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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
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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.
News Round-Up Sat Sep 20, 2025 01:09 | Toby Young
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.
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.
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Jump To Comment: 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Ní mé cad a dhéarfadh an sagart Reid i leith na beirte usual úd.
Cé nach bhfuil cosúil le muintir na Naitsíoch na laetha seo?
giving Irish people Irish lands isn't quite the same as interloapers giving Zionist invadors Palesinian lands.
Thieves couldn't give you your own car because it is your's. But thieves could give you your neighbor's car. And if you accept it, expect to go to jail when you get pulled over by the police.
And don't try to blaim the thieves for your choice in accepting stolen property. It will not wash away your offenses. Just like Hungarians didn't have to invade Slovakian lands after Nazis made them the offer of ruling Slovakia, ZIonists didn't have to accept the Brittish interloapers (etc) offer of Palestinian lands, they both chose to bbe invadors of thier neighbor's homelands. And they both chose responsability for thier own offensive invasions.
interlopers! why can't you see they've the boyne?
and aughrim.-
makes me seeth.
Another thing Nazis did was to give thier hungarian allies Slovakian lands. It isn't just Blair and Bush who have given Zionists Palestinian lands, but the majority of interloapers around the western world.
When will people understand that such offenses remain offenses even if a majority of interloapers supports it?
refreshing to read above posts. The media stinks!
During last week I was asked to comment on NEWSTALK 106 about the increase of troops going thru Shannon, and about Ruairi Quinn finally opening his constipated mouth about it.
They had Tom Cooney on opposite me, to rubbish my comments. When I said on air he was talking crap, Mr Declan? Kiberd referred to him as PROFESSOR to give the impression he was an accepted authority on law.
He ( Cooney ) repeatedly stated that Ireland according to UN resolutions has a duty to support the US military in the war on Iraq, that it was legal, and the least we could do and we should look up the UN resolutions on the internet to confirm this!!
Unfortunately I did not mention on air that Professor Cooney supports the illegal occupation of Palestine, and supports Israel's dismissal of scores of UN reslolutions re withdrawal from occupied territories. Just to to him in context where his sympathies lie..
When are any of the ministers in government ever going to dare ask the Attorney General re position of giving support for US military transits?
heartfelt and a pleasure to read Mr Ryan and very expressive of your anger.
Why is it that the media are the last people on Earth to recognise Bush and Blair as war criminals, excepting of course those who support these genocidal hypocrites without question or thought.
That these men are war criminals is beyond dispute, the only real question is why have both of them along with their staff and their friends and masters from the corporate world, not been hung at the Hague yet? (I can't remember whether hanging is allowed anymore, I'd suffice for lifelong incarceration.)
In fairness, the UN's terms and conditions for waging war are pretty clear. To be a legal war it must be in response to an act of agression, and this response must be of similar magnitude to the initial agressive act. Spending close to a $billion a day and carpet-bombing the whole country is not quite like crashing a few planes into some buildings. Not to mention the fact that Afghanistan committed no agressive act towards America. The "terrorists" and their training camps in Afghanistan had originally been founded and trained and equipped to do to the Russians what they eventually did to the Americans. The definition of a "terrorist" needs to be redefined to encompass this enigma. That being, if I train a "terrorist" and he attacks who I tell him to attack he is not a "terrorist." Conversely if I train a "terrorist," and he attacks me then he is a "terrorist."
Everyone got that?
Good.
I don't mean to belittle 9/11 here, I believe every human life to be precious.
Let's talk about the Geneva convention. The Geneva conventions specify in very explicit terms the treatment of prisoners of war. Basically every move made by the coalition of the stupid in relation to prisoners of war, has violated this. They skirt obeying this very legal treaty, by relabelling prisoners of war as "illegal combattants." And we the rest of the world ignore our responsibilities by accepting this tripe. Why not relabel those butchered and maimed as "illegal victims?" This act of labelling would be much more truthful and accurate than the first.
I could go on and on. But I'd again only be pointing out the obvious.
Suffice to say it's not worth picking up a newspaper today, even to wipe your arse. Unless it has a picture of Bertie in it.
Thanks for listening.
P.S. Bertie, why not go to Iraq or Afghanistan, visit some scarred and shocked children in some overcrowded "hospital," and tell them why the attrocity visited upon them was either moral or justified. Then come home and tell me why you think you represent me or any other creature who possesses a shred of humanity or morality.
Seán Ryan
Strange link to see in the list.