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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 >>
The Staggering Cost of Ed Miliband?s Net Zero Drive Finally Revealed: ?4.5 Trillion? That?s More Tha... Sun Jan 11, 2026 13:06 | Richard Eldred
New official figures suggest Ed Miliband's Net Zero push could rack up a jaw-dropping ?4.5 trillion bill ? more than the UK's entire GDP ? leaving households to fork out for heat pumps, EVs and miles of new infrastructure.
The post The Staggering Cost of Ed Miliband?s Net Zero Drive Finally Revealed: ?4.5 Trillion? That?s More Than the UK?s Entire GDP appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Police Officer Who Tackled Knifeman Could Be Barred From Working With Children Sun Jan 11, 2026 11:00 | Richard Eldred
An award-winning officer who tackled a masked teenager with a knife has lost his job, been flagged on DBS checks and could now be shut out of working with kids.
The post Police Officer Who Tackled Knifeman Could Be Barred From Working With Children appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
RFK Turns the American Food Pyramid Upside Down Sun Jan 11, 2026 09:00 | Dr Zo? Harcombe
What South Park predicted, RFK Jr has now done: he's turned the American food pyramid upside down, prioritising fats and real food over carbs. It's a revolution, says Dr Zo? Harcombe. But there is one wrinkle.
The post RFK Turns the American Food Pyramid Upside Down appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
2025 Was an Average Year for Hurricanes Globally Sun Jan 11, 2026 07:00 | Paul Homewood
We all know hurricanes are getting worse. After all, the mainstream media keep telling us so. There's just one problem, says Paul Homewood. The data show otherwise, with 2025 an average year for hurricanes globally.
The post 2025 Was an Average Year for Hurricanes Globally appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Sun Jan 11, 2026 00:42 | Will Jones
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. Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
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The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en Voltaire Network >>
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Ireland Joins US and abandons Europe.
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 Monday February 23, 2004 01:02 by An Bean Siodha - Irish Defence Association foi at taoiseach dot gov dot ie The White House, Kildare St,. Dublin 01-6194020
Ahern and Cowen praised by US on Shannon stance
22/02/04 00:00
The Sunday Business Post, in an article by Pat Leahy reveals that the US and Ireland are far more closely interconnected than many Irish people realised. This article can be read on Page 4 of the SB Post on 22 Feb 04. A nation once again? Ireland Joins US and abandons Europe.
It is still unclear as to just when Ireland surreptitiously became the 51 State of the United States of America.
The US Embassy in Dublin will shortly close down, as the US does not maintain embassies within its own national territory. It may retain a consulate to deal with travel and immigration queries for other EU citizens who may be living in Ireland. It seems that Ireland will be allowed to maintain its association with the European Union, provided of course that it only acts in accordance with the US national interests in a European context. This should not be a problem as this has been the de facto situation for almost a decade. An Tainiste’s statement that Ireland was closer to Boston than to Berlin simply reflects past international political reality that has now become national reality (Ireland now being within the US nation, and no longer a player in the international stage). Of course these matters have not been subject to approval by the Irish electorate. Focus groups and opinion polls taken by CIA funded pollsters, Jane Doe Inc., in early March 2003 indicated that the majority of Irish people were opposed to integration with the US. Just as the people of Iraq and Afghanistan needed liberation from themselves, at a cost of about 25,000 and 8,000 lives respectively, the Irish people, suffering from false consciousness, needed the leadership of An Taoiseach agus An Tainiste, respectfully, to do for the Irish people what they knew was best for the Irish people. Just as An Taoiseach always knew that he was on the side of the Irish peace protesters all along, he also knew that the Irish people were closer to Boston than to Berlin all along, because An Tainiste told him so. In secret negotiations held in Washington on St Patrick’s day in 2002, and finalised on St Patrick’s day 2003, just three days before the Iraq war, An Taoiseach brilliantly succeeded in outmanoeuvring President Bush, who had been determined to pull US investment out of Ireland at the cost of 95,000 Irish jobs, by agreeing to Irish participation in the war against Iraq, but only on condition that Ireland secretly became the 51st state of the USA. This move was necessary to get around the small problems presented by Bunreacht na hEireann, the United Nations and international law. These matters were overcome by the clever dual devices of getting the judiciary to declare that any articles of the Irish Constitution that were inconvenient, were only aspirational, i.e. waffle, while at the same time declaring that all matters of international law, the UN and Geneva Conventions et al were subservient to the Irish national law. The cleverness here was that since any article of the Irish Constitution could now be declared aspirational, and since An Bunreacht is the basis for all Irish law, which in turn is superior to all international law, then that makes all international law aspirational, i.e. waffle. Under this new regime, it becomes ok then to kill foreigners, provided they are not killed on Irish territory or within Irish airspace.
