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offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.

offsite link 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

offsite link 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.

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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link 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.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link 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.

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Bush Visit: Isn't it good to be in the majority camp for once?

category national | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Sunday April 18, 2004 17:35author by sloop Report this post to the editors

Majority against US Use of Shannon/ Against Bush Visit

.

***US Use of Shannon***

36% should continue
53% Shouldnt

A Huge Majority


***Majority against Bush Visit ***

50% say shouldnt Go Ahead
40% say it should.

Another Huge majority.

****Commentary****

You have to dig hard at the SBP Polls to get these figures as they cloud the issue by pushing hard at hiding it under the fact that 72% saying economy is dependent on US Goodwill. Thats US goodwill - not Bush good will btw. People can make the distinction even if SBP can't.

Why didn't they ask the simple question - do you support the US Occupation of Iraq?

Probably because it would have shown that the vast majority of the Irish Electorate are opposed to it vehemently including the Fianna Fail Grassroots which is a major reason why their support in the upcoming local/euro elections has plummeted to 32/33% range.

So all hands on deck for the Bush visit. We're the majority (here and in the World) and we have a right to make our feelings known. McDowell and his Armed Police on the street for mayday as a trial run may stop some of us but it sure as hell will not stop all of us

* Figures from SBP poll April 18th 2004

author by visitorpublication date Tue Oct 19, 2004 17:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

While frequent users of this site are not known for their wide-ranging knowledge, I'd still like to point out that Gwen Halley is not blonde. Even slightly.

author by jeffpublication date Wed Apr 21, 2004 18:36author email womackdoor at yahoo dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Usually I cannot undeerstand what the f*ck your on about half the time, but today you have cheered me up by telling me how the cancer that calls itself human might lose property in d4.

I just hope it is true, dude. The sight of Harney or McCreevy drowning cheers me up. I am a bit homicidal thought wise, and the IMC editors have often censured me. Tis cool.

Tis nice too to get yourself writing to me. Feel free to e mail me also, but use English!

In the mean time, I think Nole me tangere is a troll/ Garda. The stats, etc, say that people hate the PDs. ( I'm not gonna bother putting it as PD/FF. PDs rule this country.

Maybe people are happy with their economics. Maybe. Then again, those maybes just don't give a shit about the poor, the sick, etc, as well as glibly by passing our constitution regarding Shannon.

Yea, sure, we'll have more money, and more money, and we'll all be happy in our white washed apartments that go for the3 bargaion price of 400,000 euro. Hell,lets pay a million.

Expensive prices must be a good thing, because it means we are successful! La!la!la! I'm blond, female, and my name is Gwen Halley, and I write for Sindo ( one eyebrow raised to give one the impression that I'm in the 'know'!)

Yep, so I pretty much hate people at the mo. A country that contains people in power who think it alright to leave the homeless homeless and erect a syringe on it's main street, because of conceited ideas about style and millenium bullshit. Only 4 million euro, please, and a retard 'vox pop' to say live on radio "Yeah, iz gud, we nayde a landmerc, y'know"

Dang! I'm worse than you, man.


Anyway, click on my link, scroll down to the grim mp3 sample that is the Transylvanian Legionari movement, and have a nice meditation ( along the lines of marching victoriously over * insert typical Irish poklitico, journo, GRA rep scum here*)

When that gets too much, the lovely Yma Sumac is there on that page aussi, singing "Babalu". Lovely, especially with cocktails, cigars, beautiful Cuban women! Ariba!

Related Link: http://www.feastofhateandfear.com/download.html
author by iosafpublication date Wed Apr 21, 2004 17:45author address author phone Report this post to the editors

hi jeff!
great work done to keep the seeds of the garden of the Rastaman of whom we are all children on the market and in the world up the road in the Orange Kingdom.
great eh?
and squatting councils too.

If some of the asholes who supported the bull worshipers and Saudi had smoked more dope like they were told to, we would have less of a planetary mess now.
Anyways, if we have to melt the poles, amsterdam is safe from flooding, pity about Dublin 4, a good deal of big boys might lose their homes, maybe they should have thought about paying the rent, like what is the rent, and to whom it gets paid on a very regular basis. Oh but no, they just went with the cyclops and burnt the fuel, and told us they needed plutonium for the future.

