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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
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.
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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
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News Round-Up Sat Sep 20, 2025 01:09 | Toby Young
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
The post Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1In effect the police :- carrying battering Rams evicted 1,000 women and children from the squat.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1852902,00.html
This is the last night kids can burn cars and it be ignored for wider political or social reasons. From tomorrow night they will burn cars for wider political and social reasons.
- Exactly what's changed?
Well, France is now not in emergency for one thing, and French cars still get burnt. This had nothing to do with the veil, it was something else. It probably wasn't so important, and we'll forget about it all soon enough.
Now coz I like archiving this is the decree that started the emergency :-
http://medias.lemonde.fr/mmpub/edt/doc/20051109/708103_joe_20051109_0261_0006.pdf
and here are the news stories that ended it
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3224,36-726704@51-704172,0.html
New Year's Eve (2005/2006)saw 425 vehicles burnt in France.
This is slightly up on New Year's Eve (2004/2005) when 333 cars were burnt.
O course France wasn't under a state of emergency in 2004 and 333 cars being burnt wasn't newsworthy. France is still under a state of emergency and 425 cars getting burnt is not so newsworthy.
There were 267 arson incidents on New Year's Eve 05/06 (NYH) as opposed to 132 NYH 04/05.
France will continue to be in a state of non-newsworthy emergency till February 21st.
The transfiguration of Poverty in 2005.
The beginning of 2005 our understanding of our role in fighting poverty ought to have been very different to that we have now at the end of the year. The cynical posturing of Blair with Geldof at the G8 came so quickly after what might have seemed a wider acceptance of the Left's complaint which stopped the €U constitution. That our very succesful Euromayday mobilisations might have waned in importance. Attention went to Global poverty rather than precarity and inequality "at home".
But we know that poverty in Ireland got worse.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=71672
No-one may pretend that Global poverty improved either. I'm not even going to treat upon that on Christmas eve 2005. Rather I want to remind everyone what occured in France and how it made Sarkozy a most popular politician. For it was a very dramatic introduction of an important variable :- "mindless violence".
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What occured (we all agreed) was rooted in poverty, but had no proper political expression or context. It was we moved quickly to agree "mindless violence" supported by new technology which spread photos taken by teenagers of their communities in flames throughout France and most notably in other states Belgium.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72857
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72841
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72821
Today Sarkozy is front page news again, as teenagers have burnt cars "over the threshold" these last nights. France is in its first month of extended emergency and the petrol is on restricted sale again. Sarkozy gave an interview to the 'Liberation' newspaper this week and Collective Neuf (collective 9) on the libertarian left of Paris have issued a poster linking him to Le Pen. This has met with mixed responses especially after arrests were made of members of that group. http://libe.com/page.php?Article=347216
http://paris.indymedia.org/article.php3?id_article=48605
We perhaps see his office prepare his long planned political future with an image undoubtedly designed to find support amongst those "french voters" who want more authoritarianism. & as the balance of state power and the example being set by the French moves to "authoritarianism", the whole range of "liberties" taken before for granted by those on the libertarian left ("us lot") are attacked so quickly we barely have time to take stock.
Needless to say Sarkozy's remedy for the "mindless violence" rooted in poverty has not tackled the causes of such inequality.
http://libe.com/page.php?Article=347257
France is poorer than ever before.
But what of the example set to neighbours & friends?
On the 19th of December a 50 year old woman was burnt to death by three teenagers in Barcelona in a bank lobby where she was sleeping. They came from wealthy backgrounds and had previously attacked indigents and swapped photos on their mobile phones and internet. Apparantly they targeted homeless people in this way "for fun" and "to clean up" their city. At the same time a hotly debated raft of anti-social laws came up for voting. It seems despite firm arguments to the contrary that there are "voters" who want more authoritarianism. The people wanted their city "cleaned" of grafiti, prostitutes, indigents, street vendors...
http://www.elcarreresdetothom.blogspot.com/
So the night of the 22nd we had the last cassolada (of banging pots and pans) and 400 of us assembled to revindicate our rights as citizens of that city and particularly the "old city" where poverty & exploitation may not be so easily hidden. They passed their laws. http://www.vilaweb.com/www/noticia?p_idcmp=1669291
And now talk of a split in the "tripartite" coalition which rules the city and country, and for good reason. The ecosocialists sided with us on the libertarian left in rejecting such authoritarian "anti-social" legislation. The nationalists either republican ERC in government or just catalan CiU in opposition supported it. But both fell shy of linking the murder of an indigent "clockwork orange style" with the imposition of draconian order on the street its supporters or detractors...
So as last night, kids in Paris burn cars again, and French workers consider their year of more strikes than last. And two youths attempted to burn a 42 year old homeless woman alive in Malaga, Spain.
I want us all to consider as the Parisien libertarian left are doing now,
"was it just mindless violence after all???"
