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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

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offsite link News Round-Up Sat Sep 20, 2025 01:09 | Toby Young
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 Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
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offsite link Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday October 19, 2005 12:38 by Ploughshares Defence Group   text 15 comments (last - friday october 21, 2005 13:51)
Five peace activists go to trial at Dublin's Four Courts, on Monday October 24th. facing a maximum ten year sentence if convicted. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday October 19, 2005 00:40 by Free Dessie O'Hare   text 9 comments (last - saturday october 22, 2005 20:05)
Members of the Free Dessie O’Hare Campaign will be holding a White-line
picket along the Derry-Donegal border at Bridgend this coming Saturday
22nd October at 3pm. The protest is part of a series of widespread
solidarity actions to highlight the continued unjust imprisonment of
Republican Socialist political prisoner Dessie O’Hare. read full story / add a comment
antrim / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 19, 2005 00:06 by Olga   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 19, 2005 12:05)
What's all the fuss about.

The recent leakage of 20 tonnes of plutonium and uranium fuel from sellafields Thorp processing plant has forced the closure of the Thorp processing plant. Radioactive waste leaked into a huge stainless steel chamber which is so radioactive it is impossible to enter. http://guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,1479527,00.html read full story / add a comment
kerry / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday October 18, 2005 21:33 by kieran McNulty   text 6 comments (last - monday october 24, 2005 18:30)
You are invited to bring your plackards and banners in support of the the following protests which will be taking place outside the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis which takes place at the Gleneagle Hotel, Killarney on Saturday, October 22nd.

Shell to Sea protesting at the Shell consortium's intention to process gas onshore at Rossport, County Mayo. Assemble 10.00am, opposite the Gleneagle Hotel.

Irish Antiwar Movement protesting against the use of Shannon Airport by the US military. A number of US aircraft are suspected of transporting prisoners to Guantanamo Bay detention centre. Assemble 10.00am opposite the Gleneagle Hotel.

Communications Workers Union protesting at staff and pay cuts in postal sorting offices. Commencing at St. Mary's Cathedral, 12.00 noon, finishing up with a rally outside the Gleneagle Hotel.

Salmon and Trout Anglers protesting at the depletion of salmon stocks particularly with the increased use of drift net fishing. Rally starts at 1.30pm. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday October 18, 2005 17:34 by EcoSoc
The Ecology Society of NUI, Galway will host a public meeting with members of the Pit Stop Ploughshares this Thursday, 20 October at 7.30 in the Fotteral Theatre. The Pitstop loughshares begin trial next Monday for two counts of criminal damage arising from their disarmament of a US warplane at Shannon airport in the early hours of 3 February 2003. If convicted they face up to ten years imprisonment. read full story / add a comment
mayo / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 18, 2005 17:00 by m.m.mccarron   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 18, 2005 18:21)
Irish Times on Corrib Shell Illegal Pipe Today.
Shell, break the pipe and obey the law! read full story / add a comment
dublin / racism & migration related issues / news report Tuesday October 18, 2005 16:38 by eeekkkk   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 18, 2005 18:15)
In protest at / in attempt to stop latest mass deportation. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday October 18, 2005 13:35 by Emma -RAR
Today at 2pm asylum seekers living in Dublin have to sign on at 2pm at the Garda National Immigration Bureau on Burgh Quay( near Tara Street train station). Asylum seekers living around the country have to sign on in their local garda stations and others have already been picked up today and others are in Clover Hill, Limerick prison and various other holding centres around the country.

Residents Against Racism will be at Burgh Quay today at 2pm and we need as many people there as possible to try and prevent people from being deported.
This HAS to stop-I will post later on to tell what happens later on . read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday October 18, 2005 11:22 by Tim Stott   text 10 comments (last - tuesday october 25, 2005 16:50)
There will be a public meeting on the politics of Noam Chomsky, the influential US academic who has been the most consistent critic of his country's aggressive foreign policy and the intimate relationship between government and corporate wealth, amongst many other things. S. Ni Chinneide will provide an overview of Chomsky's politics followed by discussion.
Monday, 24 October, 8.30pm - The Teachers' Club, Parnell Sq (West), Dublin 1.
All welcome. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday October 18, 2005 08:45 by OQT   text 78 comments (last - friday december 30, 2005 11:36)
The ‘People Before Profit Alliance’ will be launched by the SWP at a meeting in Dublin this week. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / event notice Tuesday October 18, 2005 04:51 by Tim O'Sullivan
9th ANNUAL ROGER CASEMENT SYMPOSIUM

