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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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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.
The post Labour Will Regret Defending the Boriswave appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Farms to Switch Off Whe... Tue Sep 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Suddenly, green activists have started getting outraged at the billions wasted paying wind farms to switch off when it's too windy. The hypocrisy and chutzpah beggars belief, says Ben Pile.
The post Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Farms to Switch Off When it’s Too Windy? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Tue Sep 23, 2025 01:12 | 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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Hamas Executes ?Israeli Collaborators? in Streets of Gaza Mon Sep 22, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hamas?has executed three Palestinians accused of "collaborating" with Israel on the streets of Gaza, just hours after the UK, Australia and Canada announced their?recognition of a Palestinian state.
The post Hamas Executes “Israeli Collaborators” in Streets of Gaza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong Mon Sep 22, 2025 17:35 | Dr David Bell
The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to counter an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals, systematically doing what they knew was wrong, says Dr David Bell.
The post The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Tuesday November 28, 2006 03:26
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1It is also known that abuse crimes have a serious effect on the victim.
Sexual assault is about power. The effect on the victim ranges from fear, to self-abuse,
inability to trust and massive psychological repercussions that go on for many years.
I can think of one case that haunted Ireland for many years, but will not re-visit it,because
the young woman has a life and is moving on. The problems with proximity to the offender
especially during the duration of a trial, or if he is released cannot either be under
estimated. Women often experience severe eating disorders and a sense of self-blame.
The person who rapes knows that it is about power.
For an incredibly wealthy economy there is a sever defecit in victim support.
You can also take it that the effect on children and how we listen to child victims
is also a big problem. a lot of victims of church abuse were not listened to for
many years. the sweetheart deals and the refusal of the church and state to
listen to these people is still ongoing and most obvious in both the
obstruction of the work of laffoy and the indemnity deal- both of which this
present administration have failed in.
The first point of call is the trauma unit. For many weeks now those units
in the west and north west were closed because there was no specialist
doctor available. The 4.5 million given by the dept is welcome to many, but it
does not address the wider issue of the crime of rape and how the courts
have treated it and the victim. training forensic nurses is a much needed step
but the issue of how the judicial process effects the victim is not nearly dealt
with.
It was widely reported this week (Primetime, Independent, Irish Times) that sexual offendors have the lowest repeat conviction rates (2%) of all released prisoners (25%) on the basis of research conducted at the Institute of Criminology at University College, Dublin. It was suggested that the risk of repeat offenses by sexual offendors is very low and it was time to rethink our attitudes to sexual crime.
I think this suggestion is erroneous and potentially dangerous - convicted sex offendors represent a minute subset of sex offendors and are in prison because the evidence was available, because they were known to their victim, because they are multiple offenders or because their offence was (as the judges so insensitively put it) "at the more serious end of the scale".
The propensity to sexually violate another human being is a lifelong risk.
From the Independent today: (http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=...14988):
Sex criminals who reoffend
It would be a logical error to presume that the low rate of re-conviction of released sex offenders "reveals them to be the prisoners least likely to reoffend", as has been stated.
What Professor Ian O'Donnell's research (*Irish Independent, December 6) convincingly demonstrates is that the tiny subset of sex offenders who are identified, charged, prosecuted and ultimately convicted are unlikely to be convicted again within a short space of time.
Adult rapists are the most readily convicted category of sexual criminal, of whom 63pc are identified, 27pc prosecuted and just 12pc convicted (NUIG Department of Law research reported in the Dail, May 19 2004).
Because less than one tenth of rapes remain unreported, the real conviction rate of offenders is less than one per cent. Other sexual criminals are less often partners of their victim. Some are influential (parents, relatives and authority figures) or strangers, so the conviction rate is probably far below the one in every hundred of adult rapists.
(*Jail scandal: 25pc back behind bars within year http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=...14968)
The North-Western region, deprived of a doctor for many weekends in the Rape Trauma
Centres has been given an allowance of 4.5 million , by the Minister for health and
Children to train forensic nurses.
This is a good thing BUT, two women who were allegedly raped had to travel to the
Rotunda Sexual Assault unit in the last few weeks. its not really good enough
that the figures for sexual crime convictions are very, very low. That the victim is
seated in the waitng area with the family of the perpetrator or that the Bill introduced
by Ms Harney's 'colleague' again puts the victim on the stand in the court.
is it?
The allocation of funds is important but the whole area of reporting, supporting
and convicting is an appalling indictment of the current Dept of Justice.
The press release did not detail exactly how long it would take to forensically train
nurses in the area of rape trauma .
Update re: Letterkenny
It could be two more years before they can get a forensic examination there.
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