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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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Last Retry Friday October 03, 2025 01:22
The WHO Pandemic Accords Consolidate the Power of the Covid Clerisy on a Global Scale Thu Oct 02, 2025 19:07 | Ramesh Thakur
The WHO Pandemic Accords, the first part of which came into effect last month, consolidate the power of the Covid clerisy on a global scale, warns Professor Ramesh Thakur. Expect more of the same.
The post The WHO Pandemic Accords Consolidate the Power of the Covid Clerisy on a Global Scale appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Teaching Assistant Sacked for ?Manhandling? Pupil to Stop Him Running into Road Thu Oct 02, 2025 17:27 | Will Jones
A teaching assistant was fired after grabbing a special needs pupil to stop him from running out of school and into a busy road.
The post Teaching Assistant Sacked for “Manhandling” Pupil to Stop Him Running into Road appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The True Hidden Purpose of ?Sex Education? Thu Oct 02, 2025 15:00 | Steven Tucker
A quarter of parents believe their child has been taught something inappropriate in sex education. Like choking and rimming. Why? It all goes back to the neo-Marxists of the Frankfurt School, says Steven Tucker.
The post The True Hidden Purpose of ‘Sex Education’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Manchester Synagogue Terror Attack: Two Dead After Yom Kippur Rampage Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:43 | Will Jones
Two people have been killed and three are in a serious condition after a suspected terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester, where a car was driven into a crowd on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
The post Manchester Synagogue Terror Attack: Two Dead After Yom Kippur Rampage appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Badenoch Vows to Scrap Climate Change Act Thu Oct 02, 2025 11:03 | Will Jones
Kemi Badenoch will promise today to scrap the "failed" Climate Change Act ? which enshrines the Net Zero target in law ? if the Conservatives regain power.
The post Badenoch Vows to Scrap Climate Change Act appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9TEACHERS WERE “furious” and “fed up” and may embark on work stoppages, a group of protesting primary and secondary school teachers said yesterday.
Naming themselves as members of a new grassroots teachers’ organisation, Teachers United, the 20 or so people gathered outside the headquarters of Anglo Irish Bank in Dublin carrying placards with such slogans as “Bail out education, not the banks” and “We will not pay for bankers’ greed”.
Gerry Murphy, a secondary school teacher in Dublin, said he was protesting because he, like other teachers, was taking a pay cut, while the banks were being subsidised. “We didn’t create this problem,” he said. “We shouldn’t be asked to pay while the banks get our taxes.”
Niall Smith, a primary school teacher in Dublin, said Teachers United was formed in December in response to cuts in education and had members in the three teachers’ unions. “We formed to give a perspective of the rank and file in all the unions.”
Asked why it was felt necessary to form a new group, he said the unions were “wedded to social partnership for so long they can’t see a solution other than social partnership”. “Why should we be made to pay for the sins of the banks? It’s just not on. It’s important at this stage that all workers unite. There is an attempt to pit public sector workers against the private sector.”
Anna O’Loughlin, a primary teacher in Dublin 7, said her take-home pay had fallen by about €200 a month and she didn’t know how she would pay her mortgage.
Taken from Irish Times: 10-02-09
Teachers United Public Forum,
This Thursday 12th Feb, 8pm
Central Hotel, Dublin
All welcome
A few facts:
1. Pension Levy won't save 1 single job in the private sector
2. Its not whinging- its called defending working conditions and pay which teachers and nurses have every right to do.
3. How many teachers will be sacked? In fact over 1,000 jobs are to go in teaching with the cuts
4. Teachers have always paid for their pensions- this is an extra levy on top of what we already pay.
Get rid of the tax haven business.
Stop letting people set up shell companies, so they can let a business go bankrupt, while they walk away with millions.
Impose a wage limit on any bank executives of banks that got taxpayers money.
Ban the practice of unreceipted expenses for TD, Senators, and councillors (and create a few jobs by employing people to check on the expenses, unless civic minded people are willing to shop them, they way they encouraged us to shop the people who pretended to have whiplash etc)
These builders and bankers got away with daylight robbery. Tax breaks, building poorly built estates and apartment blocks using a shell company, and then shutting down the company, and setting up another one for the next estate, all the while the banks didn't even pay the full costs of Garda and Army escort for the Securicor vans, and helped many of their customers illegally evade tax while overcharging the rest of us.
If any party expects my vote in the next election, or a yes on Lisbon, they are living in cloud cuckoo land.
The builders and bankers are bankrupt now Angry Taxpayer .
I share your anger about the BA*T*RDS for sure.
But now is now.
The other measures you suggest will bring in a pittance compared to the bills we have to pay.
The question remains:
How do we pay this bill if the Governmentt does not cut spending?
"How do we pay this bill if the Government does not cut spending?"
Yeah, it's not as if we have billions of euro worth of gas and oil in the sea off our coasts which our government is giving away for nothing to the likes of Shell.
Anyway, cutting education is harmless. It won't damage society to simply not educate the children to the high standards they get at the moment. It would be much worse if we had to make meaningful cuts to the high salaries of the hard working folks like hospital consultants, or the heads of bodies like the Garda Ombudsman, or FAS; or God forbid, TD's and bankers.
Oh wait that's backwards isn't it?
Hi
When is the next meeting of the Teachers United Public Forum??
Many thanks
CS
Next General Meeting of Public Service Alliance,
Date:Thursday Feb 26.
Time: 8.15PM.
Venue: Teachers Club, Parnell Sq, Dublin 1.
Next meeting of Teachers United is monday 23rd Feb @4.30pm at Anglo Irish Bank, Stephens Green. All welcome!
Around 30 teachers from across the three teacher unions took part in the picket outside Anglo Irish Bank today. A number of teachers attempted to stage a sit-in at the bank during the picket.
Pictures and video to follow soon.