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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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Public Inquiry
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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offsite link It?s Time to Make Judges Accountable Again Fri Oct 10, 2025 13:26 | Dr David McGrogan
Nearly 80% of Britain's 'Establishment' is Left-wing. No wonder our 'independent' judges keep making lunatic decisions. It's time they were made accountable to voters once again, says Dr David McGrogan.
The post It’s Time to Make Judges Accountable Again appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump was today snubbed by Nobel Peace Prize judges ? who instead awarded the prize to a Venezuelan politician ? despite the President bringing peace to the Middle East.
The post Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails Fri Oct 10, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The technocrats are falling across the West as their ideology founders on reality. The cracking of the Net Zero consensus, like the end of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, is a moment of hope, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
The post The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 54: Alexander Adams on Dissident Art, the Tyranny of the Arts Council and His ... Fri Oct 10, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 54 of the Sceptic: Alexander Adams on dissident art, the tyranny of the Arts Council England and his new exhibition: Power and Intimacy.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 54: Alexander Adams on Dissident Art, the Tyranny of the Arts Council and His New Exhibition appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Oct 10, 2025 00:47 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Political status is a right not a privilege.

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | press release author Wednesday June 28, 2006 14:06author by Séan Ó Murchú - Republican Sinn Féin Report this post to the editors

IN A statement on June 28 Republican Sinn Féin, Belfast said that in 2006 Irish Republicans were still incarcerated for their political beliefs.

IN A statement on June 28 Republican Sinn Féin, Belfast said that in 2006 Irish Republicans were still incarcerated for their political beliefs.

The statement continued: In 1981 ten brave men died for the fight for political status. Twenty-five years later the fight still goes on. Today Republican prisoners have once again found it necessary to resort to prison protest.

We urge all Republicans to support the prisoners in their struggle to gain back the right to be treated as POWs. These men are prisoners of war and deserve to be treated as such.

1981: They were political prisoners then
2006: They are political prisoners now.

Help end the prison struggle; support the Republican POWs. Political status is a right not a privilege.

We like to call on all ex-prisoners' group to come out and show their support for all political prisoners who are on protest in Maghaberry Concentration Camp. We ask them to join in white-line pickets and any other protest organised by the Republican Prisoners Action Group and Republican Sinn Féin.

We need everyone to show their support -- come to the white-line picket and support the prison protest.

Geraldine Taylor

RSF Belfast

author by eager but ignorantpublication date Wed Jun 28, 2006 14:09author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Where and when is the protest??

author by Séan Ó Murchú - Republican Sinn Féin - Corkpublication date Wed Jun 28, 2006 14:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

July 8th at 2pm in Belfast check with RSF Office Falls Road for complete details.

author by Knowledgeablepublication date Wed Jun 28, 2006 14:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

You are a pack of jokers. Your members dont even know where your protests are. That is because they arnt from Belfast. HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAA

author by Alexpublication date Wed Jun 28, 2006 15:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Nobody in Belfast supports RSF. There is one or two dissidents (Brti-provocateurs) who were drafted in but they dont know the city.

author by Belfast residentpublication date Wed Jun 28, 2006 15:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Don't even attempt to hold a white-line picket in my city.

Brits & Dissidents Out!

author by Johnpublication date Wed Jun 28, 2006 15:11author address author phone Report this post to the editors

RSF is trying to use our patriot dead for their own publicity. This is a disgrace.

Why do they try to link the Hunger Strikers of 1981 to people with no support from their communities.

The Irish people are intelligent and can analyis the political situation. We support Sinn Féin because they are made up of Irish people. Dissidents are made up of lunitics, Brit agents and greedy selfish old men.

author by Support the POWspublication date Wed Jun 28, 2006 16:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I see the trolls, revisionists and collaborators have really gotten worked up over this issue.
Nice argument, fellas. You're a pack of bright bulbs, aren't ya! Does the realisation that the Provos signed away political status sting a bit? Make you a bit defensive? Eat at your consciences, does it? - Nah, you'd have to have consciences. I guess you're just feeling jealous and dramatically inadequate when confronted with genuine republicanism.

Anyone who does not support the POWs in this protest is not a republican and is a disgrace of an Irishman/Irishwoman. It's as simple as that.

author by lamh deargpublication date Wed Jun 28, 2006 23:53author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Dissidents need to open their eyes to world events. It is no longer strategically possible to significantly influence Irish politics. You need to come in from the cold and fight to get your prisoners released; just as the provos did.
Dunno how much truth was in the arms dealing reports of late, either propaganda or catastrophic incompetence. The fact that some genius in the 32CSM saw fit to post a tribute to a dead Chechen guerilla online confuses me; given that CIA rendition flights refuel in Portugal too. I don't think I'd fancy a trip to a CIA freedom camp in Eastern Europe. Go outside of Ireland you become an international terrorist. McDowell would probably sign you over for tickets to disneyworld.
There is an element within the dissident mindset that is increasingly reducing Irish Republicanism to an irrelevant death cult. We already have more than our share of martyrs. The people have suffered enough; how many more generations need be damaged? We must never again send out our lambs in wolves' clothing to automated killing grounds.
England's difficulty is still Ireland's opportunity but the way of the gun is forever blocked. Proactive volence is not the business of civilized nations; that's as true in Ballygawley as it is in Baghdad.

author by Dublinerpublication date Thu Jul 13, 2006 17:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Look lads
I know nothin about Belfast but I can tell youse about inner city Dublin.
half of my freinds are after getting involved in 'dissident' Republicanism
some have even joined things like Na Fianna Éireann, they are gettin real support.
It is since the Dublin riots, i think the riots had a sort of radicalising effect on them.
Sinn Féin is gettin far less because the are not seen to be takin on the Brits or Free Staters
But Even the Dublin Sinn Féiners supports the prison protest.
Everyone needs to be seen to support this protest.
There are rumers flying around there is going to be a march/riot to the British embassy (because of this prison protest) and, in my opinion, that would push the city into a Republican revolt.

Tiochfidh ár lá!

author by Sean Oglachpublication date Thu Jul 13, 2006 18:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I've said this before and I'll say it again, those young people with dreams of freeing Ireland through armed conflict should look to the past and see what happened then.

Every generation has taken on the might of Britain and have suffered death and imprisonment.
We've have had Courageous men and women who've died with the dream of a Free Ireland in their final thoughts.

Many, many have died on Hunger Strike and not just those in the H-Blocks.

We've done terrible things in pursuit of that dream.

But in the end we've been betrayed, sold out, by those who've decided to take the Political Route and who when some way down that road forgot where they were going and no longer cared because things had become too cosy.

To those in prison I say get out before you're sold out because it will happen again. Take it from someone who was there.

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