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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.
The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
Public Inquiry >>
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Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
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Renewables Subsidies Rise Yet Again Sun Oct 12, 2025 07:00 | Paul Homewood
Renewables subsidies have risen yet again, taking them to ?11.4 billion a year, all of which is added to energy bills. No wonder our energy prices are the highest in the world, says Paul Homewood.
The post Renewables Subsidies Rise Yet Again appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Sun Oct 12, 2025 00:09 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Miliband Refused to Discuss North Sea With Me, Says Ratcliffe Sat Oct 11, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Ed Miliband is refusing to discuss Net Zero and the North Sea with industry bosses, Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said, as he warns that Labour's policies are driving the deindustrialisation of Britain.
The post Miliband Refused to Discuss North Sea With Me, Says Ratcliffe appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Taliban Sells ?40 Fake Death Threats for Asylum Seekers to UK Sat Oct 11, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Fake death threat letters produced by the Taliban are being used to dupe the Home Office in asylum applications for Afghan migrants.
The post Taliban Sells ?40 Fake Death Threats for Asylum Seekers to UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sadiq Khan Called ?Disgrace? for Claiming ?From River to Sea? Chant is Not Antisemitic Sat Oct 11, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sir Sadiq Khan has been called a "disgrace" by a former Labour minister after he suggested that protesters who chant 'From the river to the sea' are not antisemitic, despite it calling for Israel to be wiped off the map.
The post Sadiq Khan Called “Disgrace” for Claiming ‘From River to Sea’ Chant is Not Antisemitic appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Family moved to Canada after private refused to fight in 'dehumanizing' Iraq war
by Jonathan Franklin
US army private Jeremy Hinzman fought in Afghanistan and considers himself a patriot. But when his unit was ordered to Iraq, he refused to go and embarked on a radical journey that could make legal history.
Private first class Hinzman left the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, taking his wife and son to Canada. Officially, he is AWOL (absent without leave), and, instead of fighting insurgents, he is battling the US military in the Canadian courts.
This month Pvt Hinzman, 25, filed legal papers to become the first US soldier objecting to the Iraq war to be granted refugee status in Canada. His case is expected to be a test of new Canadian immigration laws and the country's traditional role of accepting refugees from the US military.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU justice and interior ministers rejected on Thursday Austria's proposal to create a CIA (news - web sites)-style agency to boost security cooperation in the fight against terrorism and weapons proliferation in Europe.
Wait a minute... if we pull out this country will fall apart!....
An ominous threat
A U.S. Justice Department dustup in Des Moines has come full circle, with federal prosecutors quashing subpoenas that would have ordered four peace activists to appear before a grand jury and would have forced Drake University to name people involved in an anti-war forum at the school last fall.
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's suppressors of incipient revolution in Iowa had also asked for campus security records on the forum, "Stop the Occupation! Bring the Iowa Guard Home!" and details about its organizers, the Drake National Lawyers Guild chapter.
The university's subpoena came with a gag order and reminded one of McCarthy-era "red squads" days. It convinced some in university and civil rights circles that totalitarianism had revived in the Midwest. The subpoenas also underscored why federal judgeships must be filled with people who, unlike U.S. District Judge Ronald Longstaff, understand and support the Constitution, even if the administration doesn't.
It likely helped this election year that individuals subpoenaed were the leader of the Catholic Peace Ministry, the former coordinator of the Iowa Peace Network, a member of the Catholic Worker House, and an anti-war activist who visited Iraq in 2002. Watch out Mike Ferner.
This was a ham-handed effort by the Justice Department to stifle dissent and intimidate dissenters. Whether the decision was cleared at the top or was a local prosecutor's way to make a name for himself doesn't matter, though it will be ferreted out.
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In its effort to relieve overstretched U.S. troops in Iraq, the Bush administration has hired a private security company staffed with former henchmen of South Africa's apartheid regime.
...many American officials now blame Mr. Chalabi for providing what turned out to be false or wildly exaggerated intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
During an interview, Mr. Chalabi, by far the most effective anti-Saddam lobbyist in Washington, shrugged off charges that he had deliberately misled U.S. intelligence.
"We are heroes in error," he said in Baghdad on Wednesday. "As far as we're concerned, we've been entirely successful.
