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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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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.
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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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Wednesday December 10, 2003 15:27
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Jump To Comment: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Is your motivation to remove the current government based on the fact that they cought you for €130,000 undeclared income and VAT back in 2000?
At the time you were listed as a taxi plate owner and landlord.
Just a reminder folks - undeclared income tax and VAT which was not voulenteered but was settled as part of a Revenue investigation! This is THEFT from other taxpayers.... anyone interested in how many properties this guy owns?
I think Mr Turley is really a decent human being(a closet socialist and humanitarian) who finds the companionship of good , honest,caring people ..stimulating,hence his addiction to a site where everything he now stands for is anathema to compassionate people of integrity and principle. Maybe he suspects that the people he has associated with(ingenuously),are something more(or less) than he had hoped for.He deserves an invitation to join a better Party than that which he now represents.He is young enough to have a conscience still,and after all...the" Car with the Star,."is not the purpose and reason for your existance,Michael.-is it really worth the price of your Soul and your Principles? Your Master,Bertie,claims its just a"Game" ..like a football match.The abuse of power,corruption,injustice,..is not a "game",Michael...it is something you will one day be called to answer for at a higher Court than any human -lawyer-enriching tribunal..Your undoubted talents could be of aid to the decent citizens of this country...but not as long as you take the 30 pieces of silver from Bertie,Mary,and the Soldiers Of Corruption,Fianna Fail.
The above mentioned parasites portray themselves as environmentalist, green, pro recycling etc.
They are supplementing their income however, with a nice little sideline into construction waste disposal, witness their skips outside Belvedere College. Now surely they are in breach of the Trade Descriptions Act as there is nothing on their website glorifying these activities. I wonder how they recycle rubble?
What Soffe and the other county managers are trying to do is intimidate the bin men into not fraternising in any way with residents in local communities. they fear (rightly) that the binmen do not want to implement non collection in the New Year and that it's best to keep mixing with residents to a minimum.
I listened to Soffe on Joe Duffy today as well. He seemed to be equating bin men who take a few quid or a tin of biscuits with the corrupt and rotten property speculators and councillors.
... the political debris that crawls out of the woodwork in the months prior to an election.
The Herald yesterday had a statement from a PD creature seeking a seat in Dun Laoghaire/Rarhdown. He was getting shockingly hot and bothered about the rise in bin charges. Pinko left-wing scum that he is.
Thanks for the advice, Turley Wee, I am quite aware that posting to indymedia is not going to win me votes but perhaps unusally for a wannabe that doesn't particularly bother me. The reason I post to indymedia is to engage with people who are passionate about politics (and there are one or two on indymedia) even if I disagree with them. It is good to have your views challenged once in a while. As a matter of interest my letters have been published in the IT and the Evening Herald (you can see them on my website).
Coming up to local elections is a great time for wannabe-watching. They pop up everywhere, issuing newsless press statements, posting a million letters a week to the papers, bandwagoning on campaigns they've played no part in, endlessly running around looking for an oppurtunity to muscle in on someone else's photo oppurtunity and causing more headaches for the cynical old councillors from their own party than anyone else.
Anyway, poor Turley has let it all go to his head. He's added 'regularly intervening on indymedia' to his to-do list. Now this could only be down to two things: He thinks some potential FF voters check in on indymedia and that there's votes in it (dont think so, Proto-Cllr). Maybe he just likes getting a rise out of the assorted lefties, just for the kick of it (A genuine human trait in an aspirant politician,how quaint).
Really, Deputy Turley (Oh does'nt that sound great), we all know you're pro Bin Tax shapes are directed at the good burghers of Ballsbridge etc. but see they have noticed cos you have'nt made it into the Irish Times. Less of the indymedia and more the Leinster matches,young chappie!
Your colleagues certainly wimped out over the CE schemes. It won't be forgotten.
Hey Michael
"someday a big rain will come and clean all the filth from the streets."
Bring it on - Bye, bye FF.
Any one giving to the Oxigen workers beware - the actual workers are on strike for union recognition at the moment. The men on the trucks are hired in scabs don't give em a penny!
- social in Smyths in Dun laoghaire for Oxigen strkers see the events calender here
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=62541
mean time - of course - give to the bin workers they have stood right by us and we will stand right by them (Fingal excepted!)
By the appearance of Turley on his web site he could certainly afford to lose a few pounds !
Conor
...the usual couple of quid but, of course, I did pay my waste management charges.