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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 When it Comes to Reparations, the Church of England Doesn?t Care About Evidence or Ethics Mon Sep 22, 2025 11:00 | Nigel Biggar
The Church of England has shown that it doesn't care about evidence or ethics, says Prof Nigel Biggar. Why else, when presented with proof its ?100 million reparations giveaway is groundless, would it press on regardless?
The post When it Comes to Reparations, the Church of England Doesn?t Care About Evidence or Ethics appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sensational New Measurements of Uncorrupted Air Temperatures Destroy UK Met Office Constant Claims o... Mon Sep 22, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
New data shows the Met Office's 'record' heat spikes are junk, weaponised by Net Zero activists to scare the public witless and push the no-hydrocarbons fantasy, says the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor.
The post Sensational New Measurements of Uncorrupted Air Temperatures Destroy UK Met Office Constant Claims of ?Records? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Making Tax Digital ? a Disaster in the Making or a Brilliant Innovation? Mon Sep 22, 2025 07:00 | Guy de la B?doy?re
Making Tax Digital is set to hit sole traders and landlords from 2026, promising more admin, costs and chaos than clarity, and Guy de la B?doy?re is already throwing in the towel rather than get swamped.
The post Making Tax Digital ? a Disaster in the Making or a Brilliant Innovation? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Sep 22, 2025 00:43 | 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 The BBC?s ?1 Billion Pension Bailout Sun Sep 21, 2025 19:47 | Richard Eldred
The BBC has poured over ?1 billion into its gold-plated pension scheme, gobbling up nearly ?850 million of licence fee money ? and it looks like the bill could keep climbing.
The post The BBC?s ?1 Billion Pension Bailout appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Row at Trimble rights outburst

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Friday January 30, 2004 10:21author by robby Report this post to the editors

HUMAN rights organisations, including Amnesty International, have condemned comments made by Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble in which he called human rights groups a "great curse" and accused them of complicity in terrorist killings.

"One of the great curses of this world is the human rights industry," Mr Trimble said at an international conference of terrorism victims in Madrid this week.

"They justify terrorist acts and end up being complicit in the murder of innocent victims."

The Nobel Peace laureate's comments provoked an angry response.

Amnesty's Patrick Corrigan said the remarks were "well off the mark and ill-advised".

Steve Crawshaw of Human Rights Watch, said:"It is extraordinarily regrettable and disappointing that, above all, a man like that says something like this."

