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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 RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

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offsite link Free Speech Documentary Cancelled by London Cinema Fri Nov 21, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
London cinema Rich Mix has banned a documentary by Spiked about free speech because it does not "align with our values and mission".
The post Free Speech Documentary Cancelled by London Cinema appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
The Covid Inquiry module two report fails to question faulty assumptions and draws conclusions without engaging with the evidence, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson in a damning assessment.
The post The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Debunking the BBC?s Claim That Pakistan?s Floods Are Made Worse by Climate Change Fri Nov 21, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
If the BBC's Standards Committee, which is reviewing the corporation's coverage of climate change, wants a good example of bias, it should take a look at its report of recent floods in Pakistan, says Paul Homewood.
The post Debunking the BBC’s Claim That Pakistan’s Floods Are Made Worse by Climate Change appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 59: Why Shabana Mahmood?s Asylum Crackdown is Not All It?s Cracked Up to Be, a... Fri Nov 21, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 59 of The Sceptic: Rob Bates on why Shabana Mahmood's asylum crackdown is not all it's cracked up to be, and Chris Morrison on how the Met Office and the BBC push climate alarmism.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 59: Why Shabana Mahmood?s Asylum Crackdown is Not All It?s Cracked Up to Be, and How the Met Office and BBC Push Climate Alarmism appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Nov 21, 2025 01:14 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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mayo / environment / event notice Monday October 20, 2008 15:59 by Shell to Sea   image 2 images
Shell to Sea are holding a party for Maura Harrington and the fishermen - Pat, Johnathan & Kevin - who stood up to Shell.

It will take place in McGraths, Pollathomais on Saturday 25th of October from around 10pm.

Music will be by Tony Cawley and Chantelle Padden

All welcome for a great night of craic agus ceol. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Monday October 20, 2008 14:50 by Over The Edge
Irish Times critic for October Over The Edge: Open Reading

The October Over The Edge: Open Reading will take place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, October 30th, 6.30-8pm. The Featured Readers are Noel Harrington, John Kenny & Eamonn Harrigan. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday October 20, 2008 12:25 by Vince   text 1 comment (last - monday october 20, 2008 14:16)   image 1 image
On the afternoon of Friday, November 22, 1963, the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed by a sniper as he rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas, Texas. That infamous weekend was the beginning of 24 hour saturation television news coverage, the moment when the post-war generation of baby boomers received their first initiation of the brutal underbelly beneath the American dream, it was the beginning of the political drama of the 1960’s that almost tore the US apart as the lid was lifted on America’s unease with its superpower status, the divide between rich and poor and the cancer of racial injustice. It is a drama that is unresolved and still poisons American society today. As a new young energetic African-American President appears to have the White House within his reach, it appears there is a chance that the festering wound opened in 1963 may finally be closed.
Or maybe not. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday October 20, 2008 12:08 by events@lasc.ie   image 1 image
Participate and win great prizes! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday October 20, 2008 11:27 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - monday october 20, 2008 13:49)
Yassamine Mather writes on the danger of a US/Israeli military strike on Iran over the next 3 months. She also criticises those on the "left" who criticise Iran but who fail to condemn US/Israeli Imperialism. Full text at link.

