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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.
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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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The post Net Zero Crumbling Slowly at First, Then Suddenly appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
I Asked a Simple Question at a Pro-Palestine Protest and It Turned Ugly Sun Oct 05, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
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The post I Asked a Simple Question at a Pro-Palestine Protest and It Turned Ugly appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Met Office Deletes Huge Chunks of Historic Temperature Data After Fabrication Claims Sun Oct 05, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
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The post Met Office Deletes Huge Chunks of Historic Temperature Data After Fabrication Claims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
When Will the Left Accept That Public Anger is Not ?Manufactured?? Sun Oct 05, 2025 07:00 | Laurie Wastell
"Anti-immigration attitudes are manufactured," says one Left-wing thinker. Demographic change is a "political myth", says another. When will the Left accept that public anger is well-founded, asks Laurie Wastell.
The post When Will the Left Accept That Public Anger is Not “Manufactured”? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Sun Oct 05, 2025 00:09 | Will Jones
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The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Say it aint so...
i will not go, turn the light off, carry me home.........
Huge thanks go out to the Belfast kitchen who managed to feet (almost) everybody at the end of the fair.
Books for sale
Sitting down for dinner at the end of the fair
Eating together
That should have been 'who managed to feed almost everyone' above. sorry.
fair paly to all involved and cooks, pity about turnout - hardly the feeding of the 5000 in that photo
It wasn't the feeding of the 5000 by any stretch of the imagination but I'd say there was around 100people there on the friday night and Saturday probably had around 250 visitors between 12noon and 7pm.
I'd imagine the location of the hall probably had something to do with the turn out i mean people did'nt randomly come in off the street, but either way it was really great , fair play to all involved!!!
And a lesson for socialists in anti sectarianism with many non WSM groups attending. On behalf of the ISN I would like to thank the SWM organisers for our invite and their hospiltality and wish them well in future bookfairs.
This wasnt Irelands first anarchist bookfair. Anarchists organised a number of bookfairs, titled 'radical bookfair' in the early 90's which some members of wsm actually participated in. they were held in a few venues around temple bar including connolly hall.
That should have read WSM not SWM. Obviously, its too early in the morning for me to be posting on indymedia.
Thanks to everyone who organised the bookfair it was a great weekend.
Audio interviews above were good too but must be noted of all the 8 and a bit minutes of it not one single woman was interviewed. I was very surprised by that, there were woman attending the event, there were women heavily involved in the organising and there were plenty of women running stands and workshops.
Yikes, we have a bit of a way to go yet I think.
It was a good weekend and the Jack White branch did a good job in both the organisation and dealing with the technical problems that arose on the morning. A lot of people who were not WSM members also helped out with the kitchen crew deserving special mention.
In terms of numbers I'd guess between 400 and 500 people were in at some point over the weekend but probably no more than 150 at any one time. The largest meeting was the republicanism and anarchism one, amazingly just under 50 managed to cram into the room (which only had room for 36 chairs). The people I asked mostly thought the level of discussion at the meetings was very good.
I'd say that not only is the potential there for this to become an annual event but it could become a very big annual event. My branch should be organising it next year.
Be interesting to also hear report backs from individual stalls, workshops, meetings and the video team. It would be useful when we come to look at how we will organise things next year.
Just listened to the audio report there, have to agree with clare, also there are a couple of voices on it that are always "the" voice of anarchism, heard them so many times, would have been good to hear people who had just wandered in or first timers so see if they thought it was any good.
It seems this event was twice as big as the SWP's Marxism, though in fairness they charged an entrance fee.
event was great,
great music on fri night.; punks with funny hair cuts playing trad (a fine rendition of that crazy tune "johnny jump up")
sat was really enjoyable, really good atmosphere without the clickeness of past events, a lot of different people felt this ; well done to all who organised, turned up, talked with new people, had a laugh, dreamed.......
great to meet heads; new and old, irish, from abroad
more audio to come with women interviewer and short interview with kids from the street, unfortunately i missed doing an interview with an old couple who turned up and who have been at rts's in the past -- it was a bit hectice, hopefuly we can catch these fine people and get both their perspectives on the event..
and on sunday a good few people came up to dolphins barn garden and had a fine day
slán
dunk
http://obin.org/video/wawa/04-03-06-bookfair.mpg
40.1MB, mpeg2, shot on 3rd and 4th of march in Dublin, soundtrack by rebel folk band which name I dont know
if anybothy has got higher quality videos/photos, and would like to share thous we might be able to do a better material
the poeple with hidden faces are not terrorists (at least i dont know about it ;) - i just didnt have chance to ask them if they want their faces shown, and they possibly didnt know that i was filming them
films great, well done, zayabiyshtya y jenkuyi
summary of the "social centres- social or political spaces"
from one of the dublin social centre collective
7 mins - http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/social_centres.wav
clare interviews dunk about the social centres and spaces workshop
7mins - http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/social_centres_2.wav
talk with oli from save iceland campaign, they put out an international SOS after dodgy state dealings and plans to dam up the country.
http://www.savingiceland.org/
24 mins - http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/oli.wav
radio stuff found on w's link above - http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/8890.php
anarchist bookfair this way
welcome to the anarchist bookfair 2006
new things, new ideas; purses made from recyled soya milk carton
young and old
loads of books
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freeshop...........
rules......there are virtually no rules
tough punk with mean patches
grubs up c/o the belfast food not bombs crew
tasty tasty vergan gruel
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arm your desires
war of dreams
little prince and other fine books
revolt video stall
greening the city stall
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film crew come down to check out whats going on
revlots vids on all day
greening the city ; because we have only 1 home
queuing for the free grub
some good pics there. especially the one of the tough hooded punk with the skull & cross-bones pocket patch. that one will probably turn up again. i can see the capitalist media using it so this might be a case of a need for copyright as well as copyleft.
I have a query in for audio of the repubican/anarchist debate - any one record some or all of it
Krossie
some of the band that appear in film from bookfair are lynched, http://www.myspace.com/lynched4life is there site, theres some top tunes there to listen too - described as "Folk political street rats with cheeky ballads of anti-authoritarian blackguardism " check it out,
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bookfair panoramic - click to enlarge
Congrats to all involved. Very good event well organised , friendly and open. there was a very good atmosphere the whole two days.
Barracka Books Workers Co=op had plenty of customers and made useful contacts. we will definitely be back next year.
audio report form recent anarchist gathering in Dublin.
interviews with organiser and participents at the recent Dublin anarchist book fair.
This is a first attempt at uploading audio to indymedia....If its not accessable maybe someone could let me know..Or perhaps give me some tips on the tech side which isn't my strong point. cheers.
click here to link http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/8996.php
anarchist picnic and lots of other stuff on this weekend
things are building, time to go to the streets again,
the revolution starts now
why?
What is the Truth? Ed Horgan Calls a Spade a Spade - and when the state(s) dont listen, time to fight.....
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75612&comment_limit=0&c...46810
how?
each to their own, personally peaceful and creative interactive fun educational growing things.....
ie?
this weekend:
wheels turn, lots and lots of little revolutions - lots of stuff on; gardening, bike fixiing, criticall mass, greenway, screenings, audio hearings, gatherings, gigs.......
little by little
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/75596&comment_limit=0&c...46792