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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

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles 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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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday August 04, 2009 13:51 by RSC   text 20 comments (last - wednesday august 05, 2009 09:24)   image 5 images
Shell to Sea campaigners Maura Harrington and Niall Harnett were sentenced to four and eight months in jail respectively at Bellmulet district court today. Both protesters have been convicted for taking action as part of a campaign of peaceful civil disobedience against the ill-fated Corrib Gas Project. Maura was given her four month sentence under Section 8 of the Public Order Act; 'failing to comply with the directions of a Garda'. The sentence was handed down in relation to an incident that occurred duing a protest at Shell's 'landfall' compound gate on 30th August 2008. Niall was sentenced to eight months in relation to two separate incidents. He was given a four month sentence under Section 8 of the Public order act, and another four months under Section 2, for the supposed assault of a Garda. read full story / add a comment
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limerick / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Tuesday August 04, 2009 13:34 by Cian Prendiville   text 2 comments (last - thursday july 30, 2009 20:23)   image 1 image
Element Six/De Beers’ plan to shut their Shannon plant, sacking 370 workers, and move production elsewhere is a disgusting stab in the back of the workers whose hard work has made them billions in profits over the years.

After huge sacrifices, including working part time on the promise that this would save jobs, the company now want to pack up and jump ship, with only a pittance of a redundancy. The entire cost of the redundancy scheme to the company is only €6.6m, about one week’s turnover for the factory, according to the Irish Independent!

Note: This article was written before management started discussing an "alternative" proposal saving "some" jobs, probably only a stay of execution, and demanding much reduced wages and terms and conditions. Therefore, the need for a fight still very much stands. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday August 04, 2009 12:25 by iosaf   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 04, 2009 21:04)   image 1 image
Mr Celerino Castillo, known as "Cele" to his friends, was once an agent of the DEA, that US secret service branch which supposedly fights the war to end production of drugs like cocaine and heroin from the jungles of Latin America to the dusty mountains of Afghanistan. Whilst working for the DEA he saw with his own little eyes how another chap working for the DEA & CIA, Mr Luis Posada Carriles, ran guns out of El Salvador's "llopango" base, he also casebooked murders by CIA "assets". "Cele" not only noted all the little details down : he did his best to tell the world. His testimony would form part of the backdrop to what is now known as the "Iran Contra" affair which as it name suggests spun a web from the mountains of central America, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua to Iran via the US covert military machine, SOA, Pentagon & of course the regime of Reagan, Bush senior, Rumsfeld, Cheney etc. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday August 04, 2009 12:05 by David L   text 3 comments (last - friday august 07, 2009 11:43)
The results of a recent survey in Israel shows a jump in racism and intolerance, particularly among newer Jewish immigrants. read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday August 04, 2009 09:52 by Gary Mulcahy
A picket will be placed on Thomas Cook this lunchtime to protest against the arrest of 28 Thomas Cook workers who have been occupying their offices in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday August 04, 2009 08:56 by Ronoc   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 04, 2009 09:34)
Its seems the vision that George Orwell had in 1984 is coming closer and closer for the English Public. There is already more CCTV cameras in the UK than there is in the rest of Europe, and now The Childrens Secretary has set out £400 million for plans to put 20,000 of the worst families under 24hour CCTV supervision in their own homes.... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Tuesday August 04, 2009 06:11 by Laura   text 6 comments (last - tuesday august 04, 2009 12:53)
Thomas Cook workers' occupation forcibly broken up by over 80 Gardai - Protest at 1pm outside Four Courts today in support read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Monday August 03, 2009 17:43 by Contaminated Crow
Four masts, a landfill and a quarry read full story / add a comment
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kildare / miscellaneous / event notice Monday August 03, 2009 16:23 by Kildare Sinn Féin   text 18 comments (last - thursday august 13, 2009 20:45)   image 1 image
New Bob Doyle/Dinny Barry Cumann Launch in Newbridge, Co. Kildare. read full story / add a comment
Howards Zinn's "Marx in Soho" comes to Seomra Spraoi, Dublin
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday August 03, 2009 01:18 by Seomra Spraoi Autonomous Social Center   text 1 comment (last - friday august 07, 2009 12:17)   image 1 image
Seomra Spraoi is proud to present the Irish dates of Howard Zinn's "Marx in Soho". Having travelled much of Europe this is your chance to see Jerry Levy perform this timely, witty and reflective one person play.