The Unknown Great War Sat 22nd Oct 2005

Buswell’s Hotel, 25 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2

10.30 Introduction, News & Comment

- Various Speakers

11.00 How the Great War Came About

- Brendan Clifford

12.00 Britain’s Great War - Benedict’s Lost Peace

- Pat Walsh

2.30 Casement & Frank Ryan - Parallels?

- Manus O’Riordan

3.30 Reassessment of the Diaries Controversies

- by Mairead Wilson – Launch of Pamphlet

Tel:01-8379873. csmt-info@hotmail.com read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Tuesday October 18, 2005 00:07 by kimk
The global importance of reporting on climate issues and community climate action/protests cannot be overstated. To this end, I am proposing the resurrection of climate indymedia. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday October 17, 2005 22:12 by John Waters   text 15 comments (last - tuesday august 22, 2006 17:18)
I have heard of no case where the department has taken the most rudimentary steps to ascertain whether the so-called "absent father has declined to support his child or children. When did the department last contact such a man and ask him if he was willing to marry the mother, or to accept joint, or even sole custody of his child/children? Not one of, these 70,000 men owes mothers or the State a cent, because there can be no legal obligation on a father to pay "maintenance" for children he has not refused to support in these ways. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / press release Monday October 17, 2005 14:45 by Faolcu   text 39 comments (last - monday october 24, 2005 08:28)
wideyed arts initiative are seeking non nationals to participate in a short film project. The project involves the production of a short film using only non national cast and crew. read full story / add a comment
national / indymedia ireland / feature Monday October 17, 2005 06:49 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 27 comments (last - monday october 24, 2005 11:58)

Indymedia Ireland recently completed it's fourth year of uninterrupted service. Over those years 373 features, 16,503 stories, 13,893 images and 115,139 images have been published on the site. Our traffic has continued to increase and the quality and range of stories published continues to improve.

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national / miscellaneous / other press Monday October 17, 2005 00:42 by Colm Breathnach
The Irish Socialist Network, a participatory socialist and marxist organisation, founded in 2001, has just launched its new website:
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday October 16, 2005 20:55 by Dr. Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha
The father of a Danish soldier recently killed in Iraq has joined a well-organised legal campaign to prosecute Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen for leading Denmark to participate in the invasion of March 2003.

This development is of vital significance to the campaign, because the father of the dead soldier has an incontrovertible ‘legal interest’ in Denmark’s participation in the invasion. After all, he has lost his son as a consequence. Some legal experts had previously predicted that the constitutional case instituted on Tuesday would be dismissed for lack of such legal interest. read full story / add a comment
dublin / indymedia ireland / event notice Sunday October 16, 2005 18:24 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group   text 17 comments (last - thursday december 01, 2005 03:00)
Venue: EENGO Office, Camden Street, Dublin 8. (Above Bounty Stores, Opposite Ulster Bank).
Time 8pm

From November 2005 onwards, the Dublin Collective of indymedia Ireland will host a regular monthly meeting on the first Wednesday of every month. read full story / add a comment

dublin / indymedia ireland / event notice Sunday October 16, 2005 18:16 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group
Indymedia Ireland is organising a fundraising drive to raise the money to pay for our imminent server bills. This meeting will organise fundraising events for indymedia. It is open to all. We need your ideas and enthusiasm to help us pay the bills.

Venue: EENGO Office, Camden Street, Dublin 8. (Above Bounty Stores, Opposite Ulster Bank).
Time 8pm read full story / add a comment

national / anti-capitalism / press release Sunday October 16, 2005 13:42 by John Bissett   text 6 comments (last - tuesday october 18, 2005 00:43)
The popular anti-capitalist film "Capitalism and Other Kids' Stuff" is now out on DVD at £5.50 including p&p read full story / add a comment
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