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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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offsite link 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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offsite link 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.
The post Britain’s Judiciary is Biased to its Core appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Muslim Who Attacked Koran Burner Hamit Coskun With Knife Spared Jail as Judge Says He ?Lost His Temp... Tue Sep 23, 2025 17:08 | Will Jones
The Muslim man who attacked Koran-burning protester Hamit Coskun with a knife has been spared jail after the judge said he "lost his temper". Hamit, meanwhile, remains in hiding, as concerns about two-tier justice grow.
The post Muslim Who Attacked Koran Burner Hamit Coskun With Knife Spared Jail as Judge Says He “Lost His Temper” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Exaltation of the Cross Tue Sep 23, 2025 15:00 | Chris Larkin
Church leaders are too quick to condemn Tommy Robinson and the Unite the Kingdom march, says Chris Larkin. We don't know what Jesus would have made of our politics, but we can?t just assume he?d have been a Lib Dem voter.
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offsite link Council Insists Women Be Called ?People With Ovaries? Tue Sep 23, 2025 13:27 | Will Jones
Bristol City Council has been accused of offending women with "virtue-signalling madness" after insisting that women be called "people with ovaries" and claiming that defining sex as biological "misgenders trans people".
The post Council Insists Women Be Called “People With Ovaries” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Sligo Gay and Lesbian Parade to become annual event

category sligo | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Tuesday August 29, 2006 12:15author by RAY Report this post to the editors

A Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgendered Pride Parade is to become an annual event in Sligo.

The first L-G-B-T parade in the town on Saturday was attended by about 70 people.

It was organised to highlight such people in the Northwest and to prove they are ordinary human beings.

One of the organisers Hayley Fox Roberts, says the response to the parade exceeded their expectations.

It was opened by Sligo Labour councillor Declan Bree.

Launching the event Cllr. Bree, said that the racist and homophobic views of a minority of people in the local community will not be tolerated, must be tackled. He added that he was aware that lesbian, gay and transgendered people in the North West have been forced to endure harassment and bullying, and even physical abuse because of their sexual orientation.

The Labour Cllr. insisted that the days of paying lip service are gone, and it was now time for the Irish people to promote social inclusion in all aspects, if we want to be regarded as a modern and progressive society.

http://www.oceanfm.ie/onair/sligoleitrimnews.php

author by SPIKEpublication date Tue Aug 29, 2006 15:31author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Fair play, this is a positive development. it must be one of the only Gay Parades outside of Dublin & Cork.

Congratulation to all involved.

author by Cianpublication date Tue Aug 29, 2006 18:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Galway and Belfast.

author by Robinpublication date Tue Aug 29, 2006 20:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Good news for small town Ireland..... wouldn't happen in Warsaw!

Was the Labour Cllr. the only politican at the event?

author by Okopublication date Wed Aug 30, 2006 15:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Up to 100 people marched through the streets of Sligo last Saturday as part of the first gay pride parade in the town.

The parade was the centrepiece of a three-day event, which celebrated the lives of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered (LGBT) people in Sligo and the north-west.

Due to the success of the weekend, it is now hoped that it will become an annual event.

One of the organisers of LGBT Pride Northwest, Izzy O'Rourke, who lives near Drumshambo, said: “It was the type of parade that saw us have more people at the end than at the beginning. People wanted to see how it was received before they joined. This is a big issue still in society and to join a parade like this was a big thing for most people.

“Having said that, it was a success to both the organisers and to those who had the courage to take part in the parade.”

As she explained, there are many more who for various reasons including their place of employment, could not take part in the parade.

And while the memory of the horrific attack in Sligo town on gay writer Robert Drake in 1999 remains vivid, Ms O’Rourke explained that those in the march didn’t experience any difficulty.

“The marchers didn’t experience any trouble during the parade and in fact we had many people congratulating us on the achievement.”

The march began at the Model Arts and Niland Gallery and finished at City Hall last Saturday afternoon.

While the parade was the highlight of the event, there was live entertainment throughout the weekend along with a picnic on Sunday afternoon.

The event was officially launched by Labour councillor Declan Bree.

http://www.sligoweekender.ie/news/story.asp?j=29462

author by Peterpublication date Fri Sep 01, 2006 16:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

No, Robin. I believe three Sligo Sinn Fein Councillors were also in attendance, Sean MacManus, Arthur Gibbons and Chris MacManus.

author by seanpublication date Fri Sep 01, 2006 18:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

looking forward to seeing a gay sinn fein cummann in the future so.

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