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   I think he has a point.     Alan O' Shea    Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:12 
   Trimble cannot be ignored.     Patrick Bergin    Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:15 
   Human Rights For All     An Injury to One is an Injury to All    Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:40 
   Trimble and Overstatement     Michael Turley    Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:56 
   Why the surprise?     matt    Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:07 
   Why the surprise?     Michael Turley    Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:39 
   Alan O' Shea     depp    Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:52 
   he doesn't like what they say about him     Mike    Fri Jan 30, 2004 13:30 
   reply to Alan     Irene    Fri Jan 30, 2004 15:18 
 10   Alan O'Shea     jeff    Fri Jan 30, 2004 18:05 
 11   Patrick Bergin.     jeff    Fri Jan 30, 2004 18:14 
 12   The rest of yis..     jeff    Fri Jan 30, 2004 18:34 
 13   State-backed Terror in Columbia     Orla    Fri Jan 30, 2004 20:51 
 14   No Surprise at Trimble's Comments     John Meehan    Fri Jan 30, 2004 23:42 
 15   It's Colombia, not Columbia     Desmond Fennell    Sat Jan 31, 2004 22:37 
 16   Desmond Fennell??     matt    Sun Feb 01, 2004 00:19 
 17   Matt     Desmond Fennell    Sun Feb 01, 2004 01:45 
 18   No offence meant!     mattt    Sun Feb 01, 2004 10:43 
 19   Are you serioulsy suggesting the CIA are drugrunning?     Desmond Fennell    Sun Feb 01, 2004 13:00 
 20   Ever heard of Contragate?     LizH    Sun Feb 01, 2004 15:56 
 21   Re. CIA and drug-running     dopey    Sun Feb 01, 2004 18:27 
 22   Opium Wars     dopey    Sun Feb 01, 2004 19:30 
 23   Um, Opium was considered a medicine throughout the 19th century     Desmond Fennell    Sun Feb 01, 2004 22:04 
 24   Well done ...     dopey    Sun Feb 01, 2004 22:53 
 25   A parting shot     dopey    Sun Feb 01, 2004 23:31 
 26   It's getting addictive ...     dopey    Sun Feb 01, 2004 23:39 
 27   Dopey     Desmond Fennell    Mon Feb 02, 2004 02:43 
 28   New theory of Opium wars!     Badman    Mon Feb 02, 2004 04:38 
 29   Your're the f***in child "Desmond" ...     matt    Mon Feb 02, 2004 13:44 
 30   Prove it!     Desmond    Mon Feb 02, 2004 14:31 
 31   WARNING: DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS     Dopey    Mon Feb 02, 2004 21:20 
 32   Can't kick the habit ......     Dopey    Mon Feb 02, 2004 21:53 
 33   Common troll     Sean Doyle    Mon Feb 02, 2004 22:17 
 34   Could well be .....     Dopey    Mon Feb 02, 2004 22:24 
 35   Dopey     Desmond Fennell    Tue Feb 03, 2004 02:00 
 36   Time waster Desmond     Freddy    Tue Feb 03, 2004 04:09 
 37   Whose ass ?     Dopey    Tue Feb 03, 2004 08:01 
 38   Re. Any fool can publish allegations on a website based on the flimsiest of evidence and the most do     Dopey    Tue Feb 03, 2004 08:09 
 39   read this short review     tom    Tue Feb 03, 2004 15:26 
 40   Doesn't seem worth it     Leon    Tue Feb 03, 2004 15:52 
 41   Gary Webb's journalism has been discredited long ago     Desmond Fennell    Wed Feb 04, 2004 03:37 
 42   Desmond, you're looking pretty selectively I fear     Badman    Wed Feb 04, 2004 04:01 
 43   Now, I said the burden of PROOF is on you people     Desmond Fennell    Wed Feb 04, 2004 04:46 
 44   Re. "a reliable source, for example a national news agency or newspaper"     Dopey    Wed Feb 04, 2004 08:23 
 45   None of the allegations have any subtance     Desmond Fennell    Wed Feb 04, 2004 17:16 
 46   Feeding the Trolls     Leon    Wed Feb 04, 2004 17:36 
 47   I see no "role" played by the CIA there     Desmond Fennell    Wed Feb 04, 2004 19:00 
 48   Sorry Desmond     Badman    Wed Feb 04, 2004 20:35 
 49   Come clean Desmond     Dopey    Wed Feb 04, 2004 20:49 
 50   Re. "None of the allegations have any subtance (sic.)"     Dopey    Wed Feb 04, 2004 21:01 
 51   Bzzzt..Not logical..Bzzt.. Does not compute     Desmond Fennell    Wed Feb 04, 2004 23:40 
 52   The Question     Leon    Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:14 
 53   Re. All I've seen are allegations without a single hard fact to back them up.     Dopey    Thu Feb 05, 2004 19:06 
 54   The best information available ...     Dopey    Thu Feb 05, 2004 19:17 
 55   OK this has descended into farce     Desmond Fennell    Fri Feb 06, 2004 02:19 
