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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

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Sep 23, 2025 01:12 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Hamas Executes ?Israeli Collaborators? in Streets of Gaza Mon Sep 22, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hamas?has executed three Palestinians accused of "collaborating" with Israel on the streets of Gaza, just hours after the UK, Australia and Canada announced their?recognition of a Palestinian state.
The post Hamas Executes “Israeli Collaborators” in Streets of Gaza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong Mon Sep 22, 2025 17:35 | Dr David Bell
The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to counter an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals, systematically doing what they knew was wrong, says Dr David Bell.
The post The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link School Accused of ?Brainwashing? Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book ?Blaming Them for The... Mon Sep 22, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
A parent has accused a secondary school of "brainwashing" after?he learned that 14 year-old pupils were told to read a book that "blames them for their white skin" ? and his daughter was forced to read it out loud.
The post School Accused of “Brainwashing” Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book “Blaming Them for Their White Skin” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for ... Mon Sep 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage?today vowed to block foreign nationals from getting benefits, slashing the welfare bill "by ?234bn", and to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants with 'settled status' by bringing in stricter visa tests.
The post No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for Those Who Fail Under Crackdown on ‘Settled Status’ Migrants appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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& the little one said roll over, so they all rolled over & one fell out & then there were...

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Wednesday March 16, 2005 08:32author by ali baba Report this post to the editors

The White House has told the american people and various diplomats that the decision by Burlesconi to withdraw troops from Iraq starting in September has nothing to do with Calipari's death.

Italians mobilised more than five million people to protest against the illegal invasion of Iraq.

They walked regularly under the rainbow flag of peace from the castle of the angel in Rome through the streets.

The disobedientti movement stopped trains carrying troops. The left and liberals and church mobilised.

That was two years ago.

Then on St Joseph's day, Bush went into Babalon.

In the meantime over 60 Italian servicemen and women have been killed. The latest one died yesterday.

In the meantime two Italian aid workers of a peace group were held for a long time and eventually released.

In the meantime many other Italian journalists were kidnapped, ransoms were paid, some released, some not.

Italy and the Italians suffered one and all as a result of Silvio Burlosconi's decision to support the "coalition of the willing" and offer military assistance to the illegal invasion of Iraq which sought to replace the Saddam regime by over-ruling the UN, trashing the findings of the UNs arms and atomic investigators, breaking international law, "not controlling oil", for what?

"to help democracy emerge"
"to demonise Islam by blaming the Iraqi people for the 911 event".

as the italian press see it today-

http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Politica/2005/03_Marzo/15/truppe.shtml
http://www.rainews24.it/Notizia.asp?NewsID=53064
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGNDispacci/20050315/ADN20050315201718.htm
http://www.unita.it/index.asp?SEZIONE_COD=HP&TOPIC_TIPO=&TOPIC_ID=41477

Meanwhile Burlosconi has come under criticism for announcing the troop withdrawl on TV rather than in the parliament. Surely a sign of his disrespect for the institutions of state and government. It might now be time to look back over the last 3 years "put Burlosconi through the indymedia search engine" and see his disregard for the lives of Italians, his preference for bribery, his unwarranted control of broadcast media, his coalitions of the wicked at home and abroad, his plastic surgery.

all of it.

There will now be more Oil and more Smack routes and more unhappy militants for the kid soldiers of the USA to deal with.

"The world is surely a safer place".

Related Link: http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5604602
author by boo!publication date Wed Mar 16, 2005 11:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Italy counts 3000 troops in Iraq
and suffered 28 deaths.
This is the fourth largest contigency.

The Ukraine has also announced the withdrawl of its 1650 strong presence.
http://www.ukraine-eu.mfa.gov.ua/cgi-bin/valnews_miss.sh?lpos1200409030.shtml

Poland is withdrawing part of its 1700 soldiers this summer.

author by of course not.publication date Thu Mar 17, 2005 09:13author address author phone Report this post to the editors

has told americans (and the world) that the coalition of the willing is not disintegrating.
it is possible some americans believe him. its quite probably most americans dont care. it is very very unlikely that more than a few thousand people globally however do. Which is sort of what you get for being a matilda who told such lies and cried wolf so many times. So as you reflect on the latest appointment suggestion of the all powerful USA to the world bank "mr Wolfowitz" think about this young lad's piece, he's from Harvard, the DCU of Massacheussets where everyone is a democrat.

http://www.thecrimson.com/today/article506479.html

If Mr Bush wasn't responsible for the increase in innocent deaths, the provocation of fundamentalism of all types, the increase in Oil prices, and so, it would actually be comical, this popular "christian- one of us- ordinary guy- president" in the eyes of Americans, who is quite magnificently running the US into the sand bar of time, and simultaneously giving a whole new generation of Europeans a sense of common purpose, pacifism and maturity.

bloody magnificent.
happy St Patrick's day Mr President.
you're doing more to destroy the political and cultural might of the USA than Breshnev ever thought possible your legacy will be quite something.

author by gileadpublication date Fri Mar 18, 2005 14:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Silvio isn't sure if his TV appearance, was the truth.

This is clever of the snake, very clever, and explains why he didn't make the withdrawl announcement legally binding as a Parliamentary statement or open to proper scrutiny in the legislature.

He owns TV stations and uses them to subvert public opinion, and you rarely get to see the truth on any of his channels.

The Italian media is the most compromised in Europe. the 2004 report saw it share most indexes with the Aznar regime. (& his current (though thankfully very rarely seen now) TV caricture as pinnochio in a darth vadar costume means something doesn't it?)
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=6393&var_recherche=italy
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=10148&var_recherche=italy



He loves trotting out his plastic surgery and appearing younger.
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67887

Blair/Bush have told him to stay.
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4279518

He didn't actually get any increase in the opinion polls so it wasn't worth the effort.

Oh well.
read this book / summary-
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/handmaid/

 
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