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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

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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Human Rights in Ireland
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.

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 20:31 | imc

offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent

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

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offsite link Indonesian Rainforests Turned Into Open-Cast Mining Pits to Improve Range of High-End Electric Vehic... Mon Oct 20, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Eco Smugs may think they're saving the planet with high-end EVs, but the drive for longer battery range is destroying Indonesia's rainforests, warns the Daily Sceptic's Environment Editor.
The post Indonesian Rainforests Turned Into Open-Cast Mining Pits to Improve Range of High-End Electric Vehicles appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Hasn?t Lenny Henry Already Received Shedloads of Undeserved Racial ?Reparations? From the UK TV Indu... Mon Oct 20, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
If anyone deserves reparations, it's the poor BBC licence-fee-paying public, white and otherwise, who've funded Lenny Henry's alleged comedy career and racial grift for decades, argues Steven Tucker.
The post Hasn?t Lenny Henry Already Received Shedloads of Undeserved Racial ?Reparations? From the UK TV Industry and BBC Licence Fee Payer? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Mon Oct 20, 2025 01:13 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Small Wins Could Save the Government Sun Oct 19, 2025 19:00 | Joanna Gray
The Government is floundering like a sulky teen, but tackling small wins ? from tidying high streets to fixing DVLA chaos ? could help rebuild its confidence, suggests Joanna Gray.
The post How Small Wins Could Save the Government appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link No Kings, No Thrones, No Crowns? No Problem Sun Oct 19, 2025 17:00 | Dr Roger Watson
The US may be shut down, but in DC the National Guard outnumbers protesters, and as Dr Roger Watson notes, streets once full of tents and beggars prove Trump actually gets things done.
The post No Kings, No Thrones, No Crowns… No Problem appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Friday June 12, 2009 02:18 by Seomra Spraoi
Awesome vegan food, this & every Sunday at Seomra Spraoi. Food Served 3 to 4pm Suggested donation for food €4 /more/less as you can afford. Along with weekly Bike Workshops from 2 to 4pm, and Seomra Spraoi Cinema from 7.30 to 10pm

Venue: Seomra Spraoi
10 Belvedere Court, off Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin 1
See http://www.seomraspraoi.org/ for map directions. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday June 11, 2009 23:13 by Emma Clancy
The campaign against the extradition to Spain of Belfast-based Basque pro-independence activists Iñaki de Juana and Arturo ‘Beñat’ Villanueva was launched on Wednesday 10 June at a press conference in An Chultúrlann in west Belfast. Civil rights activist Fearghas Ó hÍr outlined the campaign on behalf of the committee and launched an online petition against the extraditions, which can be signed at http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/dont-extradite-the-....html. read full story / add a comment
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday June 11, 2009 21:36 by Jen Debender   text 5 comments (last - monday june 15, 2009 00:43)
This letter was hand delivered to the workers of the 'safety boats' owned and operated by Belcross Enterprise Ltd who have been subcontracted by Shell to impose 'health and safety' in the area in Broadhaven Bay where dredging work is underway in preparation for the controversial Corrib gas pipeline. read full story / add a comment
cork / education / event notice Thursday June 11, 2009 13:32 by pablobabe   text 1 comment (last - tuesday june 30, 2009 11:36)
Conference
Culture, Participation & Transformation’
'Arts as a tool for participation, development and development education.'
July 6th 2009
Millenum Hall, Cork City Council

Please note that conference numbers are limited
EARLY REGISTRATION IS RECOMMENDED
Workshops will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Please visit our website for further information and to download our registration form.

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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday June 11, 2009 10:06 by rebels yell   text 1 comment (last - friday june 12, 2009 06:58)
European Election OR Sectarian Head Count 2009? Sinn Féin's sitting MEP Bairbre de Brún created Northern Ireland electoral history by topping the poll with 126,184 votes. However, both the Dublin and Irish governments will tonight be pondering nervously about the future of their landmark Good Friday Agreement (Sunningdale Mark II). read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 11, 2009 09:47 by Paddy Hackett   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 13, 2009 15:04)
In his article in the The Sunday Business Post David McWilliams dishonestly fails to reference a main source for his article called Moral of the Mayan Meltdown read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday June 11, 2009 09:07 by Marie O'Connor
The severing of women's pelvises in childbirth for doctrinal rather
than medical reasons must rank as one of the biggest health scandals
in the history of the State, second only to the contamination of the
human blood supply. Only an independent inquiry into symphysiotomy can close this final, shameful chapter in the story of institutional abuse in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Thursday June 11, 2009 07:45 by Card
MasterCard Israel offers tour of Jerusalem organised by the Elad settlers read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday June 10, 2009 20:04 by iosaf   text 2 comments (last - saturday june 13, 2009 02:34)
The constitutional council of the republic of France has today published its 580th ruling this year. It overturns a Sarkozy law which would have allowed for the state to block internet access by all the kind of people who download movies, books, music and all that sort of general crap & fun regardless of whether they intented to enjoy it at home or sit by the side of a street like a third worlder and flog it to a passerby.

