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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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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.
Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
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This is another piece of blatant Anti-Islamic abuse. There is no provision in Islam for these so-called honour killings. They are confined to a particular tradition in a particular part of a particular country. It is not an Islamic practice and yet this author again decides to smear all Muslims with these actions by referring to them as a "Jihad against women".
If Christians in Alabama burn crosses and lynch African Americans is that a Christian Crusade? Were the Shankill Butchers on a Christian Crusade? Or is it a sacred rite of Judaeism to murder women and children in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza?
Enough already 'Marie Stopes'
Wrong!. Honour killing is not confined to a tiny corner of the Moslem World. It is widespread.
Unfortunately, Moslem countries neither protect women nor collect statistics on these abuses (Why would they when honour-killing is not considered a crininal wrong by these societies)
However, western countries DO keep records. In the last 12 months alone Moslems from Khurdish, Indian, Pakistani and Nort-East African backgrounds have been convicted of these killings in both the UK and the Netherlands.
Moslems need to be told in no uncertain terms that if they wish to live in the West they must observe western cultural norms and that if they are into honour-killings, FGM, forcing servitude on their women by arranged marriages etc. they would be more confortable taking themselves elsewhere.
It is you who are wrong in your hatred of Islam.
Honour Killings are confined to very small regions and the immigrants from those regions. It is NOT and Islamic practice. It is not condoned in the Qur'an, which is the basis ofall Islamic law. It is not practiced in the vast majority of the Muslim world. To continue to suggest that honour killings is an Islamic practice is blatant sectarianism.
Is Joe O'Reilly a Muslim? If he were I am sure you would claim he was engaged in a 'Jihad against women'. How many of the women killed by their husbands and families in Ireland in the last ten years were Muslim? I
Your entire line of anti-Islamic hatred is warped and to continue to try a twist isolated world events to suit your skewed view of reality, with the express hope of convincing others that Muslims are women haters is an incitement to hatred and a Crusade against Muslims.
Give it up!
Guy
Are you deluded or just simple??
Of course not all Muslims agree with honour killings or condone them. But to criticize this (mainly Islamic) practice is not to be confused with a hatred of Islam.
"Honour Killings are confined to very small regions and the immigrants from those regions"
Wrong. Honour killings occur in Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Morocco, Turkey, Kurdistan, Afghanistan, Jordan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE and other countries "especially where there is Sharia law". Not exactly a very small region or area.
http://www.stophonourkillings.com/Content/pid=2.html
"It is NOT and Islamic practice. It is not condoned in the Qur'an, which is the basis ofall Islamic law. It is not practiced in the vast majority of the Muslim world. To continue to suggest that honour killings is an Islamic practice is blatant sectarianism"
Sorry dude but honour killings are mostly (but not always) perpetrated by people claiming to be Muslims. "In many countries (especially those where Sharia law is practiced) like Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, where stoning to death is the punishment for adultery, and women and children have had no rights or little rights, women are second-class citizens, opressed by male dominated religions, their own government’s special forces and their own family too. In many countries, women’s rights are a very major political issue and women's rights activists are persecuted by their own governments for the simplest demand of rights. In such countries where women are subject to violence in society, women are victimised by the government too". Iran BOASTS about the women killed there for "morality crimes". In fact, minors have been executed in Iran.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,12858,1376954,00....html
Here is an exception where the girl was killed by members of her community who are of the Yesidi sect in Kurdish Iraq.
http://www.aina.org/news/20070425181603.htm
Which brings me to my next point - you don't seem to know what the distinction is between murder of a woman and an honour killing. An honour killing is done to cleanse the so called honour of the community or family and usually has something to do with the behavior of the woman whether actual or imputed. Male honour (or Namus) is bound up with the behavior of female relatives. *Honour killings are done with the support, overt or tacit, of the wider community". Mr O'Reilly killed his wife because he was sick of her and nobody supported him, in fact the public, police and judicial system are clearly against him. To suggest that this was an honour killing is ludicrous. But then again, people like Guy seem to be given to making ludicrous statements and when challenged to accuse anyone with the temerity to disagree, of sectarianism or racism.
Lastly, your assertion that such killings are not sanctioned in the Qu'ran is untrue.
Qur’an 4:15 “If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death claims them. It is not isanctioned n the Qur'an for women to be stoned (to my knowledge) but Sharia law has been adapted to state that this is the correct punishment for adultery, as decided by Muslim scholars.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3999307.stm
As seen above, people in Nigeria have been found guilty of adultery, fornication but due to worldwide attention have been acquitted and escape stoning.
Such insulting comments fit well with your general attitude towards Muslims.
'Honour Killings' as you call them are not part of Islam. They are nowhere mentioned in the Qur'an or Hadites. Yet you use the term 'Jihad against Women' as if this were true. Jihad is a term that refers to the struggle, usually internal, of all Muslims to overcome weakness and evil. Your attribution of it to these murders is simply a ploy to incite anti-Islamic hatred.
You do admit this of course, since it is obvious but continue to cite Muslim countries where women are killed and smear these killings with the 'Jihad against women' label. Women are killed in all countries, as are men and children. The murderers use a variety of excuses, usually the one closest to hand.
The fact you persist in attributing these killings to 'Jihad' and as such to Islamic teaching says more about you and you motivations than it does about the murderers and their motivations.
I will not respond to you flaming comments that I am 'Deluded and Simple"!
Sorry Guy, did not mean to be personally insulting but just cannot understand how you can claim that there is absolutely no connection between Islam and "honour killings". The fact that most of such killings are perpetrated by Muslims, in Muslim countries, the fact that executions for "immorality" are permissible under Sharia law and are a regular occurence in a lot of Muslim countries such as S Arabia and Iran, the fact that "lewdness" is justification in the Quran for family members to kill women - all of the above seems to me to prove the fact that "honour killings" are bound up in the same patriarchalism and misogyny of a lot of Islamic practices that are carried out by some Muslims.
Unless there is something I am missing here, I can't see where your argument is.
To the writer of the original article, well done for bringing up this subject. I read about Banaz being killed on the orders of her family because she left an arranged abusive marriage where she was raped and beaten, wished to study law and move in with her boyfriend. Now I read that it wasn't enough for them to just kill her, they arranged to have her beaten and tortured before death. How awful. Well done for bringing this up. We cannot afford to ignore deep rooted misogyny on the grounds of political correctness.
Ger
Actually, honour killing are very common throughout the Middle East among the Muslim population. Now with Muslim immigration to the West ,it happening here as well. For a father to order the murder and rape of his own daughter is beyond comprehension. What morally depraved cretins. I do not really understand why Guy is getting so upset and in denial claiming Islamaphobia . Is that for the want of a better argument or is it a bid to silence anyone who may have a different view to himself. Either way Guy, I think it is time you grew up! Islam attacks the human dignity of women as reflected in the Koran and hadith . So I suggest,you read your holy books Guy ,because you can fool some of the people some of the time but not all the people all the time with your whines of Islamaphobia. Some of us are able to research the subject on the treatment of women in Islam by merely doing a google search. Sorry!