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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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The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails Fri Oct 10, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The technocrats are falling across the West as their ideology founders on reality. The cracking of the Net Zero consensus, like the end of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, is a moment of hope, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
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The Sceptic | Episode 54: Alexander Adams on Dissident Art, the Tyranny of the Arts Council and His ... Fri Oct 10, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 54 of the Sceptic: Alexander Adams on dissident art, the tyranny of the Arts Council England and his new exhibition: Power and Intimacy.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 54: Alexander Adams on Dissident Art, the Tyranny of the Arts Council and His New Exhibition appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Fri Oct 10, 2025 00:47 | Richard Eldred
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.
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Teenagers Must Be Warned About the Dystopia Being Built Around Them Thu Oct 09, 2025 19:00 | Mike Fairclough
Mike Fairclough was a nationally feted headteacher before he was cancelled during Covid for speaking out against the tyranny. Now he has written a novel to warn teens about the dystopian world being built around them.
The post Teenagers Must Be Warned About the Dystopia Being Built Around Them appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Italy to Ban Burka Thu Oct 09, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Italy is to ban the burka as part of new legislation against "Islamic separatism" that includes strengthening penalties for forced marriages and stricter financial regulation of Muslim organisations.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2Mr McErlean also told the Dail Committee that the Financial Regulator had tried to get him to drop his allegations of overcharging at his bank. He said he told the Regulator about AIB share transactions that he believed were illegal and was sacked thereafter.
He said Goodbody Stockbrokers were a wholly owned subsidiary of AIB, trading in AIB shares. In order to get around that technical difficulty Goodbodys put a proposal to the audit committe of AIB to engage with friendly 'arms length' clients who would make AIB trades. This 'appeared' to be legal and the proposal was appoved by the AIB Audit Committee.
Mr McErlean said that when that scheme was audited it was found to be illegal and he gave an example:
For instance, what had been presented as the investment arm of the Furstenberg brewing family was indeed a 'man of straw' whose name happened to be Furstenberg but who had no connection whatsover with the Furstenberg brewing family and no wealth of his own. This man was linked to a chain of companies which went through various offshore jurisdictions like Vanuatu and the Caribbean island of Nevis. Nevis at the time being on the Money Laundering Blacklist which meant no bank was allowed to deal with it. This means that at the time AIB and Goodbodys were acting illegally and they knew it.
For a period of time every AIB share which was bought by a member of the public or someone like 'Herr Furstenberg', transacted by Goodbody Stockbrokers, was routed through companies in obscure and shady places like Nevis. Why would you do this unless you have something to hide?
Mr McErlean said he met with Mr Patrick Neary who was the Deputy Financial Regulator at the time. Mr Neary was the person who dealt directly with the Capital Markets end of business while Dr Liam O'Reilly oversaw the entire operation.
We all know that Patrick Neary slithered off into the shadows when his actions and inactions on behalf of the Irish People were discovered but what about Dr Liam O’Reilly who was the chief executive of Ireland's Financial Regulator at the time of this carry on?
Dr O’Reilly became a board member of Irish Life & Permanent in early September 2008, just in time to oversee the €7.9 billion in 'exceptional support' to Anglo Irish Bank. This transaction is now under investigation by the Financial Regulator, the Director of Corporate Enforcement and the Garda Fraud Squad.
Dr O'Reilly became the first Chairman of the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board in 2007. It is the Chartered Accountants Regulatory Board that has undertaken to investigate the issue of dirctors loans at Anglo Irish Bank.
Dr O'Reilly is also a director of Merrill Lynch International Bank based at the IFSC and as we know the Financial Regulator is also investigating a possible 'rogue trader' at Merrill Lynch.
Patrick Neary, former Financial Regulator
Dr Liam O'Reilly, former Financial Regulator
Big Shot of CitiBank ,gainfully employed in the financial world of many mysteries for the best part of 50 year's is reported to have said something like this..
We are in a ''Synchronised Recession'' , Now theres an honest man for ye ........
On the other side of life we have the 'poor mouth brigade ' , 'fully paid up member' of Libbys ( fruit case's ) struttin her stuff, whilst the elder lemon part of
Love Life has been dragged screaming into the Bedroom by the above , not only that BUT ,the F.P.U.M.insists that she cant possibly be expected to
Survive on the $43 million that elder lemon gives to hold her together ,per annum , and she would want ,perhaps, please Your Honour another rise in the
forthcoming future , which basically means NOW , To the reported tune of $100 million , per annum . but that is going on in the ''States'' at this very moment.
Mother of Jesus ,what have those women got ??? If you see her around tell her i said HI ....