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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
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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.
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BREAKING: Hamit Coskun?s Conviction for Burning Quran Overturned by Crown Court Fri Oct 10, 2025 14:13 | Will Jones
Hamit Coskun's criminal conviction for burning a copy of the Quran while shouting "f*** Islam" in a protest outside the Turkish consulate in London has been overturned by the Crown Court in a victory for free speech.
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It?s Time to Make Judges Accountable Again Fri Oct 10, 2025 13:26 | Dr David McGrogan
Nearly 80% of Britain's 'Establishment' is Left-wing. No wonder our 'independent' judges keep making lunatic decisions. It's time they were made accountable to voters once again, says Dr David McGrogan.
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Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump was today snubbed by Nobel Peace Prize judges ? who instead awarded the prize to a Venezuelan politician ? despite the President bringing peace to the Middle East.
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The Sceptic | Episode 54: Alexander Adams on Dissident Art, the Tyranny of the Arts Council and His ... Fri Oct 10, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 54 of the Sceptic: Alexander Adams on dissident art, the tyranny of the Arts Council England and his new exhibition: Power and Intimacy.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6"A senior French minister linked romantically with President Nicolas Sarkozy during his bachelor days today confirmed she was pregnant through an unnamed lover. Rachida Dati, 42, admitted she led a "complicated private life" and that "I want to be careful because I'm still at a risky stage." It was only at the end of last year, following Mr Sarkozy's divorce from his second wife, that the Justice Minister was said to have been a girlfriend. At a New Year's Eve party Carla Bruni - also competing for the president's affections at the time - is said to have pointed at a double bed in the Elysée Palace and - turning to Miss Dati - said: "You’d have loved to occupy it, wouldn't you?" Aznar a regular visitor to the court of Sarkozy was then first introduced (pimped) to Dati at a state dinner at taxpayers' expense and subsequently was spotted more frequently in Paris. Rachida Dati had an arranged marriage in her youth that was annulled. More than half of all births in France are outside of marriage. Aznar has in a statement rounded sharply on internet liars who manipulate public opinion.
sources - New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, El Pais, BBC, Daily Mail, PimpPresidents etc..
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/04/world/europe/04briefs...world
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7596229.stm
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/03/europe/paris.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article
It will be a difficult to determine whether the child: looks like the short Spanish fascist or the short French fascist, displays the overbearing of the Spaniard or the Gaul, slavish dedication to the US world leadership and the free market - until it grows or doesn't grow a moustache.
The Italian gutterpress daily newspaper of reference "Corriere" is well into what it has called the "outing" & has fished out the only photo of Sarko, Celia and Rachida together. Sarko learing away at them like the pimp he is during the Shimon Perez state visit. The week Rachida probably got pregnant. The Italians are also helping Europeans remember the rumours of Aznar's marriage being on the rocks about the time Sarko's divorce came through and that's when he started looking dapper. Oh but he has not only the liar genes but the infidelity ones too. He denied shagging a newscaster in the mid 1990's too. But what really grabs the attention about this story of the rich & powerful, ugly & wicked at their games - is the transnational dimension.
Can anyone of us imagine our Taoiseach getting a Brit cabinet minister in the family way? Or for that matter Blair getting one of our token government women up the stick?
that wasn't in the Lisbon treaty.
remember the MI5 stoy about Gerry Kelly and Martha Pope?
Whether the story of Aznar fathering Rachid's baby is true or not, it is a fact that there has been a perverse relationship going on between the repression of Basque nationalists (especially left-nationalists) and of migrants by both the Spanish and French states (whether administered by parties of the "Left" or "Right".
With regard to the Basques, both states carry out the same dispersal policy towards political prisoners, sending the prisoners to jails throughout their territories but far from the prisoners' families, causing much hardship to the latter and especially to the old, sick or very young. France has in excess of 300 Basque political prisoners in its jails; Spain in excess of 500.
This grim situation, in addition to very bad prison conditions generally, has led to a number of suicides and at present there are 13 terminally or seriously ill Basque political prisoners in Spanish jails. It is set to intensify as the state collects more and more prisoners through the illegalisation of political parties, newspapers and protests and also effectively doubles the sentences of the convicted political prisoners if they refuse to renounce their allegiances.
Also, France's judiciary has been deporting Basque political refugees to Spain on the request of the latter state in the full knowledge that detainees are tortured during the period they are held incomunicado and which has been denounced annually by Amnesty International and on a number of occasions by the EU Commission Against Torture. Further, on a number of occasions the French police have handed refugees over the border to the Guardia Civil of the Spanish state without even going through the compliant French courts.
