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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
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
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Small Boat Migrant Takes Eight-Week Holiday Back to Afghanistan Thu Sep 25, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
An Afghan granted asylum after arriving in the UK on a small boat took an eight-week holiday in the country from which he had fled.
The post Small Boat Migrant Takes Eight-Week Holiday Back to Afghanistan appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Reeves Under Pressure to Spend Even More on Welfare as Cabinet Ministers ?Demand Removal of Two-Chil... Thu Sep 25, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Cabinet Ministers are ramping up the pressure on Rachel Reeves to spend even more on welfare by lifting the two-child benefit cap, sparking warnings that Britain is entering an "economic doom loop".
The post Reeves Under Pressure to Spend Even More on Welfare as Cabinet Ministers “Demand Removal of Two-Child Benefit Cap” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Every Adult in Britain to Be Forced to Have a Digital ID Card Under New Keir Starmer Plan Thu Sep 25, 2025 15:38 | Will Jones
Every adult in Britain will be forced to have a Government-issued digital ID card under "dystopian" proposals designed to tackle illegal immigration set to be announced by Sir Keir Starmer. Papers, please!
The post Every Adult in Britain to Be Forced to Have a Digital ID Card Under New Keir Starmer Plan appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Watch: Boris Defends the Boriswave Thu Sep 25, 2025 14:10 | Will Jones
To add to Kemi Badenoch's woes, Boris Johnson has popped up to defend his massive 'Boriswave' of immigration, asking "Who do you want to kick out?" It's not helping, Boris.
The post Watch: Boris Defends the Boriswave appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Richard Dawkins: ?Trans Women Are Women? Slogan is Scientifically False Thu Sep 25, 2025 11:17 | Will Jones
The slogan 'trans women are women' is scientifically false and harms the rights of women,?Richard Dawkins?has said in a new book warning that scientific truth must prevail over "personal feelings".
The post Richard Dawkins: ‘Trans Women Are Women’ Slogan is Scientifically False appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3Limerick SP make a number of indisputable points in this article: FF did indeed squander the boom and it is the workers who are paying the price; the government is using billions of our money to save their banker and developer friends; and the banking sector certainly should be nationalised. For the sake of balance, it is worth noting that a significant proportion of the workers now paying the price in terms of their jobs actually voted for FF in the previous general election... so there is an element of “sow what you reap” when it comes to suffering for the recklessness of FF. However, that doesn’t take from the central point of this article, i.e. that capitalism’s pursuit of profit to the detriment of the rest of society is rotten and rotting.
So what about the SP proposals of no dole cuts and reducing the working week to 35hr (with no accompanying pay cut)? I have two questions that are crying out to be answered: how much would these proposals cost and where would the money come from?
Last week’s exchequer figures showed a deficit for the first 6 months of the year of about €15 billion. Now, to put that figure into context, overall revenue for the year is forecast to be €34 billion. This was described in a recent article by UCD Economist Ray Kinsella (link below): “Government expenditure for 2009 is estimated to come in at about €60 billion. Revenue is projected at about €34 billion. We have to borrow some €26 billion to keep the show on the road.” So, this government is overspending to the tune of one and three quarter times what it is earning.
Just imagine if a typical worker on the average industrial wage of €500 per week realised that he was actually spending €882 per week. Now, whereas the worker’s initial reaction might be to cut back on his spending, Comrade Barry’s advice equates to keep on spending, and in fact, increase the spending. This might be palatable if such spending was on capital infrastructure that would generate long-term returns, but our average industrial worker is overspending on day-to-day costs, with no plan of reigning in this imbalance.
I don’t think it’s too much to ask that Comrade Barry outlines how he would fund his proposals at the public talk next Wednesday. If the SP is to be taken seriously as a bona fide political party, it’ll have to move beyond simplistic populist “cookies for everyone” economic sound bites and give us something approaching policy. I’m looking for something along the lines of “Our proposals would cost €x billion” and “This money would come from ...” – am I asking for too much?
El Bull said
'how much would these proposals cost?'
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A hell of a lot less than the bank bailout.
El Bull said
'where would the money come from?'
Answer
How about the 450 people in Ireland who made a combined €41 billion over the past three years (including €11 billion from property speculation) to now control a combined wealth of €63 billion.
Or maybe the companies that made €83 billion in profit in 2008 and pay the misely sum of €5billion in tax (i.e. about 6%).
El Bull said
'This might be palatable if such spending was on capital infrastructure that would generate long-term returns, but our average industrial worker is overspending on day-to-day costs, with no plan of reigning in this imbalance. '
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The Government is overspending to bail out the bankers, developers, spivs and speculators. The average industrial worker has been robbed to the tune of €83 billion last year through the obscene profits of these companies and by the €41 billion over the past three years by these 450 people who created a property bubble and raked in obscene wealth that they couldn't even spend in a hundred lifetimes.
El Bull said
'If the SP is to be taken seriously as a bona fide political party, it’ll have to move beyond simplistic populist “cookies for everyone” economic sound bites and give us something approaching policy.'
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I can assure you that saying 'make the rich pay for the crisis - not the working class' is not simplistic or populist - it is a clear statement of intent that the Socialist Party will fight to defend working class people and their jobs and services against the plan by the bosses and their political hacks to dump the cost fo teh crisis onto the backs of workers while they swan off in their yachts to their holiday villas in the South of Frace.
Interesting to note how the FF/FG deal done post-elections at Galway City Council to keep Labour and other Lefties out had for motive, according to at least one newspaper, developers who intended to lobby for various projects and a return of the Salthill Airshow. So these sworn enemies got in to bed because local developers wanted them to. Any Dublin-based media coming up to see how that works? Didn't think so. Any statement from Fine Gael?