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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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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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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday December 05, 2006 14:58 by Spike   text 3 comments (last - tuesday december 05, 2006 20:50)
Have a look at this article that would suggest that times might be getting harder for those who wish to protest.... read full story / add a comment
Viva Chavez
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday December 04, 2006 15:53 by Cllr Keith Martin   text 15 comments (last - saturday february 03, 2007 22:39)   image 2 images
The victory is a confirmation of Chavez's policies of targeting the needs of the poor with the huge profits from the country's oil industry. Until Chavez's election most of these profits went into tax breaks for the middle and upper classes in Venezuela. read full story / add a comment
CIA Rendition Plane at Shannon 8th July 2006
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday December 04, 2006 00:20 by Edward Horgan   text 7 comments (last - wednesday december 13, 2006 21:42)   image 1 image
Bengemin Disraeli said that there were three kinds of statistics- Lies, Lies, and damn Lies. The Irish Government has been manipulating statistics of late. So now we are told there were only 6 complaints made by peace activists about suspicious US aircraft at Shannon? There were at least 60 such complaints, many in writing and many more verbal. Shannon Gardai now claim that it is necessary to come to Shannon Garda station to make a complaint, otherwise they refuse to acknowledge it. So if your neighbout is being murdered, or raped, and you ring up to inform the gardai at Shannon will they ignore your call. The people of Iraq and Afghanistan are our neighbours. read full story / add a comment
national / public consultation / irish social forum / opinion/analysis Saturday December 02, 2006 16:35 by O. O. McCool   text 3 comments (last - tuesday december 05, 2006 16:40)
A critique of RTE's radio and television coverage of the attempted assassination of nationalist leadership at Stormont on November 24, 2006; and its ominous implications. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / opinion/analysis Friday December 01, 2006 19:00 by anon   text 3 comments (last - monday december 04, 2006 12:35)
As Ahern does his best false outrage, he also quielty suggest he will ban the Guantomano Express from Ireland. A plane he described yesterday as more likley coming here for a golfing holiday, yet now he agrees to ban it, what other planes will be on this list and how will he ban them from Irish airspace if civilian planes don't need to give notice. http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/1129/cia.html

In his written submission the the cmttee he desrcibes how many thousands of planes go through Ireland and the Gardai have investigated 6 complaints (It was 4).
http://foreignaffairs.gov.ie/Press_Releases/20061130/22...2.htm read full story / add a comment
antrim / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Thursday November 30, 2006 12:51 by Madigan   text 10 comments (last - monday december 04, 2006 10:37)
Isn't it strange that when in sniffing distance of getting back into power the local parties shy away from association with opposition to separate water charges. Is the thought of missing out on the double tax so hard to swallow. Maybe the truth is as suspected that all allong the likes of the DUP SF really agreed with the policy. read full story / add a comment
Del Toro with his creation "Pan"
international / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 29, 2006 17:13 by w.   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 29, 2006 17:21)   image 1 image
The most immediately striking thing about Guillermo del Toro’s latest film “El Laberinto del Fauno” (Pan’s Labyrinth) is that it is entirely in Spanish with English subtitles yet still draws large crowds in Dublin’s ordinary multi-screen cinemas. The film, a mixture of fantastic fairy-tale and dramatic account of life in post civil war Spain, follows the journey of a highly imaginative young girl called Ofelia. Ofelia’s mother has married a sadistic fascist army Captain, who is engaged in a battle with local guerrillas throughout the film, and she is forced to move to his remote outpost despite a complicated and pregnancy. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 29, 2006 08:40 by m.m.mccarron   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 29, 2006 16:09)
Reducing the Rossport Issue to Communication Failures - Rational? read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 28, 2006 09:05 by Watchdog   text 23 comments (last - sunday december 03, 2006 16:26)   image 9 images
If a high dose of radiation element, Polonium 210, can be a tool of quick assassination, lower doses (as in typical cigarettes) are no less tools of homicide. Ask health officials, et al, why Po-210 is still permitted in cigarettes, with zero warning to anyone. Ask why smokers and Pub Proprietors bear the burdens of law, but the cig makers, ingredient suppliers, and complicit regulators go free.
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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Friday November 24, 2006 19:14 by C Murray   text 10 comments (last - wednesday may 16, 2007 21:25)   image 1 image
Taking the lead from Indymedia Barcelona on this international stop Violence
against Women day :

