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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

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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offsite link Oxford Students ?Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Wh... Sat Sep 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Students with links to Oxford University?have mocked the assassination of?Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp?and tried to silence others who did not agree, it's been reported, with many explicitly endorsing political violence.
The post Oxford Students “Mocked the Assassination of Charlie Kirk on WhatsApp and Tried to Silence Anyone Who Didn’t Agree” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link ?Britain Can?t Deport Me?: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel Sat Sep 20, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Migrants in Calais have vowed to cross the Channel "again and again", saying "Britain can't deport me", as Keir Starmer's 'one in, one out' deal?with France faces a wave of legal challenges.
The post “Britain Can’t Deport Me”: Calais Migrants Vow to Keep Crossing Channel appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist Sat Sep 20, 2025 09:00 | Hannes Sarv
It's not CO2 that drives the climate, says astrophysicist Dr Henrik Svensmark. Its the Sun and cosmic rays. But you won't hear about this because only one viewpoint is now allowed in the pseudo-science of climate.
The post Sun and Cosmic Rays Drive Climate, Not CO2, Says Astrophysicist appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The ?Far Left? Finally Gets Its Comeuppance Sat Sep 20, 2025 07:00 | James Alexander
For years the Left has smeared its opponents as 'far Right'. Now, the spike in Leftist political violence has led to a turning of the tables. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the Guardian, says Prof James Alexander.
The post The ‘Far Left’ Finally Gets Its Comeuppance appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday August 03, 2005 11:02 by Dissent Ireland   text 5 comments (last - monday august 08, 2005 15:23)
2pm, St Nicholas of Myra Hall, Francis St, Dublin 8: Following the G8 summit mobilisation in July, where now for Dissent Ireland? And what of the Dublin Grassroots Network? Should they continue in their present forms? The meeting will also discuss prisoner support arising from the G8 protests. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 02, 2005 22:26 by Memmbers of Dublin's Brazilian Community   text 13 comments (last - friday august 05, 2005 12:48)
A demonstration has been organised in Dublin in response to the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes by the London Metropolitan Police and the British shoot-to-kill policy.

The demonstration will take place on Thursday 4th of August from 6pm on, in front of the British Embassy in Dublin:

British Embassy
29 Merrion Road
BALLSBRIDGE
Dublin 4
(near the Herbert Hotel)

Please come, bring flowers, candles and sign the book of condolences.

The demonstration is peaceful and intends solely to express condolences to the victim's family and to show public indignation and concern with such
cruel and unlawful policy. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday August 02, 2005 19:54 by William Finnerty
The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

Articles 6.3.b and 6.3.c read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday August 02, 2005 18:12 by M. Ní Sheighin   text 9 comments (last - wednesday august 03, 2005 16:08)
It has been announced that Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources Noel Dempsey has granted consent for work to begin on the offshore section of the Corrib Gas pipeline. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Tuesday August 02, 2005 17:21 by Joe
Keeping the pressure on Statoil who are 1/3 of the consortum building the Mayo pipeline that has seen 5 locals jailed there will be a picket of the Statoil garage on Ushers Quay at 6pm this Friday. See you there ... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 02, 2005 14:45 by Coma
In respect of victims of brutal police attack. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 02, 2005 13:17 by Paul McAndrew   text 2 comments (last - thursday august 04, 2005 14:27)
We’ve just been celebrating Queer Pride in Cork 2005, We’ve won a lot of battles and these days it seems we’re feeling smug and respectable enough to ally ourselves with the forces of bigotry and intolerance, thinking it will strengthen our grip on our own rights read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday August 02, 2005 11:48 by Ciaron   text 2 comments (last - monday august 08, 2005 04:31)
Saturday 10am -12 noon

*Anti-Nuclear Weapons Vigil at U.S. Embassy
(cnr. Pembroke & Elgin) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Tuesday August 02, 2005 11:05 by Ciaron   text 4 comments (last - thursday august 04, 2005 13:51)
Last week in a U.S. military court, Sgt. Kevin Benderman was sentenced to 15 months for refusing redeployment to Iraq.

