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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 News Round-Up Tue Sep 23, 2025 01:12 | Richard Eldred
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.

offsite link Hamas Executes ?Israeli Collaborators? in Streets of Gaza Mon Sep 22, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hamas?has executed three Palestinians accused of "collaborating" with Israel on the streets of Gaza, just hours after the UK, Australia and Canada announced their?recognition of a Palestinian state.
The post Hamas Executes “Israeli Collaborators” in Streets of Gaza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong Mon Sep 22, 2025 17:35 | Dr David Bell
The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to counter an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals, systematically doing what they knew was wrong, says Dr David Bell.
The post The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link School Accused of ?Brainwashing? Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book ?Blaming Them for The... Mon Sep 22, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
A parent has accused a secondary school of "brainwashing" after?he learned that 14 year-old pupils were told to read a book that "blames them for their white skin" ? and his daughter was forced to read it out loud.
The post School Accused of “Brainwashing” Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book “Blaming Them for Their White Skin” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for ... Mon Sep 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage?today vowed to block foreign nationals from getting benefits, slashing the welfare bill "by ?234bn", and to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants with 'settled status' by bringing in stricter visa tests.
The post No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for Those Who Fail Under Crackdown on ‘Settled Status’ Migrants appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Urgent action Needed to Stop Irish Military Action In Chad

category international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Monday November 19, 2007 10:19author by Malcolm Report this post to the editors

Irish neutrality in imminent danger as it joins the "War on Terror"

Lieutenant General Dermot Earley the gung-ho ex-Ranger and commander of the Irish military must be licking his lips!

The Minister for Foreign Affairs says he expects a Government decision to be made on Tuesday over the deployment of up to four hundred Irish troops in eastern Chad.

Dermot Ahern has just returned from a four day visit to Sudan and Chad, during which he met with Government leaders as well as aid workers and local people.

If the Government gives its go-ahead for the mission the Dáil will then have to give its approval.

A gung-ho military bored with guarding armoured money vans wants to get its hands dirty in a nasty imperialist war in Africa.

The war in Darfur has been ongoing for a number of years now and has begun to spill over into Chad.

The mainstream media wants to paint the conflict as a civil war between the Khartoum and various rebel groups.

But this conflict has a much larger global sweep.

The Chinese government openly supports the Khartoum government in return for cheap oil.

The governments of Saudi Arabia, Syria and other Arab countries support the Islamic fundementalist Arab of Khartoum government in its ethnic genocidal war against the African population of Darfur.

Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda have provided jihadists fighters and weapons training to the Janjiweed, a home grown Taliban-like movement that operates in Darfur.

Sudan and Somalia were destined to become training centres for the jihadist movement much as pre-9/11 Afghanistan was.

After defeat in Somalia by the US backed Ethiopian invasion Al-Qaeda and the wider jihadist movement has maintained its presence in Sudan.

Ireland has given material support to the US wars of Afghanistan and Iraq by providing facilities at Shannon.

Now (under the fig leaf of UN approval) Ireland along with other nations are to open a new front in Chad against Chinese imperialist expansion and Islamic fundementalism supposedly to protect ethnic Africans but for the real objectives of securing Western oil supplies.

Oil is now almost $100 a barrel.

We have already witnessed Irish troops were sent to Lebanon ostensively on a peace keeping mission but infact to quell the Hezbollah insurgency in support of Israeli military objectives.

Now Irish troops will be sent fight the Janjiweed.

Irish troops will face the same threat from Islamic insurgency in Chad as the US military have foolishly brought upon themselves in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ireland is evidently a softer target that the United States from Islamic terrorist attacks.

Do the Irish people want to risk provoking attacks from terrorists because we are joining a war which is not our fight?

Do the Irish people want to get involved in the imperial US led Western war against the Islamic imperialists?

Do the Irish people want our soldiers to be cannon fodder so that the Western imperialists can deny Chinese imperialists oil resources in an arm wrestle for control of oil rich Sudan?

