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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 Kneecap Terror Case Thrown Out After Legal Blunder Sat Sep 27, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
The terrorism charge against a?Kneecap rapper over his 'support for Hezbollah'?has been dropped after police and prosecutors failed to get the consent of the Attorney General in time.
The post Kneecap Terror Case Thrown Out After Legal Blunder appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour Has Turned Britain?s Constables into Commissars Sat Sep 27, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
As yet another scandalous arrest over a tweet shows how Labour has turned Britain's constables into commissars, the public are right to draw a link between this clampdown on speech and 'two-tier Keir', says Laurie Wastell.
The post Labour Has Turned Britain’s Constables into Commissars appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Major Poll Finds Nigel Farage on Track for No 10 With 311 MPs Sat Sep 27, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
A major poll has put Nigel Farage on track to be Britain's next Prime Minister with 311 MPs as Labour is set to lose more than 250 seats and the Tories are pushed into fourth.
The post Major Poll Finds Nigel Farage on Track for No 10 With 311 MPs appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why the Right Must Take the High Ground When it Comes to Free Speech Sat Sep 27, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
Tempting though it is, Donald Trump and his allies should refrain from trying to cancel their political opponents. Free speech is one of the core values that the defenders of Western civilisation should uphold.
The post Why the Right Must Take the High Ground When it Comes to Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Can the Radical Left Be Trusted With Free Speech? Sat Sep 27, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Can the radical Left ? increasingly wedded to violence to achieve its unpopular ideals ? actually be trusted with free speech, or will it just keep using it to call for and celebrate our deaths, asks Steven Tucker.
The post Can the Radical Left Be Trusted With Free Speech? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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galway / arts and media / press release Saturday December 20, 2008 15:46 by Over The Edge   image 2 images
The Galway literary events organisation Over The Edge has been informed that it is to receive a 30% increase in its funding from Galway City Council for 2009 and will keep the same level of Arts Council funding for 2009 as it received in 2008. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Saturday December 20, 2008 14:42 by TD   text 2 comments (last - thursday december 25, 2008 13:38)   image 6 images   video 2 video files
Yesterday, in the relentless resistance against the construction of the Annexation Wall and the illegal Israeli colonising “settlements” of Kfar Rut, Shilta, Mattityahu, Makkabim, Hashmonaim, Lapid, Modi’in Illit (Qiryat Sefer) and Menora on the expropriated Palestinian lands of Bil’in and Saffa, villagers from Bil’in, their numbers augmented by Internationals and Israeli Anarchists Against the Wall marched, as they have done for the past four years after Friday prayers, in protest to the Wall. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday December 19, 2008 22:21 by newsmedia   text 7 comments (last - thursday december 25, 2008 00:39)   image 1 image
The Irish government has again turned to taking money off the poor to fund the rich. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Friday December 19, 2008 21:06 by newsmedia   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 20, 2008 20:20)
Photographer Brian MacCormaic has spent the last five years in Nairobi, living and working among the slum communities of Mukuru. The Dubliner has been the driving force behind numerous projects aimed at improving the economic and social conditions of the local community. In this half hour documentary, Seán Mac an tSíthigh visits Brian, and sees at first hand his role as an educator and facilitator working with a slum population of over 100,000. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday December 19, 2008 16:04 by Kev   image 2 images
On Saturday 20th December there will be a demonstration outside the Egyptian Embassy (Ballsbridge) from 2 to 4pm. We will be calling on the Egyptian government to end its complicity in the siege of Gaza and to use its influence to push for the permanent opening the Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt. The crossing has been closed for over 40 days. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Friday December 19, 2008 14:23 by Malachy Steenson
"The most recent revelations relating to the activities of Sean Fizpatrick, the Chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, show yet again how corrupt the financial and political establishment is in this country” according to Malachy Steenson, Dublin Central representative of the Workers’ Party and their candidate in the North Inner City in the forthcoming local elections. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Friday December 19, 2008 04:30 by Afrikakorps
The Defence Lawyers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda allege "manipulation of the ICTR by member states" and a "cover-up" of RPF crimes which has "been the root cause of millions of deaths in Rwanda, the Congo and the Great Lakes region since the RPF invaded Rwanda with the help of Uganda in 1990. The ICTR has done "a disservice to International Justice" the lawers say. read full story / add a comment
A heavy drinker, he edited the Observer newspaper in Britain
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday December 19, 2008 01:29 by weight lifted   text 74 comments (last - thursday january 15, 2009 16:14)   image 3 images   video 1 video file
Long time supporter of Israeli Zionism, British power in Ireland, censor, bully, anti-Republican and self publicist dies at age 91.

