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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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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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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.
News Round-Up Thu Oct 09, 2025 01:07 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose C... Wed Oct 08, 2025 19:36 | Will Jones
Two-tier justice was on full display as three Epping protesters received longer prison sentences than the asylum seeker whose sex attack on a child they were protesting about, says Laurie Wastell.
The post Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose Crime They Were Protesting appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
British Steel Industry Faces ?Existential Threat? as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer?s ?EU R... Wed Oct 08, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Britain?s Net Zero-ravaged steel industry is facing an "existential threat" as the EU threatens the UK with tariffs of up to 50% despite Keir Starmer's recent 'EU reset' giveaway on fishing rights and youth mobility.
The post British Steel Industry Faces “Existential Threat” as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer’s ‘EU Reset’ Giveaway appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8When opposing forces in any war fight over territory the civilian population in the area are at risk of being killed in the fighting.
The US forces regularly launch air strikes against the Taliban so naturally this is going to happen.
It's very tragic but that is war.
Surely nobody is going to suggest that NATO forces should withdraw and allow the Taliban to take control of Afghanistan again, regoup and topple the government of Pakistan and get their hands on nuclear weapons or allow Al-Qaeda to train terrorist who are sent around the world to fight jihad unmolested?
Obama must be forced to eat his own words.
On the 13th August 2007 Senator Barack Obama said in Nashua, NH of the Afghanistan "We've got to get the job done there. And that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages and killing civilians which is causing enormous problems there."
This was in the context of fierce fighting between NATO and Taliban forces which had resulted in spiralling numbers of dead Western soldiers particularly British troops in Helmand province and dead Afghan civilians.
Now that Bush is no longer in the White House, President Obama has begun to withdraw troops from Iraq leaving behind a pro-US Iraqi government and as I write there is a "surge" in the numbers of US troops deployed to Afghanistan to fight the increasingly powerful Taliban who have re-captured significant areas of Afghanistan while in neighbouring Pakistan another Taliban force is advancing on Karachi endangering the stability of the regional nuclear power.
Today the latest news from Afghanistan is that a villages was air-raided and scores of civilians including many women and children were killed and if reports on the exact number of dead are accurate - about 150 - then this is the single biggest loss of life at the hands of the US forces since the begining of the latest Afghan conflict which began immediately following the 9/11 attacks.
Whether the deaths were due to targetting errors, whether the Taliban used women and children as human shields, whether the dead were killed in other incidents and the exact toll is in fact "overexaggerated" according to US Air Forces is missing the point.
When Senator Obama criticised the Bush administration's war policies - the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime, the overthrow of the Taliban and the wider war against Al-Qaeda which he claimed had alienated the world from the US, he continually cited the thousands of civilian deaths that occured as a result of US firepower which would fuel further terrorism.
Surely the continuation of US air strikes and the death tolls from other air strikes since the commencement of President Obama's administration clearly demonstrate his hollow rhetoric?
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Senator Obama criticises the war policies of the Bush administration in Afghanistan.
Say what you like about American imperialism, if Afghanistan and Pakistan fall to Islamic fundamentalists we all face a nightmare.
Pakistan's nuclear arms would fall into their hands.
War, nuclear war, between Pakistan and India would be serious possibility.
How would a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist regime in Pakistan co-exist with Shia fundamentalist Iran?
How many more Islamic fundamentalist extremists from around the world travel to Afghanistan and Pakistan to train and fight and would return to other parts of the Middle East and to Europe to spread jihad against the infidel West using Muslim communities already sympathetic to Sharia rule rather than democracy as a base?
It is terrible that so many civilians are being killed when the US bombs Taliban controlled towns and villages.
It would be far worse if Taliban control extends over the entire region and influence of backward Islamic lunacy is strengthened.
It appears Obama intends to continue, if not step up, the murder in Afghanistan. I am not surprised. It was always clear that he was simply a glove puppet for the American Elite who allowed him to take the Presidency. Just a PR trick to make the world think America had changed. It has not. It is still an evil monster who kills women and children and only shows remorse for the cameras when there is a public outcry.
Initially the US said the Taliban had run through the village throwing grenades but later admitted that this was a lie.
Yel refers to 'Islamic Lunacy' and says it is better to kill women and children than to have Islamic law in that region. 'Better dead than Red', eh? I would sooner see my mother or sister being forced into a Burka than being blown to bits by terrorists in jets. If Yel thinks Islam is 'lunacy' then what is it to invade a country with the help of the worst criminals in that country and kill innocent people? Doing so because you have a 'nightmare' and are driven to it by a combination of neurosis and greed is what is lunacy. America is out of control. A crazed bully. A dangerous bully. Predictable only in that we can be sure it will continue to kill and maim. Predictable also in its assured ultimate destruction.
People don't have to go to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Chechnya, Indonesia, or any other country to learn how to fight evil empires like the US and Israel. People in every area of the world are continually appaled by the US and it's pups and that is most of the training anybody needs. Where there is a will there is a way. You don't need to be a commando to bring down and empire you know. You don't even need to know how to fly a 747.
Has it occurred to anyone that now that Shannon has been given by us to the US military as a permanent base, we are complicit in the killings of civilians in Pakistan and Afghanistan? Why has Shannon gone off the map as a serious issue?
I would have thought that Irish government complicity in US war crimes would have occurred to many indymedia readers Fred ,but the fact that soldiers are flying out to murder people in Afghanistan from Aldergrove Airport , which is also in Ireland , is often forgotten – even by some anti-war activists .
The massive numbers of troops flowing through Shannon en route to Iraq in 2003 was not hampered by the activities of anti-war activists.
After the invasion and the commencement of the military occupation hundreds of thousands of troops passed through Shannon when serving units rotated back home and were replaced by fresh units while fighting by the insurgency intensified.
During the surge of troops ordered toward the end of the Bush administration thousands more passed through Shannon to bulk up American manpower against the insurgency.
Meanwhile the American presence in Afghanistan since 2001 has continued in parallel.
Now as Obama begins the withdrawl of US troops, having completed the establishment of a pro-US government in Iraq, his attention has switched to Afghanistan which is now experiencing a surge in US troops numbers.
The pitiful results of inept anti-war activist leadership has led to the unimpeded use of Shannon.
The entire campaign has been a complete and absolute and total failure.
"Now as Obama begins the withdrawl of US troops, having completed the establishment of a pro-US government in Iraq, his attention has switched to Afghanistan which is now experiencing a surge in US troops numbers."
Don't kid yourself, mate - the Maliki government in Iraq only has credibility (insofar as it has any) with the Iraqi people because it is not seen as a puppet of Washington, unlike its predecessors - Maliki won some kudos for facing down the US over the Status of Forces Agreement and forcing it to make major concessions. Patrick Cockburn is one of the few western reporters who bothers to go outside the Green Zone in Iraq: he gives a very good account of the real political dynamics at work behind the silly hype of the US government:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n24/cock01_.html
http://www.irishleftreview.org/2009/02/10/present-state...burn/