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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
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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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offsite link What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine Fri Nov 21, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous
Read what happened when an Extinction Rebellion meeting was disrupted by a protester. Seems they can give it out but have no intention of putting up with it themselves.
The post What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon? Fri Nov 21, 2025 15:00 | Mark Durie
First they were 'Asian' grooming gangs, then 'Pakistani'. But the most important thing to grasp is that almost all of them ? 87% of convictions ? are Muslim, says Mark Durie. This must not be covered up.
The post Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Free Speech Documentary Cancelled by London Cinema Fri Nov 21, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
London cinema Rich Mix has banned a documentary by Spiked about free speech because it does not "align with our values and mission".
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offsite link The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
The Covid Inquiry module two report fails to question faulty assumptions and draws conclusions without engaging with the evidence, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson in a damning assessment.
The post The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Debunking the BBC?s Claim That Pakistan?s Floods Are Made Worse by Climate Change Fri Nov 21, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
If the BBC's Standards Committee, which is reviewing the corporation's coverage of climate change, wants a good example of bias, it should take a look at its report of recent floods in Pakistan, says Paul Homewood.
The post Debunking the BBC’s Claim That Pakistan’s Floods Are Made Worse by Climate Change appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Urgent Prisoner Solidarity Requested

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Tuesday September 27, 2005 00:52author by Prisoner Solidarity Report this post to the editors

New Denunciation From Political Prisoners Currently Being Held In A French Prison:

Urgent Solidarity Requested!

Greetings To Everyone,

The Rats have given birth to Cockroaches. Yesterday the Prison Assistant Director called me to inform me that Monsieur le Procureur of the République is opposed to the prisoners regrouping as we and our lawyers demanded. They are also opposed to internal communications with our respective partners. The only form of contact is through the mail.

This can only be explained as a miserable type of vengeance for our continuous denunciations that we made against these particular methods under the direct instruction of Judge Jean-Lois Bruguiére and the trial set-up that we have been submitted to at the request of the Spanish Civil Guard.

The French Judicial system is trying to avoid that the accused could conclude amongst them each of their declarations in the interrogation rooms and so to manipulate any possible proofs.

In fact their own hypocrisy reveals them. To disguise these illegal activities they have had to put a touch of “generosity” to the matter and to lift the sanctions on our mail. It is to say that we are not allowed to talk amongst ourselves but they allow us to write to each other which at the end of the day is another form of talking.

Where is the juridicial logic to keep up with the rest of the sanctions? Nowhere! It is the curtain opening of the second act of the jurdicial farce.

The third is the trial. And it is more than obvious that they are not going to give us any option for our defense. During three years the judge Bruguiére has kept us isolated and incommunicado, helpless to defend ourselves.

Now the Procureur of the République doesn’t give us either, not even the option to prepare a minimal defense. At the trial, logically, we can only await crucifixion.

So, there we go, protest and mobilization, mobilization and denunciation. There is no other way. We count on all your support.

Joaquín Garrido González - Militant of the PCE (r) - Now 23 years in prison.

Fresnes, August 2005

Latest:

On November 16th 2005 at 9am, it will start in the Palais (Paris) the trial of the comrades arrested in July 2002. There are going to be nine sessions that will take place on Wednesdays (mornings), Thursdays and Fridays (evenings), until December 2nd 2005.

Show your support Now! Organize solidarity protests in your country against the French repressions. Stop the Brutality! End the Show-Trails Against Political Hostages!

Plan Days Of Action During The Above Trail Dates Now!
They Are Not Alone! Please Forward Details!

author by Prisoner Solidaritypublication date Sun Oct 02, 2005 14:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

List of Names & Addresses of Nine Political Activists Facing French Show Trails:

Belen Lopez Calderon (currently at liberty)
Antonio Lago Iglesias (currently at liberty/ Antonia has already served 23 years in jail for his political beliefs and activities...)

