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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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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.
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.
Now He?s Dead, the Truth About Purple Aki Can Finally Be Said Sun Sep 21, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Now he's dead, the truth about Purple Aki can finally be said, says Steven Tucker. A forerunner of all the sex-offending migrants that judges make excuses for, he targeted children in Liverpool for decades.
The post Now He’s Dead, the Truth About Purple Aki Can Finally Be Said appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Sun Sep 21, 2025 00:05 | Will Jones
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.
Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Tuesday May 04, 2004 17:29
by Claudia Bradshaw - Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
supportpalestine at ireland dot com
IPSC, PO BOX 9124, Dublin 1
+ 353 87 6242286
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10Thank you for posting this press release Claudia. Earlier in the year there was an article in Phoenix mag, and a press release from Amnesty International Irish Section ( http://www.amnesty.ie/user/content/view/full/1624 ) about Irish company Cement Roadstone Holdings and the Israeli "security wall". Are they still supporting the apartheid project?
...this is the kind of thing that works. The government WILL think a little differently on Palestinian issues because of this. Keep it up! I'd bet you could get a quarter-million Irish signatures (or more) with a serious, focused effort. Again, well done. You've achieved something here.
The Israelis have completely lost world public opinion - the challenge now is to convert anti-Israeli public opinion into actual policy - sanctions, boycotts, diplomatic isolation, etc. This action works towards that goal.
Justice WILL come to palestine - and it won't be kind to the Israelis...
he would go if he lost the vote.
he has not gone.
and the House of Israel is as divided as ever.
What is Zion about?
it's not that good for plonking radar on.
it's not such a pawn bundled up in scorn as Gaza.
it's (and let's be deep here), not about yet less than sixty years of loss of the dream.
Isreal is Europe's son,
made of European victims,
who promptly got eaten by that nasty old dragon
Europa if you will, her son,
a lovely lady of peace from war,
unity from division,
born of a headache,
and a tussle with a bull,
with a twelve starrèd crown
of mythical perfection.
and in the cave, they read...
abrahim and abraham
ishmael and isaac
"to long a sacrifice makes a stone of the heart"
what is titchy Sharon going to say now,
that we have seen him astood
next to
the Terminator
of modern political and cultural
hegomonic myth?
Shalom.
is at 3.00pm tomorrow in Jury's Ballsbridge.
CRH are 25% shareholders in an Israeli cement supplier whose products are being used in construction of the wall.
Come along beforehand and make your voice heard outside the AGM along with IPSC supporters!
Boycott Israeli products now! It worked with South African and it will work again with the Israeli apartheid regieme.
I know its a silly question but is there a list going round and can where can I get it. Thanks!
What excellent news!
just shows what a waste of hippies time it is to petition, boycott etc.
w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m
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EU allocates $1.4b to Mediterranean to enhance ties, create jobs, help peace
By The Associated Press
DUBLIN - Hoping to boost the `stuttering' Middle East peace process, the European Union yesterday pledged 1.2 billion euros ($1.43 billion) in assistance to Israel and Muslim Mediterranean states and said it will increase its aid in coordination with the World Bank.
The announcement came a day before EU, Israeli and Arab foreign ministers open a two-day meeting. EU External Relations Commissioner Chris Patten said the aid for 2005-2006 showed that despite "the stuttering Middle East peace process, we still maintain our aspiration to build a common zone of peace, prosperity and progress in the Mediterranean region."
The EU's Euro-Med outreach program has poured more than 10 billion euros in economic and financial aid for Israel and its Mediterranean neighbors since 1995 to shore up peace efforts.
Uniquely, it has Israel sitting down once or twice a year with the Palestinian Authority, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Tunisia and Turkey also take part in the talks and Libya is an observer.
EU officials had hoped Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi would apply for full membership during a landmark visit to the EU head office last week, but he did not.
In a statement, Patten said forcing Israel and the Palestinians to make peace is not enough. "Working with modernizers in the region will give us more solid and sustainable results. Inducement, not imposition, is the way forward," he said.
Recent terrorist attacks in Casablanca, Istanbul and Madrid, he added, have reinforced the relevance of the Euromed program as a forum of "solidarity and cooperation between the EU and its southern partners in tackling common security threats."
