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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 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 Richard Dawkins: ?Trans Women Are Women? Slogan is Scientifically False Thu Sep 25, 2025 11:17 | Will Jones
The slogan 'trans women are women' is scientifically false and harms the rights of women,?Richard Dawkins?has said in a new book warning that scientific truth must prevail over "personal feelings".
The post Richard Dawkins: ‘Trans Women Are Women’ Slogan is Scientifically False appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link A New Definition of Freedom of Speech: An Unsackable Late Night Host Thu Sep 25, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
From liberal America, the people who brought you Covid and climate censorship and the assassination of Charlie Kirk, we have a new definition of free speech: the unsackable late night host, says Prof James Alexander.
The post A New Definition of Freedom of Speech: An Unsackable Late Night Host appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How Quakers Are Funding Open Borders Thu Sep 25, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Quaker foundations pour millions into organisations promoting open borders, interfering in our democracy and undermining voters' clear wish for security. Charlotte Gill investigates.
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offsite link News Round-Up Thu Sep 25, 2025 00:46 | 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.
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offsite link ?Serious Safety Concerns? as Trans Criminals Remain in Women?s Prison Despite Supreme Court Ruling Wed Sep 24, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Male trans criminals are still being held in a women's prison despite the Supreme Court ruling that sexes must be segregated, with the independent monitor reporting serious safety and welfare concerns.
The post “Serious Safety Concerns” as Trans Criminals Remain in Women’s Prison Despite Supreme Court Ruling appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Poster for Fridays protest
sligo / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday April 10, 2009 01:23 by Killian McLoughlin   text 22 comments (last - wednesday april 29, 2009 00:37)   image 9 images   video 1 video file   audio 1 audio file   1 attached file
This is a copy of the press release sent out regarding the 'Save Sligos Cancer Services' (SCSS).
The group are organising a huge protest in Sligo this good friday, they are marching on Sligo General and demanding that the management choose whether they are going to represent the people of the Northwest or the private interests and agenda of Mary Harney and the HSE. The SCSS have stated that their memmbers are sick and tired of teh duplicity and lies of both the management in Sligo and the HSE and are no longer willing to accept it.
The people of the northwest are taking back their health services, starting with Sligo General Hospittal, this Good Friday 10/04/2009 read full story / add a comment
'Glengad belongs to us, the community. It's worth any price to defend it' - Maura Harrington.
mayo / environment / news report Thursday April 09, 2009 23:33 by Rudiger   text 22 comments (last - monday may 10, 2010 11:29)   image 1 image
Members of the public in a packed Belmullet District Courtroom clapped and cheered as applications to Judge Mary Devins to disqualify herself were made by Shell to Sea lay litigants Niall Harnett and Eoin O'Leidhin in person, and by solicitor Alan Gannon on behalf of a number of his clients which include Pat 'the Chief' O'Donnell and Maura Harrington who all face charges relating to different incidents which happened late last summer in opposition to Shell's failed efforts to lay pipe at Glengad.

Niall Harnett was physically removed by Gardai from the court when he interrupted Judge Devins to say that the 'allegations' against her were “well warranted and true”. “Vicious, Unprecedented, Personal & Unwarranted” is how Judge Mary Devins is quoted in media as having responded to “the attack” of applications against her. But Midwest Radio news reported that Judge Devins denied that she gave any instruction to have Mr Harnett evicted from the courtroom. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / other press Thursday April 09, 2009 23:09 by Patrick Henry   text 9 comments (last - monday june 22, 2009 00:52)
This is part of a longer article in the Belfast Telegraph, called 'First Minsters take a swing at the Media' and the first bit is about Peter Robinson's attack on Martina Purdy at Stormont. This is why the article appears to start mid-article....
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cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday April 09, 2009 22:15 by tomo   image 1 image
A fun evening in cork in solidarity with palestine to raise funds for Gaza read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday April 09, 2009 21:54 by Éanna Dowling
Brian Lenihan’s emergency supplementary bludget brings the curtain down on Ireland’s pantomime of excess. The workforce in Ireland willingly accepted twelve years of wage slavery when the goodies compensated for the grind, and the illusion of perpetual growth became the powerful myth underpinning the new consumer religion.

