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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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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.

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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | Will Jones
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.
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offsite link British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
The post British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
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It's bad enough that all UK TV users are forced to fund the BBC via a TV licence. But it's worse than that, says Charlotte Gill: millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are handed to the corporation via backdoor channels.
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Fr Seamus Murphy - 'war, the sooner the better'

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday February 26, 2003 13:01author by James McKenna Report this post to the editors

Has anyone read this warmonger?

Jesuit theological expert from Milltown Park is Propaganda expert from Hell


This prick writes in the Irish Independent but today he infiltrated the Pat Kenny show for a disgusting pro-war propaganda rant.

Just when Tom Connolly was called back to the law school in UCD for a breather out comes this Jesuit. Somehow an expert on war and the threat to our safety, Fr Seamus tells us how Saddam is a nuclear threat to the world.

He plodded out his Just War theory. He even tried to twist Liberation Theology to use it's justification for resistance to oppression with this present imperialist plunder.

He called the ideal ,"let there be peace at all costs" , "immoral".
"You can't say you are for peace alone. You also need to work out under what conditions you are prepared to use force and be clear on that now".

See how he prepares us for war. How many minds does he inluence every Sunday? He and his Brothers?

Speaking of his brothers: I attended a marriage guidance course in Milltown Park in 2000 given by Fr Myles Reilly. What a load of crap! I calculated on the day from the fee and attendance that Fr Myles and his Jesuit Brothers made £1800 for the few hours . Puts the Scientologists to shame.
At one point in his monologue Fr Myles advocated that a woman should have sex with her husband even if she didn't want to (submit to rape), if for instance he were to come home drunk and it would cause too much fighting and trouble with the children for her not to do what he wanted. My wife was actually the only person to confront him at the lunch break about it. He gave a patronising smile and said he would come back to it after lunch. He didn't.

A year later we heard of a female friend of my wifes who was going out with a male conservative neurotic control and power freak. He had been pressurising her to marry him because in his limited view of the world that was what he had to do to be able to have sex with her(I kid you not-here's one we've brainwashed earlier!) He took her to his counseller who pressurised her further to marry him, NOW. She was in a traumatic state about being told she had to choose immediately between marriage or the end of the relationship and aloneness ........by Fr Myles Reilly. Imagine this guy and his buddies counselling couples? Telling a confused , depressed and sometimes suicidal woman she has to marry or she will end her days alone in an attic flat in Rathmines ? Bastards! I suppose it's no worse than condoning the massacre of hundreds of thousands in Iraq and calling it the lesser of two evils. I thought you were supposed to reject Satan and ALL his works Fr Seamus, so why are you brainwashing people to accept evil as part of their world? But I guess that's theology and what would I know about Satanic Doctrine.

Sometimes the most insidious brainwashing takes place in the most unsuspected places but as the layers of clerical filth is being exposed these fascists who blessed the blueshirts as the sailed off to fight with the fascists in Spain are less protected by sheeps clothing to corrupt the young and the unsuspecting.

author by Joepublication date Wed Feb 26, 2003 13:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Didn't the pope say that there is no moral case for this war? Papal infallibility and all that?

author by kokomeropublication date Wed Feb 26, 2003 13:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Another manifestation of the Churchs' dual-standards was evident yesterday evening when I was disgusted by the behaviour of Catholic schools in the North, exposed by spotlight on BBC.

The Church has no shame in allowing paedophiles to continue in their ministry protecting them every step of the way but throw girls who want to keep their babies rather than having abortions out of school for getting pregnant. What sort of example is this supposed to set?

The soon all schools are taken out of the hands of these people the better for all of our children.

author by Brother Buckfastpublication date Wed Feb 26, 2003 14:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

thats just it innit? I betcha no benedictine worth his salt, or franciscan, would back the looming war. Those damned jessies, present as shit stirrers at most of the poxy things that have happened in this world........

author by about the previous postpublication date Wed Feb 26, 2003 15:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It's Tom COONEY, not Tom Connolly from the UCD law school. Can't you even get the names of the people you disagree with right?

And as for your little rant about the guy who believed he couldn't have sex unless he was married, if you don't believe that then why are you going to the Catholic marriage guidance courses?

