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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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offsite link News Round-Up Fri Oct 03, 2025 01:58 | 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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offsite link The WHO Pandemic Accords Consolidate the Power of the Covid Clerisy on a Global Scale Thu Oct 02, 2025 19:07 | Ramesh Thakur
The WHO Pandemic Accords, the first part of which came into effect last month, consolidate the power of the Covid clerisy on a global scale, warns Professor Ramesh Thakur. Expect more of the same.
The post The WHO Pandemic Accords Consolidate the Power of the Covid Clerisy on a Global Scale appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Teaching Assistant Sacked for ?Manhandling? Pupil to Stop Him Running into Road Thu Oct 02, 2025 17:27 | Will Jones
A teaching assistant was fired after grabbing a special needs pupil to stop him from running out of school and into a busy road.
The post Teaching Assistant Sacked for “Manhandling” Pupil to Stop Him Running into Road appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The True Hidden Purpose of ?Sex Education? Thu Oct 02, 2025 15:00 | Steven Tucker
A quarter of parents believe their child has been taught something inappropriate in sex education. Like choking and rimming. Why? It all goes back to the neo-Marxists of the Frankfurt School, says Steven Tucker.
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offsite link Manchester Synagogue Terror Attack: Two Dead After Yom Kippur Rampage Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:43 | Will Jones
Two people have been killed and three are in a serious condition after a suspected terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester, where a car was driven into a crowd on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
The post Manchester Synagogue Terror Attack: Two Dead After Yom Kippur Rampage appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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1916, The Catholic hierarchy and the sell out of Irish women.

category international | anti-capitalism | opinion/analysis author Friday March 18, 2016 17:37author by Sean Throne - facts for Working People Report this post to the editors

The deal: Irish capitalism and the Catholic hierarchy.

Weak Irish capitalism makes a deal with Catholic hierarchy in which the hierarchy get control over many areas of Irish life and in return preach and organize in support of capitalism and against socialism and as part of this against women's rights.


Friday, March 18, 2016
1916 Rising. The Sell Out Of Women and the Catholic Hierarchy.

De Valera and a member of the all male anti women catholic hierarchy.

Sean O'Torain.

I have written on this Blog on a number of occasions about the reactionary and repressive role of the Catholic hierarchy in Irish society. I have shaken my head in amazement at how people who consider themselves fighters for or even supporters of Irish independence and freedom could belong to the Catholic church. I am amazed when I see people like Adams and co bow their knee to the priests and bishops, agents of a foreign power and foreign state. Then there is this.

When southern Ireland got its partial independence at the end of the civil war there was the question of what class would rule. The Irish working class were handcuffed by its own leadership who accepted the right wing policy summed up in the phrase, "Labor Must Wait." Well if Labor must wait which class must not wait. The only class that existed as an alternative was the Irish capitalist class. But it had played little or no role in the war of independence. It was a weak effete class. Could it rule this new state. Not effectively on its own. It needed help. So it reached out. To whom? This is where the Catholic hierarchy comes in and how it came to be so dominant in the life of the southern Irish state.

The weak Irish capitalist class made a deal with the Catholic hierarchy. If the Catholic hierarchy would preach and organize in favor of capitalism and the Irish capitalist class, would organize against any socialist or left movement that would arise, then the Catholic church could have special power and privileges in the new state. The deal also included one other feature. The Catholic hierarchy also had to organize against the rights of women. Not that that male dominated anti women outfit needed any pressure to do that. Have a thought about this.

The Catholic hierarchy wrote the "history" books for the new state. You do not see this information much. An estimated 260 women took part in the 1916 uprising. An estimated 77 were imprisoned. Have you ever heard of them. No the all male Catholic hierarchy wrote them out of history. When the 1916 leaders proclaimed an Irish Republic they addressed their proclamation to "Irishmen and Irishwomen." That is gender equal. Women were included on an equal basis. And it included "equal rights and equal opportunities to all its citizens." This at a time when women world wide had practically no rights. This was great but in the history of the new state was hardly mentioned.

With the wave of support of the working people for the uprising still influencing events the 1922 constitution contained the right to vote for women as well as men. But the deal was being done. The Irish capitalist class were asserting themselves, the deal was been done with the Catholic hierarchy. Under its pressure from then on, right up until the recent years, it was all down hill for women in the new state.

Laws in 1924 and 1927 largely excluded women from juries. In 1932 a law was passed that forced women who worked as teachers or civil servants to quit their jobs when they married. The 1932 Employment Act limited women's ability to work in industry. But it was the 1937 constitution that was the real blow. Authored by that extreme right wing reactionary Capitalist catholic De Valera, the only commander in the 1916 rising to refuse women the right to take part in the uprising, this constitution made Ireland a Catholic state and women even more were made second class citizens. Imagine how helpful this was to the Unionist Protestant forces in the North. It confirmed what they said about the South being a Catholic state and helped them consolidate the Protestant population to their side.

The 1941 constitution said women's place was in the home. It stated: "by her life within the home women gives to the state a support without which the common good cannot be achieved." What a backward reactionary statement. Women's place was in the home. What a weak capitalist class to go along with this. What a dirty deal with the all male anti women Catholic hierarchy. But times are changing.

It is wonderful today to see that Catholic hierarchy being brought to its knees. Wonderful to see Ireland being the first country to vote for same sex marriage in a referendum. The all male hierarchy is being thrown back. This will weaken the Irish capitalist class. It is time for all who want a bright future for Irish working and middle class people to break from the Catholic hierarchy and stand up for the rights of all. I do not see why anybody can be in the Catholic church. But if you cannot bring yourself to leave its threats and promises and pageantry and drama then at least organize an opposition within it. But if you are going to do so, be prepared. The Catholic hierarchy assisted US imperialism and its military cliques in Latin america in slaughtering the Liberation Theology movement which was made up of members of its own church. And this so called pope Francis had his hands in this too.

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