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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 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 Fact-Checking Starmer?s Claim That Brexit Created the Small Boats Crisis Wed Oct 01, 2025 17:30 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer has claimed that Brexit created the small boats crisis and the migrant boats should be called 'Farage boats'. This is nonsense, says David Barrett, and even Oxford University's Migration Observatory agrees.
The post Fact-Checking Starmer’s Claim That Brexit Created the Small Boats Crisis appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Why is ?Pandemic Preparedness? a Major Theme of the New US Global Health Strategy? Wed Oct 01, 2025 15:43 | Dr David Bell
Why is 'pandemic preparedness' a major theme of the US Government's new 'America First' Global Health Strategy, asks Dr David Bell. There are some sound public health principles in there, but the 'pandemic' con lives on.
The post Why is ‘Pandemic Preparedness’ a Major Theme of the New US Global Health Strategy? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Ed Miliband Pledges Legislation to Ban Fracking ?Forever? Wed Oct 01, 2025 13:22 | Will Jones
With energy bills heading skywards and renewable energy investment on the ropes, Ed Miliband's conference crowd-pleaser was to pledge a law to ban fracking 'forever' ? and sabotage a future Reform administration.
The post Ed Miliband Pledges Legislation to Ban Fracking ‘Forever’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Lammy Backtracks on Claim Farage ?Once Flirted With Hitler Youth? Wed Oct 01, 2025 11:21 | Will Jones
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has been forced to row back on his bizarre claim that Nigel Farage "once flirted with the Hitler Youth", which Farage has denied.
The post Lammy Backtracks on Claim Farage “Once Flirted With Hitler Youth” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link I?m a Meteorologist. The Met Office Has Serious Questions to Answer Over the Accuracy of its Tempera... Wed Oct 01, 2025 09:00 | Andrew Sibley
Chartered Meteorologist Andrew Sibley says the Met Office has serious questions to answer over the accuracy of its temperature measurements. Instrument changes and urban growth cast major doubt on recent warming trends.
The post I’m a Meteorologist. The Met Office Has Serious Questions to Answer Over the Accuracy of its Temperature Measurements appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday January 30, 2008 21:38 by Stuart   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 06, 2008 18:23)   1 attached file
Freedom of Information legislation is exposing the experience of religious and ethnic employment grievances and appeals across university employment. Bullied Academics (http://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/index.html) provides a forum for exchanging FoI release data and experiences. read full story / add a comment
Fly the Flag on Saturday 29 March 2008 !
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday January 30, 2008 21:25 by Sharon .   text 17 comments (last - monday march 31, 2008 21:08)   image 9 images
....and ya might leave at the end of the night with a prize made by a republican prisoner! read full story / add a comment
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dublin / animal rights / news report Wednesday January 30, 2008 20:47 by ARAN   text 1 comment (last - thursday january 31, 2008 13:04)   image 1 image
Supporters coming from Limerick, Clare, Galway, Sligo, Mayo, Kildare, Meath, Wexford and Waterford gathered outside the department with a huge banner reading ‘Ban Fur Farming in Ireland Now!’ others held placards with a picture of a fox’s face with the tagline ‘Your Fur Had A Face’. The supporters were also joined by another ARAN member holding a body screen TV showing live footage of a recent investigation into fur farming in China where no animal welfare laws exist, the footage was heartbreaking but made people who seeing the footage more eager to double their efforts to stop this animal suffering. Six Animal Rights Action Network volunteers also posed for photographers wearing blindfolds whilst holding signs reading ‘Minister Mary Coughlan: Ban Fur Farming in Ireland’.
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international / politics / elections / other press Wednesday January 30, 2008 15:53 by pat c   text 8 comments (last - monday february 04, 2008 12:02)
Democracy Iranian style: you are not allowed to stand for election if the Iranian Regime doesnt like your opinions! Under the Iranian political system, potential candidates are vetted twice, once by the interior ministry and the second time by the Guardian Council, which is made up of Islamic clerics. Full report at the link from the well known Pro US Propagandists Al Jazeera.

The Iranian government has barred more than 2,000 prospective candidates from contesting in forthcoming parliamentary elections, in effect removing the biggest rival to hardliners in power.

Most of those disqualified were seeking democratic changes within Iran's ruling Islamic government led by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday January 30, 2008 15:21 by Peter Manson   text 1 comment (last - friday february 08, 2008 15:51)
One of the more bizarre claims made at the SWP UK Conference was that Lindsay German would be elected to the Greater London Assembly. The report below covers the conference and pre-conference discussions. More at the url.

