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

offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.

offsite link School Accused of ?Brainwashing? Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book ?Blaming Them for The... Mon Sep 22, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
A parent has accused a secondary school of "brainwashing" after?he learned that 14 year-old pupils were told to read a book that "blames them for their white skin" ? and his daughter was forced to read it out loud.
The post School Accused of “Brainwashing” Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book “Blaming Them for Their White Skin” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for ... Mon Sep 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage?today vowed to block foreign nationals from getting benefits, slashing the welfare bill "by ?234bn", and to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants with 'settled status' by bringing in stricter visa tests.
The post No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for Those Who Fail Under Crackdown on ‘Settled Status’ Migrants appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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New DCU Masters tackle ICT Skills Gap

category national | education | press release author Friday June 08, 2012 10:56author by DCU Business School Report this post to the editors

Dublin City University Business School announces three new Masters programmes in Cloud Computing, Digital Marketing and Strategy

June 7th, 2012: DCU Business School has announced today details of three new masters programmes, The MSc in Management (Cloud Computing), MSc in Management (Digital Marketing) and MSc in Management (Strategy), due to start in September 2012. Devised with input from key industry stakeholders such as Microsoft, these programmes will directly address the ICT Skills Gap within Ireland, ensuring that graduates interested in gaining significant knowledge and expertise in high growth areas are industry-ready within one year.

• The MSc in Management (Cloud Computing) is designed to develop the graduates knowledge and expertise in the principles, technologies, services, applications, challenges and benefits of cloud computing. This Masters is intended for graduates from a business background.http://bit.ly/LcQTCn
• The MSc in Management (Digital Marketing) is designed to develop the graduates critical thinking and understanding of the digital eco-system giving a logical approach to a constantly evolving digital marketing industry. This Masters is open to graduates from a business or non-business background.http://bit.ly/MQc4jC
• The MSc in Management (Strategy) is intended to enhance the knowledge, skills, and competencies of graduates who already have an undergraduate degree in business, but who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the area.http://bit.ly/LcR0xL
Commenting on the announcement Paul Rellis, Managing Director, Microsoft Ireland, said: “Today’s announcement by DCU is great news for the further development of the Cloud Computing industry in Ireland. We’ve been working closely with DCU to input into the content of these three courses and are happy that they are designed in a way that graduates will be job ready once they’ve completed them. There are jobs available today in this sector and it’s important that this country continues to provide the educational opportunities needed to fill the skills gap and have graduates employable for the vacancies that are out there. I’d like to congratulate DCU on their hard work in bringing these courses together and wish them the best of luck in the execution of them.”
DCU is a lead partner in a consortium of Higher Education institutions involved in a €1.2 million government funded initial research programme in the Cloud Computing Technology Research Centre, aimed at helping make Ireland a world leader in the area. A Goodbody Consultants report published in 2011 and commissioned by Microsoft, highlighted Cloud Computing as a major evolving industry that has the potential to create €9.5 billion in annual sales per annum by 2014, providing 8,600 jobs. Because Cloud Computing lowers costs to businesses, the report estimates that migration to the cloud will lead to the establishment of an additional 2,000 new non-IT small and medium businesses employing 11,000 people.
Dr Anne Sinnott, Executive Dean at DCU Business School, said “These programmes respond to industry needs and provide participants with cutting edge skills and competencies. Research-led teaching ensures that graduates are market ready on completion of their programme. Closeness to industry is one of the hallmarks of our programmes and this translates into impressive employment opportunities. Over the past two years 96% of the 222 students tracked from the MSc suite of programmes have secured relevant, high quality employment.
DCU Business School also offers eight-month part-time postgraduate certificates in Cloud Computing and Digital Marketing. Delivered on two weekday evenings they each lead to a Level 9 award. Both are delivered in conjunction with the relevant Level 9 MSc programme. Participants can choose to progress to the MSc in Management (Cloud Computing) or (Digital Marketing) respectively.
Des McLaughlin, Postgraduate Programme Director at DCU Business School, said: “the knowledge gained from our weekly Techspectations workshops over the past few years has already built a cadre of both students and clients from our industry engagement projects who now have advanced skills and knowledge in search engine optimisation, social media tools, web analytics, and other digital marketing technologies and techniques. These are incorporated into our intensely-practical management programmes which are producing master-level graduates who are ready to work and apply up-to-date knowledge and competencies in cloud computing, digital marketing, eCommerce, as well as in general management and strategy.”
For further information on the DCU MSc or Postgraduate programmes, visit http://www.dcu.ie/dcubs or email des.mclaughlin@dcu.ie.

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author by CyberKuntaKintepublication date Fri Jun 08, 2012 12:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

lets use your universities as externalities to our businesses instead of institutes of learning.

Then they can become conveyor belts to produce skilled slaves for our business largely funded by the taxpayer.

If you need to save money to put into these business friendly externality departments in your underfunded univerities, you can always close useless departments that don't serve business such as the medievil Irish one.

While we're there we'll install a pro capitalist ethos in every child that passes through the place and we'll give no context for the polluting corrupt industries they are preparing for years to work for.

