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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.
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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
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News Round-Up Fri Sep 26, 2025 00:45 | 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.
Small Boat Migrant Takes Eight-Week Holiday Back to Afghanistan Thu Sep 25, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
An Afghan granted asylum after arriving in the UK on a small boat took an eight-week holiday in the country from which he had fled.
The post Small Boat Migrant Takes Eight-Week Holiday Back to Afghanistan appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Reeves Under Pressure to Spend Even More on Welfare as Cabinet Ministers ?Demand Removal of Two-Chil... Thu Sep 25, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Cabinet Ministers are ramping up the pressure on Rachel Reeves to spend even more on welfare by lifting the two-child benefit cap, sparking warnings that Britain is entering an "economic doom loop".
The post Reeves Under Pressure to Spend Even More on Welfare as Cabinet Ministers “Demand Removal of Two-Child Benefit Cap” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Every Adult in Britain to Be Forced to Have a Digital ID Card Under New Keir Starmer Plan Thu Sep 25, 2025 15:38 | Will Jones
Every adult in Britain will be forced to have a Government-issued digital ID card under "dystopian" proposals designed to tackle illegal immigration set to be announced by Sir Keir Starmer. Papers, please!
The post Every Adult in Britain to Be Forced to Have a Digital ID Card Under New Keir Starmer Plan appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Watch: Boris Defends the Boriswave Thu Sep 25, 2025 14:10 | Will Jones
To add to Kemi Badenoch's woes, Boris Johnson has popped up to defend his massive 'Boriswave' of immigration, asking "Who do you want to kick out?" It's not helping, Boris.
The post Watch: Boris Defends the Boriswave appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23The combination of the imagery and the sentiments expressed in this article make it offensive and antisemitic.
no. bombing and killing the children of semites in gaza is "anti semitic"
this is just valid criticism of blatant US support (for selfish political reasons) for the racist policies of Israel towards palestinians.
Dear Avi
The old 'Anti - Semitic' retort does not work any. People are not frightened by it, and are not afraid
to challenge the wrong doings of Israel.
Calling somebody Anti - Semitic for criticising Israel is as stupid as calling someone Anti - Catholic
for criticising Ireland.
Go and try your ADL, AIPAC treat tactics on someone else, because they don't work with me, or the rest of the people of Ireland for that matter.
Truth is rising and Israel is being exposed for what it is, an Ethnic Cleansing, Genocidal, Apartheid state, and the old habit of the world turning a blind eye to Israels crimes is coming to an end.
If you what to discuss something being 'Anti' explain why the Talmud is full of revenge and hate, and why it sees Gentiles (Non- Jews) as little more than cattle.
I await your response.
"or the rest of the people of Ireland for that matter"
here's one Irishman you dont speak for.
All those pictures are of christians. When in Jerusalem its respectful to wear appropriate attire at ALL religious sites including the Western Wall, thousands of christians visit the Western Wall daily.
Trying to make out that those presidents are doing something out of the norm is a pathetic anti-american/anti-jewish jibe.
When US visitors come here do they not have the auld pint and kiss the Blarney Stone.
they too are wearing the kippah!
Dear Jnr
The Pope visits Jerusalem and wears the skule cap out of respect as a fellow religious leader, he does not lobby the US Government 24 / 7 unlike the ADL and AIPAC, or use White Phosphorus on civilians in Gaza. (See Photos)
Be the way - What IS your opinion on the slaughter of the people of Gaza. Do you approve of it?
Are you one of these Christian Sheep who does not mind being looked upon as lower than dirt
by those who practice the Talmud?
Cop yourself on mate.
And finally. How do we know that you are Irish?
Israelis Soldiers with White Phosphurous Shells
White Phosphurous Gaza Pic 1
White Phosphurous Gaza Pic 2
White Phosphurous Victim Gaza
I suppose you must speak for the people of Ireland. Do you?
But how do I know that YOU are not some Islamic terrorist with a copy of Paintshop pro.
The Popes, priest, presidents and ALL visitors of any religion to the Western Wall wear the skull cap out of respect!
You say the Talmud defines us like dirt - well they don't go round trying to convert the world with terror.
From the Quran for your info:
Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger (Mohammed), nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book (christians and jews), until they pay the Jizya (tax to the muslim overlords in a majority islamic state) with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. 9:29.
YOU really need to cop yourself on.
I don't speak for anyone but myself.
I dont make outlandish publications and claim to speak for the rest of Ireland.
By the way my opinions about Gaza are not relevant to this topic.
In response to 'A Freeman' and 'Jnr'. Lets get something straight, I do not hate any ethnic group.
The thing I hate is the torture and killing of innocent people regardless of religion and race.
I am still horrified by what happened to the Jews of Europe under Adolf Hitler, so don't play that old game we me.
But I do like the way you (Jnr) sidestepped the question about the death of civilians in Gaza. It goes towards further proving the ignorance and hate of Israel apologists .
The 'A Freeman' response is the typical 'Copy and Paste' line of retoric we have been hearing from Israel apologists and supporters since the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
How sad and telling it is that they (the apologists) have not invented a new line of debate since then.
