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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

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Lockdown Skeptics

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offsite link Judges Need Fewer Powers, Not More Thu Nov 20, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
The Hillsborough Law is well-intentioned, but its effect will be to transfer yet more power from Parliament to unelected judges ? the opposite of what is needed to restore public trust and democratic accountability.
The post Judges Need Fewer Powers, Not More appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Lockdowns Could Have Been Avoided Entirely If ?Stringent Restrictions? Were Imposed Earlier, Covid I... Thu Nov 20, 2025 17:03 | Will Jones
Lockdowns could have been "avoided entirely" during Covid had ministers?more quickly?imposed "stringent restrictions" such as social distancing and face masks, the COVID-19 Inquiry has concluded.
The post Lockdowns Could Have Been Avoided Entirely If “Stringent Restrictions” Were Imposed Earlier, Covid Inquiry Finds appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Majority of Public ?Does Not Want? Labour?s Islamophobia Definition Thu Nov 20, 2025 15:14 | Will Jones
Labour?s new definition of Islamophobia is not wanted by the majority of the public in any form, with just a fifth backing it, a poll has found, amid a free speech backlash.
The post Majority of Public “Does Not Want” Labour’s Islamophobia Definition appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Call Prostitutes ?Sexual Entrepreneurs?, Say Police Thu Nov 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Police chiefs have been accused of treating prostitution as a normal job and effectively decriminalising it by telling officers they should call prostitutes "sex workers" or "sexual entrepreneurs".
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Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's asylum 'crackdown' is not nearly enough to stop the flow, says Juliet Samuel in the Times. It still leaves Britain looking like a utopia for far too many.
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Give Us Our Day To Mourn Bertie

category dublin | consumer issues | news report author Thursday April 07, 2005 19:51author by The Sneerside People Report this post to the editors

Scenes Of Mourning World Wide

The Polish-born pope, who died Saturday at the age of 84, also had considered the possibility of a funeral in Poland, but later left the decision up to the College of Cardinals, which decided to have him buried under St. Peter’s Basilica on Friday after a funeral in the square.
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Pope John Paul II suggested in his last testament that he considered the possibility of resigning in 2000, when the Roman Catholic Church began its new millennium and he turned 80, according to the document released Thursday.

Meanwhile the Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has rejected calls for the declaration of a national day of mourning for the Pope.

Several countries throughout the world have declared official mourning periods and Mr Ahern has been coming under pressure to also do so in Ireland. Such a move would see all workers being given a public holiday to mark the death of John Paul II.

In Dundrum Shopping Centre today a dispute arose in the grocery section as several carrots and assorted vegetables held a silent protest to mourn the Pope's death.

Sheila McSpud, who is believed to be a leader in the dispute said:

"The death of the Holy Pontiff has caused serious anguish in grocery sections up and down the country. We find it absolutely insulting that the taoiseach will not facilitate us in our sorrow. It is quite clear just who he represents, and that is not the vegetables of Ireland who never even had a say in his election. Instead he has proven himself as siding with the owners and business classes. The Pope should come before profit.'

In ruling out the move today, Mr Ahern said this week was being treated as a period of mourning and he hoped employers would facilitate staff who wished to attend church services or other commemorations.

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author by iosafpublication date Thu Apr 06, 2006 00:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

He was a very twentieth century person.
He lived in times when personal action was customarily subsumed to ......
living lies at home and on the street.
reading lies and watching lies.
Hopefully he did really sincerely believe
the good things of his tradition that he seemed
so well to fit as a leader.

Karol Wotyla
RIP

may the lord have mercy on your soul.


chanting as they do-

"Cost effectiveness"
"R&D"
"non-conclusive evidence"
"net profit and contribution to job creation"
"to be regretted"
"data not available at this time".

Thou shallt not kill nor make war! + bong boing + bong boing +
Thou shallt not kill nor make war! + bong boing + bong boing +

author by pollen distribution - mary mary quite contrary how does your garden grow?publication date Sat Apr 09, 2005 17:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The United States Agriculture Department, which imposed the fine of $375,000 for contaminating seeds with an unapproved variety of genetically-modified corn. The U$AD say its dangerous to humans. Syngenta say it isn't dangerous to humans. Syngenta is the world leader in crop protection and ranks third in the commercial seeds market. -The company makes products that help farmers fight weeds, fungi and pests.-
It was formed in 2000 by the merger of the agrochemicals divisions of AstraZeneca and Novartis.
-It employs about 19,000 people in more than 90 countries. -Net profit in 2004 after exceptional items soared by 84 per cent to $460 million

Meanwhile on the other side of the garden the Spanish have watched with increasing wonder the death of their bees, estimated at 290million in the last year, due to a vicious little creature - Varroa mite (Varroa jacobsoni) many millions of bee colonies globally are falling prey to this little critter. Syngenta also develop crop spray to control the various mites, fungi and bacteria that prey on bees. But for reasons of R&D cost effectiveness the effect of their GM products on bee health or the phenomenal recent added aggresiveness of those tiny litle Varroa mites has not been studied.
Bees are wonderful little creatures they may fly many kilmetres to find and mix pollen spreading their evil mites all over the isolated by 200 metre GM crops in the way. It is way past time therefore that in the name of Science and Progress we urged all children to finally kill the bees.

chanting as they do-

"Cost effectiveness"
"R&D"
"non-conclusive evidence"
"net profit and contribution to job creation"
"to be regretted"
"data not available at this time".

author by grinning awaypublication date Sat Apr 09, 2005 16:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

seriously this made my day, sitting here thinking of the random people finding those carrots on the way to work . . . and the socialist worker carrot BRILLIANT.

author by JP McManuspublication date Sat Apr 09, 2005 01:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

and whats with these scurrulous insituations and undertones? do you imply that that swimmer's are vegetables - just look at that last image. How dare you. hmph

author by Confusedpublication date Fri Apr 08, 2005 23:32author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ok call me heartless but what is there to mourn? The pope lived a long and illustrious life and lived to the ripe old age of 84.

