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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

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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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Rocks of Halbori in the Munzur valley of Southeast Turkey.  Historic site of struggle and massacre for Kurdish and Armenian people which would be submerged by a dam reservoir. Photo by M. Ronayne.
international / environment / feature Thursday April 21, 2005 02:31 by forwarded by the Global Women's Strike   image 3 images
Update on plans for large dams in southeast Turkey. New report published by NUI Galway and the Kurdish Human Rights Centre. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday March 24, 2005 11:56 by Ciaron, Des, Elaine   text 3 comments (last - friday march 25, 2005 14:05)
*Ireland play Israel in Israel this Saturday 5.30 pm
*Return Game in June in Dublin
*Below is the Guardian article about
Israel restrictions on Palestinian football team
competing in the same competition (World Cup
qualifiers)

*This vigil is prelude to further nvda when Israel plays the return leg in Dublin

*Vigil Saturday March 26th. 12noon - 2pm at the Israeli Consul, Pembroke Rd. Ballsbridge D4 (opposite Jurys Hotel)
*This vigil is an outreach to Irish soccer fans - we wish them to consider the human rights being denied to Palestinian footballers
*People attending should wear footy shirts if possible (any club, if you've got more than one, bring to lend to others at vigil)
*Bring a ball for a kick about, broad sidewalk opposite Israeli Consul on Pembroke Rd. (opposite Jurys) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday November 22, 2004 15:09 by Dave   text 5 comments (last - monday march 14, 2005 06:24)
In 1982, a close friend of Kurdish freedom fighter Salah Ameydi was captured by the Mukhabarat, the Iraqi Secret Police. They brought him back to his village, and seized his wife and eight-month-old son. The new parents were then tied up and made to watch as their baby was burned to death in front of them with a hot iron. When the agents were finished with the child, they forced the husband to watch as his wife was brutally raped by four Iraqi soldiers. The husband was then dragged off to Abu Ghraib and tortured for years on end as a “political prisoner.” read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Friday September 10, 2004 23:57 by Michael hennigan   text 19 comments (last - tuesday september 14, 2004 13:59)
In 1974, Spain, Portugal and Greece were run by dictatorships and together with the Soviet domination of Eastern Europe, democracy in Europe was an endangered specie. By joining the EU, countries have strenghthened their democratic structures and the same opportunity is available to Turkey. In recent times, the human rights situation has improved and the repression of the culture of the minority Kurdish population has been eased. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Friday September 10, 2004 19:24 by redjade   text 8 comments (last - sunday july 17, 2005 13:26)   image 1 image
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday August 13, 2004 16:55 by NEFAC
When a state is determined to pursue war, and all forms of indirect symbolic protest actions have failed to sway politicians to halt their imperialist aggression, the only remaining option is direct action by the working class. One option is a general strike by workers that can effect the production and transpiration of military capital, that is the materials essential for the war machine. The other is to deprive the military of the labor it needs to fight the war. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday February 23, 2004 10:19 by DMAN   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 24, 2004 00:09)
And your telling me Ireland does not support the war in Iraq Bertie !!! Yeah right.

