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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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Human Rights in Ireland
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 20:31 | imc

offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent

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

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Hasn?t Lenny Henry Already Received Shedloads of Undeserved Racial ?Reparations? From the UK TV Indu... Mon Oct 20, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
If anyone deserves reparations, it's the poor BBC licence-fee-paying public, white and otherwise, who've funded Lenny Henry's alleged comedy career and racial grift for decades, argues Steven Tucker.
The post Hasn?t Lenny Henry Already Received Shedloads of Undeserved Racial ?Reparations? From the UK TV Industry and BBC Licence Fee Payer? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Oct 20, 2025 01:13 | 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 How Small Wins Could Save the Government Sun Oct 19, 2025 19:00 | Joanna Gray
The Government is floundering like a sulky teen, but tackling small wins ? from tidying high streets to fixing DVLA chaos ? could help rebuild its confidence, suggests Joanna Gray.
The post How Small Wins Could Save the Government appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link No Kings, No Thrones, No Crowns? No Problem Sun Oct 19, 2025 17:00 | Dr Roger Watson
The US may be shut down, but in DC the National Guard outnumbers protesters, and as Dr Roger Watson notes, streets once full of tents and beggars prove Trump actually gets things done.
The post No Kings, No Thrones, No Crowns… No Problem appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Jewish Lawyer is Questioned by Police Over Wearing a Star of David Necklace That ?Antagonised? Pro-P... Sun Oct 19, 2025 15:16 | Richard Eldred
The Met Police are embroiled in yet another two-tier policing row after a Jewish lawyer was held for nearly 10 hours over alleged Public Order breaches for wearing a Star of David necklace at a Kensington protest.
The post Jewish Lawyer is Questioned by Police Over Wearing a Star of David Necklace That ?Antagonised? Pro-Palestinian Protesters During Demo appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Poison in our water supply.

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis author Monday October 18, 2010 16:03author by Robert Long Report this post to the editors

Artficialy Flouridating water a peoples supply was first propsed in the Soviet gulags as way to induce a docile state and eventually kill of the prisoners it was then usedin Nazi concentration camps.
Its effects are extremly damaging and it is considered a medince under EU law.
Therefore the Irish government is practicing medicine without a license and without the consent of the Irish people at their expenense !
This is also a breach of our constitutional as well as human rights !


I am extremely concerned about the issue of artificially fluoridating our water supply and was hoping you could look into the poisoning of the public drinking water.

I do not use the term "poisoning" lightly or in jest. Sodium Fluoride is a toxic waste product from the Fertilizer and aluminium industries.
In fact it is the second most toxic ionic molecule known to man and as such is the primary ingredient in insecticides and pesticides and is also used in chemical weapons such as nerve gas.

England is the only other European country which fluoridates its water which is a fraction of Ireland's level at 71%. Nearly every other European country as well as developing countries has rejected it on safety and ethical grounds. Even if fluoride was beneficial it is totally unethical to medicate our water supplies without our consent and at our expense.

"We believe the addition of any cumulative toxic substance without informed consent is a grave infringement of personal bodily integrity."
Bunreacht na hÉireann Article 40, Section 3, Sub section 1.

We are told that fluoride is our drinking water is safe at 1 part per million I would would think that adding any amount of such a dangerous toxin is totally unsafe and unethical. Fluoride is also ingested elsewhere however such as in toothpastes and in vegetables as it is so commonly used in insecticides and pesticides. It is also to be found in some drugs such as "prozac" an anti-depressant because of its abilities to induce a docile state.

Fluoride has been classed as a “protoplasmic poison” which means that when it is dissolved in water it becomes readily absorbed through the mouth, throat and digestive tract. It can also be absorbed through the skin while you bathe and even inhaled. All this adds to the accumulative level in the body.

The effects of fluoride range from lowering of IQ to neurological damage such as detrimental effects on brain development and and a plethora of other disorders as well as damaging the pineal and thyroid gland, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, bone cancer, flourosis and pre-natal deaths.
All of this can be verified by a little research.

In a North/South report in 2002 it was shown that children in the Republic were three times more likely to suffer
from flourosis then in the north where the public water supply is not medicated with Fluoride.

On June 5th 2005 European Court of Justice ruled "that artificially fluoridated water must be
treated as a medicine and cannot be used in commercial food or beverage preparation".

It is totally reckless to expose pregnant women, infants and elderly,old and young the sick and the healthy to unregulated doses of this "medication".

John Gormley was opposed to flouidating water before he came into power, now he wants to charge us for this toxic waste contaminated water!

In closing, those of us who are aware of this crime are gaining momentum , now that I have humbly informed you of it you cannot plead compliance only through ignorance when it is exposed the general populace. I firmly believe that the people of Ireland would owe you the reader of this a great deal of gratitude should you take up this noble cause for the sake of their well being.

