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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

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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offsite link Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling as Union Boss Calls for Miliband to Be Sacked Tue Sep 30, 2025 17:36 | Will Jones
Rachel Reeves has signalled support for drilling in the North Sea in a blow to Ed Miliband ? as the boss of the Unite union calls on Keir Starmer to sack the "disastrous" Net Zero Secretary.
The post Reeves Signals Support for North Sea Drilling as Union Boss Calls for Miliband to Be Sacked appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Wes Streeting Says Nigel Farage is ?Racist? Tue Sep 30, 2025 15:30 | Will Jones
Health Secretary Wes Streeting?has said Nigel Farage is "racist", joining Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson in using the insult of the Reform party and its leader.
The post Wes Streeting Says Nigel Farage is “Racist” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the ?Friend-Enemy Distinction? Right-Wing Critical Race Theory? Tue Sep 30, 2025 13:00 | Noah Carl
Perfectly neutral institutions will never be attainable, argues Noah Carl, but that doesn?t mean that reasonably neutral institutions aren?t worth striving for.
The post Is the ‘Friend-Enemy Distinction’ Right-Wing Critical Race Theory? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Europe Has Never Looked More Pathetic Tue Sep 30, 2025 11:27 | Will Jones
With Trump's announcement of a peace plan backed by both Israel and Arab leaders, Europe, with its toothless alternative proposal to reward terror, has never looked more pathetic or weaker on the global stage.
The post Europe Has Never Looked More Pathetic appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Down The Tylenol Rabbitol Tue Sep 30, 2025 09:00 | James Alexander
President Trump says Tylenol in pregnancy may cause autism. Wes Streeting says don't listen to Trump, he's a politician. But what does the science say? Professor James Alexander goes down the Tylenol rabbitol.
The post Down The Tylenol Rabbitol appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Paul Perry at North Beach Poetry Nights
galway / arts and media / event notice Saturday March 15, 2008 11:52 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
North Beach Poetry Nights

presents

Paul Perry

Upstairs at Richardsons. Nr 1 on the Square.
Thursday March 20th at 9. 15 pm read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Saturday March 15, 2008 11:04 by C Murray   text 6 comments (last - tuesday march 18, 2008 19:51)
Both Guardian and London Independent are giving away free poetic booklets in a series,
something which I.T has done over years with the 'Saturday Poem': Review section.

The Guardian , yesterday published, an opinion piece about poetry and gender by a
woman writer which alluded to the fact that only one woman was represented in the Guardian
Series. Sylvia Plath. (excellent Poet ,cf embedded video) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday March 14, 2008 22:14 by Justin Morahan   text 2 comments (last - tuesday march 18, 2008 13:00)   image 1 image
The spineless US Senate that allowed George W Bush to walk over them as he waged an evil war against Iraq were punished by the ghosts of that war on Wednesday last and had to close down their business. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / press release Friday March 14, 2008 21:59 by Brian Guckian   text 5 comments (last - thursday november 27, 2008 16:10)   image 2 images
PRESS RELEASE

For Release 14/3/2008

THE Cabinet has been sitting on a sustainable and practical solution to the problems posed by the construction of the M3 motorway since last September and has neither examined nor done anything to implement it despite overwhelmingly positive feedback, a co-author of the Meath MASTER Plan, independent transport researcher Brian Guckian, said today.
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sligo / environment / other press Friday March 14, 2008 20:16 by Rayo   text 34 comments (last - friday may 16, 2008 20:27)
THERE are now growing concerns that the green area at the racecourse in Sligo will be rezoned and sold off.
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international / anti-capitalism / news report Friday March 14, 2008 15:49 by Andrew   text 3 comments (last - sunday march 16, 2008 17:54)   audio 2 audio files
Interviews with active anarchists in Washington DC and Richmond Virginia conducted in the last few days during my 'Building a Popular anarchism in Ireland' speaking tour. Covers the Richmond slave insurrection of 1800, anarchism in Richmond since 1995, homeless activism and the DC specific problem of building a popular anarchism in a city where there are several protests every day. read full story / add a comment
Communist response to demands for Human Rights
international / miscellaneous / other press Friday March 14, 2008 13:17 by Bazooka Joe   text 3 comments (last - friday march 14, 2008 20:06)   image 1 image
Hundreds of people joined protests led by Buddhist monks against Chinese Communist rule in Tibet today. monks set police cars on fire after a demonstration was stopped by police. Buddhist monks started a hunger strike and two others attempted suicide by slitting their wrists.
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national / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday March 14, 2008 12:57 by Edward Horgan   text 50 comments (last - tuesday july 01, 2008 22:26)   image 5 images   1 attached file
Amnesty International have announced that they have irrefutable evidence that a prisoner was taken through Shannon Airport in January 2004. read full story / add a comment
94 days in jail- lets not let SHell get away with it!
national / environment / news report Friday March 14, 2008 12:01 by Starstruck   text 7 comments (last - saturday march 15, 2008 13:31)   image 5 images
Last night,over 70 people gathered in the ATGWU Hall on Middle Abbey Street to discuss the ongoing scandal that is the Corrib Gas Field Development.
Interesting and detailed speeches were delivered by Micheál O'Seighin , Patricia McKenna and Frank Connolly.
Half an hour of open floor contributions and debate followed with several empassioned orations being delivered by both stalwarts of the campaign and newcomers alike.

