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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.
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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
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Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
The post Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The ?Far Left? Finally Gets Its Comeuppance Sat Sep 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
For years the Left has smeared its opponents as 'far Right'. Now, the spike in Leftist political violence has led to a turning of the tables. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Guardian, says Prof James Alexander.
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by Roger Cole - Peace & Neutrality Alliance
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13The Irish Anti War Movement is calling on the Government to respect our neutrality and to end our complicity in the bloody occupation of Iraq by getting US Military OUT of Shannon. Martin Cullen recently said the increasing number of US troops through Shannon (up to 1,000 a day) is good for business. This business has led to the death of 100,000 Iraqi citizens and the maiming, torture and dehumanising of 1,000s more. Join the protest on Saturday the 13th in Shannon to let Ahern & Cullen know we do not want the US Militarys blood money. They need to know its time to go. US Military out of Iraq & Shannon NOW.
Local Groups will be holding public meetings during the next 2 weeks to build for the Shannon protest. If you/they need IAWM Shannon Campaign posters, fact sheets, pamphlets or a speaker for your meeting contact 087 6329511.
Leaflets & Posters for the Nov 13th Shannon demo can be downloaded from the IAWM website.
Shannon Demonstration
Saturday Nov 13th
assemble at Lidl Car Park in Shannon Town Centre at 1.30pm
The Irish Anti War Movement will be organising buses from Dublin, to your place contact 087 6187680.
Is this a PANA called demo that the IAWM are supporting?
It's not clear from Sinead's statement.
To book a place on the bus from NUIG to the demo ring Eoin on 086 1042852.
good to see some life coming back into the Irish anti-war movement - upper and lower case - too much was waiting for the US elections to be over, hoping for a better result.
Shannon is important to protest at, so are other places.
The IAWM protests at the US embassy are good, but hard for people to get to and not many people pass by there. I don't think the embassy even notices or cares about the protests however. Shannon is a political issue and needs to be taken to the decision makers in the Dail and the Irish Aviation Authority.
The CWs have been doing their weekly vigils at the Irish Aviation Authority for a while now - good location as people walk to and from Tara Station at the end of the day and offers a chance to talk to people.
all are welcome to join in, of course
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=67401
As far as I know this is a PANA demo that's backed by the IAWM, Anti-War Ireland and the NGO Peace Alliance.
Sinead Ni Thingy is now an SWP member, having recently joined, so all together now: IAWM/SWP, IAWM/SWP, IAWM/SWP!!!!....etc., etc. Or, better still, just ignore them.
I'll try to make it to Shannon but to be honest I think the anti-war movement has failed. The best thing we can do now is support the Iraqi resistance.
That the SP have an anti-SWP link.
Now there's sectarianism for you.
Devil Dog shows an interesting attitude from someone who recently served in the US Army* in Iraq toward the population there. But does all this killing really "pacify the savages" as he puts it.
It's not rocket science. What will your average gurella force do when the massive conventional army it faces announces some eight weeks in advance that its going to surround a small area and cruch all the gurella's there?
Wait? Or leave and then pop up elsewhere?
Right now in Falluja the US army is busily killing loads of civilians, a fair few enraged locals who are fighting with whatever weapons are to hand and probably a small band of insurgents who have stayed behind to help organise the locals and maybe get lucky (or should that be unluck?) with martydom operations.
Right now the insurgents are busily going into police stations across Iraq, taking those they consider collaborators outside and shooting them. Not by the one or two but by the dozen. Plus they have grabbed 3 of the presidents relatives.
Back home in the US Falluja probably plays quite well with the unthinking as it looks like a victory. Lots of US troops killing people and taking back a 'no go' area. Like they sort of did in the summer or indeed the previous summer. Falluja has fallen to the occupation forces 3 times so far, it will probably fall again. But its great PR for the mission accomplished crowd even if the cost is hundreds of dead Iraqis and a couple of dozen dead 'coalition' soldiers. After all the dead soldiers are mostly drawn from a very different section of US society than the one Bush, Cheny and co move in.
But if you live in Iraq on the one hand you are seeing US forces terrorising 300,000 civilians, 200,000 of which have fled Falluja and are staying with relatives elsewhere. Thats 200,000 conversations about what is really going on. Plus you see the US army use overwhelming fire power, airstrikes and tanks against a load of people who look just like you armed only with light infantry weapons. And you'll get to hear of the homes, schools and hopitals demolished and the civilians killed in a way we won't because its seen as propaganda rather than news in the west. We just get to see tanks fire round after round into houses on the horizon while some journalist in a tin hat and a uniform talks breathlessly of fire fights.
