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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 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 Manchester Synagogue Terror Attack: Two Dead After Yom Kippur Rampage Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:43 | Will Jones
Two people have been killed and three are in a serious condition after a suspected terror attack at a synagogue in Manchester, where car was driven into a crowd on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
The post Manchester Synagogue Terror Attack: Two Dead After Yom Kippur Rampage appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Badenoch Vows to Scrap Climate Change Act Thu Oct 02, 2025 11:03 | Will Jones
Kemi Badenoch will promise today to scrap the "failed" Climate Change Act ? which enshrines the Net Zero target in law ? if the Conservatives regain power.
The post Badenoch Vows to Scrap Climate Change Act appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Debanking Hasn?t Gone Away Thu Oct 02, 2025 09:00 | James Graham
Last year half a million people and businesses were debanked. Many, like Nigel Farage and Revd Richard Fothergill, for ideological reasons ? for being conservative. It's time to do something about it, says James Graham.
The post Debanking Hasn’t Gone Away appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Devil?s Algorithm: Unplugging from the Climate Matrix Thu Oct 02, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
In a recent analysis of 1,500 Google search results, 98% aligned with the climate alarmist narrative, 2% were neutral and 0% were sceptical. This is the level of psychological warfare we're up against, says Tilak Doshi.
The post The Devil’s Algorithm: Unplugging from the Climate Matrix appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Oct 02, 2025 00:41 | 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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national / miscellaneous / other press Monday October 15, 2007 23:26 by Charlie Bird   text 7 comments (last - wednesday october 17, 2007 15:46)   image 1 image

Francis O'Reilly was said to be "summarily dismissed"
Sinn Fein has dismissed a party member who was one of four football hooligans jailed last week for an attack on a pub in Londonderry.
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The monument
antrim / history and heritage / news report Monday October 15, 2007 22:38 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin   text 8 comments (last - sunday october 30, 2011 19:06)   image 12 images   video 1 video file
With the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast on the weekend of 12-14 October, attendees were overjoyed to witness the unveiling of a memorial to those who took a stand in defence of the Spanish Republic on Saturday 13th October in Writers' Square. read full story / add a comment
offaly / history and heritage / news report Monday October 15, 2007 21:14 by Vercingetorix   text 31 comments (last - saturday july 26, 2014 20:00)   image 6 images
Did you know that in the name of protecting it, The Irish Government have decided to move The Turoe Stone (the most important piece of Celtic stone-art in the world) from its rural home environment in Turoe to a museum in Galway City? read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Monday October 15, 2007 15:18 by Spirit of the Ancestors
Calling All People to the Defence of Tara Valley read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday October 15, 2007 15:09 by RP
Taken from Global IMC (http://www.indymedia.org). Apologies for layout as Indymedia Ireland doesn't seem to allow URL tags. read full story / add a comment
cork / miscellaneous / event notice Monday October 15, 2007 11:24 by GerryCass
Wednesday October 17th 8PM
Metropole Hotel, McCurtain Street, Cork read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday October 15, 2007 11:15 by Left Eye Lopez   text 15 comments (last - wednesday november 07, 2007 11:37)
The Campaign for an Independent Left seems to have reached the end of the road as its members join the Socialist Workers Party in setting up a Dublin Central branch of People Before Profit
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Striking Workers In Shoush.
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday October 15, 2007 10:48 by Georgi Chicherin   text 14 comments (last - saturday november 17, 2007 16:12)   image 3 images
In the story below Hamid Tehrani gives an update on the situation of the sugar cane workers on strike in Shoush in Iran. Full text at the link at the end of this article.

Thousands of unpaid Haft Tapeh sugar cane factory workers in Shoush in the Khuzestan province in Iran started a strike last week. Government sent security forces to repress the workers but strike continues. Several bloggers covered this event, and other related stories of difficult conditions of labor activists. Kaargar (means worker) says[Fa] that thousands of Haft Tapeh sugar cane factory in Khouzestan province started strike on Saturday 27th October. The blog adds that one of the upaid workers' slogan was “Haftapeh workers are hungry”. The blogger adds the number of workers was around 3000 and they wanted to demonstrate in front of governor's office but police stopped them. read full story / add a comment
1.  The Red Bus....
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 15, 2007 01:53 by Michael Gallagher   text 9 comments (last - thursday november 08, 2007 17:02)   image 33 images
From Ballinaboy to Pullathomas and back again. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / other press Monday October 15, 2007 01:39 by Over The Edge
Over The Edge 'New Writer of The Year' - winning story published read full story / add a comment
....the bottom line!
mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 15, 2007 00:55 by Michael Gallagher   text 1 comment (last - monday october 15, 2007 01:27)   image 5 images
From Ballinaboy to Pullenthomas and back again. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday October 14, 2007 23:12 by LASC   1 attached file
Amnesty Ireland and the Latin American Solidarity Centre (LASC) are organising a talk by Jesús Ochoa on the state of human rights in Mexico and the struggle for justice on the case for the murder of his sister Digna Ochoa. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / news report Sunday October 14, 2007 22:31 by quang duc   text 2 comments (last - monday october 15, 2007 12:25)
India so far has escaped the interest of Burmese democracy protesters in Europe & Ireland. Faced with the long list of anonymous corporations and short list of major foreign state players, it was understandable that many on the Burma Action front chose to launch all their energies & petitions & info-campaigns at China.

India has now confirmed it is close to signing a deal with the Myanmar military junta to develop the port of Sittwe. The deal will see India invest $103m in the Myanmar regime just weeks since
during the crises and collection of signatures to lobby against China, India signed a deal for Hydrocarbon exploitation with Myanmar. read full story / add a comment
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national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday October 14, 2007 20:35 by Seán Ryan   text 6 comments (last - monday october 15, 2007 15:23)   image 1 image
A story appeared in the Irish Mail On Sunday today and it prompted this article. Not a single plane has been searched in Shannon despite Green promises that state otherwise. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday October 14, 2007 18:19 by SWP
The Dublin North City Branch of the SWP will host a forum on the recent wave of protest in Burma. An short intrductory talk will be followed by dicussion and analysis open to all.

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dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday October 14, 2007 17:29 by Laura Broxson   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 16, 2007 10:54)
PRO-VEGAN & ANTI-FUR DEMONSTRATIONS SATURDAY 20th OCTOBER read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Sunday October 14, 2007 17:20 by Laura Broxson
ANIMAL RIGHTS LEAFLETING SESSIONS TUESDAY 16th OCTOBER read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Sunday October 14, 2007 16:31 by krossie
krossie plays for charity! read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Sunday October 14, 2007 13:53 by rogy   text 6 comments (last - friday december 25, 2009 14:36)
Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach, based on philosopher and law professor Gary Francione's vision of the rights of nonhuman animals, takes rights seriously. It provides an alternative to existing animal advocacy which is most frequently based on Peter Singer's utilitarian animal welfarism and other non-rights perspectives. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday October 13, 2007 22:55 by Maryjane O'Leary   text 9 comments (last - thursday november 15, 2007 18:11)
Hands off the People of Iran (HOPI Eire) offers you the chance to learn more about one of the most enigmatic countries in the Middle East and the struggle of its people to claim their civil and human rights. read full story / add a comment
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