"In comments to reporters during a refueling stop in Shannon, Ireland, Rumsfeld signaled US concern over attempts by extremists to drive wedges between the country's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities ahead of a planned handover of sovereignty in June." read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / press release Friday November 07, 2003 13:00 by WSM   text 9 comments (last - monday november 10, 2003 12:34)   image 1 image
The latest issue of the Irish anarchist paper Workers Solidarity is now online. The articles are listed below. You can download a PDF version from http://struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/ws/78.html or read it on the web at http://struggle.ws/wsm/ws/2003 read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Monday October 06, 2003 21:54 by Dominic Carroll   text 2 comments (last - tuesday october 07, 2003 18:00)
Turkey is to join in with the occupation of Iraq. The decision by the Turkish cabinet to send 10,000 troops into Iraq came today (Monday 6 October 2003) after agreement on an “action-plan to eradicate the PKK” was agreed with the US. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday August 21, 2003 00:58 by Jay Shaft   text 15 comments (last - saturday august 23, 2003 20:56)
The U.S. and many terrorist organizations engage in killing civilians to achieve their goals. When the U.S. kills civilians as part of a war they excuse it with the term "Collateral Damage" or "Incidental Casualties". read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday August 01, 2003 16:06 by Ashur Isaac   text 2 comments (last - saturday august 02, 2003 21:27)
Today we hear reports of the Assyrian minority being held hostage by various terrorist groups in Iraq. The most prominent of these groups, the Future United Kurdistan, is suspected to have strong historical links to Arab and Turkish agencies. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday June 17, 2003 12:49 by AINA   text 4 comments (last - tuesday june 17, 2003 21:29)
The growing anger amongst Assyrians is leading to greater calls for Kurdish withdrawal not just from recently occupied villages but the over 250 other villages in northern Iraq held by Kurds. Another Assyrian activist noted "These villages constitute the Assyrian heartland and should form the very nucleus of a future Assyrian local self-administrative area needed to protect Assyrian survival in any future Iraq. For Assyrians to survive and thrive in the new Iraq, such areas need to be preserved as an Assyrian sanctuary- free from threat and intimidation." read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday June 16, 2003 21:43 by Bahro Bar Sayoda
According to an official Statement of the political Bureau of the Patriotic Union of Mesopotamia (Khuyada d`Bethnahrain Athraya - HBA) in Mossul (Niniveh), the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) releases the 8 abducted members of HBA in the first days of June. Yasar Kücükaslan, Jack Yakob Shen, Gebro Gurbuz, Fikri Hobel, Basar Isho, Salih Pedaui, Ivan Franciss Yoran and Efrem Semir have been taken from their offices in Barthillah (Mossul) by KDP forces on 15 April. The Assyrian-Syriac HBA activists arrested for defending the rights of their people were kept prisoners about 45 days in Northern Iraq (Salahaddin). read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday May 06, 2003 22:41 by vitw   text 71 comments (last - thursday may 22, 2003 11:53)   image 1 image
Iraq - as a whole - is waiting. Holding its breath, not quite functioning, continuing, but waiting to fully exhale. Wondering whether it will be allowed to draw breath, and life, again. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday April 14, 2003 14:41 by redjade   text 10 comments (last - tuesday april 15, 2003 17:03)
when does the 'nation building' begin? Oh yes, i forgot, W is opposed to nation building, only destroying... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday April 14, 2003 10:17 by Hermiz Shahen   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 15, 2003 12:17)
The power of angry propaganda is that it rewrites history through the victimization of peace-loving peoples. Such is the case of Christian Assyrians now living in the Middle East. They have and continue to endure butchery and abuse at the hands of Arab despots. Consequently, they now live in a perpetual diaspora such as the Jewish people suffered for hundreds of years before the formation of the State of Israel in 1948. While the pro-Arab Western media largely ignores their voices and ancient heritage, it is the belief of Christian Assyrians that “Israelis have a superior claim to Jerusalem” over that of Yasser Arafat’s Palestinians. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday April 11, 2003 12:12 by Dave
Reuters are claiming that the Americans are leading the Kurds into occupation of all the Northern Iraqi Towns and cities. It seems to be an swp style of leadership (if you can't beat them, pretend to lead them) read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Thursday April 10, 2003 00:46 by Maubere   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 10, 2003 15:17)
Don't the Kurds know that only Americans can liberate Iraq. I mean if those pesky Iraqi people liberated the country from Saddam's regime then how on earth can the Americans control the oil!!! read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 06, 2003 14:30 by Kevin-Scott   text 9 comments (last - monday april 07, 2003 15:39)
An American convoy containing Kurds and American special forces is bombed by an American aircraft. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday March 23, 2003 19:22 by Kalid Farouk   text 5 comments (last - tuesday march 25, 2003 12:38)
Labour and Greeens insult oppressed minorites in neo colonial world by not voting for resolution calling for self determination for the Kurdish people. read full story / add a comment
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