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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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national / crime and justice / other press Thursday October 13, 2005 10:13 by max   text 43 comments (last - saturday april 22, 2006 20:05)
Father Alex Ried (one of the two Clergymen who wittnessed the recent IRA decomissioning) angered Unuionists during a heated public debate in south Belfast when he drew parallells between the Unuionist treatment of nationalists and the treatment of The Jews by Nazis during the second World War.

Fr Ried made the comments when his integrity as a wittness was questioned by certin members of the audience. He stated:

: "The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. It was like the Nazis treatment of the Jews."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4337068.stm read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday October 12, 2005 18:52 by dunk
"civic life" - the desperate optimists
"looking on"- se merry doyle
"the street" - liam nolan (DIT media) read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday October 12, 2005 18:32 by dunk
IFI, irish film istitute will introduce a Moore St Montage, central reading room, ILAC library, 6pm,
followed by;

Alive Alive O- a requiem for dublin
Se Merry Doyle's acclaimed documentary on street trading in Dublin

more info contact
amandahealy@gmail.com
or phone 0877867545

more info on 3 week project, Moore St. lening library
see
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=72169&search_text=moore%20st read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 12, 2005 17:50 by Miriam Cotton   text 5 comments (last - tuesday january 22, 2008 20:34)
At a public meeting in Co Cork, a parent in the audience inadvertently used the expression ‘his SNA’ in referring to her son’s Special Needs Assistant while asking a question of one of the speakers. It was an incidental thing in terms of the woman's question but it was interpreted as its central point by the CEO of the National Council for Special Education, Mr Pat Curtain, who was there to tell about all the progress being made by the NCSE in implementing the Education of Persons with Special Needs Act 2004. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday October 12, 2005 15:52 by cleaves
The Industrial Relations debate in Australia is noted by the lack of involvement of those most affected – the entire working population of the nation! We witness various politicians, churchmen, union officials arguing the issues but we do not witness a mobilisation of the workforce ending the argument one way or the other. It is the workforce that must determine its own course or be led by slimy politicians and corporate bosses. read full story / add a comment
kildare / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday October 12, 2005 15:00 by Lara Kelly
Trocaire and NUI Maynooth Amnesty and Global Awareness Societies present an evening talk on Gender, Conflict and Development with Charm Tong.

Charm Tong is a member of the Shan ethnic community in Burma, who was forced into exile in Thailand. She is a frontline activist and advocate for human rights, who helped to found the Shan Women's Action Network (SWAN) and a school for Shan youth.

Charm has brought international attention to the human rights abuses experienced by the Shan at the hands of the Burmese military. At just 23 years old, Charm was the recipient of the 2005 Reebok Human Rights Award.

Join us on Monday 17th October in NUI Maynooth.
7 pm, John Hume Building 6

Everyone welcome! read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Wednesday October 12, 2005 14:32 by -
Some 45 police and medical staff are going on trial today accused of mistreating protesters that had been arrested and held at a camp near Genoa.
this is the "Bolzaneto torture trial".

On Friday, 28 officers will appear in court over a raid at a school which protesters were using as a dormitory.

this is the follow up to the beginning of the court proceedings on April 6th 2005 which saw police first testify on May 4th
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69680

These cases focus more on the Diaz school incidents than Guiliani, but the whole thing comes together and indeed all these investigations and trials are concurrent now which heightens their contemporary political effect.

Today thus marks "the next stage". read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday October 12, 2005 11:43 by saving iceland   text 4 comments (last - friday october 14, 2005 11:58)
HELP! NATURE UNDER ATTACK!STOP THEM KILLING ICELAND!
Stop the Icelandic government and Alcoa destroying Europe’s last remaining wilderness for an aluminium plant!
Be aware of the ‘master plan’ to ‘develop’ Iceland’s beautiful nature into a heavy industry hell servicing the greed of multinational vandals!

It has already started. The Karahnjukar dam project in the Icelandic highlands is well under way... But it can be stopped! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday October 11, 2005 20:54 by Colombia Solidarity Network
A leader of the communities in southern bolivar, Colombia was arrested by the army along with two others. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday October 11, 2005 18:27 by UCD Anti-Racism Campaign   text 25 comments (last - monday october 17, 2005 03:32)
Earlier today members of the UCD Anti-Racism Campaign held a spur of the moment protest on the Gaelic pitches of UCD where a match between the Gardaí and the PSNI was played. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday October 11, 2005 18:17 by Michael   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 27, 2005 09:54)
There will be a Samhain Celebration at 47 Middle Abbey Street, on October 29th. It's an old Georgian house on Middle Abbey Street,
Dublin. It will be a wild night, with prizes for costume, games, live music and DJs. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday October 11, 2005 15:28 by Tadhg
The campaign is obviously continuing and our Tuesday night meetings will still go ahead. Anyone who is interested in the campaign is welcome to attend. Call Tadhg on 0876181620 or email DublinShelltoSea@gmail.com, or just show up.

For the next few Tuesdays the Tailors' Hall at Christchurch is unavailable- therefore we will meet at the EENGO office on Camden Street.

EENGO is where we used to hold the Shell to Sea meetings -

10a Lower Camden Street,
above a shop called Bounty Stores,
across the road from the Camden Palace. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday October 11, 2005 14:30 by paddy savage   text 10 comments (last - friday october 14, 2005 03:17)
The vatican is ruling on a ban to stop gay people from becoming priests. It was said that due to the recent explosion of child abuse claims and cases,the fat cats in the vat are making a connection between homosexuals and child abusers. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday October 11, 2005 11:36 by Justin Morahan
Protest at US Embassy

Asia Pasinska has organised this every morning this week from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m, and invites other anti-war people to join her.
She will be there again on Friday October 14th, protesting and leafleting
Asia has already spent all of last week doing a similar morning protest outside the Embassy. Her own banner carries a famous quotation from Pope John Paul II. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday October 11, 2005 11:30 by Justin Morahan
Asia Pasinska has organised this every morning this week from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m, and invites other anti-war people to join her.
She will be there again on Thursday October 13th, protesting and leafleting
Asia has already spent all of last week doing a similar morning protest outside the Embassy. Her own banner carries a famous quotation from Pope John Paul II. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Tuesday October 11, 2005 02:04 by Dr. Coilín Oscar ÓhAiseadha   text 11 comments (last - thursday october 20, 2005 11:57)
Tomorrow, Tuesday 11 October 2005, at 2:00 pm, a group of Danish citizens will deliver a document to the Danish High Court (Østre Landsret, Justitskontoret, Fredericiagade 26, Copenhagen) instituting legal proceedings against Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen for breaches of the Constitution in connection with Denmark’s participation in the war in Iraq. Denmark’s participation, under American command and without a UN mandate, was based on the decision of 61 members of the parliament on 21 March 2003.

A press conference will take place immediately following the event, at 3:00 p.m. at Restaurant Kongens Have, Kronprinsessegade 13, Copenhagen K. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Monday October 10, 2005 21:41 by Rachel
Dublin City Anna Livia 103.2 FM's weekly show from 12.30 -1pm Tuesdays, on issues of sustainable development. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday October 10, 2005 15:49 by Justin Morahan   text 5 comments (last - wednesday october 12, 2005 18:30)
This letter was sent to United States Ambassador James Kenny at the US Embassy, Elgin Road, Dublin earlier this afternoon read full story / add a comment
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