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offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.

offsite link 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

offsite link 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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offsite link Trump Cancels All Talks With Iran and Tells Protesters ?Help Is on its Way? Tue Jan 13, 2026 18:02 | Will Jones
President Trump has cancelled all meetings with Iranian officials and told protesters that "help is on its way" as thousands of demonstrators are killed by the brutal theocratic regime.
The post Trump Cancels All Talks With Iran and Tells Protesters “Help Is on its Way” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Politics of Not Wanting to Know Tue Jan 13, 2026 15:49 | Michael Rainsborough
Whether with Islamists or the far Right, modern politics closes its eyes to the underlying causes of discontent, fearing that to understand is to endorse. We no longer know our enemy, says Prof Michael Rainsborough.
The post The Politics of Not Wanting to Know appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link It?s Young Women Not Men Who Are Radicalising Tue Jan 13, 2026 13:23 | Sallust
For all the media talk of young men being radicalised online, it's young women who have shifted their politics most dramatically ? to the Left, with one in three now planning to vote Green at the next election.
The post It’s Young Women Not Men Who Are Radicalising appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why Aren?t Western Feminists Standing up for Iran?s Women? Tue Jan 13, 2026 11:19 | Will Jones
Why aren't Western feminists standing up for Iran's women? Activists who never miss a chance to condemn microaggressions are oddly silent as protesters bravely attempt to throw off the theocratic yolk, says Clarissa Hard.
The post Why Aren’t Western Feminists Standing up for Iran’s Women? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Matthew?Parris Calls for Ban on Smelly Hydrocarbons Whether Climate Emergency is Real or Not Tue Jan 13, 2026 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Matthew Parris has called for a ban on smelly fossil fuels whether the 'climate emergency' is real or not. God in Heaven save us from these dripping wets with their luxury beliefs, says Chris Morrison.
The post Matthew?Parris Calls for Ban on Smelly Hydrocarbons Whether Climate Emergency is Real or Not appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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News from todays blockade of the G8

category international | summit mobilisations | news report author Wednesday July 06, 2005 08:58author by Andrew Report this post to the editors

With the G8 blockade now underway I suggest adding whatever news we can get here.

7.25 GMT
SkY News showing pictures of confrontations on the roads leading to the G8 and in one of the nearby towns. Fighting going on between protesters and riot police with riot police using vans, batons and pepper spray and protesters with sticks and missiles.

Protesters have broken into a number of quite small groups in order to block these roads and delay the arrivial of the G8 support staff at Gleneagles.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   More from the mainstream     Andrew    Wed Jul 06, 2005 09:24 
   Police Call on G8 Alternatives to cancel March     BBC by way of Chekov    Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:02 
   At least one Irish arrest     Andrew    Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:50 
   Just been announced     DV8    Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:04 
   clarification     sovietpop    Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:17 
   March Cancelled? or Banned?     Chekov    Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:24 
   Banned     Chekov    Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:37 
   Going ahead despite the ban?     Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group    Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:51 
   Section 60 everywhere     IMC Éire foreign correspondent    Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:56 
 10   Glad to see.     DV8    Wed Jul 06, 2005 13:00 
 11   From Indy UK     DV8    Wed Jul 06, 2005 13:15 
 12   overheard on BBC radio from gleneagles     chekov    Wed Jul 06, 2005 13:15 
 13   G8 alternatives     DV8    Wed Jul 06, 2005 13:21 
 14   from a Kitten and some guy     Call In Report    Wed Jul 06, 2005 13:30 
 15   Audio report from 3 Irish people back at camp     Andrew    Wed Jul 06, 2005 13:35 
 16   On UK Indymedia     DV8    Wed Jul 06, 2005 13:49 
 17   Police state?     Andrew    Wed Jul 06, 2005 14:37 
 18   Numbers??? How many protestors??     Michael    Wed Jul 06, 2005 15:36 
 19   From Indymedia UK     DV8    Wed Jul 06, 2005 16:35 
 20   More from IndyMedia UK     DV8    Wed Jul 06, 2005 16:36 
 21   Large breakaway from march     Andrew    Wed Jul 06, 2005 17:26 
 22   Indymedia UK on Embra     DV8    Wed Jul 06, 2005 17:59 
 23   Extract from IT on march     DV8    Wed Jul 06, 2005 18:30 
 24   SWP Stewards leave Protesters with Police     G8 Radio listener    Wed Jul 06, 2005 18:32 
 25   Sit-Down Protest Cleared: SWP nowhere to be seen     G8 Radio listener    Wed Jul 06, 2005 18:38 
 26   protest scenes have gone "global-media"     iosaf    Wed Jul 06, 2005 18:54 
 27   timeline here:     IMC Éire foreign correspondent    Wed Jul 06, 2005 19:10 
 28   All done... nearly...     IMC Éire foreign correspondent    Wed Jul 06, 2005 19:21 
 29   only saw cops in chinnooks     tv watcher    Wed Jul 06, 2005 19:25 
 30   Kitten says:     kitten    Wed Jul 06, 2005 19:42 
 31   Clown army battoned     pantomine horse    Wed Jul 06, 2005 19:45 
 32   fence broke few crossed the line     tvwatcher    Wed Jul 06, 2005 19:51 
 33   Just saw this of interest to IMCers comment on UK imc: I know that grammar     imcer (irl)    Wed Jul 06, 2005 20:01 
 34   SSP Youth Organiser Arrested     Frontliner    Thu Jul 07, 2005 17:11 


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