This good news shall have repercussions on the European political level, the history of Human Rights, the shaping of the entertainment industry lobby strategy to tax RW CD' and storage devices & thus will make many more pages of news than malaria or Darfur. read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / event notice Wednesday June 10, 2009 12:27 by Jaan   text 2 comments (last - saturday september 24, 2011 23:18)
A PUBLIC meeting on how to best use Direct Democracy to create a fairer society is
being held at Dublin's Central Hotel, Exchequer St, on Wednesday, June 10th. at
8.00p.m.


The meeting is being organised by Dubliner Ray Whitehead of www.directdemocracyireland.com, Founder of www.unitedminds.ie Ross O'Mullane, and Wicklow resident Jan Van de Ven of www.nomeansno.ie. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday June 10, 2009 10:00 by Ronan - IPSC   text 2 comments (last - thursday june 11, 2009 18:06)
If you would like to get involved in the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign, please come to the next meeting. There is a lot to do and a lot you can do.
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dublin / crime and justice / event notice Tuesday June 09, 2009 17:39 by Conor. M
Seed are going to hold Shell to Sea demonstrations in Swords, Co. Dublin. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday June 09, 2009 16:12 by Dublin Shell to Sea
Dublin Shell to Sea's weekly meeting will be held at 7pm tonight in Seomra Spraoi. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 09, 2009 00:28 by Union Member   text 3 comments (last - thursday june 11, 2009 03:25)
Indymedia readers will be familiar with the work of Frank Connolly- He is the closest thing we have had to a good investigative journalist in this country for many years. The Corrib Gas report, Quarryvale and most recently his untangling of the corrupt mess that emerged from the incestuous nature of the Galway Tent, Dublin Docklands and the Anglo Irish Bank are just a few examples of why we need vocal independent and committed people like him to help us try to hold our political elites to account.

It might seem surprising that someone with his track record would write an unreservedly supportive article about Siptu’s recent performance under the stewardship of Jack O Connor, under whose leadership the union has accepted the inevitability of attacks on workers as the first and maybe only solution to a crisis that could disenfranchise a generation. Remember the day of action that was called off? The Pensions levy?
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Monday June 08, 2009 11:59 by pat c
The Bulgarian Queer-Community is under attack by neo-nazis, last year a Queer march was attacked byfash scum who threw Molotov cocktails at the parade.This year its under threat again and a member of the Bulgarian Parliament has called for it to be attacked. Full text at link.

On June 28th 2008, neo-Nazi groups aggressively attacked the first LGBTQ Pride march in Sofia, Bulgaria. A week before the march, the Bulgarian National Alliance, the most visible nationalist organization in the country, called for a “week of intolerance.” The BNA strongly encouraged nationalistic groups to organize themselves against the right of the queer community in Bulgaria to peacefully march, which resulted in loosely organized violence during the festivities. BNA members and other neo-Nazis threw molotov cocktails and small explosives at the participants of the Pride march. Fortunately, no injuries were reported. However, more than eighty skinheads, including Boyan Rasate (head of the BNA) were arrested for their attempted harm and direct violence toward pride participants.

This year neo-Nazi groups are once again organizing themselves against the march and Bulgarian queers’ ability to defend their human rights. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Monday June 08, 2009 11:46 by Information Officer
Date: 20th June 2009
Time: 10.00 - 4.00pm
Venue: Irish Aid Volunteering Center. 27-31 Upeer O'Connell Street. Dublin 1
Fee: € 40 waged / € 30 concessions (unemployed, students with ID and LASC members)
Places strictly limited. Enrolment and payments won't be accepted on the day of the workshop. Please, enroll in advance by contacting LASC on education@lasc.ie read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday June 07, 2009 22:55 by Sarah Lundberg
At Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St Dublin 1, 28th June 3pm read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday June 07, 2009 22:51 by Sarah Lundberg
At Cassidys Bar, Westmoreland St, Dublin 2 7.30pm 23rd June read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday June 07, 2009 22:42 by Sarah Lundberg
In Cassidy;s of Westmoreland St, Dublin 1 and Rocky Sullivan's Red Hook, Brooklyn read full story / add a comment
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