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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
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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.
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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
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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.
?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.
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.
The ?Far Left? Finally Gets Its Comeuppance Sat Sep 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
For years the Left has smeared its opponents as 'far Right'. Now, the spike in Leftist political violence has led to a turning of the tables. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Guardian, says Prof James Alexander.
The post The ‘Far Left’ Finally Gets Its Comeuppance appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Sat Sep 20, 2025 01:09 | Toby Young
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.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5The Spanish press today carries this story for the first four pages on average of all newspapers. The arrests are being seen as the most effective counter ETA operation since 1992, when Mikel Antza took over the organisation after a counter ETA operation arrested the then leadership.
In contrast to coverage in south america and for example the linked radio nederlands which offers the opinion that the capture of Antza and his partner was a lucky surprise and bonus to a standard swoop on arms dumps.
In 1998 Mikel Antza held prolonged negotiations with the Spanish State in Algeria and Switzerland which led to a ceasefire and truce.
The Cuban state authorities have made reference to the arrest of members of a basque group, pointedly not classifying them as terrorist. In 1998 Anboto travelled to Cuba where her children (by Mikel Antza) were born. She returned to the French state in 1999.
http://www.cubaencuentro.com/sociedad/noticias/20041004/f2a63de85a7addbd564313a119b0d264.html
During the new year celebrations of 2004, the leader of the Catalan Republican party met with the leadership of ETA (thought to mean Mikel Antza) on the french side of the Catalan pyrennes, thereafter ETA declared "an end to military operations" in Catalonia.
ETA remained inactive for most of 2003 and 2004 returning to the news for a series of small car bombs on the northern spanish coast at the start of the tourist season. The last of these attacks being made on a electricity pylons- no-one was killed.
Spokespersons for "moderate" basque nationalists (who are arguing for referendum to allow basques decide on self determination) have maintained through the summer that ETA was again in discussions with the government in the form of the PSOE administration of Zapatero elected March 14.
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In other developments (linked only by time) at the party congress of the PP, Aznar former president of the Spanish government accepted the new title of "president of the party", whilst his succesor and former protogé the galician Rajoy attacked the current government for its public inquiry into the events of M11 to March 14. The comission which is investigating the terrorist bombing of Madrid and the subsequent media manipulation by which the government blamed ETA has called Aznar to testify to the shock of his party.
Rajoy has called for an equal approach to uncover the truth of the GAL, a extra-military group which in effect pursued a dirty war against ETA during the first PSOE government.
Only a few months after PSOE has come into power, Galindo, member of GAL, the State sponsored terrorist organization that murdered 28 Basques during PSOE previous leadership, has been released. Galindo, who was the highest responsible of the infamous Civil Guard barricks (a torture chamber) in Intxaurrondo has been released after only serving 5 of the 75 years of prison he has been sentenced to for the apalling torture and murder of Joxean Lasa and Joxi Zabala. This man is now under house arrest, enjoying the high salary he still receives from the State despite the fact that he has lost his condition of militar and doesn't work. The reason given for his release is that he suffers a heart condition and the article 92 of the Spanish Penal Law provides that prisoners with serious illnesses may be released. However, Basque political prisoners such as Barandalla, who suffers cancer and is handcuffed to his bed when in hospital, are not being released under the excuse they haven't repented. Yet Galindo has not repented either, nor has PSOE.
With this release, the Spanish Government not only doesn't condemn GAL's violence, but celebrates it. Yet it supports the 'Law of Parties' which has been used against Batasuna and many other political and cultural organizations for that type of positioning or lighter things.
As a Basque politician has stated, "PSOE is the political branch of the terrorist organization GAL".
It sounds like someone here is actually decrying the fact that these terrorist scumbags have been caught, with a shitload of explosives.
Not separatists, not activists, just terrorist scum
A job very, very well done
Sunday saw raids on several bunkers where the explosives were found, Monday and again yesterday, continued raids on bunkers were made throughout the Basque on both sides of the spanish/french border.
Included in the arsenal listed to the press are two SAM7 rocket launchers, which have been attributed to Irish arms traffickers.
The arrested have been flown from Biarritz to Paris.
Small speculation has been made that the leadership of ETA might now pass to a seventy year old veteran who disappeared several years ago. But most of the press see this as "the end" of the organisation and speak of it's collapse.
For their part the PSOE government have said that this is the beginning of a large and scale operation to dismantle the military part of ETA, a project begun during the PP administration when it was seen as primarily dismantling the political and cultural wings of "basque extremism"/"basque seperatism"/"basque armed nationalism" / "basque problem".
I hope you're right, I really do. The problem with terrorist movements during collapse is that they're capable of some exceptionally nasty horrible stuff. See Omagh for example.