I hope you get as excited as we are. read full story / add a comment
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sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday August 02, 2009 23:19 by robert   text 2 comments (last - monday august 10, 2009 23:58)   image 1 image
Friday, 7th of August
Barry's in Grange, Co. Sligo
Solidarity concert for the community of rossport read full story / add a comment
Poster
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday August 02, 2009 20:59 by Kev   image 1 image
Help us raise money for the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and have a groove-tastic night to boot! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday August 02, 2009 19:12 by Hypatia
Here is an excerpt from an interview with Afshin, a student who was involved in the protests after the rigging of the presidential elections. The full interview text is available at the link below.

Can you explain what happened and the reaction from the authorities?

The protest at Tehran University was one of the first post-election movements. Students started to gather near the main gate chanting slogans such as ‘Death to the dictator’. This was the same day as Ahmadinejad’s celebration rally in Vali Asr Square - very close to the university. Afterwards some of his supporters, including plain-clothes bassiji, headed to the main gate chanting pro-Ahmadinejad slogans and throwing stones, injuring several students. They eventually forced open the gate and viciously attacked students with wooden sticks - several were killed.

That night bassiji and police stormed into the university dormitories whilst students were asleep, leading to more deaths and many arrests. Those held in Evin prison and the ministry of the interior’s underground jail were denied access to food, water and toilets and subjected to torture. They were released after about 30 hours, but not before they had been forced to give a detailed account of their political activities and beliefs. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Sunday August 02, 2009 18:56 by Dublin Port Workers supporter   text 3 comments (last - tuesday august 11, 2009 23:41)   image 1 image
Monday. 10th August, 10.30 AM

Meet at St.Josephs School, East Wall Road

(March to East Link Bridge, to meet supporters from South Docklands).

Dublin Port Workers Support Group
Contact: supportportworkers@dublin.ie

Local contact - joemooney@dublin.ie read full story / add a comment
Emile-Antoine Bayard's illustrations for Victor Hugo & Jules Verne put the sacharin sweet in poverty.
international / education / other press Sunday August 02, 2009 14:22 by Susan Boyle   image 1 image
BBC News has this weekend added a piece on Hugo Chavez's "revolutionary reading list" to its feature pages. It's a curious article whose timing four months after the launch of the list appears to say little and omit plenty. We are told how there are queues of people in Caracas awaiting a free copy of French 19th century author Victor Hugo's masterpiece "Les Miserables" (in Spanish translation). One happy fellow tells the local BBC chap he's seen the movie and now wants to read the book. I wonder has he ever tried to sing the songs and get on a talent competition?

But this curious space filler (all the more curious because in internet news one doesn't have to fill space) prompts me to quickly cast an eye over the efforts of South America to banish illiteracy. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday August 02, 2009 13:38 by Caitlin
'ASSAULT ON GAZA - A WAR CRIME?'
Following the assault on Gaza earlier this year, the theme of this year's 'Palestine Day' will be 'Israeli War Crimes'.

Daytime session starts at 12 noon
Evening Public Meeting starts at 7.00 p.m.

VENUE : ST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, FALLS ROAD, BELFAST. read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Sunday August 02, 2009 12:49 by Con Carroll   text 4 comments (last - tuesday august 04, 2009 02:25)   image 1 image
staff at Thomas Cook, Grafton st, have been occupying, their offices for the last three days. against redundancy. stand in solidarity Monday 3. 10.30. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday August 01, 2009 18:50 by Yassamine Mather
Yassamine Mather gives an update on the situation in Iran and analyses how the supposed leaders of the opposition are failing to confront the Iranian Regime. Full text at link.

Some of the founding ideologues of the Islamic Republic of Iran are currently in exile, having fallen foul of the current leadership, and, together with royalists, they represent the most backward sections of the opposition. Yet they have been given unprecedented coverage by the international media, including, worst of all, sections of the Farsi-speaking media.

First we have Akbar Ganji, promoter of a New York hunger strike and a man portrayed in the US media as a “human rights activist” who talks of Islam and democracy. An ironic description for someone who founded, and was a commander of, the dreaded Pasdaran (Revolutionary Guards) and who played an active role in some of the worst mass executions of leftist and socialists under the Islamic regime. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Saturday August 01, 2009 16:24 by Laura Broxson
Let's get fur out of Ireland! read full story / add a comment
HUNTING IS ANIMAL ABUSE
dublin / animal rights / press release Saturday August 01, 2009 10:53 by Bernie Wright   text 1 comment (last - friday august 07, 2009 00:30)   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
ANTI-HUNT DEMONSTRATION at the Louth Hunt Ball -NO TO ANIMAL ABUSE!

Four Seasons Hotel. Ballsbridge at 7pm sharp, Saturday 8th August..

Animal abuse be it legal or illegal is wrong. The AOHS cannot ignore this annual Horse Show co-ordinated event held by the Louth Hunt. It is held to raise funds for the continuance of hunting, this starts with the torture and killing of fox cubs next month in September. Hunting season is 6 months.
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