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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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offsite link Backlash as Nando?s Limits Customers to One Coke per Visit Under New ?Nanny State? Rules Mon Oct 06, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
Nando's has sparked a backlash after restricting customers to a single glass of Coca-Cola Classic under new 'nanny state' Government rules aimed at cutting sugar consumption.
The post Backlash as Nando’s Limits Customers to One Coke per Visit Under New ‘Nanny State’ Rules appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Nudge? Has a New Evil Twin: ?Stochastic Terror? Mon Oct 06, 2025 13:30 | Nick Rendell
'Nudge' has a new evil twin, says Nick Rendell: 'stochastic terror'. When all else fails, the Left foments the conditions for random political violence and then sits back and waits for someone to pick off Trump or Farage.
The post ‘Nudge’ Has a New Evil Twin: ‘Stochastic Terror’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Green Party Votes to Abolish Landlords Mon Oct 06, 2025 11:17 | Will Jones
The?Green Party?has committed itself to "abolishing landlords" after party members at its conference in Bournemouth passed a motion to seek the "effective abolition of private landlordism".
The post Green Party Votes to Abolish Landlords appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Will the Green Tory Blob Allow Kemi to Cancel Net?Zero? Mon Oct 06, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
Kemi Badenoch plans to scrap the Climate Change Act and Net Zero, but 49 Tory MPs in the Green Blob might block her ? Paul Homewood urges voters to call them out.
The post Will the Green Tory Blob Allow Kemi to Cancel Net?Zero? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Does a New Book Claiming Classic 1970s Sit-Coms Contain Secret Occult Messages About Mould Embarrass... Mon Oct 06, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
A bonkers new book claims 1970s sitcoms hide occult codes about damp and decay ? whether it's satire or sincere, it perfectly exposes academia's mouldy absurdity, says Steven Tucker.
The post Does a New Book Claiming Classic 1970s Sit-Coms Contain Secret Occult Messages About Mould Embarrass Pretentious British Academia by Accident or on Purpose? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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MEP Gheorghe Piperea: Unlike Russia, the EU cannot afford a 15-year war

category international | eu | opinion/analysis author Friday December 20, 2024 19:33author by Piotr Jastrzębski Report this post to the editors

The European Commission has an obsession with war and arms race and whoever talks about peace - is an enemy, that must be kept within a cordon sanitaire so as not to contaminate the pure and elevated parishioners of the personality cult of the high-ranking European bureaucrat.

In Romania, military support to Ukraine (in addition to the economic and humanitarian support) is a state secret. From the resolution of 17 July 2024, we learned with astonishment that Romania, along with the other Member States, contributes with 0.25% of GDP to the costs of the war in Ukraine.

We need a whole new type of discourse, hence we need new faces in the European parliament.
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As a member of the European Parliament, how do you assess the work of the previous European Parliament? How do you assess the effectiveness of the EU's international policy, in particular the EU's position on the conflict in Ukraine?

Between 2019 and 2024, the European Parliament has focused almost exclusively on false and harmful topics for the European economy, causing more poverty and over-indebtedness of the European institutions, the Member States and the population, while leaving almost untouched the insidious policy of the European Commission. We are talking particularly about the policy guided by Ursula von der Leyen, based on usurping power within the Union and, above all, of taking over some of the essential, exclusive competences of the Member States, competences enshrined in the Union Treaties.
The European Commission has managed the covid crisis in a disastruous way. The proof is that today, as we speak, the European Court of Auditors reports illegalities, the unfair use of European public money and the lack of transparency concerning all the technical, logistical and financial decisions made as a pretext for "fighting" against the pandemic. Moreover, the Belgian Public Prosecutor's Office and the EPPO are investigating, at the same time (or in a competition difficult to understand for the average taxpayer) the non-transparent purchases of vaccines, negotiated by a small circle of decision-makers, including Ursula von der Leyen. The European Parliament, although it had the necessary and useful legal means and instruments, did not exercise control and supervision over this type of crisis management.
More recently, the European Commission has an obsession with war and arms race. A leading role in this obsession was given to the old Leninist slogan ‘whoever is not with us is against us’. The people or personalities who talk about peace and about the real problems of our world – poverty, hunger, the loss of rights and freedoms – are the enemies, the extremists, the pets that must be kept within a cordon sanitaire so as not to contaminate the pure and elevated parishioners of the personality cult of the high-ranking European bureaucrat.
Meanwhile, the European Union is in exorbitant debt of EUR 480 billion. It's ridiculous, but Mr. Draghi, in his report on European competitiveness in September 2024, proposes an additional EUR 800 billion per year in debt, and Mrs von der Leyen proposes a EUR 450 billion Eurobond debt for armaments.
Member States' sovereign debts have risen to unsustainable levels, which will require further devaluations of the payment currency and new taxes and levies. Countries such as France, Italy, Spain can no longer hope for development due to hyper-indebtedness, and countries such as Germany or the Netherlands are stagnating or entering recession due to the closure of economies through sanctions against ideological enemies of the European Commission.
The population is becoming more and more over-indebted and poor. More than 100 million Europeans are poor and hungry. Despite having a job, a third of Europeans are unable to cover their current monthly debts from their salary. One fifth of European children drop out of school early, in order to work.
However, the European Parliament is rather interested in human rights violations in Venezuela.
As far as the EU's position on the war in Ukraine is concerned, obviously, the normal reaction that we must have (and all of us must have) is to condemn the aggression and to provide moral and humanitarian support to those who have suffered and are suffering as a result of the war. Economic support to Ukraine is also acceptable, but limited by the national and Community interests of the EU Member States. However, supporting Ukraine militarily and financially has always been inadequate and disorganized. While states such as the United States and the United Kingdom have delivered weapons and military equipment in a limited manner, EU countries have never agreed on a common strategy.
Ursula von der Leyen said and thought to be doing one thing, but France, Germany, the Netherlands or Italy said and did a different thing. The armament provided was old, delivered in a hurry, the soldiers on the front were lacking proper training etc. Economically speaking, Russia was sanctioned multiple times, but the EU member countries continued to source, directly or indirectly, gas, oil, grain and fertilizers or pesticides from Russia, practically financing the continuation of the war by Russia. And the financial support for Ukraine has fallen into the black hole represented by the Ukrainian political and administrative establishment, the most corrupt and mafia-type one in Europe (and maybe even in the world).
Taking all the above into consideration, it is obvious that one cannot talk about the effectiveness of the EU in matters of geo-politics, diplomacy and war.

