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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 >>
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Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose C... Wed Oct 08, 2025 19:36 | Will Jones
Two-tier justice was on full display as three Epping protesters received longer prison sentences than the asylum seeker whose sex attack on a child they were protesting about, says Laurie Wastell.
The post Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose Crime They Were Protesting appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
British Steel Industry Faces ?Existential Threat? as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer?s ?EU R... Wed Oct 08, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Britain?s Net Zero-ravaged steel industry is facing an "existential threat" as the EU threatens the UK with tariffs of up to 50% despite Keir Starmer's recent 'EU reset' giveaway on fishing rights and youth mobility.
The post British Steel Industry Faces “Existential Threat” as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer’s ‘EU Reset’ Giveaway appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun Wed Oct 08, 2025 15:27 | Ferro
The public's indifference to art has never been greater. No wonder, says Ferro: it's all just tired Left-progressive politics by another means. But the fightback for real art that moves the human soul has begun.
The post The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV Wed Oct 08, 2025 13:00 | James Alexander
Not until Leo XIV did we have a picture of a holy man staring at an ice cube with his hand on it, respectfully gazing as if imagining the whisky that could go with such a rock, says Prof James Alexander.
The post Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations Wed Oct 08, 2025 11:17 | Sallust
Sir Lenny Henry has called for Britain to pay ?18 trillion in reparations to black people, arguing in a new book that high rates of black crime and unemployment are "all because of the slave trade".
The post Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations 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 13 14 15 16This is the same Obama who appointed a right-wing Israel supporter to his cabinet and has promised Jerusalem to the Israelis! And if Obama wasn't born in the US, how can he be President? Hopefully he means change . . . but first indications should calm us down a little.
It;s good to have somebody like Tom Eile watching us closely, noting our every move, commenting on everything our website carries. It keeps us on our toes.
Below please find the contents of our leaflet going out first time tonight to the Veterans meeting in the Abbey/
It tells, I think, another story of how we feel and the questions we have about Obama
Public Meeting
Monday Dec. 8th 19.30
Wynns Hotel
New US Administration —new US foreign policy?
SPEAKERS
Nehella Ashraf – Chair of the STOP The War Coalition (Manchester) and Stop the War Muslim Network—who has just returned from Pakistan
Julien Mercille UCD lecturer and a US Foreign Policy specialist
With a change in the White House, will there be a change in US Foreign policy?
Five and a half years on from the invasion of Iraq, seven from Afghanistan, the war on terror is purposeless and an ever greater human tragedy.
Over 700,000 people have been killed, andclose to 1,5 million seriously injured in Afghanistan and Iraq since the U.S. and coalition attacks.
In the midst of a major economic recession ,the war in Iraq alone is costing $340 million A DAY.
Will Obama stop this obscenity? Or will he just shift troops to Afghanistan?
Michael Y if you don't agree with the statement about Obama on the IAWM website then take it down. Obama is not opposed to the war in Iraq, he has consistently voted to fund that war, he supports the war in Afghanistan and has threatened to invade Pakistan and to attack Iran. Its a disgrace that the IAWM have this statement of support for Obama up on their site.
Dear anti-war activist,
Thank you for your suggestion. This is exactly what I have proposed to the other members of the Steering Group. Fortunately, I, or anybody else for that matter, doesn't have the right to take down unilaterally.material posted and originating from a third organisation.
Good luck with getting it removed Michael. I see the original statement comes from the Stop The War Coalition in the UK. Can't see the SWP members of the IAWM steering committee voting with you to remove something coming from the mothership.
" Fortunately, I, or anybody else for that matter, doesn't have the right to take down unilaterally.material posted and originating from a third organisation."
Would you please clarify ,Michael . The pro-Obama statement was indeed issued originally by the UK’s Stop the War Coalition ,but Dette McLoughlin from the IAWM posted it verbatim and without any critical introduction on the IAWM's website . Surely the IAWM doesn’t need the permission of any outside organization to remove material from its own site .
As the joint chair of the steering committee - which is the coordinating and organizing body for the IAWM - you say you can’t act unilaterally to remove the post .Perhaps that’s the case , but the steering committee’s other members are easily contactable by telephone .The IAWM membership was not consulted before the statement went up in the first place ,so I can’t see why you need to call an emergency general meeting of the whole group to take it down.
