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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
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
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Climate ?Science? is Now Pure Politics Wed Oct 15, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
The appointment of Imperial's Dr Friederike Otto to the IPCC shows that climate 'science' is now pure politics, says Ben Pile. Unable to produce actual evidence of 'extreme' weather, they resort to 'attribution studies'.
The post Climate ‘Science’ is Now Pure Politics appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Wed Oct 15, 2025 01:13 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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Britain?s De Facto Blasphemy Laws Have Been Decades in the Making Tue Oct 14, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
The overturning of Hamit Coskun's conviction for burning a Quran shows Britain doesn't have blasphemy laws. But in truth a fear of violent reprisals has created a de facto blasphemy law for decades, says Clarissa Hard.
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Climate Lunatics in Hamburg Pass Referendum Committing Germany?s Leading Industrial City to Deindust... Tue Oct 14, 2025 17:34 | Eugyppius
Hamburg ? Germany's leading industrial city ? has just committed to deindustrialise completely in 15 years after a referendum on Net Zero by 2040 passed with 53.2% of the vote. This is utter insanity, says Eugyppius.
The post Climate Lunatics in Hamburg Pass Referendum Committing Germany’s Leading Industrial City to Deindustrialise Completely in 15 Years appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Miliband Approves UK?s Biggest Solar Farm on 3,000 Acres of Prime Farmland Tue Oct 14, 2025 15:28 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband has approved the UK?s largest solar farm to date, covering 3,000 acres ? that's 2,000 football pitches ? of prime farmland in a "mass industrialisation" of Britain's countryside.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3"Pulsa denura is commonly considered the most severe of kabbalistic curses. According to descriptions found in books and the media, ten righteous kabbalists (Mkubalim) gather at midnight in a synagogue, by the light of black candles, blow shofars and recite the curse.
If the curse has been uttered by worthy and righteous men and against an appropriate target, the target is supposed to die within the year. If it has been uttered by unworthy persons or against a target who has not sinned, the curse is supposed to have a boomerang effect.
Among the persons against whom the pulsa denura has been recited, or at least against whom its use has been threatened: the late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin,
http://www.ottmall.com/mj_ht_arch/v21/mj_v21i69.html#CUN
(they also did Saddam Hussein)
Leon Trotsky was on the receiving end of that curse, courtesy of the Hafetz Hayeem.
But then again so probably was Stalin & Hitler...
The current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is waiting to see what will happen (he spent the day in France telling french jews to leave again
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/606106.html
Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, the late Jerusalem mayor Gershon Agron (ooooooo! the _late_ mayor) and the incumbent mayor, Uri Lupolianski.
It is doubtful if any Israeli public figure could be considered truly high-ranking without a pulsa denura being invoked against him at least once - in a synagogue or a graveyard or at least in a press leak ...
This was written about the pulsa den'ra on Rabin in 1995 *before he died* :-
"Two researchers reached the conclusion that the pulsa denura invoked today is merely a new and particularly frightening version of an excommunication edict, a ceremony that also incorporates extinguishing candles, blowing shofars in synagogue and reciting a curse. Excommunication does not really frighten secular Jews. In the final analysis, what do they care if the Haredim ostracize them? After Israel's establishment, the term pulsa denura replaced excommunication. The researchers did not identify who gave excommunication its new name. But so as not to hold the reader in suspense, we will note that use of the curse in the early days of the state was usually attributed to religious struggles in Jerusalem that involved the leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement, Amram Blau"
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So this is what you need.
* 10 candles.
* some long serious beards. (traditional irish musicians might look ok, ask "the dubliners" along)
* an unpopular politician. (we have many)
* a sacred site.
* At midnight, you must gather in a circle and say the incantations.
"we being good and rightous types, ask that the elemental spirits of fire go scourge the progressive democrats (you may need more than ten candles to do the whole party) within a month."
(now it would help if you say it in gaielge with a sort of east european accent, ask a migrant (polish perhaps) to read the gaielge and it will sound really incantation like)
Next week we'll look at tornados and vortices...(again) "use the search engine, Moshe! search and you will findeth the answers!"
venezuala has stopped co-operation with DEA.
iran has enriched plutonium.
all ukraine ex ministers are in the dock.
chile chinwagging with peru.
uk have downscaled several african embassies and seriously upgraded algerian legation.
france has returned appaling figures on child poverty in the midst of its 100 day reforms.
saddam hussein's family have regrouped for the trial.
Japan has followed Germany in the summer snap election strategy.
South African gold mine strike is not being covered properly c/f last strike.
shuttle to be scrapped.
(sold off to salvage experts)
it wasn't really like the ancient pentium adverts with dudes and dudettes dancing around the motherboard in chemsuits and psychedlic lighting but wow it was impressive.
return.
the most obvious question to ask the readers of that yes that aljazeera article,
is where the belief in god entered the actions of jacobin, anarchists, bolsheviks to latin american "revolutionaries", those times and places of western life most devoid of islam.
"our history" "their history".
back online soon.
the Israeli public prosecutor has "sparked furious debate" this morning by saying that there was "no indication" that the 1995 assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin had been sparked by incitement.
"No one wants to link the words of one person and the acts of another," the prosecutor Mr Mazuz has said in reply to increased calls for the *use* of incitement to hatred laws in the apartheid state,
Mazuz warned that excessive use of laws against incitement could curb free speech. "The atmosphere within the public has an influence, but it is not possible to use it as an excuse to shut people's mouths," Mazuz said.
According to Mazuz, prosecutors have refrained on principle from filing charges against people suspected of incitement. "We do not believe in enforcing the law [as a tool] to change the atmosphere of public life," he said.
But others disagree.
The Peace Now organization reacted with anger to the attorney general's comments, stating that "The attorney general is himself paving the way for the next political assassination in Israel,". In related news the same prosecutor has deported Sa'adia Hershkopf - a dual American and Israeli citizen and one of the three Kach activists put into administrative detention by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz earlier this week - to the United States for 40 days.
Kach is an extreme rightwing ultra nationalist grouping which is prominent now, as one of its members was the 19 year old murderer of 4 israeli arabs on a bus last week. Kach is opposed to any peace settlement, or withdrawl from the occupied territories be it the Oslo accords or the "roadmap".