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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

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

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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offsite link Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner?s Daughter Violet Pushes for Mask Mandates at United Nations Wed Sep 24, 2025 11:12 | Will Jones
Violet Affleck,?the daughter of Hollywood stars?Jennifer Garner?and?Ben Affleck, was at the?UN?on Tuesday to push for mask mandates, saying the world was irresponsible for returning to 'business as usual' after Covid.
The post Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner’s Daughter Violet Pushes for Mask Mandates at United Nations appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Problem with Rupert Lowe?s Argument Against Halal and Kosher Meat Wed Sep 24, 2025 09:00 | Noah Carl
Rupert Lowe has called for halal and kosher meat to be banned. But there's a problem with his argument: he doesn't mention factory farming?a far greater evil.
The post The Problem with Rupert Lowe?s Argument Against Halal and Kosher Meat appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying Wed Sep 24, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
As New York hosts Climate Week NYC ? "the world?s largest climate event" ? the absence of any major global leaders speaks volumes, says Tilak Doshi. Mugged by reality, the Net Zero dream is dying.
The post The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Wed Sep 24, 2025 01:05 | 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 Britain?s Judiciary is Biased to its Core Tue Sep 23, 2025 20:08 | Dr David McGrogan
The Court of Appeal overturned the closure of Epping's migrant hotel because Britain's judiciary is biased to its core, says Dr David McGrogan. The Right must get to grips with this problem ? and fast.
The post Britain’s Judiciary is Biased to its Core appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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US military aid to Ireland suspended

category sligo | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Tuesday July 01, 2003 17:49author by pete ranks Report this post to the editors

Reuters has an interesting piece on the suspension of military aid to over 50 countries because they are supporting the setting up of the international crimainal court. One of the countries is Ireland, what do we get the money/aid for?

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=CY1UYKG1WO3QSCRBAEKSFEY?type=politicsNews&storyID=3020310

author by pete rankspublication date Tue Jul 01, 2003 17:55author address author phone Report this post to the editors

a story on how male infertility can be passed onto children?! maybe the eds. been reading too much of the onion!

author by Januspublication date Tue Jul 01, 2003 18:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

No more military aid for the Colombians.

author by joe raniipublication date Tue Jul 01, 2003 19:01author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Janus was looking the wrong way when he made that posting. The government of the Republic of Colombia has not bowed to the considerable US pressure to accpt US immunity in war crimes etc.
It is therefore on the list of countries to be denied aid.

Now how will the ill-informed who have been posting here to attack the Colombian government reconcile that with their ignorant claims that Colombia is a US stooge ?

author by David Rynnepublication date Tue Jul 01, 2003 20:09author address author phone Report this post to the editors

have just ratified (on the 24th of june) an aid package of 3 billion for pakistan for supporting the invasion of Iraq and the "war on terror"
This aid package includes 1.5 billion in military aid to be spent on defensive weapons (whatever they are. What a good idea.. 1.5 billion worth of weapons can cause far far more than 1.5 billion worth of damage.. maybe america wants to rebuild kashmir after india and pakistan are done fighting over it?

author by hunterpublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 03:09author address author phone Report this post to the editors

but someone told me today (his brother is in the army or something) that the americans train the 'elite' irish army, the Irish Rangers or something they're called (?). So maybe they'll stop training them or something?

(bear in mind, I have just read this article, and didn't know about it when this guy was telling me, or I would have asked more questions)

author by David Rynnepublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 12:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

that the irish army rangers actually trained the specal forces from other countries? they have training camps in wicklow and various army bases around the country..
Of course i was probably just a minor victim of"isn't ireland great"-propaganda by the media and poiticians

author by it is $omething else.publication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 15:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

engage in cross-training and joint operations.

author by Duruttipublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 17:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

To sabotage Direct Action.

author by Raypublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 17:26author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Do we have to have this in _every_ thread?

author by Duruttipublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 17:34author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Its been deleted three times already. But allegations re my sexuality remain up on another thread.

Why?

author by Raypublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 17:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Editorial policy at the moment seems to be containment. If the allegations are in a thread where there's already a lot of back-and-forth, they'll probably stay up. We're more concerned about keeping stuff in the relevant threads - if every thread, no matter how it starts, ends up being arguments with the SP then everyone else will get pissed off.
I'm hardly going to tell you to stop criticising the SP. But one-liners about the SP being police agents, on completely irrelevant threads, will almost certainly be removed. (Besides, you don't want to make the SP look like long-suffering martyrs, do you?)

author by Raypublication date Wed Jul 02, 2003 18:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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author by Enoughpublication date Thu Jul 03, 2003 01:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Durutti, I will not comment on your state of mind or about your apparent obsession (so this doesn't get removed) but you are driving everyone nuts with these comments. How long did you spend on the computer today, if these comments were deleted 3 times already?

author by Duruttipublication date Thu Jul 03, 2003 13:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The three deletions were on Tuesday. As for my state of my mind, maybe its caused by the SP rewriting history. That leads to condusion. ;))

author by Enough, Enough, Enoughpublication date Thu Jul 03, 2003 21:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Durutti, stop trying to justify your silly behaviour.

author by Duruttipublication date Fri Jul 04, 2003 14:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Stop trying to justify the SPs counter revolutionary behaviour.

author by Seáinínpublication date Sat Jul 05, 2003 04:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Where's your source on the military aid to Pakistan. I'm intrigued.

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