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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
Public Inquiry >>
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Last Retry Saturday September 20, 2025 09:58
The ?Far Left? Finally Gets Its Comeuppance Sat Sep 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
For years the Left has smeared its opponents as 'far Right'. Now, the spike in Leftist political violence has led to a turning of the tables. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Guardian, says Prof James Alexander.
The post The ‘Far Left’ Finally Gets Its Comeuppance appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Sat Sep 20, 2025 01:09 | Toby Young
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.
Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
The post Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Sunday September 07, 2008 13:02
by Ciaron - Catholic Worker/Ploughshares
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7TheQuakers have a saying that the first casualty of war is truth.
If Sarah Palin becomes President (not untinkable given McCain's age and health and the trajectory precedents
of LBJ & Ford) it looks like God will become the first conscript....
War on Iraq the will of God! (Vid 18 secs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H-btXPfhGs
On Sept 3rd. U.S. Special Operations took the war into Pakistan.
This is a major escaltaion of a war that Browne and Obama are entusiastic
about and in which, according to the Guardian and Times cited above, claimed an
Irish fatality last week and more of our tennagers are signing up to be cannon fodder for.
The Irish Times celebrates this recruitment development as a milestone of us getting over old hang ups
of people from the 26 counties joining th British Army. With the decline of a Republican
dynamic to the broader culture, the churches continued silence on war, and the absence
of a visible anti-war movement - there doesn't seem
to many obstacles, or competing perspectives, presented to Irish youngstersrushing to join this immoral,
illegal unwinnable the fray in Afghanistan - killing and being killed, coming home wounded and benig treated
like shite by thepowers that be that sent them.
The article below is worth reading for explanation of the significance of this
escalation - beyond assasination by unmanned drone - in the past week
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp09062008.html
Australian/Adelaide Arms Fair Canceled (mainstream media perspective)
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/09/408258.html
Stop the Australia Pacific Defence and Security Exhibition
http://www.gopetition.com.au/online/21474.html s
Campaign to Stop Arms Exhibition Web site:
http://www.apdsexhibition.org/contact
Vigil went well, we were joined by Eamon McCann from Derry/Raytheon 9/Hot Press/civil rights movement/SWP
who happened to be passing by and hung in with us until the conclusion. By the time we circled for info sharing on the war/s and
anti-war resistance, there were ten folks with us from the north & south of Ireland, Romania, Italy, Australia & France.
Tuesday was the 28th. anniversary of the first plowshares action, we remember the passing of Phil Berrigan, Elmer Maas
the long immprisonment of Fr. Carl Kabat OMI (18 years), the sustained anti-war resistance of John Schuchardt, Sr. Anne
Montgomery, Dean Hammer, Molly Rush and Fr. Dan Berrigan SJ. We thank them for the movement they inspired
www.plowsharesactions.org
by their nonviolent disarmament action at General Electric, King of Prussia Plant, Sept 9th. 1980.
Meanwhile it is not only our people who remain persistent, apparently......
Ciaron
You wouldn't read about it
When the US military claimed that all but seven of the
victims of its air strike on Afghanistan on 22 August were
"Taliban terrorists", it cited for corroboration the
"independent journalist", Oliver North.
Could this be the same Oliver North who twenty years ago was
at the centre of the Iran-Contra scandal, under which
President Reagan's government used the proceeds from secret
arms sales to Iran to fund the Contra terrorists, trained by
the CIA to undermine Nicaragua's democratically elected
government? IT CERTAINLY COULD.
Could it be the same Oliver North who organised cocaine and
marijuana trafficking from Central and South America into
the United States to help fund those same Contra rebels?
IT CERTAINLY COULD.
In 1989, North admitted lying to the US Congress and was
indicted on 16 felony counts. But why should enlisting the
support of a convicted liar and instigator of mass murder
concern the US military, when it is scurrying around looking
for "corroboration" from an "independent journalist" to
dispute the evidence of yet another massacre of civilians by
a US bombing raid?
LINK-Browne & Bush Interface to Escalate the War on Northern Pakistan
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080911/tpl-uk-britain-p....html
The US military is training psychiatrists to interrogate terrorism suspects, in defiance of internationally agreed codes of conduct which bar doctors from involvement in interrogation.
"It undermines the notion of psychiatrists as healers, and undermines trust in the profession," says Jonathan Marks, a professor of bioethics and law at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. From documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act he discovered that five US army psychiatrists had been trained between July 2006 and October 2007 (The New England Journal of Medicine, vol 359, p 1090).
The American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association and the World Medical Association all have policies condemning the use of psychiatric advice in "softening up" detainees.
Amnesty protests government declaring country rendition free without checking the planes by celebrating the declaration of part of the country rendition free without checking their planes.
Amnesty International congratulates Cork City councillors and the people of Cork as a motion declaring Cork City a ‘Rendition-Free Zone’ is passed by a majority at Cork City Hall.
Last year Derry City Council became the first local authority on the island of Ireland to declare its local airport free of rendition flights. (really they don't check their planes either)
http://www.youghalonline.com/2008/09/10/cork-city-is-de...zone/
"While there is no evidence that Cork airport has facilitated the US government’s renditions programme as part of the ‘war on terror’, this motion holds immense symbolic value and shows Cork City Council’s solidarity with the victims of this illegal programme" (sounds exactly like what the government have been saying all along, distancing then decrying)
http://www.amensty.ie/