The staff of liberation the newspaper are on 24 hour strike. It was voted for last monday and began yesterday at around 14h00 and will end later this afternoon (around buttered scone time in rural ireland).
the communique from the Unions
http://libe.com/communique-intersyndic.php
the communique from the directors office
http://libe.com/communique-dir.php
Its just one of many strikes in France at the moment. The railworkers are on strike
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3224,36-713303@51-707037,0.html
The student teachers just did a 24 hour strike.
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3226,36-713586@51-705317,0.html
and the country is still technically in a state of emergency even though less than 20 cars get burnt a night.
Later today the assembly will begin a debate on new terror laws which will allow yet more surveillance of internet and mobiles.
last night 98 vehicles burned in France
and only 33 arrests the prefacture of French police has decided it doesn't need to continue keeping records.
"its all over". This raises questions, Belgium has had less than 98 cars burnt since the 7th of November.
: So why wasn't that normal?
If its normal now, why is there a 3 month extention of curfew laws and emergency powers?
But what is more interesting is the news from Madrid, that the French authorities have "intercepted" emails and phone calls from a "variety" of anti-capitalist and anti-system groups in France proposing an "attack" on Barcelona for the forthcoming euro-mediterranean summit which will be celebrated in Barcelona on the 27th and 28th of November.
The summit will mark the 10th anniversary of the Barcelona Process, which was supposed to offer a way for the states (now numbering 35) of the mediterranean, from the affluent EU to war torn Palestine, from Israel to Lebanon, From Libya to Serbia, From Morocco to Egypt to "improve everything". [details in english http://www.bcn.es/barcelona+10/english/welcome.htm ]
The Barcelona police have concurred that they expect [?!?!] "trouble" and as reported in today's press "are not hiding their fear that an echo and mimic effect will see many cars burnt during the summit".
I'm going to be there, as will most of BCN. This is the first high level summit since the World Bank (which we cancelled) but I promise you all now-
I'm not going to burn any cars.
The Socialist opposition followed by Communist party and Green party will vote against it. If it passes it will goto the Senate tomorrow afternoon. There will be 2.5 hours of debate.
The following unions have also declared the opposition to the continuation of emergency law in the Republic.-
CGT (largest trade union9, Lutte ouvrière (workers' struggle), la Ligue des droits de l'homme (human rights league), la FSU, le MRAP, and ATTAC.
Tomorrow evening there will be a rally of all groups opposed to the draconian, non-democratic, non-republican, non-egalitarian confrontational measures being adopted by the French state led by the UMP.
Assembly at the fountain of Saint Michel, central Paris.
"These events bear witness to a profound malaise. Some people have set fires in the very neighbourhoods in which they live.
They burned their neighbours' and their families' cars. They've attacked their schools, their colleges.
This is a crisis of direction, a crisis in which people have lost their way, it is a crisis of identity. We will respond to this by being firm, by being fair, and by being faithful to France's values.
Violence never solves anything. When you belong to our national community, you respect its rules.
In the face of the suffering and problems of so many of our fellow citizens - in particular, some who are among the most vulnerable - the first necessity is to re-establish public order.
I have given the government the means to act. I have decided to propose to parliament that it extends the law of 3 April 1955 (allowing for a state of emergency) for a limited time.
Those who attack property and people have to know that in the Republic, you do not violate the law without being arrested, prosecuted and punished.
Problems, difficulties - many French people have them. But violence never solves anything. When you belong to our national community, you respect its rules.
Children and teenagers need values, points of reference. Parental authority is of capital importance. Families must shoulder all their responsibilities.
Those who refuse must be punished as provided for in the law. On the other hand, those who are going through great difficulties must be actively supported.
We must all be proud of belonging to a community which has the will to bring to life the principles of equality and of solidarity.
We know well that discrimination saps the very foundations of our Republic... But let us not deceive ourselves: this fight can only be won if we each take a real and personal stand.
Companies and union organizations must also work actively on the essential question of diversity and of the employment of young people from problem districts.
My dear compatriots, let us be lucid, let us be courageous. Let us learn every lesson from this crisis. Each person must respect the rules. Each person must know that you do not violate the law with impunity.
But let us also come together and be faithful, in our actions, to the principles that make France. The whole national community will emerge better and stronger from it, and you can count on my determination. Long live the Republic and long live France."
French media, including websites, are indeed obliged to monitor comments and messages from guests. It was all in the papers a few years ago when eBay France were caught making a profit from the sale of Nazi memorabilia. Likewise there's EU legislation obliging mobile phone companies not only to store records of all our conversations, text messages and so on for six months or more, but they also need to install new technology to be able to triangulate and thus pin-point a mobile phone user in real time.
The great irony is that while ICCL and their like have been sleeping, it's been global hypercapitalist scum in Vodafone, Yahoo and Google who've been trying to resist these sort of laws (because it'll mean lots more hassle).
Final irony: Sarkozi is one of the only politicians in France, left or right, who publicly supports affirmative action (la discrimination positive).