The reason the church has so much power in this bloody country is not because of the lunatics who believe everything they say, it's because of idiots like you who whine on and on about them, but still go along with their farcical bloody ceremonies. What's wrong with telling them to stick their church wedding up their arse and heading down to the registry office?

author by As do many other molespublication date Wed Feb 26, 2003 15:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Jump a broom instead

author by NVpublication date Wed Feb 26, 2003 15:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Dan Berrigan is a Jesuit. All these idiots who see things in black and white don't let this get in the way of an anti-Catholic rant though.

author by James McKennapublication date Wed Feb 26, 2003 17:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors


I fully agree with you about the Catholic trip being bogus. Let's not get into how mad or bad it is . As for Jusuits: wasn't it Irish Jesuits that schooled Mugabe? They can't be all bad!

I can't help but wonder though how people like Dan Berrigan can remain in their church when it is not only obviously evil in it's earthly works but is theologically a cult centred on a lie.

I suppose we have to understand how deep the brainwashing goes and how the first lies are fed, literally, with mothers milk. But I wonder how "clearly" such people can see if they are blinkered in this area. They certainly have nothing to say to me when "Fr" is their credentials.

I would like this Father Seamus Murphy to see the first few tens of thousands of people to be massacred in Iraq. I would like it to be the job of this coward to bury them all and then we would see how brave his big mouth would be. I'm not asking him to kill them, oh no, that can be on somebody elses soul. Some kid from Chicago who hasn't even rationalised what he's doing yet and probabaly won't until he's fifty and sees the pictures in a book and it starts to sink in what he's done. Will Fr Murphy be there then to comfort this brave Enduring Warrior with comfort of how justified the war was? And he could be so angry about a few axe blows to a war plane? Hypocrite!

It's no wonder this country is fucked and bowing down to parasites at every level when we haven't had the huevos to run this pack of vermin from the country years ago with it's mental and emotional prison programmes. Social order through mental slavery!

Did anyone see the Hugo Chavez documentary? When the US backed coup took over one of the first ones in was a well fed, well dressed priest or bishop laughing away on his mobile phone as the soldiers and police gunned down people on the streets outside and Colin Powell and Ari Fleisher assured the world on TV that all in Venzuela was normal! Perhaps he was a seminary friend of Fr Murphys who was easy with such "lesser evil".


author by fuinseogpublication date Wed Feb 26, 2003 23:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Now if a foulmouthed rant like the above last comment, mixing fact halftruths and abuse was put up here about say Islam, I think it might be deleted. will this one be?

author by Raped and buggered by those scumbags (Yes I was) - Anti rumandcadillac churchpublication date Wed Feb 26, 2003 23:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It's distrussing to see that there are still dumb idiots here who still blindly follow the roman dogma (rumandcadillac church) and who still engage in that hypocritical wailing and crying every Sunday or worse every day. What about all the people who been raped, buggered, physically assaulted and even murdered by those scumbags in roman collars? The bastards!

author by James McKennapublication date Thu Feb 27, 2003 04:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

If a Muslim cleric had come on radio in any of the "Free New World Order" countries and incited war with such a snide attitude to the value of peace he would be in gaol now and probably for a long time.

If muslims clerics were abusing children and being harboured and facilitated by their superiors(which they don't have) like the Roman Catholic Church has in this country and elsewhere there would be nothing else on CNN, Fox News and Pat Kenny.

Saddam Hussein for all his long past sins has sought peace throughout this whole attempt to provoke and justify war. Iraq is a broken country and Saddam and it are no threat to even Israel. Theologically I believe when an opponent sues for peace you must also engage in peace talks. You would have to get one of the Milltown boys to find you the exact reference.

Seemingly Fr Seamus chooses to ignore this dictat and the insruction of his "boss" in Rome. I'd say Satan is stoking up the fires of hell fer ya Fr Seamas. Enjoy the fruits of your treachery. Have you a nice wealty parish in the US to go to for the summer. Lots of doting yanks with loose wallets and so much stroking for the ego?

You wouldn't believe what a nice Irish priest would make on a wedding in a nice parish in the US . Funerals , mass cards and all sorts add up. A busy man with a good "stage presence" could rake in $10,000 a week all summer. I wonder do they declare this to Revenue when they come home to Ireland, as the hundred dollar bills are generally stuffed into cards or into slick wristed hands?
I know there are plenty of poor priests and nuns working for charity but not these "suits" . The likes of Fr Seamas has been bred and educated (brainwashed)to believe he deserves better than that. How else would he close his heart to human suffering and sell war propaganda?


author by Seanpublication date Thu Feb 27, 2003 08:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

You can't have peace at any cost.....

I'm so glad that the war's going ahead because all you fools won't get your way. Too bad no one will no what would have happened to the Iraqi people if the UN just walked away (albeit that the sanctions have killed over a million of them already).

author by MGpublication date Thu Feb 27, 2003 09:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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