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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
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Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Farms to Switch Off Whe... Tue Sep 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Suddenly, green activists have started getting outraged at the billions wasted paying wind farms to switch off when it's too windy. The hypocrisy and chutzpah beggars belief, says Ben Pile.
The post Why Are Green Activists Suddenly Outraged at the Billions Wasted Paying Wind Farms to Switch Off When it’s Too Windy? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Tue Sep 23, 2025 01:12 | 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.
Hamas Executes ?Israeli Collaborators? in Streets of Gaza Mon Sep 22, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hamas?has executed three Palestinians accused of "collaborating" with Israel on the streets of Gaza, just hours after the UK, Australia and Canada announced their?recognition of a Palestinian state.
The post Hamas Executes “Israeli Collaborators” in Streets of Gaza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong Mon Sep 22, 2025 17:35 | Dr David Bell
The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to counter an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals, systematically doing what they knew was wrong, says Dr David Bell.
The post The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
School Accused of ?Brainwashing? Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book ?Blaming Them for The... Mon Sep 22, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
A parent has accused a secondary school of "brainwashing" after?he learned that 14 year-old pupils were told to read a book that "blames them for their white skin" ? and his daughter was forced to read it out loud.
The post School Accused of “Brainwashing” Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book “Blaming Them for Their White Skin” 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 14Cyprus announced on Thursday that it would not allow vessels participating in the flotilla to Gaza to gather in its territorial waters. This has just been inforced. Flotilla participant and IPSC activist Fintan Lane has just contacted us to say that the Challenger 1, the ship on which he is travelling, has just been refused permission to pass through Cypriot waters.
The Challenger is now being followed and filmed by a Cypriot police helicopter.
Updates to follow
Take action to support Freedom Flotilla - http://ipsc.ie/flotilla/
Israel's Disinformation Campaign Against the Gaza Freedom Flotilla: http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/ipsc/displayRe...D=346
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign is calling for a public demonstration in solidarity with the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which is under threat from the Israeli Navy who say they aim to hijack the ships, and their 10,000 tonnes of supplies, and arrest, detain and/or deport their passengers.
We are calling for people to mobilise at 6pm on Monday 31st May at the Spire on O'Connell Street in a public display of support for the brave people of many nationalities - including 11 Irish nationals - who are aiming to break Israel's inhumane 3-year-old seige by sea.
Whether it will be a celebration for the supplies and people reaching their destination or a protest against Israeli piracy on the high seas is in the hands of the Israeli state.
Nice to see the TDs stepping after the Flotilla organisers refused to convey letters.
The Swedish delegates, including Henning Mankell (author) & Mehmet Kaplan (Green Party), had a hard time getting onto the boat because of these problems. They did get on eventually (because of the Swedish media inetrest?). There is much more coverage of events here in Sweden, across all forms of media over the last week, than there has been in Ireand.
This answers Mr Man's disinformation, fairly thoroughly.
'Israel claims that we refused to deliver a letter and package from POW Gilad Shalit's father. This is a blatant lie. We were first contacted by lawyers representing Shalit's family Wednesday evening, just hours before we were set to depart from Greece. Irish Senator Mark Daly (Kerry), one of 35 parliamentarians joining our flotilla, agreed to carry any letter and to attempt to deliver it to Shalit or, if that request was denied, deliver it to officials in the Hamas government. As of this writing, the lawyers have not responded to Sen. Daly, electing instead to attempt to smear us in the Israeli press.[5] We have always called for the release of all political prisoners in this conflict, including the 11,000 Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli jails, among them hundreds of child prisoners.[6]'
Supporting this aid convoy to the people of Gaza is such an obvious, uncontroversial thing, I find it hard to believe that there are people out there still engaged in cynical pointscoring on this. Since there is undoubtedly more cynical disinformation on the way I can only recommend again our press release combatting this disinformation campaign http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/ipsc/displayRe...D=346
More coverage in the Swedish media.Well we have important things to think about with Eurovision and Matt Cooper interviewing Ryan Tubridy and the inverse ratio between decreasing bread and expanding circuses.Besides,Mossad have taken over in the Passport Office so we have to be nice in case anywhere crops up worth emigrating to.Is it not appropriate that the office is located at Moles(worth) street?Ah,that will be them at the door.Scuse me.
