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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.
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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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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.
How Representative is X of UK Public Opinion? Wed Oct 08, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Britain's political class is addicted to X, but how representative Is the platform? According to recent YouGov polls, only 1 in 6 people uses X daily, and most people view it unfavourably.
The post How Representative is X of UK Public Opinion? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Hugh Grant Teams Up With Climate Activists Wed Oct 08, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Last week Hugh Grant, one of several celebrities behind press censorship campaign group Hacked Off, announced a joint campaign with 38 Degrees, a radical climate activist group. Charlotte Gill investigates what's going on.
The post Hugh Grant Teams Up With Climate Activists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Wed Oct 08, 2025 01:19 | 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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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7Firstly, it seems to me GAAW should have dealt with this right back at the very beginning by, at the very least, apologising to Kevin. Clearly physical and or verbal intimidation is out of order as a public relations policy of an anti war group, no matter what the motivation.
On the other hand it is not clear to me that the statement of NOV 22nd makes any direct reference to Kevin, or that is it is abusive even if it does. Perhaps not many people would have read it as such. It is obvious to me that it is hypocritical to complain about free speech a la Harry's Place and the guardian etc, while remaining silent on Iraq, Afghanistan etc. But Kevin can't be accused of that.
Thirdly I am sorry Kevin felt he had no alternative to bring the matter to the Guards, who no doubt were delighted to hear of it. The Guards are an organisiation dedicated to thuggery and intimidation, as is daily made evident up the road in Rossport. Every other function they serve is a fig leaf.
Obviously the left needs to evolve its own peaceful means of resolving disputes such as this which are bound to occur from time to time. Anyone have a positive suggestion how to do this?
Here's the relevant referance from the November 22nd statement:
“As the title of Mr Piggins’ poem suggests he never believed GAAW could win its campaign against that obscenity. Alas, he was wrong!”
The full statement is still available on the google cache here
http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:xQ_ZkEhXMs0J:irish...gl=ie
This was issued on behalf of the Galway Alliance Against War group and has been posted on the Irish Anti-War Movement website for the past nine months. It uses the exact same parody of my name "Mr Piggins" which was previously used in about twenty other now deleted abusive internet postings, some of which made direct reference to the assault. I have copies of all of these.
The leading members of Galway Alliance Against War were informed about this on Thursday and since then there has been not one word from any of them about what they plan to do about this. I did get one e-mail reply from one member who said that the individual in question is " a headstrong fellow" and there's basically nothing he can do about it.
In the face of that sort of attitude, the Guards and publicity are all that's left to me. Otherwise it's clear that Galway Alliance Against War will do nothing and keep doing nothing, and that there will be further incidents.
Ciarán O'Sullivan of the Irish Anti-War Movement did get in touch and removed the Galway Alliance Against November 22nd statement from the Irish Anti-War Movement website and has suggested that a meeting be arranged between me and members of the committee to sort this issue out, for once and for all.
I have let him and them know that I am very open to this. The two points in my statement in this posting are what I will be asking them to do.
If Galway Alliance Against War fail to take some sort of appropriate action, we will be calling on the Irish Anti-War Movement to take whatever neccessary steps (within their own rules) to dissaffiliate them. Ciarán O'Sullivan assures me that the Irish Anti-War Movement does have rules about conduct and and so on.
Hopefully, that won't be neccessary and Galway Alliance Against War will deal with this issue in some appropriate way soon.
Finally, in relation to going to the Guards, when Galway Alliance Against War had their own issues regarding intimidation (absusive and threatening telephone calls) some time back, they immediately went to the Guards and demanded that they take action. They also extensively publicised the issue in the local press.
We have suggested to Ciaran O'Sullivan of the Irish Anti-War Movement that Councillor Colette Connolly of the Labour Party, who has been active with/supportive of Galway Alliance Against War and represents Galway City Central Ward where we live, might be a suitable person to convene a meeting to sort this out.
I hadn't seen the full statement. The section you highlight is disgusting. It seems to me you have made reasonable suggestions for the resolution of the dispute and I call upon GAAW to reciprocate.
Open Letter To Galway Alliance Against War -
Very sensibly, I notice that this 'open letter' nonsense has been removed from the Irish Anti-War site. I think perhaps others should take note.
If Galway writers can't even stop themselves from fighting with each other all the time over fuck all, how can they reasonably expect other people to stop fighting? If Galway writers are a representative cross section of humanity then I think there is little hope for us all.
set up your own bunfight site somewhere and do your petty jealous squabbling there guys. Either that or just get over yourselves
I have known Kevin Higgins for about 17 years. He is not a person prone to fantasy or exaggeration. So when he told me about the attack he suffered at the hands of a member of your organisation, I knew that it had happened the way he said, and I was duly shocked. I also understand that the attack was reported to the police at the time, and evidence of the bruising suffered by Mr Higgins was registered.
This kind of petty thuggery should be abhorrent to all members of your movement, and to the left generally. It has more in common with the tactics of the extreme right. And yet, when given the chance, you neither deny the involvement of a member of your organisation in the attack on Mr Higgins, nor condemn it. The only reasonable conclusion to draw from this, I believe, is that you know that what Mr Higgins alleges is true, and that you seek to defend the perpetrator.
Further, it seems clear from the response of Fred Johnston on the Irish Anti-War Movement website (which is clearly a response to Mr Higgins' post, although this is not stated), that he doesn't accept that Mr Higgins has anything to complain about: I quote:
"I would call on writers living in the region of the Shannon to join in the protests against the US presence there or to write letters to local newspapers and national ones proclaiming their opposition to the United States military occupation of this part of Irish soil. If any writer feels unwilling to do this, let him or her not ever grumble about free speech - while the US bombs and rockets ordinary civilians in Afghanistan in the name of a 'free world.'"
It is clear from this statement that Mr Johnston believes that the right to go about ones daily business, free from intimidation, is conditional upon ones support for the aims and tactics of the Galway Alliance Against War. This is a disgraceful position to take, and in my opinion absolutely undermines the authority and good name of the Galway Alliance Against War as an organisation campaigning against violence and injustice.
I believe that it is now imperative that the Galway Alliance Against War as a whole disassociates itself from the comments of Mr Johnston, and apologises publicly to Mr Higgins for allowing its platform to be used to excuse the attack he suffered, and to question his right to free speech. I also believe that involvement in the original attack on Mr Higgins, and the subsequent making of excuses, are both actions which must be incompatible with membership of your organisation, and that appropriate action should be taken against those involved.
If the Galway Alliance Against War fails to act on this matter, it will surely stand discredited, to the detriment of the just causes it espouses.
Darrell Kavanagh, Portsmouth, UK.