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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

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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.
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.

offsite link Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / eu / event notice Friday September 18, 2009 20:45 by Saoirse
RSF rally for No to Lisbon

REPUBLICAN SINN FÉIN is holding its annual Eve of All-Ireland Rally on Saturday September 19 at the GPO in Dublin’s O’Connell St. The theme of the rally this year is “Republicans say No to Lisbon”. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / event notice Friday September 18, 2009 20:20 by ROCK AGAINST LISBON   text 1 comment (last - friday september 25, 2009 03:52)
ROCK AGAINST LISBON
The Cobblestone, Smithfield, Baile Átha Cliath
26th September, 8 p.m
Táile €3
Yukina, The Group, Barra and the lads, DJ Shifty and our special guest Ciaran Murphy
This is a non party political event read full story / add a comment
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cork / environment / event notice Friday September 18, 2009 14:19 by Nickibopp   text 1 comment (last - friday september 18, 2009 18:23)   image 1 image
Flash mob by Cork residents to sound the alarm

Cork-- At 1.20pm on Monday 21stSeptember residents and visitors to Cork will gather in Daunt Square for a fun, peaceful, “flash mob”. As synchronized phone alarms sound, people will hold their phones in the air and come together to take a photograph before joining other groups around the globe in sending a flood of phone calls to world leaders urging climate action. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Friday September 18, 2009 04:43 by rsf no to lisbon!
DUBLIN:

Sept 21st - Buswell's Hotel, Molesworth Street, Dublin, @ Noon.

Sept 21st - Wynn's Hotel, Middle Abbey Street, Dublin @ 7:30pm

GALWAY:

Sept 22nd- Imperial Hotel, Eyre Square, Galway City @ 8:00pm read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday September 18, 2009 01:33 by Marc Spring   text 20 comments (last - saturday march 27, 2010 13:18)
Jack O'Connor and SIPTU leaders are making some noises about the outrageous treatment of Irish Coca Cola workers these days, but does anyone remember that they vitriolically attacked a campaign of solidarity with Colombian Coca Cola workers whose lives were threatened, a short few years ago? read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday September 17, 2009 22:05 by Paula Geraghty   text 9 comments (last - thursday september 24, 2009 12:44)   image 14 images
1200 marched on the Irish Peoples Union demonstration against NAMA last Saturday. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday September 17, 2009 20:40 by Paula Geraghty   image 9 images
Hundreds of students gathered at the Dail to protest any re-introduction of fees read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday September 17, 2009 19:21 by Paula Geraghty
Fianna Fail and its coalition partners introduce legislation which with will have devatating consequences as striking Siptu workers workers chant 'We won't go down without a fight' at the gates. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / other press Thursday September 17, 2009 16:54 by Patricia McKenna   text 10 comments (last - saturday september 26, 2009 13:41)
Wall Street Journal challenges ‘patent absurdities’ of Yes side on Lisbon.
Today’s Wall Street Journal Europe Editorial says Minister Lenihan is “peddling phantom terrors to scare the Irish people into voting Yes” and that “Ireland has no reason to fear the consequences of a No vote on Lisbon read full story / add a comment
 Heavy Spanish-Basque police pre-emptively occupy Bilbao site of banned    demonstration of prisoners' solidarity in August '09 (demonstration went    ahead and was attacked by police).
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday September 17, 2009 16:46 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 10 comments (last - thursday september 24, 2009 13:02)   image 7 images
The Spanish state over recent months has intensified its campaign against Basque solidarity with the political prisoners but seems to have succeeded only in raising the profile of the prisoners and in further alienating Basques from the Spanish state. The campaign against the solidarity movement has combined judicial decrees, governmental action and police baton charges with the firing of rubber bullets while silence or misrepresentation has been the response of much of the media. read full story / add a comment
An Evening of Opera and Song
dublin / arts and media / event notice Thursday September 17, 2009 16:28 by Kate Hartley   image 1 image
An evening of opera and song featuring repertoire by Mozart, Bizet, Rossini, Ravel and Bernstein. Saturday 26th September, St Anne's Church Dawson St. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday September 17, 2009 16:20 by Kev   image 1 image
This year the IPSC Sponsored Hill Walk will take place on Saturday 17th October. We will be setting off from The Step Inn in Stepaside, Co. Dublin at 11.00am and finishing up with a meal and some liquid sustenance in Enniskerry. read full story / add a comment
Say No to Lisbon 2
national / eu / other press Thursday September 17, 2009 16:11 by IT reader   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 17, 2009 16:21)   image 1 image   video 2 video files
Sinn Féin has been canvassing around the country in support of a No vote in the upcoming Lisbon Treaty. Even the Pro-Treaty Irish Times has been forced to report that reaction has generally been positive towards the party.

