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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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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 The Strange Death of Knowing Stuff Wed Dec 24, 2025 19:00 | Dave Summers
In his Sixth Form Christmas quiz this year, none of Dave Summers's students could name the author of To Kill a Mockingbird ? previously one of the easy questions. Another sign that wokery is dissolving our culture.
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offsite link Will Labour Ban Christmas Carols Next? Wed Dec 24, 2025 17:00 | Julian Mann
If Christmas songs fall foul of Labour's 'banter ban', Christmas carols ? with their 'offensive' assertions of the divinity of Christ that are deemed blasphemous by Islam ? are even more likely to, says Julian Mann.
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offsite link Starmer to Push Britain into Stricter Net Zero Targets Under EU Deal Wed Dec 24, 2025 15:26 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer is preparing to tie Britain to the EU's Net Zero plans in a move that would impose radically stricter 'green' energy targets on homes and businesses, leading to further deindustrialisation and impoverishment.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday June 21, 2011 21:22 by LCW   text 1 comment (last - friday august 05, 2011 14:34)
Three English Catholic Workers were today convicted at Newbury Magistrates Court of Criminal Trespass under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA), and Criminal Damage.

The convictions follows a protest at the Atomic Weapons Establishment in September 2010 organised by the Catholic Worker. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday December 30, 2010 11:26 by lcw   text 11 comments (last - sunday january 02, 2011 05:09)   image 22 images
NORTHWOOD PERMANENT JOINT HEADQUARTERS (British Military)
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/WhatWeDo...s.htm

Catholic Workers from St Francis House/ Oxford, Farmhouse/ Rickmansworth http://www.thecatholicworkerfarm.org/
and Giuseppe Conlon House/ London communities www.londoncatholicworker.org were joined by 20 anti-war activists, in solidarity with the imprisoned Pfc Bradley Manning, http://www.bradleymanning.org/
and in resistance to the continued war on Afghanistan, at the gates of Northwood HQ/ London on Wednesday morning Dec 29th.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday December 08, 2010 10:18 by Plowshares   text 10 comments (last - tuesday december 14, 2010 07:12)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
YOUTUBE (2min22sec)
- Irish/Australian Plowshare/Catholic Worker Activist Ciaron O'Reilly
does Solidarity Speaks Out Outside Westminster Court
While Assange Denied Bail!
- Solidarity with Assange and Manning!
http://youtu.be/8Tw98tv0sso

Hot Tips on organinsing solidarity around the imprisoned Julian Asasnge and Bradley Manning...... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday September 08, 2010 15:04 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 10 comments (last - thursday january 06, 2011 21:36)   image 3 images
A few months ago the Catholic Worker network in England decided to embark on a series of "Faith and Resistance Retreats" as a basis of nonviolently confronting the war & the war machine and deepening our broader sense of community beyond our specific projects & living/working situations. The first was timed to mark the 30th. anniversary of the original Plowshares 8 action and to nonviolently confront Britain's ongoing production and refinement of nuclear weapons at aldermaston. read full story / add a comment
Chris Cole, Fr. Martin Newell, Susan Clarkson
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday September 06, 2010 16:20 by Catholic Worker   text 5 comments (last - tuesday september 07, 2010 16:18)   image 3 images
AWE aldermaston Opened For Disarmament By Catholic Workers/Ploughshares Activists read full story / add a comment
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antrim / anti-war / imperialism / feature Sunday June 08, 2008 20:59 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 38 comments (last - saturday june 28, 2008 13:59)   image 4 images   1 attached file
The Raytheon 9 are an inspiration. I just got a phone call from my friend Les who's trying to get a plane ticket to get to Belfast for the Raytheon 9 trial. Les hasn't been to Northern Ireland since he did three tours with the British military. He says is it is so exciting that socialists and republicans are experimenting with nonviolent direct action and he wants to be there to support them at the trial. He says that this would be a great way for him to return to Northern Ireland - confront his past and celebrate a future with a community in resistance to war.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Tuesday December 18, 2007 11:06 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 15 comments (last - thursday january 17, 2008 21:03)   image 6 images
Well apparently they weren't all Grannies,

