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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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offsite link In Defence of Cancelling the Left Fri Sep 26, 2025 17:00 | Dr James Allan
Should the Right take the moral high ground and refrain from cancel culture? Or should it give the Left a taste of its own medicine ? and try to teach it a lesson? It has to be the latter, argues Professor James Allan.
The post In Defence of Cancelling the Left appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Watch: Police Arrest Autistic Man in Middle of the Night for Posting ?F*** Hamas, F*** Islam? on Soc... Fri Sep 26, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Police officers have come under fire after they arrested an autistic man late last night over an X post which read: "F***?Hamas, F***?Palestine, F*** Islam. Want to protest? F*** off to a Muslim country and protest."
The post Watch: Police Arrest Autistic Man in Middle of the Night for Posting “F*** Hamas, F*** Islam” on Social Media appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link It?s Time to Admit That Christians Are Being Persecuted in Two-Tier Britain Fri Sep 26, 2025 13:40 | Belinda Brown
It's time to admit that Christians are being persecuted in two-tier Britain, says Belinda Brown. The flimsiest claims of 'offence' from normal expressions of Christian faith are getting people sacked and arrested.
The post It’s Time to Admit That Christians Are Being Persecuted in Two-Tier Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Greta Thunberg Gaza Flotilla in Chaos After Queer Activist Comes Out, Prompting Organiser to Resign Fri Sep 26, 2025 11:24 | Will Jones
Greta Thunberg's Gaza flotilla has been thrown into chaos after one of its activists came out as queer, prompting the organiser to resign. Homosexuality, of course, is criminalised in Gaza.
The post Greta Thunberg Gaza Flotilla in Chaos After Queer Activist Comes Out, Prompting Organiser to Resign appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The End is Nigh for Net Zero ? These Polls Prove It Fri Sep 26, 2025 09:00 | Ben Pile
The end is nigh for Net Zero, says Ben Pile ? and these polls prove it. The public's appetite for ever-rising energy bills is fast being depleted. But it's not all good news for sceptics.
The post The End is Nigh for Net Zero ? These Polls Prove It appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / education / news report Monday March 02, 2009 16:47 by J.Carax   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 03, 2009 01:06)
Free Education for Everyone held its first National Conference on Saturday, January 31st. Over forty student activists traveled from UCD, TCD, Maynooth, Galway, Limerick and Cork. read full story / add a comment
Dublin´s Metamorphosis - EASA and others talk about Dublin pre, mid, post Tiger years
national / environment / other press Monday March 02, 2009 16:27 by dunk   text 2 comments (last - friday march 06, 2009 12:02)   image 2 images   video 2 video files   audio 2 audio files
Discussion chaired by Frank McDonald, journalist with The Irish Times, on a broad range of architectural and developmental issues that have become apparent in Celtic Tiger Dublin. Contributors include Dr. Gary Boyd, Ciarán Cuffe TD, Robert Ballagh and Siobhain Ní Éanaigh. The majority of the speakers were very critical of Celtic Tiger Ireland, a change from previous "architectural discussion". The talk happened in Docklands "white elephant", CHQ, aka: Stack A.

Sunday August 10 2008 was the day of the discussion, day after the worst rainfall that Ireland had ever seen in the month of august, a wake up call if ever there was one of how we have to adress climate chaos...http://radio.indymedia.org/es/node/17169
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limerick / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday March 02, 2009 15:28 by solidarity   text 1 comment (last - monday march 02, 2009 15:31)
Upstairs @ Dolan’s, Tuesday, 3rd March, 8pm (doors) read full story / add a comment
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international / gender and sexuality / news report Monday March 02, 2009 14:59 by amnesty1   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 04, 2009 15:46)   image 1 image
8,000 girls are mutilated every single day around the world.

You can help make it stop.

Log on to http://www.amnesty.ie/endfgm read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / press release Monday March 02, 2009 14:29 by DCTV
Dear Friends,

Dublin Community Television launched it's schedule for the month of March yesterday.

You can find a PDF copy of the brochure outlinning programming for the month at http://www.dctv.ie/main/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/marc...1.pdf .

Below there is a text copy of the schedule.

Please support community tv and the opportunities it creates for diversifying participation in the Irish media landscape by spreading this as far as possible.

All the best,

DCTV.

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mayo / crime and justice / press release Monday March 02, 2009 14:17 by S2S   text 7 comments (last - wednesday march 04, 2009 19:34)   image 1 image
The fact that five Mayo Gardaí earned €325,111 in overtime payments last year, once again illustrates how the current Government thinking still seems to be, that throwing money at the Corrib Gas debacle will make it go away.