Mary Lou McDonald has been especially effective as a canvasser, since people trust her knowledge of Europe and the EU. Of course, as journalists are noting, people in Ireland are very knowledgeable themselves on the Treaty.

The fact that the Yes side are steadfastly refusing to discuss the text, instead trying to turn this into a referendum on the country's membership of the EU, speaks volumes to most people.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday September 17, 2009 16:09 by Derry Anti War Coalition   text 4 comments (last - sunday september 20, 2009 22:40)
The 9 women who occupied arms company Raytheon's premises in Derry during the Israeli assault on Gaza are being "arraigned" before the court on Monday next, 21st Sept. While they tried to repeat what the Raytheon 9 men did and bring down the computer system, the heightened security meant that they did little damage. Nonetheless, the state is going after the women who were trying to stop war crimes while the war criminals walk free. Four men arrested as they demonstrated in support of the women are also in court on Monday. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / news report Thursday September 17, 2009 13:30 by Jimmy Neilson   text 1 comment (last - friday december 18, 2009 00:05)
Tribute to Paddy Mulcahy.

Paddy Mulcahy died on Sunday last the 13th. September. Since then thousands have mourned his passing and demonstrated their great respect for him with the massive turn out at his waking and funeral. Many were the fitting and well deserved tributes paid to him over the immediate days of mourning and burial.

To us Paddy Mul deserved all of that.
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éirígí
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday September 17, 2009 10:27 by PRO   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 17, 2009 12:34)   image 1 image
The children of plastic bullet victim Norah McCabe yesterday released the following statement through éirígí: read full story / add a comment
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national / education / press release Thursday September 17, 2009 10:07 by Republican Student   image 1 image   video 1 video file
On Saturday, 29th of August, members of Sinn Féin’s college cumainn from all across Ireland gathered in the Party’s Ard Oifig, Baile Átha Cliath in order to plan and build for the coming college year. The day was a mix of teambuilding, presentations and workshops intended to help forge a common identity as college cumainn, build relationships and exchange ideas which would better equip republican students in each campus.

Workshops on Education, Finance, Public relations, Campaigns and Recruitment were run on a collective basis by those present – sharing views and ideas across Ireland from Universities, ITs and Colleges. The Uladh Colleges Comhairle Ceantair gave a presentation to the university cumainn from the other three provinces on the model which they have developed during the last year – showing the advantages of efficient communication between third level campuses and the pooling of resources in a particular geographic area.
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Saffron Revolution 2007
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday September 16, 2009 23:25 by Niamh Rooney   image 1 image
Burma Action Ireland will hold a public event calling for Peace and Democracy in Burma read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday September 16, 2009 16:42 by Justin Morahan   text 5 comments (last - saturday september 19, 2009 16:23)
In another of the increasing assaults on the people of Bilin village in Palestine, Israeli soldiers engaged last night in yet another middle of the night raid during which villagers were assaulted, property was trashed and children terrorized in their beds. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday September 16, 2009 11:25 by Comhlamh
Five Tuesday nights 7.00-9.15pm, starting October 20th 2009

International trade rules have a huge impact on people in developing countries. Farmers, workers and families are trying to make a living in the context of globalisation. A fair trading system could lift millions of people out of poverty, and reduce many countries’ dependence on aid. Yet trade justice activists believe in many cases the rules of the global economy have been set up to serve the interests of big business, not people.
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