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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.
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The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails Fri Oct 10, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The technocrats are falling across the West as their ideology founders on reality. The cracking of the Net Zero consensus, like the end of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, is a moment of hope, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
The post The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 54: Alexander Adams on Dissident Art, the Tyranny of the Arts Council and His New Exhibition appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Fri Oct 10, 2025 00:47 | 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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Teenagers Must Be Warned About the Dystopia Being Built Around Them Thu Oct 09, 2025 19:00 | Mike Fairclough
Mike Fairclough was a nationally feted headteacher before he was cancelled during Covid for speaking out against the tyranny. Now he has written a novel to warn teens about the dystopian world being built around them.
The post Teenagers Must Be Warned About the Dystopia Being Built Around Them appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Italy to Ban Burka Thu Oct 09, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Italy is to ban the burka as part of new legislation against "Islamic separatism" that includes strengthening penalties for forced marriages and stricter financial regulation of Muslim organisations.
The post Italy to Ban Burka appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10The correct link for that story is:
http://www.counterpunch.org/tariq11272008.html
It is in fact a very poor ananlysis of the situation in Mumbai based on what Tariq Ali has himself read in the pressand regurgitated from his communist atheist perspective. His analysis that Al Qaeda is on the decline and somehow a failure is very much contrary to international security experts and anyone watching goings on from Helmand to the Gulf of Aden. I personally believe it is Mr Ali who is in decline, if indeed he was ever in any other condition.
Mr Ali dismisses the attackers with remarks like they picked 'soft targets'. They are now in their third day of running gun battles with the elite of the Indian Army commandos. Hardly soft targets? Three days without sleep and still shooting it out with heavily armed soldiers.
Executing the anti-terrorism chief and 8 of his senior officers as well as the foreign intelligence agents they were meeting is no small achievement. Carrying out an operation of this massive scale and sophistication can hardly be dismissed so easily. What guerrilla army has ever carried out attacks of this scale and success? Not one in decline.
http://www.france24.com/en/20081128-mumbai-attacks-poli...-arms
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/28/british-ter...umbai
Peter
if you look on the left side of the counterpunch page you will find the link to the story
I think you meant this story?
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn11282008.html
As horrifying as what has happened in Mumbia is - it is interesting that our TV screens a newspaper frontpages are not also filled with what is happening in Nigeria....
Question:
Why does our media force our gaze towards the tragedy of the wealthy and western tourists and not of the poor? Or is it that they just black and african?
other blogishness here: http://LMV.hu/redjade
So in response to the mass murder of civilians by an aggressive, expansionist, global, fascist movement Bazooka Joe seems to respect the terrorists organisation and Peter makes insinuations of Western racism. This reminds me why i don't visit indymedia much these days.
Also, Peter, it wasn't just the victims that may have been Westerners. The murderers may have been British born (although who knows at this time). Yet they chose to attack a Jewish centre. Do you feel this hints that they might be anti semites? They were thousands of miles from Israel.
Sorry. That Peter directed stuff was meant as a response to Redjade.
Its not western racism that we collectively ignore africa? Of course it is! Congo War killed 3 million, Darfur, how many? Uganda... How EU countries deport people back to Nigeria in spite of the reality there, and so on. Compare all that to how many have died in the Israel/Palestine conflict since it began. Whats the ratio?
Im confused about the rest you wrote - I'm suppose to knee-jerk condemn violence against jews? OK, I condemn it - I have no problem with saying so. Yep, I'd say it was anti-Semitic as well. If you read my comments on previous threads in the past you will know this. I support those jews to be there as I support the right of all migrants to be anywhere they choose. No borders. If I understand why they were/are there it was for immigration/migration reasons - that's a different issue from Israel/Palestine entirely.
As for where the terrorists were from I will reserve judgement until I hear some actual facts.
