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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

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

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offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent

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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Oct 12, 2025 00:09 | Will Jones
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.
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Ed Miliband is refusing to discuss Net Zero and the North Sea with industry bosses, Sir Jim Ratcliffe has said, as he warns that Labour's policies are driving the deindustrialisation of Britain.
The post Miliband Refused to Discuss North Sea With Me, Says Ratcliffe appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Taliban Sells ?40 Fake Death Threats for Asylum Seekers to UK Sat Oct 11, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Fake death threat letters produced by the Taliban are being used to dupe the Home Office in asylum applications for Afghan migrants.
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offsite link Sadiq Khan Called ?Disgrace? for Claiming ?From River to Sea? Chant is Not Antisemitic Sat Oct 11, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sir Sadiq Khan has been called a "disgrace" by a former Labour minister after he suggested that protesters who chant 'From the river to the sea' are not antisemitic, despite it calling for Israel to be wiped off the map.
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offsite link How Many Gulags Will We Need to Rid Us of the Progressive Blob? Sat Oct 11, 2025 09:00 | Graham Cunningham
Across the West, the Right is in the ascendancy, but an Establishment Blob of millions of progressive Lefties remains implacably opposed. Graham Cunningham ponders how many gulags will be needed to resolve this situation.
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Peace Vigil at Shannon Airport

category clare | anti-war / imperialism | news report author Monday February 18, 2008 18:53author by Conor Cregan - Cosantoiri Siochana Report this post to the editors

"It is great to see Amnesty and the Quakers here"

Yesterday, Cosantori Siochana hosted what is now a monthly vigil at Shannon Airport to highlight Ireland’s participation in a war raging around the globe. This dignified witness was supported by Amnesty International and several Quakers from Limerick City.

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Standing at the entrance to Shannon Airport, this group of peace-mongers held banners calling for the demilitarisation of the Airport and to end the use of Shannon by CIA torture taxis. This low key vigil is gaining numbers since peace activists resumed a monthly presence in December with just five people.

Shannon Airport has seen over 1,000,000 US troops pass through to Iraq and Afghanistan. Last year, the government was criticized by the Irish Commission for Human Rights for not searching CIA and Military flights at the airport. Several of these planes have been involved in the US’s Extraordinary Rendition programme where prisoners were transported to other countries for outsourced torture .

Speaking at the vigil, a local peace activist said “we have come back to show that this is still an issue with the people of Ireland. It is great to see Amnesty and the Quakers here. Both groups are well known in the peace movement and bring a strong presence to the vigil ” Commenting on the large amount of Gardai positioned near by, he said” Judging by the amount of security here, it seems that the government knows that any protest at Shannon highlights their complicity in America's military failures. Obviously this threatens the state and they will continue to pour taxpayers money into securing the myth that it's business as usual at Shannon Airport.”

After initial contact with this peaceful group, An Gardai Siochana kept a visible distance reminding these citizens that they were at hand. Three local detectives interrogated one of the youngest members of the group as he went past their unmarked patrol car, when confronted by the young boy’s irate father, the driver said: “we were just engaging in conversation!” Detective Sergeant Michael Houlihan sitting in the back seat refused to tell the father if they had recorded the boy’s details. The member in the front seat had an open notebook on his lap.

The next vigil will happen at Shannon Airport at 5pm, 23rd of March. Please bring flowers to commemorate those who died since the Iraq war started five years ago

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author by Chekovpublication date Mon Feb 18, 2008 19:03author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Good to see Shannon being highlighted again - hopefully this can form a focus for renewed opposition to the ongoing war.

author by Maureen - IAWMpublication date Mon Feb 18, 2008 19:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"Good to see Shannon being highlighted again" : I second that. Fair play!

Was the photo of the US troop carrier? taken yesterday?. What's the present state of play regarding the number of US troops and CIA torture planes transiting through Shannon?.

The anti-war movement seems to be in a fallow period at the moment?. Well done for keeping the torch of resistance alight and, in Amnesty's case the candle of conscience. Well done again.

author by Mark Cpublication date Mon Feb 18, 2008 21:22author address author phone Report this post to the editors

When is the next vigil taking place?

Mark

author by Ciaron - London Catholic Workerpublication date Mon Feb 18, 2008 23:26author address Londonauthor phone Report this post to the editors

Many thanx and mucho solidarity from the Imperial City. Stay staunch!

Related Link: http://www.londoncatholicworker.org
author by anonpublication date Tue Feb 19, 2008 16:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

US Judge: Boeing lawsuit jeopardises national security

An American federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit that accused a subsidiary company of Boeing of illegally helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to overseas prisons to be tortured.

US District Court Judge James Ware ruled today that national security could be jeopardised if the lawsuit was allowed to go forward.
http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/02/14/US_Judge...urity

Court Decision Denies Extraordinary Rendition Victims Their Day In Court
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/rendition/34121prs20080214....html

author by Dick Doylepublication date Wed Feb 20, 2008 18:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Will there be a strike @ Shannon by air traffic controllers? That could be so inconvenient for US military flights.

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