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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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News Round-Up Mon Sep 22, 2025 00:43 | 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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The BBC?s ?1 Billion Pension Bailout Sun Sep 21, 2025 19:47 | Richard Eldred
The BBC has poured over ?1 billion into its gold-plated pension scheme, gobbling up nearly ?850 million of licence fee money ? and it looks like the bill could keep climbing.
The post The BBC?s ?1 Billion Pension Bailout appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Education Secretary Launches Fresh Attack on Private Schools Sun Sep 21, 2025 17:13 | Richard Eldred
In a fresh raid that could force more closures and squeeze parents' wallets, Bridget Phillipson is hitting private schools again, this time tripling Ofsted inspection fees.
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Keir Starmer Confirms Britain Will Ignore US and Israeli Anger and Recognise a Palestinian State Sun Sep 21, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Keir Starmer has sparked fury by pledging to recognise a Palestinian state even though critics say it rewards Hamas, angers Israel and the US and won't help hostages or feed Gaza's starving.
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North Sea ?Has Three Times More Oil and Gas? Than Government Claims Sun Sep 21, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Britain's North Sea could have 14 billion barrels of oil and gas ? three times what the Government reckons ? but sky-high taxes and drilling bans are leaving it in the ground while jobs and cash go begging.
The post North Sea ?Has Three Times More Oil and Gas? Than Government Claims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Yes indeed but WE also need to remind ourselves too of many things, including the undeniable fact that sitting politicians in Ireland are now proficient brazen liars who think nothing is wrong with their catalogue of public lies because none of them have ever been properly taken to task for their deceipt.
and however we berate them after such announcements of increased austerity and loss of public services to the poor, they still can go home and take solace in their bloated salaries of over 100K plus perks and expenses and the fact that the FG agenda of privatisation and reduction in wages, public services and welfare is being implemented in leaps and bounds like it was never possible to do before.
on the one hand, distraction and lots of bruhaha about abortion because life is sacred. But once it gets here it can fuck off and die. We don't want to give it any welfare or housing or education or health care.
We'd be happier if, once born, it just went out , lived rough, got sick without contacting the HSE and died homeless in the gutter. Well either that or spent it's life in a shitty job with low pay and no rights, desperately struggling to pay high rents and rising privatised monthly utility bills and household charges.
And suicide is not even an option to this horror story. You can't even get a grant to kill yourself quickly and humanely with some dignity. You have to suffer and die in misery and shame and poverty.
Nice humane little country we have made here. Our own little mini version of the hellhole corporate police state that is the US.
If HSE was in the private sector, there would be what's known as a Dawn Raid, with an offer from another member of the private sector to buy it over, asset strip it, cut surplus to requirement, create mergers where replication applies only too often. What have we got for all our years of trying to create a fair and equitable health service: We have a bureaucratic mess. We have people with salaries as advisors to Minister Reilly being allowed to break imposed pay barriers because they are supposed to be able to provide something special! The truth is they are not; they are just bluffers telling him they merit the salary otherwise people will not respect or co-operate with them. It is this hierarchial nonsense that says the pay package means more than the value added mindset who is not overly focused on money, counts.
More of these advisers are transferring themselves to Europe to be part of that gravy train of expenses gone wild and what we are realisticially creating is a tier of bureaucrats who rank at the top of the PONZI scheme cashing in on all this invested while those who are last in, ie the punters who get sick, who become old, who have disabilities, are the fall guys, the ones who lose out. Let us stop the nonsense at the top and if this means tackle the Croke Park Agreement then by all means do but keep in mind the concept of PONZI (these are the ones who will benefit from pension pots the like of which will never be seen again). Having come through the Celtic Tiger and struggled at every level to get the support of a carer just for say 2 hours a week and never having managed inspite of making contact with agency after agency, health services, I know what bureaucracy is about and no outcome but the compassion of people who are givers.
Minister Reilly, a GP, nearly 18 months in power yet why does he not listen, communicate, interact with people who have experience, who may have disabilities. We hear all these high flyers but what about the people at grassroots level. Why China in August? If there are good reasons, well then explain to us.
Baggot Street Hospital: There are many postings about this so called Community Hospital which doesn't even have a resident doctor. Primary Care is but a pepple. Take TILDA - who knows about it.? Tilda is the longtitudinal study on ageing. It is centred at Trinity and sponsored by Atlantic Philantropies (Chuck Feeney). 8,000 volunteers give of their time and the aim is to assist organisations like HSE to have a broader spectrum to implement policy decisions and improve the living standards of older people. Nobody pays any heed to these research studies. The '90's, 2000-2012, how much research has really impacted on the lives of people who are ageing, with disabilities, in need of care, sick. They still have not tackled the issue of two tierism in the professions of medicine ie you are private or public but realistically the truth is they have the option of taking advantage of both. You can have private in a public bed or have a practice where you can see medical card patients or take a private fee of $60 euros. Moment of Truth - twitter gives a good indication of thinking in the US. The team are two US type elderly men - Simpson and Bowles. Experience tells them that Healthcare in the US must take massive cuts, that healthcare fraud must be tackled. We in Ireland can learn from this and NOW.
Conflict of interest, cronyism yet again only this time it is the medical profession, followed by the tier of jealous bureaucrats who are salary/status focused.
Shame on Us.
All I can say is that we may have primary care units, shops, coffee shops, shopping centre, a totally over-extended HSE and Public sector enhanced by the Croke Park agreement but where are the qualities of humanity and people. We have lost manners, we have lost compassion, we have lost caring. We all can give. Givers don't want to be takers. So let's revive a public spirit and work to combat fraud, corruption, especially in health care.