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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 >>
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Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits are Cooling on Global Warming appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:07 | 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.
We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture Thu Sep 18, 2025 19:00 | Noah Carl
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
The post We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1You can be reasonably sure that when they adopt the pseudonym 'concerned', 'curious; and the like, they're industry or govt. hacks. The Chinese govt. are very assiduous in employing internet hacks to control opinion.
The simple fact is that the gas could be flowing now had the project had been properly handled by both shell and the government through adopting the industry standard of processing the stuff at Sea - therby avoiding over 5 years of conflict and providing real economic benefits to the Erris region
http://www.mayonews.ie/current/news.tmpl$showpage?value1=3362813280472453
Gas pipeline could play major part in putting Mayo back in business Stephen O’Grady
And may I add, this gas will supply Britain too so who do you think will get priority when demand out-strips supply - Remember the Irish government signed away all rights to the stuff and so has no control on its destination. And anyway by adopting the industry standard of processing it at sea - more people will share in any benefits particualry in the Erris region in terms of servicing off-shore facilities like the North Sea models etc.!!!
You call yourself sensible but you really haven't a clue what your talking about. Shell have already polluted the main water supply to Erris(Carrowmore Lake) and thats before the've even built the gas terminable. The EIS sets out that damage this unsustaineable project wil do to the environment with widespread heavy metal contamination of sea and land with obvious negative consequences for Fisheries and Tourism. Not to mention the damage huge amounts of greenhouse gas's emmited from flaring etc.c which will produce acid rain and seriously stretch our Kyote limits.
You badly need to get yourself familar with the facts of the case before you start mouthing off Sen...
Obviously the writer of the overheated reaction at the head of this comment-line disagrees with the point of view taken by Mr. Cooper.
So?
Most people also believe that the so-called "Rossport 5" have lost all sense of perspective in their opposition to the Shell pipeline.
Only the most gullible believe that the 'environment' is the issue. Only those whose critical faculties have completely deserted them will accept the good-faith of these protestors. The truth is that irrespective of what assurances are given and what the expert evidence says, these people will continue their opposition. In appearing to agree to the review process the protestors were not acting in good faith. The truth is that they only saw the process as a delaying-tactic, they never had any intention of accepting any outcome that didn't support their position.
Far from being a progressive issue, this is a case of private property rights against both community rights and the rule of law. The country is once again being held ransom by property owners. I have no doubt that if the pipeline is defeated (with serious consequences to energy security for us all, and future investment) these 'Kulaks' will be lining up to flog the very same property at the usual inflated prices for holiday-homes for the Dublin 4 set.
Give us a break!
If you don't like the rubbish they're writing in that paper - don't buy it or read it
Simple as.
No-one takes that crap seriously man.
Thanx Supp for that link to todays sunday times. Alot of Matt Cooper's hostility to the Rossport 5 eminates from a more recent interview he did with Maura Harrington in which she firmly debunked all the waffle that he came up with in his article on the subject in the previous weeks Sunday times. Obviously a bit of soreness there - hence last weeks vitriol and lies!!. I'm pleased to see some of the letters in this weeks ST that debunk all the mis-information that is being spread by shell and their handfull of apologists in Erris about the supposed economic benefits of this dodgy project. As is pointed out - post-production the benefits are meagre and will in all probably be negitive given the likely damage this project will do the local environment which will undoubtly hit tourism and fisheries - both of which depend on a relativly pristine envronment. Also any service jobs on the pipeline have already gone to a Killybegs(Donegal) based company which is yet another example of how poorly so called local representives such as the Udaras have performed on this issue.
PS - Sorry for the spelling mistakes in the above title piece!!
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2281362,0....html need to correct obvious mistake of the revious week
Just like Sindo putting an attack piece (on SF) on the frontpage for weeks in a row whether there is an actual story there or not. I was going to write about this after the the end mediation annoucenment last week.
I noticed it partly started when Matt Cooper interviewed Micheal O'S and John Egan on Today FM a few months back and the next day wrote a scathing commentary piece on him and Sunday Times uses any opportunity to attack Michael's verbose use of language.
Stephen O’Brien Political correspondent seems to be the hack involved this time who luckily able to give us an exclusive in the Mayo News
http://www.mayonews.ie/current/news.tmpl$showpage?value1=3362207012242472
AN alternative voice of the community has re-emerged in Erris this week, following the revelation on Thursday last that the mediation process between the Rossport Five and Shell E&P Ireland has broken down.
The same old duplicites PEGG group quoting Statoil station owner and FG councillor Gerry Coyle...
see http://www.indymedia.ie/article/71496
And then there were four as Rossport protesters split - The Sunday Times June 25, 2006
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2091-2242144,00....html
rebutted by Wiliam Hederman in the Village http://www.villagemagazine.ie/article.asp?sid=1&sud=10&...=2083
Leading article: Mayo will lose out - The Sunday Times July 16, 2006
http://news.google.ie/news/url?sa=t&ct=/9-0&fp=44c2f8a3...cid=0
Basically they are trying to paint that the issue is being hijacked by eco-warriors and far- left, but I have to point out that nobody could be more radical then the Rossport five+ if they tried nor more radical then landowners and resident the like of those protecting there land from private masts or mobile masts. When have eco-warriors or lefties ever surrounded a police station?
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/77191
"The move comes after gardai confronted over 100 angry locals last week who were protesting against the erection of a new mobile phone mast adjoining Shankill Garda Station."
Explain it to me really simple what is the situation with Brid McGarry the 'largest landowner the pipeline will cross'.
Other news reports
http://www.mayonews.ie/current/county.tmpl$showpage?value1=3362211133244037
http://archives.tcm.ie/westernpeople/2002/08/08/story13...7.asp