Since the financially engineered Austerity has frightened everybody and damaged social safety nets and unions as we always wanted to, wages are down and people will be so so grateful for jobs and so will make wonderfully obedient workers. Cuts to education will mean their student debts will chain them to their slave job for many years to come, almost like in America. Nice!

Thank you financial terrorists of Goldman Sachs for preparing the ground so well for us in Ireland for our exploitation. Cheap but skilled labour on a nice big corporate tax write off island with some resources we can steal and some state utilities we can buy up at firesale prices and put the squeeze on from their naive neo con politicians. Plus an education system we can easily commandeer to produce skilled obedient pro capitalist slaves for our corporate facilities. Reminds me of south America before it all went sour on us and the game was up. Still recovering 20 years later.

And If it doesn't work out here, well, there's always India, where much software development has moved years ago. Overpopulation, desperation, hunger, low wages, english speaking, intelligent people with little or no social support to speak of, where people drink out of dirty puddles in the street. That's still the perfect capitalist dream for us.

author by concerned readerpublication date Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A lot of young people starting university later this year will not be aware of the fact that arms giants such as British Aerospace Engineering (BAe) control the syllabuses and courses set by certain university departments - particularly so-called “aerospace engineering” departments . The term “aerospace engineering” is a euphemism that is frequently used by merchant-of -death companies like BAe , Augusta-Westland etc to hide the fact that they are arms manufacturers and arms designers.

BAe doesn’t want the general public to know that it is an arms manufacturer , and actively seeks to discourage those wishing to expose the source of the billions in profits it makes from its filthy business . The arms giant exerts considerable pressure on the media to this end ,as a result of which , prospective students will rarely be aware of the fact that British Aerospace Engineers is in fact an arms manufacturer - and was listed two years ago as the world’s largest arms manufacturer.
Corporate funding of education ,as the last comment points out, leads to “universities as externalities to our businesses instead of institutes of learning “ When the business is the arms business it’s important to be exceptionally vigilant . Youngsters thinking about studying third-level this year need to be warned about university departments that are being funded by arms manufacturers such as BAe . People who like the idea of space exploration but don’t want to find themselves designing drones and military helicopters should carefully check out syllabuses for BAe code words like “aerospace engineering” before applying for places at university. Once a student has accepted a place at a college and enrolled , it can become very difficult for them to turn back from their chosen course - even when they find out the true purpose of the work they will be training for .
The exchange below (with spelling mistakes in original) took place recently between a graduate of a large UK university and a prospective student who has been offered a place at that university and is wondering which course to choose. The graduate congratulates the student on winning a place at the university and offers this advice .“ Congrats on the unconditional place, Glasgow was my 2nd choice for uni, its a good place!! but you will BLATENTLY end up work for BAE Systems!” see:http://www.pprune.org/engineers-technicians/318320-avio...
Here is the full exchange between the graduate and the student:
The prospective student writes
:Hi,I recently got an unconditional offer to study either Avionics or Aeronautical Engineering at Glasgow. Just got to make my final decision! Im quite set on avionics but don't want to write of Aeronautical just yet.Has anyone else done either of the courses? Did you enjoy it? Would having a PPL be of much help?What are the job prospects? Is the work interesting? Is there much/any further training required post graduation?Sorry for all the questions!Any replies much appreciated.Thanks,Go...............
The graduate replies :I Just Graduated last summer from Univeristy in Aeronautical Engineering. I know work for a major aero company. I would recomend you do Avionics. There is a big shortage of people across the industry, so it increases your employability after graduation.Aero Eng is a very broad degree, it touches upon all aspecs of engineering, from structures, aerodynamics, materials through to some ( i only did 3 modules out of 36) avionics. I believe i was only just made it into the avionics job im in now from my disertation. However, avionics is only focusing on one aspect of aviation and could get tiresome after a while? but personally in reto-spect, i woulda gone for avionics!!Congrats on the unconditional place, Glasgow was my 2nd choice for uni, its a good place!! but you will BLATENTLY end up work for BAE Systems"

author by another concerned readerpublication date Sat Jun 09, 2012 11:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yes by all means go into post graduate courses with your eyes open. However just because you end up in a university department which also accepts funding from BAE does not mean your own personal beliefs are necessarily compromised. For example, Yassamine Mather is a respected activist who manages to continue her campaign for the people of Iran against both foreign imperialist attacks on Iranian people and the repressive regime itself, whilst holdng down a position in Glagsgow university which happens to accept some funding from BAE.

Indeed most universities accept dubious corporate funding, be it from weapons companies, chemical sociopathic giants like Dow, responsible for bhopal, GM companies like monsanto or syngenta, or nasty oil companies like shell. It's hard to find a university that actually doesn't these days. So working in a university is, by it's very nature an exercise in putting up with unpleasant bedfellows trying to get some of their research paid for by the state as externalities. It's a creeping insidious phenomenon.

Often it's a case of tolerating this creeping influence or starting a totally new career from scratch outside academia. A very difficult choice indeed, having studied your subject for so long to get a position in the first place.

 
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