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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.
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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
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Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Wednesday September 24, 2025 10:28
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The post The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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The post Britain’s Judiciary is Biased to its Core appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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The Exaltation of the Cross Tue Sep 23, 2025 15:00 | Chris Larkin
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 Tuesday June 24, 2003 18:55 by *$*
The bomb was a joint operation between the "Real IRA" and the Continuity IRA. The car was parked in the wrong place causing people being ushered into the path of the bomb. Taken from Tuesday's Irish Times Breaking News(subscriber section).
I have seen a few remarks on this site claiming the bomb was the work of the RIRA exclusively. Here's an alternative take on this. I expect to see many leaping to the defence of either group with comments such as how can we believe evidence from this well paid tout. My response would have to be - are any of us willing to lend credence to an opinion that does not fit neatly with our own?
Read on:
FBI agent tells McKevitt trial of Omagh bomb attack blunder
By Kilian Doyle Last updated: 24-06-03, 17:04
Dozens of people were killed in the Omagh bombing in August 1998 because Continuity IRA members parked their car bomb in the wrong place, it was claimed today.
Mr David Rupert, the chief prosecution witness in the trial of alleged "Real IRA" leader Mr Michael McKevitt, told the Special Criminal Court this afternoon that he met Mr McKevitt for the first time a year after the bombing, which killed 29 people and two unborn babies.
Mr Rupert, a paid agent of the FBI and British Secret Services, said he was told by Mr McKevitt at their first ever meeting in September 1999 that the bomb was a joint operation between the "Real IRA" and the Continuity IRA. He said the Continuity IRA had stolen the car the device was transported in and had driven it into the Co Tyrone town. The "Real IRA" had built the bomb itself.
However the bombers failed to find a parking space in the agreed place, so they parked the car further up the main street of the town, away from the area where the telephoned bomb warning said it would be. As a result, scores of people were ushered into the path of the explosion, resulting in 29 deaths and hundreds of injuries.
The agent said Mr McKevitt was "extremely upset" at this, as he felt "the lads should have just driven it out in the country and let it go" rather than park in the wrong place.
Mr McKevitt was also angered by the fact that even though it was a joint operation, Mr Rory O Bradaigh, the president of the Continuity IRA's political wing, Republican Sinn Féin made a speech denouncing the bombing and the "Real IRA", who had claimed responsibility.
Mr Rupert said he was introduced to Mr McKevitt by a member of the Continuity IRA, Mr Michael Donnelly. He said he had met Mr Donnelly at a Republican Sinn Féin Ard Fheis in November, 1998 and, as he was more militarily-inclined than the "do-nothings" in the RSF, decided to align himself with him.
Mr Donnelly was seeking to ingratiate himself with Mr McKevitt, and was using Mr Rupert's fundraising contacts in the US as "a trump card" to do so. The agent said he eventually met Mr McKevitt at the Four Seasons Hotel in Monaghan and "clicked" with him straight away. "I liked Mr McKevitt, he seemed pretty personable," Mr Rupert said. "I felt the feeling was mutual."
Mr Rupert said Mr McKevitt told him of a "coming together" of various dissident republican groups under the new banner of Óglaigh na hÉireann in June 1999. This new group comprised all of the "Real IRA", "98 per cent" of the Continuity IRA and a number of INLA and Provisional IRA members. They were engaged in training and were "getting ready" for a campaign.
"They had licked their wounds and, he felt, gotten over Omagh," Mr Rupert said.
Mr Rupert said he was told this group had a five-member Army Council, an Army executive and a shadow Army Council in case of arrests. Mr McKevitt's wife, Ms Bernadette Sands McKevitt was named as one of the Army Council.
"I took it to be that he was the man in charge." However, Mr McKevitt was at pains to point out that he was not on the Army Council of Óglaigh na hÉireann "for the specific purpose that he didn't want it to be known as his army."
They also discussed the contract for a number of rocket-propelled grenades the group had in the Baltics, a sleeper in Massachussets and Mr McKevitt's role in a number of IRA arms deals with Libya's Colonel Ghaddafi in the 1980s.
Mr Rupert said Mr McKevitt asked him to approach Mr Joe O'Neill, his contact in RSF, about convincing the group to become the political wing of Óglaigh na hÉireann. He approached Mr O'Neill, but was told "over my dead body", the court was told.
Mr Rupert said he was also asked by Mr McKevitt to redirect US funds intended for the Continuity IRA to the new paramilitary group, but again failed to do so.
Today is the fourth day of the trial of Mr McKevitt (53), Beech Park, Blackrock, Co Louth, who has pleaded not guilty to two charges of membership of an unlawful organisation styling itself the Irish Republican Army, otherwise Óglaigh na hÉireann, otherwise the IRA, between August 29th, 1999 and March 28th, 2001; and to directing the activities of the same organisation between March 29th, 1999 and October 23rd, 2000.
The trial continues tomorrow.
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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1What's has happened in the case of Michael Mckevitt, is he has been set up, after feeding a seemingly guillible sympathetic american tourist the sucker line about his importance and role in republican activities. McKevit has obviously exaggerated his role and boasted about fictional activities in order to captivate the imagination of what he saw as a potential future american investor.
If a rich american tourist became very interested and sympathetic to my activities, I may well feed them a load of shit and spice up my dull life story to captivate and con them out of their money.
The blame for the Omagh bomb lies firmly with HM security forces whose own agent warned his handlers on several occasions about the bomb. Kevin Fulton even revealed it was another FRU/Special branch agent who made, planned and primed the Omagh bomb. Special branch Agent A had infiltrated the Real IRA and instigated and planned the Omagh bomb outrage in order to discredit republicans as a whole in the peace process. The hoped outcome of the omagh bomb would have been the discreditation and dismissal of republicans from the increasingly sucessful peace process and the destruction of Good Friday agreement.
FBI/MI5 American David Rupert, is a warning to republicans/irish people not to trust seemingly rich american tourists who appear sympathetic and interested in the troubles. It is blatantly obvious that Rupert's testimony is a tissue of lies and outlandish fabrication to railroad Michael McKevitt. Whether McKevitt is innocent or guilty of nothing more than political affliation with the 32 sovereign county organisation is the only question. McKevitt may have exaggerated his importance to republican activities, stretched the truth, and glamourised his activities in order to appeal to the american tourist and illicit funds from him. At the worst McKevitt is guilty of spouting a load of old claptrap such as that seen'Patriot games' and other fictious stories made for irish american consumption for the sole purpose of illiciting funds from another seemingly guilible sympathetic american tourist.
I suggest we refer the matter to The Second Dail.
An alternative take brought to us by the Special Branch, MI5 and the FBI. This trial is just an excuse for them to blacken the name of RSF and its members. Rupert is a self confessed liar and crook who's only motivation is "earning" money. Dont believe his lies. He has named several leading members of RSF today as members of the IRA and it has been reproduced in a number of papers without question. His only "evidence" for this comes from talks he had with a discredited member of a rival organisation.