Obama did not endorse the invasion of Iraq it's true ,but the Iraq war didn’t end with the invasion . Nor did it end when Bush declared 'Mission Accomplished' from the deck of an aircraft carrier . It didn’t end with the recent surge either . It is an ongoing war of aggression which is still bringing terror (shock and awe) to Iraq in order to steal that nation’s oil reserves .And , as a previous poster noted , Obama has consistently voted to fund that ongoing predatory war . In my opinion that makes him complicit in Bush's war crimes . The IAWM statement expressing delight at his election to the presidency has been up for over a week now . It should be removed asap.
Please note that the original statement by Dette has now been replaced by the originator.
The idiots who voted for Obama expecting a change from the Bush administration must now explain why the Al-Qaeda organisation is now targetting Obama? Obama is after all the face of a new cuddly America that is committed to negotiation not war and multi-lateralism not war, ending the war in Iraq and getting rid of torture etc etc.?
The truth is the liberal progressive branch of Democratic Party among which Obama is easily the most liberal progressive is pro-gay, pro-women, pro-abortion, pro-religious tolerance, pro-democracy, anti-war, anti-impewrialism, pro-socialism etc etc.
This is completely against the philosophy of Al-Qaeda which is homophobic, misogynist, religiously bigotted, anti-democratic, advocates global jihad and is backed by oil rich Arab nations who dream of conquering the world for Islam and putting to death infidels.
The Democrats are going to learn with astonishment that they will be forced to adopt the same hawkish hard-line militarist approach of the Bush administration.
Michael ,the statement is still up on the iawm site.
The SWP is the IAWM
OK theres a few tag-alongs who are not SWP but everything that matters is always SWP and thats all it takes to make that particular cap fit.
Dette McLoughlin is of course an SWP apparatichik from Galway.
What a parody of the truth Michael. You know you do not have the power to remove that post because I bet you have no access to the website. I bet that is monopolized by the SWP , it always was in the past .
They have refused to take it down no doubt.
Any post which did not agree with SWP policy would soon be taken down I bet.
You’d wonder why the SWP is hanging Michael out to dry on this all the same. I believe that Michael was probably sincere when he said that the post had been removed from the IAWM site . He should have checked first of course . That post expressing the anti war movement's delight at the election of Obama is still up on the IAWM site today even though the IAWM must know that the new Obama administration will be stuffed full with the old war hawks .
Joe “ I am a Zionist “ Biden will be Obama’s vice president . Speaking in a televised debate in Iowa in 2007 Biden , who favours the partition of Iraq into rival religious and ethnic blocs , warned the audience against the notion : “that there is any possibility in the lifetime of anyone here of having the Iraqis get together, have a unity government in Baghdad that pulls the country together. That will not happen.... It will not happen in the lifetime of anyone here.”
Obama’s “ new” Secretary for Defense will be none other than Robert Gates the man who is now serving in that post under Bush .The appointment of Gates should have sent a clear message to the world -as it was intended to do - that there would be essential continuity with the policies of Bush under the new administration . The only people who don’t seem to have got the message is the IAWM .
Two months ago Hilary Clinton threatened to obliterate Iran . She will be introduced as Obama’s Secretary of State tomorrow . If Obama were to somehow find a way of appointing Bush as his new head of Homeland Security , I wonder whether the IAWM would take the post down
From éirígí's website:
Flags, Balloons & Bullshit
15/11/08
The election of Barack Obama to the office of President of the United States of America has been hailed by many as an indication that that country is about to set itself out on a radically new political course.
A definite sense has emerged over the last number of months that the incoming Democratic Party administration is going to be fundamentally different from the outgoing Republican administration that it will replace in January 2009.
Although it must be acknowledged that there is a particularly heightened sense of expectation this year, it is a variation of the same theme that re-asserts itself every four years, or eight years, in the US. This is the notion that through the one solitary ‘democratic’ act afforded to US citizens (that of choosing between two almost identical candidates), that somehow the politics of the US can or will be radically and positively transformed.....
For more visit: http://www.eirigi.org/latest/latest151108.html
I am not going to enter the debate of whether those of us not in the SWP in the iawm Steering Committee are fools, SWP apparatchiks or tag a- longs.
