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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.
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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
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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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Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV Wed Oct 08, 2025 13:00 | James Alexander
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6"have long since given up on those they've elected to serve them (with the exception I suppose of Cowley)"
Perhaps one or two of them might vote for Gerry Murray?
July 2, 2005
Sinn Féin Members Stage Petrol Station Protest
02/07/2005 - 17:19:38
Two Sinn Féin members have occupied a petrol station in Dublin in
protest at the jailing of five gas pipeline protesters.
Brian Keane and another member of Ogra Sinn Fiin locked themselves
into the Statoil station on the Northumberland Road in Ballsbridge.
"We are here for a peaceful protest. We're entering peacefully and
we'll be leaving peacefully," he said.
He added that the protest was in solidarity with Micheal O Seighin,
Vincent McGrath, his brother Philip, Willie Corduff and Brendan
Philbin, who are being held in Cloverhill prison for refusing to obey
a High Court injunction taken out by Shell E&P Ireland.
The five men have called on the public to boycott petrol stations
owned by Shell and Statoil, the main shareholders in Shell E&P
Ireland.
"We echo the call for the men to be freed immediately and support them
in their fight to defend their community and the health, safety and
well being of their families, said Mr Keane.
Both he and his fellow protester locked the doors of the Statoil
station to deny access to two gardaí, who had requested them to leave.
"The guards have asked us to open the door but we're going to stay
here for an hour," said Mr Keane.
Yesterday, he and other members of Ogra Sinn Féin occupied the Statoil
station on the south quays in Dublin city centre for an hour.
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It's blockade or bust lads and lassies, conform your minds to it, its as simple as that.
He's just like all the rest
The 'strategic infrastructure bill" is a new weapon to disenfranchise all communities throughout the land. .It will particularly affect those communities where Fianna Fail feel they have minimum vote loss exposure :i.e. where the voting population is insufficient to impinge upon their 'strategic perspective".(vote catchment)
In short it is a weapon to emasculate the minority communities who heretofore had a democratic voice of protest .It is the death knell to the rights and freedoms which we have heretofore taken for granted. Charlie Haughey would have been proud of his cunning apprentice.
An Taisce has been described as Ireland only secret society that receives State recognition.
Making the claim yesterday at the adjourned June meeting of Clare County Council, councillor PJ Kelly (Fianna Fail) said: " An Taisce doesn't release the identity of its members and they could come from the ranks of al-Qaeda, MI5, the CIA or even our own Special Branch. We just don't know."
Arising from Government legislation, An Taisce can lodge objections against one-off homes and other developments and the contents of the objection remain confidential until planning authorities have made decisions in the cases.
Mr Kelly said the current system "goes against any principle of natural justice as applicants can't respond to any of the points raised in the objections".
Tabling a motion that objections received from An Taisce be made available to the public, Mr Kelly said: " An Taisce is anti-rural and anti anything outside of the Pale." I have no problems with objections. If an ordinary person lodges an objection, the applicant can see the objection on file.
"However, An Taisce has special status and applicants cannot see [its] objections against developments. There is no provision in statute to ensure that they remain confidential, the regulations only state that an An Taisce submission can be regarded as a report.
"Unless the council receives legal advice stating that it cannot release An Taisce objections prior to planning decisions being made, I am calling on the council to make public An Taisce objections.
Mr Kelly's call received support from his colleagues.
Councillor Joe Arkins (Fine Gael) said: "It is only reasonable that An Taisce objections be made available in the interest of transparency and fair play."
Green Party councillor Brian Meaney also supported Mr Kelly's motion: "It would be far more preferable if the reports by An Taisce were made known to applicants and the general public."
Councillor Martin Lafferty asked county manager Alec Fleming how many planning applications had been refused as a result of An Taisce objections.
A spokeswoman for the Clare Association of An Taisce said last night that she was surprised by Mr Kelly's remarks. She confirmed that An Taisce in Clare made 852 submissions last year on planning matters - in 2005, the council received 2,491 planning applications.
"While we made 852 submissions, we would object to very few applications each year. We are not an objecting machine. For example, I am in the process of making 30 submissions and only two are objections.
"We have no power, but we are a necessary watchdog for the public."
The spokeswoman said that she would object to the contents of An Taisce submissions being made public. "This would result in our private lives being imposed upon by people lobbying in relation to the submissions."
She added that the identity of An Taisce members had legal protection and that they should not be released.
Fianna Fail attack "An Taisce"
Cllrs Kelly, Arkins and Meaney are talking out of their arses. An Taisce is a statutory body under the planning acts. That means that local authorities are legally obliged to refer certain planning applications to them (as well as to other bodies such as The Heritage Council, the National Monuments Service of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, the National Wildlife Service, the Aviation Authority and a few more).
Applications for developments in scenic areas, in or close to EU protected habitats, Special Areas of Conservation etc. should all be referred to Tailors' Hall by the various planning departments around the country. They should also get applications from along the coastline, which is nominally protected in coastal counties' Development Plans.
When An Taisce make an observation on a planning application (they're not called objections any more, but they invariably are), the observations are usually logged in the planning file at the public desk of the local authority planing office, which is available to the public to consult. They are generlly signed by Ian Lumley, the AT planning officer.
It seems that Clare County Council, for some reason known only to themselves, have been witholding observations made by the statutory bodies, although they are under no legal obligation to do so.
The good councillors of county Clatre should be asking their own planning department why they're not giving the public full access to planning files.
Idiots.
Kelly however is right in one aspect of his tirade and this is the possibility that certain members of the gardaí have taken an active interest in who's objecting to what. And especially in... you've guessed it, Donegal.
When you enter the county from Sligo, you pass through Bundoran. Even though this jewel on the Atlantic coast is about 4 miles from the Leitrim border, once you cross over into Donegal it's all built up with vast estates of 100s of holiday homes. Only really occupied for a few months of the year, there's obviously none of the usual infrastructure you'd expect in the developed world. Even the water supply and the sewerage are dodgey.
Who's building all this? Well step forward please a few public representatives, most notably the MacEniff's (FF of course). Very much from the same buffoonish mould as their Clare colleagues(see link below), this family has made an untold fortune 'developing' Bundoran. But behind them are more shadowy characters, with links to FF and to the local gardaí, who appear to be something of a local militia for these chaps.
Have a look at the Donegal County Council planning lists for the last 10 years, putting a certain Charles Fergus in the search engine. Apart from in Bundoran itself, you'll see applications for 100s of houses in the neighbouring coastal townlands in this guy's name. If you're feeling a bit lazy, check out the Bord Pleanála link to a site in Magheracar
http://www.pleanala.ie/REP/216/R216041.DOC
where the inspector refers to his various developments in the neighbourhood. Actually, google him and get how much he's donated to FF in recent years.
Fergus generally gets his way in Bundoran. If he doesn't, he sends his boys around. Search for him on the Donegal Democrat website and you'll get the picture. Fergus has frequently used the gardaí in Bundoran to harass and intimidate several people who've lodged objections to his schemes. On one occasion, they were aware of an individual being quite severly assualted by Fergus's cronies. They turned a blind eye and then prosecuted the individual for assualting Fergus's associates.
I know of similar incidents happening in Leitrim, Sligo and indeed Clare where people have been assualted and intimidated, with nothing being done by the local gardaí.
So, getting back to An Taisce, is it any wonder local people don't want to sign their names to AT observations? And is any wonder local councillors want to know who's making the observations on behalf of AT?