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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 Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer ?From the Bottom of my Heart? After Winn... Sat Sep 20, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
A Somalian migrant living at the Bell Hotel in Epping has thanked Keir Starmer?"from the bottom" of his heart after winning the right to stay in Britain on human rights grounds as he prepares to settle in Yorkshire.
The post Somalian Migrant Living in Epping Hotel Thanks Keir Starmer “From the Bottom of my Heart” After Winning Right to Stay in UK appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
The post Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The ?Far Left? Finally Gets Its Comeuppance Sat Sep 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
For years the Left has smeared its opponents as 'far Right'. Now, the spike in Leftist political violence has led to a turning of the tables. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Guardian, says Prof James Alexander.
The post The ‘Far Left’ Finally Gets Its Comeuppance appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Lawyer Says Iranian Stoning Woman Has Now "Confessed" - After Being Torutured - On Iran State TV

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Thursday August 12, 2010 08:18author by children_of_lir Report this post to the editors

Update: Iranian Stoning Woman Case 12.08.2010

From Guardan Newspaper Article: "The Iranian woman whose sentence to death by stoning sparked an international outcry is feared to be facing imminent execution, after she was put on a state-run TV programme last night where she confessed to adultery and involvement in a murder."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/12/sakineh-moh...-iran

"Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani 'confesses' to murder on Iran state TV

Lawyer says Ashtiani was tortured before interview recorded in Tabiz prison, and fears execution imminent

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. Her lawyer said she was tortured for two days before she agreed to appear on TV. Photograph: AP

The Iranian woman whose sentence to death by stoning sparked an international outcry is feared to be facing imminent execution, after she was put on a state-run TV programme last night where she confessed to adultery and involvement in a murder.

Speaking shakily in her native Azeri language, which could be heard through a voiceover, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani told an interviewer that she was an accomplice to the murder of her husband and that she had an extramarital relationship with her husband's cousin. Her lawyer told the Guardian last night that his client, a 43-year-old mother of two, was tortured for two days before the interview was recorded in Tabriz prison, where she has been held for the past four years.

"She was severely beaten up and tortured until she accepted to appear in front of camera. Her 22-year-old son, Sajad and her 17-year-old daughter Saeedeh are completely traumatised by watching this programme," said Houtan Kian.

He added that there were now fears that the Iranian authorities would act quickly to carry out the death sentence, which was reportedly commuted to hanging after an international outcry last month. The sentence was initially for "having an illicit relationship outside marriage" but some Iranian officials have claimed she was also found guilty of murdering her husband and should still face death by stoning.

The interview was broadcast on a show called 20:30, a day after US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Tehran to honour treaty obligations to respect the rights of citizens and halt executions.

Observers suggested one of the signs she was speaking under duress was that in the interview she blamed the western media for interfering in her personal life.

In an interview last week with the Guardian through an intermediary, Mohammadi Ashtiani accused the Iranian authorities of lying about the charges against her to confuse the media in order to pave the way to execute her in secret. "I was found guilty of adultery and was acquitted of murder," she said.

Amnesty International condemned the "so-called" confession and said the independence of Iran's judiciary was "tattered" by the broadcast. "This makes a complete mockery of the judiciary system in Iran," said Drewery Dyke of Amnesty's Iran team. "Iran is inventing crimes ... it is an unacceptable practice that flies in the face of justice."

Mina Ahadi of the Iran Committee against Stoning (ICAS) said: "It's not the first time Iran has put an innocent victim on a televised programme and killed them on the basis of their forced confessions – it has happened numerously in the first decade of the Islamic Revolution."

Iran's state-run TV suggested international attention over Mohammadi Ashtiani was "western propaganda" aimed at forcing Iran to release three American hikers who have been held since last year."

Related Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/12/sakineh-mohammadi-ashtiani-confesses-murder-iran
author by children_of_lirpublication date Wed Nov 03, 2010 11:00author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I hope this news story isn't true. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is being hanged for murder today according to International Committee Against Stoning (Icas) website:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/02/iran-stonin...tiani

author by children_of_lirpublication date Sun Sep 12, 2010 08:47author address author phone Report this post to the editors

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--> The most recent update that I've heard reportedly from her son is that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has been punitively lashed/scourged for baring her face in the photo published by the mainstream media. According to her son, this was not the face of his mother: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. It was a photo of a well known female activist.

It's interesting that only her son and other close relatives would really know what she looked like, as she is required to cover her face.

author by children_of_lirpublication date Sat Sep 11, 2010 18:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

honour killing is part of sharia law,and international laws are frequently ignored,human rights is not an issue in iraq or any of these muslim countries with sharia law,sharia law is heavily entertwined with their faith..there are parts of the world(muslim) where you can walk and see some people who have thier limbs cut off and tounges missing..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZu7B6eIX2U

author by Marie-Therese O' Loughlinpublication date Tue Aug 17, 2010 21:15author email mariethereseoloughlin at yahoo dot ieauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

The public outcry is what has kept Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani alive so far.

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2010/they-think-the...omen/

“They think they can do anything to women”

By Maryam Namazie, August 17, 2010

Courtesy of Ophelia Benson, Moderator of http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org

author by Marie-Therese O' Loughlinpublication date Tue Aug 17, 2010 08:41author email mariethereseoloughlin at yahoo dot ieauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Courtesy of Ophelia Benson & B&W

http://www.pinktriangle.org.uk/press/2010_08_13.html

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2010/a-violent-atta...mily/

There are more links attached to comments & B&W

author by children_of_lirpublication date Sun Aug 15, 2010 05:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Amnesty International has a proforma Appeal letter to Mohammad Javad Larijani - Secretary General, High Council for Human Rights in Iran, to stop the execution of Sakineh.

Related Link: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=706

author by Marie-Therese O' Loughlinpublication date Fri Aug 13, 2010 19:56author email mariethereseoloughlin at yahoo dot ieauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Latest News: Ophelia Benson.

A violent attack on Leo Igwe’s family

By Leo Igwe, August 12, 2010

They descended on my aging father and started beating him

http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2010/a-violent-atta...mily/

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I urge indymedia commenter's to read devastating article regarding very brave Nigerian Journalist. His parents suffered horrendous abuse (at hands of demented thugs) in his pursuit for justice.

author by children_of_Lirpublication date Fri Aug 13, 2010 03:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtian is shown on Iran State TV as railing against her lawyer:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jHbiu...26P80

" "Why did he televise the case? Why did he discredit me before my family members and relatives who didn't know I'm in jail?" she said. "Now, I have a complaint against him." "

The above script does not ring true. As if any of her family members and relatives did not know her current circumstances.

Iran has now rejected the offer of asylum from Brazil:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/08/13/2982038.h...world

author by Marie-Therese O' Loughlinpublication date Thu Aug 12, 2010 23:03author email mariethereseoloughlin at yahoo dot ieauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Latest News over @ B&W by Ophelia Benson

Iran to world: Stoning? What stoning?

We never, and so do you.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-10956520
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Ashtiani “confessed” on Iranian state tv

Sure she did.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jHbiu...26P80

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