Thanks,

best regards,
robert

Related Link: http://www.fluoridealert.org/

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   there is a clear logical case to be made for removal of fluoride     V for vendetta    Mon Oct 18, 2010 17:22 
   This article is pointless and plain wrong     Lex    Mon Oct 18, 2010 18:54 
   lex     robert long    Mon Oct 18, 2010 21:11 
   Plain old (fluoridated) tapwater     Lex    Mon Oct 18, 2010 22:21 
   Such underhand rhetorical tricks do not cut it.lex     V for vendetta    Tue Oct 19, 2010 07:16 
   Point of information     V for vendetta    Tue Oct 19, 2010 08:05 
   Avoid trees and air too...     Lex    Tue Oct 19, 2010 17:10 
   more pooh poohing and dismissive rhetoric from lex     V for vendetta    Wed Oct 20, 2010 00:05 
   should we stop breathing oxygen and other questions..     V for vendetta    Wed Oct 20, 2010 04:03 
 10   Fluoridated water in food and drink     Lex    Wed Oct 20, 2010 11:18 
 11   ignore, divert , pooh pooh, rinse repeat     V for vendetta    Wed Oct 20, 2010 14:36 
 12   Look, Robert     Lex    Wed Oct 20, 2010 16:30 
 13   Flouride     Oswald Bastable    Wed Oct 20, 2010 18:11 
 14   prozac info     V for vendetta    Thu Oct 21, 2010 02:36 
 15   @ Lex     V for vendetta    Thu Oct 21, 2010 02:53 
 16   Analytical shortcomings     Lex    Thu Oct 21, 2010 09:18 
 17   Safety     Oswald Bastable    Thu Oct 21, 2010 16:22 
 18   @ lex     V for vendetta    Thu Oct 21, 2010 19:51 
 19   @ oswald     V for vendetta    Thu Oct 21, 2010 20:07 
 20   V     OB    Fri Oct 22, 2010 13:25 
 21   Bastable, that's disingenuous...     V for vendetta    Fri Oct 22, 2010 18:58 
 22   Waiting for Lex     Lex    Fri Oct 22, 2010 22:05 
 23   Lex     V for vendetta    Fri Oct 22, 2010 23:37 
 24   Water Additives     Blankety Bank    Sat Oct 23, 2010 12:12 
 25   V     OB    Sat Oct 23, 2010 15:50 
 26   Beware of Tea     Mr T    Sat Oct 23, 2010 15:57 
 27   More on Flouride     Mr T    Sat Oct 23, 2010 16:04 
 28   @ Bastable     V for vendetta    Sun Oct 24, 2010 14:40 
 29   V     OB    Sun Oct 24, 2010 14:47 
 30   Fluoride Deception     Me    Sun Oct 24, 2010 23:32 
 31   Proof by authority, for V for Vendetta     Lex    Tue Oct 26, 2010 10:17 
 32   lex..     V for vendetta    Tue Oct 26, 2010 14:48 
 33   But...     OB    Tue Oct 26, 2010 15:03 
 34   stop talking about how the EU decided to interpret it for a second.     V for vendetta    Tue Oct 26, 2010 20:02 
 35   V     OB    Wed Oct 27, 2010 13:56 
 36   never mind.. bored now ..exiting discussion.     V for vendetta    Wed Oct 27, 2010 17:16 
 37   Giving up     Lex    Wed Oct 27, 2010 21:47 
 38   V     OB    Wed Oct 27, 2010 23:09 
 39   ok..one last time..     V for vendetta    Wed Oct 27, 2010 23:51 
 40   V     OB    Wed Oct 27, 2010 23:57 
 41   almost....?     V for vendetta    Thu Oct 28, 2010 00:30 
 42   V     OB    Thu Oct 28, 2010 13:50 
 43   My head is sore..so I'll bash it no more     V for vendetta    Thu Oct 28, 2010 20:00 
 44   V     OB    Thu Oct 28, 2010 21:18 
 45   some useless information     V for vendetta    Thu Oct 28, 2010 23:16 
 46   V     OB    Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:21 
 47   Just plain English     Lex    Sun Oct 31, 2010 12:23 
 48   Proof by assholery     V for vendetta    Sun Oct 31, 2010 17:57 
 49   V     OB    Sun Oct 31, 2010 18:06 
 50   lex wins...     V for vendetta    Sun Oct 31, 2010 18:19 
 51   Authoritarian ad hominem ridicule     Lex    Sun Oct 31, 2010 21:37 
 52   lets not waste both our time any further lex     V for vendetta    Mon Nov 01, 2010 00:05 


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