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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
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.
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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Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
The post Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12What exactly is the Shell to Sea campaign now?
The main players say they now want to put place a refinery on land near the coast and say they want the gas to come ashore..
..but this seems to be an anti capitalism/anti project promotion..
If I purchase a CD and donate what am I funding? anti project or Shell to Coast?
Can someone please explain what is going on... i dont understand.
Shell To Sea has been, and continues to be, a campaign for Health, Safety, Environment and Resources.
An offshore production platform for Corrib would always be the safest option for the citizens of Ireland, and would have the least impact on sensitive environments. The only thing safer would be no refinery at all.
There are numerous alternatives to the in-land Bellanaboy refinery as currently planned, none of which have been given the slightest consideration by the oil industry. A shallow water platform would be better, as would a remote coastal location or an un-inhabited island. Everyone except Shell agrees, including Statoil, that Bellanboy was the wrong choice, and it remains so to this day.
Ireland's natural resources, including oil and gas, are being given away to multinational corporations with no return for the State, yet we are expected to bear the social and environmental costs without question.
If these are issues that give you cause for concern, you are free to get involved in any way you feel would be appropriate. You can find out more at the following:
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Global news stories on Shell activities
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Creativity against oil exploitation
www.indymedia.ie/mayo
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Campaign website
www.groundwork.org.za
Environmental justice in southern Africa
www.refineryreform.org
Cleaning up refineries in the US
www.dcmnr.gov.ie/Natural
Department of Natural Resources website
www.mayococo.ie/en/News/GasTerminal/
Mayo County Council Corrib info
www.corribgas.com/
Shell's pro-Corrib website
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Researched facts and figures on Corrib
www.nigerdeltaawareness.com
Oil and gas impact in the Niger Delta
www.h-net.org/~esati/sdcea
South Durban Community Environmental Alliance
www.gcmonitor.org
Communities monitoring industrial neighbours
www.londonrisingtide.org.uk
Battling climate change and fossil fuels
www.struggle.ws/rsc/
Rossport Solidarity Camp Website
www.publicinquiry.ie/reports.php#ld196
"The Great Corrib Gas Controversy" publication
anghaeltacht.net/rosdumhach
Rossport story in Irish / Sceal Ros Dumhach as Gaeilge
www.remembersarowiwa.com/
Arts and human rights coalition in UK
www.kensarowiwa.com/
rights and environment campaign in Nigeria
JM, the proposal made in the statement of the 7 supporters of refining at Glinsk does not square with a campaign which seeks to 'protect health, safety, the environment and resources.
The proposal makes no reference to the robbery of our natural resources, and would not seriously remedy the environmental impact of the refinery on the surrounding area.
How do supporters of the proposal square it with the campaign's objectives?
Has Shell shown a breath of interest in Glinsk? The safest place for refining has to be, offshore.
The Irish Times - Thursday, May 1, 2008
Corrib gas compromise proposal is 'feasible'
LORNA SIGGINS, Marine Correspondent
A FORMER Bord Gáis Éireann engineering manager has said that a compromise Corrib gas refinery location proposed by north Mayo residents is “technically feasible”.
The coastal location for the gas refinery or terminal at Glinsk, proposed by a group of Kilcommon parish community leaders last weekend, has a “number of advantages”, according to Leo Corcoran, former Bord Gáis engineering manager and consultant to An Taisce.
These advantages included distance from a drinking water catchment and the fact that it would not require an onshore production pipeline, Mr Corcoran said.
“Most engineers will agree that 50m cliffs, such as those at Glinsk, don’t pose a technical problem, and refineries have been built in such locations before. The only problem for Shell is the money it has already poured into an unsuitable location at Bellanaboy,” Mr Corcoran said yesterday .
