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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. The Saker >>
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Sensational New Measurements of Uncorrupted Air Temperatures Destroy UK Met Office Constant Claims o... Mon Sep 22, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison New data shows the Met Office's 'record' heat spikes are junk, weaponised by Net Zero activists to scare the public witless and push the no-hydrocarbons fantasy, says the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor.
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Making Tax Digital ? a Disaster in the Making or a Brilliant Innovation? Mon Sep 22, 2025 07:00 | Guy de la B?doy?re Making Tax Digital is set to hit sole traders and landlords from 2026, promising more admin, costs and chaos than clarity, and Guy de la B?doy?re is already throwing in the towel rather than get swamped.
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News Round-Up Mon Sep 22, 2025 00:43 | 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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The BBC?s ?1 Billion Pension Bailout Sun Sep 21, 2025 19:47 | Richard Eldred The BBC has poured over ?1 billion into its gold-plated pension scheme, gobbling up nearly ?850 million of licence fee money ? and it looks like the bill could keep climbing.
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Education Secretary Launches Fresh Attack on Private Schools Sun Sep 21, 2025 17:13 | Richard Eldred In a fresh raid that could force more closures and squeeze parents' wallets, Bridget Phillipson is hitting private schools again, this time tripling Ofsted inspection fees.
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The Forgotten Palestinians
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Friday November 23, 2012 12:57 by Eamonn Sheehy - Migrate To The Fringe

Living in todays Sabra and Shatila, Beirut, Lebanon.
As the Gaza conflict rages on, the Palestinians demand for human rights and return to their homeland continues for many outside of the occupied territories.
Millions of refugees scattered throughout the Middle East live in refugee camps rife with violence, extreme poverty and no support or assistance. This twinned with getting stuck in the crossfire of many host-country conflicts such as Syria, Lebanon and Iraq make their situation even more intractable. When the opportunity to work does open up, the same people are greeted with more exploitation in trying to make a livelihood.
We widen the lens away from Gaza to see what life is like for Palestinian youths growing up in Beirut, Lebanon.
 Beirut ‘Life conditions are inadequate. Like all Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, refugees in Sabra and Shatila are banned from most professions and from owning property, yet they must still pay taxes for public services they do not receive.’
~ Omar is a member of Ma’an Youth Group, made up of 17 young people from the Shatila and Bourj El-Barajneh refugee camps in Beirut, Lebanon. They stand in for their community where society has failed them repeatedly...with consistency.
We are speaking about the Sabra and Shatila massacres of September 1982. Violent, brutal and barbaric. Wrongful vengeance taken out on 700 to 3500 innocents with no inclination of the impending ‘finish’ that was to engulf their neighbourhood and homes. Children playing with friends on the street, games in motion until the violence came upon them, while elder family members sat inside their homes not knowing the violence on the way. Two full days of horrific brutality.
Lebanon’s Christian Maronite President Bachir Gemayel was assassinated. Enraged Christian Phalangists, allied to Israel, planned to enact violent revenge against the remaining civilian Palestinians in West Beirut; who they suspected, wrongly, of making the kill. On the 16th of September, the Phalange militia’s descended on the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. Israeli forces who invaded Lebanon months earlier manned the perimeters, shot flares to illuminate the camp area at night time and sealed off any escape routes by fleeing residents.
Throughout the years politics has sabotaged any justice for the victims and missing. No accountability has been attributed – Sharon? Genocide law? The remaining men were snatched from the camps by the Israeli army and ‘questioned’ in the Stadium nearby; these are the missing. Gaza Hospital on the edge of the camps dealt with the dying amid scenes of crazed panic.
Today Sabra and Shatila still stands, but more impoverished and overcrowded, isolated from the modern glitzy Beirut beyond its checkpoints.
Omar tells me what life is like for the residents today.
Hi Omar, can you tell me how Beirut is today for you? You are a student, where do you study?
I study at Beirut Arab University where most of the Palestinian students study, it’s in Beirut. Some of the Lebanese have no idea about the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. They think we live in tents and a little of them they don’t know that there are Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon! The camp is a poor neighbourhood while Beirut is the capital of Lebanon with tall towers and rich neighbourhoods, so we feel of the class struggle.
Do you think there is a climate of fear in Beirut today between different factions and people?
Sure, especially after the revolution in Syria and after the situation became worst there, now the Lebanese parties are divided, some of them support Al Asad while others support the revolutionary. That’s creates a kind of fear here.
Do you think Lebanese youth are inclusive of Palestinian youth, or are they distant? Are the Palestinian refugee camps very isolated from other communities in Beirut?
I can say that the Lebanese youth in general still distant from the Palestinian youth in Lebanon. Because of the Lebanese army check points in front of the Palestinian camps and the legal discrimination against us we forced to be isolated from people here.
What do you think of Mahmoud Abbas attempts to get UN statehood for Palestine? Where do you see the future of Palestine going? Have you ever been to your homeland?
I understand Abbas and PLO attempts but it doesn’t satisfy our demands, the Palestinian statehood is going to be on the 1967th borders (Gaza strip, West Bank and east Jerusalem), while we are from North Palestine ! Which it is today Israel! The Palestinian statehood (Gaza strip, West Bank and east Jerusalem) makes no sense for us here. Our demand is to apply “194” the right of return and compensating. Our struggle is not with the Jewish; our struggle is with the Zionist. The Jewish represent a part of the Palestinian nation as Christians and Muslims. Violence from both sides will never lead to a solution especially from the Israeli regime. I have never been in my homeland in north Palestinian and my dream in this life to be in Acre (Akka).
Have you seen Palestinian refugees from Syria arriving in Beirut recently?
We have in Shatila over 100 Syrian-Palestinian refugee families and over 140 in Burj Al Barajneh; they arrived recently especially last two months. Their situation is much harder than the Syrian refugees, nobody cares of them, our Group donated clothes for some families and we are trying to find any way to help them.
What is life like for Palestinians today in West Beirut?
We see firsthand how the Palestinian refugee community here in Lebanon is deprived of basic needs. Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are banned from most professions, owning property or accessing public services or equal rights. The majority if Palestinian refugees live under the UN-defined poverty line, and almost 60% of Palestinian refugee children drop out of school after the age of 15.
Our challenge is to overcome these obstacles by doing everything we can to help and empower our deprived community.
Ma’an Youth Group : https://www.facebook.com/maanyouthgroup
Photography courtesy of Ma'an Youth Group.
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