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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 Public Inquiry >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Wednesday September 24, 2025 00:04
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.
The post The Exaltation of the Cross appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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. Lockdown Skeptics >>
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Guiliani 'the hero' coming to Cork
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anti-war / imperialism |
news report
 Thursday September 04, 2003 10:53 by NewsInfo
War loving, racist and a bad, bad boy
911 Mayor and Zero tolerance guru Rudolph Giuliani will be speaking at the MBAAI 'leadership conference' at the Silver Springs Moran Hotel, Tivoli, Cork on FRIDAY SEPT. 19.
Tickets MBAAI 01-2074456 http://www.counterpunch.org/tristam01152003.html
Triumphal Parallels in Command Time
>From Rudy Guiliani to George W. Bush
by PIERRE TRISTAM
Giuliani's New York had a blind spot for that recurrent disease of cowboy
police forces--the superiority complex. by Pierre Tristam After he was
kicked, punched and sodomized with a broomstick by two of New York City's
"finest" at a Brooklyn police precinct in 1997, Abner Louima told a story.
As the officers terrorized him, he said, they chanted how it was "Giuliani
time, not Dinkins time," a reference to Rudolph Giuliani, then at the end of
his first of two triumphalist terms as mayor, after the disastrous
administration of David Dinkins.
Louima sued, and two months before the attacks on the World Trade Center he
reached an $8.75 million settlement with the city and the Patrolmen's
Benevolent Association.
By then he had admitted that he made up the "Giuliani time" remark. But made
up or not, the remark had to be invented. It summed up Giuliani's faintly
fascist regime of martial policing that had given New York the feel of a
secure perimeter rather than a freewheeling city, so that even the New York
Times called him the "Mussolini of Manhattan" in a headline a few months
after his reelection, when, DiCaprio-style, he'd yelled "I am the king of
the world" to television cameras. He kicked off a new round of Little Hitler
jokes when he announced plans for a $15 million bombproof "emergency control
center" on--where else, the 23rd floor of the World Trade Center.
By then the NYPD's "stop & frisk" tactic had become an endemic and racist
harassment tool--175,000 cases in a 15-month period about the time of the
attack on Louima, with blacks and Hispanics overwhelmingly targeted (Louima
is a Haitian black).
There was the guy shot dead while arguing about a fender bender on a city
bridge, the guy dragged out of his bedroom at gunpoint, the guy shot dead in
the kitchen of the restaurant where he worked, all shot by cops, all part of
3,500 lesser-known Giuliani Time police misconduct cases--the ones that led
to lawsuits, anyway--which, cumulatively, cost New York City taxpayers $177
million in settlements over eight years.
Giuliani's New York, "where our life is secure and dignity is preserved," in
the words of an NYPD video, had a blind spot for that recurrent disease of
cowboy police forces--the superiority complex. At Giuliani's command, who
truly thought himself Mayor of the World well before Time Magazine crowned
him as such, the NYPD's superiority complex was bound to be bloody.
Giuliani's metamorphosis after Sept. 11 was truly great, and as Newsweek put
it recently, "Rudy Giuliani found his voice" that day. But for too many New
Yorkers, it was eight years late.
None of this should be too relevant now except for city historians. Giuliani
is out of power. He's finally harmless. Yet it is too relevant for comfort,
because it's hard not to see close parallels between Giuliani and President
Bush, two men who've been feeding off of each other's blood-born popularity
ever since that horrible day, which they continue to use and abuse to their
political advantage with buzzard-like rapacity. There are disturbing
parallels between Giuliani's brown-shirt rule before Sept. 11 and Bush's
since, between Giuliani's revanchist reign over New York and Bush's avenging
foreign policy, between Giuliani's shoot-first mentality and Bush's contempt
for doubt, between the once-Mayor of the World and the would-be King of the
World. New York City before Sept. 11 is the United States since then:
Suspicious, arbitrary, discriminating, secretive, and policing above all,
but mostly above the law.
What this means for the armed forces as they campaign and rampage through
foreign lands for no better reason than because the president has a hunch
that safety in Iowa or Flagler Beach lies in obliterating many thousand
souls seven time zones away isn't clear yet, if entirely unreassuring. What
it has already meant for the country is very clear. Giuliani Time has
yielded to Bush Time.
And for a crowning parallel, Bush has given the nation its own "emergency
control center." It is proportionally more expensive, more lumbering and
more useless than the one Giuliani put on the 23rd floor of the World Trade
Center. Calling it the Department of Homeland Security even gives it that
brown-shirt tint the Giuliani-Bush school of security designers are so fond
of. After greeting its inception with a season of derision back in 1998, the
press politely kept its ironists' mouths shut when the original command
center ended up at New York's Fresh Kills dump, along with other remains
from Ground Zero. Mouths are unfortunately still mostly shut about the new
department and most other Bush-born crocks. It's Bush Time, and it's
jamming.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17It is sad when people deem people like him as a "hero". I think people are labelled that with far too much hast these days.
The real heros are the freedom fighters of this world, who do so not for glory or for personal gain. The doctors and nurses doing their thankless jobs, saving lives daily. The voluntary workers in the third world etc.
Granted, he was a source of comfort for the people of New York at a difficult time. But he made a lot of money from it all and how much of that did he put back into the fund for the victims? Not a lot me thinks.......
Corkonians now is your chance!
Pie the man who in the name of a safer NYC sent disadvantaged black youth to prison, where they still remain.
a great book was recently published about rudy, and how he left new york in such terrible conditions. it's called The Full Rudy, not sure of the author.
didnt the crime rate fall dramatically in NY when he was in charge?
