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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
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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.
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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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.
Jimmy Kimmel?s Comeback Derailed as Major ABC Affiliate Refuses to Air Show After Charlie Kirk Comme... Tue Sep 23, 2025 11:04 | Will Jones
Jimmy Kimmel's comeback after his Charlie Kirk comments has been dealt a massive blow with ABC affiliates refusing to air it in nearly 40 major markets after Disney announced the liberal talk host will return Tuesday.
The post Jimmy Kimmel’s Comeback Derailed as Major ABC Affiliate Refuses to Air Show After Charlie Kirk Comments appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Labour Will Regret Defending the Boriswave Tue Sep 23, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
When Nigel Farage announced on Monday that Reform would end benefits for migrants and abolish settled status, Left-wing MPs rushed to denounce him. Labour will regret defending the Boriswave, says Laurie Wastell.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6The following line must be exised from all editions of WB Yeats Complete Works:
"It's with O'Leary in the grave"
and let the poor Oirish mammies bring the expressed breast-mik onto planes
and make george bush deeply deeply unhappy , then they can bomb us and
Halliburton can re-build Ireland and bomb the galleries where the nudey bits are
hidden and then we could all be good US satellite citizens- or we
could ask the fucking unions why they do not on principle resist the sell-out of
state companies to venture capitalists and why the unions let their workers
break community pickets in Rossport.
Feck it its all the unions fault, does Ryanair have Unions.
or in irishese "Shite and Onions"
Apparently the price was too low.
Nothing to do with those ads excoriating Bertie on the second terminal.
Nothing to do with present state situation.
Mr Cullen made a statement: "the competitions authority and EU would have to look
at it very closely"
They don't look very closely at ShellEP, Jacob, CRH.
just at the ones that are anathema to the state.
Brilliant. This guy Cullen, has to be the most incompetence Minister for Transport ever. Playing right into O'Leary's hands. Tell you what - no privacy bill will save you from Indymedia Cullen.
Well it looks like Micheal O'Leary might grab Aer Lingus now that he has admitted that he has already taken a fair bite out of it. What is significant is the speed at which the government spun out a statement saying that they would not be selling their share. How trite? It was clearly damage limitation and they have every intention of selling it.
From Ryanair's perspective, this is a great opportunity to take control of Aer Lingus and then preceed to asset strip it. Ryanair may or may not use this opportunity to expand into the transatlantic business. What it can do though is take all those valuable slots in the prime airports like Heathrow. Will it not drop all those regional airports like hot spuds after cultivating them for so long? Probably not before he gets some concessions out of the bigger airports first.
If it sells off the transatlantic arm of Aer Lingus, then to some extent, you may be compelled to take a higher proportion of flights via the UK if travelling West and that would mean very likley having to use Ryanair in the process. He's not likely to facilitate the checking of bags through to connecting flights which means further hassel, time and delays. Then again maybe he would be mad to sell that part of the business?
Ryanair will now have much greater leverage over Dublin Airport itself and as one punter suggested recently may use this chance to muscle in and build it's own terminal. The same punter suggeted it would be the cheapest and drabest building possible and you would have to pay for everything in it. Presumably to sit down too.
Another interesting point to note is that Micheal O'Leary has a fleet of planes that are mainly Boeing aircraft whilst in recent years, Aer Lingus (looking to Europe) bought Airbuses.Perhaps Micheal being closer and obviously admiring of American style capitalism then perferred American planes. Most large corporations like to have just one vendor/manufacturer whether it is for its fleet of cars, trucks, computers or in this case planes. So will Ryanair eventually get rid of the Airbuses? What does this mean for the Aer Lingus pilots who presumably have trained on Airbus? And presumably Airbus themselves won't be too happy as it obviously represents the loss of future custom in Europe.
One thing for sure though is that with the competition removed, airfares into and out of Ireland are likely to increase. Well maybe he won't actually increase the fare per se, but he will introduce the increases in other ways for which he has been so creative up to now.
Another funny thing is O'Leary said months ago when oil was in the news and Aer Lingus had announced the introduction fuel surcharges for the Autumn, and that was Ryanair would not be introducing fuel surcharges even if the price of oil was to rise to $200 a barrel. Was this based on the fact that Ryanair has a very new fleet and therefore more fuel efficient than most, or was he just talking off the top of his head because I don't think anyone real knows the economic knock-on effects if those prices were to arrive.
We" the stay at home Irish", are fed up with the insulting inuendo in this and previous recessions that the brains left the country and by inference ' what remains is the residue.'
LOOK ! THERE ARE 70 MILLION IRISH PASSPORTS IN CIRCULATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
AT LEAST HALF OF THE HOLDERS NEVER WERE IN, OR CONTRIBUTED TO IRELAND IN ANY WAY.
THEY, FOR A SMALL RENEWAL FEE, GET THE BENIFITS OF SECURE TRAVEL GENERALLY PERCIEVED TO BE GUARANTEED MORE SO THAN AN AMERICAN PASSPORT FOR EXAMPLE.
THIS IS RELAVANT IN THE CURRENT INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST CLIMATE.
IF THEY TRUELY APPRECIATE IRELAND THEY SHOULD ENDURE SOME AUSTERITY FOR THE PRIVILAGE OF BEING AN IRISH CITIZEN.
HERE IS THE PLAN.
EVERY SUCH PASSPORT HOLDER SHOULD CONTRIBUTE AS SUGGESTED BELOW BUT WITH THE EXCEPTIONS ALSO LISTED BELOW.
EACH HOLDER SHOULD PAY A NON RESIDENT PASSPORT HOLDERS LEVY OF €100. PER YEAR
(LESS THAN 2 EURO PER WEEK) IN ADDITION TO NORMAL RENEWAL CHARGE ETC.
THOSE EXEMPTED WOULD BE AS FOLLOWS.
1/ PERSONS BORN IN IRELAND.
2/ PERSONS CONTRIBUTING TO THE IRISH ECONOMY THROUGH BUSINESS ETC.,
3/ PERSONS WHO VISIT IRELAND FOR AT LEAST ONE WEEK WILL HAVE THE LEVY FOR THAT YEAR REFUNDED ON DEPARTURE LIKE THE V.A.T.CLAIM AT THE AIRPORT. ............THIS WOULD ENCOURAGE MORE GATHERINGS/ VISITATIONS.
IF ONLY 50% OF THE 70 MILLION PASSPORTS PAID UP EACH YEAR THE FOLLOWING WOULD HAPPEN
35 MILLION BY €100 = 3.5 BILLION EURO
AND THAT WOULD BE FOR EVERY YEAR....................WHAT DO YOU THINK????
WOULD MICHAEL O;LEARY AGREE?