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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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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.

offsite link Muslim Who Attacked Koran Burner Hamit Coskun With Knife Spared Jail as Judge Says He ?Lost His Temp... Tue Sep 23, 2025 17:08 | Will Jones
The Muslim man who attacked Koran-burning protester Hamit Coskun with a knife has been spared jail after the judge said he "lost his temper". Hamit, meanwhile, remains in hiding, as concerns about two-tier justice grow.
The post Muslim Who Attacked Koran Burner Hamit Coskun With Knife Spared Jail as Judge Says He “Lost His Temper” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Exaltation of the Cross Tue Sep 23, 2025 15:00 | Chris Larkin
Church leaders are too quick to condemn Tommy Robinson and the Unite the Kingdom march, says Chris Larkin. We don't know what Jesus would have made of our politics, but we can?t just assume he?d have been a Lib Dem voter.
The post The Exaltation of the Cross appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Council Insists Women Be Called ?People With Ovaries? Tue Sep 23, 2025 13:27 | Will Jones
Bristol City Council has been accused of offending women with "virtue-signalling madness" after insisting that women be called "people with ovaries" and claiming that defining sex as biological "misgenders trans people".
The post Council Insists Women Be Called “People With Ovaries” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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tcd will have to pay for strategic plan themselves

category dublin | miscellaneous | news report author Friday July 18, 2003 16:13author by shannon - studentauthor email taraxl at hotmail dot com Report this post to the editors

tcd will have to pay for its 5 year strategic plan, which will cost nearly 5 million euro. Previously, the Deapartment of Science and Education was supposed to foot the bill, but now they cannot make the funds available.

author by ...publication date Fri Jul 18, 2003 18:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

point was made earlier in the year. After it was decided there would be no college fees, it was also decided that they would get their money some other way...through billing other projects and not funding others.

author by Canteen Kevinpublication date Sat Jul 19, 2003 20:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It is sickening that their efforts to leech taxpayers money was even considered at all. Trinity has been expanding from College Green to the Grand Canal and has brought no benefits to the areas it snakes through. Witness the tube across Westland Row preserving its students from contagion from the plebs below. It´s expansion has ruined local shops and closed the Trinity Inn pub indefinitely. The State should be slamming compulsory purchase orders on thee sizeable stock of land and housing stock they are sitting on and providing no benefit to anybody.

author by Sparkspublication date Sun Jul 20, 2003 19:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

During term time, every hour on the hour from nine to five, you have hundreds of students crossing a busy road from the main campus to goldsmith hall. An elevated walkway was a wonderful idea and for the first few months it was wonderful. No risk to teenage kids being run down, no interference to traffic.

Then some gobshite said "geez, they must think they're better than everyone else" and the walkway was closed off from students who then had to run the gauntlet of traffic again - and have had to do so for over seven years now. The only people allowed use the walkway are students resident in Goldsmith hall.

So, two things -
1) What kind of gobshite thinks it's a great idea to force teenage kids to cross a busy road in their hundreds every hour, on the hour, five days a week, nine months of the year, disrupting traffic and risking injury, when there's a perfectly sound elevated walkway to get the bulk of them off the road?
2) What kind of gobshite writes about students using a walkway when they're not allowed use it and anyone watching the crossing knows it?

author by Canteen Kevinpublication date Mon Jul 21, 2003 14:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

What sort of wanker gets the hump when a cosy, exclusive little feature to protect the priveliged is criticised for being a visible symbol of the fuck-the-proles attitude of TCD and it's gobshite defenders like "Sparks". So the poor students have to risk life and limb crossing the road like the rest of us? Scandalous! Call the SWP College branch to organise a mass action protest.

author by Maynooth Studentpublication date Mon Jul 21, 2003 20:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

So be quiet you TCD bashing fools.

Your whinging about TCD reveals your own bigotry more than anyone elses.

author by better than youpublication date Tue Jul 22, 2003 00:06author address author phone Report this post to the editors

i was one of those priviledged few to walk across the pathway from goldsmith to trinity every day, and i definitely felt superior to everyone. why wouldn't i have? going to trinity, walking on a special bridge...

author by The Insiderpublication date Tue Jul 22, 2003 16:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

You study at Trinity therefore it follows that you simply have to be an upper class knob. How brilliant. Must tell that to Rory Hearne next time I see him...

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