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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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Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
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The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits are Cooling on Global Warming appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:07 | 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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We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture Thu Sep 18, 2025 19:00 | Noah Carl
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
The post We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech Thu Sep 18, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump?urged?Keir Starmer?to deploy the military to stop the Channel small boats crisis that is "destroying" the country, drill in the North Sea and uphold free speech at a tense joint press conference today.
The post Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech 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 18But will be dismissed out of hand as pro american propaganda by the slectively blind,deaf and bigoted on this board.
...probably contributed to the site recieving its "USA patriotism contributor award" badge.
yuk
Or their judges are even dumber then ours are.
We are supposed to beleive that he only discovered that Saddam was torturing people AFTER he arrived in post-war Iraq?!? And this caused his 'conversion' to the 'pro- war' cause. Pull the other one. This story is only going to fool other rather dim witted pro-war idiots looking for a blanket after the offical reasons for war have been revealed to be lies.
Saddam might have been a nasty man who would have carried out gencocide given the opportunity, but America/UK did have the opportunity and they did everything in their power not to waste it.
The only Weapons of Mass destruction in Iraq were left behind after the first gulf war and they were having horrific consequences against the children of iraq every day. Depleted uranium caused cancer in over 50% of the population of Basra and southern Iraq, it also caused huge increases in mutations in plant, animal and Human reproduction. The Americans not only caused the cancer (and continue to deny these undeniable facts) but they refused Iraq the necessary medications that would turn these illnesses from merely horrific, to fatal, and even pain killers were refused so the innocent dying children had to suffer in pain.
AMERICA/UK HAVE NO MORAL HIGH GROUND. they waged a war targetting civillians for 12 years and they have the arrogance to claim the side of right in a "war on terrorism"
5 thousand children died each month. that's almost 2 september 11 for each month of the year only including children. America HAD NO RIGHT TO USE OUTRAGE OR DEFENSE TO JUSTIFY AN ATTACK ON IRAQ.
That judge claimed to have found 57 mass graes. I wonder how many mass graves the American sanctions would have filled?
The judge claimed he saw poverty. Of course he did. America had been militarily bombing Iraq daily for 12 years and utterly strangling the population with economic sanctions that benefitted only Saddam and the Oil companies making massive profits from the "Oil for food program."
Read my first comment.Then the remaining three. QED
I'm not dismissing it as 'pro-US propaganda'. I'm suggesting that it is a spoof. A spoof not on the 'anti-war' crowd but on the pro-war crowd.
Did a bit of googling since my first post on this. Put in the judges name and you will find 40 to 50 pro-war sites crowing over this very report. BUT you won't find any other reference to this judge which seems a little odd. Almost if he only came into 'existence' for this report.
Perhaps I'm wrong but I'd not be surprized if a 'fooled you' statement gets circulated some time in the next week.
Well, he is a retired judge so that might explain his lack of internet presence. If he retired in 1994/5 he would have had no internet coverage of his decisions.
If he existed his work in Bosnia, jakarta, Indonesia, and Morocco over the past 5 to 6 years would have to have some mention on the internet.
Such an admission would never be published on any pro war sites, in fact a proven spoof would still be used as evidence to support their "cause", as was before and ever shall be
Check out the federal dept of Justice, Washington DC. its online and has all the listings of judges in the US.One thing that the evil US has is a easy access to public information.Much better than this place.
Oh this is really getting away from the point, BUT:
The judge in question is supposed to be from Shreveport Louisiana, but a search of the Louisianna department of justice website produced no matches, and a thorough search of Washington Justce department produced no record of a 'Judge' Don Walters, and apart from a judge Ross A. Walters this was the only other lead:
- Army Sgt. *Donald R. Walters*,Fort leavenworth, kansas who was killed when his 507th Maintenance Company was ambushed last month in Iraq, http://www.katu.com/news/war_story.asp?ID=56462
I also cannot find any trace of the original transcript of walters lecture, all references are to an abridged transcript. I also cannot find out WHERE his lecture was delivered.
Don Waltersw does in fact turn up as a witness on a senat sub-commitee in 1993, But as a private citizen, Not a federal judge as he was supposed to be at that time
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/legislative/legislativeminutes/1993%20Senate%20Judiciary.txt/sJUD042193pm1.txt
The long and short of it
US Federal Judge Don Walters Does not exist.
The alleged transcript was submitted to the 'Global special operations' site by a Barbara Bessant, check out her other submitted articles, eg: http://members.tripod.com/~geckce/dearamerica.html
-an obvious spoof with a right-wing spin.
Not even spoof, just fabrication in place of reality to get across a point.
I would suggest that this article is of the same Calibre.
Lone Gunman, as you are the one who objects to anyone having doubts about this article, why dont you provide some evidence as to its being genuine, i cant find any, but that may just be due to rabid anti-americanism blurring my sight.
Every day another Liar steps up to add more to the stinking pile of filth that has been used to justify this War and americas treachery (*small 'a' from now on, once a great nation- but alas no more) and youre still swallowing it.
To you or everyone having doubts about the article.At least fair fucks to you .You went away and researched as to wether the article or author is true,or exists.My point being that is not wether this judge exists or not you have got to verify and check every story from both the pro and anti sides.most people would dismiss it as anti american propaganda without checking wether it is genuine or not.
Tip ;check the federal register of DOJ or it is possible that he is a judge in the US military.Yes they have them too.
I totally agree with you on that, the amount of propaganda, counter propaganda, spin, and downright lies, is astronomical. I am no longer shocked to find out how little value is placed on the truth.
You cannot trust any source without detailed verification, alot of the articles on this site carry mistruths ranging from the slightly miscorrect to the extravagant lie.
And friends, it is not just the pro-war, pro-business, anti social-justice crowd that issue propaganda. Beware, passions are filling the air.
As to this article, i have spent too much time already, i hadnt intended to dedicate much time to it and whether Don Walters exists or not does not change my opinion of it, even if he was real and everything in that article came from him, so what ?, that still would not make it indisputable. Its just more distraction, its propaganda, read the article again, it is not written to inform, its written in the manner of a counter propaganda pamphlet, it contains all the refutations and impassioned pleas to common sense characteristic of right-wing stooge nonsense.
It is a lie whether US Federal Judge Don Walters exists or not.
Believe that if it makes you feel better.
You're right however, to point out the shocking amount of lies being posted on this site. Just the other day I saw an article claiming that the recent Iraq invasion had killed "millions of civilians".
Not one person has queried this.
The reference was probably to over a million, that is including those who died from sanctions since 1991 and probably including those who died in Gulf War I. The figure for 1 million deaths from sanctions was a figure from a UN agency.
It was definitely "millions".
I agree where people are going to quote numbers they should try to make them as accurate as possible although that is extremely difficult where these are kept under wraps.
However the thrust that many, many people have died as a result of sanctions and war is valid. Is a million dead people ok? Or does it only get truly horrific when it reaches 2 million? What about 500,000 ... peanuts!