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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

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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 Eurostar Unveils Gender-Neutral Uniform for Staff Wed Oct 01, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Eurostar has unveiled its first gender-neutral uniform, introducing a collection featuring skirts, trousers and Dr Martens boots designed to be "interchangeable and made to fit all genders".
The post Eurostar Unveils Gender-Neutral Uniform for Staff appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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Outside Ahern's Office
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday January 26, 2008 10:46 by éirígí   text 5 comments (last - thursday february 21, 2008 15:25)   image 3 images
éirígí have announced the details of their latest public protest in opposition to the proposed state visit of the Commander-in-Chief of Britain’s armed forces to the Twenty-Six Counties.

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national / miscellaneous / event notice Friday January 25, 2008 21:49 by Seán Ó Murchú

Proposition: Senator Eoghan Harris, columnist and lecturer
Opposition: Ruairí Ó'Brádaigh, President of Republican Sinn Fein

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Gender and Ecology
national / politics / elections / other press Friday January 25, 2008 15:14 by C Murray   text 12 comments (last - sunday february 24, 2008 14:13)   image 2 images
The Taoiseach gets Friday off. Its a long-standing tradition that was facilitated by the
Labour Party in exchange for speaking time in the Dail.

The images on the Newswire of the Women's Protest in Belfast caught my eye,
given the Health and social problems that are becoming evident in Dolphin's Barn,
because someone gave Ms Harney 16 Billion Euros to continue to implement her Health
Policy which is to close down hospitals in areas that have high populations of young children.

Its called 'amalgamation'.

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national / miscellaneous / press release Friday January 25, 2008 14:08 by Des Dalton


Republican Sinn Fein hold commemorative picket
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday January 25, 2008 10:27 by Sarah Lundberg
An exciting new addition in Chapters and Verse 2008 is the monthly Chapters and Verse Celebration of Literature Evening which will occur on the evening of the second Thursday of each month from 6pm and will incorporate a number of short readings along will ‘stalls’ where Independent and small publishers can sell books that it would normally be difficult to find a prominent outlet for. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Friday January 25, 2008 10:20 by Sarah Lundberg
Chapters and Verse 2008 is part of the continuing series of lunch time readings organised by The Seven Towers Agency and held in Chapters Bookstore which commenced in 2007.

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national / arts and media / press release Friday January 25, 2008 10:00 by Sarah Lundberg
Chapters and Verse 2008 is part of the continuing series of lunch time readings organised by The Seven Towers Agency and held in Chapters Bookstore which commenced in 2007. read full story / add a comment
RIP Jan .
international / miscellaneous / news report Thursday January 24, 2008 23:59 by Barry   text 9 comments (last - saturday january 26, 2008 18:16)   image 3 images
A young antifascist skinhead activist , Jan Kucera , has been brutally slain during a clash with a number of neo nazis in the small town of Pibram , just outside of Prague in the czech republic . Tensions between fascists and anti fascists have been high in that area since the successful mobilisation in November in which anti fascists and anarchists physically prevented neo nazis from staging a despicable rally in the centre of Pragues historic Jewish quarter to mark the anniversary of the nazis Kristalnacht pogrom against the jews of Germany during the 1930s .

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international / politics / elections / other press Thursday January 24, 2008 23:02 by staring at rats
Prodi has quit his job as prime minister of Italy tonight.
Berlusconi will come back.
Naples has spent all winter without rubbish collection.
Padre Pio is half way out of his grave.
The Tiger mosquito has brought tropical diseases.

