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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.
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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
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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 >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Thursday October 09, 2025 18:16
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It's the season for the reverse ferret, the narrative whiplash ? call it what you will, but everyone seems to be at it, says Joanna Gray. As the recantations roll in, how do we avoid making the same mistakes again?
The post The Great Reverse Ferret is Underway appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Children to Be Able to Choose Their Own ?Gender? at Any Age Under New EU Rules Thu Oct 09, 2025 13:18 | Will Jones
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The post Children to Be Able to Choose Their Own ‘Gender’ at Any Age Under New EU Rules appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Gaza Ceasefire Will Begin Tonight, Israel Announces Thu Oct 09, 2025 11:13 | Will Jones
A ceasefire in Gaza will come into effect this evening ahead of the release of the remaining hostages after the first?stage of a peace agreement was signed by Israel and Hamas this morning.
The post Gaza Ceasefire Will Begin Tonight, Israel Announces appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Are Advertisers Finally Realising They Need to Stop Over-Representing Black People? Thu Oct 09, 2025 09:00 | Lee Taylor
Black people make up 4% of the UK but appear in over half of adverts, according to a new Channel 4 report. Is the industry finally realising that such fake over-representation is off-putting, asks Lee Taylor.
The post Are Advertisers Finally Realising They Need to Stop Over-Representing Black People? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Cutting CO2 Emissions Remains Conservative Party Policy, Says Environment Network Head Thu Oct 09, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
The head of the Conservative Environment Network has just confirmed that cutting CO2 emissions remains Conservative Party policy. So it's Net Zero by the back door, says Paul Homewood.
The post Cutting CO2 Emissions Remains Conservative Party Policy, Says Environment Network Head appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >>
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IMC Centre At Athens ESF 06: "'Problems?' He asks, 'We Found Chaos!"
The Techies do rule the world!!
Flavia, Photographer from Italy
The Media Centre at the Athens ESF is a bustling hive of activity enabling activists, professional media and anyone who wishes to communicate the ESF to a wider world to do so. So how does the Media Centre work? Everyone volunteers their experience and expertise to help get things off the ground and running smoothly. Two groups involved in setting up and running the support for the Media Centre are Hellug and AWMN. Each was approached a month before the forum to provide the hardware and internet access through their network.
So why did they get involved with the ESF?
'It's fun, it's what we do, we learn something and it's a challenge!' says Mick Flemm (not his real name!).'It's a huge challenge, we've had up to 120 laptops, the media centre computers connected onto a backup system we weren't sure would work!' Cirrus, who finshed his service in the Greek army just 3 months ago, describes how it's the biggest single project they've been involved with. When asked about problems all eyes go up to heaven with lots of gesticulating and pooh pooh sounds. 'Problems?' he asks, 'we found chaos! We had to cable the entire network and phone lines and only got access to the main server two days ago!' Mick Flemm adds ' we didn't know if the bandwidth and access points we set up would have enough capacity for everyone, if we had enough coverage. Now it's great, OTE has set up their network and we can now do video streaming which we weren't able to do before'.
Initial reports coming in from the ESF in Athens, courtesy of Indymedia Irelands own Paula Geraghty, include photo essays here, here and here; and a description of the media centre.
Richard, a retired school teacher originally from Connecticut described some of Hel.LU.G.'s imput.
They basically provided the computers, repaired them and set them up at the Media Centre at the Old Airport where the ESF is based. Hel.L.U.G. are involved in a project to distribute older computors, after they've maintained them, to groups and organisations like schools. It was set up in Greece in 1998 (www.hellug.gr)as a forum for Linux user sand developers providing a minority past time with support both moral and technical. DJ Art is one of longest member of the Greek Linux community, having joined when he was a mere 17 year old. 'Linux is an operating system for computors enabling
hardware and software to interact,' he says.'It is free and works on the older computors which were made available for the ESF. Otherwise it would have cost a small fortune to have set up
The Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network were responsible for the internet access at the forum. OTE, the public telecom service, were to provide the main broadband service which wasn't up and running until 11am of the second day. Fortunately, they had developed a plan B, relying on their own network which they've been developing for over the past four years.