I thought mourning was reserved for those who die tragically or 'before their time'.

Anyway shouldn't it be a celebration, like according to the pope himself he should be dancing in heaven right about now - Funk Soul Brother.

Or maybe Ive missed something.........

author by letters and numberspublication date Fri Apr 08, 2005 22:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The €U opposed the U$A on the introduction of GM organisms (mostly sold and developed by U$ based biotech corps) to the third world as a "final solution" to hunger, on the grounds that an unproven science biased by speculative investment could and might do untold and irreversible damage to the global ecosystem.

The Vatican through its head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, Renato Martino, (also the man who offered Saddam a fair trial with Vatican help despite him being dead years and all) surprised everyone on one of the most basic concepts of the .:. books. Only the Divine architect and creator makes things. Like you do what you want with the turkey baster and stuff, but at the end of the day, if it comes together thats the divine architect's job. And if you're a silly monkey you don't go improving on that especially if you can only remember a few thousand years of coherent forgery.

So in a way, the carrots make a point.
3rd world food poverty will end when 1st world business and national interests see it as their responsibility as brothers and sisters to share the resources denied them. Water - Food - Vaccines Development.

any silly monkey ought see that.

The RC church in 2003 "when Karol was weakening month by month" and U$A GM "organisms":-
some links.
write a postcard to the conclave, ask them what Joseph Ratzinger has told them to say. They'll know who you're talking about. Your postcard will get through.

http://www.ncrlc.com/CatholicNews_story.html
http://www.betterhumans.com/News/news.aspx?articleID=2003-08-06-3
http://news.crossmap.com/story/vatican-says-gm-food-is-a-blessing/276.htm
http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/2003/0808vatican.htm

.:. if you don't know how a soul gets in a monkey dont think you can make a seed .:.
.:. if you don't know how a soul gets in a monkey dont think you can make a seed .:.

author by examinerpublication date Fri Apr 08, 2005 22:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

By the sacred left bollock of the Pope! You lot are a dour humourless bunch. Reminds me of a certain other bunch of dogmatists who were in mourning in 1953.

Mr. Vegetable man, I salute you - as a fellow photographer of vegethromorphic scenes (I kid you not) this made me laugh out loud.

I hope we'll see these brave veggies take up the cases of the issues of the day!

To hell with the naysayers! (They'll probably meet auld JP Mk.II down there anyway, so they'll be happy enough).

Or maybe they'll meet the thousands of Africans who dared use contraception in definace of his Holiness?

author by bonniepublication date Fri Apr 08, 2005 16:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Everyone knows the pope was a radish.
Red and white.
What have carrots got to do with it?
Orange B*****d's!

author by Guntherpublication date Fri Apr 08, 2005 16:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Whajt are tjhese objects being? This is very rude to the Pope RIP and they are looked like they sexing tools. Very not good and silly.

author by SMpublication date Fri Apr 08, 2005 14:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

With the recent total saturation and sensational coverage of the death of one insignificant man, its about time some one took the piss!
do be so feckin' serious....
dont forget vegetables have feelings too.... and rights!

Solidarity with the vegetables!

Viva La Vegetablés!! Viva, Viva!!

author by .publication date Fri Apr 08, 2005 02:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Fabulous.

Gets better with every comment.

author by Phil Hearsepublication date Fri Apr 08, 2005 01:09author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Very amusing!

author by authorpublication date Thu Apr 07, 2005 23:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

What a load of bollocks.

Useless.

Now that's a expressing yourself.

But I wonder is it valid?

Is it satire?

Or is it a load of wanky students with nothing better to do.

Wankers.

Bollocks

Good day to you all.

author by Joepublication date Thu Apr 07, 2005 23:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I read the headline as 'Give us a day to mourn Bertie' rather than 'Give us a day to mourn - Bertie"

author by Carrot Headpublication date Thu Apr 07, 2005 22:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The photos of the protesting carrots were kind of amusing...

author by DRABpublication date Thu Apr 07, 2005 21:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yeah, I cant believe you're laughing, you're sense of humour is pathetic. My sense of houmour is much better; I don't laugh.

author by amandapublication date Thu Apr 07, 2005 21:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I think calling it satire is a bit generous, its in bad taste and a very poor effort at satire, think the writer could put a bit more thought into this sort of thing, the problem with this site is that any old shite can get on it, I suppose I'm worse to be even justifing it with a comment, People are also entilted to be critical as well as its also a form of expression

author by Blah Boypublication date Thu Apr 07, 2005 21:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Attemps at satire are a perfectly vailid form of expression.

Even if they are as 'pathetic' as you think.

author by georgepublication date Thu Apr 07, 2005 20:10author address author phone Report this post to the editors

don't give up the day job, thats if you have one, I'm not at all religious but your attempt at humour is pathetic, by the way I dont support a day of mourning but I also dont agree with a pitcure of the deceased pope being on a web site with thrash like this, get a life author, I hope it brings you the luck you deserve

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