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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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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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offsite link 30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do Sun Nov 23, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
Thirty Left-wing MPs have written to Ofcom to press it to censor X under the Online Safety Act. The evidence of 'hate' on the platform is threadbare, but it's obvious why they want to clip its wings, says Laurie Wastell.
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offsite link Exposed: How Green ?Philanthropy? Writes Scripts for Ulez ?Clean Air? Activists Sun Nov 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile highlights the work of Charlotte Gill exposing how green 'philanthropy' gives scripts to activists pushing 'clean air' schemes like Ulez as blatant proxies for the climate agenda.
The post Exposed: How Green ‘Philanthropy’ Writes Scripts for Ulez ‘Clean Air’ Activists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | Will Jones
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 British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
The post British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Nice Treaty will deny human rights to asylum seekers

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Wednesday October 16, 2002 18:25author by Phuq Hedd Report this post to the editors

Financial Times article

A further unpleasant aspect of the Nice Treaty appears to be that it will be deemed impossible to be an asylum seeker if the the applicant originates from one of the 10 eastern European "accession countries" that will be added as inferior colony-states to the EU. So, instead of evaluating the case asylum will be automatically refused because the country is "safe".

Doesn't this violate the Article3.1 of the UN Declaration on Territorial Asylum?

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/o_asylum.htm
Article 3
1. No person referred to in article 1, paragraph 1, shall be subjected to measures such as rejection at the frontier or, if he has already entered the territory in which he seeks asylum, expulsion or compulsory return to any State where he may be subjected to persecution.

Unless what it's telling us is that there's an expectation that there'll be a mass influx of asylum seekers from eastern European countries which are going to have a permanently lower living standard compared to the rest of Europe and we want to keep them there working unhappily as a handy outer colony? Sort of gives the lie to the pseudo-liberal claptrap about letting eastern Europeans into the EU for their own good.

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EU in move on asylum claimsBy Michael MannPublished: October 16 2002 5:00 | Last Updated: October 16 2002 5:00

Asylum claims from citizens of the 10 countries expected to join the European Union in 2004 will be rejected as unfounded under plans agreed yesterday by EU interior ministers, based on an initiative from David Blunkett, home secretary.

Ministers agreed to treat applicant states as "safe", meaning that their citizens have no reason to apply for refugee status in the EU. This is in line with amendments to the nationality, immigration and asylum bill. Officials said the UK received more than 1,000 asylum applications from citizens of the EU applicant states in the second quarter of 2002. Michael Mann
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Related Link: http://makeashorterlink.com/?O1D523822
author by lovely does it - reclaim the genome!publication date Wed Oct 16, 2002 21:38author address inside fortress Europeauthor phone Report this post to the editors

Kein mensch ist illegal
(no man is illegal) is a German based open border campaign network, they produce a handbook to asylum and alien law for Germany, the countries to the immediate east of Germany have already been deemed "2nd class EU" by a multiplicity of German laws, the same goes for southern Europe aplicants.
Malta is somewhat different. Tomorrow ILll post the links and maybe the Irish legalheads could see if the Nice stuff would copperfasten these legal restrictions on the poor of the East or indeed as often is the case offer loopholes.
And when the "russian training sailing vessel" "Cardov" gets to Malta ILll let you know what the legal status of that little island is vis a vis aliens and asylum seekers.

The German change to "third party country of origin" status provoked one of the most interesting strikes in modern Germany that of Lufthansa pilots who refused to fly planes carrying asylum seekers being forcefully repatriated. ILll tell you all more about that tomorrow as well.
oh yeh Cyprus too...

Related Link: http://noborders.org
author by gippublication date Wed Oct 16, 2002 23:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

But surely under EU law, any person from any member State is entitled to live and work in another member state, rendering this a non-issue. They don't need to seek asylum!!!

author by MGpublication date Thu Oct 17, 2002 08:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The majority of the current 15 member states have decided to restrict the free movement of citizens from the accession states, so asylum is an issue...

author by iosaf = o as ifpublication date Thu Oct 17, 2002 11:44author email iosaf at email dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

on this website is published the german handbook to asylum and alien law by Hubert Heinhold.
There is an English translation provided on the website but the German is recommended by lawyers.

Its been on line for several years and has been adjusted only a little bit.
the exact address of the bits relevant is
http://www.proasyl.de/lit/leitfaden2/leitfaden2a.htm

and go see http://noborders.org
if that link is down and it is often
go to american friendly pamhlet

http://www.united.non-profit.nl/pages/info07.htm

which outlines application of Shengin shenanigans for groups.

Related Link: http://www.proasyl.de
 
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