Spoorstrat sent me an "O Winston link railroad photographs of the 1950s!" just think, the 1950s! wasn't it all over in the 40s? seems not.

Anyway, it's always good to find yourself a home. Smoke a spliff for me. Mohomad VI of Morroco is really quite pleased that people are beginning to get the point of commerce and international trade and what his mostly illiterate people actually farm for a living, which is "nice". Let's call him King Nice will we?

were you on an "airforce one plane" for Sept 11?

author by jeffpublication date Wed Apr 21, 2004 17:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

What group of people do you hang out with? What social class are you?" Why do yourself and your friends think PD/FF are great? just curios. I'm off to smoke a joint, now,.becfause I can, because I now live in Holland, not in the paedophile infested, greed obseessed, head up the arse society that Ireland has turned into.

I not only got my sources from me ma, but also irish radio, which I can listen to on the internet. And guess what? People hate FF/PD. The End.

( Still wishing cancer on the bastards, though. If you wish for something enough times, it will come through/true)

author by kneel on my tangerinepublication date Tue Apr 20, 2004 18:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

that's nothing more than compelling proof that you need to broaden your horizons.

author by Nole me Tangerepublication date Tue Apr 20, 2004 02:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Thanks for your precis of your mother's political views - it's hardly a scientific analysis of Irish public opinion though.

Everyone I speak to thinks the FF/PD coalition is the best thing that ever happened to this country. They're all rock-solid Bush supporters too.

author by Daithi38 - I've no ideapublication date Mon Apr 19, 2004 23:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Generally I don't agree with much that goes on here but I'm definitely taking an active roll in the anti Bush Campaign in June.
D.

author by jeffpublication date Mon Apr 19, 2004 18:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It is nice that people are actually thinking differently to what the hacks tell them to think.My mother is fairly typical of yer average middle class voter- yet now she is going to give FF/PDs their walking papers, (if the election isn't rigged with those goddamn machines)

She is angry about Shannon, she nows is disgusted by Bertie and she does not want that reprobate Texan contaminating our soil with his presence.

I asked her on the phone the other day " Mam, do you often her people expressing views to the contrary? Reading the Irish papers abroad, you'd think there would be..."

" No,": she says " Nobody would dare!"

So I am glad to see people have the good sense to HATE the right wing contamination that is currently taking place.

Oh, and a lot of Irish journalists seem to be trash. Well done to Indymedia for striking back against the media hoors ( Tynan, et al). They're scum, and they'd be better off working in Amsterdam's red light district...

author by @publication date Mon Apr 19, 2004 18:13author address author phone Report this post to the editors

hate to burst your bubble, but 50-53% is hardly a huge majority. 50 % isn't even a simple majority.

author by eenwahSpublication date Mon Apr 19, 2004 15:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Is the quality of trolling on IMC going down?
text Y or N to 58103

-The Spanish cowards capitulate to Osama bin Laden-

The Spanish have been the only European Govt to show real backbone and to take heed of what the people want.

They've been brave enough to stand up to US intimidation.
They've shown how to respond to terrorism.
Instead of bombing their nearest Arab neighbours, the Spanish arrested the terrorists.
IF Bush acted like the SPANISH, then he'd have 125,000 troops looking for bin Laden instead of occupying Iraq and allowing it to be pillaged by US corporate piracy.

If Bertie acted like Zapatero then Bush wouldn't be getting the red carpet/brown nose treatment here in June.

Shawnee, if you don't like the fact that the Irish dono't like George Bush or his murderous wars, then I'm sure you'll be out there in June with your "I LUV DUBYA" T-shirt.

author by Shawneepublication date Mon Apr 19, 2004 01:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The weaklings are feeling ready to capitulate to Osama Bin Laden, just like the Spanish cowards have done.

Still, it's only a poll, in a months time the figures will very likely be inverted.

author by @publication date Sun Apr 18, 2004 21:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Editors feel free to delete the above mess - sorry

Related Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/3626759.stm
author by @publication date Sun Apr 18, 2004 21:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Try this Link

www.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/3626759.stm.

Related Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/3626759.stm
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