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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 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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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday February 26, 2009 22:15 by Grupo Raíces   image 1 image
COLOMBIA Solidarity Meeting on Thursday 5th of March in Liberty Hall, room 207 at 19.30 read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday February 26, 2009 16:39 by WSM   image 1 image
The anarchist bookfair weekend opens with a film screening in the Seomra Spraoi social centre. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / opinion/analysis Thursday February 26, 2009 15:39 by Kieran O'Sullivan
The Campaign Against the EU Constitution has conducted research to show that RTE's coverage of the Lisbon treaty was unbalenced in favour of the Yes Side. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday February 26, 2009 15:36 by mickburke   text 6 comments (last - sunday march 01, 2009 19:29)   image 3 images
Indymedia contributors should start to think now about how this site will report the strike called for March 30th. There is no certainty that the strike will go ahead, some deal may yet be done to avert it, but if the stoppage does go ahead we need to report it in a way that befits the occasion. A national strike would have profound significance both nationally and internationally. Up to a million people will be involved one way or the other, the world will be watching Ireland. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday February 26, 2009 15:02 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 28, 2009 02:33)   image 5 images
Paintings based on a Gaza demonstration read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday February 26, 2009 14:45 by pat c
Cracks are emerging in the edifice of the ICTU leadership.Blair Horan of the CPSU which has opposed the levy from the start has said: that the CPSU was seeking to have the pension levy scrapped.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0226/...3.htm

However in todays Irish Times, ICTU General Secretary David Begg said: the first is that our campaign is not for the elimination of the pensions levy but rather for a fairer sharing of the burden of adjustment.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0226/1....html

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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday February 26, 2009 12:27 by ISM Gaza Strip   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 01, 2009 17:38)
24th February 2009

Khoza'a, Khan Younis , Gaza Strip: Palestinian farmers, accompanied by international human rights workers, were fired upon by Israeli forces in the village of Khozaa, near Khan Younis, this morning. The farmers and human rights workers were attempting to work on land around 300m from the Green Line.

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George Clooney, rumoured to be Obama's next Darfur envoy
national / eu / other press Thursday February 26, 2009 12:10 by redjade   image 1 image
The Government will not opt out completely from European security and defence policy (ESDP) in response to last year’s rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, according to Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin. read full story / add a comment
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armagh / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday February 26, 2009 11:13 by Sean Matthews   image 1 image
THE recent publishing of the report by the Consultative Group on the Past demonstrates the simmering sectarian tensions and hostility beneath the surface.The 190 page report by the group, chaired by ex-Church of Ireland primate Lord Eames and former Policing Board vice chairman Dennis Bradley marked 18 months of consultation with victim groups and others that have been bereaved through the conflict. read full story / add a comment
Waterford Glass workers on Saturdays march
waterford / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday February 26, 2009 11:01 by James McBarron   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
The workers at Waterford Crystal occupying the plant are an example to us all. Rather than accept the closure of the business, the loss of all the jobs and the destruction of the area’s premier industry; workers seized the buildings making liquidation impossible for the receiver. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday February 26, 2009 03:18 by pl
Under the title: The "proconsul" is leaving, but he is continuing with subversion, the newspaper said the mentioned figure has left his post, after enjoying two years of salary, to join Creative Associates International, a company of the gloomy CIA.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday February 26, 2009 03:09 by Aquiles Magana   text 2 comments (last - monday april 27, 2009 20:54)
Update on the current situation in the Salvadoran presidential election. read full story / add a comment
derry / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday February 26, 2009 02:30 by Richard Walsh
The annual Seán Keenan Commemoration will take place in Derry City on Sunday, 1st March at 3p.m., assembling at the Keenan memorial (Celtic Cross) on Fahan Street in the Bogside.
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Seaway: New & Selected Poems by Todd Swift
galway / arts and media / event notice Thursday February 26, 2009 01:24 by Over The Edge   image 2 images
Over The Edge and Salmon Poetry present the launch of Seaway: New and Selected Poems by Todd Swift & Poetry: Reading It, Writing It, Publishing It (Edited by Jessie Lendennie) plus readings by Patrick Chapman, Edward Boyne & Megan Buckley at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, 14-16 Church Yard Street, Galway on Friday, March 13th, 8pm. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / feature Wednesday February 25, 2009 22:56 by helpers   text 40 comments (last - monday september 27, 2010 13:32)   image 2 images   video 2 video files   1 attached file
Are you a tax justice believer? read full story / add a comment
Teenage Saharawi human rights activist raped by Moroccan police
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 25, 2009 22:52 by Mbarka   image 1 image
Last Sunday Moroccan police in the occupied Western Sahara detained a young Saharawi girl and raped her for standing up against the Moroccan occupation. First they interrogated her, then they molested her and finally the policemen sodomize her with their truncheons. All in the presence of higher ranking officers. They even threatened to kill her if she made her story public. read full story / add a comment
SHAC 7
dublin / animal rights / press release Wednesday February 25, 2009 21:16 by Rubert   image 1 image
AIG Ireland Limited, SHAC IRELAND DEMO on TUESDAY 3rd MARCH 1-2pm.
address below

AIG House,
Merrion Road,
Dublin 4,
IRELAND
Telephone: +353 1 208 1400
Directors: D Andrews SC (Chairman); S B Hehir FCII (Managing); D A Kent; M W Leahy ACII; A M Connaughton; D O'Rourke; H Browne; G Owens ACII; A Baugh (USA)
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national / racism & migration related issues / news report Wednesday February 25, 2009 20:13 by Joe Moore   text 4 comments (last - friday february 27, 2009 18:28)
At present a number of Nigerian people are being checked onto a chartered flight to Lagos. These are not holiday makers but people who came to this country to seek refugee status. They are now however victims of the racist policies been implemented by the Irish government. The plane is due to leave at 9.30pm. read full story / add a comment
Belfast Fundraiser for Gaza
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday February 25, 2009 18:51 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   image 1 image
Friday 6th March, from 7pm
in Gort na Móna CLG,
Springfield Road, Belfast read full story / add a comment
clare / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday February 25, 2009 18:47 by An Puca
The Book Launch for "Blood On The Banner - The Republican Struggle In Clare" Will take place in The Ennis Bookshop, 13 Abbey Street, Ennis, Co. Clare on Friday 27th February at 6.30 p.m. read full story / add a comment
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