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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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Public Inquiry
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offsite link The Reaction of My Mental Health Nursing Students to Being Shown an Image of a Black Murderer and Wh... Thu Nov 06, 2025 19:01 | Dr Niall McCrae
The reaction of my mental health nursing students to being shown an image of a black murderer and white victim shows why 'anti-racist' ideology is putting us all at risk, says Dr Niall McCrae.
The post The Reaction of My Mental Health Nursing Students to Being Shown an Image of a Black Murderer and White Victim Shows Why Ideology is Putting Us All at Risk appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected ?Pregnant People? to ?Women? Thu Nov 06, 2025 17:52 | Will Jones
The BBC newsreader who went viral after she changed "pregnant people" to "women" during a live broadcast has been rebuked by the BBC after being found to have breached impartiality rules.
The post BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected “Pregnant People” to “Women” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Southport Inquiry?s Sinister Censorship Agenda Thu Nov 06, 2025 15:23 | David Shipley
The Southport Inquiry summoned X this week to lecture it on the wonders of the Online Safety Act. It shows a sinister willingness to use the worst kind of tragedy to advance a censorship agenda, says David Shipley.
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Keir Starmer is planning digital ID for UK citizens. You may worry about the impact on civil liberties, but worry not, says Guy de la B?doy?re. A recent experience shows the system will never get off the ground.
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Electric vehicle drivers will be hit with a new pay-per-mile tax in?the Budget,?with a new charge of 3p per mile being levied on top of other road taxes, costing the average driver an extra ?250 a year.
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Yet another Dodgy Book - paper letters what can you do with them?

category international | arts and media | other press author Tuesday March 29, 2005 15:11author by advertising it. Report this post to the editors

from the assassin's guild.

Book worms, and students of Italian here's a new titlie which might interest you.

But if you're a nutter, (like the type who climbed on to the St Peter's basilica dome last saturday and asked for a lottery for orphans) you're *not to* read it. In fact none of you are to read it. Consider it as bad for your moral development as the Da Vinci Code.

If you're very talented, and related to a government member, you might like to write your own Irish take on it and get a salary in addition to your tax free income.

As reported in today's Irish Independent, Berlusconi's party (who control the majority share of Italian print and broacast media) have been unable to stop the latest "hit" to reach the book shelves.

The 2nd novel by Guiseppe Caruso,
"Chi ha ucciso Silvio Berlusconi?"
which translated means :-
"who killed Berlusconi".

Guiseppe Caruso, is not be confused with the legendary singer (who is dead) or the author of "lectromyography in the Diagnosis and Management of Peripheral Nerve Injuries". Nor indeed is he to be confused with the famous and revered Italian Architect. http://www.archinform.net/arch/3769.htm?ID=nzm3bFJTlN5rlNIy

Guiseppe Caruso is in fact a journalist with the Italian daily "l'Unita" and writes about basketball and things like that. & like an awful lot of people especially media professionals and activists he doesn't like Berlusconi.
http://www.unita.it

But is that enough to publish a book asking who has killed the man?

Well this is a matter for consequence and futurology, ethics which at present are not that highly developed in the Western tradition since they find it dificult to get past Aristotlean and Pythagorean notions of time, not even Tomas Aquinus could manage to get the debate much further along, and as we all may ruefully ponder Calvin did his bit on the question too. Let us just say, for the moment, that if Berlusconi outlives most and dies in bed in his bunker on Sardinia without ever having suffered respiratory problems or gone on a life support machine, Guiseppe Caruso will not get the blame.
But if "the" Berlusconi or indeed any other "berlusconi" is murdered in the way described in the book, then Mr Caruso will naturally have fingers of blame pointed at him.
Here's an interview with him in which he discusses his hit :-
http://www.infinitestorie.it/frames.speciali/FormSpeciale.asp?ID=355

For their part, the loyal team of Berlusconi have suggested that the names in the book might have been changed.

I suppose they were thinking -

Chi ha ucciso Casini?
= who killed Casini?

Anyway, I'm not going to be tricked into tempting any of you ruffians into buying a book that might be on the wicked index,
i'll just recommend "going postal" by Terry Pratchet which I happily recieved a few weeks ago as a present from Ireland.
It's a really good read, it deals with Lord Vetinari's (the vampire who is absolute ruler of the charming city ankh-morpork) attempts to get the postal service going again by the appointment of a "human skills" expert who working with a very interesting lady Mrs Dearheart of the Golem protection agency and the "smoking GNU" (a bunch of clever semaphorists). This involves a lengthy battle with corporative interests and the lowly professional politicians they've bought, and even the surprise appearance of a banshee.

you can find "Going Postal" in your local library.
Be inspired.

****************

Or you could always read the charming daughter of an Taoiseach Bertie the little rascal Ahern's latest work-

"where the rainbow ends".
yes quite, that will be when your da's regime collapses.

Related Link: http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=27&si=1366414&issue_id=12260
author by guild of assassins - "you really don't push things too far with us"publication date Fri Apr 15, 2005 22:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Christian Democrat party of Italy, has announced that it is leaving the coalition through which it has shared the task of governing that country with Silvio berlusconi.

