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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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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 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.

offsite link 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.

offsite link Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
The post Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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After 30yr wait Bree is unanimously elected mayor of Sligo

category sligo | politics / elections | news report author Wednesday June 23, 2004 16:25author by allen - lp Report this post to the editors

Councillor Declan Bree the longest-serving member of Sligo Corporation, having been elected back in 1974 aged 22, then a member of the Connolly Youth Movement, was unanimously elected mayor of City yesterday.

He is the first socialist councillor elected Mayor since Tommy Higgins 20 years ago, who was in the council chamber to witness Councillor Bree take the Mayoral Chain from SF Councillor Sean MacManus, the outgoing mayor.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   So     Sly Go    Wed Jun 23, 2004 16:41 
   Hurray     Canteen Kevin    Wed Jun 23, 2004 16:47 
   Well Well     Watcher    Wed Jun 23, 2004 16:54 
   Never trust Sinn Féin     OJ    Wed Jun 23, 2004 16:58 
   a comment on what you said     Larry Flaherty    Wed Jun 23, 2004 17:14 
   On what basis?     f    Wed Jun 23, 2004 17:21 
   Congratulations to Declan Bree     avery    Wed Jun 23, 2004 17:56 
   f     Watcher    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:04 
   Watcher     Cranky Canteen Kevin    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:04 
 10   There were more than the SP in bin tax battle     Not a SP member    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:07 
 11   "all leftists and republicans in Sligo Leitrim"     leitrim    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:09 
 12   avery     Sly Go    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:09 
 13   Now Now     Watcher    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:10 
 14   Bree voted for FF Taoiseach while in Dail     Buck Mulligan    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:11 
 15   Government     Watcher    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:14 
 16   It's like getting blood from a stone     Interested    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:17 
 17   So What Buck?     Trotwatch    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:19 
 18   Interested     Watcher    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:23 
 19   Bin Tax     f    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:23 
 20   Cheers Trotwatch     Mercs and percs watch    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:26 
 21   Councils can abolish bin tax     f    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:27 
 22   What are you on Watcher?     Canteen Kevin    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:38 
 23   f & SP lies     Watcher    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:38 
 24   f     Watcher    Wed Jun 23, 2004 18:40 
 25   Not many Connolly Youth Movement members eventually become Mayor     patc    Thu Jun 24, 2004 00:39 
 26   "all leftists and republicans in Sligo will be voting for SFin the next general election"?     allen    Thu Jun 24, 2004 00:59 
 27   not me     pat c    Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:04 
 28   Bin Tax     Insider    Thu Jun 24, 2004 15:43 
 29   Insider? A simple question     Outsider    Thu Jun 24, 2004 16:32 
 30   Outsider     Watcher    Thu Jun 24, 2004 16:54 
 31   Outsider     Watcher    Thu Jun 24, 2004 16:54 
 32   Correction     Watcher    Thu Jun 24, 2004 16:58 
 33   Watcher talks bullshit     Outsider    Thu Jun 24, 2004 17:09 
 34   Bollocks     Peter    Thu Jun 24, 2004 17:19 
 35   Outsider     Watcher    Thu Jun 24, 2004 17:40 
 36   SP Transfers     Interested    Thu Jun 24, 2004 17:56 
 37   Watcher     Outsider    Thu Jun 24, 2004 17:59 
 38   Watcher     Canteen Kevin    Thu Jun 24, 2004 18:24 
 39   So what happened in Cabra then?     MG    Thu Jun 24, 2004 18:32 
 40   elections     labour lover    Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:46 
 41   truth about Dundrum     labour lover    Fri Jun 25, 2004 10:49 
 42   Culhane and Maher     Dundrum Voter    Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:50 
 43   LP hiding their politics     Labour lover - Labour Party hater.    Fri Jun 25, 2004 11:54 
 44   lp     labour lover    Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:25 
 45   Wrong again     Labour lover - Labour Party hater    Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:39 
 46   leadership     labour lover    Fri Jun 25, 2004 13:31 
 47   Labour Lover     Canteen Kevin    Fri Jun 25, 2004 13:48 
 48   democracy...how inconvenient     labour lover    Fri Jun 25, 2004 16:22 
 49   plebs     Jack Hackett    Fri Jun 25, 2004 16:25 
 50   Bree a Socialist? - Dont make me Laugh     Sligo Republican Socialist    Fri Jan 14, 2005 22:16 
 51   Labour     Jimmy McG    Sat Jan 15, 2005 01:16 
 52   Bree is finished     Mooner    Sat Jan 15, 2005 03:31 
 53   That's decay     oul grey whistle test    Sat Jan 15, 2005 03:59 
 54   Bree & Fianna Fail     Liam    Sat Jan 15, 2005 13:54 
 55   Mooner     Decksie    Sun Jan 16, 2005 03:27 


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