Please send letter or post card
of support and solidarity to them individually at:
c/o SECOURS ROUGE FRANCE - 21, RUE VOLTAIRE - 75011 Paris - FRANCE

Gema Rodriguez Miguel - 36450
Marcos Martin Ponce- 325695-S.E-D.4.3.g 29

Please send letter or
post card of support and solidarity to them individually at:
Maison d'Arret Fleury Mérogis - 9, Av. des Peupliers – 91705, FEURY MEROGIS- FRANCE

Fernando Hierro Chomon-902611-2D11;
Joaquin Garrido Gonzales-902610-2D007;
Maria Angelkes Ruiz Villa-902671-QC 240;
Josefina Garcia Aramburu-902670-P-C.254

Please send letters or postcards of support and solidarity to them individually at: Maison d'Arret Fresnes - 3, Allée des Thuyas - 94261 FRESNES - FRANCE

Marcos Regueira Fernandez-66368 E 307.

Please send letters or postcards of support and solidarity to him at:
Maison d'Arret des Yvellines - 5bis, rue Alexandre Turpault - 78395 Bois d'Arcy - FRANCE

They are all being charged as a - "GANG OF REPROBATES"!!!

author by Prisoner Solidaritypublication date Sat Oct 01, 2005 00:06author address author phone Report this post to the editors

For further infomation on the Paris Seven: http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72264

author by who?publication date Thu Sep 29, 2005 23:19author address author phone Report this post to the editors

who the fuck are the people in jail? just wondering... what are they accused of?

author by Con Carrollpublication date Thu Sep 29, 2005 14:54author address author phone Report this post to the editors

news from classwar about the imprionment of 4 arnachists in Germany
Jose Fernando Delgado
Gabriel Pombo da silvia
Bart de Geeter
Begonia Pombo da Silvia

author by Peter Urbanpublication date Wed Sep 28, 2005 22:11author email irsp at netwiz dot netauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Solidarity Statement With the Paris Seven

The International Republican Socialist Committees has added its voice to those seeking justice for the Paris Seven and denouncing the petty vengeance represented by the French judiciary and prison authorities recent opposition to efforts by the seven to gain greater access to internal communication with one-another.

The refusal by the French prison authorities to permit the seven co-defendants the ability to communicate with each other is nothing more than an attempt to ensure that the present efforts to obtain convictions by means of manipulation, falsification of evidence, and a general undermining of the prisoners' attempts to defend themselves. The French authorities, at the behest of the Spanish Civil Guard, are seeking to restrict the ability of the seven prisoners to communicate with each other directly or through the intermediary of their respective partners.

Worse yet, the French authorities are disguising these heavy-handed moves to impair the ability of the prisoners to coordinate their defense as reflecting their commitment to civil rights, because they have conceded to allowing communication through correspondence, despite this meaning that all communication will be known to authorities and subject to prison censorship.

For the past three years, the presiding judge Bruguiére has kept the prisoners isolated and incapable of communicating with the outside world, so that their ability to defend themselves is utterly undermined.

The trial of the Paris Seven will begin in November and nothing more than a mockery of justice can be anticipated. This is not a pursuit of justice by the French government, but the staging of a show trial to deliver convictions, so as to legitimize the actions of the French state in its persecution of the Spanish militants. It will be nothing more than a travesty, the outcome of which was never allowed to be called into question.

The IRSC calls upon all progressive activists to demonstrate their support for the Paris Seven and to demand that the prisoners be allowed to carry out such communication as is necessary to defend themselves against what is, in reality, nothing more than a propaganda exercise.

Peter Urban
IRSC

author by ali la pointepublication date Wed Sep 28, 2005 11:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

It is quite obvious that the author of this post has spent considerable time and energy translating and drafting this piece. I hesitate to write something that is critical of an effort that is so heartfelt.

Sadly, however, the piece lacks all clarity. While literal translations of the type of arcane sloganeering associated with 70s insurrectionary groupuscules have made the article's demands unintelligible; the lack of explanatory context, either of the concerned prisoner's circumstances, of the group with which he is (was) associated, of the latest struggle which he finds himself at the heart of, or of the workings of the french judicial system, make this piece impenetrable even to the keenest of readers.

Sorry comrade, but can you write something a bit clerarer and more straight-forward?

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