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national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday March 14, 2008 10:02 by C Murray   text 10 comments (last - friday april 04, 2008 18:37)   image 2 images
The Breast cancer unit at Mayo General Hospital is to be phased out under the HSE
policy of Professor Brendan Drumm, many who travelled to the Breast cancer protest
in buses and stood in the cold to highlight lack of services to the North-West will be heavily
disappointed in the decision for the scheduled phase-out. Mostly they will be disappointed
in the TD whom they elected who upholds the decision of the 'medical men' who know
best. http://www.indymedia.ie/article/85161
Ms Flynn was at that protest, she most purposefully strode across the road to listen
to the women speak and then she turned her back on them to support Mary Harney
and the HSE. read full story / add a comment
proposed Interchange at Tara
meath / environment / other press Friday March 14, 2008 04:03 by YA BASTA!   text 5 comments (last - thursday april 03, 2008 00:00)   image 3 images
Here's some background info and up-dates on whats happening at Tara!
One Love
One World
Whatever you dream you can do begin it.
Boldness has genius, power & magic in it. B
Begin it now.

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cork / anti-capitalism / news report Thursday March 13, 2008 22:18 by Peter O Sullivan   text 2 comments (last - friday march 14, 2008 00:25)   image 1 image
Sicko is the name of the new Michael Moore film exposing the US health service for what it is – a profit hungry machine that puts money first and people second. In the good ol’ US of A, if you don’t pay when you get sick then it’s tough luck. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Thursday March 13, 2008 21:56 by PEGG   text 24 comments (last - wednesday december 07, 2011 09:37)   image 2 images
Over eighty different groups applied for funding from Shell's Local Grants Programme in Erris. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 13, 2008 18:25 by Seán Ryan   text 1 comment (last - friday march 21, 2008 02:00)
All the interrogations were filmed. read full story / add a comment
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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday March 13, 2008 17:26 by Saoirse   text 26 comments (last - wednesday august 13, 2008 13:18)   image 1 image
PRESS RELEASE

New York Prepares to Celebrate Everything Irish While a Small Press in
Chelsea Works to Remember All that Is Ireland.

Ausubo Press will publish Anthony McIntyre's "Good Friday, The Death
of Irish Republicanism."

New York, NY (PRWEB) March 12, 2008 -- read full story / add a comment
Tom Isaacs at the end of his walk around Briitain's coastline
national / health / disability issues / press release Thursday March 13, 2008 17:17 by Ann Keilthy   image 1 image
We have had a week of events around the theme of the brain, and awareness of the 700.000 people in Ireland with a brain disorder ranging from Migraine, Acquired Brain Injury to MS and Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, all events coordinated through the Neurological Alliance of Ireland. This week, Internatinal Brain Awareness Week has received a huge amount of publicity, focussing as it has on personal experiences, and an honest look at the present state of services for those with a neurological disorder in Ireland - through the media - TV, radio, newspapers, the internet, and conferences and meetings. On Sunday (March 16th), the last day of Brain Awareness Week, the PALS branch of the Parkinson's Association (the branch for those diagnosed at a younger age) have a special meeting, in the Marine Hotel in Sutton at 3pm on Sunday March 16th, which is an open meeting because of its relevance to the Week, and indeed because it is testimony to the strength of the human spirit. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Thursday March 13, 2008 16:56 by Gearóid Ó Loingsigh
The two marches recently held in Colombia to protest on the one hand against the FARC and the second march to protest against State Crimes were treated very differently by the media and the government. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday March 13, 2008 16:43 by Rory Hearne
A public meeting, organised by the People Before Profit Alliance is taking place in Madisons Bar, Rathmines on Wednesday March 19th at 7pm to discuss with the public how they can do something to bring an end to the current health crisis. It invites the public to engage with the debate of how we can bring an end to the current health crisis and how we can campaign to support a decent public health service.
The meeting will address this by discussing how to get widespread support for the march called by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions on Saturday March 29th.
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday March 13, 2008 16:31 by pat c
There are those who believe that Iran is a paradise. They were outraged recently when an Iranian exile suggested that prostitution was rife under the Iranian Theocracy. Well read this! Hypocrite!

Tehran's police chief has resigned following his arrest after being found naked in the company of six nude prostitutes in a local brothel. Reza Zarei stepped down from his post following the raid, reportedly ordered by Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, chief of the judicial authorities, Ynetnews reported Wednesday.
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