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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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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 Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 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

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

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offsite link BBC ?Indoctrinating Children With Pro-Trans Agenda? Fri Nov 14, 2025 17:13 | Will Jones
The BBC has been accused of "indoctrinating" children with pro-trans programmes after a number of children's shows broadcast by the corporation uncritically presented activist perspectives.
The post BBC “Indoctrinating Children With Pro-Trans Agenda” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link RedBird Pulls Out of Telegraph Takeover Amid China Link Concerns Fri Nov 14, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
The US private equity firm RedBird Capital Partners has pulled out of its bid for control of the Telegraph amid concerns over foreign state control and links to China.
The post RedBird Pulls Out of Telegraph Takeover Amid China Link Concerns appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The BBC: My Part In Its Downfall Fri Nov 14, 2025 13:21 | Iain Macwhirter
BBC staff have always been very Left-wing, but they used to avoid letting it show. That all changed in 2014, first with climate change, then trans, then anything 'Right-wing'. It's been a disaster, says Iain Macwhirter.
The post The BBC: My Part In Its Downfall appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reeves Ditches Income Tax Rise ? and Streeting Celebrates Fri Nov 14, 2025 12:28 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves has?dramatically ditched?Budget?plans to hike income tax, leading Wes Streeting to?effectively claim victory as he publicly declared that he had not supported the rise.
The post Reeves Ditches Income Tax Rise ? and Streeting Celebrates appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ben & Jerry?s Needs to Butt Out of UK Democracy Fri Nov 14, 2025 10:25 | Charlotte Gill
Ultra-woke ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's celebrated this week as Parliament responded to its latest campaign ? which was far from its first. It's time for Ben & Jerry's to butt out of UK democracy, says Charlotte Gill.
The post Ben & Jerry’s Needs to Butt Out of UK Democracy appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Another death in Garda custody

category national | rights, freedoms and repression | news report author Wednesday April 21, 2010 12:43author by dD Report this post to the editors


It's being reported by the he Garda Ombudsman that a man has been found dead in a garda cell in Dublin.

The man was arrested for a public order offence on Tuesday evening and held at Tallaght Garda Station where he was found dead at 9.30 last night.

protesters at a march to Store Street Garda Station
protesters at a march to Store Street Garda Station

There have been a number of deaths in Garda custody over the last few years. There is no system of independent inspection of garda cells and checking on those in custody, such as is normal in the North. In this jurisdiction, prisoners in garda cells are usually cut off from anyone outside for long periods, with only cursory checks on their welfare.

There is a wealth of anecdotal evidence of people being assaulted by gardaí while in custody.

Five years ago, a young man from Dublin's North Inner City died in hospital after a short period of detention in Store Street Station. The Garda Ombudsman wrote a report on the case despite the case being outside its remit (the incident happened before it was set up). The report, heavily reliant on anonymous interviews with gardaí, was widely seen as a whitewash.

There is no structure in place for open inquiries into deaths in custody whereby gardaí and other witnesses could be cross examined.

author by Always Carry A Biblepublication date Thu Apr 22, 2010 13:50author address author phone Report this post to the editors

While there is an 'independent' investigation mechanism for things like deaths in police custody in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK there have still been over a thousand deaths in police custody since 1969 and precisely 0 convictions.

The IPCC was formed in 2004 to oversee complaints against the cops in England and Wales and has so far done everything possible to eschew the 'independent' aspects of its role. The notion that 'justice' will prevail just because a slightly different part of the establishment is investigating itself (eg the Garda Ombudsman) should not be entertained.

http://www.injusticefilm.tv/
http://inquest.gn.apc.org/
http://www.seanriggjusticeandchange.com/

author by Sceptic - None whatsoever .publication date Thu Apr 22, 2010 22:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Shocking news altogether , absolutely appalling to read of this tragedy .

author by DTpublication date Fri Apr 23, 2010 23:14author address author phone Report this post to the editors

lets not start jumping to conclusions. this article sheds some light on the situation...
maybe the banging his head into an esb box shortly before contributed. its surely as possible as any police brutality...

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/man-who-di....html

author by Hannerpublication date Fri Apr 23, 2010 23:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Wow - that's some job the Herald did on him. Quite a serious character assassination.

It's all completely irrelevant of course, except the bit which said he was banging his head against the junction box. But that was sourced to "local reports". I wonder if thses "local reports" wore blue uniforms?

author by DTpublication date Sat Apr 24, 2010 12:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

we'll have to wait and see i suppose..

author by cops killpublication date Wed Feb 02, 2011 11:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Garda pounded victim on ground with baton, trial told

A garda "whipped" and "pounded" a man with his baton while he was on the ground, a court was told yesterday.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court was told that the alleged victim died later that day but that the prosecution accepted that this was due to a drug overdose and unrelated to the garda's actions.

Garda Brendan Whitty (33), stationed at Kevin Street garda station, denies assaulting and causing harm to the late Keith Murphy on Thomas Street, Dublin 2, on September 20, 2007.

Shane Costelloe, prosecuting, told the jury that Gda Whitty used his baton while attempting to arrest Mr Murphy. He said he struck him a number of times before other gardai arrived and took Mr Muphy away. Mr Muphy was charged with a public order offence and released soon after.

Related Link: http://www.independent.ie/national-news/courts/garda-pounded-victim-on-ground-with-baton-trial-told-2520866.html
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