 56   Crackpot Chomsky     Badman    Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:21 
 57   DF     Curious    Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:17 
 58   Re. Farce ?     Dopey    Fri Feb 06, 2004 20:43 
 59   Still there Desmond ?     Dopey    Fri Feb 06, 2004 20:54 
 60   Re. Langley     Dopey    Fri Feb 06, 2004 21:04 
 61   I GOT IT DESMOND !!!!     Dopey    Fri Feb 06, 2004 21:24 
 62   How about the CJR ?     Dopey    Fri Feb 06, 2004 21:37 
 63   My last offer ...     Dopey    Fri Feb 06, 2004 21:49 
 64   Same old smoke and mirrors     Desmond Fennell    Sat Feb 07, 2004 04:20 
 65   Re. The War on Communism     Dopey    Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:15 
 66   MOCKINGBIRD     Dopey    Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:27 
 67   Re. the defeat of communism was the number one priority in the 20th century     Curious    Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:50 
 68   Get yorselves educated kids     Desmond Fennell    Sat Feb 07, 2004 21:50 
 69   Pardon the question Uncle Desmond ...     Cold Warrior    Sat Feb 07, 2004 23:27 
 70   What do you think the Cuban Missile Crisis was??     Desmond Fennell    Sat Feb 07, 2004 23:35 
 71   A bit confused Desmond ?     Cold Warrior    Sat Feb 07, 2004 23:42 
 72   Desmond you're a gas man     Dopey    Sun Feb 08, 2004 00:16 
 73   Education     Desmond Fennell    Sun Feb 08, 2004 02:08 
 74   Education for you Desmond     Dr. Strangelove    Sun Feb 08, 2004 02:49 
 75   Document PPS23, 24th February 1948     George Kennan    Sun Feb 08, 2004 02:59 
 76   Now,now Dr Strangelove     Desmond Fennell    Sun Feb 08, 2004 03:17 
 77   Re. A greater threat ?     Dr. Strangelove    Sun Feb 08, 2004 03:28 
 78   Hitler declared war on the USA on Dec 11th, 1941.     Desmond Fennell    Sun Feb 08, 2004 04:02 
 79   Correct Desmond, but ...     Dr. Strangelove    Sun Feb 08, 2004 13:17 
 80   My point being ...     Dr. Strangelove    Sun Feb 08, 2004 13:26 
 81   Not forgetting ...     Dr. Strangelove    Sun Feb 08, 2004 13:31 
 82   But, NOTHING Dr Strangelove     Desmond Fennell    Sun Feb 08, 2004 19:59 
 83   NO Desmond ...     Dr. Strangelove    Sun Feb 08, 2004 20:57 
 84   Dr Strangelove     Desmond Fennell    Sun Feb 08, 2004 23:26 
 85   Re. Gordian Knot     Dr. Strangelove    Mon Feb 09, 2004 21:36 
 86   Churchill     Desmond Fennell    Tue Feb 10, 2004 02:26 
 87   How dare you ....     Dr. Strangelove    Tue Feb 10, 2004 21:44 
 88   Not a Marxist     Desmond Fennell    Wed Feb 11, 2004 02:18 
 89   You've been outed!     Earth Citizen    Wed Feb 11, 2004 03:46 
 90   Earth Citizen, you're mistaken     Desmond Fennell    Wed Feb 11, 2004 08:44 
 91   Well spoken Desmond     Dr. Strangelove    Wed Feb 11, 2004 21:50 
 92   Well, I'll take that as a compliment!!     Desmond Fennell    Thu Feb 12, 2004 08:56 
 93   Ah Desmond     Dr. Strangelove    Fri Feb 13, 2004 21:50 
 94   Another appeaser     Desmond Fennell    Sat Feb 14, 2004 03:00 
 95   Desmond     Sean Doyle    Sat Feb 14, 2004 03:24 
 96   Chiraq and Putin blocked the US to keep their cushy contracts     Desmond Fennell    Sat Feb 14, 2004 04:13 
 97   Re. UN was not set up to police the US     Dr. Strangelove    Sat Feb 14, 2004 12:59 
 98   Wake up Desmond !     Dr. Strangelove    Sat Feb 14, 2004 23:59 
 99   The US is de facto the World Policeman     Desmond Fennell    Sun Feb 15, 2004 03:03 
 100   The USA has been in control for the majority of C20     R Isible    Sun Feb 15, 2004 04:30 
 101   Aid me arse     Julius Caesar    Sun Feb 15, 2004 04:53 
 102   No clarity in your thinking - either of you     Desmond Fennell    Mon Feb 16, 2004 02:48 
 103   Desmond     Mark    Mon Feb 16, 2004 03:56 
 104   *Sigh*     Desmond Fennell    Tue Feb 17, 2004 22:52 
 105   All he wanted was a serious debate ...     Dr. Strangelove    Tue Feb 17, 2004 23:16 
 106   The Sorrows of Empire (continued)     Dr. Strangelove    Tue Feb 17, 2004 23:29 
 107   Chalmers, Le Carré, Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky     Desmond Fennell    Wed Feb 18, 2004 02:06 
 108   Good link for Desmond     Brutus    Wed Feb 18, 2004 04:32 
 109   Re. You're all too young to understand your history     Dr. Strangelove    Wed Feb 18, 2004 09:46 
 110   Chalmers Johnson is a crank     Desmond Fennell    Thu Feb 19, 2004 06:57 
 111   OOps     Rooster    Mon Jul 19, 2004 02:32 


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