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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.

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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

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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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National - Event Notice
Thursday January 01 1970

Claiming Our Future

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | event notice author Wednesday September 29, 2010 00:48author by Con Carroll Report this post to the editors

political class analysis

why should we sit moan and watch Television becoming angry. yes folks it is now been realise that total financial bail out to Anglo Irish. could cost Irish tax payers 30 billion plus. Seannie tells us that he earns 188 a month. werte are the poster and tee shirts of Karl Marx I told you so

Mary Murphy. Maynooth College, announced on the Vincent Browne show tv3. Tuesday 28.
about forthcoming conference Claiming Our Future

Venue RDS
Date Saturday 30 0ctober
Time 9am
info www.claimingourfuture.ie
455,000 people unemployed. political right wing attacks, about the rights of minium wage. by people interviewed by Marion Finucane. RTE, Sunday 26 September.

political class analysis is demanded. we dont need to be hood winked by elected labour party members in the Dail. if we don't have class political analysis. we are barking up the wrong tree

Capitalism is the Enemy. remember IBEC dinner 1300 euro a plate in Mansion house with Cowan in attendance

attacks by right wing economic commenators. cuts in health education people on social welfare benefits.

Related Link: http://www.claimingourfuture.ie
author by D_Dpublication date Mon Oct 18, 2010 17:23author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This event is totally oversubscribed.

Amazing!

author by JC - Nonepublication date Tue Oct 19, 2010 10:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Some of the comments from people in Claiming Our Future last night on Frontline were quite worrying. Niall Crowley bottled it on the question of corporation tax. Also the contribution from Tasc person was shockingly bad.
What do others think?

author by No Con Man - Ex Parish Councilpublication date Tue Oct 19, 2010 12:52author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This conference is an academic talking shop for people wo do not want change but to go along with the status quo. Are you finally being won over by the right Con? It looks that way

author by tired of being lied topublication date Tue Oct 26, 2010 13:16author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Unfortunately a lot of the organisers of this event have "form" in terms of talking up a storm about how bad things are - then doing their very best to get back into partnership on any terms possible. This goes for ICTU (very obviously), Is Feidir Linn, the environmental pillar and TASC for example.

Rather than genuinely build a movement it's clear that a number of the organisers (there are also some genuine people among them) are mainly interested in a rebuilt partnership arrangement once Labour are in coalition with FG - bringing it down to the basics.

The very elaborate process looks good on paper but is liable to break down as soon as it becomes clear that there are huge controversies over the basic issue of what the ultimate goals ("values") should be and how they should be achieved. In which case no doubt a committee of the usual suspects will draw up further plans reflecting their own core priorities of partnership at any cost and as conservative a programme as can possibly be sold to activists who are hopping mad about the outcomes of two decades of cosying up to the rich and powerful and being left in the gutter at the end of it.

Have a look at their "choices" document - http://www.claimingourfuture.ie/?page_id=2 - to see what this is likely to look like: and then think who this can possibly be addressed to.

author by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite partypublication date Tue Oct 26, 2010 14:05author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I dunno.Its plain enough english, more cliched than jargonised. I'd always look for the good fraction of the curate's egg. I only glanced down it, but found what I think has to be central, not to recovery(back to the same bullshit) but for transformation.

That one about a maximal personal income being restricted to a set multiple of the minimal wage and an absolute limit to individual control of resources. Also the tax on financial transactions.

Lotsa cotton wool, aspiration and platitude smelling of Mom 'n' Apple Pie, but as V said somewhere, pie in the sky can constitute food for thought.
Notta lotta bout the global elements.

author by Anti-capitalistpublication date Sat Oct 30, 2010 15:21author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The web feed from the Claiming our Future Conference is running a series of ads. from BP across the bottom of the video. The conference is proclaiming the values of equality and sustainability. Let's add one more: HYPOCRISY.
Surely having BP ads running on the video shows a depressing lack of political awareness on the part of the organizers. Depending on the murderers of Ken Saro-Wiwa to finance this conference is a political obscenity.
-Ogoniland is in the eastern part of the Niger Delta. Half a million Ogoni tribespeople live there. Shell-BP, operating under the protection of the ex-colonial power Great Britain, found oil there in 1956 and have robbed £100 billion of black gold from the region. The Ogoni got nothing but the utter ruination of their lands and livelihoods. The money was split between the corrupt Nigerian elite and the corrupt Corporate elite. The Ogoni continue to live in abject poverty, with many villages lacking clean water, electricity, schools or basic health care.-
http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news520.htm

author by A.Cpublication date Sat Oct 30, 2010 15:37author address author phone Report this post to the editors

These BP ads ran during the lunch hour interval.

author by Soundmigrationpublication date Sun Oct 31, 2010 17:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

An open letter to the participants of "Claiming Our Future"

from activists on the CEESA MA

This pioneering gathering of people will be a first in creating a space to explore real change. By beginning this process in overcoming mistrust and engaging in genuine conversations, will demonstrate the power of dialogue, even in the bleakest times can abolish despair and offer hope.