How do you assess the new composition of the European Parliament?

Although the composition of the European Parliament has changed substantially, notably through the increase in the number of Italian, French, German, Dutch and Austrian Conservatives, as well as the emergence of Romanian or Bulgarian Conservatives, the decision-making process is still confined to the three major European parties that seized power in the EU – European People`s Party, Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, and Renew.
Next, these parties, plus the tight decision circle in the European Council (Scholz, Macron, Sanchez, Rutte, Tusk, Mitsotakis) have imposed a so-called ‘sanitary cordon’, a policy of isolating anti-establishment politicians and dissidents that bears upsetting similarities to some practices of Nazism (the Poles are the first that should remind you of the ghettos in Kraków and Warsaw occupied by Hitler).
An action by French conservatives from the Rassemblement National party against the European Parliament is currently pending before the EU General Court in Louxembourg on the grounds that they removed all conservatives of the `Patriots for Europe` Group from decision-making and from all governing bodies of the European parliament. The motivation is serious – in France, during the June 9 elections, Rassemblement National won one third of the vote. Hence, blocking Rassemblement National by using the `deep state` of the EP is nothing more than silencing a third of the French people. This constitutes a violation of the principle of representative democracy, which is present in the Treaties of the Union.
On the other hand, there is also good news: the conservatives of European Conservatives and Reformists are being represented in the EP governing bodies at the level of Vice-Presidents, Quaestors, Chairs or Committee Vice-Chairs. There is a beginning in everything.
Also, the European People`s Party alliance with Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats no longer seems so tight. On the one hand, Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats accuses the European Commission of intending to accumulate too much power, to the detriment of Parliament and the Council. On the other hand, the European People`s Party does not fully agree with the Green Deal, especially since it seems that it will destroy the automotive industry in countries such as Germany, Italy or France.

Why did you vote against the EP resolution on Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States?

I voted against that resolution because it is nothing else than a new way of poking and incitement to continuous war.
What irritated me most about that resolution is the call for increased spending on military support to Ukraine.
In Romania, military support to Ukraine (in addition to the economic and humanitarian support) is a state secret. From the resolution of 17 July 2024, we learned with astonishment that Romania, along with the other Member States, contributes with 0.25% of GDP to the costs of the war in Ukraine. This is in addition to the 2.5% of GDP that NATO already claims on a yearly basis. And the resolution of July 17 calls for an increase of this percentage.
Moreover, the July resolution was resumed during the September session in Strasbourg, thus a new resolution proposes even more money for the continuation of the war in Ukraine. Unlike Russia, which can continue this war for 10-15 years, with the necessary resources, the EU, and Romania in particular, cannot afford a 15-year war. What we can do is, under the umbrella of a negotiated peace, to prepare seriously (and not reactively and irrationally) for an effective defense against Russia's possible war intentions with NATO member states.
Let's not forget the nuclear threat.
Let us not forget about the lost, stolen, or destroyed weaponry – it will go to the Russians and the Chinese (who will replicate and improve it by reverse engineering) and, of course, to terrorists - either private or state-owned. And the main target of terrorists will be European cities.
Finally, I also noticed a legal nonsense in this resolution. Namely, it proposes that Ukraine should be lent by the G8 states with a minimum of $50 billion, under the warranty of «assets to be confiscated from Russia and the Russians». Think about when there will be again peace with Russia, and when relations will normalize: how many lawsuits, how many reparations, how many massive fees will we be obliged to bear for this madness, along with our children and grandchildren?
NB: perhaps the Europeans did not know either that the EU is contributing with 100 billion EUR to this war, on top of armaments delivery and refugee hosting.

How do you assess the new composition of the European Parliament? Can we expect the EU to return to a diplomatic dialogue to resolve the conflict in Ukraine in a diplomatic way?

I believe that we can return to a state of dialogue and negotiation only if the political spectrum changes after the US elections on November 5.
And the way to resolve the conflict in Ukraine through dialogue and negotiation will not be addressed if actors such as Ursula von der Leyen, Macron, Scholz, Sanchez, Tusk or Orban are pushed forward as ‘negotiators’. It takes a whole new type of discourse, hence we need new faces.

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