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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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BrewDog Sells ?Net Zero? Forest Amid Mounting Losses Fri Oct 03, 2025 13:44 | Will Jones
Brewdog has sold an ?8.8 million Scottish forest it?acquired just five years ago as part of its Net Zero drive?after mounting losses forced it to cut spending.
The post BrewDog Sells ‘Net Zero’ Forest Amid Mounting Losses appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sarah Mullally Appointed as First Female Archbishop of Canterbury Fri Oct 03, 2025 11:24 | Will Jones
Dame Sarah Mullally has been announced as the first female Archbishop of Canterbury, with conservative Anglicans condemning the liberal bishop's appointment as "committing live action, slow-mo (but not that slow) suicide".
The post Sarah Mullally Appointed as First Female Archbishop of Canterbury appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Kemi?s Pledge to Repeal the Climate Change Act Must Be Just the Start Fri Oct 03, 2025 09:00 | Ben Pile
Kemi Badenoch's pledge to repeal the Climate Change Act ? which commits the UK to Net Zero ? must be just the start of the dismantling of the Westminster Uniparty consensus on climate catastrophism, says Ben Pile.
The post Kemi’s Pledge to Repeal the Climate Change Act Must Be Just the Start appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Sceptic | Episode 53: Starmer?s Bizarre Bid to Brand Reform Racist, the Real Danger Posed by Lab... Fri Oct 03, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 53 of the Sceptic: Tom Jones on Keir Starmer's bizarre bid to brand Reform racist, Andrew Orlowski on the real danger posed by Labour's digital ID and Kathryn Porter on the colossal cost of Net Zero.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 53: Starmer?s Bizarre Bid to Brand Reform Racist, the Real Danger Posed by Labour?s Digital ID and the True Cost of Net Zero appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Fri Oct 03, 2025 01:58 | 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 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16After listening to it I don't get how Viking history qualifies to take up an entire show on something called "the Irish history podcast"
Irish seafarers transformed Europe much more than the Vikings.
Vikings seafarers were illiterate.
Irish seagoing monks were amongst the most literate people on the planet.
In 2012 Switzerland will explode in fireworks and celebration the visitation of two Irish monks.
The Swiss city of of Saint Gallen is named after one of them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Gallen
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So is the Swiss Canton of Saint Gall.
Switzerland will celebrate 1600 years of the Irish arriving in less than 18 months time.
The Irish have utterly forgotten St. Gall it seems.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Gall
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Fom the website:
"Another popular story about Gall has it that, at the command of the saint, a bear brought wood to feed the fire which Gall and his companions had kindled in the forest"
That bear is still on the Coat of Arms of Saint Gallen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Coa_St._Gallen.png
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Hang on there E.The St Galls brought a book of Jewish folk tales to the Swiss and q.e.d. the Viking colonisations from Scandinavia through these islands and the waterways of Europe to Sicily Byzantium, Russia and back to Newfoundland amount to a hill of beans?They may have set out as barbarian pirates but they picked up a few alphabets in their travels.Lets not overblow the national pride.
And as for Switzerland, was it Paddy taught them all they know about legalised money laundering for everyone from the Rotschilds mercenary funding through Vatican black operations that make Mossad look angelic down to secreting away the Nazi loot from its victims and probably a good slice of all that suddenly disappeared Tiger wealth that sublimed into thin air?
Now Now Opus.
Blame the Greeks.
It was the Greeks who civilised the Romans who civilised the Irish who civilised the Swiss.
Maybe T'was the Irish influence which led the Swiss to be so greedy.
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Switzerland hangs on in the Alps surrounded by bullies.
Italy and France and Germany and Austria are VISIBLE from the same mountain perch in Switzerland.
The Irish helped to give us our fighting spirit.
>Vikings seafarers were illiterate.
Not true. Who do you think wrote all their sagas?
The Bok of Kells was written FIVE centuries before the Icelandic Sagas.