& that's about it.
you know what Berlusconi's like. he's a hoot. up-front mafia billionaire right wing botox-jowled fascist. We're leaving the age of "sociopathic socialist governments" in the EU. It will happen to South America next. Ah! but you protest Prodi wasn't a socialist... You'd be right too. Everyone is. read full story / add a comment
dublin / eu / event notice Thursday January 24, 2008 22:15 by Rory Hearne   text 2 comments (last - saturday february 09, 2008 22:28)
Tuesday Feb 12th, 7.30pm at Madisons Bar, Upper Rathmines Rd

Speakers:
Patricia McKenna, former Green Party MEP, Campaign Against EU Constitution
Rory Hearne, People Before Profit Alliance
Daithi Doolan, Cllr Sinn Fein
Trade unionist, SWP & Anti-War speakers

Come along and get involved in the No campaign in Dublin South East.
Contact 0861523542 for information read full story / add a comment
Heng or whats left of it!
international / history and heritage / news report Thursday January 24, 2008 21:12 by tarapiXie   text 5 comments (last - saturday january 26, 2008 11:47)   image 7 images
We had decided to have our breakfast on the henge this morning. As I drove towards the N3 a low loader carrying a digger was driving towards Lismullen. Approx 10 protestors arrived in Lismullen, some from the road and some from Rath Lugh. Security were present during the entire time we were there. 2 protestors were assaulted within a few minutes of arriving. I tried to block the fuel coming out of the Lismullen carpark but Mark Cleary kept pushing me out of the way and the fuel tractor got away. Steve from Kildare, one of the security men assaulted another protestor, he was pulled from the fence and thrown onto the ground head first, and hurt his neck. read full story / add a comment
Investment in Lies
mayo / arts and media / opinion/analysis Thursday January 24, 2008 20:23 by Rudiger   text 15 comments (last - thursday march 27, 2008 14:47)   image 3 images
Shell recently launched another cynical attempt to buy off opposition to their Corrib Gas project by offering grants to community groups that will be closest to Bellanaboy and their proposed raw gas pipeline. read full story / add a comment
Is that water from Carrowmore Lake?
international / environment / news report Thursday January 24, 2008 18:34 by sHell watcher   text 4 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 20:04)   image 2 images
In Davos today, Shell's Chief Executive has said energy demand growth this year would be higher than last.

"I look at the energy industry, and of course we look at the total economic climate, but we don't see any reason for panic," Jeroen van der Veer told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
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dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday January 24, 2008 18:16 by Events Officer
Latin America Week 2008
LAW 2008 aims to focus attention on the issue of the private exploitation of water, and the impact of this on human development. It will have a further emphasis on the Association Agreement currently being negotiated between the European Union and the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) - to be approved by summer 2009. (See below)
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national / environment / event notice Thursday January 24, 2008 17:38 by claire
Global warming cannot be compartmentalised into one or two neat departments at Government level. If we are to make meaningful cuts in our greenhouse gas emissions, we need a whole-of-government approach, with joined up policies from the Departments of Transport, Agriculture, Energy and the Environment.

We are hosting a forum which aims to address these questions, and to progress the debate on climate change
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limerick / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday January 24, 2008 16:56 by Zoe Lawlor
Limerick Demonstration in Solidarity with the Besieged People of Gaza. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / press release Thursday January 24, 2008 15:58 by Michael O'Callaghan   text 2 comments (last - monday june 09, 2008 00:10)
This scandal came to a head after one of the paper's co-authors, Shane Morris (an Irish biotech scientist with a degree from NUI Maynooth who is advising Fine Gael on GM food and farming issues), threatened legal action against the GM-free Ireland Network and GM Watch after we exposed him as a Canadian Government agent and reported that his paper has been described as "misleading" and a "flagrant fraud". For details see http://www.gmfreeireland.org/morris read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / event notice Thursday January 24, 2008 12:40 by Darklight Film Festival
THE DARKLIGHT FESTIVAL IS NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR 2008 PROGRAMME.

For full details, go to www.darklight.ie IMMEDIATELY.
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Would bifocals help?
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday January 24, 2008 10:19 by Terry   text 4 comments (last - friday february 01, 2008 15:25)   image 3 images
Meath, Heritage Capital of Ireland? Balloon is Full of Hot Air in more ways than one. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Wednesday January 23, 2008 21:13 by Anne McShane   text 2 comments (last - tuesday february 05, 2008 16:11)

Torab Saleh leading Iranian socialist, political activist and founding member of ‘Hands off the People of Iran’ (HOPI) will speak on the nature of the Iranian regime, the relationship with the United States and the real reasons for going to war. read full story / add a comment
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