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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 Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 [1] Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:48 | Mark

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 [2] Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:43 | Mark

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 [3] Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

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Lockdown Skeptics

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offsite link Ofgem Caught Using Climate Armageddon ?Worst Case Scenario? for Energy Planning Sat Nov 08, 2025 15:00 | Nick Rendell
Ofgem has been caught using the climate Armageddon 'worst case scenario' RCP8.5 as the basis for its energy planning. This is a scenario so ludicrous even the Biden administration abandoned it, says Nick Rendell.
The post Ofgem Caught Using Climate Armageddon ‘Worst Case Scenario’ for Energy Planning appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link NHS Spends ?1.4 Billion on Net Zero With Zero Results Sat Nov 08, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
The NHS has spent ?1.4 billion of taxpayers' money on Net Zero schemes without reducing its carbon footprint at all.
The post NHS Spends ?1.4 Billion on Net Zero With Zero Results appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link German Government Promotes Antifa With Publicly-Funded Guides to Political Violence Sat Nov 08, 2025 11:00 | John Rosenthal
While?some countries have followed Trump's lead in designating Antifa a terrorist organisation, Germany actively promotes the far-Left group with publicly-funded guides to political activism and 'defensive' violence.
The post German Government Promotes Antifa With Publicly-Funded Guides to Political Violence appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link From Covid Lockdowns to Net Zero, There?s Nothing Noble About the Lies We?re Told Sat Nov 08, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
From Covid lockdowns to Net Zero, there's nothing noble about the lies we're told, says Professor James Alexander. It's fashionable to blame Plato for the state of modern society, but the charge won't stick.
The post From Covid Lockdowns to Net Zero, There’s Nothing Noble About the Lies We’re Told appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Worries About Net Zero, Mass Immigration and Covid Vaccines Targeted as ?Conspiracy Theories? in Nat... Sat Nov 08, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Worries about Net Zero, mass immigration and Covid vaccines are being targeted as "conspiracy theories" in Labour's National Curriculum review. But the commissioners have some weird ideas of their own, says Steven Tucker.
The post Worries About Net Zero, Mass Immigration and Covid Vaccines Targeted as “Conspiracy Theories” in National Curriculum Review appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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French Muslims want Voltaire Play Cancelled

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Wednesday March 08, 2006 22:44author by redjade Report this post to the editors

oooohhh here we go again.... and again

'When Voltaire wrote the play in 1741, Roman Catholic clergymen denounced it as a thinly veiled anti-Christian tract. Their protests forced the cancellation of a staging in Paris after three performances'
how many will die because this image that i made?
how many will die because this image that i made?

Muslims ask French to cancel 1741 play by Voltaire
The Wall Street Journal/March 6, 2006

Late last year, as an international crisis was brewing over Danish cartoons of Muhammad, Muslims raised a furor in this little alpine town over a much older provocateur: Voltaire, the French champion of the 18th-century Enlightenment.

A municipal cultural center here on France's border with Switzerland organized a reading of a 265-year-old play by Voltaire, whose writings helped lay the foundations of modern Europe's commitment to secularism. The play, ''Fanaticism, or Mahomet the Prophet,'' uses the founder of Islam to lampoon all forms of religious frenzy and intolerance.

The production quickly stirred up passions that echoed the cartoon uproar. ''This play ... constitutes an insult to the entire Muslim community,'' said a letter to the mayor of Saint-Genis-Pouilly, signed by Said Akhrouf, a French-born cafe owner of Moroccan descent and three other Islamic activists representing Muslim associations. They demanded the performance be cancelled.

Instead, Mayor Hubert Bertrand called in police reinforcements to protect the theater. On the night of the December reading, a small riot broke out involving several dozen people and youths who set fire to a car and garbage cans. It was ''the most excitement we've ever had down here,'' says the socialist mayor.

[....]

For Voltaire's Muslim critics, the play reveals a centuries-old Western distortion of Islam. For his fans, it represents a manifesto for liberty and reason and should be read not so much as an attack on Islam but as a coded assault on the religious dogmas that have stained European history with bloody conflict.

When Voltaire wrote the play in 1741, Roman Catholic clergymen denounced it as a thinly veiled anti-Christian tract. Their protests forced the cancellation of a staging in Paris after three performances - and hardened Voltaire's distaste for religion. Asked on his deathbed by a priest to renounce Satan, he quipped: ''This is not the time to be making enemies.''

