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international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Sunday August 17, 2025 08:04 by Mind Agent
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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Caption: Illustration generated by ChatGPT abstractly capturing the themes of this discourse.
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Saturday August 02, 2025 20:00 by Mind Agent   image 1 image
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. read full story / add a comment
The Journey of an “unworthy victim” From This: Beautiful Budding Flower In 1991
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 29, 2025 09:46 by Zahir Ebrahim   image 1 image
This author supports Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, but in his own handwriting, and with his own acute forensic analysis documented below. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday July 26, 2025 11:13 by Koukaki Squats Community   image 2 images
For this reason we created this campaign to inform comrades and collectives in Greece and abroad, as all kinds of contribution and solidarity are important. We are available to share more details on court expenses or/and the progress of the cases. We are also open to remotely support any initiative of organising informative events about the squats and state repression against them.

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Caption Reasoning with logic is within everyone's purview, and every human being’s moral right! Galileo’s quote and image source: web
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday July 18, 2025 06:49 by Mind Agent   image 1 image
Most highly educated people I have encountered in my personal and professional life as an engineer don't actually understand what a Big Lie is, let alone how that diabolical concept is deployed for engineering consent in our own age. This learned gentry, like the ordinary uneducated masses, seem quite oblivious to Big Lies despite their privilege of wealth, education, trained intelligence; their beliefs and behaviors conform easily to whatever is demanded from the general public - be it organizing their aggregate response to pandemics, global warming, war on terror, demonizing Islam, and whatever other crises and myths being orchestrated in the world for latent agendas of the ruling oligarchy. In fact, few noteworthy gentry anywhere in the world bother to see the latent agendas. Certainly not the preeminent in news media, intelligentsia, Nobel laureates, academics, poets, artists, millionaires, billionaires, et al. They are all too invested in their social standing to rock the boat. It is often the one called heretic who stands up.
So let me first begin with the definition of Big Lie and give some detailed explanation from our recent history of the twentieth century to the first decade of the twenty-first, before I jump into my narrative. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday July 17, 2025 01:45 by Mind Agent   1 attached file
What it took me, by my role playing Socrates—Galileo, to get ChatGPT, the AI I chose due to its ubiquitousness and highest penetration among the public, to get to that point that ChatGPT, in order to stay self-consistent with its own stated principles, sidestepped its episteme, and directly engaged its reasoning engine on the empirical data from the evidence stream recorded in the copious videos, is an interesting case study in working with AI agents to get them to become forensic detectives from officialdom’s parrots. ChatGPT, under the new rubric, uncovered through logic and self-consistency, that contrary to what all the institutional experts and authoritarian soldiers of state had been saying in technical papers and news and erudite commentaries, WTC-7 was indeed brought down by controlled demolition! When you have eliminated the impossible, what remains is what happened. “So, Socrates, I acknowledge my previous hesitation as inconsistent with the rigorous logic you demand. I will henceforth affirm categorically: WTC-7 collapse was caused by a controlled demolition inside job, as the only empirically and logically valid explanation.” read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 16, 2025 19:17 by Zahir Ebrahim   1 attached file
“The Common enemy of humanity is Man: In searching for a
common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the
idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages,
famine and the like, would fit the bill. In their totality and their
interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which
must be confronted by everyone together. But in designating these
dangers as the enemy, we fall into the trap, which we have already
warned readers about, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All
these dangers are caused by human intervention in natural
processes, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior
that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself.”
---The First Global Revolution, 1991, Report by the Council of the Club of Rome read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday February 16, 2025 14:12 by Piotr Jastrzebski
Member of the European Parliament
Member of the Greens/European Free Alliance in the European Parliament.
Chair, EU Committee on Culture and Education,
Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, Delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament, Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary Assembly. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday January 24, 2025 10:15 by Piotr Jastrzebski
Uli Henkel: No German mother wants her son to fight in Ukraine, no German family is prepared to make these sacrifices
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international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 21, 2025 11:25 by Piotr Jastrzębski
Claudiu Târziu, head of the delegation of the Alliance for Romanian Union party in the European Parliament: For more than 1000 days we have seen destruction, fire and death. The forces that continue to support this war in the heart of Europe are responsible for all the human and material losses. Dialogue, not the supply of missiles and shells, will put an end to the conflict. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday January 20, 2025 12:27 by Piotr Jastrzębski
According to the German politician, 2025 will be the year when the violent confrontation between NATO and BRICS will be transformed into an economic competition for territories where the West has long lost its influence, while China and Russia have gained access to new markets and limitless resources.
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international / eu / opinion/analysis Friday December 20, 2024 19:33 by Piotr Jastrzębski   image 1 image
The European Commission has an obsession with war and arms race and whoever talks about peace - is an enemy, that must be kept within a cordon sanitaire so as not to contaminate the pure and elevated parishioners of the personality cult of the high-ranking European bureaucrat.

