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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
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
The post Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The ?Far Left? Finally Gets Its Comeuppance Sat Sep 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
For years the Left has smeared its opponents as 'far Right'. Now, the spike in Leftist political violence has led to a turning of the tables. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Guardian, says Prof James Alexander.
The post The ‘Far Left’ Finally Gets Its Comeuppance appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Communist to Capitalist - Eoghan Harris fights the pesky RTE provos

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Wednesday March 07, 2007 01:07author by Eamon Sullen Report this post to the editors

If Mary McAleese gets "more than 40% of the vote... I'll retire, I really fucking will". He didn't - another lie.

Fresh from smearing Manus O'Riordan, Eoghan Harris turned his ire on RTE's Tom McGurk – links below. In his Sunday Independent column on March 5th Ireland's mud thrower in chief says that it "behoves McGurk to be balanced". "Failing that, he should be fair", Harris continued.

McGurks’s failing? He criticised the Sunday Independent.

Also, McGurk was accused of going on the Buntollet Commemoration march of January 1969, the one that exposed the viciously sectarian nature of the RUC and of the northern state. The young protester’s heads were cracked open by the RUC and by their allies in the B Specials. The images received world wide publicity.

Some people have long and bitter memories that perpetually fuel their rancid politics.
Sue who? Harris didn't sue.
Sue who? Harris didn't sue.

Is this the same Eoghan Harris that used to run the secret Ned Stapleton Cumann of the Worker's Party in RTE? Is this the same Eoghan Harris who told RTE reporters he was tasked with training in 1987:

"factualism is fancy foreplay which never penetrates the truth. Factualism is media masturbation"?

Surely not.

Surely it can't be the same Eoghan Harris who said that news is just drama, that objectivity should be dispensed with, so that reporters can broadcast “personal editorials replete with value judgements”.

Sadly it is so.

Consistency is not one of Eoghan Harris’s strong points, with one exception.

Harris hates the provos. He hates northern nationalists.

He is a true blue unionist at heart, as he was a Stalinist at heart. It is because he is a bully at heart, who likes to taunt the weak and to suck up to the powerful. Harris will agree with anyone who will denigrate Ireland’s long struggle for democracy and independence.

Facts are immaterial. They should not interfere with a good story – they are “media masturbation”. Eoghan Harris should know. He is an expert.

The intelligent can spot the artful art of artlessness by Eoghan Harris, Sunday Independent, 4 March 2007
http://www.evening-herald.ie/irish_independent/stories....15331

EXPOSED: Censorship in the Sunday Independent - Sindo refuses right of reply to Manus O'Riordan
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81199

War Of Independence Debate On Sectarianism Descends On Unassuming Offaly, by Pat Muldowney (another expose of the Harris method)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74400

Attached article by Brenda Power, from Magill in 1997 - click the images to read the story

Related Link: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/74400

Presidential candidate Harris supported was a "slimeball"
Presidential candidate Harris supported was a "slimeball"

"They" use terms like "mental instability" - "I am a person of powerful plemical force"
"They" use terms like "mental instability" - "I am a person of powerful plemical force"

RTE reporters told to get their 'line' from the UDA
RTE reporters told to get their 'line' from the UDA

Brian Lynch on RTE denouncing Wolfe Tones - turned up later as WP counterfitter
Brian Lynch on RTE denouncing Wolfe Tones - turned up later as WP counterfitter