[....]

Shortly afterward, he attended Friday prayers at a big mosque in Geneva and talked about his concerns with Hafid Ouardiri, a mosque official and veveran of the earlier anti-Voltaire campaign. They drafted a letter to the mayor demanding the play be cancelled ''in order to preserve peace.''

Mr. Ouardiri, an Algerian-born former leftist radical, came to France in the 1960s and says he used to chant the 1968 student slogan, ''It is forbidden to forbid.'' Now a devout Muslim, he says he champions ''the need to forbid.'' Algeria and other Muslim countries, he says, were colonized by Europeans ''nourished by Voltaire.''

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   amazing - not!     pat c    Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:18 
   Juan Cole debunks idea that Islam is Anti-Christian/Anti-Jew     redjade    Thu Mar 09, 2006 15:54 
   Salafism     redjade    Thu Mar 09, 2006 21:12 
   Caliphate     Islam Uber Alles    Thu Mar 09, 2006 23:38 
   Koran non-entries     Dublinfidel    Fri Mar 10, 2006 00:30 
   Dublinfidel     redjade    Fri Mar 10, 2006 01:22 
   Average is a Relative Term     Arthur    Fri Mar 10, 2006 03:38 
   Allah, Golf Carts & the Weaker Sects     redjade    Fri Mar 10, 2006 22:34 
   Dublin infidel is right but wrong     Seán Ryan    Fri Mar 10, 2006 23:32 
 10   Religion of Peace (TM)     Mo    Sat Mar 11, 2006 00:20 
 11   Religion (TM)?     Seán Ryan    Sat Mar 11, 2006 01:07 
 12   Apples and oranges     Dublinfidel    Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:10 
 13   what utter crap.     zero    Sat Mar 11, 2006 12:24 
 14   Origin of Zero     Ray McInerney    Sat Mar 11, 2006 14:01 
 15   From a scratch     Tony    Sat Mar 11, 2006 14:51 
 16   tony     pat c    Sat Mar 11, 2006 15:13 
 17   & The Vikings discovered America, too     redjade    Sat Mar 11, 2006 15:21 
 18   Given us zero     Dublinfidel    Sat Mar 11, 2006 15:55 
 19   One for the road     Seán Ryan    Sat Mar 11, 2006 16:51 
 20   An enemy of my enemy is my friend?     Mr. T.    Sat Mar 11, 2006 16:54 
 21   Enlightenment     Seán Ryan    Sat Mar 11, 2006 19:33 
 22   Was not responding to you, Mr. Ryan     Mr. T.    Sat Mar 11, 2006 20:44 
 23   Why Not Privatise Religion?     redjade    Sat Mar 11, 2006 22:41 
 24   Correction     Arthur    Sun Mar 12, 2006 02:15 
 25   History- you read some funny books     Arthur    Sun Mar 12, 2006 02:20 
 26   Racism     Tony    Sun Mar 12, 2006 11:59 
 27   Islamists vs. Muslims...     Mr. T.    Sun Mar 12, 2006 13:36 
 28   You're fudging     Tony    Sun Mar 12, 2006 15:27 
 29   This is challenging stuff for you, Tony but try to read and perhaps learn...     Mr. T.    Sun Mar 12, 2006 16:31 
 30   Holy Jewhad     Dublinfidel    Sun Mar 12, 2006 16:31 
 31   tony     pat c    Sun Mar 12, 2006 16:51 
 32   Ignorance for Allah     ARTHUR    Sun Mar 12, 2006 18:55 
 33   ARTHUR - Chomsky agrees with me -     Mr. T.    Sun Mar 12, 2006 19:38 
 34   Mr. T - Dr Martin Luther King agrees with Arthur     Noel    Sun Mar 12, 2006 19:46 
 35   nonsense...     Mr. T.    Sun Mar 12, 2006 20:05 
 36   It's obvious and obscene     Arthur    Sun Mar 12, 2006 23:32 
 37   Argue with the hand...     Mr. T.    Mon Mar 13, 2006 00:16 
 38   Radical Republicans Stand Up for Freedom of Speech     Gay Geori    Mon Mar 13, 2006 00:43 
 39   blanket link:     dunk    Mon Mar 13, 2006 03:18 
 40   Persistent little bugger     Tony    Mon Mar 13, 2006 15:34 
 41   tony     pat c    Mon Mar 13, 2006 15:38 
