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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

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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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 Britain?s Public Inquiries ? Unaffordable and Unscientific Sun Nov 23, 2025 13:00 | Dr David Livermore
Britain's public inquiries are a money pit, chasing stories that suit them while ignoring the facts. David Livermore calls out the Covid Inquiry for spinning dodgy stats and brushing aside the huge harm lockdowns did.
The post Britain?s Public Inquiries ? Unaffordable and Unscientific appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims Sun Nov 23, 2025 11:00 | Richard Eldred
There are growing claims the UK's visa system is being openly gamed, with record numbers of Pakistani nationals arriving on student, work and visitor visas and then switching to asylum.
The post Thousands of Pakistanis Using Visa Loopholes for Asylum Claims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link 30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do Sun Nov 23, 2025 09:00 | Laurie Wastell
Thirty Left-wing MPs have written to Ofcom to press it to censor X under the Online Safety Act. The evidence of 'hate' on the platform is threadbare, but it's obvious why they want to clip its wings, says Laurie Wastell.
The post 30 Left-Wing MPs Call on Ofcom to Censor X Under the Online Safety Act. Of Course They Do appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Exposed: How Green ?Philanthropy? Writes Scripts for Ulez ?Clean Air? Activists Sun Nov 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile highlights the work of Charlotte Gill exposing how green 'philanthropy' gives scripts to activists pushing 'clean air' schemes like Ulez as blatant proxies for the climate agenda.
The post Exposed: How Green ‘Philanthropy’ Writes Scripts for Ulez ‘Clean Air’ Activists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Is anti-semitism on the rise?

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Friday August 16, 2002 16:06author by Sean Bhean Bhocht - International Socialist Tendency Report this post to the editors

Socialist arguments against both Zionism and anti semitism

‘One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all [and that Jewish critics of Israel] have a basic complex…of guilt about Jewish survival.’

Abba Eban, Israeli Labour Party, in the Knesset, July 31, 1972

Coinciding with renewed public outrage over Israeli brutality against the Palestinians there have appeared a flurry of newspaper editorials accusing critics of Israel — specifically left-wing anti-Zionists — of being part of a new wave of anti-semitism. Britain’s chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks recently equated any criticism of Israel with a ‘calling into question the Jewish people’s right to exist collectively.’

A prominent Italian liberal, in a book described by the European Observatory on Racism as ‘explicitly anti-Muslim, anti-Arab and anti-immigrant,’ denounced Palestinian sympathizers as ‘anti-semites who would sell their own mothers to a harem to see Jews once again in the gas chambers’. Sharon himself has accused those demanding an investigation of war crimes in Jenin of committing anti-semitic ‘blood libel’.

What are we to make of all this? If there has been a palpable rise in anti-semitism in recent months, then socialists belong in the front lines of an urgent and forceful response. The fate of the Jewish people and of the left have been closely intertwined throughout the history of capitalism.

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Related Link: http://www.swp.ie/resources/Resistance%20Special%20Feature%20on%20Israel%20and%20Palestine.htm
author by Jon Wildepublication date Fri Aug 16, 2002 16:42author email jon.wilde at yahoo dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

1. "calling into question the Jewish people’s right to exist collectively."

2. "calling into question the right of the nation of Israel to use human shields, demolish houses containing families and kill men, women and children who simply happen to be caught in the sights of the tanks guns"

One of these is anti-semetic; one of them is not.

One of these is a question regularly being asked; one of them is not.

One of these is the question that Israel and her supporters say is anti-semetic; so is the other one.

It seems to me that ANY criticism of the Nation of Israel is interpreted as anti-semetism by Israel.

The question is NOT whether or not Jews are within their rights to do what they do, but whether or not Israelis are within their rights.
And there's a big difference.

author by Despublication date Fri Aug 16, 2002 18:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Adverse comments of the policies of Ariel Sharon (and his predecssors) reflect the horror of people at the Nazi style policies of the current Israeli government. The practice of the arrest and imprisonment of relatives of Palestinian resistance fighters bear a striking resemblence to the methods used by the German fascists, as does the destruction of Palestinian homes and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians who are replaced by "settlers" from other countries. To suggest that being critical of these policies equates with anti semitism is nonsense. The Nazi genocide directed against the Jewish people in Europe during WW2 was one of the most appalling crimes in the history of humankind. One can condemn such a crime and support the right of the Palestinian people to their own state without being in the most minute degree, racist. Attempts to use the memory of the millions of Jewish people to excuse the crimes of Sharon is a especially obscene insult to the memory of those totally innocent people.

author by Oliver O'Driscollpublication date Sat Aug 17, 2002 22:33author address author phone Report this post to the editors

More anti semitic crap, I admire the current Israeli government just about as much as any Palestinian in the West Bank or Gaza Strip, but it is not necessary to descend to the level of anti semitic racists to express our opposition to the policies of the Ariel Sharon government. Bothe the Jewish and Palestinian peoples have the right to their own states where they can live in peace and security.

 
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