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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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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner?s Daughter Violet Pushes for Mask Mandates at United Nations Wed Sep 24, 2025 11:12 | Will Jones
Violet Affleck,?the daughter of Hollywood stars?Jennifer Garner?and?Ben Affleck, was at the?UN?on Tuesday to push for mask mandates, saying the world was irresponsible for returning to 'business as usual' after Covid.
The post Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s Daughter Violet Pushes for Mask Mandates at United Nations appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Problem with Rupert Lowe?s Argument Against Halal and Kosher Meat Wed Sep 24, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Rupert Lowe has called for halal and kosher meat to be banned. But there's a problem with his argument: he doesn't mention factory farming?a far greater evil.
The post The Problem with Rupert Lowe?s Argument Against Halal and Kosher Meat appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying Wed Sep 24, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
As New York hosts Climate Week NYC ? "the world?s largest climate event" ? the absence of any major global leaders speaks volumes, says Tilak Doshi. Mugged by reality, the Net Zero dream is dying.
The post The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Wed Sep 24, 2025 01:05 | 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.
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Britain?s Judiciary is Biased to its Core Tue Sep 23, 2025 20:08 | Dr David McGrogan
The Court of Appeal overturned the closure of Epping's migrant hotel because Britain's judiciary is biased to its core, says Dr David McGrogan. The Right must get to grips with this problem ? and fast.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12Every political party in Ireland either right, left or centre welcomes immigrants and foreign workers into Ireland. While the majority of people support our representative in Dail Eireann such as Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, Labour, The Green Party, Sinn Fein and Independents there will never be a place for the ICP.
These bizarre people are a fringe of a fringe of a fringe of a fringe.
They are simply an incoherent comical irrelevance.
My advice to you, ignore them and get on with your life.
I alluded to the fact that harder times will see people looking for easy answers. Immigrants will become scapegoats and lead to the possibility of support for racist groups. They may be small now but the I'm sure the Nazi Party seemed like a comical Irrelevance in 1919. From little acorns, big trees grow. It is important to (to continue with the horticultural analogies) nip this in the bud before it has a chance to grow.
Yeah right. The Irish people are going to vote for Aine Ni Chonail?
Give me a break.
No, not Ní Chonnaill but a more credible candidate should they build their organisation.
If the ICP are recruiting in Dublin then we should use the opportunity to infiltrate that organisation. They are a joke of an organisation and their members are mainly intellectually challenged racists, therfore they would be easily infiltrated and destroyed.
Right wing groups never seem to have a problem getting funding. And why? because they play exactly into the agenda of those in power. There is a very long history all around the world of right wing and racists groups been funded, covertly promoted and covertly controlled by various state security agencies.
This is all the more reason that they should be nipped in the bud.
“Obviously as uncertainty in the economy increases and people are forced to accept lower wages to compete in the labour market with super exploited migrant workers”
Bullshit!
People are coming to this country for the opportunities it offers and out of choice.
There are plenty of jobs here and while life on an unskilled minimum wage can be difficult, a great number of foreigners coming to these shores are skilled professionals, who win jobs over Irish workers because of their competency and skill and NOT their willingness to be paid less.
You sir, are ignorant of the facts and mildly racist with the assumption that we do not have good education and are open to exploitation. Are you pity for us because we are not Irish? That is discrimination based on race!
You are saying there is no Race to the bottom? You are saying that there are not large numbers of migrant workers being super exploited? You are living in lala land.
"You sir, are ignorant of the facts and mildly racist with the assumption that we do not have good education and are open to exploitation. Are you pity for us because we are not Irish? That is discrimination based on race!"
There is no such assumption in my article. It is a fact that migrant labour is super exploited in this country. If you think otherwise then it is you who are ignorant of the facts. Gama and Irish Ferries are only two examples of many. I'd like you to retract your accusation of racism or I'd like it removed as it is a libelous accusation. I don't see how demanding that migrant workers get paid the same as Irish workers is racist. Do you?
If "the left" can't get a focus on and do something to stop DCC destroying notices of public assembly in our capital city, I would not hold out much hope for progress in other areas, grim that may be, but there you go ! M B
Just look at the *One Nation* party in Australia, they got massive support and if you think people do not notice the massive influx of cheap workers from the former communist monster you are sadly mistaken, it is after all a part of the globalisation process that has been ongoing now for many years
give nato a few more years and they will have swallowed up more of the old soviet block, then the EU will absorb it, this will increase the flow, and the tension
at the moment unemployment is low, but once this creeps up watch the ranks swell with people
change is hard, and Ireland is no longer the homogenous state it once was, many people find that upsetting
it is a failure of the government to prepare its people, never the immigrants fault, but these people will of course twist the reality
Personally, i dont believe that racism is as rampant in Ireland as some claim.
Firstly, we have no cognent extreme right wing unit. For every public racist we have in Ireland, other countries have a racist group/ political party or NGO. With regard to the UK. For Aine Ni Chonaill, they have the BNP, for Justin Barrett they have the National Front, for Ted Neville they have The British Peoples Party, for Pat Talbot they have the Get Britain Back Alliance.
Anybody who watched ITV'S "Vote For Me" last year will remeber the jackass that was Rodney Hylton Potts. Former jailbird Potts, managed to gain public notoriety and infamy by expressing extreme right wing views itv. Hylton Potts proved victorious, and stood as a candidate in the 2005 General Election. He failed in the election miserably, but at the same time, he managed to fight off competition from people who were standing on noble sigle issues. Needless to say ITV wont be running the show again.
In France, Le Pen's racist National Front has been a more potent force in recent times. In 2002, he defeated Lionel Jospin (A Socialist) in the first round of presidential elections.
THis beggers the question about how racist Ireland really is. In both the UK and France, the media is forced to offer racist parties a platform. Racism inb the media has been very limited. When was the last time Ni Chonaill was on the TV. I remember her in the late 1990s and the early 2000s on the TV regularly. Nowadays Questions and Answers and The Late Late Show wont bother with her. Ditto Barrett whos reputation lies in tatters after his Nazi escapades were exposed.
On Sunday when reading my copy of the Sunday Tribune, i noticed a letter from Aine Ni Chonaill of the ICP. Again she was complaining about the level of Immigration in Ireland. This would suggest that the ICP are about to launch some kind of assault on the General Electon next year. However, Ni Chonaill is so dispised by the Irish public, that as long as she is in control of the ICP, they will never be anything more than a fringe group. Similar to certyain groups who are at the other end of the extreme, as some their ideas (such as completly open borders) are utopian and to an extent dangerous.
We need to understand that we need certain immigration controls. I dont think Ireland's immigration has gone out of control. We are in the best shape ever, and we can accomodat many immigrants. This includes many more. However, we cannot throw open our borders, and risk taking on the worlds problems.
Individual racism is a major problem. Lies about immigrants etc is scaremongering, and on the whole wrong. However, we dont face the same type of institutional racism that is prevalent in other countries. The ICP are the only major group, and many people believe that their membership has a grand total of five or six activists. Until I see a party with the words Freedom, Peoples, or National Demcratic, I will refuse to believe that racism is as big a problem as it is with other countries.
By the way, I do agree that many mindless individuals engage in racism and racist activities. And of course i condemn these people. All people deserve to live in private and public peace