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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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offsite link Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Students Sing Antisemitic Chants on October 7th Anniversary Tue Oct 07, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hundreds of pro-Palestine students chanted "from the river to the sea" ? an antisemitic slogan calling for the destruction of Israel ? during protests on the second anniversary of?Hamas's October 7th attacks.
The post Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Students Sing Antisemitic Chants on October 7th Anniversary appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Scientists Are at Last Uncovering the Links Between ME, Long Covid and Long Vaccine Tue Oct 07, 2025 17:59 | Patrick Ussher
Scientists are at last uncovering the links between ME (aka Chronic Fatigue), Long Covid and Long Vaccine. It's a breakthrough that promises treatments that target the underlying cause, says Patrick Ussher.
The post Scientists Are at Last Uncovering the Links Between ME, Long Covid and Long Vaccine appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Gary Neville Suffers Backlash as ?Angry? Workers Who He Ordered to Remove Union Jack Accuse Him of S... Tue Oct 07, 2025 15:38 | Will Jones
Footballer turned property developer Gary Neville?is facing a furious backlash after he ordered builders to take down a Union Jack, saying that "angry, middle-aged white men" were using flags to divide the country.
The post Gary Neville Suffers Backlash as “Angry” Workers Who He Ordered to Remove Union Jack Accuse Him of Suppressing Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Jenrick Stands by Claim he ?Did Not See a White Face? During Birmingham Visit Tue Oct 07, 2025 13:43 | Will Jones
Robert Jenrick has stood by comments he made complaining of not seeing "another white face" in a Birmingham neighbourhood, saying it is one of the "worst integrated places" he has been to.
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offsite link Conservative Party Members Want Pact With Reform, Poll Finds Tue Oct 07, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Conservative Party members want a pact with Reform UK, a poll has found ? and half say they don't want Kemi Badenoch leading them into the next election.
The post Conservative Party Members Want Pact With Reform, Poll Finds appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Courageous invitation a challenge to Paisley

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Tuesday May 16, 2006 19:01author by Susan McKay Report this post to the editors

Susan McKay Irish News May 16 2006 www.irishnews.com

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Michael McIlveen was just 15 when he was beaten to death by loyalists in Ballymena 10 days ago. His mother, Gina, has invited her MP, the Reverend Ian Paisley, to her son's funeral. This is a gesture which is as breathtakingly generous as Gordon Wilson's when he forgave the IRA after it murdered his daughter Marie in 1987. Gina McIlveen has asked the elected leader of the majority of the Protestant people to be by her side as she buries her son, murdered by Protestants because he was a Catholic. The invitation is courageous. It also contains a challenge. She is asking the DUP to show respect.
Cartoon with McKay story Irish News May 16 2006
Cartoon with McKay story Irish News May 16 2006

Paisley offered sympathy to the family and condemned the murder but he also made excuses for it. The UDA recently claimed that republicans had broken a deal under which the UDA mural overlooking the Catholic church in Harryville and other sectarian emblems would be removed in exchange for the removal of tricolours from nationalist estates. Speaking after Michael's murder, Paisley said: "There's problems in Ballymena when people don't keep their word." Last summer, Ian Paisley jnr predicted trouble if a republican parade was allowed in the town. Loyalists were intimidating and burning Catholics out of local villages at the time and this campaign escalated.

There is a shocking level of sectarian violence in Ballymena and the UDA is behind much of it, enlisting teenagers into its Ulster Young Militants, filling their heads with hatred and sending them out to fight. The UDA's quasi-political spokesmen condemned Michael's murder and called on the SDLP and Sinn Fein to combat an "evil, evil campaign" in the nationalist community. This is presumably a reference to the existence of a small number of Real IRA supporters in Ballymena. Paisley is once again endorsing the loyalist paramilitary analysis - loyalist violence is defensive, a reaction to provocation.

Michael was three when the IRA called its ceasefire. Months later, the loyalist paramilitaries followed, expressing remorse the murders of innocents. He was seven when the Good Friday Agreement was signed. Now he is dead, his brief life ended by atavistic sectarian bigots. His community has endured the agony of waiting for his body to be released for his funeral. Gina McIlveen and her family are dealing with their own shattering grief while helping Michael's young friends, who knew him as Mickybo, to express their heartbreak at vigils and prayer meetings. They have thanked Protestant friends for their solidarity. Michael's 16-year-old sister Jodie has helped the PSNI distribute leaflets asking for those with information to give it to the police. The family has been thrust into a role of leadership and has taken on that responsibility.

Meanwhile, Paisley's party marched into Stormont yesterday only to reiterate its refusal to share power with those democratically elected to represent the community to which Michael belonged. North Antrim is Paisley's heartland - and in its capital, Ballymena, his party ruthlessly dominates the council, holding all positions of power and refusing to share them with nationalists. A tentative 'good relations' policy launched by the mayor after the sectarian violence last year foundered when some DUP councillors opposed it.

Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness was right when he said that this refusal to share power "is at one end of the scale which ends up with a young Catholic lying dead on the street". The SDLP's Sean Farren was right to criticise the secretary of state for his ludicrous praise for Paisley's courage. "For 40 years he has deliberately set out to sabotage any attempt at political progress and any inclination in unionism towards reconciliation," Mr Farren said, adding that courage from Paisley is precisely what is now needed. Unionism needs to take responsibility for loyalism and to tell the paramilitaries, "The war is over." Paisley must lead his people to peace.

The principal of Michael's school, Catherine Magee, said last week that her biggest challenge was to give his schoolfriends a sense of purpose and belief in the future. She said that a lot of them were asking, "what does anything matter now that Michael is gone?" The north's politicians need to answer these young people.

Most of the victims of the Troubles came from working-class areas like the one where Michael lived - those areas are still blighted.

They need immediate investment, with long-term support structures for youth work and community development.

Mickybo's generation is paying a high price for a conflict in which they played no part. Paisley needs to have the humility to listen to Gina McIlveen.

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