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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.

offsite link 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.

offsite link 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

offsite link 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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offsite link Sir Keir Starmer Under Pressure to Scrap Angela Rayner?s Plan to Roll Out Official Definition of Isl... Sun Sep 28, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Steve Reed, the Communities Secretary, has made it clear he?s unsympathetic to his predecessor's plan to roll out an official definition of Islamophobia, telling newspapers he'll block it if it stifles free speech.
The post Sir Keir Starmer Under Pressure to Scrap Angela Rayner?s Plan to Roll Out Official Definition of Islamophobia appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Keir Starmer put a ?295,000 Surrey field in a trust for his parents, so it wasn't part of their estate ? even though he has said "those in charge of taxation can't also be seeking to avoid it."
The post Questions for Keir Starmer Over Avoiding Inheritance Tax appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Digital ID: What is it Good For? Sun Sep 28, 2025 09:00 | Anonymous IT Reporter
Digital ID hasn't even been launched and it has already achieved its goal. You see, everyone was talking about fiscal black holes, small boats and Andy Burnham. Now all they're talking about is Brit Card.
The post Digital ID: What is it Good For? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump?s UN Speech: The Climate Emperor Now Stands Exposed Sun Sep 28, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
Trump's UN speech was a masterclass in speaking unfashionable truth. The climate emperor now stands exposed and the world must face up to the reality that it has bought into a dangerous delusion, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Trump’s UN Speech: The Climate Emperor Now Stands Exposed appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Sep 28, 2025 00:29 | Will Jones
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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South Park creators warned over Muhammad depiction

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Thursday April 22, 2010 11:14author by People Before Prophets Report this post to the editors

Looks as if the South Park crew could have some problems angry islamic fundamentalists. Mocking buddha and christ is one thing but mocking the "prophet" of islam is a tad more dangerous.

Islamists have warned the creators of TV show South Park they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit. A posting on the website of the US-based group, Revolution Muslim, told Matt Stone and Trey Parker they would "probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh". The Dutch film-maker was shot and stabbed to death in 2004 by an Islamist angered by his film about Muslim women.
Muhammad And Friends.
Muhammad And Friends.

The posting gave details about a home Stone and Parker reportedly co-own. It also listed the addresses of their production office in California and the New York office of South Park's broadcaster, Comedy Central.

"We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show," warned the posting, written in the name of Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee. "This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them," it added.

In the 200th episode of South Park, broadcast in the US and UK last week, Muhammad appeared several times inside a bear suit. The prophets of the other main religions were also depicted, including a drug-snorting Buddha.

Related Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8636455.stm

Muhammad in a bear suit
Muhammad in a bear suit

author by southparkwatcherpublication date Fri Aug 20, 2010 14:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

A dutchman was stabbed over a mere cartoon depiction of one of their pre historic rabid religious leaders ..here is an interesting link by pat condell .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ZUZ9CPZII
The dutch government now are charging geert wilders,over the production of his movie fina, with incitement to hatred against mad muslim clerics..?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96ZUZ9CPZII

author by Kerryman.publication date Mon Apr 26, 2010 16:13author address author phone Report this post to the editors

We Kerry people are so secure we don't mind about who jokes about us.

Religions are so false they get mad about everything.

Even jokes.

author by The Bansheepublication date Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Compared to bloodthirsty Irish gods like "The Morrigan" that Jesus guy and the guy who founded Islam aren't too bad after all.

St. Patrick converted the Irish in a single generation because we Celtic gods were so vengefull and horrible.

Every Irish person lived in fear of me,The Morrigan, and my sister The Banshee.

See my sister the Morrigan here:

http://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mythicali...sch:1

And see myself,The Banshee,here:

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs39/f/2008/327/2/d/The_Bans...e.jpg

We have been banished.

But we haven't gone away y'know.

author by A Freemanpublication date Sun Apr 25, 2010 21:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Well 'anti-racist' you state that "the Talmud promotes incest and paedophilia", I'm not fully familiar with the talmud but in common with the bible and the koran I've no doubt that it promotes many objectionable practices, all these middle eastern mythologies promote a primitive, misogynistic dogma and it's a pity humanity hasn't outgrown them.

You accuse me of islamophobia (a catch-all for any criticism of islamist practices or violence) but like many on this site you immediately try to balance it with a bit of Jew-bashing, talk of 'pot calling kettle'! As for the RC Church I haven't got the time to list all their crimes against humanity so I'll just mention Crusades, Inquisition and institutional child abuse to show I'm not forgetting them.

I also find Hasidic Jews to be a pretty extreme and narrow-minded bunch but then they're fundamentalists so no surprises there!

I've got a bible and a koran (they're both terrible reads!), do I now need to get the Talmud? Just in the interest of balance like!

