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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
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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.

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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

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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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Mary Kelly on Trial - Call for support

category national | anti-war / imperialism | press release author Wednesday October 13, 2004 14:26author by Fairview Against The Warauthor address Dublinauthor phone +353-(0)86.351.24.69 Report this post to the editors

Mary's latest re-trial is set to begin on 20th October 2004

-- She is charged under Irish law with 'criminal damage without lawful excuse' for using a fire-axe to disarm a US Navy 737 at Shannon Airport, Ireland, in the run-up to the attack on Iraq in Jan 2003. This is the third attempt by the Irish government to convict her - please distribute the PDF flyer and help support her
Mary Kelly, 51, nurse + mother of four
Mary Kelly, 51, nurse + mother of four

MARY KELLY TOOK AN AXE
AND STRUCK A BLOW FOR JUSTICE


On July 3 2003 that's what US citizen and ex-Marine Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, said when he spoke in Galway, Ireland, in support of Mary Kelly, whose trial had concluded earlier that day. The major charge against her: ‘criminal damage without lawful excuse’ to a US warplane at Shannon Airport, Ireland. Ritter had come to Ireland to testify as a witness, but his testimony was hindered by the trial judge. The jury split on the verdict, so Mary received a reprieve - until the Director of Public Prosecutions in Ireland decided to re-try her on the same charge.

Justice?
Mary's second trial in June 2004 collapsed when she was literally abandoned in the courtroom by those who had been engaged to protect her best interests. Rather than ask the judge to force disclosure of the legal advice given by the Attorney General to the Irish government relating to the illegal use of Shannon Airport for this war, her legal counsel suddenly resigned.

Justice?
On October 20, 2004 Mary's third trial will begin. She has been denied legal aid for expert witnesses and faces massive costs. Her case file has been withheld by previous counsel, obstructing her from briefing new counsel. Now she is forced to represent herself.

Justice?
Mary's courageous action to save human life highlighted the complicity of the Irish government in this war – they continue by facilitating fuelling stopovers at Shannon Airport for US warplanes en route to the Gulf. The Irish Constitution clearly states: 'War shall not be declared and the State shall not participate in any war save with the assent of Dáil Éireann.' (Article 28.3.1)

Dáil Éireann (the Irish parliament) has been misled that this assistance to the aggressor plays no part in this dirty war.

But we, the People, are not so easily fooled - We will not stand by and allow the Irish government to use Mary Kelly as a scapegoat to cover for its own crimes.
Citizens of the World – We call on you to help us defend Mary Kelly from injustice !


Scott Ritter on Mary Kelly
"Mary Kelly's struggle isn't about a single individual. It's about a nation: the nation of Ireland. It's about a community: the European community. It's about a larger community: the international community.
It's about International Law.
You need a rallying cry? Mary Kelly is a rallying cry! She has done something courageous. She has done something in defense of a higher principle. She needs your help."


Shannon Warport?
Shannon Airport in Ireland continues to be used intensively by the US military for the refuelling of planes, carrying troops and terror weapons en route to commit war crimes in Iraq. (Weapons include napalm, cruise missiles and depleted uranium.) The same US warplanes refuel at Shannon on their return journeys carrying the spoils of war: flag-draped coffins of their dead for rapid burial in USA, kidnapped torture candidates to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, irradiated and amputee veterans for disposal somewhere out of mind. The 'neutral' Irish government is fully aware of this situation.

Criminal government

“What we are fighting here is our own criminal government which has involved Ireland in an illegal war. They have facilitated more than half the US troops going to fight. They have torn our Constitution to shreds. They do not even allow the Gardai (police) and Customs at Shannon to board these planes and inspect the cargo. There is a huge arsenal of weapons flying through and over Shannon, with no concern for the safety of the citizens. Ireland has been made complicit in an illegal war, against the will of the Irish people.”

“I believe it is my duty as a responsible citizen to rid a civilian airport of belligerent US military warplanes. Their presence in our country is contrary to our Constitution . . . which is the highest law of our land. I am not willing to be an accomplice by facilitating these war-machines with fuel.”
... Mary Kelly, in public statements

How to Help!