I suppose to them, like jokes, the old ones are the best.
Was that a photo shop ?
President Obama has not been in Israel
even when he went to speak at Cairo Univ
he could not spare time for the 50 min flight
So I suppose the news footage of White Phosphurous being fired into Gaza along with all the Press photos are fake as well.
I am always amazed at the level people will sink to in order to excuse murder. Its very sad.
the old canard that criticism of Israel is alleged to be antisemitic resurfaces. This is not what is being alleged at all. I suppose I have to spell it out in simple terms. It is a subtle point but hopefully not beyond your intellectual grasp that the selection of images showing a Jewish prayer activity in support of an allegation of political or military wrong-doing is antisemitic. This is because it directly associates religious rituals with alleged crimes. History shows over and over again that this is likely to lead to persecution of Jews for being Jews.
Hi Fred.
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I have posted three more photos of Obama's visit to Israel. I think they should put to bed any notion
that previous image was a fake, or Photoshopped.
One of them was even used in the Philadelphia Jewish People.
Dear fellow posters: My posts are about the slaughter of innocent people, and not about religion.
Obama in Israel Pic 3
Obama in Israel Pic 4
Obama in Israel Pic - Philadelphia Jewish People
Here is the correct Obama in Israel Pic 3
Obama in Israel Pic 3
' ...it directly associates religious rituals with alleged crimes..'.
Actually, avi, if you drop the ritual element, would you not acknowledge that the state of Israel is posited originally on the religious tract known as the bible(simply meaning 'book', so its claim of unique singularity or prototypicality is spurious)and its mythological claim to a special, racist, 'chosen' status for the Jewish tribe, itself(the tribe)being thus elevated above all 'inferior' law, created by rest of us mere mortals?
If so, is it not one more example of a collective criminal theft, like all colonial enterprises. The colonists themselves seem more Caucasian in appearance than the actually semitic Palestinian aboriginal inhabitants. But then, as African and Native American and Asians know, European colonisation was often spearheaded by soul-seeking bible wielders. And, equally, it was usually the vicious Old Testament that informed their racist morality of self-justification as they displaced, enslaved, butchered, raped and stole the land and other resources on a finder's keeper's set of ethics that took no account of the commonality of resources for human collective needs. It used to be called feudalism, now it masquerades as 'free' trade, one of our shibbolethic oxymorons of maintaining the ongoing enrichment of the same financial interests that funded European explorations from Columbus both back and forward in time. After all we mustn't regulate the golden goose that enriches us all, at the expense of the lesser untermenschen.
This sub-rational religious conviction is at the root of the Israeli inability to address the consequent set of problems impartially and rationally, and other than on a tribal and defensive level of assumed superiority by theistic 'chosen' status. A recipe for the bunker we see Israel cementing itself into behind its 'security' fence.
What led to the Jews being persecuted for being Jews is the same religious delusiuon of Rome that Christians of its denomination are 'the one true church' whose messiah was executed by the Jews as a people, whereas it was actually the Jerusalem temple under Caiaphas, the high priest, who resented the claims of the rabbi from the sticks apparently usurping his status as spokesman for Judaism.
Or have I got it wrong?
The Obama photo is from 2008 when then Senator Obama made a personal visit. You are more than a little sneaky trying to pawn this off as a presidential visit.
I went to a funeral in a COI church in the north - does that make me an Orangeman?
Why would anyone believe anything you write in support of your point of view?
List of visits by President Obama @
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_trips...Obama
In relation 'Jnr' comment.
I don't see the words 'President' do you.
Any answers to those questions I posed Re: WTC - 7 or NORAD?.
I don't see where you ask me about WTC or NORAD pardon my aging eyesight.
I was thinking of another tread.
I thought this graphic I came across summed up what I was trying to say regarding my initial post.
SHHH!! We're Not Allowed to Talk About 'You Know Who'
The Zionists of this world have destroyed the perception of decent Jewish people as well as every other grouping that stands in its way.
Click the link to hear what a real jew has to say about the Zionism.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...-jw8M
..his Zioniost dream back in the late nineteenth century most Jews considered him a lunatic. After WW ll they wanted nothing to do with Israel(most wanted to go to the US or UK)but anti-semitism and the colonial project directed them into Palestine(European ethnic cleansing continued by other means).
The Roman church promoted anti-semitism from its inception, projecting a communal guilt for deicide onto the Jews, and now the Palestinians are paying for centuries of European racism, and the again-cornered Jews are manipulated by the Zionist cartel that has them terrorised into thinking the Arab is their problem, rather than their own leaders and oil-hungry yanks and Europeans. A major problem is the real anti-semitism of many pro-Palestinians who have not taken enough trouble to read the background to their healthy revulsion to Zionist atrocities. Zionists are just pursuing the normal nationalist agenda in abnormal circumstances. Iraq et al proves that. The residual norm of European anti-semitism never sank too far beyond recall. Israelis know this, but rather than proclaim it they have diverted it onto Arabs and muslims, classic avoidance and evasion technique. Divert and decoy the the enemy fire.