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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
Public Inquiry >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/.
Last Retry Wednesday October 01, 2025 23:10
Eurostar Unveils Gender-Neutral Uniform for Staff Wed Oct 01, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Eurostar has unveiled its first gender-neutral uniform, introducing a collection featuring skirts, trousers and Dr Martens boots designed to be "interchangeable and made to fit all genders".
The post Eurostar Unveils Gender-Neutral Uniform for Staff appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Fact-Checking Starmer?s Claim That Brexit Created the Small Boats Crisis Wed Oct 01, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has claimed that Brexit created the small boats crisis and the migrant boats should be called 'Farage boats'. This is nonsense, says David Barrett, and even Oxford University's Migration Observatory agrees.
The post Fact-Checking Starmer’s Claim That Brexit Created the Small Boats Crisis appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Why is ?Pandemic Preparedness? a Major Theme of the New US Global Health Strategy? Wed Oct 01, 2025 15:43 | Dr David Bell
Why is 'pandemic preparedness' a major theme of the US Government's new 'America First' Global Health Strategy, asks Dr David Bell. There are some sound public health principles in there, but the 'pandemic' con lives on.
The post Why is ‘Pandemic Preparedness’ a Major Theme of the New US Global Health Strategy? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Ed Miliband Pledges Legislation to Ban Fracking ?Forever? Wed Oct 01, 2025 13:22 | Will Jones
With energy bills heading skywards and renewable energy investment on the ropes, Ed Miliband's conference crowd-pleaser was to pledge a law to ban fracking 'forever' ? and sabotage a future Reform administration.
The post Ed Miliband Pledges Legislation to Ban Fracking ‘Forever’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lammy Backtracks on Claim Farage ?Once Flirted With Hitler Youth? Wed Oct 01, 2025 11:21 | Will Jones
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has been forced to row back on his bizarre claim that Nigel Farage "once flirted with the Hitler Youth", which Farage has denied.
The post Lammy Backtracks on Claim Farage “Once Flirted With Hitler Youth” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Just one more ... some of the camp at Rath Lugh. This is the esker that they will have to gouge out to put the road withing 20/30m of a huge monument.
The NRA mislead everyone - they said it was 100/110m away - too close anyway.
The new survey proved them WRONG.
This will undermine not only the sensitive esker but the very monument itself.
Are the NRA completely and utterly stark raving mad?
Would I ever drive such a road? Would you? Knowing what is under it?
Rath Lugh camp
I have found it impossible to visit the sites. As a trained conservationist I have witnessed so much abuse
of our heritage, that it is killing, I have not walked in the valley in months. To me the destruction is
in the Lap of Dick Roche as then Minister for the Environment, (who is a thief), and by extension the
yob who claims to run our Government. John Gormley is little better having displayed a complete
lack of moral courage and integrity throughout since taking office. I will say one thing, there is
a need for this to be kept on all the time, the 'media' always fins something else to speak of
especially if it involves free sandwiches and junket type arrangements-such as Gormley's
risible repsonse to climate Change 'outing' the other day. Well done to the campaigns for the
years of work-and many have paid a very high price to consistently highlight the issue:-
http://www.savetara.com
http://www.tarapixie.net
http://www.sacredireland.org
http://www.tarawatch.org
They have abused power and mandate to beggar generations of Irish kids and are proven to
be thieves and liars- that is the legacy of ten years of FF. That will always be their legacy.
Noel Dempsey, TD for Meath, as Minister for Environment & Local Government between July 22, 1997 and June 6, 2002, implemented wholesale changes to the An Bord Pleanála. In fact 6 out of the current 10 members of the board were originally appointed by him, the 7th was reinstated by him. All these appointments took place prior to the planning decisions to the route of the M3. Noel Dempsey; first appointed John O'Connor as chairperson for a seven-year term starting from May 6, 2000; he was educated at UCD, in the same subject as Dick Roche teaches there, Public Administration. The Deputy Chairperson, Brian Hunt, was appointed to the Board on 21st November 2001, from his previous job, Senior Executive Engineer in the Planning Department of Meath County Council.
Mary O'Rourke, TD for Westmeath, as Minister for Public Enterprise 1997–2002, appointed most of the board of the NRA that took the decision to proceed with the M3. The NRA’s board includes Raymond Potterton, Noel Dempsey brothers’ business partner. She also appointed the NRA Chairman, Peter Malone who, alongside Angus Potterton is a director of CBRE Gunne Property Group.
Having sucessfully brought in Nice II, Roche took on Tara. yes, he built on the work of Dempsey,
who began his political career as Minister for state at the OPW and took with him many contacts
through the variety of seats he has held. no one denies Dempsey's role in this, he is part of the whole
FF mindset and they are inter-changeable with the Greens now.
if FF dump Bertie (Haughey's Finance person) as an old scion of that era, then they are not correctly drawing
a line under FF corruption because it has been endemic throughout the last years, Mary O Rourke did work very
closely with Mc Dowell and defended Harney in the last week. but quite honestly it necessitates a look at the
whole way that FF politics work and not the ministers in isolation from each other. Gormley took on Tara 24
hours after the licence was signed by Roche which means he did not do anything but took up the rotating chair.
he failed to separate himself from Roche's policy and is currently looking for ways to make the Lisbon Treaty acceptable to
the Greens and has strongly hinted support for the treaty. He and the Greens opposed every one from the
beginning.
Roche will be investigated in the EU- but something to remember is this thay have a mandate
and people will just turn a blind eye because they are getting rich.
your are very correct, Ireland today
"people will just turn a blind eye because they are getting rich."
sadly true....
http://www.waterford-today.ie/index.php?option=com_cont...d=136