant forces outside of the SWP? Can you have a "united front" if it doesn't involve uniting with anyone much else?
"My understanding of the united front is that it is a coming together of different strands of the workers movement to fight for particular joint objectives. While the different groups work together, they also freely and openly criticise each other and raise their different ideas. Have I misunderstood something?"
ok, you are right this is the basic premise of a lenist theory of the united front. Now, atempt to apply this to today.
With the collapse of the commuist parties, the disintegration of the social democratic parties and the emergence of small fight backs around various issues and more geralised movements against war etc, movements and fightbacks that are not necesarly socialist, organised into a party, or represented by any of the main political parties. Therefore the biggest section of the workers movement is unorganised.
Lenin never stipulated united fronts had to be with organised forces.
I think people before profit is an attempt to recognise this.
Maybe it hasnt pulled enough forces together yet, mayb the left alliance thing that is coming togther will have a better chance.
Outside of it, you can win a small but important all ready existant audience to socialism and within it, work alongside people and win them to socialism.
Hence the fact the swp still exists.
Lastly, all the theoritical analysis of the ist on this question is available on various websites. You should really no the answers anyway
What you have written above shows a basic misunderstanding of the concept of building a United Front. However, in this case, the tactic of the UF does not apply as the PBPA is just an SWP Front. Apart from a few individuals, the membership of the PBPA overlaps with the SWP. You know that, Mark knows it, I know it. So please quit the codology.
You might also address the question as to whetre Gino is standing: is it Mid West or South West? You seem to know a lot about the PBPA, so you should be able to answer that question.
im running in the dublin mid west constituency, as people before profit, for the comrade in the sp. ran last time as swp. hope to bring as many people on board as possible, in a wider alliance of people. in the area. And for the person whos says, that i wont mention socialism, i have more socialism in my small toe, than you ever will, MY FRIEND.
I accept that Gino is a socialist. Gino did well in the last local elections. Fair play to him and the rest of that campaign team. However questions have to be raised about the complete dropping of socialism from the SWP. On Richard's website there is not a mention of socialism once. SWP are not contesting this election as themselves, instead they are running their candidates as PBPA. From what I can see the Socialist Party and ISN run under their own names and also get many people involved from outside their ranks. Do the SWP think that Socialism will discourage people from involvement? What does this say about their attitude towards socialism? What does it say about their attitude to working class people? These are all legitimate points to make. It appears that the SWP are making the mistake again of spreading their forces too thin on the ground. I expected them to have 2 candidates this time around (Smith and Boyd-Barrett). SP have 4 candidates and ISN only 1. But more and more candidates are springing up form SWP. I suspect they will regret this tactical mistake.
we have been planning to run for a long time, and if anybody out there feels they want to give us a hand, you are more than welcome.
Listen Dub, you are talking rubbish. If the swm members running with PBP put swp or socialism on their PBP website you'd say they were using PBP to promote themselves, when they dont mention it they are not socialists anymore. And now you almost as fact- that they say they think socialism will scare people away. In fact I was at there conference at the weekend and they were very much arguing that swimmers in PBP should be vocal about being socialist and that it was infact important. dont know what your basing your claim on. I'm sure you'll let me know.
Oh and by the way rory hearne is a swimmer and his leaflets in Ringsend clearly mentions his membership of the swp on his election leaflet.
You say that your points are 'all legitimate points to make'. Well so far they dont stand up cause what I've seen pbp members who are swp is the opposite to what you are saying.
Am I alone in thinking it odd, that if it was decided to run Gino some time ago, that his name wasn't on the list being circulated on the Independent Left Alliance leaked statement?
Was there some problem within the proposed ILA in adding Gino's name to the list or did PBP want to give the impression of running less candidates to the other individuals/groups and drip release further names to the slate?
Why do the SWP think that by dropping the name "SWP" from the ballot paper they will get more people voting for them and getting involved in the election? It all comes down to a lack of confidence in socialism. They think that working class people are somehow put off by it. RBB's website mentions loads of organisations/campaigns he's involved in. Not one mention of SWP. They could have said "Richard is a member of the SWP, Save our Seafront, etc. But they did not. It's a glaring ommission. Yes, at Marxism they will mention their socialism. But why not mention it on the doorsteps. I lived in West Dublin and I remember Joe Higgins in my estate mentioning the need for a socialist alternative when he got into discussions with some neighbours. I suspect the SWP will not do this in this election. I think that it is a shame that the 2nd biggest socialist organisation in Ireland will not even argue for socialist ideas openly.
Five People Before Profit candidates thus far declared and four are SWP members (Boyd Barret, Smith, Kenny, Hearne). Carmel McKenna in Wicklow (splitter!) seems to be the exception, though perhaps she's not.
Truth be told, the PbPA slate appears to be almost a complete replication of the SWP slate at the last election.
ok dub, manifesto deosnt mention socialism. Of course not that can be brought through parliment anyway.
Question. Socialist party stood in belfast. Of course it said there was a need for a socialist alternative. You know that all pwerful "socialist alternative" that mean regardless of what you say on other situtions makes your politcs pure.
SP candidate said this about policing
"the police must also be able
and equipped to deal with the
problem of anti-social behaviour
that blights so much of South
Belfast. Vulnerable people such
as pensioners must be able to
feel safe in their own homes.We
need a police service that is accepted
by and accountable to all
communities"
The police need to be equipped to deal with anti social behaviour. In northern fucking ireland, what do you want more battons, more guns , more cops to carck kids heads in.Doesnt talik about the underlying causes, poverty, aeilnation etc
Its says "socialist alternative" but who really gives a damm with politics like this.
Where soes it say in any socialist maxim that Anti-social behaviour is to be tolerated? I think you are mixing your anarchist ideals up with what makes good policing during a transition period from a profit reliant/driven society to a socialist people/welfare driven one.
Anyone who preys on the weak/infirm and aged in our society betray everything socialism represents and should be treated accordingly.
what should the starting point of a socialist be.
1Fight the underlyin causes of poverty, ailineation which cause crime
or should it be
2smash the kids
We should to the job of the right for them
That should read
We should not do the rights job for them
"I think that it is a shame that the 2nd biggest socialist organisation in Ireland will not even argue for socialist ideas openly."
Hang on, isn't Sinn Féin socialist? What about the Workers Party? The IRSP? SIPTU? The ATGWU? IWU? There must be many more socialist organisations in Ireland which are bigger than the SWP.
(Of course some will say that the organisations mentioned are not "truly" socialist. But the same could be said of the SWP)