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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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offsite link Down The Tylenol Rabbitol Tue Sep 30, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
President Trump says Tylenol in pregnancy may cause autism. Wes Streeting says don't listen to Trump, he's a politician. But what does the science say? Professor James Alexander goes down the Tylenol rabbitol.
The post Down The Tylenol Rabbitol appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link I Smell a Rat in the BBC?s Claims of Climate Change ?Ratmageddon? Tue Sep 30, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Rodent populations in the US and Britain have exploded, and the BBC inevitably blames climate change. But Ben Pile smells a rat. After all, there are much more likely explanations than slightly milder weather.
The post I Smell a Rat in the BBC’s Claims of Climate Change ‘Ratmageddon’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Sep 30, 2025 00:41 | 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.

offsite link Could Lithium Batteries Be Programmed to Explode? Mon Sep 29, 2025 19:05 | Dr R P
Israel's pager attack on Hezbollah highlights a frightening possibility: that lithium batteries could be programmed to explode. Yet another reason to avoid Chinese EVs, says the Daily Sceptic's robotics expert.
The post Could Lithium Batteries Be Programmed to Explode? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sadiq Khan?s Plan to Spend ?66 Million on Wokery in Crime-Plagued London Mon Sep 29, 2025 17:10 | Will Jones
Crime is soaring in London, but Mayor Sadiq Khan is planning to spend ?66m on woke projects over three years ? and has just awarded himself a pay rise to ?170,282, making him the highest paid politician in the land.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Plan to Spend ?66 Million on Wokery in Crime-Plagued London appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Dublin - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

An evening with John Pilger

category dublin | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice author Tuesday September 28, 2010 17:11author by Amnesty1 - Amnesty International Irelandauthor email info at amnesty dot ie Report this post to the editors

'It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and myths that surround it' - John Pilger

John Pilger is a world-renowned journalist, author and documentary filmmaker, who began his career in 1958 in his homeland, Australia, before moving to London in the 1960s.

He regards eye-witness as the essence of good journalism. He has been a foreign correspondent and a front-line war reporter, beginning with the Vietnam war in 1967. He is an impassioned critic of foreign military and economic adventures by Western governments.

"It is too easy," he says, "for Western journalists to see humanity in terms of its usefulness to 'our' interests and to follow government agendas that ordain good and bad tyrants, worthy and unworthy victims and present 'our' policies as always benign when the opposite is usually true. It's the journalist's job, first of all, to look in the mirror of his own society."

He believes a journalist also ought to be a guardian of the public memory and often quotes Milan Kundera: "The struggle of people against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

Noam Chomsky wrote: "John Pilger's work has been a beacon of light in often dark times. The realities he has brought to light have been a revelation, over and over again, and his courage and insight a constant inspiration."

Harold Pinter wrote: "John Pilger unearths, with steely attention, the facts, the filthy truth, and tells it as it is."

In 2009, John Pilger was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize, Australia's international human rights award.

Related Link: http://www.seminars.ie/inspirational-seminars/seminar_details.php?event_id=189
author by newsmedia - newsmedianews.compublication date Tue Sep 28, 2010 18:29author email newsmedia at eircom dot netauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

"It's the journalist's job, first of all, to look in the mirror of his own society."
When I worked as a chief reporter in the UK from 90-95, the then active government attempted to introduce legislation making it 'illegal' for a journalist/reporter to refer to previous bad conduct of a politician in any material published about that politician preceding elections.
And they tried to bring it in through the back door.
Vigilance and the integrity to be committed to honest causes is the bedrock of good journalism.

author by Animal Farm - Disgustedpublication date Tue Sep 28, 2010 19:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Besides interested parties, every so-called journalist in Dublin should attend and see what a real journalist looks like

author by Sceptic . - None whatsoeverpublication date Tue Sep 28, 2010 19:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

In my humble opinion i feel John Pilger is perhaps amongst the top 20 journalists i have ever had the pleasure of reading
some of his most amazing in depth investigative reports , and thats saying something coming from me .

I wish John well ..........

author by CouchPotatoRadicalpublication date Wed Sep 29, 2010 06:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

at 40 euro a pop for tickets and run by a private for profit company "seminars.ie", can amnesty say where all the money will be going that is likely to be generated by this event and also can they say whether Mr Pilger (whom I greatly respect) has given his approval for his talk being made so exclusive and for profit. I would have thought he would prefer to get his message out to the wider public and not just a rich bored chic clique.

author by Ruairipublication date Wed Sep 29, 2010 15:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Would anyone agree that Pilger is slightly over-rated and has been on a bit of a polemic vibe for a while. Sure we all hate reading corporate propaganda masquerading as journalism, but Pilger is just more propaganda from a different point of view. He's not as bad as idiots like Michael Moore but he does know what buttons to oush in order to get people to buy his books etc.

I certainly wouldn't find him 'inspiring' enough to part with €40

author by JP Fan - Nonepublication date Sun Oct 31, 2010 12:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

For anyone who doesn't yet know, this talk has been cancelled. The reason why, I don't know.

author by TD - Free Palestine Campaignpublication date Sun Nov 14, 2010 18:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

More's the pity; it's cancelled alright: Accorting to the AI website: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED - REFUNDS WILL BE ISSUED SHORTLY

Related Link: http://www.seminars.ie/inspirational-seminars/seminar_details.php?event_id=189
author by Sceptic - None whatsoverpublication date Mon Nov 15, 2010 05:39author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I heard thru the grapevine how the 40euros cost of tickets may have been a contributing factor ,.

Its our Loss .

author by Fred Johnstonpublication date Mon Nov 15, 2010 18:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Amnesty seems to think we're still in the Celtic Tiger dream-cloud. I adore Pilger's writing, but €40 in Ireland right now is simply wrong.

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