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Richard Perle, a chief proponent of last year's U.S. invasion of Iraq, yesterday called for the chiefs of the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency to step down because of their faulty conclusions that Saddam Hussein possessed mass-killing weapons.
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I think, of course, heads should roll," he said. "When you discover that you have an organization that doesn't get it right time after time, you change the organization, including the people.
"I'd start with the head head," Perle said when asked which heads should roll at the CIA. Perle said the DIA " is in at least as bad shape as CIA (and) needs new management."
CITY repeals law used in Catholic Worker shelter eviction attempt San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA - The City Council, facing a civil rights lawsuit, repealed an ordinance used in efforts to evict more than 100 homeless people using a Catholic Worker home as ...
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/7984163.htm
DISSENT in the heartland
National Catholic Reporter - USA
... Do the prosecutors suspect that the Catholic Worker activists and others they are harassing are al Qaeda sympathizers? Potential terrorists? Oh,
come on. ...
http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004a/022004/022004q.htm
Suicides in Iraq, Questions at Home
According to William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, who discussed the suicides in a briefing last month, that represents a rate of more than 13.5 per 100,000 troops, about 20 percent higher than the recent Army average of 10.5 to 11. The Pentagon plans to release the findings of a team sent to Iraq last fall to investigate the mental health of the troops, including suicides.
The number Winkenwerder cited does not include cases under investigation, so the actual number may be higher. It also excludes the suicides by soldiers who have returned to the United States.
ETA have announced at mid day today a cease fire in Catalúnya.
ETA has communicated that it has been inactive in the Catalan territories since January 1 2004, and will continue with it's ceasefire to encourage nationalist voting patterns in the forthcoming presidential elections to the Spanish State and as a gesture of solidarity with another "oppressed people of the Spanish State".
announcement with comments in Castilian:
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/71403/index.php
announcement with comments in Catalan:
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/71402/index.php
the text:-
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/71430/index.php
16 February 2004
Martin Ingram, former British undercover agent in Ireland, was interviewed on New York City radio station WBAI on Feburary 14, 2004. Cryptome recorded about 11 minutes of the interview.
The 11MB .WAV file Zipped:
http://cryptome.org/ingram-021404.zip (9.8MB)
Ingram and Greg Harkin have just published, "Stakeknife: Britain's Secret Agents in Ireland."
The Socialist Resistance site below has the text of GM's resignation from RESPECT, and an inital reply (further responses promised).
See also on this site a detailed report of the RESPECT Founding Meeting written by Jane Kelly and plenty more!
http://www.socialistresistance.net/
Monkey bites off policeman's ear in eastern India
CALCUTTA, India (AFP) - A senior police officer lost part of his ear when it was bitten off by a monkey near the eastern Indian city of Calcutta, police said.
Rathin Thakur, an assistant commissioner of police, was attacked by the monkey on his way to work Thursday in Belgharia, 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of Calcutta, police official S. Dutta said.
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So that leaves the SWP and George Galloway.
Was it really worth dumping the SA?
Workers Party and its fragmented left wing
The Fourth International’s Brazilian section is in disarray over its relationship to the government of president Lula. Mike Macnair looks at how Democracia Socialista ended up with comrades on both sides of the class divide
Palestinians Join Nonviolent Struggle Against Israeli Occupation
by Adam Shapiro
Like King, however, Abu Ahmed is in jail for organizing and participating in nonviolent direct action against unjust, discriminatory and violent policies targeting his people on the basis of their ethnicity. King ultimately left his Birmingham jail cell and went on to lead this country toward racial integration and healing. But Abu Ahmed, though he is released from prison, is still locked up.
Abu Ahmed is from Budrus, a peaceful farming village in the West Bank that sits relatively near the 1967 border with Israel. Last year, the Israeli government interfered in the life of the village in an unprecedented way with preparation for the construction of a wall blocking the villagers' access to their fields, and cutting them off from any source of livelihood. This preparation has meant the uprooting of thousands of olive trees and the devastation of the land.
