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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
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News Round-Up Wed Oct 01, 2025 00:40 | 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.
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Climatism in Europe is Dying Tue Sep 30, 2025 19:00 | Eugyppius
Climatism in Europe is dying as its grassroots support evaporates and Left-wing activists move onto other concerns. Eurocrats are well-insulated from public opinion but they can't ignore it forever, says Eugyppius.
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Blow to Miliband as Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling and Union Boss Calls for Him to Be... Tue Sep 30, 2025 17:36 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves has signalled support for drilling in the North Sea in a blow to Ed Miliband ? as the boss of the Unite union calls on Keir Starmer to sack the "disastrous" Net Zero Secretary.
The post Blow to Miliband as Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling and Union Boss Calls for Him to Be Sacked appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Wes Streeting Says Nigel Farage is ?Racist? Tue Sep 30, 2025 15:30 | Will Jones
Health Secretary Wes Streeting?has said Nigel Farage is "racist", joining Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson in using the insult of the Reform party and its leader.
The post Wes Streeting Says Nigel Farage is “Racist” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Is the ?Friend-Enemy Distinction? Right-Wing Critical Race Theory? Tue Sep 30, 2025 13:00 | Noah Carl
Perfectly neutral institutions will never be attainable, argues Noah Carl, but that doesn?t mean that reasonably neutral institutions aren?t worth striving for.
The post Is the ‘Friend-Enemy Distinction’ Right-Wing Critical Race Theory? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13The Gov't still haven't realised that the Erris people won't give up the land to destruction. Why should that dear baby grow up where the air isn't safe for breathing? Well done, all.
Well done in Dublin. But did you note that when you were away the surveyors entered your land and in fear of its life Shell had its progress spread in the Independent today. You really keep them on their toes. Shows up their sneakiness.
An African proverb asks if you have ever been in bed with a mosquito? Well Shell giant fears Rossport mosquito.
A besieged people came to Dublin yesterday, more than 200 miles, to face the enemy and give Shell's pet Government a taste of its own medicine. Don't get me wrong; unlike the young and the old of Mayo, no politician was under any threat of physical violence or harm. Nonetheless, for close to five hours, the wretched remained indoors in their bought and paid for palace.
They came to show the world at large and us that they were not for sale and, that they hadn't gone away and neither were they going to. The demo was a striking mixture of humour and defiance. On the bullhorn across the street from the Dáil, Naoise reflected the protester's mood in strong and proud voice, that faltered not once for more than four and a half hours. In the last hour he even sang a song or two - determination is a powerful motivator and balm. Passers-by stood in rapt admiration and were amazed and disgusted that they had contributed to the €20 million that has been spent on ensuring that the Gardaí act as thugs on behalf of Shell, to try to force an abomination on a people without their consent.
It hasn't worked.
It won't work.
That's the message that these people of dignity came to deliver. If only those behind and in the bars of Leinster House had such dignity and backbone.
...
Watching you watching me
'Contain them for God's sake - it might infect others!'
Even the children are fighting
Ah Shell Oil, Shell Oil and the 'Princess Rile'
Shakin' Bertie's greasy hands
Sure ye'll get far more resistance
Than ye got in bought off lands
Bertie lick their piles and the 'Princess Rile's'
And we'll send up your Gardai
For ta STICK YER GAS RIGHT UP YER ARSE
And blow SHELL OIL TA SEA!
Last verse and chorus of NOTAB song (written 2001)
Our oil and our gas rights are ceded for a fraction of what they are worth
While the old lie on hospital trolleys and the poor are forgotten or mocked
The wealth which is ours is extracted, sold back at the full market rate
Are we still a proud sovereign nation or a sordid brown envelope state?
Oh heres to the people of Erris
We''ve clean water, clean air and clean soil
We've known hard times and forced emigration
We'll get by without Enterprise Oil ... and Royal Dutch Shell as well!
(Air - Men o' the West)
& Victory to the Erris People & Shell to Sea! Brave & worthy people, you show up the hooers who put money above all else. The land & people of Erris are priceless.
you know your right but can you tell all us idiots how much it cost to find the gas and how much it costs to get it your so called doorstep?
"So-called doorstep' What would you call it, Len? By the way, there won't be any gas delivered to Mayo houses outside of the odd town. So it won't cost anything to bring it to my doorstep, nor Maura's, nor many others'. Even if it were, it would be Bord Gais doing the delivering, not the "Corrib Gas Partners". Shell have no responsibility for any of it south of the Belmullet-Ballycastle road.
Ridiculous, again. The idea of people involved with Shell to Sea being "led" anywhere shows an extraordinarily poor grasp of what is an unusually open organisation (especially when compared with the various secretive pro-Shell groups, PEGG etc.). I take it you're not a regular at the Glenamoy meetings, Len? As for prison, the government's violent no-arrest policy ensures that most people, no matter how often they peacably break public order and traffic statutes, don't even see the inside of a squad car, never mind a prison. In fact, given the government's stance, it would be more accurate to speak of people being "led" to hospital. By Fianna Fail and the Greens.
By the way, great pics! Fair play, Sean and Paula.
'There's nothing that will save Erris', you tell us. So you agree, then, that this is a major threat to Erris , and not, as you said earlier, a way
to drag us 'kicking and screaming into the 21st century'. Or is that what you mean, or do you, yourself, know what you mean?
I appreciate that you might be new to this forum, where you're required to present your case with clarity and brevity, but you really need to
get on a quick learning curve, so that when you come on here you can debate meaningfully with those of us who choose to spend time
with you. Here are a few pointers:
1. Know what your position is and stick to it.
2. Stick to the general facts. Personalised attacks on Maura Harrington have been done to death and as far as I know she's never lost a
wink of sleep yet.
3. Be consistent. I've pointed out above the contradictory nature of your arguments. Here's another example: You accuse the people of
Erris of being dolers, yet we're told about all the Erris people allegedly working on the site. Is it possible that you're getting confused
about the many people working security on the site who, because Shell isn't paying them a living wage, are entitled to sign on to
supplement their income?
4. Keep it clean. You're currently coming across as a mean-minded, spiteful sort of person who doesn't appear to have much depth and
takes the easy option of vitriol and personal insult. As LP says, you won't be taken seriously unless you raise your game.
I'd love to be able to retract the 'Gríscín' label I gave you, but you have to grow up first.
By the way, Len, you explained away the job losses at the quarries by telling us the terminal won't be built out of rock. Fair enough, it'll
be built mainly with steel and concrete. The main (and only) supplier of concrete in Erris is Lennon Quarries. Guess what? They're one
of the quarries that laid men off just as building on the site is reaching its peak. Explain that please in terms of the contention that this
project is the best thing for Erris since the sliced loaf. And could you please play with a straight bat and a civil tongue? If you resort to
cheap personalised jibes again and refuse to address the issues, I won't waste any more time with you.