Shell consultants RPS, who had identified the location in an initial list of possible alternative routes for the onshore pipeline, moved to distance themselves from the debate over the compromise yesterday. Shell EP Ireland has already rejected the compromise, while Bishop of Killala Dr John Fleming, Mayo Fine Gael TD Michael Ring and Labour Party president Michael D Higgins have urged Minister for Energy Eamon Ryan and Shell to respond positively...
why would anybody agree to an onshore refinery, if the emmisions from that refinery are going to cause cancers and other illnesses.
that is what S2S told us will happen if the refinery is not offshore, so why now is it ok to have it onland, I think we should be told.
The site at glinsk would take care of 90% of the issues that arise at Bellanaboy.
1) Because its right on the coast there will be no need for a dangerous high pressure raw gas pipe running through peoples land near homesteds etc.
2) The area surrounding it is uninhabitated
3) It will not impact on any SAC's, NHA's or any other environmentally sensitive sites
4) It will not be in the watershed of Lough Carrowmore, Erris's main drinking water supply
5) The liquid waste from the refinery will be discharged to the open Atlantic, not the relativly enclosed Broadhaven bay which is also an SAC and important fishery
6) Because it is situated right on the North coast the prevailing wind(from the SW) will ensure that a large majority of the airborne emmissions will be blown out to sea.
All in all an eminantly sensible compromise and it is to the credit of people like JM, Rossport 5 and the majority of S2S,local people etc. who have shown just how reasonable and flexible they are by putting this forward, despite the hell they've been put through by Shell and the estaiblishment.
All I would say to billy idle is, have a look at a map, then please stop talking nonsense.
Assuming you even know what your talking about!!
Billy here is a few easily provable examples of why it is garbage you posted.
"(5) The liquid waste from the refinery will be discharged to the open Atlantic, not the relativly enclosed Broadhaven bay which is also an SAC and important fishery"
Every fisherman on the coast knows that once you go east of the Stag rocks the tidal currents are only a fraction of what they are off Erris head, look up any admiralty chart, or ask the chief.
So please don't insult our intelligence by trying to bluff.
Also "(3) It will not impact on any SAC's, NHA's or any other environmentally sensitive sites" well explain how you will connect to the board Gáis pipeline which is at bellanaboy, with miles of SAC between there and Glinsk?
And finally "(6) Because it is situated right on the North coast the prevailing wind(from the SW) will ensure that a large majority of the airborne emissions will be blown out to sea."
The north coast of where? tell the people of Belderrig/Ballina/Sligo, if the emissions were poison at bellanaboy, then surely they are poison if moved a few miles to Glinsk!
The prevailing winds are westerly's, Not SW.
Not that it will make a difference, there isn't a hope in hell that Shell would risk abandoning bellanaboy, and seek planning permission on a new site.
The people who proposed this "compromise" were naive in the extreme!
The pipe carrying the processed gas from the refinery will be a standard bord gais interconnector pipe which are usually laid along main roads and are then landscaped causing little or no environmental impact if done competently. Indeed they could probably be run along side existing service pipes carrying water, waste etc. which is standard method elsewhere. There is no camparison between this and the crazy route Shell are taking with their unprecidented high pressure raw gas pipe. The bord gais processed gas interconnector for the Corrib field already passes through some SAC land on its way from Galway
Secondly at the EPA oral hearing Shells proposed liquid waste outlet into Broadhaven bay turned out to be in the worst possible area since as pointed out by Erris Inshore Fishermans Assocciation prevailing tides would move most of it back in to the Bay. Not to mention the risk of accidents(highly likely given this crowds record) causing spillages of toxic substances at the Bellanably site which would then easily find there way through the prevailing watershed directly into the inner Broadhaven
Date from Belmullet Met station shows that the prevaling wind in Erris to be predominatly from the SW.
PS - Sad to see Shell trolls like this individual now reduced to saying black is white in a desperate attempt to excuse the seriously disfunctional nature of this project
I see in today's Irish Times (12/05/08) that the Irish taxpayers have forked out €8.9 for garda security and overtime at Bellinaboy. And this government is closing hospital wards because its short of money! What a disgrace.