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/02/1670385.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/02/1670380.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/02/1670375.php
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/02/1670347.php
Iris Recognition System is Selected for Border Control at Frankfurt/Main Airport by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior
FRANKFURT, Germany and TOKYO, Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Byometric systems GmbH and Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. today announced the selection of their iris recognition system for biometrics-based border checks at Frankfurt/Main Airport. This system is part of the Automated and Biometrics- based Border Checks initiative, a multinational pilot project involving 18 European nations, led by Germany Federal Ministry of the Interior and Federal Border Police. Requiring an individual only to stand in front of it, the system recognizes that individual's iris pattern and confirms his/her identity, offering a simple, convenient alternative to traditional border checks.
In accordance with last year's Congressional ruling, the US military no longer receives its funding through tax payer dollars and must now generate all revenue through the sale of baked goods and refreshing beverages.
But don't worry, scaling back our weapons development and acquisition programs is not an option. In fact we've already ordered the weapons for this coming year. We know that we can trust all Americans to help us raise the necessary funds to meet this year's $425 billion budget.
These subpoenas requested the agenda and purpose of the meeting, the identities of attendees and Guild officers, and observations of campus security. The individuals served with subpoenas include the leader of the Catholic Peace Ministry, the former coordinator of the Iowa Peace Network, a member of the Catholic Worker House, and an anti-war activist who visited Iraq in 2002.
The U.S. Attorney's office said that the sole intent of the subpoenas was to gather information about a solitary demonstrator who scaled a fence on federal property on a different day than the anti-war conference/training. Why then did the government issue five subpoenas calling for information about peaceful activists and the National Lawyers Guild?
"Cindy supports President Bush because... he's building a more compassionate America"
The latest issue 7 of Red and Black Revolution is now available online. You can download it from http://struggle.ws/wsm/rbr.html. The text below is a summary of the contents.
Has the Black Block tactic reached the end of its usefulness? by Severino (Barricada Collective)
As class struggle anarchists who recognize the importance of a diversity of tactics in order to attack Capital, the State, and oppression in an effective manner, we see the black bloc as an important tool of struggle. Only one tool among many, but an important one nonetheless.
Where to Now? Anti-capitalist protest - global and local
It is certainly hard to avoid the conclusion that anti-globalisation protests that avoid direct action will kill off the movement, or at least greatly reduce participation in it.
Repressing Abortion in Ireland by Mary Favier (Doctors For Choice)
The Republic of Ireland has one of the most draconian abortion laws in the world. At present abortion may only be performed where continuation of pregnancy poses a 'real and substantial' risk to a pregnant woman's life - about 5 cases per year of 50,000 pregnancies
Direct Action against the war in Ireland
In every country after February 15th the anti-war movement was thus faced with the question of what to do next. In Ireland almost all of the direct action protests were targeted on Shannon airport. More than half dozen successful actions took place, ranging from a large scale breach of the fence in October, to physical attacks on planes as the build up to war escalated.
The IAWM's dismal leadership" A critique of the politics of Trotskyism
After months of regularly attending the Irish Anti-War Movement's marches and particularly after months of listening to the speeches of the leading lights of the IAWM my head is buzzing with cant and rhetoric and I have that dejected feeling you get when you know you have just lost a chance that won't be coming around again for a long time.
Industrial Collectivisation during the Spanish Revolution
Within hours of the start of the Spanish revolution workers had seized control of 3000 enterprises. This included all public transportation services, shipping, electric and power companies, gas and water works, engineering and automobile assembly plants, mines, cement works, textile mills and paper factories, electrical and chemical concerns, glass bottle factories and perfumeries, food processing plants and breweries.
If you want to create Socialism - it must be based on Freedom
Anarchists also seek to create communism. But for us freedom plays a central role, not only in the future society, but in how we try to get there. That is why, when we talk of communism, we talk of libertarian communism
Open Borders: The case against immigration controls reviewed
Most mainstream groups eventually come down clearly in favour of immigration controls and deportations, though arguing for "generosity." This book takes a position that so far has only won over a small but growing minority and argues for the immediate ending of all border controls.
The trouble with Islam
The September 11 attacks, the Afghan war that followed from it and the ongoing war in Israel/Palestine have once again raised the issue of Islam in the minds of many anarchists in Ireland and Britain. Not just because of the role Islam has in shaping those conflicts but also because militant Islam has become a far more noticeable presence on solidarity demonstrations.
download it from http://struggle.ws/wsm/rbr.html