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offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.

offsite link 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

offsite link 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

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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offsite link Backlash as Nando?s Limits Customers to One Coke per Visit Under New ?Nanny State? Rules Mon Oct 06, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
Nando's has sparked a backlash after restricting customers to a single glass of Coca-Cola Classic under new 'nanny state' Government rules aimed at cutting sugar consumption.
The post Backlash as Nando’s Limits Customers to One Coke per Visit Under New ‘Nanny State’ Rules appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Nudge? Has a New Evil Twin: ?Stochastic Terror? Mon Oct 06, 2025 13:30 | Nick Rendell
'Nudge' has a new evil twin, says Nick Rendell: 'stochastic terror'. When all else fails, the Left foments the conditions for random political violence and then sits back and waits for someone to pick off Trump or Farage.
The post ‘Nudge’ Has a New Evil Twin: ‘Stochastic Terror’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Green Party Votes to Abolish Landlords Mon Oct 06, 2025 11:17 | Will Jones
The?Green Party?has committed itself to "abolishing landlords" after party members at its conference in Bournemouth passed a motion to seek the "effective abolition of private landlordism".
The post Green Party Votes to Abolish Landlords appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Will the Green Tory Blob Allow Kemi to Cancel Net?Zero? Mon Oct 06, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
Kemi Badenoch plans to scrap the Climate Change Act and Net Zero, but 49 Tory MPs in the Green Blob might block her ? Paul Homewood urges voters to call them out.
The post Will the Green Tory Blob Allow Kemi to Cancel Net?Zero? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Does a New Book Claiming Classic 1970s Sit-Coms Contain Secret Occult Messages About Mould Embarrass... Mon Oct 06, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
A bonkers new book claims 1970s sitcoms hide occult codes about damp and decay ? whether it's satire or sincere, it perfectly exposes academia's mouldy absurdity, says Steven Tucker.
The post Does a New Book Claiming Classic 1970s Sit-Coms Contain Secret Occult Messages About Mould Embarrass Pretentious British Academia by Accident or on Purpose? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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If Africa's resource base leaves the control of the West, we can confidently speak of long-awaited and hard-won justice.

category international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Wednesday January 22, 2025 10:48author by Piotr Jastrzębski Report this post to the editors

Interview with ex Slovak presidential candidate Stefan Harabin

At the beginning of 2025, the agenda of redistributing spheres of influence and reallocating regions of cooperation between key global powers has become more pressing than ever. How to explain this? What key trends in the development of geopolitical confrontation are most interesting today?

First and foremost, I believe the cause is the perceived impotence of the global power of a single hegemon. The United States has lost its reputation as a safe haven where, out of trouble and overseas, any country can store its wealth in gold or dollar bonds. By abusing the dollar's status as the world's currency for blackmail, economic, commercial and political aggression against anyone unwilling to submit to their interests, the US has transformed the dollar into a tool of insidious warfare to maintain world domination. In this way, through its own actions, the United States has brought the situation to a point where natural resistance from other powers has arisen. They have created their own trade regime, which the US can no longer influence through illegal sanctions. Thus, the emergence of a new community of states called the BRICKS has become a healthy new alternative for economic exchange and cooperation in the world. And it will continue to expand. In my view, 2025 is likely to be the first year of a gradual transformation of the fierce and often illegal economic and military confrontation between the US, the collective West and the BRICKS into a competition on generally accepted competitive terms. It is quite understandable that the newly emerging world order will be accompanied by a split between the financial and monetary spheres. The global dollar will certainly lose its long-standing status and remain a regional currency, supplemented by a number of new regions that will trade with each other in other currencies. This will put an end to the unjustified and outlawed imposition of economic and political sanctions by the US and its vassals on other countries.

If I had to mention at least the basic trends in this context, I would mention the offer of a new peaceful alternative in the form of equality for all states, respect for their freedom to choose their own development of society, partnership and culture, and guarantees of equal security for all, without distinction. These principles have become an attractive dominant ideological trend that has very quickly gained the respect and interest of many countries around the world. It will certainly not surprise anyone if, in this connection, I highlight in particular the patient work and policy of the Russian Federation, which, together with the People's Republic of China, is becoming the main promoter of the new order in relations between states and peoples.