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national / miscellaneous / press release Thursday December 18, 2008 23:47 by Des Dalton
Republican Sinn Fein Vice President Des Dalton supports comments by former editor of La Nua. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday December 18, 2008 20:32 by Starstruck   text 5 comments (last - monday december 22, 2008 16:45)   image 3 images
Meet at top of Grafton St at entrance to Stephens Green @1pm Saturday 20th Dec

Part of an International Day of Resistance and Solidarity the call for whcih came from Greece amidst the resistance against state oppression and murder there.
Police accountability will only occur when our demands become loud enough to be unavoidable.
State violence must be resisted at all levels be it in the form of the police or more stealthy in the form of the cutting of vital public health services.
Cutbacks that will cause the deaths or ordinary people will only be stopped by making our resistance to them loud, and effective.
Solidarity! read full story / add a comment
antrim / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday December 18, 2008 16:32 by No witch-hunt in Unison   text 6 comments (last - thursday january 08, 2009 13:57)
Stop the witchhunt in UNISON

Defend union democracy

No to the expulsion of Pat Lawlor

Join the protest against Pat Lawlor's expulsion

7 January - 9 am
Holiday Inn
22 Ormeau Avenue
Belfast
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday December 18, 2008 10:51 by update   text 24 comments (last - wednesday march 04, 2009 13:25)
The latest edition of the ISN's paper, Resistance, is available from the usual outlets and from an ISN member near you. For copies (frre and post-free), email irishsocialistnetwork@dublin.ie read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday December 17, 2008 20:21 by Volta   text 1 comment (last - saturday december 20, 2008 18:38)   image 1 image
DECEMBER 22ND. SEOMRA SPRAOI.
7.30PM TO 11PM.[/b]

FILMS START AT 8PM.[b] read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday December 17, 2008 18:35 by dissident   video 1 video file
The United Nation's top human rights official has condemned Israel's expulsion of Richard Falk, the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian Territories, from the country, calling it "unprecedented" and "deeply regrettable. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / press release Wednesday December 17, 2008 15:45 by Maryam Namazie
Call For End To Sharia Courts After Report Shows Widespread Injustice

Press Release
December 17, 2008

A new report* showing that Muslim women are discriminated against and encounter gross bias when they subject themselves to Sharia adjudications was welcomed today by The One Law for All Campaign, which is supported by a variety of organisations and individuals.
* http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7783627.stm

The campaign’s spokesperson Maryam Namazie said: ‘This research reinforces our own findings that Sharia Councils and Muslim Arbitration Tribunals are discriminatory and unfair. However, the solution to the miscarriages of justice is not the vetting of Imams coming to the UK as the report has recommended but an end to the use and implementation of Sharia law and religious-based tribunals.’ read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday December 17, 2008 15:30 by Richard Walsh   text 2 comments (last - saturday december 20, 2008 22:01)
The announcement of a scaling-back to Britain's six year occupation of southern Iraq is in stark contrast to the announcement that 5,000 British soldiers will remain permanently garrisoned in occupied Ireland, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday December 17, 2008 15:00 by pat c
Samir Adil, leader of the Iraq Freedom Congress (IFC) was among those injured in an indiscriminate terror bombing of a restraunt in Kirkurk on Friday, 11 December. 55 people were killed and 100 were wounded. The IFC has been working across ethnic divides in Kirkuk to unite local communities against the US occupation and sectarian militias.

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national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday December 17, 2008 10:30 by Malachy Steenson
"Privatisation by stealth" is the only way to describe the latest A&E plans from the HSE according to Malachy Steenson, Dublin Central representative of the Workers’ Party and their candidate in the North Inner City in the forthcoming local elections. .
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international / animal rights / news report Wednesday December 17, 2008 00:20 by Bernie Wright   text 3 comments (last - friday december 19, 2008 02:20)
LATEST GA NEWSLETTER NOW AVAILABLE ON-LINE
Running for their Lives! - December 2008

Contents:-
A Greyt 2008! - Best year ever for our campaign
More good news from the USA - Greyhound racing banned in MA, Guam track closes
Financial crisis for William Hill - Soaring debts/falling shares for greyhound killers

The latest issue (December 2008) of our bi-monthly newsletter, Runnning for their Lives!, is
now available on-line.

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dublin / animal rights / press release Wednesday December 17, 2008 00:12 by Bernie Wright
Anti-Blood sports Demo with life-size Stag visual…and Open air Book Launch outside the Office of the Taoiseach!

The AOHS is protesting outside the office of the Taoiseach Mr. Brian Cowen on Friday…. The purpose of the demo is to remind the Fianna Fail-Green government that the horrific so-called “sports” of hare coursing, carted stag hunting, and fox hunting will continue over the Christmas Season, making an absolute mockery of the “season of peace and goodwill”

FRIDAY 19thDecember, 1pm until 2pm at Upper Merrion Street. Dublin.2( the back of the Dail.)
The protest venue was chosen because the Taoiseach is a known fervent supporter of live hare coursing and other blood sports. We believe this sends out a very disturbing message, namely that cruelty to animals is OK!

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