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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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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Jimmy Kimmel?s Comeback Derailed as Major ABC Affiliate Refuses to Air Show After Charlie Kirk Comme... Tue Sep 23, 2025 11:04 | Will Jones
Jimmy Kimmel's comeback after his Charlie Kirk comments has been dealt a massive blow with ABC affiliates refusing to air it in nearly 40 major markets after Disney announced the liberal talk host will return Tuesday.
The post Jimmy Kimmel’s Comeback Derailed as Major ABC Affiliate Refuses to Air Show After Charlie Kirk Comments appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9I'm speechless that you could be so ignorant. Your history book is not for colouring in, it's for reading.
Careful now Grim Reaper, or you'll have Prof. Shauneen from the Erris Hedge School lecturing us about the Races of Castlebar and how the valiant Mayo Pikemen would have freed Ireland if it hadn't been for the treacherous Dubs ......
Sadly his analysis overlooks the fact that these gallant pikemen were nothing more than cannon fodder under the command of a French officer ....
They may have had plenty of brawn to offer ..... but there wasn't much native brains in evidence ....
It's because of their liking for flying the Union Flag on every possile occasion. The turncoat people of Dublin who spat and jeered at the men of 1916 on their way to the castle.
The same jackeens who slavishly followed every English trend and decimated the Irish language.
Proud history there, mr. aggro.
Jackeen [dʒæ'kiːn]
noun (Irish) a slick self-assertive lower-class Dubliner
[ETYMOLOGY: 19th Century: from proper name Jack + -een, Irish diminutive suffix, from Irish Gaelic -ín]
http://www.wordreference.com/english/definition.asp?en=Jackeen
Now I recommend everyone read P.K. Joyce's little book on Irish as she is spoken by the Irish. It was a favorouite source book of Sean O'Casey and even though it has been out of print for many many years, there is an online version.
and I qoute from Chapter 7.
"n the Irish language there are many diminutive terminations, all giving the idea of 'little,' which will be found fully enumerated and illustrated in my 'Irish Names of Places,' vol. ii, chap. ii. Of these it may be said that only one - in or ee'z - has found its way into Ireland's English speech, carrying with it its full sense of smallness. There are others - án or aun, and óg or oge; but these have in great measure lost their original signification; and although we use them in our Irish-English, they hardly convey any separate meaning. But een is used everywhere it is even constantly tacked on to Christian names (especially of boys and girls) - Mickeen (little Mick), Noreen, Billeen, Jackeen (a word applied to the conceited little Dublin citizen). So also you hear Birdeen, Robineen - redbreast, bonniveen, &c. A boy who apes to be a man-puts on airs like a man - is called a manneen in contempt (exactly equivalent to the English mannikin)".
So there you go no connection what-so-ever bewteen Union Jack and Jackeen.
maybe you should try be less narrowminded Seanín.
there has been a lot of work in etymology since the P.K. Joyce book, Mr finnerty and well you know it, on our shelves we also have the online O'Byrne files.
which define a Jackeen as
"Term for Dubliners by persons from outside Dublin (opp. of 'Culchie'), Basically, a Dubliner. Or sometimes more specifically, a Dublin born and bred 'between the canals', as would his parents and grandparents. Most definitely though, a 'true' Dubliner, not a blow-in who thinks he's a Dubliner just because he lives there. Also Dublin was always seen as the most "English" city in Ireland by provincials and this was coined as a term of derision stemming from the English flag, the Union Jack, by adding the diminutive, -een. Literally, "Little Jack". Derived from "shoneen", a sort of "working-class West Brit""
as indeed is their work for Hiberno-English Etymology but I thought the reader and indeed maybe Seanín might appreciate some thoughts on the origin of the term "Union Jack".
if you go to http://www.orange-street-church.org/text/union-jack-flag.htm (I'm very ecunemical) you'll read Douglas C. Nesbit essay first published in "The Prophetic Expositor" demonstrating the link between Jacob and the Union Jack and thus the people of Ulster.
or you could go to the online etymological dictionary
http://www.etymonline.com/u1etym.htm
you will get the definition:
Union Jack (1674) is properly a small British union flag flown as the jack of a ship, but it has long been in use as a general name for the union flag.
The Union Jack of 1674 wasn't the Union Flag of today! and you well know it.
It had a fleur de lys in the centre and no quarter for Ireland! The people of Ireland didn't call it the Union Jack till the 19th century, and the jack flown in Dublin was not the Union flag which Seanín is reffering to.
at all at all atall.
Shauneen my dear boy ... I can hardly understand your sympathy for the men of 1916 (what about the women you male chauvinist redneck bigot ?) ....
By your logic they were a bunch of deluded crusty gougers with no respect for property ... proclaiming a republic without any popular mandate .... and look at all the damage they caused in the centre of Dublin by their illegal entry and occupation of public buildings ...
So please try to be consistent and condemn them for what they were .......
PS: What was going on in Mayo in 1916 ... ?
I can't find the entry in my history book ......
As Mr.Finnerty's quote already said 'most of these names have lost their original significance'. The signif. being the Union Flag.
It is always utterly misguided to compare people in the past with present day figurines like your bunch of self abusers. Conditions were different then, there was no Univeral Male Suffrage, we were governed by a foreign power (need I go on?).
As for Mayo in 1916, well you may ask the same about Belfast or Limerick or Cork. There were however, active and effective North Mayo and South Mayo brigades during the War of Independence.