Yup, it was probably reduced to the level of crime in Saudi Arabia. OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
oh please please dont let this fucker be welcome in cork. he used to list on his nyc web site as a badge of honor the exclusion of lesbians and gay men from the nyc st patricks day parade. he personally tried to identify who was irish and who was not.
additionally about the crime stuff. look at the whole picture sexual assaults rose, bias attacks rose, homeless people were arrested so the good straight moneyed people of ny didn't have to see them. his administration is still responsible for the most ever paid out in settlements to people that dared dissent (ie he had people arrested and held for the use of free speech)
The crime figures indeed did go down and if he did get tough on the scum who make ordinary citizens lives a misery, then I can't see anything wrong with that, no matter what the sad lefty brigade say.
But that doesn't mean he wasn't a war monger like his friend and confidant Mr Bush and a right wing prick...;-)
In line with trends which were underway before Giuliani got into power.
The prison figures continued to go up, as they did across the US. Today I believe there are about 2 million people in prison in the US, a proportion of society imprisoned that can only have been paralleled in history by the 'communist' dictatorships in Russia, China and elsewhere - pretty impressive really for the champion of the free world. An enormous number of these prisoners (don't have exact figures to hand) are imprisoned for possession of drugs - a recreational activity.
Giuliani pushed much of the visible poverty out of central Manhattan into places like the South Bronx and Eastern Brooklyn, swept under the carpet. The morgues, like the prisons, filled up. The NYPD killed several hundred 'suspects', as they operated with total impunity during his reign. Some of the victim statements during the period are reminiscent of the horror and depravity of Pinochet's reign, like the notorious Louima plunger incident.
Call me a sad lefty if you will, but I'd like to see that fucker getting the plunger treatment himself. Yeh he got tough on the scum who make ordinary citizens lives a misery, but the scum was the entire working population of new york, especially the minorities, and the ordinary citizens were the manhattan millionaires who didn't want the ugly sight of poverty hanging around the place. Tiocfaidh, if he was transported to Northern Ireland, who do you think would be the scum?
I see your point but I'm not in total agreement with the man, as I don't proclaim to know the full history or politics of the man.
I have no doubt as to who he would deem to be scum in "Northern Ireland". What capitalist in the world would deem a revolutionary movement as anything else?
I can also well understand who he decided to "get tough" with. No great surprise there of course but I am not of the opinion to feel sorry for all criminals who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. I came from one of these backgrounds and I've done alright for myself. I don't care what background any criminal comes from, I have very little sympathy for them. You can make exceptions in some cases but generally speaking I stand by what I've said.
The harsh reality is maybe that obviously most crime comes from these disadvantaged areas, hence why the crack down would of befallen these areas? Although then of course the argument arises, what was done in the not so disadvantaged areas? I'm sure very little.
You people seem to be from some parallel universe. It's not Rudy's fault if most crimes are committed by blacks. You people are so pathetic it buggers belief.
What is Rudy Guiliani doing in Ireland, now really? That's the most pathetic thing I've heard in weeks.
The crime rate reduction was due to the rewriting of police statistics and the 9/11 thing was just being at the right place at the right time. As a new-york born individual living abroad I must say that no mayor of new york in my lifetime ever did a damn thing to clean up the mess in harlem or the bronx. To blame or praise a leader for a crisis is ridiculous. The people themselves held together. No credits to Rudi's account, please!
Why judge a nation on the actions of their political leader and vice versa? And who is he to say who's allowed to march in an American St. Paddy's parade? Man, this crap has been going on in Boston since the beginning of time.
all the interesting cats who walked manhattan 12 years ago when i first came over are gone now- manhattan is a no-go zone for homeless people (of course, that doesn't mean there are no homeless people)... ask the ABC No Rio or the punks at the Mars Bar (1st and 1st) what they think of Giuliani...
i was only ever mugged once, before Giulianis time, a revolver in the face at three a.m. ... I gave the guy ten bucks, which was about 10% of what was in my wallet, and then he went away to score his rock or whatever... Course these days it could never be so casual, the mugging's gotta count- and they're all in the boroughs- yeah sure the figures look great for manhattan.....
Rumors stateside of Giuliani making governorship or even future presidency bids... pie this guy now- he's all about the police state...
The most annoying woman to ever set foot in the white house.Meddled in US politics,buys a 3million dollar house in the most upmarket leftist,liberal area on NY state ,and that entitles her to run for senatorship on New York? What does a red necked liberal laweyer know about NYC?nothing apart from being liberal,and left
Half my family comes from New York.I havent ben there since the Eighties.New York was a shit hole then,is now, and always will be.It is a city like any other big and filthy.Ok they cleaned up the grafiiti, made the subways safer,etc,etc. But it still doesnt change the street animals life.Wether you have left or right in charge there it wont change.Thats why I moved then to Commiefornia[formerly California].
I'm sure loony gunman would object to most women running the White House, not just Hillary Clinton. Or maybe the brits could send Mad Maggie over just to please him.
Still when you look at what has happened over the past two years, its amazing how a couple of destroyed buildings could cause a fearful country to follow blindly into a foolish and stupid war.
.....two foolish wars!
Indeed, two wars (not to mention the Bush family legacy of involvement in so many other bloodbaths) but wait and see what Lonely has to say about the previous posting...
"a couple of destroyed buildings " ?
Is that all it was?