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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 >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Sunday September 21, 2025 01:28
Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
The post Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The ?Far Left? Finally Gets Its Comeuppance Sat Sep 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
For years the Left has smeared its opponents as 'far Right'. Now, the spike in Leftist political violence has led to a turning of the tables. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Guardian, says Prof James Alexander.
The post The ‘Far Left’ Finally Gets Its Comeuppance appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >>
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Cork City Council change tactics re. Travellers
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 Tuesday August 24, 2004 17:45 by Joan - Traveller and Settled Solidarity (TASS) traveller_solidarity at hotmail dot com
Following the well publicised evictions in Cork city last summer, Cork City Council have now changed tactics in their attempt to shirk their legal obligations towards Travellers on the council’s accommodation waiting list. Following the well publicised evictions in Cork city last summer, Cork City Council have now changed tactics in their attempt to shirk their legal obligations towards Travellers on the council’s accommodation waiting list.
Instead of being evicted from council land, Travellers are now being blocked in, either with concrete bollards (as reported on this website on Wed. 18/8/04) or with large heaps of earth. This makes life very difficult on a day-to-day basis. Fetching water and gas, shopping for food, bringing rubbish to the landfill, attending the doctor and, from next week, getting the children to school are made next to impossible and the lack of access for emergency services could have appalling consequences.
For several weeks now, a number of Traveller families have been camped in a privately owned field in the Fairhill area of the city. Last week, because this field had become a mud bath with the torrential rain and because of the threat of eviction, some families moved out on to the side of the road, while three other families moved onto adjacent council land.
The Travellers accessed the council land via the field they had been camped in, only to find that access to the public road on the other side had been blocked with earth by the council. The council have refused to unblock the gap, despite the fact that one of the Traveller women is heavily pregnant and the only way in or out is back through the field, with the attendant risk of becoming stuck in the mud. In fact, a garda car did get stuck in the mud for up to half an hour last Thursday morning!
Cork City Council has a legal obligation to accommodate these families, yet it is responsible for heaping the greatest grief on them. All appeals by Traveller and Settled Solidarity (TASS) to the council on behalf of the families have come up against a concrete bollard. The callousness of the council official contacted was shocking; “she should have thought of that before” was the response to the matter of the pregnant woman. The Gardai are no better; “the law is the law”, said one garda, a reminder of Margaret Thatcher’s “a crime is a crime, is a crime” and “I’m only doing my job”, said another. Well, a number of Nazis used that feeble excuse at the Nuremberg trials.
When TASS spoke to John O’Brien of Cork City Council housing department last week, he admitted that the council were not permitted by law to move Travellers on if they had no where else to go, and insisted that there had been no council evictions of Travellers this year. The Gardai say that there is nothing illegal about the blocking of access to council land, even if it might be necessary to call medical assistance for someone camped on that land!
So there we have it, the council is making life as hard as possible for Travellers on their own accommodation waiting list, but doing it within the letter of the law. At the end of the day, making it impossible for the Travellers to stay amounts to the same thing as moving them on with nowhere to go, only the council and the Gardai don’t have to get their hands dirty with a messy eviction. But I ask you, where is the humanity in that?
If you wish to protest this crime against humanity, you can contact Stephen Kearney, Director of Services, Housing Department, Fire Station, Angelsea St., Cork or tel. 021 4924561, or John O’Brien at the same address, tel. 021 4924732.
POSTSCRIPT
TASS has just learned that the Travellers blocked in on the council land have managed to leave there and are now parked up on the side of the road nearby. So now they have access to services and emergency services can get to them, but they are still in a very precarious position.
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Jump To Comment: 1This is like an archive from Germany in the 1930s. The reference to the Nuremberg trial is appropriate. As a citizen of Ireland and a Cork resident I feel embarrassed to be reading this post by TASS. As a person who works with Travellers, I find these events deeply frustrating and upsetting. What makes it worse is that many settled people who otherwise appear to be well informed, simply accept that this is going on and get along with their daily lives.
How much energy will it take? How many press statements? How many news reports? How many street demonstrations, before people open their eyes to the horror that is being inflicted in their names?
A human rights group based in Dublin is preparing a bill to be put to the Dail this autumn. The bill will propose a number of changes in legislation which will attempt to steer Irish law out of the nightmare of legalised oppression currently being visited on Travellers.
The Traveller Visibility Group has been asked to assist the group by suggesting legislative changes to be included in the bill. The sort of change we are thinking is, in prosecutions under the anti-trespass legislation, to make it a defence that you have nowhere legal to live.
Any other suggestions would be welcomed, at mailto:tvg@indigo.ie.
We would also welcome ideas from any source, about how to build networks with other local and regional organisations and groups, in a further attempt to shift public awareness towards a more balanced view the life experiences of Travellers.
Lastly, we would be interested to here from more voluntary activists who will attend evictions at short notice, to demonstrate against the eviction, to witness what happens, to be present in solidarity with the families, and to give your comments to the media if they arrive. All it involves is e-mailing your name and phone number to TVG. Members of TASS have put in long hours supporting Travellers during evictions. This cost people who took time off work to be present. The more people who can become directly involved, the easier it will be on people to show support. The outcomes of this support have been positive. Travellers have appreciated the support, some saying things like they don't feel so much under attack, they don't feel alone, and the children are able to register the fact that not all settled people are bad. Some have also reported that when settled supporters are around for subsequent court cases, they are the only friendly faces in the court, and it gives them the courage to speak up for themselves.