More unreckonable years of wage slavery or welfare dependence await, as the personal and public debts accumulated during the boom must be paid for. read full story / add a comment
Protesters tell the ambassador 'Stop FGM lies'
dublin / gender and sexuality / news report Thursday April 09, 2009 21:02 by Sparky   text 10 comments (last - tuesday june 30, 2009 22:42)   image 3 images   video 2 video files
Claims by the Nigerian ambassador that female genital mutilation (FGM) is a ‘non-existant’ issue in her country were denounced by a lively, lunchtime protest held today outside the embassy in Ballsbridge and attended by around 35 Nigerians. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Thursday April 09, 2009 15:54 by Laura Broxson
SUPPORT SHAC! www.shac.net read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday April 09, 2009 14:53 by Laura Fitzgerald
AGAINST THE TAMIL CIVILIAN MASSACRE in SRI LANKA - PROTEST TUESDAY 14th April, 5.30pm at the Spire

Faced with starvation and death, nearly 200,000 Tamil people are trapped in a small area in the north of Sri Lanka. They have been in a nightmare situation since early January. There are no facilities - water, food, medicine or shelter. There are no hospitals in the area. read full story / add a comment
dublin / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Thursday April 09, 2009 14:18 by Irelandseye   text 208 comments (last - monday april 14, 2014 15:37)   image 23 images   video 1 video file
There are so many places becoming derelict and abandoned; what should the Government do about this problem??? read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Thursday April 09, 2009 14:17 by Richard Walsh   text 7 comments (last - thursday april 09, 2009 21:28)
The announcement by the Dublin Administration that a false name for Derry can be listed as the county of birth on a Free State passport amounts to an assault on Irish national identity, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said.
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday April 09, 2009 08:43 by Michael Taft   text 31 comments (last - tuesday may 05, 2009 01:01)
I want to argue that Fianna Fail has essentially cooked (and I mean boil rapidly) the books - insofar as their strategy to bring the deficit under control by 2013 rests on numbers that cannot work in the material world.

This might seem a bit academic but this will show in a way that no one else has done that deflation cannot work at any level - not at the level of arresting economic decline, job losses, living standards; and not even the deficit. This is the real debate - can deflation work? Fianna Fail's own bookeeping shows it can't.
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday April 08, 2009 23:51 by Belfast WSM   text 6 comments (last - thursday april 09, 2009 16:44)   image 3 images   audio 6 audio files
Over 200 people marched today from Andersonstown to the factory in Finachy for a rally, which was addressed by Unite Shop Stewards Charlie Maxwell and John Maxwell, including representatives from the SDLP and Sinn Fein. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday April 08, 2009 20:32 by Climate Camp Dublin
Ever wondered what exactly Climate Camp is? What it hopes to achieve? How is it organised and who is organising the Irish one? Now is your chance to have your questions answered, contribute your opinions and hopefully get more involved in this ambitous, challenging project, which has great potential to bring people together in the battle against climate and social injustice. read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday April 08, 2009 20:20 by Joe Moore
The Cork South City Branch, Socialist Workers Party, will hold a public meeting entitled "The Budget and the Economic Crash-The Socialist Alternative", on Wednesday 15th April, at 8pm in the Victoria Hotel, Patrick St. Speaker, Kieran Allen. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 08, 2009 19:14 by Éanna Dowling   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 14, 2009 20:47)
Irish workers will bail out the bankers and the speculators following a decisive emergency budget. All workers will have reduced spending power as a result of tax increases while a new agency has been established to buy up “bad assets” with Government bonds. The income levy introduced in September has been doubled as has the health levy and minimum wage workers have been brought into the income tax system.

Take home pay will be reduced for all workers in May. The deficit between Government income and expenditure is massive due to the bursting of the property bubble, banking mismanagement and the policy of positioning the country as the most “open” economy in Europe. That policy ensured that Ireland would be the most vulnerable to fluctuations in the globalised economy. Government borrowing will be over 10% of national income this year, but the main source of income to fix the problem is the increase in direct personal taxation.
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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday April 08, 2009 18:07 by DSF   image 1 image
Main Dublin Easter Commemoration
Easter Sunday 12 April
Assemble 1.30pm
Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square

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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday April 08, 2009 17:56 by DSF   image 1 image
Wreath Laying Ceremony at Arbour Hill Cemetery

1PM Friday April 10th
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday April 08, 2009 17:10 by liz c   text 3 comments (last - wednesday april 15, 2009 16:59)
Free English language classes from 7-9pm every Tuesday starting on Tuesday April 14th. Each course will run for 8 weeks. All levels can apply and there will be one or two classes depending on what level is needed. Taught by an experienced TEFL teacher in a relaxed environment. Anyone interested in attending please email liz at keykiet@yahoo.com. There will be a maximum of 14 people per class.

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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday April 08, 2009 12:10 by Terry Fagan   text 1 comment (last - thursday april 09, 2009 09:40)
Easter Rising 1916: A tribute to the men and women of 1916 - 1923.

The North Inner City Folklore Project on the occasion of commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising by honouring the men and women who fought for Irish Freedom. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday April 08, 2009 11:08 by Gregor Kerr   text 15 comments (last - friday april 10, 2009 15:17)   image 2 images
Lenihan’s budget has continued the political strategy of defending the wealthy. Where is the reaction? Where is the anger? read full story / add a comment
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