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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 >>
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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.
Education Secretary Launches Fresh Attack on Private Schools Sun Sep 21, 2025 17:13 | Richard Eldred
In a fresh raid that could force more closures and squeeze parents' wallets, Bridget Phillipson is hitting private schools again, this time tripling Ofsted inspection fees.
The post Education Secretary Launches Fresh Attack on Private Schools appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Keir Starmer Confirms Britain Will Ignore US and Israeli Anger and Recognise a Palestinian State Sun Sep 21, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Keir Starmer has sparked fury by pledging to recognise a Palestinian state even though critics say it rewards Hamas, angers Israel and the US and won't help hostages or feed Gaza's starving.
The post Keir Starmer Confirms Britain Will Ignore US and Israeli Anger and Recognise a Palestinian State appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
North Sea ?Has Three Times More Oil and Gas? Than Government Claims Sun Sep 21, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Britain's North Sea could have 14 billion barrels of oil and gas ? three times what the Government reckons ? but sky-high taxes and drilling bans are leaving it in the ground while jobs and cash go begging.
The post North Sea ?Has Three Times More Oil and Gas? Than Government Claims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Met Office Staff Given Record Bonuses Despite String of Forecast Failures Sun Sep 21, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
The Met Office might struggle to predict the weather, but it seems staff can always count on a downpour of cash: they walked away with record bonus payments of ?8.1 million last year and ?31.5 million over five years.
The post Met Office Staff Given Record Bonuses Despite String of Forecast Failures appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13That figures. I have no doubt whatever that some of the wilder comments on indymedia.ie are planted there by journalists so they can use them as backup for whatever outrageous claims they intend to make in their articles.
Its all about money. The wilder and more sensational the story, the more likely they are to get it published. Its their meal-ticket, and they don't intend to let the truth get in the way of their mortgage payments or the down payment on that new Porsche, and they don't care who gets trampled on in the process.
Its sad that a profession once respected should now be perceived as being on the same level as prostitution. I hope thats not too unfair to prostitutes.
If any of them want to deny that analysis they are free to do so here. Full names and contact names would be appreciated for verification purposes.
Bring it on.
I'd call the gardai and tell them exact time of call and number from which you recieved next call. Tell them what happened and ask them to investigate. Records are backed up and available to gardai for 7 years.
Sure who do you think made the first call (and then tipped off the journo). You don't think the journos are making this shit up themselves do you?
Yet again the forces that be have tried to blacken the name of activism through their skullduggery.The Star has time after time insulted the inrelligence of the Irish people with that bullshit they print.
However i would like to add that it is not only the tabloid rags that are up to no good.
Obviously we on the left wouldnt expect any support from mainstream media(,although i dont see why not) but the more reputable publishings are also guilty of subconscious propaganda.
Only last week the Irish Times had a half page article on Eoin Ryan (FF Member standing for European election).The article was about how he and his wife had met!
Then as i was flicking through the magazine section yesterday,.low and behold, a full page article on what the good Mr Ryan likes to cook!
Either hes a very good man who we should all take example from or he has a good friend in the Times who enjoys engaging in a spot of subconcious electioneering.
All that glistens is not gold.Lost a lot of respect for the Times.
Better give them a good story on Mayday-maybe Eoin Ryan could write it...
hasn't the times being actaully pretty quite on the whole mayday thing...
been a few things on enlargement
isn't that just as bad?
It's called "Uncle Tony" and it's set in the newsroom of an Irish daily paper. Here is a sneak preview of one of the scenes.
Two hacks, John and Mary, are sitting in their office surfing the internet on Easter Sunday. They are bored and resentful of the fact that they have to work and that, due to the holiday, they have a terrible lack of news to fill their paper. The editor enters in a bad temper.