But again, where's the news about Nigeria?
blogishness here: http://LMV.hu/redjade
...is that there is an internal, domestic pogram taking place there. The crowd of savages shooting innocents in Mumbai has an international dimension, i.e the attackers have been accused of being linked to Pakistan and so there could be repercussions on a grand level between old enemies India and Pakistan. India is also a country regularly visited by tourists, as well as a rising superpower and so this incident has affects a lot of people on many different levels.
Thus, tragic as Nigeria's case is, it does not share any of the aforementioned characteristics that Mumbai's tragedy does, and hence it's importance has been deemed less 'newsworthy' than Mumbai's tragedy.
Nothing to do with race. If Africa was any way as nominally stable as India, and attracted the investor confidence India does, Nigeria's inter communal violence would be seen as shocking. However, it isn't. Pograms , lawlessness, civil strife and the like are quite common in Africa, and so, at this stage, generally get ignored. Not just by the media, but by ordinary people.
The recent violence in the Congo got quite a bit of media coverage but most people looked the other way. DR Congo has been cursed with such for the last 40 years, and so people grow accustomed to such.
The news about Nigeria:
I agree broadly with what Jeff said. My issue was that the post was about racist killings in India yet you saw it and tried to turn it into a discussion about Western racism. Why?
I mentioned the Jewish thing because i wanted to put things in perspective; the men who carried out these acts were clearly racially motivated. I fundamentally don't think like you. I couldn't hear news like this and think 'Why aren't we hearing about africa? It's our media that's the bigger racist'.
Here some more articles on the Mombai attacks. This is just a sample of those available on Countercurrents.
Who Benefits From Mumbai Terror Attacks?
By Binu Mathew
http://www.countercurrents.org/mathew291108.htm
Mumbai terrorist stand off is almost over. More than 200 civilians and about 20 police and army officials lost their lives. Taj Mahal palace, a symbol of India's business and commercial well being bears a ghostly look. The terror stricken populace slowly limp back to life. Will Mumbai be the same again? Will India be the same again?
Empathy, Grief In Pakistan At Mumbai Mayhem
By Beena Sarwar
http://www.countercurrents.org/sarwar291108.htm
The terrorist attacks unleashed in the Indian port city and financial hub of Mumbai continue to reverberate through Pakistan at a personal level and on the media. The crisis, that began Wednesday night and lasted through Friday, dominates conversation, newspaper headlines, television coverage and Internet chatter on indigenous websites and e-mail lists run by Pakistanis at home and abroad
All In The Name Of Religion
By Aditi Munot
http://www.countercurrents.org/munot291108.htm
Most often in our world, bloodshed is carried out in the name of religion. From the gory Partition in 1947, to Israel – Palestine problems, to Nazi atrocities against Jews, to 1993 bomb blasts, to Ayodhya, to Catholic – Protestant tussles, to Forward Class – Backward Class discrimination, to Godra bloodbath, to London, Banglore, Malegaon, Jaipur bombings and now to the past few days in Bombay…… all this and much more has been done in the name of Religion
Mossad-CIA Connection To
Mumbai Terror Attacks?
By Yoginder Sikand
http://www.countercurrents.org/sikand291108.htm
Some have raised the question if the Mossad or even the CIA might not be directly or otherwise instigating some disillusioned Muslim youth in India, Pakistan or elsewhere to take to terror by playing on Muslim grievances, operating through existing Islamist groups or spawning new ones for this purpose
surely have better things to be doing than actually helping these lunatics. It's al-Qaida that want global de-stablisation. Aimportant tradelinks with both the s I stated earlier, terror attacks are bad for western interests. The idea that India 'will be dragged further into the deadly Zionist Imperialist embrace' is bogus, considering that India has been well within that embrace for quite some time now. India has had important trade links with both India and the US for many years, and it's simply not within western interests to sponser attacks such as these.
Trade actually suffers from both terror and the security crackdown that comes in it''s aftermath.
Its the opinion of the author, not mine. I'm just pointing out that a variety of views exist on the attacks.
I don't support the attacks as I dont believe that civilians, be they Orhodox Jews, tourists or ordinary Indians are legitimate targets. Only very stupid peopleor agent provocateurs would support these attacks.