Perhaps it's the far-left that needs to consider its love of radical islam? Fools from SWP carrying signs saying 'we are all Hizbullah now', no to them you're just a foolish kufr infidel, grow up!

author by real secularistpublication date Sun Apr 25, 2010 19:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Muslim group acquitted over cartoon
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2010/0424/122....html

AMSTERDAM – A Dutch court has acquitted a Muslim group of inciting hatred with a cartoon that questions the Holocaust, in the latest case to provoke debate about freedom of speech in the Netherlands.

The Arab European League (AEL), which published the cartoon on its website, was cleared of insulting Jews because it was not aiming to dispute the Holocaust but to highlight perceived double standards in free speech.

The AEL cartoon shows two men, beneath an “Auschwitz” sign and beside several bodies, saying the victims might not have been Jewish but the target was six million – the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust.

The AEL said the cartoon was part of a campaign it launched in 2006 to show “the double morals of the West during the Danish cartoon affair”. The image came with a disclaimer saying the AEL did not support the views of the cartoon.

“The context in which this cartoon was published takes away from its criminally offensive nature,” the court said in a ruling published on Thursday.

A cartoon in a Danish newspaper in 2005 showing Islam’s Prophet Muhammad with a bomb in his turban sparked violent protests in Muslim countries. The backlash prompted the newspaper to apologise, but the Danish government defended its right to freedom of expression.

As a supporter of free speech, the AEL did not complain about the republication of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons in the Netherlands. However it argued that its own cartoon was meant to show that other religious communities were also sensitive about certain images.

Tensions over immigration and the rights of religious groups are testing the attitudes of the liberal Dutch. A spate of recent cases have struck at the heart of the Dutch constitution, raising questions about when free speech crosses the line and becomes discrimination.


the proof of what the AEL are claiming, i.e.; to show “the double morals of the West during the Danish cartoon affair”, lies in the fact that the Dutch authorities for some reason felt justified in charging the AEL with 'inciting hatred' while no such charges were brought against the publishers of the cartoons.

author by anti-Racistpublication date Sun Apr 25, 2010 18:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The 'threats' were made on a website called 'Revolution Muslim'

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_Muslim) 'Revolution Muslim' was setup and operated by:

. .. Yousef al-Khattab, born Joseph Cohen, an American Jew who converted to Islam in 2000 after living in Israel and attending an orthodox rabbinical school there, then returned to New York,[1][3][4] where he is said to have worked driving a taxi,[5] operating a pedicab,[6] or running a restaurant

also according to both Wikipedia and none other than Richard Dawkins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Root_of_All_Evil%3F#Je...salem)

. . .Yousef al-Khattab, formerly Joseph Cohen, an American-born Jew who came to Israel as a settler before converting to Islam

pretty much anybody can register at a website and post statements,

author by anti-racistpublication date Sun Apr 25, 2010 14:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

not once have you attacked any other religion -the Talmud promotes incest and paedophilia (as long as the child is non-jewish, no crime has been committed) yet you seem to have no problem with that - stop pretending to be anything but a racist islamophobe

author by A Freemanpublication date Sun Apr 25, 2010 13:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Well 'Unseen ocean' , Osama bin Laden is the promoter of mass murder, the Holocaust DID murder six million Jews and Islam is not exempt from criticism, if you want sharia law move to Saudi Arabia. Hopefully one of those wonderful drone aircraft will find Osama one of these days and send him where he'll find out in person that they're no 72 virgins waiting for him!

author by unseenoceanpublication date Sat Apr 24, 2010 08:09author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The idea that there is free speech is a false one.

In Britain if you praise Osama Bin Laden you will get done for terrorism. Elsewhere in Europe and in Canada if you deny the holocaust you are liable to end up behind bars.

Yet in all these countries it is perfectly legal to insult prophets/leaders of millions of people.

author by A Freemanpublication date Thu Apr 22, 2010 17:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Free speech and Islam seem to be incompatible, as far as some muslims are concerned anyway. The brutal murder of Theo van Gogh in 2004 and the threat to Lars Vilks and Salman Rushdie shows that you have to take these extremists seriously when they post their warnings online. The reaction of many muslims during the Danish cartoons controversy shows a fundamental difference between islamic responses and those of other religions, despite offensive portrayals of Jesus or Buddha we don't hear of followers of those faiths issuing death threats to comedians, artists or writers say.

If Allah or mohamed are really offended by all this, let them send down a few lightning bolts to punish those who have crossed them!

author by Fanpublication date Thu Apr 22, 2010 14:38author address author phone Report this post to the editors

when someone's life is threatened over the contents of a cartoon. All religions should be abolished if the human race is to ever have any hope of progressing.

Sometimes programs like south park or stand up comedy seem like the only places left where certain things can be said, so repressive is our society

I hope matt and trey are not put off by these nutcases

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