What is AWMN?
Richard describes it as the 'spirit of citizen band radio taken to the Wifi age!'. Initially it was about people who weren't computer experts such as a banker and a jeweler who wanted to have better and accessible communications. Greece has a very limited broadband access with the maximum download speed of 1Mb with less upload speed and it's expensive according to members of AWMN. Members have access to a free internet service, which is so good, even the National Telecommunications Regulator (EETT) approves it !
The major success of the group has been to set up a wireless network all over Athens. After four years of hardwork the network covers the greater area of Athens, a population of more than 5 million They have done this by setting up station to station (peer to peer) network of dishes on roof tops, all over Athens each with a clear line of sight of the next one, creating a wireless network, bypassing the need for landline based networks.
Nikos describes the lack of access to the internet as the main motivator in turning this vision of accessibility a reality.' We wanted a network that would be fast, and free, wireless and available to all'. Nikos, who studies Physics in Iraklion, Crete, says that, 'we could sell what we have and make money, but we share open source software, information, nodes (dishes) and experiences. Many companies have copied our techniques and created their own networks'. To get involved with AWMN is simple. They have a public website and all you have to do is register (www.awmn.net). There are almost 3,000 forum members, with over 300 backbone nodes (www.wind.awmn.net), ie people who share dishes on rooftops, which, creates the infrastructure of the network. They have no idea how many users there are as they don't count or filter them.
When I ask what else they've learnt.?............' No one respects techies!' They reply.
And they all laugh.
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Athens is hosting this years European Social Forum and is entering the third day of activities. Most events are taking place at the site of the old airport south of Athens. To date Social Fora have been characterised by large plenary sessions, large meetings, but not in Athens. There can be up to 30 sessions taking place at the same time, many with the same, theme resulting in a fractured debate.
This is the first time I've been to an ESF, and I came along to try to get a sense of what a global movement means, to find out about issues that I'm unfamiliar with and to deepen my understanding of more familiar themes.
Due to the fractured nature of the meeting structures, it's difficult to get a sense of what is happening. Very little had been organised from Ireland and there is a vast difference between a group experience where there has been collective organisation, discussion and participation and an individual heading out!
Unless one knew all the nuances of the Greek left, it is difficult to understand what is going on. However some groups have organised their own event in other parts of Athens to coincide with the ESF including KKE (Communist Party and some anarchist groupings). There is more a sense of the rest of the organised left talking to itself, under one roof, rather than a dialogue with regard to what is happening with the more recent events such as the war in Iraq and threatened attacks on Iran, the CPE, recent strikes in Greece and the Italian elections. Attendances at such themed meetings have a more international constituency attending.
The ESF hasn't harnessed that sense of victory, of achievement and optimism. Protest works, and we can win.
Perhaps, it's part of the dynamic of larger gatherings, they can be quite overwhelming. But there is a great buzz around the event. A real sense of optimism tied with pragmatism with a desire to have a meaningful outcome.
That's my tuppence worth and it may all change later as there will be a larger demonstration in the centre of Athens today. pulling in more people!
my impression attending one of these events was of relentless dourness. The inner cadres of 4th internationalism don't crack many jokes & seem to have agreed on the jargon they use somewhere back in the dim mists of time. But lots of fingers do get wagged. I'm glad you photographed the finger wagging. I hope Athens is still a safe haven for stray dogs. Perhaps you'll photo one of those :-) & we all know you're representing your country. You're a "pleni-potentiary" now.
From the ESF in Athens, chilling out on the roof top before it all ends..
"We might not have good broadband lines but we have the biggest wireless community in Europe!"
The guys behind the wireless!
Some of the Media Centre crew! On the Rooftop of the airport hangar....