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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. The Saker >>
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 Public Inquiry >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Saturday September 20, 2025 10:16
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. Lockdown Skeptics >>
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to special privileges!!! Like Stallions etc
Ireland
What about making those in control of government departs such as health, transport, education ....... an extract of criminally responsible for reckless or negligent behvaviour......This may enhance Corporate Governance, Accountability, Transparency.
It is time to avoid tangents and focus on our Prisons, our Vulnerable people, a system of health similar to Europeans and lower wages and to ensure we do not stand away from the principles Of James Connolly and Jim Larkin. We have fought hard in Ireland for fair wages let us not discriminate now. Well done Joe Higgins going out to Turkey re. the Gama workers. Let us ask were low wages costed in to the construction contract!!!!
What annoys me most in Ireland now - Committees and more committees followed by academic research, research and more research. The publications are beyond a joke now.
Where is the committee on Common Sense? The echoes of Maggie Thatcher's words 'Out, out, out or may be it is the DUP 'No, No, Never' or perhaps just the cynical self prompts the questions What has happened to the Sense of Outrage of the Irish People?
I am reading Minister McDowell's website and am look at the section of Law under Review, the Law Reform Commission.
Minister McDowell highlights a section 'Corporate Killing'.
Let us review this in terms of the Hatfield Train disaster in England. The Guardian paper provides that details that Balfour Beatty and Network Rail, the successor company to Railtrack, were fined Stg#13.6 million, for their input to the Hatfield train disaster. The Judge went further with scathing remarks that the Old Bailey, the TUC, the rail unions and crash victims called together for corporate manslaughter laws.
4 people died and 102 people were injured when the Kings Cross to Leeds train came off the tracks at 115 mph on the 17th Oct0ber 2002.
Ireland and our Law Reform: People need to endorse some piggy back behaviour from the UK in Ireland. Eddie Hobbs referred to our Competition Authority and the limited budget provided by Government. We need Competion, we need Regulation, in the face of privatisation of large companies.
Well, the 'Corporate Killing' I know in the last number of years has cost the tax payer a fortune. The Public Accounts Committee was told that the prison service spent euros 500,000 on a new computer system and it found it couldn't take account of sick leave being taken by officers in Irelands 18 jails. The system was scrapped after 6 months. I am astonished on the media coverage regarding this!
Dublin Port.
We were told it was 200 m. over budget some time ago. I am now told it is 335 m. over budget.
Electronic voting.
This had to be scrapped and the machines put in storage at a cost to the tax payer Euros 52 m. Let us ask the question who has been paid to store this defunct system and at what cost to the state!!
Another small scandal that we don't hear much about is the Battle of the Boyne site. It was bought for Euros 2.7 m. for a private business and then sold back 18 months later to the Office of Public Works for Euros 7.8 m. Wow Wow!!
Another Item you won't hear much about is the Court House in Cork. The revamping of the courthouse was estimated 6.5 m. But, later it cost the taxpayer 26.5 m.
The Roads.
Some projects were estimated at 910 m euros but now it appears to be reaching nearly 3 billion euros. Other road projects are 80% over budget. To me, all this wastage could have given 70,000 people free prescriptions, not just a lousy medical card and all the conditions. (Recall the Gama case and the aspect of fair wages, pensions for the workers).
The money could take the elderly off the corridors in hospitals. It could have been used to build some new schools urgently required. The children of Ireland and the conditions of their Schools are surely a priority that exceeds Corporate business.
The recent health service scandal - PPars. This new system which is now deemed a non starter - if so, why have the Consultants Deloitte Touche walked away with 60 m. euros.
Why! Where is the accountability that the PD's keep preaching about. The PD's foundation stone was about a new ethical and transparent party. I don't want to laugh but my Jack Russell is on his back in roars of laughter, I wonder if Minister McDowell's Jack Russell is sharing the joke.
The workers in Irish Ferries are fighting to hang on to their livlihood and 5 men spent 94 days in prison to protect their person, their property and their families. Again I ask where is the Irish people's sense of outrage.
Sinn Fein will have a field day on all of this and in 18 months time, Fianna Fail and PD's should serious start worrying about their jobs but alas they will leave with hefty pensions and lump sums.......
Maybe Michael McDowell can answer me one question. Why buy a farm valued at approx. 4.6 m. euros for 30 m. I would say, Mr. Lynam could have said yes to 10 million euros. But then again, who cares - it is not their money.......
Before I go, Bertie said at the last budget, this will be the best disability bill in Europe. I have disabilities and I ask the question where is this bill and what about the Rights of People with Disabilities.
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Acquired brain injury. We need to know more about it. A change in attitude is needed from Academic, Consultants, medical people.
I am thinking of this young boy, Brian Rossiter, 14 years of age. I know not the facts in detail of the case but I know there is sufficient negligence and ingorance that an Inquiry has to be held. Trust in our system is vital and it is about people..........
Then let us not forget John Carty (who was bipolar). Our health service, our media, our Garda, our Justice department, all have a case to answer here.
Checks and balances
'It's not people who aren't credit worthy
It's banks that aren't people-worthy
Writtten: Muhammad Yunus, Contemporary Bangladeshi economic and founder of the Graemen Bank
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Jump To Comment: 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Our Taoiseach Mr. Ahern and Minister McDowell Tanaiste and PD
Tomorrow the Dail opens again. The debate will be fearsome. How does one achieve a sense of equilibrium in what is Just?
The foregoing posts make interesting reading to those who are interested in thinking the issue through.
The scales of Justice are at Dublin Castle but evidence and the temporal also merit consideration.
War
'When the rich wage war, it is the poor who die'
Jean Paul Sartre 1905-80 French Writer and philosopher.....