EDITOR: The minister's been on the phone again, screaming at me about the grave threat to the state posed by the Mayday hairies. Effing and bliinding he was. Jesus, he even had the big boss on to me, telling me how important it was that we do our duty to the country and air the minister's concerns and all that crap. Can't you find some new angle to run on this? You should be out infiltrating these groups and digging up the dirt. What do I pay you for?
JOHN: For chrissakes, I already told you that there isn't anything more there. We've done everything that we could. We've looked at all their websites, dropped provocative messages around the place, gone to their meetings, phoned them up and grilled them from every angle. We're fucking winging it on the stuff that we've already written.
MARY: It's becoming embarrassing. That primetime programme last week made us look like fools. People are thick but they're not that thick.
EDITOR: I don't want to hear this crap. Do some real work for a change. Research it. I want a new angle.
Editor leaves.
MARY: Fuck. Any ideas?
John turns to look at computer screen.
JOHN: The bastards deleted my comment from indymedia and nobody has responded to my call to arms on urban75. We can't run that again, we used it two weeks ago.
MARY: I have an idea. How about we ring them up and pretend that we want to take part in their movement. We can be really enthusiastic about it and then suddenly let them know that we have guns and explosives.
JOHN: Brilliant, I see it now. "Our brave undercover correspondant infiltrated their movement and offered to set up an arms smuggling trade." If they hesitate for a second we can nail them. Even if they flat out refuse to have anything to do with us, they probably won't report it to the guards: "The protestors have kept the arms offer secret and are believed to be considering the deal. The Garda press Office has confirmed that the offer of arms has not been reported to the authorities."
MARY: "We Foil Mayday Anarchists Arms Deal" - I can see it now. That'll be front page. Bingo. Okay, you better phone that guy in the guards who's handling this, that English guy from the Met, he should play ball.
Excerpt Ends.
The hacks want to instigate violence for Mayday? OK, lets pie them.
Heres a new slogan, and it rhymes with 'Be the media':
'Pie the media'
"our brave journalists suffer anarchist chemical weapons attack"
and their newspaper sales rocket to unprecedented levels..
good idea
Did the Star publish anything
"I'd call the gardai and tell them exact time of call and number from which you recieved next call. Tell them what happened and ask them to investigate."
-ahem-
I'd just bug my own phone and send the tapes in- saves taxpayers' money y'know...
as mentioned two reports in irish times
one going on about how the gardai have no powers similar to that of england in stopping football hooligans coming in the country to stop so called "known troubled makers"
and then a couple of pages later... a report on the media mayhem of the past few weeks highlighting the ridiculous and dangerous claims made by the media and gov over the last while causing unecessary tension for all ....
the arguement that just cos the main stream media is diseased doesn't mean you shouldn't do your best to write decent stories along side the crap is well known, and you have to applaud people for it
if you have the paper handy you'll notice on the letters page, someone referring to article re iraq etc saying if your inclusion of the column by mark stern is an attempt to balance out your other artilces on the subject, and therefore a balcne of views from all sides that all wle and good but why simpy print a article full of lies
which is exactly the situation with these two articles, the media mayhem article had photos of the scare story front pages of others papers, it might as well have turned back a couple of pages snapped a photo and stuck it in with the rest of them.
a so called serious piece(cos it the times) simply calls all foriegn protestors, hooligans all that was missing was a bit of red ink...
Ok fair enough, the media are probably blowing the may day thing complatly out of proportion at the moment. But the majority of the reported facts are from sources like the gardai or Gov press offices. Lets just wait till after the protests and then come back in here saying then whether the hype was false or true. At the end of the day protests are fine, but when you have extremists coming from all over the world, specifically coming to cause trouble, it will be the reputation of the peaceful protestors that will be ruined. See ya all in here again on 2nd of may :) Ill be either coming in to say you were totally right, and i was wrong or Told ya so!
When the protests pass off peacefully or the police were clearly responsible for any small scale violence, the media will suddenly develop mass amnesia about all the lies they told in the run up and will concentrate on making up more lies for when George w shrub comes to visit in june..