An Dail voted on 20 March 2003, not to participate in the war against Iraq, but just to send 130,000 US troops with over 260,000 weapons, and about one million tons of munitions through Shannon airport to kill some people in Iraq. Nice one that.
Government sources (it was not clear which government) also undertook to effectively silence the Irish peace protest movement by denying them access to TRE (Telecumersaid Rialtas Eireann), the Irish government broadcasting service, and to use the services of secret agents to create disharmony within the peace movement. As a token of his esteem for the Irish people, George Bush, President of the Republic of the Greater United States of America and Ireland, will visit Ireland in June 2004. President Bush will arrive appropriately at Shannon airport and will be hosted at Dromoland Castle Hotel in Co Clare. For security reasons, all Irish people will be banned from Co. Clare for the month of June 2004. All peace activists have already been banned from Clare by Chief Justice O’Mórán, in compliance with US demands over the past year.
Ex-warmonger Ed Horgan, who has been banned from Shannon airport in order to avoid embarrassing regular commuters, and peace activists, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld, said ‘I knew Bertie Aherne was on our side all along. With friends like Bertie, who needs enemies.’ Under the Irish Freedom of Information Act, no information on these matters is available from Irish sources so the author has had to rely on insider/outsider information sources. Any likeness between the above events and reality will be refuted by appropriate authorities.
An Bean Siadhe.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6We've set up official links with Burma. Scary!!!
This is total drivel, Ireland is not the 51st state of the USA.
If it is supposed to be satire, I'm sorry to say it isn't funny.
Leon is right, this is not funny,
this is serious. On Sunday 22 Feb 2004, Donald Rumsfeld stood on a chair in a public area of Shannon airport and addressed troops on their way to war with Iraq. The troops were not Irish, and Donald Runsfeld, in case Leon does not know it is US sectretary of Defence, not Irish Defence Minister. Ireland is supposed to be a neutral country. That is now a sick joke, perpetrated by Fianna Fail. Ireland is also supposed to be a free sovereign country. That is now a sick joke, not a reality, as a result of the US military base at Shannon and the likes of Mr Rumsfeld parading his troops as a gross insult to the Irish people.
Wake up Ireland you have just lost your country.
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Doesn't he? With those beady little eyes. I wonder what the troops really think of him?
BTW, I think under international law that certain areas of Shannon airport (or any interntl airport) are not technically Irish territory until you go thru the customs area.
Hard to say really. It's worth noting that a large number of them have committed suicide though. Even more important and interesting is that the opposition to the USA's imperial ventures has been largely led by veterans: the current presidential hopeful (John Kerry) made his name as a spokesperson for Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
There are some good stories about the VVAW and how the cops tried to stop guys fresh from combat marching on a hotel containing Nixon in Florida (let's just say that 50 cops on motorbikes suddenly discovered that a motorbike can become a lethal weapon in the right hands).
Already there are huge numbers of people who have family members affected by being deployed in support of a war that they don't really want. This is going to come back to bite Bush really hard, that's why he's trying to wave the distracting red flag of gay marriages.