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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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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link 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.
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offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.
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offsite link National Trust Sacks Volunteer Gardeners for Not Being Inclusive Enough Sun Sep 21, 2025 09:00 | Sallust
Thirteen volunteers say they have been forced out by the National Trust, which told them their "attitude and values" did not align with the charity's "respectful and inclusive culture".
The post National Trust Sacks Volunteer Gardeners for Not Being Inclusive Enough appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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New poll show Americans losing Iraq

category international | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Wednesday April 28, 2004 23:07author by David C. Report this post to the editors

A new poll released today shows that a majority of Iraqis believe that attacks on US forces are justified.

The CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll is the first poll since the invasion to cover urban and rural areas throughout Iraq, representing about 93 percent of the population. It was conduced between March 22 and April 9 - before the latest flare-up of violence - and has a sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

Some highlights from the poll:

-52% percent said attacks on US forces could be justified some or all of the time. 47 % said they believed attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq could not be justified.

-46% said the war had done more harm than good, while 33% said the war had done more good than harm

-57% want US/UK forces to leave immediately, the poll said, whereas 36% said troops should stay longer.

- 67% said that US troops were not trying at all to keep ordinary Iraqis from being killed in exchanges of gunfire.

-71% said they saw troops mostly as occupiers, while only 19 % said they viewed them as liberators. Asked how they viewed troops at the time of the invasion a year ago, the respondents were split, with 43% saying they had seen the coalition forces as occupiers and another 43% saying they had considered them liberators.

Again, these poll results are from BEFORE the recent Shia uprising and the attack by US forces on Fallujah, which have clearly increased animosity towards the Americans dramatically throughout Iraq.

The Americans are losing. The entire nation of Iraq is uniting against them and their choice is therefore either to surrender and leave, or to commit atrocities on a massive scale in full view of the world. This has been a tragedy for everyone involved, however a humiliating defeat for the US in Iraq will make the world a safer place. This poll shows that defeat to be merely a matter of time.

author by guinesspublication date Wed Apr 28, 2004 23:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

correct the records if they're wrong.
go on we dare ye!

author by Mikepublication date Wed Apr 28, 2004 23:40author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"The entire nation of Iraq is uniting against them"

May or may not be true -- but there is no logical way you could draw THAT conclusion from a "national" poll in a regionally divided country. Take your own island for example and a question such as "All of Ireland should be united and fully independnet of Great Britain." On an "all island" basis the opposition to this proposition might seem trivial, but isn''t because it is regionally concentrated.

We had better consider whether US policy was even intended to hang on to a united Iraq, whether the US wants Iraq to be united. If this IS "all about oil" we need to consider that had after the initial victory the US and Britain immediately "paritioned" Iraq into three parts the world would have screamed bloody murder. Now we see organized armed resistance to the US in central Iraq (no oil) but none in the Kurdish North (oil) and maybe, just maybe, US gets pushed out of central Iraq and maybe something "just happens to come about" that the US would not have been allowed to do. This smells to high heaven.

author by pirates and the Armada.publication date Thu Apr 29, 2004 00:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

didn't ye like notice?

author by Lone Gunmanpublication date Thu Apr 29, 2004 12:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

That poll last nite.Gosh David C quoting from a evil American corporate propaganda news source???Whatever next?

author by Anonymouspublication date Thu Apr 29, 2004 13:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

True, Lone Gunman. The actual reality is probably even worse for the U.S. than the poll suggests!

author by iosafpublication date Thu Apr 29, 2004 13:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

or "Big Government Federal Policy"?

The Constitution of the USA has been undermined for more than a century.
Hilary, your handies in the air with a million wymin is very impressive, and your looking over the shoulder of one monster for so many years was and is appreciated, but even you must recognise the need for complete

"Reformation and Reclaiming of the USA".

The World can not continue with the USA in it's present form. Not a single century forecast modeling has worked with the USA.
Solution:-

End the USA.

Ghadaffi is very supportive of this "pro Europe" strategy by the way, and if you think about it, Europe has not been accused of being the "Great Satan" has it?
Quite.

End the USA.

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