Africa is considered one of the most important and resource-rich regions, where Britain and France have long reigned supreme. Today, the situation is changing and the old world is losing its influence in African countries. What is the reason for this? How do you assess the policy pursued by European countries in Africa? What are the consequences of this policy for African states? Why are African states distancing themselves from their long-standing ties with Western countries?

The dismantling of the centuries-old Western colonial system was not easy. A significant turning point came after the end of the Second World War and the adoption of the United Nations Charter, which, among other things, established the right of nations to self-determination. The Soviet Union, as the defining, fully sovereign world power of the period, was then the main advocate for the abolition of colonialism. Despite the efforts of colonised states to gain full national independence and shake off the domination of Western states, especially France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Britain and others in their domestic economy, politics and culture, these states, especially African states, failed to completely rid themselves of unwanted foreign domination. The former colonial states, claiming to have invested huge funds in the development of industry in their colonies, led to unfavourable treaties that virtually ensured the continuation of the exploitation of African states by masters in Europe.
With the advent of the new world order represented by the BRICKS, the situation is rapidly changing. The political involvement of African states in this community has led to a new vision of their own African state prospects as truly sovereign and independent equal partners with the rest of the world. In my view, the most serious reason why African states are distancing themselves from their long-standing ties with Western countries is the obvious deceitful and faithful policies of Western neo-colonial powers. The disrespect and undervaluing of African peoples as second-class human beings, the blatant, disproportionate and brutal exploitation of their national wealth at the expense of Africans, the use of terror, epidemics, corruption, extortion, coups, and the fuelling of internal unrest and violence in these states, could not be changed by reasonable agreements. Thus, Africa has rejected Western arrogance once and for all, and the process of its own liberation is proceeding apace.

While Europe is unable to cope with the influx of migrants, one of the problems African leaders talk about is the large exodus of skilled professionals and brainwashing. Is this a mistake by Western politicians or a deliberate destruction of the intellectual potential of the African region?
I am convinced that just as there are deliberately organised flows of illegal immigrants aimed at forcibly populating European countries with mainly uneducated immigrants from Africa and Asia, the luring of skilled workers to better living conditions than they would find in their home countries has a common goal. To prevent the African continent from realising and exploiting its own economic and human potential, which would put it in serious competition with the more advanced western countries of Europe. Here, too, the deep-rooted social and sick superiority of Western civilisation over Third World countries is fully manifest.

What could be the consequences of an African resource base completely out of the control of the West? How will the West deal with the resource shortage? Is there any interest in cooperation with Africa in Slovakia, both on an official level and among individual Slovak entrepreneurs?

If Africa's resource base escapes Western control, we can confidently speak of long-awaited and hard-won justice. It is, after all, unacceptable that France, for example, appropriated some 80 per cent or more of the natural wealth of its colonised territories in Africa and, as if magnanimously, left only a small part of its own national natural wealth for the standard of living and proper functioning of society in African states. The only way forward for the former colonial states of Europe, which have lived large up to now, is to begin to see the reality and adapt their carefree life of wealth at the expense of other nations to their real possibilities. Europe has an undeniably highly educated population, advanced technology in many industries and therefore has every opportunity to offer its former colonies a fair deal. Gradually, this has to happen anyway. Otherwise, African states can be expected to choose other partners. One that will not exploit them and treat them as equals. Although the new conditions and relations will result in a certain decline in the high standard of living in the Western countries, the situation, I believe, will gradually return to a state of mutual respect and beneficial mutual trade.
Slovakia had some trade relations with African countries already in the Middle Ages. Our historians have documented Slovakia's mutual trade and political relations in later periods as well, whether it is, for example, the work of Móric Beňovský in Madagascar, trade with South Africa, Egypt, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, Uganda, Ethiopia and other regions and countries on the African continent. I would also mention the well-known world travellers Hanzelka and Zikmund on the African continent and the many successful African students at universities in the former Czechoslovakia, which has also contributed to good mutual relations. Although the current Slovak government is very interested in comprehensive relations with all sides of the world, it must be said that the Slovak Republic is today more involved in humanitarian aid and programmes within the European Union. Therefore, it is not always about independent Slovak politics and trade relations. However, I believe that mutual trade and political relations between the Slovak Republic and African countries have good growth prospects from the current low numbers on both sides.

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