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Harris hates one day, likes the next (method in madness)     Eamon Waters    Wed Mar 07, 2007 01:31 
   William Joyce (Lord Haw-haw) and Eoghan Harris     William Shirer    Wed Mar 07, 2007 01:45 
   Tell me what he said     Mulholland Drive    Wed Mar 07, 2007 09:24 
   mullholland     pat c    Wed Mar 07, 2007 09:53 
   Harris not in the WP for 20 years     Paul    Wed Mar 07, 2007 14:08 
   Today Tomorrow     Mulholland drive    Wed Mar 07, 2007 16:16 
   Transerunt omnia     Duine    Wed Mar 07, 2007 16:26 
   Denounce your brother - Harris on Adi Roche     Joe McCann    Thu Mar 08, 2007 08:38 
   The story that exposed the internal RTE censors     Barry Gerard    Thu Mar 08, 2007 13:29 
 10   This one better     Correct copy    Thu Mar 08, 2007 13:33 
 11   sources?     me    Thu Mar 08, 2007 16:26 
 12   In the Dail     Mial Neehan    Thu Mar 08, 2007 17:23 
 13   No vote     Niall Meehan    Thu Mar 08, 2007 19:14 
 14   Harris Was In SF/OSF/SFWP/WP For 25 Years     Pushkin    Fri Mar 09, 2007 11:30 
 15   Eoghan Harris was typical of Workers Party politics     A Historian    Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:16 
 16   full circle     whah?    Tue Mar 13, 2007 12:56 
 17   Reply to 'whah?'     Seamus Costello    Tue Mar 13, 2007 15:19 
 18   A comment and some questions...     Terry    Wed Mar 14, 2007 00:15 
 19   Workers Party, RTE party     Antonio Gramsci    Wed Mar 14, 2007 00:51 
 20   THAT LETTER IS A FAKE     tinker tailer    Wed Mar 14, 2007 01:05 
 21   Not a fake     A Historian    Wed Mar 14, 2007 06:04 
 22   Riddle solved     Colombo    Wed Mar 14, 2007 08:32 
 23   More Questions     Terry    Wed Mar 14, 2007 15:18 
 24   re: Eoghan Harris     knockadooma    Wed Mar 14, 2007 19:34 
 25   Tinker, tailor doesn't know what he's talking about...     Quick glance    Wed Mar 14, 2007 21:13 
 26   You can't do that     Glancing quickly    Wed Mar 14, 2007 21:40 
 27   For Terry     SH    Wed Mar 14, 2007 22:23 
 28   How RTE censored its censorship     text editor    Wed Mar 14, 2007 22:47 
 29   WP fixation     VD's Spectre    Wed Mar 14, 2007 23:12 
 30   Articles on Eoghan Harris .     Sharon.    Wed Mar 14, 2007 23:39 
 31   Colourful confirmation     A Historian    Thu Mar 15, 2007 08:59 
 32   Relavance to today     Histronician    Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:15 
 33   Charlie Bird     pat c    Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:26 
 34   not quite hearsay     anon    Thu Mar 15, 2007 10:33 
 35   a question for the stickophile     sticky wicket    Thu Mar 15, 2007 16:12 
 36   Get your facts right     Paul    Thu Mar 15, 2007 21:34 
 37   A reply for Stickywicket (Thu Mar 15, 2007 16:12)     Fionntan O Ciarain    Thu Mar 15, 2007 23:59 
 38   Eoghan Harris     knockadooma    Fri Mar 16, 2007 08:28 
 39   Eoghan Harris et al     Fred Johnston    Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:33 
 40   who are the new sticks?     sticky wicket    Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:32 
 41   Sticky Wicket     Pushkin    Fri Mar 16, 2007 11:47 
 42   A few quotes would be nice     FOC    Fri Mar 16, 2007 14:21 
 43   Practise what you preach     New Revisionist Watch    Fri Mar 16, 2007 21:56 
 44   What's the problem?     FOC    Fri Mar 16, 2007 23:50 
 45   Who the FOC     New Revisionist Watch    Sat Mar 17, 2007 00:10 
 46   Harris     knockadooma    Sat Mar 17, 2007 08:34 
 47   for FOC sack     sw    Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:35 
 48   Thanks for the advice new revisionist     FOC    Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:57 
 49   FOC's analysis     Paul O'Donnell    Sun Mar 18, 2007 16:16 
 50   Why?     FOC    Sun Mar 18, 2007 22:26 
 51   Popular support     Pop    Mon Mar 19, 2007 00:50 
 52   Popular     FOC    Mon Mar 19, 2007 08:26 
 53   Another anti-RTE tirade from Eoghan Harris     Eamon Sullen    Sun Mar 25, 2007 13:42 
 54   Harris workers party     knockadooma    Fri Mar 30, 2007 14:02 
 55   FFS     Pissed off    Fri Mar 30, 2007 14:54 
 56   Sorry, but.....     Eamon Sullen    Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:27 
 57   Easter declaration..... Harris style     Goblin    Fri Apr 06, 2007 12:10 
 58   Irish Independent Easter Proclamation     Kevin Myarse    Fri Apr 06, 2007 18:03 
 59   People In Glass Houses     Cowardly Tom    Fri Apr 06, 2007 20:29 


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