Dette's post was a statement by the UK based Stop the War Coalition - they were within their right to put it into our website as a reflection of their politics. There was never any suggestion that the statement reflected our position.
After Tom's comment I spoke to the comrade who manages the website, who is not in the SWP, and agreed to take it off the main page but leave it to the left corner under other contributions. And that's what happened. And that's where it is.
Our Public meeting next Monday Dec 8th is when we are going to publicly discuss the issue of Obama's victory. All those who have an opinion on the subject are welcome to attend.
The people who have posted on this issue are entitled to be taken seriously and should not have their contributions dismissed as "bull" by the co-chair of the Irish Anti War Movement .
Regarding what what Michael has written above :
1 . The statement expressing delight at Obama's victory has never moved from the main page of the IAWM site . It has over the past three weeks moved down the left-hand recent news column where it first appeared as newer items have gone up . It will hopefully disappear soon , but it is still there .
2 The Stop the War Committee is a separate organization to the IAWM and has no right to post on the IAWM site any more than the IAWM has a right to post on the STWC site. But the STWC didn’t post the statement : the IAWM’s Dette McGloughlin put it up , and the IAWM must therefore take responsibility for it .
Dette, as a member of the IAWM , was surely within her rights to post the statement , just as she is entitled to post statements from anti- war groups “based” anywhere else in the world . But the fact that she posted it without any critical introduction , and that there has been no criticism of the post , nor any other clear statement at all regarding Obama’s victory from the steering committee since , can only suggest that the IAWM and Dette do approve of the statement and are as delighted by Obama’s victory as the STWC is .
Cnat believe the political naivity , expected it from the Labour party but to see the anti-war "movement" pull the wool over their own eyes is disgraceful.
Obama v Bush Coke v Pepsi
“The Stop the War Coalition is delighted that Barack Obama has won the US Presidential elections. “ Mon, 10 Nov, 2008
“I trusted Prime Minister Netanyahu since I met him before I was elected president. He is dealing with a very complex situation in a very tough neighborhood.” ……..President Obama ,July 6 2010
“If you look at every public statement that I’ve made over the last year-and-a-half, it has been a constant reaffirmation of the special relationship between the United States and Israel; that our commitment to Israel’s security has been unwavering”…….President Obama , July 6 2010
http://www.america.gov/st/texttrans-english/2010/July/2....html
Tale of two sackings
The Sacking of Octavia Nasr
CNN has sacked Octavia Nasr ,its senior Middle East editor , after she wrote on Twitter that she "respected" senior Lebanese cleric Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, who died last Sunday.
Neither Nasr’s claim that she had been referring to the cleric’s "pioneering" views on women's rights in her statement ,nor the fact that she had worked twenty years at CNN , were enough to save her from the chop - the ayatollah was considered to have been the spiritual leader of the anti-zionist resistant movement , Hezbollah.
In a blog post on Tuesday, Nasr wrote: "Reaction to my tweet was immediate, overwhelming and provides a good lesson on why 140 characters should not be used to comment on controversial or sensitive issues, especially those dealing with the Middle East."
Octavia Nasr’s offending Twitter post has since been deleted.
The IAWM still has the2008 statement praising Obama up on its website
http://irishantiwar.org/node/292
The Sacking of General Stanley McChrystal
On Wednesday 23 June, President Barack Obama sacked his Afghanistan commander , General Stanley McChrystal .
In his 2008 electoral campaign Obama had already made his support for what he termed ” the good war” in Afghanistan perfectly clear. Eighteen months since taking office ,despite a massive and deadly expansion of the war and despite thousands of civilian Afghan casualties , NATO has failed to defeat the Taliban insurgency . Obama sacked Gen. Stanley McChrystal as military commander in Afghanistan two weeks ago and replaced him with General David Petrateus ,the man who was George Bush’s choice for the 2007-2008 Iraqi surge . McChrystal’s right wing critics had insisted that the general’s “rules of engagement” with their “undue concern” for Afghan civilian casualties were “handcuffing” US troops in their butchery ..
General Petrateus has promised to review McChrystal’s rules of engagement with urgency.
The IAWM still has the 2008 statement praising Obama up on its website.
http://irishantiwar.org/node/292