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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 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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national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday August 16, 2009 15:51 by Paddy Hackett   text 2 comments (last - tuesday august 18, 2009 20:05)
Capitalism is afraid to let the depression go its full course to thereby cleanse the system because of the potential threat from the working class. Indeed capitalism has become so contradictory that even a very deep downturn may not save it from deep stagnation. The cyclical downturn is now no longer sufficient as it would have been in the 19th century. Now we need cyclical world wars.
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dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday August 16, 2009 15:19 by Laura Broxson
It's time to close these fur shops down! read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday August 16, 2009 11:48 by TD   image 4 images
Recently kidnapped along with 1976, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Mairead Maguire and 19 other human rights activists in Mediterranean international waters whilst attempting to break the brutal Israeli siege of Gaza and bring desperately needed humanitarian aid to the people, Derek Graham, Ships Coordinator of the Gaza Free Movement and his wife Jenny will be giving eye witness testimony on the Israeli manufactured hell that is Gaza http://freegaza.org/

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These people passed from relevant to anachronistic without even enjoying "-retro" - not even a t-shirt
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday August 16, 2009 01:41 by iosaf mac diarmada   text 8 comments (last - saturday october 10, 2009 09:55)   image 5 images
“Alfonso Cano” saw his first statement as current leader of FARC published widely last week. As FARC leader he denied giving prior electoral campaign donations or current administration sweeteners to the Bolivarian presidency of Rafael Correa in Ecuador. Further he denied receiving arms shipments from Venezuela. The communiqué from FARC is significant not only in consideration of the Colombian state decision to host US military bases despite the oratorical fury of Venezuela & more strategical alarm & objection of Brazil. But also because today Ecuador’s Rafeal Correa has accepted Colombian Uribe’s freshest apology for Latin America's last military incursion on March 1st 2008. I would like to bring readers through the facts and foibles so that they do not fall into the trap of thinking Latin America is as some suggest in an arms race & so that they also understand the new role (if new at all) being played by Colombia. read full story / add a comment
Eurolink is made up of SIAC, Ferrovial and Cintra
dublin / consumer issues / event notice Saturday August 15, 2009 21:52 by TaraWatch   image 2 images
Oppose the taxpayer bailout for the M3 tolling company read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Saturday August 15, 2009 18:26 by Martin O'Sullivan
Public Meeting
Same Treaty Same Answer
No To Lisbon!

Donnycarney Community
Centre
Wed 19 Aug, 8pm

Www.Peoplebeforeprofit.Ie
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Saturday August 15, 2009 17:29 by Joe Mooney
Social night in East Wall , supporting striking Dock workers. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Saturday August 15, 2009 15:11 by Contaminated Crow
Ex-workers to protest at Corrib, four masts, two quarries, an incinerator, a power station, an ESB sub-station, powerlines and a pulp mill read full story / add a comment
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
dublin / animal rights / news report Friday August 14, 2009 23:30 by ARAN   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 01, 2009 00:38)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Animal Rights Action Network staged a highly visual and lively demonstration outside the offices of Department of Environment in Dublin to call on Green Party minister, John Gormley not to renew hare coursing license for the upcoming season and to ban the bloodsport outright.
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Na Fianna Éireann 100th Anniversary , Sunday 16th August 2009.
national / history and heritage / event notice Friday August 14, 2009 20:42 by Sharon.   text 5 comments (last - monday august 17, 2009 17:39)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Republican organisation to be commemorated at events in Dublin and Limerick. read full story / add a comment
Right-Wing Demonstrator in Hudson, NY USA
international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday August 14, 2009 17:04 by SP-USA   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 23, 2009 10:49)   image 1 image

* A Socialist Attends a Town Hall Health Care Meeting read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / news report Friday August 14, 2009 15:11 by Thomas Janak   audio 1 audio file
ARAN, the animal rights action network, staged an anti hare coursing protest on Thursday, August 13th 2009. Thomas Janak from WILD TIME joined the event.

The footage features interviews with supporters icluding artist Tracey O' Neill, Model Susan Macabe and Helena Le-Mahieu from ASH. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday August 14, 2009 12:30 by Sinead
Free family friendly world music event , Sunday 16th 2.30pm
Griffith Park, Drumcondra
(Walsh Rd.,/Millmount Avenue ) read full story / add a comment
Newbridge Social Welfare Office still busy following the opening of emergency sign on centre in Ryston
kildare / miscellaneous / press release Friday August 14, 2009 12:08 by Kildare Sinn Féin   text 6 comments (last - thursday october 31, 2013 07:00)   image 1 image
Sinn Féin have issued a bold challenge to Fianna Fáil TDs in Kildare read full story / add a comment
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national / animal rights / opinion/analysis Friday August 14, 2009 10:46 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
RE TV Programme on TV4. Irish Station.
‘Have you watched the TG4 Programme Hector san Oz (Hector in Australia) last night.

The gentleman in Oz was telling him how to deal with wild dingo's.

Hector retorted, Same as we deal with 'Scummy Greyhounds in Ireland' when they come out of the woods, Roooar at them and they run away.

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cork / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday August 14, 2009 10:32 by Darren C
Sixteen workers at a Co-op Superstore in New Square, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork are holding a sit-in protest as a result of the company announcing redundancies without discussions with their union. The company, which is partly owned by Dairygold and their shareholders, have also announced the closure of their Patrick Street store in Fermoy, Co. Cork with the loss of eight jobs. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / feature Friday August 14, 2009 10:03 by Colin Ashey   text 11 comments (last - tuesday september 29, 2009 21:45)   image 1 image
At a hearing in Dublin District Court today, Judge McMahon dismissed the case against two animal rights activists arrested outside Barnardo’s fur shop on Lower Grafton Street in Dublin on 22 May this year. read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights / press release Friday August 14, 2009 09:17 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
SHAC PRIORITY TARGET DEMO
at ASTRAZENECA DUBLIN.
WHEN Tuesday 18th August 2009 from 1-2pm
at
College Park House, Nassau St., Dublin 2 (Entrance is off South Fredrick Street) from 1-2pm.

ASTRAZENECA
www.astrazeneca.com
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'Rhyming Couplet' directed by Des Kilbane
monaghan / arts and media / event notice Friday August 14, 2009 02:30 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
'Rhyming Couplet', a short documentary about Galway writers and Over The Edge co-organisers, Susan Millar DuMars and Kevin Higgins, will feature in this year’s Flat Lake Festival in Monaghan.

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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Friday August 14, 2009 02:04 by Seomra Spraoi   text 1 comment (last - friday august 14, 2009 14:01)   image 1 image
Tasty 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 to 9pm

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
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