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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
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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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6Irish Independent ran with a story on Monday that Irish based company had made a gas discovery in Algeria, which is more than twice the size of Corrib. The Indo said that it was the 10th largest gas find in the world this year.
What the Indo didn't say was that Algeria will take 71% of the profits from that gas find.
That's according to this US Government Report (http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07676r.pdf).
Ireland on the other hand is running at a 25% tax for Corrib, and thats after all costs including IRMS security bills, the bribes to the Belmullet GAA and Shell's recent €3000 fine, will be written off against tax. In that report only Cameroon has a more favourable deal for the oil companies.
The article in the examiner below states how Shell have paid no tax at all between 2004 and end of 2007 (and they won't have paid any in the mean time either). In that period they got tax credits of €28m.
http://www.examiner.ie/business/shell-ireland-receives-....html
"To truly show that we mean business and to build a campaign to force the wealthy to pay for the crisis, we need to begin by winning the argument in our workplaces for a national strike that will shut down every job – public sector and private sector alike"
How would you go about organising this in a country where less than 23% of the private sector are unionised, and practically all the foreign owned MNC sector are increasing the relative pay of their workers? They are exporting as normal. Those who would support a general strike in private sector are those getting totally fucked over by small and medium sized enterprises and previously state owned enterprises with high trade union densities such as Aer Lingus.
But, there is almost no precedent in Ireland or anywhere else for SME workers to go on strike, given the nature of how their workplace is organised. And, most would rather blame the public sector for their woes rather than the banks that have freezed credit flows.
There is a possibility of organising the retail and service sector. I mean, the real struggle and exploitation taking place in the economy is in places like Boots, where employers are totally taking the piss. I mean, whatever about looking for a 5 per cent reduction in pay costs via changed working conditions, taking a flat 20 per cent off pay for those earning less than €25k (salary) merits a riot. The government for all its faults tends to be a relatively good employer when compared to the likes of Boots or Coca Cola.
Also, most workers are wedded to a strategy of concilliation and mediation to resolve work place disputes via the LRC or the Labour Court. These remained significantly high over the 'Celtic Tiger' period, and are exploding through the roof at the moment.
To achieve a general strike (and I agree on the need for one) requires a collective agreement that can only take place via a structured strategy that incorporates all workers. The conditions and circumstances to achieve this (i.e. mass manufacturing) do not exist in an extremely diversified employment structure. Capitalism and its operational arm of business organisation has changed. Thus, so has the implications for organising labour.
This is not an argument against organising for a general strike. But, we need a more nuanced and contemporary analysis of labour, employment and workplace organisation to build such a strategy. Otherwise, calls for a general strike will be noises in the wind.
Sunday Indepedent article makes interesting reading, if you want to take a view from the opposite side.
Ryanair, Chief Executive Michael O'Leary reckons he could save 20 bn. this year. One of his ideas is that the public sector ought to have a 20% cut in numbers and remainder should return to 9 to 5 hours with 20 days holidays p.a. O'Leary has a point. There is considerable administration I would suggest in the management of public sector holidays, sick pay, conference off time, paternity and maternity leave. The differential exists versus those of us who work in the private sector, especially in times of recession.
Recent figures suggest our teachers work the shortest hours in Europe. Is this so and if so is it fair that they can hold parents to ransom in tomorrows strike and future strikes? Have parents not enough to contend with facing the Recession and worse again the Swine Flu which targets our young particularly.
Public Services ought to have a good argument for their reasoning on Strike Action. This is not the 1980's.
Social Welfare tomorrow will reflect what strike means in that payment to recipients bank accounts will be one day late. Think about what this really means! You may say Capitalism but does that excuse put food on the table for the family or pay those bills that are already waiting to be paid.
One of the fascinating aspects of the capitalist class propaganda is there sudden concern about inequality in pensions, pay etc. Maybe rather than falling for their argument to level down the publis sector workers we should take their argument to it's logical conclusion of equal pay and conditions for all?
The above posting has some truth but together is the way forward.
Sadly, the Government will divide the private and public sector. Oh yes, they will.
Why?
Trade Unions are divided. It is fact.
Internal fighting - ego's prevail and some, the select few, are on salaries of over euros 150,000 plus.......
Who are the elitte?
Please explain.
I would love to hear your view.
O'Leary - Ryanair said last week - Unions are a waste of space!
Irish Wolf
Interesting article. I agree that the wealth distribution in Ireland is appalling and that the normal citizen is expected to 'bear the brunt'.
Question is 'exactly what steps should the public be following to change things?'. The Green TDs' only seem to be interested in staying in power to enact some small green policy that is wholly insignificant when compared to the damage being inflicted by NAMA. The Greens seem to think that John Gormley attending the conference in Copenhagen is going to make some sort of difference to the outcome.
So if the Greens aren't going to do the right thing and bow out of power, how is 'joe public' expected to change the government?