Respect is alive and well, and the politics we pursued proved to be correct. That is the pathetic message the SWP leaders want people, including their own members, to believe. Yes, John Rees, Lindsey German, Alex Callinicos, Chris Bambery and Martin Smith treat the working class with barely concealed contempt. Under their post-Tony Cliff regime the SWP has not only adopted Joseph’s Stalin’s popular front politics, but also the same utterly cynical attitude towards the truth. SWP conferences are run along Stalinist lines too. Socialist Worker boasts of the January 5-6 gathering: “An overwhelming majority supported the way the party had conducted itself during the Respect crisis” (January 12).

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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 30, 2008 12:09 by krossie   text 2 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 14:37)   image 1 image
Donny brook shell Garage, Donnybrook at 2 pm read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 30, 2008 11:41 by The Fourth World War   text 3 comments (last - monday february 04, 2008 20:18)
The situation in Palestine is absolutely desperate. What’s going to happen next? Is it any hope of uniting all the Palestinian factions against occupation? Are the Israel zionist trying to force a massive exode of Palestinians to Egypt? What role is playing the Annapolis agreement on all of this situation?
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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 30, 2008 10:09 by Martin O'Sullivan
Amnesty Cork City Group – Trafficking Play – BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 30, 2008 10:02 by Martin O'Sullivan
Amnesty Cork City Group – Trafficking Play – BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

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cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 30, 2008 09:54 by Martin O'Sullivan
Amnesty Cork City Group – Trafficking Play – BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 30, 2008 09:03 by Martin O'Sullivan
Amnesty International in association with Galway One World Centre is hosting a special screening of Occupation 101. It is a thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

When: 5 February 2008
Where: One World Centre, Bridge Mills, Dominick Street, Galway

Free Entry. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday January 30, 2008 08:52 by Martin O'Sullivan
Unchained Melodies presents Donal McConnon, from Drogheda, Co. Louth, where he is known for his guitar and harmonica playing, as well as his quirky little songs.

Thursday 31st January at 6pm
Amnesty International Freedom Café 2-3 Middle Street, Galway read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday January 30, 2008 01:16 by reabhloid dearg

The RSYM have reacted angrily to the harassment of its membership by Garda Special Branch in the Co. Dublin area. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / press release Wednesday January 30, 2008 00:31 by Journalist


The Jesuit Refugee Service Europe is inviting aspiring journalists to investigate the reality behind the headlines by asking current and recent students across Europe to write an article on the theme: ’Access to Asylum’ read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / event notice Tuesday January 29, 2008 23:34 by RAG   text 7 comments (last - monday april 21, 2008 22:31)
*** Attention all feminists! *** read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / event notice Tuesday January 29, 2008 15:31 by Shell to Sea   text 1 comment (last - friday february 01, 2008 09:38)   image 1 image
Protest against Shell at Bellanaboy Refinery Site, County Mayo
starting at 7AM Friday February 1st.
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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Tuesday January 29, 2008 13:40 by C Murray   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 30, 2008 14:48)
In the wake of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences Bill) 2006; as amended in 2007,
two expert committees were set up to look at :- The issue of consent , to which interest groups
were invited to make submission; and in the wake of that a committee was set up under the
chairmanship of Mary O Rourke (Senator) to look at amending the Constitution.

Latest news on the issue of Protection is that the State may postpone the Referendum
now until 2009, because they do not (nor do the opposition) want the two Referenda
to coincide and create confusion for the voter. The Government had discussed holding
a referendum on Protection on the same day as the Lisbon Treaty Vote. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday January 29, 2008 11:56 by Des Dalton   text 30 comments (last - tuesday february 05, 2008 17:09)
On Monday January 28 Ruairi O Bradaigh, President of Republican Sinn Fein took part in a debate in University College Cork. The debate was organised by UCC Philosophical Society, he opposed the motion “That This House Believes That Irish Republicanism Has No Future', proposing the motion was Eoghan Harris, writer and commentator and member of the 26-County Senate. read full story / add a comment
donegal / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday January 29, 2008 11:43 by Séamus Mac Liam
A film screening will take place in Ballybofey, County Donegal on Wednesday 6th February 2008 in St Mary's Parish Centre. The film will start at 8pm. Speakers include a brother from Gaza who will be speaking about the situation in his homeland at present.

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