One thing that struck me about the Zioracist Media blitz over the past few weeks is that virtually all their info relating to supplies shipped into Gaza seems to start in 2010 - absolutely no mention of 2009 figures! Why? Because in 2009 the Zioracists were attempting to starve the Gazans into submission - like the Nazis before them, some part of the Zioracist murder-machine had actually sat down and calculated the absolute minimum calorie requirements of the Gazan population and that is the amount of food they allowed into Gaza, (the sick little racist modern-day Nazi fuckwits) but due to the brave actions of people like the Flotilla participants, the bad publicity started to hurt their carefully crafted (but totally false) 'eternal victim' media-image.
thankfully, unlike most of the western media, Al Jazeera are not afraid of becoming the target of the insane racist-rantings of the blood-dripping-from-the-fangs-Zio-racist-media-pitbulls (that's actually kinda insulting to pit-bulls, so my apologies to pit-bulls everywhere) and have had the guts to actually pick apart their silly cynical propaganda.
You can see their report below
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Zioracists exposed for the scum-bag liars that they truthfully are
Well snared hb.But tone your language.Take your lead from that presenter who kept her cool and demolished the lies and spin with facts.Ranting only turns off those who approach with less information but still open minds.You'll turn into a mirror of the opposition if you let them infect you.Take it from one who has a short enough fuse himself.Keep on scanning.
Thanks for keeping us updated Freda. Good luck to all involved. Free Gaza & the West Bank, free the Palestinians
opus diablos, can I join the regressive hypocrite party?
Today Sunday May 30th, as of 10am this morning many Human Rights groups have come together
to Twitter for Gaza and the success of the flotilla.
Please join us and help us to get the VERY best coverage possible for the flotilla, Media outlets are VERY slow and some not responding at all
we are trying to tweet our way to the top of all search engines.
Please follow these links:
http://twitter.com/ipsc48 link for IPSC
http://twitter.com/waterfordsgroup link for IPSC Waterford
Or set up an account, either way join in and help us to assist the MV Rachel Corry and other vessels to get coverage
Thank You
Sorry,Balducci,its a private party.Did you not notice the singularity of hypocrite?But then I dont have a franchise on double-think either.If you can register the name I'll join your party.I'd call it copy-left only I think someone has that copywrongfully nailed.Last time I tried Dail Eireann didn't even reply.Ce la mort.
Meantime according to the Jerusalem Post the flotilla is getting radio jamming and unspecified technical problems.Not expected inshore till Monday apparently.Lots of vitriol and bile pumping down their comment lines but the actual coverage is more even handed than I expected.More even handed than the Israeli pap we're getting through Irish media.Even Carol Coleman,who can ask questions and pursue evasions seems slack with her bland treatment.Someone pulling her pigtail.
Pity,we could do with a bit of dismantling of the Israeli media security wall.Its higher than the CRH curtain.Its all tar Hamas and polish that Israeli 'bastion of the free west' halo.
BBC reports the truth but will only stick in at the bottom of an article, in the hope that most people will miss it, I 'spose. That way the pro-Zionist (and therefore Pro-racist) plants at the BBC can have their cake and eat it, by being able to claim that they did actually report the truth of the situation, while doing their best to bury the info where many will miss it.
The pro-Zionist (and therefore Pro-racist) plants at the BBC titled this article; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/10193249.stm Gaza aid flotilla 'leaves Cyprus' as if the flotilla leaving Cyprus was a merely a matter of opinion, open to some dispute. One wonders what goes through the heads of the sub-editors at the Beeb. . . .
Anyway, here's the tiny bit of true reporting they allowed in in the very last 2 paragraphs of the article -
But of course in the 2 preceding paragraphs the resident BBC 'expert' had to give us his spin, while pretending to be objective:
The BBC & Donnison pretend that the Hamas quote is 'spin' when in fact by all the international Laws of the Sea the Israeli actions ARE an act of piracy
The BBC & Donnison pretend that the United Nations statement that "the blockade a "medieval siege", says this is only a fraction of what is needed and less than a quarter of what was coming into Gaza before the blockade was enforced" is some sort of inaccurate 'spin' which may be mere fabrication, and in all likelihood is an exaggeration, but in reality is a very accurate summation of the dire humanitarian situation which has made the brave actions of the Flotilla members very necessary.