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Is a copy of a set of Palestinian folk tales dating from round the first century CE.It combines Celtic, Teutonic, Mediterranian and Near Eastern visual influences, many of whose precursors may have been brought to these islands by trading Vikings. Many of the attributes of the subject of this book have been traced back to Mesopotamian and other regional cultic beliefs. Stick to your last, Engineer, jingoistic simplifications may be self-satisfying, but generate more heat than light. The oral Norse history is at least as old as the tales from the Kells document, but literacy does not guarantee civility or ethical behaviour. Eichmann was an efficient clerk, as were the monks who copied these relics. Fortunately for those who appreciate their labours, they tended more to creative inclinations than the destructive administrator.
As for the fighting Irish spirit, its best left on the top shelf, unless excercised with a sliotar.
After Greek and Latin, Irish was the next language to be written down in Europe.
The Irish "Tain" (Handed down orally from the Iron Age) was the first piece of Northern European literature to be written down in it's original "vernacular" language.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1in_B%C3%B3_C%C3%BAa...ilnge
Some English Encyclopedias say it was the Saxon tale "Beowolf" but this is not true.
(They would say that wouldn't they! Some of them would say they won the world cup if they could get away with it.)
The Scandinavian Sagas( Iron Age tales as well) were not written down until centuries later.
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Our own Seamus Heaney did a wonderful translation of the Iron Age Saxon tale "Beowolf":
You can buy it on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Beowulf-New-Verse-Translation-Bil...20979
It is not being "jingoistic" to say that the Tain was written down more than a century before Beowolf.
It is being factual.
I find it jingoistic to classify such pre-national tribal records by modern nationalist labels.I prefer Michael Alexander's translation, but thats just personal taste. I also think Heaney is the Bono of modern Irish poets. An astute rider of the commercial and political storms, and like Bono is insipid compared to the likes of Rory Gallagher or Shane McGowan, I find Seamus less trenchant than the likes of Hartnett, or Kinsella who cut closer to the forementioned 'vernacular'.But, again, that could just be my personal vulgar tasteand allergy to the pontifications of self-appointed pundits.
"I find it jingoistic to classify such pre-national tribal records by modern nationalist labels."
Saxon is an ancient Germanic name for the Germanic tribe who invaded Britain in the sixth century.
The Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel comes from a place in Germany called Saxony.
Angela Merkel is a Saxon.
There is nothing modern about the name.
The reference is to your comparative methodology, E.
All these artifacts are part of a common heritage.To cheerlead that:-
'Irish seafarers transformed Europe much more than Vikings.'
'Viking seafarers were illiterate.'
'Irish seagoing monks were among the most literate people on the planet.'
and then twist and turn each point made with diversionary digressions makes me suspect a Jesuit education lurks someplace behind the chauvenist arras. I've lived, worked and travelled in Germany(and have a son born in Berlin), so hold the patronising till you have first extended a modicum of credit.You may find you will learn even more than your vast compendium already comprises if you pretend your audience is not in your lecture hall, and occasionaly question your own certitudes.Definite papal infallibility humming off your feedback. 'Our own seamus Heaney' might be surprised to find he is not Europe's, seeing as his subject was a piece of European and world literature.I consider Pablo Neruda and Jimi Hendrix equally my own, but I do not preclude an Andaman islander who feels so inclined from claiming them with the same legitimacy. Your polemical predilections are clouding your reception of non-antagonistic points.Slan.
Ask the wise man Daniel T. McCarthy in TCD.
See his website here:
http://www.scss.tcd.ie/Dan.McCarthy/
Every Solar and Lunar eclipse was faithfully recorded by Irish Monks for five hundred years in the middle of the Dark Ages.
P.S:
I have no interest in any religious rubbish but we should credit the hard work of the old Irish monks.
Even an atheist like myself likes the Book of Kells.
Nice pic of the Irish monk Saint Killian in Wurtzburg in Germany.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2004-06-27-Germany-Wu...g.jpg
(The Sculptor assumed that he must have looked look like St. Patrick!)
Irish monks helped to found Lumieges,Auxerre,Laon,Luxeuil,Liege,Trier, Wurtzburg,Rheinau,Reichenau Salzburg,Fiesole,Lucca, Bobbio, St. Gallen. etc.
In less than two years time (2012) the Swiss city of St Gallen celebrates 1600 years.
It was founded by and named after the Irish monk Gall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Gallen
The Irish have completely forgotten this.