Over the last few weeks French president Nicolas Sarkozy has publicly suggested on at least three occasions that an Israeli attack might be imminent - and acceptable - unless Iran quits enriching uranium, and implied that in such an event the international community should turn a blind eye. In early October French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said Israel was expected to launch a military strike on Iran before Tehran acquires a nuclear bomb. read full story / add a comment
The Strand Hotel, "HQ" of Cooley Environmental and Health Group
louth / environment / news report Monday October 20, 2008 10:49 by Sean Crudden   text 3 comments (last - wednesday december 24, 2008 17:24)   image 3 images
Cooley Environmental and Health Group has for the last half dozen years or so adopted The Strand Hotel, Omeath, Co Louth, as a center for its varied program of activities. Archbishop Michael Desmond Hynes OMD PhD has been secretary of the group over all that period. He now is also acting as PRO for the group. read full story / add a comment
kerry / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday October 20, 2008 10:16 by sean moraghan
People Before Profit Alliance (Kerry) will take part in a Demonstration/vigil against the removal of Medical Cards for the Over-70s ... and the philosophy behind it read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday October 20, 2008 09:00 by Martin O'Sullivan
Restore The Medical card Picket Sean Haughey's Office, 5 Mornington Park Beside The Goblet Tues 21st Oct @ 19:30 read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday October 19, 2008 23:11 by Oisín Mac Gall   text 3 comments (last - monday october 20, 2008 18:17)   image 8 images
Supporters of Iban Apaolaza Sancho on Friday 17th in Dublin's O'Connell Street, staged Spanish police torture enactment to protest Canadian deportation of the Basque refugee to Spanish police custody on an arrest warrant based on testimony given under torture. Their action was part of an international effort, with other interventions in the Basque Country, Montreál, Beirut and London. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday October 19, 2008 22:51 by Sean   text 1 comment (last - wednesday october 22, 2008 23:45)
The Belfast branch of the Workers Solidarity Movement will be giving an educational talk on

'The Spirit of 1968- Lesson's from the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement' read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday October 19, 2008 22:33 by Séamas   text 3 comments (last - wednesday february 04, 2009 16:31)   image 3 images
An event organised by the North West Solidarity Network took place in Manorhamilton, Co. Leitirm has been hailed a major success and as the start of a series of activities and actions planned for the coming months and years. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday October 19, 2008 21:44 by Philip Ikurusi
Is the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea facing new US/UK intervention?

Thirteen years ago the Nigerian Government executed Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni activists. Their death brought the plight of their people and the role of international oil companies in Nigeria to the attention of the world. Since 9/11, Nigeria and the other oil-producing countries of the Gulf of Guinea have only grown in strategic and economic importance to both Europe and the United States. .........Andy Rowell “The Next Gulf”
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday October 19, 2008 21:09 by Richard Walsh
Further Orwellian moves by the London administration in pursuit of a Big Brother society are evident in plans to require photographic identification when purchasing a mobile telephone. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday October 19, 2008 16:04 by Laura Broxson
Get active for animal rights! read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Sunday October 19, 2008 15:13 by Des Derwin   text 11 comments (last - tuesday october 28, 2008 19:48)   image 1 image
The Dublin Council of Trade Unions and the Public Health
Service Campaign offer their support for the

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antrim / anti-war / imperialism / press release Sunday October 19, 2008 14:21 by Richard Walsh   text 7 comments (last - friday october 24, 2008 00:45)
Provo plans to protest a parade glorifying British aggression throughout the world is an exercise in hypocrisy, a spokesman for Republican Sinn Féin has said. read full story / add a comment
HDMS Vaedderen at Cork's Custom House Quay
cork / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday October 19, 2008 11:15 by John Jefferies   text 7 comments (last - sunday october 26, 2008 10:22)   image 2 images
For the second time in just over a month Cork Port has been visited by a warship of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), in breach of Irish neutrality. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday October 19, 2008 08:05 by Gary MacLennan   text 4 comments (last - monday january 26, 2009 13:27)
I began these writings on Catholicism in response to Ciaron O’Reilly’s request that I review Harry Browne’s Hammered by the Irish. I have never met Harry but I am a long time friend of Ciaron O’Reilly one of the defendants in the series of trials that followed the Catholic Worker /Ploughshare Activists’ attack on an American War plane that was stationed in a hangar at Shannon Airport in clear violation of Irish neutrality. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday October 19, 2008 05:26 by Vets   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 19, 2008 15:35)
"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Attacked by "stay at home patriot" Cops on Horseback, Long Island, New York U.S.A.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-60628185897533...hl=en

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national / environment / news report Saturday October 18, 2008 23:26 by Contaminated Crow
A power station in Mayo, pylons in Meath and Kildare, incinerator in Meath, gas terminal in Kerry and a race track in Co Tipperary read full story / add a comment
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