There are several reasons for this.
here are some:-
a) today is LdaV day and they've read good books.
b) they've noticed that Silvio B. is in "grave spiritual error" under the vatican laws I thoughtfully published today for your ongoing erudition and preparation for future events in the "very special arrangements" article in other press.
c) he's just about gone now = "done and dusted".

info english-
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5690003&cKey=1113584735000
info italian (the same daily that the chap who wrote the book above which I'm not telling you to read or copy in any way @ all @ all)
http://www.unita.it/index.asp?SEZIONE_COD=HP&TOPIC_TIPO=&TOPIC_ID=42059

silvio, has of course said "you won't get rid of me so easily".

why not, silvio, you old bastard, we never thought it would be easy, you have served the function for many of papering over the mafia shithole which is italian politics, but hey, you're gonna go.

previous bits and bobs on Silvio-

his losses in the recent municipal elections-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69242
the miserable shooting incident of a released hostage which prompted him to say he was withdrawing troops _on his tv station_ but not in parliament which legally allowed him to change his mind and confirm to all what a sordid little peice of wrinkly work he is.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68868
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69002
the tripod incident
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68094
the 5th general strike (like Aznar in his time, Mr B. ignores general strikes and instructs his media machine to say they didn't happen)
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67866
the movie about some of the blood on his hands
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61950
the campaign to stop his support for the illegal war-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=30196

& a personal favourite-
the before and after shots of his wrinkles.
just about the time we installed victor in the ukraine and Mr B got acquited for his mafia connections.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67887

.:. people think we're joking till it's too late .:.

author by guild of assassins - "you really don't push things too far with us"publication date Fri Apr 15, 2005 22:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Christian Democrat party of Italy, has announced that it is leaving the coalition through which it has shared the task of governing that country with Silvio berlusconi.

There are several reasons for this.
here are some:-
a) today is LdaV day and they've read good books.
b) they've noticed that Silvio B. is in "grave spiritual error" under the vatican laws I thoughtfully published today for your ongoing erudition and preparation for future events in the "very special arrangements" article in other press.
c) he's just about gone now = "done and dusted".

info english-
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5690003&cKey=1113584735000
info italian (the same daily that the chap who wrote the book above which I'm not telling you to read or copy in any way @ all @ all)
http://www.unita.it/index.asp?SEZIONE_COD=HP&TOPIC_TIPO=&TOPIC_ID=42059

silvio, has of course said "you won't get rid of me so easily".

why not, silvio, you old bastard, we never thought it would be easy, you have served the function for many of papering over the mafia shithole which is italian politics, but hey, you're gonna go.

previous bits and bobs on Silvio-

his losses in the recent municipal elections-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69242
the miserable shooting incident of a released hostage which prompted him to say he was withdrawing troops _on his tv station_ but not in parliament which legally allowed him to change his mind and confirm to all what a sordid little peice of wrinkly work he is.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68868
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69002
the tripod incident
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68094
the 5th general strike (like Aznar in his time, Mr B. ignores general strikes and instructs his media machine to say they didn't happen)
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67866
the movie about some of the blood on his hands
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61950
the campaign to stop his support for the illegal war-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=30196

& a personal favourite-
the before and after shots of his wrinkles.
just about the time we installed victor in the ukraine and Mr B got acquited for his mafia connections.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67887

.:. people think we're joking till it's too late .:.

author by guild of assassinspublication date Sat Apr 16, 2005 01:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

this rubs a bit more salt in the comment above.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4407046
other mediterranean state media organisations have declared the government to be "tumbling".

author by :-)publication date Sat Apr 16, 2005 23:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"no government and no pope".
what are we waiting for?
TO THE BARRICADES!

we are all pope now.
we are all black in our guilt and sin
and transgression, and mistakes,
and have learnt that telling another man or woman
that your are their master and that they done wrong
is... the worst evil a monkey may do.

Related Link: http://italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/04/774800.php
author by georgepublication date Mon Apr 18, 2005 15:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Let's face it. a lot of the masses are actually going to learn a lot from this book. They might take an interest in history and politics, question their own complacency...

author by guild of historianspublication date Wed Apr 20, 2005 21:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

he is now awaiting the 4 party coalition he led to call him up and say "non piangi silvio, ch'abbiamo governo con te!" or something like that.
you probably get less points / dosh if you kill him now.
.:. (if you were going for the reward) but the papal indulgence probably still stands give joe benedict xvi a call & ask him +

"we loved you like a brother, but tonight you sleep with the fisheeeees".

please compare the photo below with
the before and after shots of his wrinkles.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67887

But don't say he's gone, till he's six foot under.

compare this "after" with the "before and after" 
the before and after shots of his wrinkles.
just about the time we installed victor in the ukraine and Mr B got acquited for his mafia connections.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67887
compare this "after" with the "before and after" the before and after shots of his wrinkles. just about the time we installed victor in the ukraine and Mr B got acquited for his mafia connections. http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67887

author by urbanepublication date Wed Jun 29, 2005 19:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

he just got the nomination to run again in 2006.
http://www.centomovimenti.com/2005/giugno/29_premier.htm
http://www.romagnaoggi.it/showarticle.php?articleID=44553§ion=news/Politica&storico=tutti
http://www.ansa.it/main/notizie/fdg/200506291720204719/200506291720204719.html
other Mr B links:-
his fatty bum-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70276
the eggies-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70263
the playboy-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70017
his losses in the 2005 municipal elections-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69242
the miserable shooting incident of a released hostage which prompted him to say he was withdrawing troops _on his tv station_ but not in parliament which legally allowed him to change his mind and confirm to all what a sordid little peice of wrinkly work he is.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68868
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69002
the tripod incident
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68094
the 5th general strike (like Aznar in his time, Mr B. ignores general strikes and instructs his media machine to say they didn't happen)
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67866
the movie about some of the blood on his hands
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=61950
the campaign to stop his support for the illegal war-
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=30196

Did anyone read "going postal" the book alluded to above - after all, great idea, what we need is a post office, let's chip in, we'll be on the gravy train, we'll be invited everywhere to talk to people.

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