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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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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.

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offsite link The Daily Sceptic Christmas Appeal Thu Dec 25, 2025 07:00 | Toby Young
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offsite link News Round-Up Thu Dec 25, 2025 01:03 | 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 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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Search words: colombia AND coke

dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday February 22, 2010 21:46 by Morbeg
UCD Student Union Council has called for a referendum in an attempt to repeal the boycott of Coca Cola products in SU outlets, which was put in place by referendum in 2003. When this referendum was passed it made UCDSU the first students union in the world to support the call for a boycott made by SINALTRAINAL a Columbian trade union whose members have been threatened AND killed as part of a brutal campaign to stifle trade union activity in their bottling plants in Columbia since the beginning of the1990s.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday September 18, 2009 01:33 by Marc Spring   text 20 comments (last - saturday march 27, 2010 13:18)
Jack O'Connor AND SIPTU leaders are making some noises about the outrageous treatment of Irish Coca Cola workers these days, but does anyone remember that they vitriolically attacked a campaign of solidarity with Colombian Coca Cola workers whose lives were threatened, a short few years ago? read full story / add a comment
Untinkable undrinkable
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday March 01, 2007 22:45 by Boycott Killer coke   text 10 comments (last - tuesday march 06, 2007 14:56)   image 1 image
Trinity Students have voted in a landslide victory for the boycott of Coca Cola products due to the murder of coke workers AND trade unionists in colombia. Since 2004 the Trinity Student Union controlled shops have ceased to sell all Coca Cola products. Over 2,000 students voted in support of the boycott – the largest number of Trinity students ever to support the boycott. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday February 27, 2007 12:31 by Boycott Killer coke   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 27, 2007 21:02)   image 3 images
There was a good turnout in the Davis Theatre in Trinity for a meeting hosted by TCD One World, Anarchist Society, Labour Youth, Pol Soc AND SWSS.

The meeting started with two short news videos which featured Coca Cola workers in colombia AND also the leader of an independent investigation to the bottling plants. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Friday February 16, 2007 00:41 by Topper   text 3 comments (last - monday february 19, 2007 12:07)   image 1 image
Trade unionists in colombia have been threatened with execution by right-wing paramilitaries because of their role in the Coca Cola boycott campaign. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday October 31, 2006 19:06 by Lefty Type   text 4 comments (last - wednesday november 01, 2006 16:03)   image 1 image
colombia Solidarity calls for the GAA to end its sponsorship deal with Coca-Cola read full story / add a comment
Boycott Killer Coke campaign
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday June 14, 2006 16:32 by Jim   text 6 comments (last - thursday june 15, 2006 17:21)   image 2 images
Interview with UK students Against coke activist Claire Hall who is coming to Ireland this weekend to speaking at the Connolly Festival. Lara Coleman from London based colombia Solidarity who has just returned from colombia where she worked for two months with Sinaltrainal will also be speaking. The meeting will take place at 11.30 in the Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square this Saturday June 17th
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Profits of extermination
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Saturday March 11, 2006 00:26 by colombia Solidarity   text 1 comment (last - monday march 13, 2006 13:51)   image 5 images
Harry Browne (journalist AND anti-war activist) AND Senator David Norris (Joycean scholar, anti war AND gay rights campaigner) launched the "The Profits of Extermination. How U.S. Corporate Power is destroying colombia" in Trinity College on Thursday night. The Author is Francisco Ramirez Cuellar, President of Sintraminercol (The Miners Union of colombia). Introduction AND translation by Aviva Chomsky. Several attempts have been made to assasinate the author since the book was published. The book outlines how corporate greed has resulted in human rights abuses in colombia.

The event was Organised by colombia Solidarity Network AND Trinity One World Society in collaboration with Latin America Solidarity Centre. For copies of the book at sale at the discount price of ten euro you can email - colombia (at) lasc.ie . read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday February 02, 2006 16:36 by Dan   text 15 comments (last - tuesday february 21, 2006 18:52)   image 1 image
As US students vote to support the boycott campaign, Irish activists will be meeting to discuss the nest step read full story / add a comment
& if one of those bottles should accidently fall, there'll be.....green bottles
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Saturday December 17, 2005 15:28 by Rt. Hon. Dr. O as if   text 12 comments (last - saturday may 26, 2007 11:50)   image 3 images
Christmas will soon be upon us, the batteries will wear out, conversation will stimie, the turkey will curl AND your spirits with it. Thus no more timely ocassion to remind everyone of the great AND noble tradition of Irish Parlour Games.

There are many which will brighten your yuletide, AND i've thoughtfully made a small selection which will challenge all ages AND levels of intelligence.

There's surely an irish Parlour Game to suit you AND yours on this little "human interest" list.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday June 30, 2005 03:49 by colombia Solidarity Network
An Irish delegation of student AND trade
union activists from the colombia Solidarity Network have just finished a series of meetings in Bogota. They have met with trade union, youth, student, farmer, indigenous, womens AND progressive organisations in Bogota. The delegation is comprised of activists who have been involved in the boycott coke campaign. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Monday May 30, 2005 22:36 by Jane   text 171 comments (last - wednesday june 15, 2005 19:04)   image 8 images
The 2005 Labour Party National Conference has today voted overwhelmingly in favour of the motion brought by the UCD Pat Upton Branch expressing solidarity with the Coca-Cola workers of both colombia AND of the Naas Rd, Dublin. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Sunday May 01, 2005 14:48 by Gearoid O Loingsigh   text 153 comments (last - monday june 06, 2005 21:35)   image 11 images
Coca Cola have repaid Siptu's loyalty on the boycott issue by closing down the one plant where an anti-boycott campaign was launched. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday March 09, 2005 14:47 by Lasc
coke protestors hit coke's distribution. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday December 08, 2004 13:29 by Lasc   text 11 comments (last - sunday may 29, 2005 17:32)
Below is the text of an open letter to Siptu re the threats made by Anne Speed AND Jack McGinley to run a campaign against the Colombian union Sinaltrainal. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday November 12, 2004 08:42 by James F. Harrington
As you read this article, the Coca-Cola company is using para-military goon squads to kidnap, torture, AND kill union organizers at their plants in Columbia, South America. read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / news report Friday October 29, 2004 14:55 by Lasc   text 1 comment (last - monday november 01, 2004 11:51)
The IUF which has been to the forefront in attacking Sinaltrainal AND the boycott is to testify on behalf of Del Monte in Guatemala against its own affiliates. read full story / add a comment
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Monday October 11, 2004 16:27 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 22 comments (last - tuesday november 09, 2004 15:02)   image 2 images
Edgar Paez a leader of the Colombian Coca Cola workers’ union Sinaltrainal is due to visit Ireland to meet with Irish trade unionists AND to address the Irish public. The international boycott of coke products launched by Sinaltrainal last year has received the support of three unions that operate in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday July 22, 2004 23:15 by Gearóid Ó Loingsigh   text 7 comments (last - wednesday august 04, 2004 15:05)   image 1 image
Javier Correa, President of Sinaltrainal (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Industria de Alimentos-colombia), gives an evaluation of the Coca Cola Boycott campaign one year after the beginning of the boycott. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Tuesday July 20, 2004 14:57 by Lasc   text 5 comments (last - sunday july 25, 2004 04:09)
The boycott which was called last year has been renewed for another year as coke have not moved on the issue. read full story / add a comment
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