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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 >>
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.
Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc
Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 19:30 | Calli Morganite
Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 09:04 | Mind Agent
AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 21:00 | Mind Agent
Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Sat Aug 02, 2025 00:54 | 1 of indy
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News Round-Up Tue Oct 28, 2025 01:25 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Democratic Party at Prayer Mon Oct 27, 2025 20:00 | Dr Roger Watson
The Church of England may not still be the Conservative Party at prayer, but the US Catholic Church, with its pro-migrant messages, certainly seems to be the religious wing of the Democratic Party, says Prof Roger Watson.
The post The Democratic Party at Prayer appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Ban on Controlled Burning of Moorland is Making Wildfires Worse Mon Oct 27, 2025 18:06 | Ian Coghill
The Government's ban on controlled burning of moorland is making wildfires worse, says Ian Coghill. After a decade of record fires it claims the areas are 'in transition' to a magical state where they'll never burn again.
The post The Ban on Controlled Burning of Moorland is Making Wildfires Worse appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Billions Wasted on Migrant Hotels: Bombshell Report Reveals ?Incompetent? Home Office Lets Private F... Mon Oct 27, 2025 15:36 | Will Jones
The?Home Office?has "squandered" billions of pounds on asylum hotels, a damning report by MPs has found, blasting the department's "incompetence" that has allowed private firms to make "excessive profits" from the crisis.
The post Billions Wasted on Migrant Hotels: Bombshell Report Reveals “Incompetent” Home Office Lets Private Firms Make “Excessive Profits” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Are Young Britons Moving Right? Mon Oct 27, 2025 13:00 | Noah Carl
Recent polls show that most young Britons still support Left-wing parties. However, the young have shifted Rightward since the last election, so the situation for the Right isn?t quite as dire as it was back then. ?
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Friday March 19, 2010 07:21
by Tony Lowes - Friends of the Irish Environment
tony at friendsoftheirishenvrionment dot org
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4Commission issues final warning on four environmental cases
The European Commissions has upped the ante on legal proceedings concerning a wide range of Irish failings to protect the environment.
The European Commission has sent a final warning to Ireland over four cases where it has failed to comply with European Court of Justice rulings concerning illegal development and developments that may harm the natural and man-made heritage of the countryside and marine mammals.
A major warning - that went to both Ireland and the UK - requires that both countries provide ‘affordable’ access to justice.
A final warning in environmental impact assessment cases concerns Ireland's failure to ensure that work on projects that might require an environmental impact assessment (EIA) does not start before the necessary assessment is carried out. Retention permissions which retrospectively approve such work is contrary to the EIA Directive.
At Derrybrien, County Galway, Court pointed out that there had been a failure to undertake a proper prior impact assessment of the a wind farm which caused a major peat slide. In this case, the Irish authorities agreed to undertake an EIA to look in detail at further potential issues but none has been done.
Another case relates to a Court ruling in November 2008 which found that the thresholds for undertaking an environmental impact assessment for certain types of projects, including the restructuring of rural landholdings and water management projects for irrigation or land drainage, were too high. This led to loss of wetlands and other habitats and destruction of archaeological remains without any EIAs ever being required. No legislation has been adopted to address the issue.
The most important warning concerns Ireland and the United Kingdom’s failure to provide its citizen with access to justice that is not ‘prohibitively expensive’.
A spokesman for the environmental lobby group Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] said that ‘While we understand many of the cases highlighted by the Commission today are being addressed in amendments to the Planning legislation, fundamental changes to the Irish justice system are also now required’.
European Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik pointed out that "When important decisions affecting the environment are taken, the public must be allowed to challenge them. This important principle is established in European law. But the law also requires that these challenges must be affordable.”
FIE claims that ‘In spite of the fact that the law explicitly states that such challenges must not be ‘prohibitively expensive’, legal proceedings in Ireland can be ruinously so. There is no doubt whatsoever that the potential financial consequences of losing challenges is preventing NGOs and individuals from bringing cases against public bodies and so denying citizens their legal rights'.
Also being challenged by the Commission is the well established procedure in Irish law requiring those seeking to have projects halted required to give expensive and often unaffordable undertakings of deposits that may be used to compensate defendants if an injunction is eventually not confirmed by a full court proceeding.
The Commission alleges that such undertakings are ‘serious impediment to the use of such injunctions, which are essential for temporarily halting operations that may have a potentially damaging impact on the environment while their legality is being assessed.’
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Failure to act on final written warnings, also known as Reasoned Opinions, can result in a summons to the Court of Justice.
The people of Rossport have been calling for years for the Irish government to ratify the Arhus agreement . Minister Ryan is fully aware that the government is deliberately denying the people their rights and is also conversant with the laws of this treaty but he choses to share in the crimes of of Fianna Fail.
WHY HASN'T THE EU DONE ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?
Unless and until the EU actually takes some real and significant form of remedial action (in practice), I feel it is best to assume that this "threat" is nothing more than "window dressing" -- in other words, just another cheap, mean, and shoddy ploy to hoodwink the public into thinking something of significance is about happen at the hands of the EU, for the purpose of lulling them into a false sense of security: which promotes inaction in the "activist" section of our society.
How I hope the EU will prove me wrong on this occasion.
Also, Tony Lowes has been well aware of the United Nations Aarhus Convention Agreement (which the Republic of Ireland signed in 1998, and have made a sick joke of ever since) for many years now, and yet he does not make a single mention of this core issue in this article?
I wonder why that might be? -- and I wonder if he might care to explain this strange omission of his in this article (of his)?
Through the use of formal petitions, the EU has been provided with a number of first-class opportunities to do something (of value) about the rampant environmental abuses taking place in the Republic of Ireland during recent years, and they have done SFA (Sweet F**k All) as far as I know.
The petitions in question include the sample one at:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~kellybrendan/petition1/feb-...2.htm
Don't mind them, with the EU it's all "big talk" (and no action).
The EU completely ignored everything in the Petition made to them at the Internet address above, and National Toll Roads (the owners of Celtic Waste/Greenstar I understand) were allowed to "sail through" to success, with the greatest of ease, and now have their ignorant rubbish dump fully operational on top of -- almost -- the 10,000 year old "An Sli Mor" (the "Great Highway" of ancient Ireland), otherwise known as the Esker Riada (or "Magna Via" if you live and/or work in the Vatican), and in all probability the most important (by far) of the Ireland's natural heritage monuments.