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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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Public Inquiry
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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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link News Round-Up Tue Sep 23, 2025 01:12 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Hamas Executes ?Israeli Collaborators? in Streets of Gaza Mon Sep 22, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hamas?has executed three Palestinians accused of "collaborating" with Israel on the streets of Gaza, just hours after the UK, Australia and Canada announced their?recognition of a Palestinian state.
The post Hamas Executes “Israeli Collaborators” in Streets of Gaza appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong Mon Sep 22, 2025 17:35 | Dr David Bell
The Covid response was not an error, and it was not the result of rushing to counter an unknown pathogen. It was a lot of people, mostly professionals, systematically doing what they knew was wrong, says Dr David Bell.
The post The Covid Response Was Not a Mistake ? It Was Just Wrong appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link School Accused of ?Brainwashing? Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book ?Blaming Them for The... Mon Sep 22, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
A parent has accused a secondary school of "brainwashing" after?he learned that 14 year-old pupils were told to read a book that "blames them for their white skin" ? and his daughter was forced to read it out loud.
The post School Accused of “Brainwashing” Children After 14 Year-Olds Told to Read Book “Blaming Them for Their White Skin” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for ... Mon Sep 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Nigel Farage?today vowed to block foreign nationals from getting benefits, slashing the welfare bill "by ?234bn", and to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants with 'settled status' by bringing in stricter visa tests.
The post No Benefits for Foreigners Under Reform, Says Nigel Farage: Stricter Visa Tests and Deportation for Those Who Fail Under Crackdown on ‘Settled Status’ Migrants appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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No Extradition To Spanish Kangaroo Courts

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | press release author Friday August 31, 2012 16:46author by Dublin Basque - Dublin Basque Solidarity Committee Report this post to the editors

France must not hand over Arturo (Benat) Villanueva to the Spanish National Court.

Arturo (Benat) Villanueva was arrested in the northern Basque Country by gendarmes on Monday, on a European warrant issued by the Spanish Government. The Dublin Basque Solidarity Committee is mobilising a solidarity protest 5,30pm, NEXT MONDAY 3rd SEPT: HANDS OFF ARTURO (BENAT) VILLANUEVA PICKET OF ALLIANCE FRANCAISE, KILDARE/ NASSEAU STREETS
Arrest Arturo Villanueva in Belfast on Spanish extradition warrant last year
Arrest Arturo Villanueva in Belfast on Spanish extradition warrant last year

Arturo (Benat) Villanueva was arrested in the northern Basque Country by gendarmes on Monday, on a European warrant issued by the Spanish Government. The warrant alleges terrorism, the Spanish state's interpretation of any political commitment to an independent and socialist Basque Country. This appears to be the same warrant that was rejected by a British judge in Belfast in August last year (see link to Indymedia article).

Arturo had been a students' union representative in university in Nafarroa and openly active in the broad pro-independence Left movement. The Spanish National Court charged him in 2001 with being a member of Jarrai, a political youth organisation of the Basque Abertzale (pro-Independence) Left movement which it banned the following year. This was the beginning of a spate of bannings of political parties, youth organisations, newpapers, magazines, radio stations, organisation of local authorities, taverns, and electoral platforms. The most recent was the banning of the political alliance Sortu, which has just recently been overturned by the Spanish Constitutional Court.

Facing a possible 14-year jail sentence for his political activities, Arturo did not attend his trial when it opened in 2003 and went into hiding. In 2004, he moved to West Belfast, where he lived openly and was well-known there for his Basque solidarity and cultural work, as well as for guiding walking historical tours. He has taken Basque bands and cultural groups to Dublin and has visited the city many times and attending this Committee's commemoration in April of this year of the Nazi bombing of Gernika. He moved to Iparralde (Basque northern country) this year and lived openly there as a refugee.

Since the terrorist "dirty war" of the Spanish state-sponsored GAL against the Basque refugees in the northern Basque Country during the 1980s, the French state has collaborated closely with the Spanish state in handing over refugees to Guardia Civil torture and National Court conviction and jailing. This must cease.

The Spanish mainstream media have already found Arturo guilty.

The record of the Spanish National Court in terms of justice or judicial procedures is abysmal. They have routinely linked political work with armed actions purely through groups having similar objectives, convicted on "confessions" obtained by tortures, failed to investigate consistent allegations of torture by the Guardia Civil, failed to act on domestic and international recommendations on safeguards against torture, handed out long sentences to Basque activists and ridiculous sentences to the few Guardia Civil tried and convicted of torture. The lack of safeguards in the procedures of the Spanish National Court, along with its unwarranted assumptions, have been criticised by many human and civil rights organisations, including Amnesty International and the UN Committee Against Torture. No Basque accused of "terrorism" by that court should be extradited to face trial there.

NO EXTRADITION TO SPANISH KANGAROO COURTS!

Please forward this information and especially details of the protest.

Letters, emails, faxes and telephone calls of protest (please let us know, including response) may be sent to

France Embassy , Ireland

36 Ailesbury rd, Ballsbridge
Dublin
Ireland
Phone:
+353-1-277-5000
Fax:
+353-1-277-5001
Email:
ADMIN-FRANCAIS.DUBLIN-AMBA@DIPLOMATIE.GOUV.FR
Website URL:
www.ambafrance-ie.org

and/ or to
Mme. Christiane Taubira,
Ministre de la Justice
Place Vendome,
Paris,

Related Link: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/94837?userlanguage=ga&save_prefs=true

Arturo (Benat) leaving Belfast court last year
Arturo (Benat) leaving Belfast court last year

Poster for Dublin commemoration of Gernika bombing, attended by Arturo (Benat).
Poster for Dublin commemoration of Gernika bombing, attended by Arturo (Benat).

author by Dublin Basque - Dublin Basque Solidarity Committeepublication date Fri Aug 31, 2012 16:50author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Sorry, the Gernika bombing commemoration was April last year, not this year as written in error. Arturo (Benat) also attended this Committee's Basque Festival in October of that same year.

author by Dublin Basque - Dublin Basque Solidarity Committeepublication date Fri Aug 31, 2012 17:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Poster for Monday's picket -- feel free to download and forward

The Alliance Francaise, corner of Kildare and Nasseau Streets,  is the cultural centre of the French Embassy, Dublin.
The Alliance Francaise, corner of Kildare and Nasseau Streets, is the cultural centre of the French Embassy, Dublin.

author by Diarmuid Breatnach - Dublin Basque Solidarity Committeepublication date Thu Sep 06, 2012 18:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Arturo (Benat) Villanueva went to court on Tuesday but the French judge considered the Spanish supplementary evidence to the extradition request as insufficient and gave them another week to produce more. Unfortunately Benat was not released on bail in the intervening period. This process of asking the Spanish state for more evidence and the Spanish state not supplying it went on for months in Belfast in 2009 during the previous extradition attempt. In the end the judge threw out the case but at least Benat had bail throughout.

The Spanish state alleges that Benat was a member of Jarrai in 2001, when they arrested him along with nine other Abertzale Left youth. They alleged all of them were involved with ETA. Their proof? Jarrai wants an independent, socialist Basque nation and so does ETA! But have they been able to point to a single shooting or explosion in which Jarrai were involved? Of course not.

Then they made Jarrai illegal in 2002 -- a year AFTER Benat was alleged to have been involved in it.

Of course the Spanish state have difficulty in producing it -- because THERE IS NO EVIDENCE!

But must Benat remain in custody while this pantomime is played out?

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