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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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offsite link Guardian Claims The Traitors is Racist Because Two Black People Were Voted Off Sat Jan 10, 2026 17:00 | Will Jones
A Guardian writer has claimed that The Traitors TV show is racist because two black contestants were voted off, despite two white contestants also getting the axe.
The post Guardian Claims The Traitors is Racist Because Two Black People Were Voted Off appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reform Accuses Reeves of ?Flagrant Racism? After She Conflates Being British and White Sat Jan 10, 2026 15:00 | Will Jones
Reform UK has accused Rachel Reeves of "flagrant racism" after she conflated being British and being white as she claimed that Nigel Farage would?take benefits away?from people because of their skin colour.
The post Reform Accuses Reeves of “Flagrant Racism” After She Conflates Being British and White appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link UK Threatened With Sanctions if Starmer Bans X Sat Jan 10, 2026 13:00 | Will Jones
Britain has been threatened with sanctions if Sir Keir Starmer attempts to block Elon Musk?s X over its?AI tool undressing women and children.
The post UK Threatened With Sanctions if Starmer Bans X appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link UAE Cuts Funding for Citizens to Study in UK Over Concerns About Islamic Radicalisation on Campuses Sat Jan 10, 2026 11:00 | Will Jones
The United Arab Emirates has cut funding for its citizens to study at British universities over concerns about Islamic radicalisation on campuses as the Muslim Brotherhood continues to be unproscribed in the UK.
The post UAE Cuts Funding for Citizens to Study in UK Over Concerns About Islamic Radicalisation on Campuses appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Evidence of Myocarditis ? But the Coroner Dismisses Covid Vaccines and Blames Alcohol Sat Jan 10, 2026 09:00 | Dr Roger Watson
Prof Roger Watson reports from an inquest, where despite evidence of myocarditis the coroner dismisses a role for the Covid vaccines and blames alcohol. Yet the deceased's blood alcohol levels were too low to cause death.
The post Evidence of Myocarditis ? But the Coroner Dismisses Covid Vaccines and Blames Alcohol appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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NATO HQ blocked by Greenpeace protest

category international | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Tuesday June 27, 2006 12:21author by Eoin Dubsky - Greenpeaceauthor address Amsterdam, Netherlands Report this post to the editors

24 activists arrested protesting US nukes in Europe

Twenty-four Greenpeace activists from Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK were arrested earlier this month at NATO’s Brussels Headquarters. A Greenpeace truck carrying a 3.6 meter (12 feet) full-size replica of a US B61 nuclear bomb blocked the entrance to NATO with activists bearing banners saying “Nukes out of NATO.” Their demand: remove the 480 US-owned and controlled nuclear weapons from Europe!
© Greenpeace / Philip Reynaers
© Greenpeace / Philip Reynaers

More activists entered the site carrying banners onto the NATO symbol statue, while others dropped a two-meter-square banner repeating the message from NATO’s main building. Some of the media who covered the action quoted a NATO spokesperson saying that it was "dangerous". None of them that I read made anything of the dangers of NATO nukes, or the hypocracy of NATO telling Iran off for enriching uranium.

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Sixteen years after the end of the cold war, 480 US Nuclear weapons remain in Europe. They are currently stationed in Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and the UK. Each of these nuclear weapons has a destructive capacity of up to ten times that of the bomb which destroyed Hiroshima.

Last week a report released by the Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDC) chaired by Hans Blix called for the 480 US-owned and controlled nuclear weapons to be removed from Europe and returned to US soil. The WMDC report provides great detail on the dangers of US nuclear weapons. The Commission also explains how these weapons impede international efforts to negotiate further nuclear reductions with Russia.

Related Link: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/nuclear/disarmament/us-nuclear-warplans-against-ir
author by Phil Opublication date Tue Jun 27, 2006 13:24author address author phone Report this post to the editors

There's a Big Brother spoof video of the protest on videobomb:
http://videobomb.com/posts/show/2886

Related Link: http://videobomb.com/posts/show/2886
author by Requiredpublication date Tue Jun 27, 2006 17:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors


Is that right?

Dubsky is a member of Greenpeace? I dont recall them supporting his big courtcase for hitting the warplane at Shannon. Did they pay his fine. He did pay his fine?

If my memory serves me correctly he said he wouldnt pay it but then he would have gone to jail like Mary Kelly, the Pitstop Ploughshares or Fintan Lane.

No I cant recall him going to jail can you? No that I think going to jail is the best tactic but if you say you on national TV that you are not going to pay the fine then if you want to keep your credability you would got to jail.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/71263

Related Link: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/64933
author by Eoin Dubskypublication date Tue Jun 27, 2006 20:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Well Ms. or Mr. "Required"... so nice of you to remember me. :-)

I didn't hit the warplane at Shannon Airport, though I probably should have ( See http://www.indymedia.ie/article/29109 ). Friends and fellow travellers helped me pay my fine, and I never received any donations from Greenpeace or any other NGO.

The original trial in Tulla District Court was a good one. The appeal before the Circuit Court was a waste of time. I've posted about it and others have too many times before. I could have continued the case to a higher court again -- the judge, for example, relied in his judgment on an "immediacy clause" in the Criminal Damage Act lawful excuse defence which doesn't exist anymore.

But by then I was already living in France (now in the Netherlands), and anyway, I wouldn't be sure anymore what exactly I would be fighter for if I carried on that legal path (to stop US military overflights and refueling, or to clear my name?). I think that if you find yourself doing something "to keep your credability", and if it doesn't also serve a clear campaign objective, then maybe its time to take a break and think it over.

Related Link: http://eoin.free.fr/
 
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