Also if your in Iraq you'll notice how none of those collaborating with the occupation, even the relatives of the president are safe from the insurgents. And you'll be thinking what would happen if the US actually pulled out rather that as here simply thinned its ranks in most places to concentrate forces in one place.
I'd be very surprized if any Iraqi sees what has happened as a victory for the US forces. Quite the opposite I'd imagine for a variety of reasons there are a lot of young men there tearing up their applications to join the Iraqi police or army.
The Falluja assault makes no sense in military terms, its just a murderous PR operation for the US TV audience. But even here is looks like it will back fire in the same way Saddams capure back fired. Just as back then the resistance was supposadely due to Saddam directing it from that patheic hole in the ground they found him cowering in so today the resitance we have been told is down to evil maserminds hiding out in Falluja. Well Falluja has all but fallen and far from stopping attacks elsewhere in Iraq they have esculated still more.
But here is another cheerful thought. When the coalition general sit down with the politicians next week to ask 'what went wrong' what conclusion do you think they will come to? How about 'the problem was we did not have enough soldiers elsewhere in Iraq'.
On the optomistic side the British state is getting into some real problems. We've had a serving soldier of the Blackwatch who happened to be home on leave at the moment his brother was killed describe this as a war to make George Bush wealthy which his brother wanted no part of. We've had the father of another dead solider say on national TV that he if saw the minister on the stree he would 'cut his throat'. Mutinies end wars real fast and this is mutineous talk both in the legal and literal sense.
oh my god.. people in fallujah are dying as the US soldiers are flattening the city and all you guys can do is argue about who called the demonstration. oh if pana called it i might go.. if IAWM called it then i'm refusing to take part. i am so sick of this bickering among anti war activists. i mean we're all supposed to be on the one side aren't we? i don't care who calls an anti war protest.. if there is one happening i'll be there and i'll spread the word to other people to come too. these people who say they won't go to a protest because of who organised it are forgetting the real reason we're doing this.
The US are trying to crush the insurgency in Iraq but it will backfire of course, killing so many iraqi people in the process. terrorist groups will develop more hatred for the USA and the violence and chaos in Iraq will continue. The Iraqis want peace, democracy, security.. they will not get this as long as the troops stay there occupying there country. we need to get back on the streets like we did last year and support the ordinary people of iraq who are resisting. people in this country are getting angry again with bush getting 4 more years and the disgusting assault on fallujah thats been shown live on our TV sets.
Don't forget there is now 1000 TROOPS A DAY passing thru shannon now!! and martin cullen says this is good for busness!!!!!!!!! its good for business that US troops are stopping over to re-fuel to go over and bomb maim and torture innocent people. this is BLOOD MONEY!! we have to get back down there and show our government that we don't agree with bertie that -shannon is a dead issue. its time to get out now!!!
if you are a genuine anti war activist and have the time to spare get out and support these protests. Friday 12th US Embassy, Saturday 13th Shannon Airport. and we don't stop there. get your local anti war groups re-established. talk about the protests to your work colleagues, your friends, make leaflets. build for the global day of action on march 19th and lets see another february 15th. we won't go away... we can't go away.. we'll not sit idly by and let this evil happen. it was the ordinary people fighting back in vietnam and the ordinary people on the streets that eventually made the US pull out of vietnam. i'm sick of all the negativity on this board. don't be de-moralised and sit passively by.. we need to grab that fire in our bellies and stay positive because we can win again this time.. we will win!!!!!
i heard not,goddammit i need to get a bus down from limerick after the demo,my question is why arent they supporting it?
sure look at this comment re the A&E protest... " This comment was posted on the Irish Left news list: "I think it's worth adding to the notification of this protest that the organisers accused the Labour Party and the SWP of trying to hijack the march by having party banners and placards at the last protest. They've publically stated that while they want people to turn up they are asking people not to bring party banners. Up to yourselves whether you do so or not but people should be aware of the feelings of the organisers." you can't throw your principles in the bin over a guilt trip
"“In military terms, Fallujah is not going to be much of a plus at all,” says Bernard Trainor, a retired three-star Marine Corps general. “The downside is that we’ve knocked the hell out of this city, and the only insurgents we really got were the nut-cases and zealots the smart ones left behind - the guys who really want to die for Allah.”"
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6452966/
It's instructive that the most visible opposition in the west to the war in this week has come from dissidents in the military,their families and communities more so than the civilian peace movement and civil society in general.
There is large passive, invisible oppostion to Ireland's co-operation in this illegal US waron Iraq and war crimes over Fallujah.
If we are serious about opposing this war. We should all be standing in the street with a sign for an hour a week (better still next to a Govt. Building, Top Oil petrol station, Shannon Airport).
If you need some company you can join us any Monday 4pm-6pm