One Mayo Garda earned €80,990 in overtime last year, which was the highest of any of the Garda claims in the country. While 3 of the top 5 overtime earners in the country came from Mayo. read full story / add a comment
Ashanti speaking at Jericho demonstration in Philly
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday March 02, 2009 12:03 by Andrew Flood & Ashanti Alston   text 2 comments (last - monday march 02, 2009 16:08)   image 1 image   audio 2 audio files
US Anarchist Ashanti Alston who is speaking at the Anarchist Bookfair in Dublin this March 7th has spent that last few days speaking at meetings in Cork and Galway and hanging out with anarchists in Dublin. In this interview recorded last night in Kilmainham he talks about his visit to Ireland, the post Seattle anarchist wave in the USA, the formation of Anarchist People Of Color (APOC) the current capitalist crisis and the need to seize the moment. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Sunday March 01, 2009 23:02 by J. O'Neill   text 4 comments (last - tuesday april 14, 2009 10:22)
The SP supports non-revolutionary figures like Chavez, while with-holding support from revolutionaries fighting to overthrow capitalism. This stance is contradictory. Working class unity is a utopian goal until the political and social forces that maintains sectarianism are dismantled. read full story / add a comment
Behind The Mask
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday March 01, 2009 22:11 by ALiberation   image 2 images
Behind The Mask

ALiberation is pleased to announce the 3rd part of three Animal Rights movie events for March! read full story / add a comment
Peaceable Kingdom
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday March 01, 2009 22:00 by ALiberation   image 2 images
Peaceable Kingdom

ALiberation is pleased to announce the 2nd part of 3 Animal Rights movie events for March!
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday March 01, 2009 21:29 by Joe Moore   text 4 comments (last - thursday march 19, 2009 19:26)
A demonstration in support of the Boycott Israeli Goods campaign will be held at 1.00pm on Saturday 28th March in Daunt's Square, Cork. After an initial rally we will march to Tesco, Dunnes Stores and Marks and Spenser's to call on their management to cease stocking Israeli goods. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday March 01, 2009 21:27 by ALiberation   image 1 image
ALiberation is pleased to announce 3 upcoming Animal Rights movie events for March!
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national / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Sunday March 01, 2009 21:22 by photo ed   text 2 comments (last - monday march 02, 2009 16:39)
Ballot Papers on the way read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday March 01, 2009 20:51 by The Oh-Aissieux
To commemorate the coming of Saint Patrick,
the Narrative Arts Club proudly presents a Storytelling Free-for-all.

Library Bar Extension, Central Hotel, Dublin 2
Thursday 12 March, 2009 - for one night only
Doors open 7.30 pm. Show starts 8.00 pm sharp.
Admission FREE read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday March 01, 2009 20:02 by TD   text 15 comments (last - thursday march 05, 2009 08:48)   image 8 images   video 4 video files
Yesterday, activists with Galway, Free Palestine Campaign in solidarity with Israeli Apartheid Week (1st to 8th March) and in harmony with the "chorus of international opposition to Israeli apartheid and to bolster support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign" manned an informaton table in Shop Street dispensing flyers on what Israeli goods/foodstuffs and their purveyors to boycott and gathering signatures for a petition calling on the Board of Eircom "To exclude from consideration the IBM consortium , which includes the Israeli based company Amdocs, for the soon to be awarded contract to provide your company with a new computer billing system." read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Sunday March 01, 2009 18:52 by Gregor Kerr   text 4 comments (last - monday march 02, 2009 16:33)   image 2 images
On 25th February ICTU wrote to all affiliated unions re its 'Campaign in Support of the Congress 10 Point Plan for a Social Solidarity Pact'.
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national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Sunday March 01, 2009 16:54 by Joe Murphy
On the 4th March 2009 there is a public meeting to help organise Irish participation in European-wide events against 60 years of N.A.T.O., taking place in Strasbourg on the 1st to the 5th of April to coincide with the summit meeting of N.A.T.O. Heads of State and Government in Strasbourg, France / Kehl, Germany on 3-4 April 2009. read full story / add a comment
Door-to-door collections to fund childrens education?
national / education / other press Sunday March 01, 2009 13:34 by Sharon.   text 5 comments (last - friday march 06, 2009 00:50)   image 2 images
A Fine Gael Councillor and State Senator has suggested that a "national collection" should be done in order to fund the education of children with general learning disabilities. read full story / add a comment
sponsored by Charlie Byrne's Bookshop
national / arts and media / event notice Sunday March 01, 2009 12:36 by Over The Edge   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 11, 2009 00:42)   image 3 images
Longlist Announced for 2009 Over The Edge New Writer of The Year read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Sunday March 01, 2009 00:25 by Anne Mc Shane
The recent change in Irish society from `get rich quick' to working class struggle has been unprecedented. The economy is sinking fast and the predictions are that things can only get worse. European Commission president José Manuel Barroso has made the point that Ireland would be in the same situation as Iceland if it were not in the euro zone. But maybe even this cannot save the country from plunging into bankruptcy, as banks and businesses collapse and unemployment soars.

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