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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
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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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Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
The post Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The ?Far Left? Finally Gets Its Comeuppance Sat Sep 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
For years the Left has smeared its opponents as 'far Right'. Now, the spike in Leftist political violence has led to a turning of the tables. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Guardian, says Prof James Alexander.
The post The ‘Far Left’ Finally Gets Its Comeuppance 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 15He will be all over the news for a while, then quietly forgotten outside Sligo.
He will support the government in votes, and then campaign in the election as an independent in the hope he keeps his seat while FF are wiped out.
He might get back into goverment as an independent supporting a weak FG/LAB government, and in the meantime he will pocket a large independent TD's allowance.
Eamon Scanlon will do the same thing if he has any sense.
Hes a conman. He voted for all of the cutbacks up to now. Makes you think though: does he see an election coming relatively soon? Maybe he reckons Biffo will fail with the budget so he trying to put av few months of distance between himself & FF.
"Devins's grandfather was a Sinn Féin TD during the civil war. He was captured by Free State forces in 1922 and summarily executed. "
If Biffo gets his hands on Devin he'll get some summary punishment. Biffo might even eat him. Biffo does look rather like a Neandteral so it wouldnt really be cannibalism.
Devins has not resigned from the Fianna Fáil party - he has only resigned the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party which means he won't be bound by the party in Dáil votes. This is an old FF ruse to give the impression of making a principled stand. He will crawl back inside the tent at the first opportunity. At least Joe Behan had the guts to make a total break with FF and resign his party membership. This is a smokescreen from judge Devins' husband.
Mr Devins has also declared that he has shares in Standard Life in his declaration to the Dáil for 2008: http://www.oir.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=11429&CatID=20
"Standard Life holds 46.6million shares in Shell, or 1.73 per cent of the company, according to Thomson Reuters. Its stake is worth £735.3million, based on the £15.78 closing price for Shell's London-listed shares last night."
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry...8.ece
Interesting...
So let's get this straight, a TD has shares in a company which has, in turn, shares in Shell.
He supports a government project to install a Shell pipeline in Mayo. This pipeline and the onshore refinery which goes with it will save money for Shell, so the value of shares in that company will increase. For a time, our shareholder TD is even a minister in the government backing this scheme which will make him money.
All the while, his wife, the judge in Belmullet, is merrily sending opponents of this Shell project to jail and casting aspersions on their sanity.
If these men had any ethics or ideals they would resign from the party in disgust at Fianna Fails contempt for the seriously ill people of Ireland , Devins and the wife are well met total hypocrites with hidden agendas to increase their wealth at the expense of the peoples needs.
JUST ANOTHER SCAM
VOTE NO TO LISBON Im sure jimmy will aproove.
If JAMES bought property or shares in Standard Life /Shell ,his wife Mary would also be entitled to share this wealth ".Oh Dear , thats the law James."
Typical selfserving, run with rabbit and hunt with the hound antic. Get these gombeens off our backs - REVOLT.
First we take down Lisbon ...then we take Berlin
NO NO No to a United States of Europe where we give up all contorl to more of these rogues, remote from any democratic accountability to the Irish electorate.
Absolute lunacy
NO to Lisbon
Perhaps devins submerged himself from an already dying FF government partly in order to help keep the spotlight off wifey judge devins so she can continue to flout the spirit of the law and imprison key protesters on the most minor transgressions as long as she possibly can to help keep shell resource grab on the road. The only hypothesis that would adequately explain devins behaviour is if the pair of them had gotten a very large payoff indeed. Makes good corporate sense to get the judiciary under your control before stealing people's resources I guess.
Though he'll be a Hero of everybody that doesn't know about him and wifey Judge Dread ! This begs the queastion - should a Member of the Legislature and a Member of the Judiciary, separate arms of Government, be allowed to marry without one or the other resigning the position ?
The Gombeen Devins will still be pushing Lisbon, so get out and fight him and his ilk now !
John McGuinness in Kilkenny, King of the Gombeen Men, is now backing Lenihan against Cowan for next Leader of Fianna Fail !
The knives are out, the Backbench Revolt is on, trouble is that the victor won't have much of a Party left to lead, Pity Him :-)
Say what you will, lads, but they resigned on principle. John O'Donoghue, who should have done the decent thing and resigned over his abuse of expenses while he was Minister for Kerry and the Arts, slinks away saying nothing and hoping we'll all forget how gombeenish his behaviour was. A Somerville and Ross character for shure! "All dis money! Bejasus, will I stay in a luxury hotel or get a new roof for the byre?" This kind of politician must go. For all our sakes.
I forgot to thank Sean Ryan for his very informative and usefull posting on the Devins investments . It answers a lot of questions .
THANKS SEAN It is information like this that will eventually rid us of these scumbags.
I would not have too much hope that Fianna Fail backbenchers will rise against the party because they are a bunch of self serving cowards and they know that if they bring on an election they will be massacred. If any of the seriously sick people that are striving to get their medicine die as a result of Harneys tyranny. I hope that someone will arange retalliation.
He's got a bolg in the Irish Times website that you can comment on as well.
Jimmy Devins TD announced today that he is withdrawing from public life.
He will not be seeking re election.
good riddance
But Judging by the polls, we will be replacing this lot with a strong right wing privatisation friendly FG government who will play ball with the bondholders. Will the Irish people ever learn. The frontline had no representation by sinn fein last night even though they polled at the same level as FF.
Media is pushing FG / Labour as their masters want. Ironically, kenny pointed out that there was not much difference between FF and labour policies.
Vote sinn fein ULA to thwart their cosy cartel. FG/labour is just more of the same nonsense