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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

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

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

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post The Exaltation of the Cross appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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Congolese Woman Forcibly Transfused

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Friday September 22, 2006 13:17author by Miriam Report this post to the editors

This information was sent privately this morning. The story is being reported elsewhere but it is worth drawing to the attention of RAR and other users of Indymedia.

A single Jehova's Witness woman from Congo has been forcibly transfused with
blood at the Coombe Women's Hospital in order that her (healthy) newborn son
will have a relative and carer within the state. I have never, ever heard of
religious objections being overturned like this - "Mr Justice Henry Abbott
directed the hospital to restrain her if she physically attempted to stop
doctors administering to her a life-saving transfusion." The compulsion to
treat pregnant women and to apply psychiatric detention orders is a huge
problem in Ireland, but this treatment of a single, black woman is an
outrage too far.

A young mother, whom the High Court ordered should be given a blood
transfusion against her will in a bid to save her life, was recovering at a
Dublin maternity hospital last night.
The Humanist Association of Ireland described the court decision as
"absolutely outrageous". Its vice-chairman Dick Spicer said the decision set
a dreadful precedent. "It overrides individual religious rights. It
overrides the right to refuse treatment and the ramifications of this could
be enormous in the future", he said.

The Ms K case is understood to be one of the first of a compos mentis adult
refusing a transfusion to come before the Irish courts.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2006/0922/115859....html

Hospital ordered to give Jehovah's Witness transfusion

The High Court tonight intervened to save the life of a seriously ill
African woman by ordering a Dublin hospital to give her a life-saving blood
transfusion.

The 23-year-old Congolese woman, who suffered a major haemorrhage today
after giving birth to a healthy baby boy, had refused the treatment on
religious grounds because she is a Jehovah's Witness.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/story.asp?j=41667...37&x=

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Unconstitutional, racist and sexist     Stuart    Fri Sep 22, 2006 18:31 
   Stuart     pat c    Fri Sep 22, 2006 18:48 
   questions     ms    Fri Sep 22, 2006 19:13 
   This isn't about religion, it's about human rights     Paul O'Donnell    Fri Sep 22, 2006 20:16 
   Yeah ypu're right. they should have let her die to protect her rights and those of her child     hedgehog    Sat Sep 23, 2006 04:12 
   ...     Gerri    Sat Sep 23, 2006 04:30 
   Unprecedented     Stuart    Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:04 
   Basic Medical Ethics     murf    Sat Sep 23, 2006 17:40 
   compus mentus     hedgehog    Sun Sep 24, 2006 00:54 
 10   compos mentis     hedgehog    Sun Sep 24, 2006 02:19 
 11   Just one question...     TH    Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:06 
 12   assumption     C murray    Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:22 
 13   Singularity     Stuart    Sun Sep 24, 2006 15:17 
 14   Correction     Elle    Sun Sep 24, 2006 16:50 
 15   Preserving human life     Stuart    Sun Sep 24, 2006 17:39 
 16   You're wrong actually     Elle    Sun Sep 24, 2006 17:50 
 17   Code of conduct     Stuart    Sun Sep 24, 2006 19:30 
 18   Code of conduct     Elle    Sun Sep 24, 2006 19:47 
 19   rights     Ernst Udet 7th    Sun Sep 24, 2006 21:54 
 20   "Stuff religious beliefs and rights "     Miriam    Mon Sep 25, 2006 00:33 
 21   Miriam, stop with the straw man arguments     hedgehog    Mon Sep 25, 2006 01:25 
 22   FFS     Oswald Boelke    Mon Sep 25, 2006 06:55 
 23   Reply to Hedgehog     murf    Mon Sep 25, 2006 14:12 
 24   Bizarre and ridiculous     Erudite    Mon Sep 25, 2006 15:04 
 25   individuals rights     gerri    Mon Sep 25, 2006 15:13 
 26   Ridiculous beliefs?     murf    Mon Sep 25, 2006 15:29 
 27   murf     hedgehog    Tue Sep 26, 2006 00:12 
 28   and regarding my cracked logic mr Murf...     hedgehog    Tue Sep 26, 2006 06:08 
 29   Dangerous thinking     murf    Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:47 
 30   Society of Irish Anti-Religionists (not yet incepted) or SIAR     Befuddled    Tue Sep 26, 2006 12:04 
 31   Can't we just agree to disagree?     Stuart    Tue Sep 26, 2006 13:35 
 32   Get a Grip     Anthony Blair    Tue Sep 26, 2006 13:39 
 33   Whose confusion?     murf    Tue Sep 26, 2006 16:17 
 34   stop wriggling Murf     hedgehog    Wed Sep 27, 2006 04:23 
 35   Hedgehog     Miriam    Wed Sep 27, 2006 09:58 
 36   My last word     murf    Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:54 
 37   murf - last word -the most sensible idea you had     hedgehog    Thu Sep 28, 2006 04:06 
 38   Moral compasses     Stuart    Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:16 
 39   for the record     hedgehog    Thu Sep 28, 2006 13:12 
 40   All you do     Hedghog    Thu Sep 28, 2006 13:31 
 41   Two hedgehogs     Help!    Thu Sep 28, 2006 18:04 
 42   what does Bosco look like naked?     sock puppet    Thu Sep 28, 2006 18:07 
 43   Where do you draw the line?     paul f    Thu Sep 28, 2006 19:10 
 44   a request     pro choice    Fri Sep 29, 2006 03:35 
 45   A request     Stuart    Fri Sep 29, 2006 07:17 
 46   blood and jehovahs plan     J Witness    Fri Sep 29, 2006 09:25 
 47   she should be ok for resurrection     me    Fri Sep 29, 2006 09:37 
 48   eh....     Fr. Jack    Fri Sep 29, 2006 09:42 
 49   Two hedgehogs     Miriam    Fri Sep 29, 2006 09:50 
 50   Shame on this Kangaroo High Court of inJustice     Rodger    Fri Sep 29, 2006 16:33 
 51   miriam     hedgehog    Sat Sep 30, 2006 06:32 
 52   Since we are all confessing....     hedgehog    Sat Sep 30, 2006 07:46 
 53   aside - logic and god     epicurus    Sun Oct 01, 2006 07:52 
 54   reply to paul f     hedgehog    Mon Oct 02, 2006 04:28 
 55   Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery - Donation, Bloodless Surgery, Transfusion     Dr. Who    Wed Oct 04, 2006 13:09 
 56   Don't you mean "Mongo"?     hedgehog    Wed Oct 04, 2006 20:27 
 57   Freedom from dictators!     Smurfy    Thu Oct 05, 2006 11:58 
 58   Court action on Monday     Stuart    Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:08 
 59   Contact the Coombe     M Cotton    Tue Oct 10, 2006 13:19 
 60   Surely an investigation is necessary     Chris Murray    Tue Oct 10, 2006 13:53 
 61   Options and Choices     Wisdom    Sun Oct 15, 2006 07:30 


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