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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.
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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 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 6 7This is a serious issue that is fairly suppressed and ignored in general.
I'm getting an Oz of cannabis tonight to bring to a family friend who is suffering from cancer. He is getting Chemotherapy and says that cannabis works better than all the medication they want him to take. Also, his 'medication' is poison, cannabis is fairly natural. BUT, if he wasn't getting it off me he could be running the risk of getting dangerously contaminated cannabis... and all because of the prohibition.
Silly drug act in the interest of multi-national corporations.
Legalise
Last week on 96fm, a woman called in to make an appeal to get a pound of cannabis to make cannabis oil for her son who has brain tumours. She heard about it on the Rick Simpson website. A guy called the show to say he could supply it for 2250euro. Prendivelle allowed the 2 to talk off air and arrange a purchase. THIS IS WRONG. It should be provided for FREE as medicine. But the economy is more important than people with tumors.
Tragic that a government which lets healthy people consume lethal drugs like Alcohol and Tobacco see fit to ban a much less harmful drug like Marijuana for medicinal reasons.
If you give your dying grandmother a double brandy to comfort her last moments everybody would nod their heads in approval.
Give an MS patient a much less harmful drug like Marijuana to ease the pain and you end up in prison.
The law is an ass.
I am someone who no longer is involved with any left wing parties in this country. One of the reasons for this is because they are scared to say anything about legalisation of cannabis even though most of their younger members would have used it themselves. I include SP, Labour, SF, any most of the tiny left groups in this cowardly line up. it is little wonder that most young people in turn ignore these so called 'leaders' of the working and unemployed classes.
Actually, I think the main reason that medical users did not show up in force is because they are growing they're own cannabis and dont want to compromise themselves. However there were a few medical users at the demo. The demo was also orgainsed at a time when people who were on lunch from work could get some of the information, hence the low turn-out of anyone working, like myself.
This was only organised by a couple of people in a short period of time. It is only the beginning of anything that could be called a movement. And I hope it becomes large and outspoken because the issue of arrest and prosecution of cannabis users, medicinal or not, is certainly a question of personal freedom and social justice. The big questions that now needs to me asked are WHY is cannabis still prohibited (as a THC-free hemp plant, a medicinal remedy, and a recreational drug) and WHO is propagating the lies behind the prohibition'of the 'Devils weed'?
Forget about the government thewy are beyond hope and are not open to rational debate on this issue. I think you should lobby a lot of other organisations out there and at least put them on the spot even if they refuse to reply to your letters and phone calls.
I am thinking about the national union of journalists most of whom would smoke themselves anyway. It would be worth trying to get a position from the other Trade Unions as well. You could try people before profit and some of the smaller parties and see if they would go public?
It might be too hot for some of them to take a public stance on it, you might have a better chance with 'mavericks' like eamonn dumphy, george hook, eamonn mccann, peter mcverry, joe higgins, patricia mckenna and nell mccafferty etc they tend to be a bit more courageous when it comes to being outspoken or thinking outside the comfortable consensus that exists on both the left and right side of the status quo here in Ireland.
To the above poster, the unions might actually be a very good way of going about it. Will be brought up at the next meeting.
Thanks