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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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Thursday December 04, 2003 21:17
by Paul Kinsella - Santry Campaign Against the Bin Tax
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53 Lorcan Grove, Santry, Dublin 9
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Jump To Comment: 2 1The Bin Taxes are in for a spectacular leap in coming years,if Fianna Fail are implementing a wonderful "Relocation on vacation!,"plan for their Mandarin minions in government employ.Hopefully,-Its a gimmick for sure.! Pray tell us,Bertie,(and your consort,Mary) the cost in "dislocation" compensation for 10,000 civil servants,plus the usual "relocation"reimbursements etc,etc that the powerful public service unions would require of "Joe Taxpayer" for such a wonderful treat for every civil servant who has had to visit the Capital City in search of gainful employment,-as sending him back to the bog ,a seriously wealthier man?. It is a wonderful scenario...1. Sell your scandalously priced house in Dublin(thanks,Fianna Fail,for that!) 2 Buy a rural retreat for half the price,3.No more nightmare traffic;useless infrastructure;parking problems.etc etc.4 Get another 200,000 Euros (in "disturbance compensation" ). 5 Take early retirement.6 Buy a nice apartment on the Costa del Sol,..next door ,to a good golf course ,and rub shoulders with the Builders/speculators/Publicans/assorted Fianna Fail stalwarts who have already bought the best sites there....and 7.. live happily ever after,!( while,Bertie figures out how to make the not so secure" left-behinds " pay for it all ..-probably for the rest of their young lives!).That is, after he has found 400 million for the sexually abused,..400 million for the medically(negligentconsultants/tainted blood etc)abused,and another few billion for the Legal Profession abused .(almost evey business and individual in the country!).and so on.. !Bertie may just be teasing you civil service Mandarins however..otherwise his frugal pal McCreevy will have to do another" Charlie Haughy" with the National Debt...borrow and be damned! .Maybe it"s time to tap it again... Fianna Fail would certainly like to strike camp,.. and bring all their gang ,servants included,.back to the sleepy pastures of rural Ireland, from where they could together rule the roost like Cockerels for evermore,. forgetting about the troublesome folk in the big cities,except when they need extra funds to maintain the "Squire Haughey "lifestyle,.and if the Dubliners,or the Corkonians,prove a bit of a thorn in Berties backside..paying for all this garbage..(taxes)..well.... Hopefully the thorns will grow bigger in time..God willing. Meanwhile Bertie and Mary,happy hunting on your financing expeditions for these wonderful retirement plans for the not- so -civil service....on the Costa del Golf.!..Playa.Del Connemara,!or Puerto Rico del Mayo! or in whatever happy haven they may eventually repose...Another 25cents on a litre of petrol?..500euros a year for the bins? Can we meter the water supply? the well is not empty yet.Back to the drawing board boys.Get those Mandarins thinking!The person you enrich may be..yes..YOU!!
J.McDermott Ashtown,Dublin 15.(8680717)
my best wishes to the magnificent ,if small ,group of activists who keep alive the "garbage tax" campaign.There are sheep and wolves..in every society.The (fianna fail)predators are in the ascendency at present,but while ten or twenty ..or more..good men..are prepared to suffer,..for the leaderless (and thankless)sheep in our society...there is hope. You are the salt of the earth.Your cause is just. Persevere.,...the Ahernes.the Haugheys,the Burkes ...the lawlors and all their kith and kin in Fianna Fail seem great.. because we are on our knees! They have the resources ,the money the power ,to bribe the populace into an unholy alliance against the weaker ,the forgotten ,the voiceless in our community.We must unite all the people we can against this rotten apple of a government .We must never let it be forgotten that for decades,they have lined their own pockets , and those of the rich and powerful ,at the expense of working class people.Never ,never must it be forgotten ..until the very name "Fianna Fail" ,and all they stand for is an unwholesome word ..to be spat out..like the spittle of a sour apple ..from the mouth...whatever administration replaces them..it can hardly be more corrupt ,more uncaring, more ruthless..than this Mafiosi which rules our destiny now.