......but they were definitely ragin' in the best nonviolent sense and it certainly was an interesting demographic that kept knocking on the London Catholic Worker (LCW) door the previous night. Knocking for a meeting that was down at the Catholic Worker cafe. So my humble role of redirecting more militant traffic in the direction of the last fine tuning meeting remained constant.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Saturday August 04, 2007 18:14 by peacehq
Four participants in an 86-day walk from Dublin to London for a nuclear-free future have been arrested today at AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) aldermaston in Berkshire. They were protesting against the ongoing expansion at the facility. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / press release Monday April 16, 2007 10:44 by peacehq   text 1 comment (last - wednesday may 16, 2007 18:53)
The first of many international walkers have arrived in England to begin an 86 day Interfaith Peace Walk Towards a Nuclear Free Future from Dublin to London starting on the 12th of May 2007. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday November 29, 2005 23:11 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 4 comments (last - friday december 02, 2005 14:42)   image 1 image
After 3 1/2 years of activism - 3 of which have been spent on bail & in legal jeopardy - Dublin Catholic Worker defendants are taking 6 months off! The length of the legal process, absence form family & friends, limited resources have all taken their toll and demand that most of the defendants have to leave Dublin for a time. We'll be back at the beginning of June organizing around our third trial and in opposition to continued Irish participation in the U.S invasion of Iraq.

We are hoping to keep our house going and are wondering if there are any sympathetic folks interested in renting in a shared house with an anti-war orientation and solidarity with the ploughshares defendants. If interested phone 087 918 4552. Today is the 25th anniversary of our founder Dorothy Day's death.... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday August 05, 2005 11:44 by Orla   text 8 comments (last - thursday august 11, 2005 11:56)   image 1 image
9 arrested at aldermaston Nuclear Weapons Factory (England) marking 60th Anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki



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international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Friday October 29, 2004 15:03 by Eoin Dubsky
Six ‘Trident Ploughshares’ anti-war activists from Leicester, London and Norwich, who this June entered Burghfield, one of Britain’s WMD bases, and put it out of action for over an hour -- left Reading Magistrates’ Court this afternoon disappointed that the Magistrate had found four of them guilty of criminal damage (the other two had accepted ‘bindovers’ and so the charges against them were dropped), but pleased that their arguments about why their actions were valid under international law were at least heard sympathetically by the Court. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday April 29, 2004 14:40 by Ciaron O'Reilly
The Catholic Worker Movement founded by French soapbox philospher Peter Maurin and New Yorker journalist activist Dorothy Day in NYC in 1933. A radical christian-anarchist-pacifist movement it compromises of approx. 90 autonomous communities in North America, a dozen in Canada, a couple in Mexico and also communites in Brisbane/OZ, Auckland & Christchurch/Aotearoa, Glasgow, London, Oxford, Amsterdam, Dortmund, Hamburg & Dublin.

The movements themes remain the practise of the Acts of Mercy, nonviolent resistance and intentional faith based community. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday April 05, 2004 08:03 by Pit Stop PLoughshares   text 2 comments (last - wednesday april 07, 2004 19:36)
The Pit Stop Ploughshares await trial on charges arising out of their nonviolent disarmament of a US Navy war Plane at Shannon Airport on February 3rd. 2003. Conviction carries maximum penalties of 10 years imprisonment read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday February 11, 2003 08:22 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 6 comments (last - tuesday february 11, 2003 19:42)
SUPPORT PLOUGHSHARES PRISONERS BRING INFLATABLE HAMMERS TO THE 15TH! read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday June 30, 2002 12:52 by Brendan Shine
In the observer today. Sites all over the UK have medium level waste stored in a dangerous state. http://www.observer.co.uk/politics/story/0,6903,746724,00.html http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,746079,00.html http://www.defra.gov.uk/rwmac/reports/interwaste/index.htm read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday June 16, 2002 22:56 by Channel4.com   text 1 comment (last - monday june 17, 2002 11:09)
The British Government will go ahead with a planning application next week to construct a massive new nuclear weapons facility at aldermaston in Berkshire. Anti-nuclear campaigners fear it will be used to create a new generation of warheads when the Government is committed by treaty to eliminating our nuclear weapons. read full story / add a comment
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