Do the Irish people want Irish troops to commit war crimes against the civilians of Chad and Sudan - the deaths of civilians are the inevitable consequences of military action.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Why has this passed under the radar of the Irish Anti War Movement?     Meadbh    Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:55 
   solution     Max    Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:10 
   Re: Max     Malcolm    Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:44 
   Short Answer to Meadbh     MichaelY    Mon Nov 19, 2007 16:30 
   Chad     Sceptic    Tue Nov 20, 2007 22:43 
   Don't be conned by so-called "humanitarian interventions"     Malcolm    Wed Nov 21, 2007 09:22 
   chad     martin lacey    Wed Nov 21, 2007 17:37 
   UN Mission to Chad     Alex Higgins    Wed Nov 21, 2007 20:27 
   We've heard the same before     Malcom    Thu Nov 22, 2007 12:44 
 10   So do what exactly??     Charles B.    Thu Nov 22, 2007 13:59 
 11   Re: Charles B     Malcolm    Thu Nov 22, 2007 14:39 
 12   Quack Quack Quack     Dawn    Thu Nov 22, 2007 22:40 
 13   Irish UN peacekeepers     patriotic constitutionalist    Fri Nov 23, 2007 00:51 
 14   Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel     Malcolm    Fri Nov 23, 2007 09:30 
 15   Re:by Malcolm     sideshowmel    Fri Nov 23, 2007 23:37 
 16   Humanitarian peacekeeping     patriot constitutionalist    Sat Nov 24, 2007 00:22 
 17   Re: Sideshowmel     Malcolm    Sat Nov 24, 2007 08:21 
 18   UN membership symbolises independence     patriot constitutionalist    Sat Nov 24, 2007 09:08 
 19   roll of honour     patriot constitutionalist    Sat Nov 24, 2007 10:55 
 20   chad     martin lacey    Sat Nov 24, 2007 20:38 
 21   Hardly taking sides.     Beside the fence not on it    Sun Nov 25, 2007 15:25 
 22   Macho showoff     Pacifist    Mon Nov 26, 2007 09:16 
 23   peacekeeping different from pacifism     patriot constitutionalist    Mon Nov 26, 2007 10:58 
 24   Ireland's imperialist partner France jet-bombings forcing CAR refugees INTO Darfur     pseud    Mon Nov 26, 2007 12:49 
 25   Re: Pacifist     sideshowmel    Mon Nov 26, 2007 14:47 
 26   Bully for you Malcolm....     Charles B.    Mon Nov 26, 2007 15:07 
 27   But at what price?     Malcolm    Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:16 
 28   Necessary evil     Beside the fence not on it    Tue Nov 27, 2007 23:42 
 29   Re: Malcolm     sideshowmel    Tue Nov 27, 2007 23:43 
 30   Reread what I said     Beside the fence not on it    Wed Nov 28, 2007 00:27 
 31   Ignore my last post     Beside the fence not on it    Wed Nov 28, 2007 00:29 
 32   Dermot Early     Wisdo    Sun Dec 02, 2007 23:18 
 33   chad     john    Fri Dec 14, 2007 23:19 
 34   ireland     Ryan    Thu Jan 17, 2008 00:46 
 35   if it's reality you want     FrenchImperialism    Fri Jan 18, 2008 17:44 
 36   Eh, Sorry?     Steve    Tue Jan 22, 2008 20:20 
 37   chad     martin lacey    Wed Jan 23, 2008 14:49 
 38   looks like we arent going in.     A10    Sun Feb 03, 2008 17:02 
 39   What is this bullshit?     Seantóir    Mon Feb 04, 2008 03:36 
 40   Instead of hot air and accusations pls look at the facts     MichaelY    Mon Feb 04, 2008 08:20 
 41   Chad and honeymoons     sarko    Tue Feb 05, 2008 11:29 
 42   Rebels have accepted ceasefire & accuse French of killing civilians.     hmmmmmmmmm    Tue Feb 05, 2008 12:01 
 43   Signal     Histrybuff    Tue Feb 05, 2008 16:43 
 44   Irish Defence Forces deployment to Chad     kevin    Tue Feb 05, 2008 17:08 
 45   Fuck this     Trevor    Fri Feb 08, 2008 16:06 
 46   If only this were for Ireland     Cael    Fri Feb 08, 2008 17:01 
 47   our commitment to peacekeeping     patriotic constitutionalist    Sat Feb 09, 2008 00:43 
 48   sarkozy seems intent on copperfastening his 'interests'     second that    Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:13 
 49   madness     Ceann    Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:38 
 50   To selfish Cael who obviously doesnt care about helping others     Des    Sat Feb 09, 2008 14:48 
 51   chad     martin    Sat Feb 09, 2008 21:16 
 52   God help us!     Cael    Sun Feb 10, 2008 16:54 
 53   Standing Idly By     Cael    Sun Feb 10, 2008 17:16 
 54   chad     marin    Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:07 
 55   Óglaigh na 26?     Cael    Mon Feb 11, 2008 18:24 
 56   life of the army     K Rambo    Tue Apr 01, 2008 01:14 
 57   evident problem with indymedia     whyshouldi    Sun Apr 06, 2008 03:28 
 58   Irish Troops Out of Chad     Darren C    Tue Jul 15, 2008 16:30 
 59   Unbiased     Rory379    Fri Jan 09, 2009 03:42 
 60   In response to some articles     Rory379    Fri Jan 09, 2009 04:03 
 61   fair comment rory- you're obviously a very wise man     1094123    Fri Jan 09, 2009 22:25 
 62   Are you still deluded?     Interested    Tue Sep 22, 2009 00:29 
 63   Don't flatter yourself.     Democrat.    Tue Sep 22, 2009 07:31 
 64   Another constructive waste of time     Interested    Tue Sep 22, 2009 23:42 
 65   My confusion.     Democrat.    Wed Sep 23, 2009 18:16 
 66   Mathematical Precision....     From Copenhagen.    Wed Sep 23, 2009 18:42 


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