Benderman had previously been deployed to Iraq for 8 months before concluding the U.S. war on Iraq to be immoral and illegal.

As nonviolent resistance to this war grows, there will be a growing number of brothers and sisters facing the courts & court martial, in brigs and prisons.

*Consider sending a solidarity postcard or letter to the folks on this posting.
*Check out Benderman's web site below.... read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 02, 2005 10:02 by Tom Lonergan
Leila Khalid, a member of the Palestinian National Council, which is the equivalent of the Palestinian Parliament, will speak in Buswells Hotel in Dublin on Thursday August 4th at 7-30pm. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday August 02, 2005 00:32 by Eoin Dubsky   text 13 comments (last - friday august 05, 2005 20:52)
Judge Macken appears to have put off returning a judgement for the Judicial Review I began the same week I spray-painted a USAF C-130 warplane at Shannon Airport until this autumn.

That'll make it four years since the day the President of the High Court granted me leave to seek a judicial review of Ireland's part in the Afghanistan war, 12 September 2002. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Monday August 01, 2005 22:05 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - thursday august 04, 2005 10:50)
Ian Clarke (the inventor of, among many other things, Freenet) has been singled out by a notorious US journalist that helped take down the US cracker Kevin Mitnick. The Freenet Project, involves a way to organise the distribution of information anonymously across computer networks in order to ensure anonymity. Now Clarke is being set up by NYT journalist John Markoff as a target of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) with claims that Freenet is not about freespeech and anonymity, but actually about trading copyrighted material. Slashdot also has a discussion on the matter which refutes this. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday August 01, 2005 21:12 by kalitara
Why does the world "hate" America? What is the base of the growing "anti-Americanism" in most countries? An American filmmaker talks to the citizens of the world to find out. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday August 01, 2005 19:29 by Davy Carlin   text 33 comments (last - thursday july 20, 2006 17:21)
Dear Friends.

Well, as stated, I am now to keep an online activist dairy. {This initial intro will be more extensive}. It will detail thoughts, political writings, poetry and much more, and at times it will be very heartfelt and personal.

Some detailing the past, while most being in relation to ongoing issues that I and others are involved in. It will also give the lighter side of life, and times and events as yet unaccounted for.

The dairy shall be updated on a monthly basis and will incorporate many issues of interest to activists, but also giving those personal thoughts and experiences

Therefore my first entry as attached. Davy Carlin. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday August 01, 2005 17:55 by bogoni
"Shell has said it is studying a letter
from the Minister for the Marine and
Natural Resources ordering the company
to dismantle three kilometres of gas
pipeline that it has assembled in north
Mayo.

The order was issued after it emerged
that the section of piping had been
welded together without ministerial
approval. " read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday August 01, 2005 15:57 by by email, from Liberty Hall
Details of SIPTU recgnition battle in Merck and adrresses for relevant websites. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Monday August 01, 2005 14:36 by Barra Ó Gríobhtha   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 20:48)
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0801/mayo.html

The Minister for Communications, Marine & Natural Resources, Noel Dempsey, has ordered Shell to dismantle three kilometres of pipeline it has constructed onshore in north Mayo.

It has emerged that the section of pipeline was welded together without Ministerial approval. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday August 01, 2005 14:07 by %   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 14:34)
87% of the world's opium grown in 2004 was grown in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has succeeded in growing more opium than in any other recorded year.

131,000 hectares of the country supplied the raw material for heroin addicts everywhere, this is an area a little smaller than the size of Leitrim, or if you prefer a little smaller than both counties Carlow and Louth together. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / news report Monday August 01, 2005 04:56 by Geri Timmons   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 06:07)
Scream from the roof tops Freedom For Leonard Peltier!! read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Monday August 01, 2005 01:08 by Provo sellouts are done!   text 5 comments (last - tuesday august 02, 2005 10:09)
The Irish Anti-Partition League, at home and abroad, have since the P-IRA statement of Thursday afternoon last, called for the "coming together" of all truly anti-imperialist elements in Ireland, so as to discuss the current situation and collectively formulate an agreed way forward. read full story / add a comment
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