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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

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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offsite link Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose C... Wed Oct 08, 2025 19:36 | Will Jones
Two-tier justice was on full display as three Epping protesters received longer prison sentences than the asylum seeker whose sex attack on a child they were protesting about, says Laurie Wastell.
The post Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose Crime They Were Protesting appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link British Steel Industry Faces ?Existential Threat? as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer?s ?EU R... Wed Oct 08, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Britain?s Net Zero-ravaged steel industry is facing an "existential threat" as the EU threatens the UK with tariffs of up to 50% despite Keir Starmer's recent 'EU reset' giveaway on fishing rights and youth mobility.
The post British Steel Industry Faces “Existential Threat” as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer’s ‘EU Reset’ Giveaway appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun Wed Oct 08, 2025 15:27 | Ferro
The public's indifference to art has never been greater. No wonder, says Ferro: it's all just tired Left-progressive politics by another means. But the fightback for real art that moves the human soul has begun.
The post The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV Wed Oct 08, 2025 13:00 | James Alexander
Not until Leo XIV did we have a picture of a holy man staring at an ice cube with his hand on it, respectfully gazing as if imagining the whisky that could go with such a rock, says Prof James Alexander.
The post Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations Wed Oct 08, 2025 11:17 | Sallust
Sir Lenny Henry has called for Britain to pay ?18 trillion in reparations to black people, arguing in a new book that high rates of black crime and unemployment are "all because of the slave trade".
The post Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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"Threads" (1984)

category international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Monday January 07, 2008 15:26author by Weary Report this post to the editors

One of the most terrifying films ever made shows the insanity of nuclear war

"Threads" a BBC docudrama from 1984 focuses on the impact of a full blown nuclear war on the residents of Shefield in the 1980's.
The U.S. and Russia come to blows after a military coup in Iran prompts a Soviet military incursion which provokes an American military response.
The conflict escalates into a full-blown nuclear war which decimates humanity and population of Britain.
Shefield recieves a direct hit which transforms the city into a wasteland.

This is the full length uncut version.

I must warn you that this film is relentlessly bleak and deeply disturbing.

Today there are thousands upon thousands of nuclear weapons not only in the hands of the U.S and Russia but a number of emerging regional superpowers.

What might happen if political instability in Pakistan led to US intervention?
What might happen if the US invaded Iran and provoked Russian interference?

Although this film is quite dated and the political world has changed radically we must never forget that while these hideous weapons of mass death continue to exist that humanity will remain in peril.

The living will envy the dead.

Related Link: http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-2023790698427111488&hl=en-GB

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   I remember this     radical jonny    Mon Jan 07, 2008 19:35 
   Bás Beatha     Biker    Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:26 
   Dont worry folks     A10    Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:21 
   Developers in Ireland....     PaddyThePlasterer    Tue Jan 08, 2008 20:11 
   "Lieber tot als rot"     Sceptic    Tue Jan 08, 2008 20:34 
   behind the scenes     neutron    Tue Jan 08, 2008 20:46 
   Tanks     T - 34    Tue Jan 08, 2008 22:11 
   Massed at the Fulda Gap     T - 34    Tue Jan 08, 2008 22:27 
   The Hordes     T - 34    Tue Jan 08, 2008 22:38 
 10   Chronological Problems     T - 34    Tue Jan 08, 2008 22:47 
 11   Become a sceptic     T - 34    Tue Jan 08, 2008 23:37 
 12   I watched the thing in its entirety the other night after the link was put up by "weary"     staring at rats    Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:25 
 13   ex IUS     Pu-Yu    Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:50 
 14   Preferred this one!     wageslave    Wed Jan 09, 2008 17:15 
 15   Reply to T 34     Sceptic    Wed Jan 09, 2008 20:18 
 16   here's an interesting documentary about MAD     MADman    Wed Jan 09, 2008 20:48 
 17   a video compilation of nuclear explosions (just in case you've never seen one)     wireless head    Wed Jan 09, 2008 21:17 
 18   physics package     ex IUS    Wed Jan 09, 2008 21:57 
 19   Red Dawn     T - 34    Wed Jan 09, 2008 22:10 
 20   Would you trust Americans with nukes?     Weary    Thu Jan 10, 2008 11:34 
 21   For T 34     Sceptic    Thu Jan 10, 2008 14:25 
 22   Yes indeed try scepticism.     T - 34    Fri Jan 11, 2008 01:55 
 23   "Better Red than Dead"     Weary    Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:40 
 24   Maybe it wouldn't have been completely awful!     CorporateObama    Fri Jan 11, 2008 13:31 
 25   In the gulag     Weary    Fri Jan 11, 2008 14:48 
 26   T-34     Sceptic    Fri Jan 11, 2008 19:18 
 27   Hmmm....cultural dark age??     CorporateObama    Fri Jan 11, 2008 19:30 
 28   if the germans had won     history reader    Sat Jan 12, 2008 02:09 
 29   Sim city 4 fire hits 6 nuclear power stations placed together. (you can do this in your own home)     history maker    Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:53 
 30   attaining the state of scepticism     T - 34    Sat Jan 12, 2008 20:45 
 31   Fallacious arguments about invasions     Sceptic    Sun Jan 13, 2008 16:52 
 32   The Russians are Coming!!!     T - 34    Sun Jan 13, 2008 20:11 
 33   A Simple Question.     T - 34    Sun Jan 13, 2008 20:32 
 34   Barking up the wrong tree     Sceptic    Sun Jan 13, 2008 20:43 
 35   "had to put up with their invasions"     T - 34    Sun Jan 13, 2008 21:34 
 36   Two questions     T - 34    Sun Jan 13, 2008 21:40 
 37   kiss     ex IUS    Sun Jan 13, 2008 21:44 
 38   People have very short memories.......     CorporateObama    Sun Jan 13, 2008 23:22 
 39   Regarding nuclear weapons and warfare....     auntiewar    Sun Jan 13, 2008 23:45 
 40   more info to add to the excellent vids & resources on this page: maybe inspire a Junior Cert project     neighbourly    Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:21 
 41   it worked     ex-IUS    Mon Jan 14, 2008 13:06 
 42   where to begin!     T - 34    Mon Jan 14, 2008 15:02 
 43   creative writing     T - 34    Mon Jan 14, 2008 15:25 
 44   Backgrund to Threads     Sceptic    Mon Jan 14, 2008 22:22 
 45   Four Questions for Sceptic     T - 34    Tue Jan 15, 2008 00:31 
 46   more surprising info on nuclear proliferation issues     neighbourly    Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:10 
 47   And Lest it ever be forgotten, one more interesting link     wageslave    Tue Jan 22, 2008 01:21 
 48   NATO to plan first nuclear strike as UN sidelines.     future trader    Tue Jan 22, 2008 10:46 


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