* DONATE MONEY or fundraise for legal costs, send to >>
Peace Defence Fund
International Bank Account Number(IBAN)
IE 45ULSB 9860 2050 4000 07

* WRITE TO THE JUDGE, demand Mary's right to a fair trial, a full defence and that the jury be allowed to decide on the facts.
Letters....> P.O. Box 9260, Dublin 1, Ireland
Email....> keltoi@graffiti.net

* SPREAD THIS INFORMATION, Download + use the PDF flyer linked above on this page.Start your own crusade – Take Action against this insane bloody war!

* PICKET IRISH EMBASSIES, demand that the real war-criminals be put on trial!

* COME ALONG TO ENNIS, all support is very welcome

for further info, comments etc. see Mary’s website
www.freewebs.com/Mary_Kelly

Related Link: http://www.antiwarireland.org/docs/mk.pdf
author by Ciaron - Dublin Catholic Workerpublication date Wed Oct 13, 2004 20:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Kofi Anan, UN Secretary General is in Dublin on Thursday. Anan recently declared the war "illegal". It has no legal basis.

The charges on Mary Kelly should be immediately dropped. An investigation based on the Nuremburg Pinciples should be initiated into all Irish institutons commplicit in this ongoing crime that has reduced Iraq to chaos, has claimed the lives of thousands of Iraqi children has militarised Shannon Airport.

The cynical psychobable of Nicola & other detractors is a poor cover for moral cowardice.

Solidarity with all nonviolent resisters to the war in fornt o civilain courts and military courtmartials, in prisons and brigs and further nonviolent reistance to the war is essential.

Related Link: http://geocities.com/dublincatholicworker
author by RKpublication date Thu Oct 14, 2004 12:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Attention seeking rubbish like that Dubsky idiot. I think anyone who goes charging into an airport swinging a fire axe deserves to be locked up and taught a lesson, plain and simple. Such stupidity and misdirected attention seeking frustration must not be encouraged.

What did these possibly hope to achieve by this. Why not direct your efforts at things that you can change. The US military is not one of them.

author by froop - ................publication date Thu Oct 14, 2004 14:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

it made you stop and think didn't it?

who says it did not do the same to the military. Oh while we are at it, sh is one of the barvest people out there who risked her life to expose the lying deciet of this state which incidently is supposed to be NEUTRAL!!! so the bloody U.S. military had no right to be waging their gennocide from here in the first case......

author by For the recordpublication date Thu Oct 14, 2004 15:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The U.S. war plane disabled by Mary Kelly, and then later by the Pit Stop Ploughshares, was on it's way to the war zone before it was disabled. After the two nonviolent diarmament actions the US Navy war plane was returned immediately to its base in Texas.

This may have been the only piece of military equipment turn around in mid-journey to the war by the western peace movement.

Whether it was a significant action or not is up to your world view....rsignation ot the empire's bloodletting or acting on behalf of the children a future for them and us.

author by RKpublication date Thu Oct 14, 2004 15:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

We're not neutral, and we shouldn't claim to be-our neutrality is a joke. I don't know why we want to be neutral, it's nothing to be proud of and is increasingyl redundant.The shannon thing is just business as far as I'm concerned, the most modern airport in the most western part of Europe is an obvious choice.

Hopefully the European Union will listen to what Kofi Annan said today and up our military and deployment capabilities, then we can intervene on behalf of ourselves and others and stop letting attention seekers like Mary whateverhernameis grab ill-deserved attention.

author by For the recordpublication date Thu Oct 14, 2004 19:46author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Your obssession with half baked psycho-bable to understand why someone would nonviolently resist this "illegal war" (Kofi) is reminiscent with a Stalinist approach to shipping dissidents off to the psyche clinics.

There a lots of good healthy reasons to resist this war and Shannon's role in this ongoing massacre.

Yes the present government has reduced Irish neutrality to a joke....as exposed in the high court ruling on Ed Horgan's challenge last year.