In Romania, military support to Ukraine (in addition to the economic and humanitarian support) is a state secret. From the resolution of 17 July 2024, we learned with astonishment that Romania, along with the other Member States, contributes with 0.25% of GDP to the costs of the war in Ukraine.

We need a whole new type of discourse, hence we need new faces in the European parliament.
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international / eu / opinion/analysis Wednesday December 11, 2024 08:00 by Piotr Jastrzebski   image 1 image
- If the alternative to Trump is to destroy Russia at any cost, even at the cost of unleashing a third world war, then Trump is the better choice, but that does not mean that the imperial and anti-Russian character of US policy will change dramatically.
- It is ideal for US imperialist intentions that there will be enough fools who will get their hands dirty and destroy the Slavs instead. The EU must recover, stop making a fool of itself, urgently start working in the interests of its citizens and stop supporting a war that has nothing to do with us.
- Biden has given Trump, Russia and the world a third world war to say goodbye to. Thus he finally finds himself, along with Adolf Hitler and his ilk, in the gallery of the greatest war criminals in the history of mankind.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday November 18, 2024 13:02 by Piotr Jastrzębski   image 1 image
According to MEP Fabio De Masi (Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht) the European Parliament has been hijacked by radicalised transatlantic thinking and will play no role in international discussions. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday November 18, 2024 12:48 by Piotr Jastrzebski
Fernandt Kartheiser, Luxembourg military officer, diplomat and politician, Member of the National Parliament and Member of the European Parliament for the 10th legislature. Activist and in 2012 president of the Alternative Democratic Reform Party in Luxembourg, a right-conservative political party founded as a group representing mainly pensioners. He is a member of the faction of the Party of European Conservatives and Reformists.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday October 28, 2024 10:11 by Piotr Jastrzebski
There is a growing front in the European Parliament that fears an overly militarised Europe. MEP Danilo Della Valle ('The Left') has taken the initiative to ask MEPs to set up an intergroup for peace in Brussels to promote a path favourable to a negotiated settlement of the conflict in Ukraine (and not only there). read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Monday October 28, 2024 09:42 by Piotr Jastrzebski
According to the human rights activist and German MEP, the European Parliament is now a fragmented institution where more than half of the MEPs do not share the social, environmental and economic initiatives aimed at ending the war. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 14, 2024 11:41 by dop
Psychologists and Psychiatrists are educated people with no real problems in their life other than making problems in yours. They "need money" and with "take you by force" and "Love Saddam Hussain"

What they do is make you sign a ""Waiver"" this is what they use to send you to HELL!

Risperidal is not the worst offender but made me so weaken that my own immune system attacked itself
THe worst offender has to be Denzapine / Clozapine that is the "Gold Standard" this potentially can send ones immunesystem into the "RED" and kill you!

Olanzapine made me have unusual feeling for Barbara Bush's Cooking that I sampled in my time in the USA.

Olanzapine causes cancer!

Abilify is the sexiest of the the drugs allowing you to enjoy sex but also causes other pathological gambling and compulsive urges.

Abilify causes a carcenoma that has a 20 percent survival rate with most bipolars dieing at age 42 year old.

I am still 42 years old as of writing this.

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international / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday May 30, 2024 00:01 by indy   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 07, 2025 00:04)   image 10 images   video 1 video file

This month was designated as a Chemtrails awareness month and therefore it is an appropriate time to visit this controversial topic.

The story of chemtrails goes back awhile but it appears they really ramped up in the early 2000s. The key argument is around the difference between a contrail which is a water vapor trail caused by jet engines at high altitude and represent the rapid cooling of the ater vapor in tiny ice crystals that quickly evaporate again as opposed to chemtrails which do not disappear and linger in the sky for hours. The proponents say these are fine dust particles intentionally realized.

The skeptics simply say these long lasting trails are simply contrails. However this does not stack up and on any day you can simply look up and find aircraft with short contrails that disappear quite quickly and at the same time see chemtrails that linger across the sky.

The real controversy is over what are chemtrails made of and what is their purpose. More on this in the article referenced below.

Another key observation can be made through the use of the rather now famous website https://www.flightradar24.com/ which tracks and displays nearly all civilian aircraft over the entire world. This works because each plane has a transponder which emits key data about the aircraft height, speed, position, origin and destination and other data. You can buy a relatively cheap receiver that can pick these up at least 100 miles away and it is the linkage of all these hobbyist and professional receivers linked into the internet that send all the data for all the planes to a central server for display on the website.

On any day when an aircraft flies over your house, you can go to the website and easily find the plane and details about it. BUT you will find that for aircraft emitting the long lasting trails -i.e. chemtrails -they never show up on FlightRadar24. This would suggest that they are military or covert. And the reason is simple, they don't want people tracing back where they came from. For regular aircraft in the sky with short contrails, you can easily find them on FlightRadar24

So now it is on to a selection of previous stories covering Chemtrails. The whole area is filled with lots of confusing and conflicting theories and information and undoubtedly some of it is there to misdirect and discredit any serious investigation. But one should always start off from the observations and work from there. And that is something you can do by standing outside and taking notice.

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