In the past, with French memories still strong of the Basques' proud record in the French Resistance against the Nazis and the Petain Government, this would not have happened, but it seems that as the EU unites against what it sees as "terrorism" , any abuse of democratic rights or questionable alliance becomes possible. One sees a parallel alignment also among many so-called liberals in Europe, including Ireland, as they question less and accept more the abuses of power and denial of civil rights.
Diarmuid, Dublin Irish Basque Commitee.
Today the main newspapers of Spain have started to put the story on a backburner simmering on the "interests of true journalism" hob. With the exception of "El Pais" which of course was the newspaper which alligned with the internet the weekend of the March 11th Madrid bombing and exposed Aznar as a liar. They've sent the story to their "internet blog" section pursuing the "conflict of interest" angle.
The French media are stretching it out. If in the USA a teenage daughter of a rightwing candidate to vice president must be seen to marry her boyfriend before we even know if he has tattoos - then we know that the global conspiracy of free market neoliberal family values conservatism covers the worst hypocrisy we can name. The Aznar marriage went on the rocks long ago - so why the contrived family image? Does a minister of one of the most important departments in France really enjoy such an extensive right to privacy and can she simply shirk off admitting with whom she has enjoyed (or not enjoyed) a liason, so we can believe that it was not a liaison dangereux ?
You lot in Ireland get an exclusive preview now. As you know you're on the fringe of this whole issue. Your opposition to Lisbon and Sarkozy hasn't really ever gone as far as to taking a serious interest in who the social club are. I personally believe that was a mistake. But as this story continues to ask the pertinent questions on the continent and thus deflect the possiblity of a libel action against the Moroccans - I thought to exclusively preview the other suspects. You don't get into the Sarko shag club unless you're a very beautiful female or a very rich man. Aznar must have got in because of his "contacts".
François Pinault (born 21 August 1936) is a billionaire, 34th richest man in the world and is the CEO of a conglomerate of interests. Owns a majority share in Christies auction house and the Gucci fashion house. He is thus well placed to give nice furniture and nice threads as presents. He also heads up the largest private water business on the planet. Yes. He's the lad who wants to sell Africa water.
there are 2 more suspects. but this aint Hello magazine. is it?
so if it isn't pinnochio - who is the liason dangereux for EU conflict of interest?
9 months and 6 days after the gossip mongering started and was spread (I did my part)
or if you prefer 157 days since the birth of Zohra Dati, (on the 2nd of January 2009) whose mammy has refused to identify the father or even at least rule out candidates and suspects thus satisfactorily resolving legitimate worries about transnational or inter-corporative conflicts of interest -
We learn that the short but plucky & quite definitely fascist Mr Aznar has finally filed suit against L'Observateur magazine of Morrocco's director Mr Ahmed Charai.
Indeed on the very day Zohra Dati-Aznar came into this life, a French magazine aimed at the land's maghrebi communities featured the Aznar daddy story. http://www.bakchich.info/article6354.html
How amazing that I should have fished out this back article you're reading now, the other day when attempting to explain the links of glamour, fornication, hypocrisy, corruption & blatent conflict of interest which truly characterise the European Right Wing as much as Jesus, guns and well Je$us truly characterise the US right wing.
There I was! - in a comment to the revelations of Berlusconi's harem and the ex-Czech premier's semi-hard dick in the garden glibly writing " Aznar is believed to be the mystery father of leading French rightwinger and former Sarkozy girlfrield / mistress, Rachida Dati's baby not as I wrote the mystery father of Raquel Dati herself. This of course happened after a Sarko party where they were introduced and Celia demanded (it is said) that Sarko see her rival serviced and off the scene". I swear he pays attention to my rambling and ranting.... http://www.indymedia.ie/article/92599?comment_limit=0&c...53172
Now after Raquel Dati took second on the Sarkozy EU election MEP ticket & quite splendidly saw their share of the barely over 40% of franchised votes cast go up by 11.23% Aznar hits the lawsuits & I was simply waiting to see would baby Zohra Dati - Aznar grow up to have a moustache before casting more aspersions. Even if she will have a moustache I shall not judge her until she's a fascist.
By the way for anyone interested in the world of Morroccan politics and its long recognised mutual antipathy to Aznar, the defendent in this forthcoming Madrid lawsuit is one of the key confidentes of the young King of that land and is considered an intelligence insider .
sure you couldn't make this stuff up.
It wouldn't stick.
maybe it wasn't Aznar and wasn't ETA but was the Holy Ghost?