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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
Public Inquiry >>
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.
Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 20:31 | imc
Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
Human Rights in Ireland >>
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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Ban on Trans People Using Female Lavatories ?Risks Breaching ECHR Rules?, Says Council of Europe Tue Oct 14, 2025 13:15 | Will Jones
Implementing the Supreme Court's gender ruling by banning transgender 'women' from female lavatories risks breaching the European Convention on Human Rights, the Council of Europe has warned.
The post Ban on Trans People Using Female Lavatories “Risks Breaching ECHR Rules”, Says Council of Europe appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Parents Being Banned From School Sports Over Their ?Bad Behaviour? Shows What is Wrong With ?Safegua... Tue Oct 14, 2025 11:18 | Mary Gilleece
The banning of parents from their children's sports events by a London school over the parents' 'bad behaviour' shows what is wrong with our officious safeguarding culture, says Mary Gilleece.
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The Real Reason Academics Keep Cancelling Each Other Tue Oct 14, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
A new book by Steven Pinker offers a fascinating explanation for why academics keep trying to cancel heretics for wrongthink even though, in private, they share exactly the same views.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6• Top Ten Myths about Iraq in 2005
by Juan Cole
http://www.juancole.com/2005/12/top-ten-myths-about-iraq-in-2005-iraq.html
1. The guerrilla war is being waged only in four provinces.
2. Iraqi Sunnis voting in the December 15 election is a sign that they are being drawn into the political process and might give up the armed insurgency
3. The guerrillas are winning the war against US forces
4. Iraqis are grateful for the US presence and want US forces there to help them build their country.
5. Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, born in Iran in 1930, is close to the Iranian regime in Tehran
6. There is a silent majority of middle class, secular-minded Iraqis who reject religious fundamentalism.
7. The new Iraqi constitution is a victory for Western, liberal values in the Middle East
8. Iraq is already in a civil war, so it does not matter if the US simply withdraws precipitately, since the situation is as bad as it can get
9. The US can buy off the Iraqis now supporting guerrilla action against US troops.
10. The Bush administration wanted free elections in Iraq.
. . . .
• The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2005
'12 significant parts of the constitution that are being implemented despite the French and Dutch results—including the establishment of the European Defense Agency, a European Space Programme, and an EU diplomatic corps.
[....]
Private security firms in Iraq are hiring an increasing number of ex-guerrillas and soldiers from Colombia, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Chile.
[....]
terrorist camps are reopening in Pakistan received only scant attention in 2005. In July, the Herald, a Pakistani magazine, reported that previously abandoned terrorist training camps were open for business in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province.
[....]
The total oil output of non-OPEC producers, according to ExxonMobil’s projection, will peak around 2010
more at
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3315
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• Norman Solomon' P.U.-litzer Prizes for 2005
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec05/Solomon1220.htm
2005: Things I Want To Forget
by Arianna Huffington
Part One
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/2005-things-i-want-to-fo_b_12701.html
Part Two
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/2005-things-i-want-to-fo_b_12707.html
• roundup of 2005 lists
http://www.fimoculous.com/year-review-2005.cfm
Roger Ebert's Top Films of 2005
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051218/COMMENTARY/512180302
• Most outrageous statements of 2005
http://mediamatters.org/items/200512230006
• Best Tech Moments of 2005
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,69900-0.html
• Music: Top Ten 2005
http://indiesurfer.blogspot.com/2005/12/top-ten-2005.html
- listed #5 is Decemberists
http://indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69863
• Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year 2005
1. integrity
2. refugee
3. contempt
4. filibuster
5. insipid
6. tsunami
7. pandemic
8. conclave
9. levee
10. inept
http://www.m-w.com/info/05words.htm
• Top List of Hot Political Buzzwords for 2005
http://www.languagemonitor.com/wst_page12.html
• The Top Politically (in)Correct Words for 2005
http://www.languagemonitor.com/wst_page20.html
• 'Podcast' Is the Word of the Year
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/051205/nym208.html
• Top 10 tricks causing spyware epidemic
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Spyware/?p=729&tag=nl.e540
{ maybe in 2006 people could get a mac, or linux?)
• List of 552 of the World's Richest People 2005
http://www.drive-software.com/articles.php?id=8&title=Worlds%20Richest%20People%202005
• Ten most searched terms on Google in 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4551936.stm
1: Janet Jackson
2: Hurricane Katrina
3: Tsunami
4: Xbox 360
5: Brad Pitt
6: Michael Jackson
7: American Idol
8: Britney Spears
9: Angelina Jolie
10: Harry Potter
{ only 2 out of the 10 discussed on Indymedia.ie, yet Indymedia.ie continues to grow }
Ten Amazing Predictions for 2006
http://www.juancole.com/2006/01/ten-amazing-predictions-for-2006-1.html
'The Shanghai Cooperation Organization composed of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan as members and India, Iran, Mongolia, and Pakistan as observers, will follow up on its success in getting US troops out of Uzbekistan....'
As Usual Juan Cole thinks outside the box, click the link above to read through his other predictions
if 2005's word was Podcast, the 2006 will be SPLOG
Definition: Splog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splog
read....
Wholesale Blog Plagiarism …
http://gigaom.com/2005/12/25/wholesale-blog-plagiarism-alert/
for what its worth...Samhain (November 1st). Pagan ritual which later became All Souls' Day, but better known by oct 31st Hallowe'en. This is when the otherworld and this world become interchangeable, and people had to put various objects around their house to make sure that the good people which Sasanachs call "fairies" wouldn't kidnap a human child and exchange it for one of their own. This was the Celtic explanation for many types of disability, particularly those known today as 'special needs'. Anyone with a blemish could not be a King.
First day of Spring (Feb 1st) is Im Bolg (Im Bolc), named after the Belgians (Belgae); or Lá Féille Bríde (St. Brigid's Day) named after the patron Saint of fertility, birth, health, Defence of Leinster and weaving among other things. Brigid may have given her name to Britain (Brigantes), and her name lives on in derrivative (Burke, de Burgh - Uí Bhairrche - barony of Bargy Co. Wexford). Worship of the triad goddess Brigid was an all-women affair, akin to the vestal virgin ceremonies of Roman religion. The two main sites for this (Kildare town and Lady's Island (Wexford again) were appropriated by Christianity, as was the feast day. Flahertys of Galway also mixed up in the pagan worship somewhere along the way (Fotharta of Kildare).
.... Once you start, you can't stop thinking about that question." is how BBC radio 4 describes this year's "edge annual question" which for 2006 is :-
"what is your dangerous idea?".
(the 2005 question was What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?")
117 contributors responded making a document of 72,500 words.
http://www.edge.org/q2006/q06_print.html
The next "sunday papers" "mozart edition" will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the lord of light, and also act as a review of 2005's sunday paper articles and preview of 2006's regime changes in €urope, Ireland and south America. It will also present the Austrian EU presidency. If you read this comment you're either a very very clever cognitive scientist or were hoping for a dinky new blog link, are bored, or a celtic sentimenalist. Happy Sun and Earth moving through space and thus steadily warming days to you in any case.
Blessèd be!