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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.

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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.

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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

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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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End open borders. Stop importing criminals. Fight Islamism. Stand up for Christianity. End ruinous Net Zero policies. Because otherwise Europe is "going to Hell". Trump was on hard-hitting form at the UN this week.
The post Trump’s UN Rallying Cry for the Defence of Western Civilisation appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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After working with over 100 SEND children, Mary Gilleece has finally met a child with actual special needs. But there isn't enough money to support him because ?11 billion is being blown on bogus diagnoses.
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offsite link Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner?s Daughter Violet Pushes for Mask Mandates at United Nations Wed Sep 24, 2025 11:12 | Will Jones
Violet Affleck,?the daughter of Hollywood stars?Jennifer Garner?and?Ben Affleck, was at the?UN?on Tuesday to push for mask mandates, saying the world was irresponsible for returning to 'business as usual' after Covid.
The post Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s Daughter Violet Pushes for Mask Mandates at United Nations appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Problem with Rupert Lowe?s Argument Against Halal and Kosher Meat Wed Sep 24, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Rupert Lowe has called for halal and kosher meat to be banned. But there's a problem with his argument: he doesn't mention factory farming?a far greater evil.
The post The Problem with Rupert Lowe?s Argument Against Halal and Kosher Meat appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying Wed Sep 24, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
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The post The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Case Against Human Rights Activist Dismissed in Shannon District Court

category clare | rights, freedoms and repression | feature author Thursday May 21, 2009 22:51author by John Lannon Report this post to the editors

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Dr Horgan leaving court after the case
against him was dismissed

A case brought by the state against human rights activist Edward Horgan as a result of his requests to have a suspected CIA rendition plane searched at Shannon was dismissed in Ennis yesterday (20th May). Judge Mangan, presiding over Shannon District Court, dismissed the case on the basis of legal arguments made by Mr Horgan’s defence council.

On the morning of June 18th 2008 Mr Horgan went to Shannon to take photographs of a plane with registration N54PA. Mr Horgan had been made aware by contacts in the US that the plane was on its way to Shannon, and because it had recently been to Guantanamo Bay he was aware that there might be evidence on board of its use in illegal rendition exercises. He asked the authorities to inspect it but they refused. Instead they served Mr Horgan with a summons that claimed he had impeded an airport security officer and refused to leave a security hut.

The facts of the case were as follows: Mr. Horgan arrived at the airport shortly before 8am on the 8th June to photograph the aircraft. He entered the airport security lodge beside the fire station to request that airport security officers search it for evidence of possible breaches of the United Nations Convention Against Torture (UNCAT) and the Irish UNCAT Act of 2002. This demand was denied by the airport police officer at the security hut station, Mr Brian McCarthy. It was also denied by his superior, Mr James Watson, by Garda David Lang and by Garda Sergeant Kevin O’Hagan.

The state began its case by attempting to demonstrate that Mr Horgan was not permitted to be in the security hut - or “Position Number 1” as it became known to all in the Court. However, the Chief of Security at Shannon, John Francis, did concede in evidence that it is permissible for a member of the public to approach Position Number 1, and that there is nothing on the door of the hut to indicate that it is a restricted area.

Prior to Mr. Francis’ evidence, several photographs of the security hut were produced and examined. One of the issues of note in these photos was the positioning of two CCTV cameras on the outside of the building. Although Mr Horgan had requested all relevant footage to be supplied to him, he was only provided with footage from a camera inside the hut, and not from the outside cameras. When this was raised by defence council Mr Tony Gillicuddy BL, Inspector Tom Kennedy for the prosecution said that their footage was “not relevant” as these cameras “weren’t in the loop when the incident occurred”.

Chief of Security Francis was followed in the witness box by Brendan Mullins, a Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) engineer at Shannon, and Brian Vaughan who described himself as a Corporate Property Manager with the DAA. They produced a series of maps with lines, and a lot of opinions about what land was owned by the DAA. But as Mr Gillicuddy pointed out, their evidence fell short of proving anything relevant.

Next up was airport police officer Brian McCarthy whose job on that morning was to monitor everyone and everything entering the airport via Position Number 1. His evidence was that Mr Horgan had impeded his work while in the security hut, and he told the court that this resulted in a tailback of 6 or 7 cars/trucks trying to enter. He became unsure of when this tailback occurred and how long it really was as cross examination progressed. And when the CCTV footage from the camera inside the hut was shown in court, clearly showing only 3 vehicles in total approaching the position and passing through as normal, he undoubtedly became even less sure.

Airport police inspector and fire officer James Watson then gave evidence, followed by Garda David Lang and Sergeant Kevin O’Hagan. There was plenty of detail and cross examination but no startling revelations. And surprisingly none of these three men could remember any reference to Guantanamo Bay during the whole incident - despite the fact that Brian McCarthy’s evidence was that Mr Horgan had explained the connection between the plane and Gitmo!

