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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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Human Rights in Ireland
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.

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 20:31 | imc

offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent

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

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offsite link Mozart to be Played by British-Japanese Actor in Woke Reboot Wed Oct 15, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Mozart will be played by British-Japanese actor Will Sharpe in Sky's woke reboot of Amadeus, sparking criticism that the period drama will be "historically inaccurate and misleading".
The post Mozart to be Played by British-Japanese Actor in Woke Reboot appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Oxford Student Arrested After Chanting ?Put the Zios in the Ground? Wed Oct 15, 2025 15:11 | Will Jones
A University of Oxford student has been arrested and suspended by the university after he led chants for Gaza to "make us proud" and "put the Zios in the ground".
The post Oxford Student Arrested After Chanting “Put the Zios in the Ground” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sudanese Migrant Tries to Kidnap Schoolgirl Before Bystanders Intervene Wed Oct 15, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
An illegal immigrant from Sudan attempted to kidnap a schoolgirl off the street in Swindon in a terrifying attack before bystanders heroically intervened.
The post Sudanese Migrant Tries to Kidnap Schoolgirl Before Bystanders Intervene appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link UK Has Lost Control of its Borders, Says Home Secretary Wed Oct 15, 2025 11:22 | Will Jones
The UK has lost control of its borders, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has said, as she calls for "international cooperation" in a tacit admission that Britain has surrendered its sovereignty to foreign courts.
The post UK Has Lost Control of its Borders, Says Home Secretary appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The New Archbishop of Canterbury Needs to Stamp Out the CofE?s Reliance on Volunteers Wed Oct 15, 2025 09:00 | Joanna Gray
You wouldn't run schools without teachers. But the CofE tries to run churches without vicars. If new Archbishop Sarah Mullally has any sense she'll stamp out the church's reliance on volunteers, says Joanna Gray.
The post The New Archbishop of Canterbury Needs to Stamp Out the CofE’s Reliance on Volunteers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Sometimes I Wonder If There Will Be A Moment When Reality And Myth, Truth And Lies, Will Collide

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Saturday August 20, 2005 21:42author by stewart - none Report this post to the editors

What Does Democracy Really Mean In The Middle East?

Related Link: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=8551
author by Kevin Quinnpublication date Sun Aug 21, 2005 15:11author email keviquin at rogers dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

There's a disturbing, for me, theatre of the absurd in all these current events.

I find it virtually incredible that so many people can accept the media and political spin as Truth - I guess it's because the alternative is totally in contravention to what we percieve ourselves to be.
If it wasn't for the fact that it's all about messing up the rest of the world, it might be entertaining.

The Palestinians were robbed. And now the robbers are giving some loot back in order to 'make a deal' to keep the greater part of what they've stolen.

These settlers - in neocon-speak 'squatters' if it was happening in Amurrica - by and large North American Aliyah types, bring an interesting frontier western aspect to the whole thing. The men are steely-eyed defenders, quick on the trigger the women fecund and sassy - all with a slathering of Yiddish meshuggeh-ism. We see them being 'torn from their homes' - most other people would have packed up long ago, given the hefty compensation rates and the opportunity to move into more secure settlements in the West Bank.

Iraq is just plain tragic. It's business, or holidays, as usual at the Bush Ranch. It's back-to-school shopping season and getting the young folk off to college for those not too intimately involved with the National Guard. I guess 'keeping on' is the best way to 'honour the sacrifice' of those poor slobs who regularly grace the news media in their borrowed A1dress, standing, proudly, before the Star Spangled Banner for their training graduation photo. The recruiters, however, are running out of 'Mall Rats', and I don't think even the courts can help them keep their quota.

'Gonzo' went out in a blaze of hollywood pyrotechics, but then he was already dead, and cremated. Too bad the poor sap doing Haliburton time in Iraq still has to have all his nerve endings intact when he (she) sees the light.
It's all part of the play, and all plays eventually reach a conclusion.

author by ipublication date Tue Aug 23, 2005 16:18author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Egypt is in presidential election campaigns.

"For decades, Egypt's biggest and oldest opposition bloc, the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, kept a relatively low political profile, while simultaneously gaining street credibility for social programmes that helped people at the grassroots level. More recently, the group has asserted itself in the country's professional syndicates and associations, virtually dominating some of them.

These days, with the opening up of an increasingly heated political scene, the Brotherhood has become a force to be reckoned with. According to Islamist lawyer Montasser El-Zayat, the group has no fewer than two million active members and another three million supporters nationwide.

It's no wonder, then, as the 7 September presidential election nears, that the Brotherhood's support is being sought out by several presidential hopefuls. The group itself is still undecided -- both on the matter of taking part in the poll in the first place, and if so, as to which candidate they might support.

In all cases, the illegal but tolerated Brotherhood is clearly able to mobilise a constituency. In the 1984 parliamentary elections, the Wafd Party allied itself with the group and won 58 seats. Today, without the Brotherhood alliance, the Wafd has four. Recent Brotherhood demonstrations have gathered as many as tens of thousands of people in 18 different locations. The latest demonstration, which took place on Sunday, featured thousands of participants.

Speaking to Al-Ahram Weekly, the Brotherhood's supreme guide, Mohamed Mahdi Akef, said the group was "consulting with members and reviewing the candidates' platforms," aiming to make a decision on the matter by next week."

read more at Al ahram (aligned to egyptian state media)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/756/eg11.htm

 
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