Jack Russell
My eccentric friend just called in - amazingly he found Bertie's anorak, while upholstering the seats in Fagan's pub. The anorak tonight is hanging on top of the Spiral and if that is not a statement that our Taoiseach at the time Minister for Finance, was destitute and semi-homeless ........ it begs the question though.
What did not come out today ----- was why he didn't he phone the Samaritans for help or could he not have tapped his friend the Bishop in Drumcoundra. No not Bertie......he called a meeting in a tent on the grounds of Clonliffe College.
He told his friends that he wanted De and Da.....and his friends obliged. I had a friend, a postman, he went through separation the same year. He called his wife the viper. He got no de and da from anybody.
Now I walked through O'Connell Street today and I am proud to see that Bertie passed a request from Pat Rabitte and the erection of all the bronze rabbits on O'Connell Street are a reflection of Bertie's good will towards Labour. After all he is a socialist.
Tonight I am listtening to a song, it is an oldie, like the anorak. 'Cecelia, I am down on my knees so help me please and come home or I will stitch that cobbler in Castleknock for Tax Evasion.
Back to the Jack Russell. My friend and myself search hard for equilibrium in the way we think.......
But then it is okay to be different at times.......
As you know all great leaders have their hero's e.g. Haughey obsessed with Napoleon, Adams with Castro, Gerry Kelly with Warren Beatty; Martin McGuinness with Art Garfunkel (Brother perhaps), Ray Burke with Rambo, P. Flynn with Batman; Mary Harney with Twiggie. McDowell - perhaps some suggestions!!!
But Bertie is a cagey boy..........I wonder who is his hero? Could it be Tony Soprano or the Pope...........
What is happening in the Ireland of Saints and Scholars!!! While I am it, where are views of our Scholars....those academics in our Universities?
The Joe Duffy show highlights the sad plight of vulnerable people and the Redress Board.
How could it happen that Solicitors or Barristers could have deducted additional fees from these people....without the authority to do so.
How is possible that a condition could be written into the Tribunal strategy that no complaints could be dealt with by the Law Society before June 2005!!
Where is the Transparency, the Accountability, the Morality, the Ethics........This form of secrecy endorses only further corruption. The people ought to now endorse the Competition report by Mr. John Fingleton about the practice of law.
Surely, if a watchdog is required relating to professions and the Gardai, then it evident that they must be indendent. Surely, 'Justice must be seen to be done'.
Well done to the London Irish Group for making a case (Mr. Twomey and others), a stand and giving support to people who live outside Ireland, and often in most vulnerable situations.
Then......More Shame in the eyes of those who beliefve in the principles of Justice and Equality.
Ian Bailey was accused of the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. Marie Farrell was the key witness but similar to the Donegal Gardai scandal, it apprears as if the alleged evidence provided by Marie Farrell......is rocked with the stench of corruption also. It is time to wait and Watch.
We need answers. There has been de-commissioning of arms; we hear nothing from the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform but word of veiled threats of ursupation by 'others'. I may be getting the wrong message, feel free to correct me!
The people of Ireland need to become more focused on the Island of Ireland. A mutuality of regard for all sides of the equation that sees a return to Stormont as soon as possible.
I retreat to the words of Thomas Merton, Monk and Pacifist, in a letter to James Morrissey on War and Peace.
'The Way to Silence Error is by Truth, not by violence......'
I grasp how a little frustration entered in to syllables and words of Fr. Alec Reid. Let us not forget, he is human and has devoted a long life to Peace. Let's move forward and not be so judgmental when people cast out insensitive words......
John Carty
He was a man with Bipolar (mental health) condition.
I await Mr. Justice Barr's decision (Tribunal established) in the next few weeks.......I somehow feel Mr. Justice Barr may see things in a different way to you. At least, that is my hope.
Another view!!!
Another person!!
I would like to explain tonight to everyone who interacts with Indymedia on your response to Michelle's contribution.
You mentioned the word Lunatic. Shame on you Mr. Deegan for your ignorant and arrogant comment. But I forgive you for your ignorant comment.
Have you any idea what depression is? It is a dark hole Mr. Deegan. It is like a sinking or falling in of a surface, a hollow; depressed in spirit; dejection, a low state of strength.
There are 365,000 people in Ireland approximately with such an illness. It is now called Bipolar. Are we all lunatics?
Now let's see:
Winston Churchill.....Was he also a lunatic?
I am not a pro-Brit but you must give the man courage for his stubborness and courage to halt the Nazi's march across Europe.
Don't forget that the Irish were on Hitler's list for extermination. He classed us as gypsies.
Could you clarify for me that you are this ignorant?
Definition:
Lunacy: 'Moonstruck' Lunatics at one time supposed to have been affected by the moon.
Insanity: "Properly the kind of insanity that is broken by intervals of reason'.
This was not John Carty.
Now here's the question received four bullets through the upper cavity of his chest. Well done An Garda Siochana - you pathetic corrupt idiots. Precision killing. John Carty had no access to a solicitor or a priest or doctor. Why?
Mr. Deegan, don't judge John Carty but tonight judge your own conscience and you may find the truth. John Carty was crying for help. As his own Mother said, I phoned the Gardai to help my son, they came and they murdered him.
K.T. Walsh
a chaotic social welfare system might be added.
they are getting something back, by ripping off european foreigners. these have to contribute, but some benefits from it are denied to them.
we are not hearing anything about this either.
http://geocities.com/habitualresidencecondition
ta an cheart agat a chara!
Errore humanum est!
Nach bhfuil tú rud beag ró-throm ar an cine daonna?
you mentioned the killing of John McCarthy....
have you ever had a shot gun fired at you ?
by a lunatic ?
If you had then you might be in a better position to understand the actions of the Gardai....