The granting of an Irish passport to Biggerly by the same government with a pretence to preserving Irish neutrality while militarisimg Shannn Airport for servicing the US war machine and it's invasion is an examples of Orwellian doublethink.

Jus because we don't love Big Brother with your passion does not mean we have are the unhealthy ones in this co-dependent relationship with the US Empire.

author by Shannon workerpublication date Thu Oct 14, 2004 21:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

First of all in the above article the writer says that the U.S aircraft traveling through Shannon Airport are carrying such weapons as napalm,cruise missiles and depleted uranium this is complete bollocks, where is the proof ? Has anybody seen these so called flag-draped coffins, or the prisoners enroute to guantanamo bay or for that fact even a flight plan for an aircraft from shannon to guantanamo bay, the answer is no! For the record states that the aircraft Mary kelly unlawfully damaged was enroute to the gulf, this is also untrue the aircraft in fact was enroute to Italy where that squadron is based,he also states that the aircraft was returned to its base in Texas immediately, this is also untrue, the aircraft stayed in shannon until the plane was fixed and then when they were ready they returned to boeing's airfield to have the aircraft resprayed. Maybe fairview against the war and for the record should get there facts straight before they start printing lies on the net !! Also i hope that Mary Kelly is punished accordingly for crime that she committed and i believe she will be!!

author by Nick, Galwaypublication date Thu Oct 14, 2004 22:12author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Mary needs all the help we can give her. Money to bring witnesses, and people on the street in front of the court.

author by Denial ain't just a river in Egypt!publication date Thu Oct 14, 2004 23:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

How the Shannon worker/Auschwitz worker copes with there role as small cog in the war machine is through the denial of "'m only loading the cattle trucks/refueling the war planes carrying the cannon fodder" rhetoric of the post above.

The US Navy war plane was en route to the war zone through its US base in Siciliy. Of course it had to be repaired (twice) before it was sent back to Texas.

The cultivarted ignorance of the "worker" above is a pattern of recent relevations of the Garda of denial of awareness that there are prisoners being shipped through Shannon to Guatanmeo...the math goes we don't know if there is because we don't bother checking. reminds one of Seargant Schuilz in Hogans Heroes "I knoooooooow noooooooooothing!"
Well buddy such lame excuses didn't work for German judges, cops and refuellers at the Nurmeburg trials and they don't cut the ice here.

We do know from discovery in the Horgan high court case that cruise missile components, patriot missiles are shipped through Shannon.Are the body bags of the young boys and girls you sold duty free and slapped on the back coming through on their way back. Or don't you wanna know? You've got a cultivated ignorance and you've got it bad.

author by judge dreddpublication date Thu Oct 14, 2004 23:51author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Ahem .... dat's cos de Americans were running dem trials .......

An' dey wudn't let de Nazis use a "tu quoque" defence .....

author by pcpublication date Sun Oct 17, 2004 03:34author address author phone Report this post to the editors

can you talk to the jury after the trial is finished to see what they really think?

did ya ?

author by King Amdopublication date Thu Oct 21, 2004 09:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

JAH RASTAFARI LIVES ETERNALLY!


This is why...

http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/10/811187.shtml

(second comment by me)

That's horrible, by the way, the defence solicitor acting in that dodgy way. Mine went one worse...wrote me a letter saying that he'd sent the papers, when he knew full well he hadn't...sort of parodying the secruity service 'fire in the ltter box' thing....I sent the papers, and you are mentally ill type 'game'.

Fucking babylon filth!

JAH LIBERATION!

author by King Amdopublication date Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

... I know from my own experience that these actions are diety supported....in fact they have a 'reality changing sacremental' effect on the wider society... at least this potential...and the countering influence from the 'beast' (*) will try and 'put the lid' on this reality change, and contain the people in...in what exactly...read the second comment down by me here...

http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/newswire/2004/10/811187.shtml

OM

Stay strong, keep up the good works!

PROTECTION!

BLESSED BE THE GREAT MOTHER WITCH DANNA!

author by King Amdopublication date Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:04author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The best!

Thank you.

Blessings and love,

King Amdo.

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