http://barcelona.indymedia.org/feature/display/282986/i...x.php

The issue of violence was covered this morning in the Irish Times when
women who have been murdered were commerorated by Women's Aid:

http://www.womensaid.org
http://www.ireland.com read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Friday November 24, 2006 13:49 by m.m.mccarron   text 4 comments (last - friday december 08, 2006 06:02)
The joining of forces by a public service body and a print multinational must be a first. The Corrib Gas Project is showing up a number of firsts. Count them. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday November 24, 2006 00:11 by Citizen   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 02, 2008 13:05)
As the supreme court finally settled the argument over the National Aquatic Centre, I am curious as to how much this cost me. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday November 23, 2006 17:59 by Tim Sauer
Brazilian government must suspend, while the sector is reorganized, the rounds of licitations of areas promoted by ANP.

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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 22, 2006 23:14 by clodagh   text 7 comments (last - tuesday november 28, 2006 03:32)   image 1 image
Here's how the PSNI initiates racism in communities. read full story / add a comment
Shatila Refugee camp, Sept 1982. Thousands of Palestinians massacred by the Israeli-backed Christian Phalange
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 22, 2006 14:28 by Wahid Gordja   text 15 comments (last - friday november 24, 2006 13:57)   image 1 image
Pierre Gemayel (zh?m?'?l) was the leader of the Kataeb, the fascist Maronite Christian Phalangist party. These are anti-arab race supremacists who hark back to the good old colonial days when the French put them in charge of the 'wee province' of Lebanon they had partitioned off from Syria. In those days the favoured Maronites were at the top of the racial hierarchy which the French used to secure their control.

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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 21, 2006 19:23 by Militant Milicent   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 29, 2006 13:19)
The Poker-wielding one: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/76928
has advanced the theory that a law will soon be launched to endow
the eunuchs of the nation the right to defence of property:
"Sure you cannot take it with you..."

This funny little law by the Minister for Injustice brings to mind the right of
all American Citizens to bear arms- and we can see how well that turned out. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 21, 2006 03:09 by Keith Harris   text 7 comments (last - thursday november 23, 2006 20:08)
The High Court has told a Co Clare man accused of being responsible for a website which encourages people to rate their lawyers that he could be jailed for four months if certain materials are not removed from the site by Thursday.

Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan told John Gill from Drumline in Newmarket on Fergus that if all material relating to barrister Jayne Maguire was not removed from the website, www.rate-your-solicitor.com, by Thursday afternoon, he would jail him. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Sunday November 19, 2006 20:08 by Anne O'Connor   text 23 comments (last - thursday may 31, 2007 19:48)
About 1,150 Non National parents of Irish Born Children, who had previously been denied the right to stay for various reasons under the IBC/05 Administrative Scheme, won a landmark case at the High Court on Tuesday November 14, 2006. The presiding Judge, Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan said the Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform had breached the rights of several Irish-born children under both the Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights Act in how he considered the applications for leave to remain here of their parents, the judge quashed the Minister's refusals in all but one case. The decision relates only to non-national parents of children born before January 1st, 2005. read full story / add a comment
Holy Well at Raffeen, south of Cork City
cork / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday November 19, 2006 18:44 by John Baker   text 4 comments (last - monday april 06, 2009 18:32)   image 2 images
When I'm not confronting power in its various forms I like seeking out ancient places in the landscape that have served human beings for a very long time. This acts as an antidote for me to the stresses and strains of taking on monsters like shell and the irish government. read full story / add a comment
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international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Sunday November 19, 2006 16:57 by Ezra Niesen   text 1 comment (last - friday november 24, 2006 18:30)   image 1 image
Scientists who study human evolution have discovered the evolutionary origins of morality. The concept of morality exists in every culture on Earth, but the morals themselves are different, which causes a lot of conflict in the world. Now that the Democrats own the U.S. Congress, I’m sure that conflict is about to get very interesting… read full story / add a comment
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