Today's meeting opens against the backdrop of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's embattled plan for a withdrawal from Gaza and an evacuation of four small West Bank settlements by the end of 2005. The unilateral Gaza pullout has been rejected by Sharon's Likud Party and criticized by many EU capitals, but is supported in Washington.
The EU spends about 1 billion euros a year on economic and other aid for countries along the Mediterranean's southern and eastern rims. If grants and loans from the European Investment Bank are added, the total is nearly 3 billion euros a year.
Yesterday, the EU, the EIB and the World Bank agreed to step up coordination of aid in the Mediterranean region to create a more focused and complementary approach in a region suffering from poverty and lack of economic opportunities.
The EU estimates that in the next 20 years, Europe's immediate neighbors to the south and southeast need almost 100 million new jobs to guarantee work for jobless people.
The 2005-2006 aid announced Tuesday will seek to boost economic reform, human rights, education and anti-poverty projects. It will be distributed as follows:
Algeria, 106 million euros; Egypt, 243 million euros; Jordan, 110 million euros; Lebanon, 70 million euros; Morocco, 275 million euros; Syria, 80 million euros; Tunisia, 144 million euros. In addition 215 million euros will be spent on projects across the Euromed region, including Israel.
In addition to money, the EU is also trying to narrow the Arab-Israeli divide through contacts between legislators, educational and scientific exchanges.
The United States last week lifted most of its commercial sanctions on Libya but trade restrictions with Europe remain, including an arms embargo.
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Check the label of herbs and fruit in your supermarket for a made/produced in Israel sticker.
Alternately look at the first 4 digits underneath the barcode, the code 7290 denotes Israel although Israeli products from illegal settlements in the occupied territories are often deliberately mislabeled:
"The May 13 E.U. report said, "Israeli restrictions on the Palestinian economy inevitably lead to violations of the EU-Israel Agreement by both Israeli and Palestinian economic operators," with mislabeling of Palestinian products as made in Israel, due to Israeli "restrictions on Palestinian free trade with the rest of the world."
The E.U. expressed concerns in the report that to origin problem applys "to a substantial proportion of total exports into the E.U. of Palestinian originating products."
Israel reportedly has threatened that if the European Union boycotts goods produced in Israeli settlements in occupied areas, Israel would put an end to European efforts to be involved in the peace process. Also the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture threatened to remove previliges granted to Palestinian agricultural products."
Examples of big Israeli brands are
Jaffa, Carmel (fruit) and Delta Galil (clothing).
Those opposed to globalisation will notice that many of the multinational companies boycotted for other reasons, also helps the Palestinian cause:
http://www.bigcampaign.org/boycott.html
http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-brands.html
http://www.bigcampaign.org/
For additional information check the following links:
http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-news.html
http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org/
BOYCOTT -this is really great
all the Arabs who the Israelis employ
to make or harvest " Made in Israel " and made in Gaza goods will be able to stay at home now . There they wil be able to make belts to put on their retarded 11 and 12 years olds . The EU can provide more EU and Irish taxpayers money to feed them meanwhile and when the peace talks start again they can send out more kids with bomb belts MADE IN PALESTINE so that they can kill more Jews and continue to live in even worse poverty than they have been in since Arafat started the 2000 Intifada again -
of course he did nt start the first one .
Very consistent economic thinking -from abject poverty you can only go upwards so that s how to keep the poor people happy .
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then why do you continue with your sour grapes blockade of Cuba? Why do you impose trade sanctions against Libya and other states?
I'll tell you why, because it works against criminal apartheid regiemes like Israel as it did previously against South Africa.
Like the South Africans before them the Palestinians are in favour of a blockade and economic boycott against the criminal and bankrupt Israeli state!
As for your assertion that these products are actually harvested by Palestinians, are these the same Palestinians forced to wait for hours for "security" checks before being told they can't go to work? How would any of these people actually hold down a regular job in these circumstances?
Your assertion that the Palestinians would use the additional "free" time created by a boycott to plot further attacks this is another lie. Most of the Palestinians are unemployed anyway and their children malnolurished.
What they want is a rapid end to the Israeli occupation and the only way to do this is to bring the faltering Israeli economy to it's knees.
This could be achieved in less than a year by a concerted campaign of boycotts and sanctions and the Palestinians would be most grateful for this assistance in ridding them of their colonial oppressors!
Sanctions and boycotts work, so boycott Israeli products!