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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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The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 52: Why Family Policy Is Back on the Agenda, Anywheres vs Somewheres, Migratio... Fri Sep 26, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 52 of the Sceptic: David Goodhart on why family policy is back on the agenda, anywheres vs somewheres and migration, and Eugyppius on German media craziness and how he evades the woke Stasi.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 52: Why Family Policy Is Back on the Agenda, Anywheres vs Somewheres, Migration and German Media Craziness appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Sep 26, 2025 00:45 | Toby Young
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 Small Boat Migrant Takes Eight-Week Holiday Back to Afghanistan Thu Sep 25, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
An Afghan granted asylum after arriving in the UK on a small boat took an eight-week holiday in the country from which he had fled.
The post Small Boat Migrant Takes Eight-Week Holiday Back to Afghanistan appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reeves Under Pressure to Spend Even More on Welfare as Cabinet Ministers ?Demand Removal of Two-Chil... Thu Sep 25, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Cabinet Ministers are ramping up the pressure on Rachel Reeves to spend even more on welfare by lifting the two-child benefit cap, sparking warnings that Britain is entering an "economic doom loop".
The post Reeves Under Pressure to Spend Even More on Welfare as Cabinet Ministers “Demand Removal of Two-Child Benefit Cap” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Every Adult in Britain to Be Forced to Have a Digital ID Card Under New Keir Starmer Plan Thu Sep 25, 2025 15:38 | Will Jones
Every adult in Britain will be forced to have a Government-issued digital ID card under "dystopian" proposals designed to tackle illegal immigration set to be announced by Sir Keir Starmer. Papers, please!
The post Every Adult in Britain to Be Forced to Have a Digital ID Card Under New Keir Starmer Plan appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Chinese blogger's home destroyed

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Tuesday April 03, 2007 10:17author by Ed Leeauthor address Hong Kong Report this post to the editors

And the birth of China's offical first citizen reporter

Wu Ping had been fighting for three years for her home in Chongqing, China. Last night, the bulldozers finally moved in.
Wu Ping's home
Wu Ping's home

I'm sure some have heard of Wu Ping's or 'Stubborn Nail's' heroic three-year defiance of a property developer in Chongqing.
Wu, who lives with her husband, was only one of the 281 families who rejected a compensation deal (3.5 million RMB) from the developer/Chongqing Muncipality for their land, hence the stubborness attributed to her by the local media. But Ms Wu defended her decision.
"I'm not stubborn or unruly, I'm just trying to protect my personal rights as a citizen. I will continue to the end," she was quoted as saying in the state-run Legal Daily.
China recently passed a landmark property law to protect people's property rights. But from the many comments left by Wu's supporters on a Chinese forum - some of whom were netizens on location reporting - one seemed to sum it all up: "In China, The Party is the biggest, and connections are stronger than the law. The law is a tool the upper classes use to suppress the common people and nothing more."
But their campaign ended last night when bulldozers moved in and struck down their motte and bailey-like castle. Wu reportedly remarked "Oh, well" when it was demolished. The couple have now agreed to move home.
But the controversy has moved beyond property issues as it had given birth to China's official first independent citizen reporter, Zola Zhou, who reported from ground zero with a camera phone and 1,000 RMB.
Could this usher in a new platform of Chinese journalism? The Chinese government currently requires all bloggers to register in their database but I'm sure it's not hard to get around the system. As more Chinese citizens have access to the Internet, so too will it play a bigger part in their lives, politically and others, it's a potential can of worms for the government.
In fact citizen reporting is already happening, some of course are not politically sensitive, such as netizens in Beijing reporting bad environmental practices and getting rewarded by it - because of the city's desperate clean-up for the upcoming Olympics.

Related Link: http://www.zuola.com/weblog
author by iosafpublication date Tue Apr 03, 2007 18:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I just caught reference at the end of your report to the role citizen reporting is playing in spurring on one region to a self-awareness which includes and necessitates self-criticism. I'd suggest that's where progress (in the sense you want) will first be made and seen. Because it makes most objective sense to me and also because I've been learning about how Olympic events are organised on the human resources level this last year and know a Chinese citizen who has gone through the same curve and after many years working "and complaining & being self-critical" at the service of and independent of the Chinese state in Europe.
Chinese culture, shares aspects of self-awareness with many other oriental cultures which at first glance appear to have more in common with "pride" and "honour" than much else. It's a subtle difference which makes it more natural for such cultures to be slower than some in the west to embrace the positive benefits of a "loyal opposition". But the century progress of the poorest on the planet and the continuing safety of the rights the western societies built for themselves on the back of their imperialist global expansion are inseparable from the route China and the Chinese take.
Many of us are rightly terrified of the nightmare possibility of Nixon's US capitalists unfettered by legal restraint and Chinese employees without the benefit of workers' rights establishing the first truly globalised market at some point in the next generation. It would mean the collapse of hundreds of years progress on our behalf.

Sporting fair-play & the need for honest self-appraisal in preparation for the "show case" city ought offer opportunities to all Chinese to play as a team. We in the west are so blind to our own faults that when criticising those of another country immediately begin with the "who" (not "what" is wrong. It has never escaped the attention of others from China, Japan, Pakistan, India or to complete the list of potential trade and political partners of Asia - Iran) how much effort we put in to bickering between ourselves over what's worse about their state all the time illustrating how utterly impotent we are to change their states in any other way but military aggression.

I'd be very interested to learn more about the preparations for the Olympics. It is a global event of gigantic proportions which causes changes wherever it is celebrated and from wherever the athletes who are selected by their states come from. Not all of those changes are visible in the new city or architecture it leaves behind once the torch is passed. Just one thing on the giggle level - the most vigorously protected trademark of any non-commercial entity in the world are those of the IOC - it would be a bad idea for local entrepreneurial types to pirate copy the t-shirts. ;-)

I look forward to your next post Ed. thank you.

 
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