 42   I oppose Bush & Blair's war...     Mr. T.    Mon Mar 13, 2006 16:46 
 43   Mr T - apologist for Islamophobia     Tony    Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:52 
 44   tony     pat c    Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:05 
 45   Tony the troll...     Mr. T.    Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:07 
 46   Game set and match     Tony    Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:04 
 47   tony     pat c    Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:19 
 48   Unreserved apologies     Tony    Tue Mar 14, 2006 14:55 
 49   breaking my promise but ...     Mr. T.    Tue Mar 14, 2006 15:35 
 50   Islam and gays     Tony    Tue Mar 14, 2006 16:05 
 51   tony     pat c    Tue Mar 14, 2006 16:13 
 52   Pat C     Tony    Tue Mar 14, 2006 16:24 
 53   tony     pat c    Tue Mar 14, 2006 16:28 
 54   Women in Iran     Tony    Wed Mar 15, 2006 06:05 
 55   Tony     pat c    Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:23 
 56   Gotcha - Mr T shit-stormtrooper     Tony    Wed Mar 15, 2006 13:28 
 57   Tony     pat c    Wed Mar 15, 2006 13:51 
 58   Pat C - so how ya goin' ta stop 'em     Tony    Wed Mar 15, 2006 14:26 
 59   Tony     pat c    Wed Mar 15, 2006 14:37 
 60   Breaking my promise again but...     Mr. T.    Wed Mar 15, 2006 23:06 
 61   My last words     Tony    Thu Mar 16, 2006 13:34 
 62   Tony     pat c    Thu Mar 16, 2006 14:00 
 63   Turkey suggests EU should strengthen anti-defamation law     redjade    Thu Mar 16, 2006 14:27 
 64   re: Turkey - funferal.org says...     redjade    Thu Mar 16, 2006 14:31 
 65   So show us the evidence     Tony    Thu Mar 16, 2006 14:43 
 66   Tony     pat c    Thu Mar 16, 2006 16:03 
 67   Shattered promises...     Mr. T.    Thu Mar 16, 2006 21:04 
 68   Dutch Gov't Uses Porn to Scare Away Muslim Immigrants     redjade    Thu Mar 16, 2006 23:07 
 69   redjade     pat c    Fri Mar 17, 2006 17:57 
 70   No, it's not Porn     Gay Geori    Fri Mar 17, 2006 18:24 
 71   i was being a bit tongue in cheek     redjade    Fri Mar 17, 2006 18:25 
 72   redjade     pat c    Fri Mar 17, 2006 18:28 
 73   being muslim doesn't mean you're anti-gay     redjade    Fri Mar 17, 2006 20:58 
 74   redjade     pat c    Sat Mar 18, 2006 19:27 
 75   Michael McDowell can unify the world     redjade    Sat Mar 18, 2006 23:41 
 76   Islam and gays     tony    Sun Mar 19, 2006 14:21 
 77   redjade     pat c    Sun Mar 19, 2006 15:49 
 78   Tony     pat c    Sun Mar 19, 2006 15:56 
 79   Gays and Islam     Tony    Sun Mar 19, 2006 16:08 
 80   tony     pat c    Sun Mar 19, 2006 16:12 
 81   How dare you presume I am heterosexual?     Tony    Mon Mar 20, 2006 06:54 
 82   Juan Cole, whoever he is, can go fuck himself...     Mr. T.    Mon Mar 20, 2006 15:05 
 83   Juan Cole link: updated     redjade    Mon Mar 20, 2006 16:37 
 84   Ok, Juan Cole, who is excellent because he knows his shit, can go fuck himself...     Mr. T.    Mon Mar 20, 2006 18:23 
 85   Link to the Sharia Law death decree against homosexuality...     Mr. T.    Mon Mar 20, 2006 18:33 
 86   tony     pat c    Mon Mar 20, 2006 22:18 
 87   the compassion of islam     pat c    Mon Mar 20, 2006 22:40 
 88   German opera house cancels provocative Mohammed play     redjade    Mon Sep 25, 2006 23:04 
 89   Phuque'em     Intolerant B=stards    Tue Sep 26, 2006 06:34 
 90   The mote in God's eye     Tony    Tue Sep 26, 2006 08:04 


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