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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

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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 Richard Dawkins: ?Trans Women Are Women? Slogan is Scientifically False Thu Sep 25, 2025 11:17 | Will Jones
The slogan 'trans women are women' is scientifically false and harms the rights of women,?Richard Dawkins?has said in a new book warning that scientific truth must prevail over "personal feelings".
The post Richard Dawkins: ‘Trans Women Are Women’ Slogan is Scientifically False appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link A New Definition of Freedom of Speech: An Unsackable Late Night Host Thu Sep 25, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
From liberal America, the people who brought you Covid and climate censorship and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we have a new definition of free speech: the unsackable late night host, says Prof James Alexander.
The post A New Definition of Freedom of Speech: An Unsackable Late Night Host appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Quakers Are Funding Open Borders Thu Sep 25, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Quaker foundations pour millions into organisations promoting open borders, interfering in our democracy and undermining voters' clear wish for security. Charlotte Gill investigates.
The post How Quakers Are Funding Open Borders appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Sep 25, 2025 00:46 | 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.
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offsite link ?Serious Safety Concerns? as Trans Criminals Remain in Women?s Prison Despite Supreme Court Ruling Wed Sep 24, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Male trans criminals are still being held in a women's prison despite the Supreme Court ruling that sexes must be segregated, with the independent monitor reporting serious safety and welfare concerns.
The post “Serious Safety Concerns” as Trans Criminals Remain in Women’s Prison Despite Supreme Court Ruling appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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IPSC: Irish Government must act on findings of UN HRC Report into Israel's Flotilla attack

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | press release author Thursday September 23, 2010 17:43author by IPSC - IPSCauthor email info at ipsc dot ie Report this post to the editors

Report declares blockade of Gaza and flotilla attack illegal, finds unlawful executions and use of “extreme” and “unnecessary” violence against passengers

The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) today welcomed the findings of the UN Human Rights Council investigation into Israel’s attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and called for the Irish Government to take action to sanction Israel over its illegal raid. The report found that Israel’s siege of Gaza is illegal and therefore the assault on the flotilla, which left nine people dead, was also illegal. Its findings also made clear that Israeli forces had unlawfully executed at least six people at sea, and used “extreme” and “unnecessary” violence against people – including Irish nationals - both at sea and in captivity.
The nine murdered members of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
The nine murdered members of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla

The UN report – for which four Irish flotilla participants were interviewed - also found "clear evidence to support prosecutions" against Israel for “wilful killing”, “torture or inhuman treatment” and “wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health”, and makes it clear that Israel violated raft of international humanitarian and human rights laws.

IPSC National Chairperson Freda Hughes said: “The UN report is a landmark and it vindicates the position of those who participated in the Flotilla and the comments of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) in discourses on the events at the time. Israel once again stands condemned by a UN inquiry, and meaningful action must be taken”.

Ms Hughes continued: “The IPSC has consistently welcomed the Irish Government’s statements condemning Israeli breaches of international law and human rights abuses against the Palestinian people. We have also always argued for the Government to take sanction the rogue state of Israel for these crimes. If Ireland were to implement sanctions it would serve as a wake-up call to Israel, showing that it cannot continue to commit human rights abuses, flaunt international legal norms and ignore UN Resolutions with complete impunity. Such a stance by Ireland would be a monumental setting of a precedent within the European Union and would represent an extremely positive development.”

Ms Hughes concluded: “As the Report outlines abuses and “extreme” and “unnecessary violence” perpetrated against Irish nationals, it is all the more incumbent on the Irish Government to act on the words of An Taoiseach Brian Cowen when he stated on in June that “if any harm comes to any of our citizens, it will have the most serious consequences”. It is time for Israel to feel those consequences.”

The IPSC has submitted a document[1] to all elected Irish representatives calling on the Irish Government to:

• Fully support any legal proceedings against those involved in the illegal attack on the Flotilla initiated by any of the Irish nationals on board.

• Cease all Irish arms purchases from Israeli companies and cancel those that have not yet been fully processed.

• Push at European Union level for Israel’s suspension from the Euro-Med Agreement which grants Israel preferential trading status with the EU. Israel is flagrantly in breach of its human rights obligations under Article 2 of that agreement.[2]

• Expel the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland, Boaz Modai, and recall the Irish Ambassador from Tel Aviv.

• Fully support the Irish Ship to Gaza Campaign and the sending of another Irish ship to participate in the Second Freedom Flotilla in October 2010.


Notes for Editors:

[1] The IPSC document, ‘The findings of the UN Human Rights Council Inquiry into Israel’s Flotilla attack: An illegal blockade, an illegal attack, unlawful executions and use of “extreme” and “unnecessary” violence against passengers’, can be accessed online here: http://www.ipsc.ie/pdf/IPSC_Briefing_Doc_23-09-2010_UNC...t.pdf

[2] It is regularly argued that Ireland cannot “go it alone” on this issue. However the fact that Ireland, standing alone, could put a temporary halt the recent EU data-sharing with Israel process shows that Ireland can persuade Europe to listen to concerns about Israel’s actions and that should Ireland seek the suspension of the Euro-Med agreement it could at the very least generate a far-reaching debate on the EU’s relationship to Israel.

Related Link: http://www.ipsc.ie

PDF Document IPSC Brieifng Document in response to UN HRC Report on Flotilla Attack 0.33 Mb


PDF Document UN HRC Report on Flotilla Attack 0.42 Mb
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