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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

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? 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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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday January 30, 2009 18:26 by Miriam   text 2 comments (last - sunday february 01, 2009 16:54)
There may be many things about the Turkish Prime Minister that people find objectionable but his challenge to Peres at Davos yesterday is surely not one of them. When he was prevented from being given equal time to Peres, he left the conference completely and has returned to an appreciative welcome in Turkey where feelings are running very high about the slaughter in Gaza. read full story / add a comment
meath / politics / elections / press release Friday January 30, 2009 17:45 by Peter Fitzsimons   text 3 comments (last - friday january 30, 2009 19:28)
E1,000 tax to be introduced on all home owners read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday January 30, 2009 16:53 by Strike Supporter   text 1 comment (last - friday january 30, 2009 17:32)
As part of the the ongoing campaign of the BATU strikers against their unfair dismissal by their employer (BATU), that union has now been suspended from the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. The statement of the BATU strikers about this can be found at http://batustrikers.wordpress.com/ and should be of particular interest to indymedia readers as it is a brilliant example of the struggle going on against the right wing union bureaucracy and for democratic, fighting unions. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Friday January 30, 2009 15:24 by Malachy Steenson   text 19 comments (last - saturday february 14, 2009 23:08)   image 1 image
Workers Party Leader Sean Garland has been arrested in Dublin read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday January 30, 2009 15:17 by gazasympathiser   text 18 comments (last - thursday february 05, 2009 21:45)   video 1 video file
"Israel was born out of Jewish Terrorism" Tzipi Livnis Father was a Terrorist" Astonishing claims in the House of Parliament. SIR Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, yesterday compared the actions of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland. read full story / add a comment
down / miscellaneous / press release Friday January 30, 2009 14:20 by Richard Walsh   text 1 comment (last - saturday january 31, 2009 18:22)
The Joe Conway Cumann of RSF, Newry, Co. Down, have congratulated the youth in Mayobridge and Attical for their resistance to the British colonial police (RUC). read full story / add a comment
Culture Ireland
international / arts and media / event notice Friday January 30, 2009 00:28 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
FEB 15

The Green Mill
4802 North Broadway (Lawrence & Broadway)
Chicago.IL.60640 773.UPT.5552

7 PM: Open Mike
8 PM: Featured Guest(s)
9 PM: Slam Competition

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dublin / history and heritage / event notice Thursday January 29, 2009 23:43 by Boots   text 5 comments (last - saturday march 07, 2009 00:17)
What: Feminist Walking Tour 2009

When: 1pm Sunday March 8th 2009, International Women's Day

Where: The Custom House, Custom House Quay, Dublin 1 read full story / add a comment
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday January 29, 2009 21:56 by TD   image 1 image
Same as the last two Saturday's, a flying picket will assemble outside Woodie's DIY store, Galway Shopping Center, Headford Rd at 12 noon in order to picket all the aforementioned unspeakables peddling the uneatable and unacceptable; Israeli foodstuffs and goods.
Please join us!

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The wrong people are doing the fearing
international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday January 29, 2009 21:26 by Miriam   text 36 comments (last - saturday january 31, 2009 20:41)   image 6 images   video 2 video files
Signs are already that the chemical castration of the Irish Unions from long-term immersion in the toxic environment of the Social Partnership has been completed. Reports are that they are preparing to slink away from IBEC and Fianna Fail without so much as a whimper about bailouts and other blingly obvious transfers of enormous wealth from the poor to the rich when the flow should be going in the other direction. read full story / add a comment
Anarchism in Limerick
limerick / anti-capitalism / event notice Thursday January 29, 2009 21:22 by Limerick WSM   image 1 image
They got us into this mess but now they want us to pay the price for it too!

With the economic crisis now in full swing, anarchists are arguing for fundamental change and an end to capitalism. How can we achieve this and how should the new society be organised? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday January 29, 2009 15:19 by Maidhc Ó Cathail   text 25 comments (last - tuesday march 10, 2009 18:54)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
After 60 years of one-sided reporting on Palestine, a major U.S. TV network finally shows the reality of life for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. read full story / add a comment
Peter Fitzsimons
meath / politics / elections / press release Thursday January 29, 2009 13:15 by Richard Walsh   text 8 comments (last - saturday january 31, 2009 17:33)   image 1 image
Peter Fitzsimons of Kells, Co. Meath, has been selected to contest the upcoming local council election in Kells. read full story / add a comment
wet and windy but glad to  make a stand.daunt square
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday January 29, 2009 01:46 by gota hope   text 4 comments (last - monday february 02, 2009 19:34)   image 5 images
It was a very wet and windy saterday, in cork . but despite this people were keen to express there outrage at the carnage being inflicted on a unarmed population in Gaza. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 28, 2009 22:14 by Alan Davis   text 3 comments (last - friday january 30, 2009 02:26)   1 attached file
On Monday evening this week the Societies Guild at UCC rejected an application, backed by over 100 student signatures, to set up a pro-choice student society. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday January 28, 2009 20:10 by Rebel Hurler
Saturday 7th Feb 3pm :: Emmet Place, Cork read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday January 28, 2009 16:46 by newsmedia
A debut album by new Irish band The Truth has won remarkable acclaim from Irish film director and writer Declan Cassidy. read full story / add a comment
AMARC - live radio coverage from WSF 09, Belém, Brazil
international / environment / news report Wednesday January 28, 2009 16:30 by dunk   text 9 comments (last - monday march 02, 2009 15:16)   image 6 images   video 5 video files   audio 1 audio file
In Brazil, more than one hundred thousand people are gathering for the ninth World Social Forum. A crowd of some fifty thousand kicked off the event Tuesday with a march through the Amazon city of Belem. The World Social Forum gathers social movements from around the world under the theme of ‘another world is possible.’ It’s timed to coincide with the gathering of corporate leaders in the Swiss town of Davos.

Listen to the live broadcast, when available from AMARC: http://66.90.104.82:8330/listen.pls

WSF 2009 @ Belém - Pará - Brasil (27 feb - 1 feb, 2009) : http://www.fsm2009amazonia.org.br/

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cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday January 28, 2009 16:24 by P. Bowman   image 1 image   1 attached file
The Venezuelan revolution: An alternative to world capitalist crisis?

Speaker: Francesco Merli - HoV international campaign

Wednesday, 11th February (8pm) Victoria Hotel, Patrick St., Cork read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday January 28, 2009 15:46 by RCPI   1 attached file
Date: Tuesday 17 February 2009 - 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Venue: The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, No.6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2

This meeting aims to explain what population cancer screening is, its benefits, limitations and its role in detecting different cancers.

Broadcaster and journalist Ms Olivia O’Leary will chair the meeting and the speakers will include Dr Patricia Fitzpatrick, Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health & Population Science, University College, Dublin and Consultant Epidemiologist, National Cancer Screening Service, Dr Ann O’Doherty, Consultant Radiologist, St. Vincent’s University Hospital and Clinical Director of BreastCheck, Dr Marian O’Reilly, Head of Cervical Screening, National Cancer Screening Service, and Dr Alan Smith, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, National Cancer Screening Service
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