This letter seeks to be one departure point for a conversation amongst those in Ireland who are committed to the ideas, practices and values that underpinned the concepts of social justice, equality and participatory democracy. We welcome the conveners call to “foster a unity across civil society and to power a progressive movement to reshape Ireland’s recovery and claim our social values.” We seek to play a proactive role in the creation and sustaining of such a movement.

How we look forward is shaped by our shared lived experiences and critical perspectives of the historical and structural forces that have lead us to where we are today. We feel that there is a need to state in the clearest possible terms both what values we see at the core of our vision for our future, and the steps we will take to make such transformations plausible and sustainable. We seek to be both proactive and positive, though it would be naïve and counterproductive for us to remain silent about what our experiences and history has taught us so far.

Our understanding of equality, social justice, sustainability and democracy are shaped as much by an understanding of all that negates these possibilities -what doesn’t work - as it is by what we think will work. These values only have meaning in practice, and can only be found in the process of creating them if they are to be more than nice ideas. As such any moments for genuine change are as much movements of organised hope as they are movements against inequality. All things/structures/institutions that inhibit them, regardless of rhetoric, should be seen as historical remnants to be radically reformed or replaced entirely.

We reject the model of social partnership with political and economic elite. Our communities, workplaces, health systems and environment have been ripped asunder and plundered. As programmes and projects collapse through dependency on a political and economic system that does not serve us, it would be a foolish strategy to travel that road again. Partnership served only a few, whilst our voices have been mediated, professionalised, managed and ultimately discarded. We need to draw the lesson from this and never again let our movements become toothless. We need to look at ways of building strategic autonomy into how we do this so that our movements will not become dependent upon the very structures and elites that threaten our futures today

Social justice, equality and democracy cannot be fully realised under capitalism. Indeed, the structures of capitalism are perhaps the single biggest cause of injustice in the world. It has not and never will be a friend of the voiceless. We hear a lot about “economic reality” as if it is the only issue of concern and that its recovery is the solution to all the wrongs. We are now asked to press pause on the need for a genuine democracy so that abstract “markets” can have “confidence”.

We argue that another reality exists. What has been called an "economic” crisis is actually a structural crisis within our societies It is simultaneously a democratic crisis, an ecological crisis and an energy crisis. It is our reality that unelected unaccountable institutions like the IMF, European Central Bank, and World Bank, alongside corporations and servile political systems, have been the instruments of injustice and inequality across the globe. These institutions have no legitimacy in defining the quality of life for the majority of the world, including us here in Ireland. They neither seek to represent us, nor ask us for our consent in making decisions that affect our lives now and future generations. As such our movements should seek to dismantle these institutions and give power back to ordinary people. Whilst changes may take time, we need to be clear that our ultimate aims require the removal of all structures of domination, coercion and exploitation.

Whilst we seek to explore and begin to build towards movements that embody our visions in Ireland, we are mindful of the millions across the globe who are participating in the same project. In finding solutions to the problems we have in Ireland, we understand their global nature, and we should actively seek to learn and link up with those beyond our borders who are doing the same. Rebuilding our lives and helping our global communities will inspire growth in a new generation of real social justice, equality and participatory democracy, and assist in a better understanding our environments and ourselves.

Let us use the opportunity that is being presented to us in this crisis to build connections across sectors. It is an opportunity to build unity through focusing on common goals and putting aside our differences. We need to listen to each other, really listen, in order to understand what is being said, not so that we can defend ourselves, but so that we can really learn from each other’s experiences. We need to relearn to think and act collectively in contradiction to the individualisation that the capitalist regime foisted on us. We need to ensure as we move forward that we do so slowly so that those who are now excluded can be brought in, welcomed and that what they have to say is heard. We need to find a new way to build a new world, one where gender equality is a given and where all oppressed groups equally participate.

Let us act together with courage and not through fear.

Bridie Costelloe (Le Cheile Adult Education, Research and Consultancy)

Sian Crowley (Seomra Spraoi)

Alice McDonnell (Women 2000, CAL - Children and Adults Learning, Le Cheile Adult Education, Research and Consultancy)

Mark Malone (Workers Solidarity Movement)

Ray McKinlay (CEESA MA)

Breda Murphy (Waterford Women's Centre)

Simon O Donovan (CEESA MA)

Laurence Cox (Grassroots Gatherings, Interface)

Jerrieann Sullivan (Gluaiseacht)

and other participants in the "Community Education, Equality and Social Activism" MA

All signatories are in a personal capacity only.

Related Link: http://ceesa-ma.blogspot.com/
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