Before proceeding with his case, defence council made an application to the judge for direction on a number of grounds. At this stage the state had spent over four hours attempting to build their case. However after listening to Mr Gillicuddy – who was accompanied by solicitor Pat Daly on the day - and Inspector Kennedy in relation to these points, he dismissed all charges on two points of law. The first was that no evidence was produced in court to show that Mr Horgan was told he would be committing an offence if he didn’t leave the security hut. The second was in relation to how the summons was drafted. The judge agreed with precise legal argument from Mr Gillicuddy in relation to the number of alleged offences and the number of charges on the summons, and dismissed on that basis.

After the hearing, Mr Horgan expressed his satisfaction that the case had been dismissed. However, he expressed disappointment that despite an application for Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy to appear in court to clarify if instructions were issued regarding searches of aircraft operated by the CIA, he did not appear. He also drew attention to reports released in recent days that US interrogators killed nearly four dozen detainees during or after their interrogations. These, he said, once again highlight the serious nature of Irish complicity in torture and the need for accountability in relation to this complicity. He also confirmed that he and other local Shannonwatch activists will continue to observe and record rendition-related activity at Shannon, and to demand answers on behalf of the thousands who have been illegally kidnapped and tortured by US agents using the airport.

author by paul o toolepublication date Thu May 21, 2009 11:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Well done to Ed et al,
Was there any reference during the proceedings about the claim in the first instance that there was an aeroplane parked in Shannon engaged in torture?. Has the reporting of this crime gone to ground or does it still have legs.??
Well done to all again. The despicable horror continnues, and now the new black hope Obama has rebranded his war in the M-east as the Af-Pak war. Six years in and 34 more years to go if we are to believe what Bush and Blair said about the lenght of this phase of despicable human history.

author by Fred Johnstonpublication date Thu May 21, 2009 11:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Congratulations, Ed! The reports coming out about torture are appalling; and the Irish government, by turning Shannon over to the US military as a permanent base, are utterly complicit. You've more courage than the entire Dáil put together. Congratulations again.

author by Mpublication date Thu May 21, 2009 12:12author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Aircraft had Guantanamo link, man alleges in Ennis court
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0521/1....html

and from yesterday's Irish Times also mentioning Edward Horgan

US vice-president visits troops at Shannon
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0520/1....html

author by Ronanpublication date Thu May 21, 2009 18:09author address author phone Report this post to the editors



Well done Ed and all the Shannonwatch crew. Thanks for continuing to be so vigilant.

Cheers,
Ronan

author by Gilbert & Sullivanpublication date Thu May 21, 2009 20:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Bush, Blair, Obama, Ahern, Cowan and Murphy Chorus:

"Here's a first-rate opportunity to get married with impunity" (repeated endlessly and shamelessly).

The International Law Chorus :

"Considering that the duty of every State under international law to respect and to secure respect for human rights requires that effective measures should be taken to combat impunity, ..." (From document titled "Updated Set of principles for the protection and promotion of human rights through action to combat impunity at http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/impu/principles.html )

Also from the document at the above location:

"Convinced, therefore, that national and international measures must be taken for that purpose with a view to securing jointly, in the interests of the victims of violations, observance of the right to know and, by implication, the right to the truth, the right to justice and the right to reparation, without which there can be no effective remedy against the pernicious effects of impunity, ..."

From Wikipedia (at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impunity ):

"Impunity is especially common in countries that lack a tradition of the rule of law, suffer from corruption or that have entrenched systems of patronage, or where the judiciary is weak or members of the security forces are protected by special jurisdictions or immunities."

From the Guardian Newspaper (at http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/16/iraq.iraq ):

"The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, declared explicitly for the first time last night that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal."

So why is it that none of the people responsible for starting and sustaining this ILLEGAL war -- now into its 7th year, and which has left hundreds of thousands dead and injured -- have not been charged with any crime whatsoever, so far?

The United Nations defines impunity as:

"the impossibility, de jure or de facto, of bringing the perpetrators of violations to account – whether in criminal, civil, administrative or disciplinary proceedings – since they are not subject to any inquiry that might lead to their being accused, arrested, tried and, if found guilty, sentenced to appropriate penalties, and to making reparations to their victims."

People of The World's Chorus (repeated until human rights law is responsibly abided by):

"Shame on the United States of America, Shame on the United Kingdom, Shame on the Republic of Ireland;
And Thanks to all of the Protesters who keep on SHOWING THEM UP."

The REAL criminals are still out there, and they still committing MAJOR crime with impunity: and, most worrying of all, there is still nobody (anywhere in the world it seems) who can challenge them effectively through the courts of law? -- in spite of the mountains of human rights law now in existence, but which is not being enforced.

The lunatics really have taken control of the asylum it appears.

author by MichaelY - IAWMpublication date Fri May 22, 2009 11:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Well done Ed. Congratulations from all of us in the Dublin group of the IAWM.
We've started preparation work for the 'War, NATO and the Lisbon Treaty' Conference in Shannon on Sept 5th and we will be able to work together with all the comrades and friends in Shannonwatch.
Take care and be safe my good friend.

author by carlpublication date Fri May 22, 2009 15:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Congrats . Keep up the good work.

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