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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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Lockdown Skeptics

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offsite link Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
The post Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours appeared first on 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.

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Civil Service pay dispute ends in defeat

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | opinion/analysis author Wednesday September 15, 2004 09:32author by Time For Change - NIPSAauthor email tfc.nipsa at ntlworld dot com Report this post to the editors

Time for change in NIPSA – Time for a fighting democratic union

The end of the Civil Service pay dispute has been a bitter pill for NIPSA members to swallow. NIPSA members have fought the governments for eight months firmly believing that our campaign was about fundamental issues. As the dispute developed that view was confirmed.
This dispute has been a struggle for the right to be properly recognised as a trade union including the right to negotiate on behalf of members, it was a struggle for the end of low pay in the Civil Service and it was the a struggle to end pay inequality.
Unfortunately in the final settlement none of these issues was properly addressed.

The dispute spluttered to a halt when the majority of the NIPSA Civil Service Executive decided not to continue that struggle. It would be a mistake on the part of the government to misinterpret this outcome. Throughout the dispute it was clear that NIPSA members wished to escalate the struggle but they could not find a way to make their voices heard with sufficient force. The Executive majority has consistently been out of step and has in reality proved unequal to the task the members expected of them. NIPSA now has a very serious debate to conduct. Lessons must be learned and radical changes made to the union so that we are never again led to this position.

The history of this dispute has been one of marvellous determination by members and gross mistakes by the leadership; the concluding consultation was a farce. That consultation has left a number of unanswered questions.

• Did non Executive speakers address meetings when the Executive had specifically directed that Civil Service Executive speakers should do so?

• Did key areas of the union fail to hold meetings?

• Were branches polled without holding meetings?

The CS Executive, dominated by a ‘Reclaim the Union’ majority, have failed to deliver the victory in this dispute which should have been attainable. It is now time to censure that leadership and seek the right of the membership to receive a clear explanation and have an opportunity to debate that failure.
Branches should meet to discuss the outcome of the dispute and move motions calling for

• Publication of all the minutes of CS Exec Cttee meetings during the dispute (including previously omitted sections).
• Censure of the CS Executive
• A special CS Group conference to fully discuss the conduct of the dispute.

No one should doubt that from this debate and the experience of this dispute a stronger, fighting, democratic union will emerge to take forward this struggle.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Less Lies Please     Civil Servant    Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:14 
   Wassup?     Trotwatch    Wed Sep 15, 2004 11:19 
   did I miss something?     madge    Wed Sep 15, 2004 14:14 
   His majesty speaks     Haddenwatcher    Wed Sep 15, 2004 14:25 
   Madge might be on to something     Nordie    Wed Sep 15, 2004 15:47 
   Heres Another     Haddockwatch    Wed Sep 15, 2004 17:18 
   and another thing ....     madge    Wed Sep 15, 2004 17:52 
   Honest SP Members     Curious    Wed Sep 15, 2004 18:23 
   simple as far as I can see     hs    Wed Sep 15, 2004 19:19 
 10   democracy     NIPSA member    Wed Sep 15, 2004 19:49 
 11   Not So Simple     Trotwatch    Wed Sep 15, 2004 19:51 
 12   Which one??????     NIPSA member    Wed Sep 15, 2004 19:53 
 13   NIPSA member     Curious    Wed Sep 15, 2004 19:54 
 14   Answers     Trotwatch    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:00 
 15   Not much to go on     NIPSA member    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:01 
 16   Rigging     Trotwatch    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:04 
 17   vote for ???     NIPSA member    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:06 
 18   Debate on tactics     Brian Stewart    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:07 
 19   NIPSA Member     Trotwatch    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:09 
 20   Brian     Trotwatch    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:12 
 21   Debate?     hs    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:14 
 22   democracy     NIPSA member    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:17 
 23   hs     Trotwatch    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:18 
 24   NIPSA "member"     Trotwatch    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:21 
 25   Reply to trotwatch     Brian    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:25 
 26   Defeat     pat c    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:27 
 27   trotwatch     hs    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:27 
 28   Oh yes I am:)     NIPSA member    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:28 
 29   Brian     Trotwatch    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:28 
 30   i'm off     hs    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:34 
 31   divide and rule     NIPSA member    Wed Sep 15, 2004 20:35 
 32   here we go again     madge    Wed Sep 15, 2004 21:17 
 33   An answer to madge     NIPSA member    Wed Sep 15, 2004 22:12 
 34   Fighting on     Brian    Thu Sep 16, 2004 10:31 
 35   Democratic debate     madge    Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:00 
 36   democratic debate     NIPSA member    Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:19 
 37   democratic debate     madge    Thu Sep 16, 2004 14:58 
 38   almost     NIPSA member    Thu Sep 16, 2004 19:13 
 39   po-faced whinging     John    Thu Sep 16, 2004 19:16 
 40   and also     John    Thu Sep 16, 2004 19:21 
 41   ?     NIPSA member    Thu Sep 16, 2004 19:25 
 42   Whose whingeing now     madge    Thu Sep 16, 2004 20:30 
 43   john     NIPSA member    Thu Sep 16, 2004 21:05 
 44   Whose at the party?     madge    Thu Sep 16, 2004 23:07 
 45   political control     NIPSA member    Fri Sep 17, 2004 00:18 
 46   nipsa- and democracy???     Bill McKeown    Fri Sep 17, 2004 04:11 
 47   political tolerance in NIPSA     NIPSA member    Fri Sep 17, 2004 08:43 
 48   a little bit political     MADGE    Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:24 
 49   pulic sector unions     freiheit    Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:47 
 50   Rights     Brian    Fri Sep 17, 2004 13:28 
 51   Rights     Brian    Fri Sep 17, 2004 13:32 
 52   nipsa pay dispute     carol    Thu Sep 23, 2004 03:07 
 53   CAROL     KINTAMA    Fri Sep 24, 2004 01:34 
 54   A whole 15 cups!     White Elephant    Fri Sep 24, 2004 14:09 
 55   paper round     madge    Fri Sep 24, 2004 23:30 
 56   paper red     kintama    Sat Sep 25, 2004 16:22 
 57   we keep hearing...     disgruntled    Sat Sep 25, 2004 23:14 
 58   NI Civil Service Dispute and the SP/SWP     Joe McCann    Sun Sep 26, 2004 04:34 
 59   nipsa and the socialists     jenny(also a civil servant)    Mon Sep 27, 2004 02:23 
 60   sarcasm? moi?     madge    Mon Sep 27, 2004 14:34 
 61   bureaucracy     impartial    Tue Sep 28, 2004 23:22 
 62   impartial?     madge    Wed Sep 29, 2004 00:01 
 63   prostrate problem     curious    Thu Sep 30, 2004 23:21 
 64   insania??     madge    Fri Oct 01, 2004 16:05 
 65   madge     Dame Edna    Fri Oct 01, 2004 16:57 
 66   dame edna     kintama    Fri Oct 01, 2004 20:50 
 67   "struggle" leads to nothing?     madge    Sat Oct 02, 2004 17:57 


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