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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

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

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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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The WHO Pandemic Accords Consolidate the Power of the Covid Clerisy on a Global Scale Thu Oct 02, 2025 19:07 | Ramesh Thakur
The WHO Pandemic Accords, the first part of which came into effect last month, consolidate the power of the Covid clerisy on a global scale, warns Professor Ramesh Thakur. Expect more of the same.
The post The WHO Pandemic Accords Consolidate the Power of the Covid Clerisy on a Global Scale appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Teaching Assistant Sacked for ?Manhandling? Pupil to Stop Him Running into Road Thu Oct 02, 2025 17:27 | Will Jones
A teaching assistant was fired after grabbing a special needs pupil to stop him from running out of school and into a busy road.
The post Teaching Assistant Sacked for “Manhandling” Pupil to Stop Him Running into Road appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The True Hidden Purpose of ?Sex Education? Thu Oct 02, 2025 15:00 | Steven Tucker
A quarter of parents believe their child has been taught something inappropriate in sex education. Like choking and rimming. Why? It all goes back to the neo-Marxists of the Frankfurt School, says Steven Tucker.
The post The True Hidden Purpose of ‘Sex Education’ appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday September 25, 2007 18:38 by Screening Group   image 1 image
Suggested Donation: Waged/Unwaged 2.50 /2.00

4 Mary's Abbey

Directions:

Coming from Capel St bridge, turn left at the Boar's Head off Capel Street, large grey-blue building (blue door) on your right, old Melody Maker building. It is across the road from the "Capel Building" and Rhodes restaurant. It is on the Luas track.

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national / arts and media / event notice Tuesday September 25, 2007 18:32 by Revolt Video   image 5 images
7:40 Channel 802 Thurday evening.

Dublin Community Television are broadcasting a documentary made by the Revolt Video Collective, about some of the aspects concerning
the Corrib Gas Project. read full story / add a comment
Residents returning their letters
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday September 25, 2007 18:14 by Rudiger   text 4 comments (last - friday september 28, 2007 12:08)   image 4 images
Kilcommon residents hand back 60 letters to RPS. read full story / add a comment
Some day they will isolate the hormone which causes shock & sell it.
international / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 25, 2007 17:56 by ribbid   text 22 comments (last - saturday january 08, 2011 21:15)   image 2 images
This week saw a state wide campaign launched in Italy to stop anorexia nervosa the psychological eating condition which overwhelmingly but not exclusively is suffered by women. There have been many campaigns to stop anorexia since the condition first gained prominence just around post-war period when Europeans generally had enough to eat again. But the campaign launched by Oliviero Toscani of Benetton notoriety could just as easily be accused of body fascism & means something more. read full story / add a comment
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international / history and heritage / news report Tuesday September 25, 2007 17:52 by Tara Pixie   text 3 comments (last - thursday september 27, 2007 12:55)   image 6 images
Efforts to halt the destruction of the Gabhra Valley continue with the Monday route walk! read full story / add a comment
dublin / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Tuesday September 25, 2007 16:50 by D_D
Heathrow slots protest
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7.20am outside the gates of the refinery site
national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday September 25, 2007 15:19 by Dublin Shell to Sea   text 3 comments (last - tuesday september 25, 2007 15:37)   image 18 images
Here are photographs of the last sit-down protest at Shell's proposed refinery at Bellanaboy on Friday morning, September 14th, 2007 (photos are used courtesy of William Hederman). Further days of support/sit-down protests are planned, beginning on Friday, October 12th. A public meeting will be held tonight at the Teacher's Club in Dublin to discuss the future of the campaign. Rossport Resident John Monaghan will be among the speakers. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday September 25, 2007 15:01 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 27, 2007 20:05)   image 1 image
This is a statement from A group of workers employed in Iran Khodro, Irans largest car plant. It vividly describes the exploitation suffered by Iranian workers both at the hands of Iranian Capitalist employers and from the Iranian Capitalist State. The Iranian Workers issued this statement on September 17. The full text of the statement is at the link.

Friends and fellow workers:

Sharivar 22 [September 13] is the anniversary of the death of our fellow worker, Peyman Razilou. On that day in 2002 he died from exhaustion during the afternoon shift.

His death was four years ago and we haven’t forgotten that tragedy - or the untimely death of our colleague, Mahmood Khayami, who died from stress. And this year we have witnessed another death - this time it was Ali Akbar Shourgashti who was killed because Iranian capitalists pay no attention to health and safety regulations. read full story / add a comment
......"We refuse to choose between Islamic fundamentalism and American imperialism".........
international / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Tuesday September 25, 2007 14:30 by moral fibre   text 77 comments (last - sunday december 02, 2007 10:10)   image 3 images
Under a storm of controversy Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was invited to speak at Columbia University in New York City. Ahmadinejad is in New York for the UN General Assembly meeting. The Iranian President had already caused controversy by seeking to visit the site of the Twin Towers disaster. The request was swiftly denied by the US authorities. The invitation to speak at Columbia was attacked by many across the political spectrum of the US despite many US citizens priding themselves on the right to free speech. The Iranian Presidents speech to the University has come at a time when the US establishment has increased its propaganda war against Iran in what appears to many as a precursor to war. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday September 25, 2007 14:29 by indyjourno
A munich court had issued an extradition request for 13 CIA agents over a notorious abduction of a German citizen Khaled al-Masri. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday September 25, 2007 14:14 by indyjourno   text 16 comments (last - sunday september 30, 2007 14:49)   image 1 image
Today at 9.10 am a Gardaí on traffic duty on the Ossory Road in the North Inner City was shot by a passenger in a stolen car. The Garda, who was shot in the stomach, is in a stable condition in the Mater hospital. The Garda was a Traffic Corps motorcycle officer. read full story / add a comment
Yassmine Mather Speaks at Blockade Of Faslane UK/US Nuclear Submarine Base
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday September 25, 2007 11:35 by pat c   image 1 image
This is an interview conducted by Peter Tatchell with Mark Fischer and Yassamine Mather . There is also some commentary below in which Peter Tatchell makes clear the case against US aggresion towards Iran

Neither Washington nor Tehran. A war against Iran would be another disastrous neo-imperial adventure, which would strengthen the Tehran dictatorship. The overthrow of the clerical regime by the Iranian people - not US military intervention - is the best way to resolve the nuclear crisis and prevent a needless, unjustified war.

Peter Tatchell interviews Mark Fischer of Hands Off the People of Iran and Yassamine Mather of Workers Left Unity Iran, 21 September 2007. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday September 25, 2007 11:17 by Ed Walsh   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 25, 2007 11:28)

[From the September/October issue of Resistance, the ISN paper]

Resistance in Iraq to US imperialism remains strong 
 
By Ed Walsh (ISN read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday September 24, 2007 22:23 by Oisín Ó Conail   text 3 comments (last - thursday september 27, 2007 02:05)
Much of debate about Genetically-Modified Organisms (GMO's) focuses on arguing about possible health issues; but are there other problems associated with patenting food-supplies, such as political and economic control? read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Monday September 24, 2007 21:04 by prone
For the geeks who have Second Life accounts, here's you chance to picket
in the virtual world...

"During the talks to renew IBM’s Italian internal collective agreement,
the works council, supported by the majority of IBM Italy employees, asked
for a small salary increase. IBM responded by cancelling their "productive
results benefit", resulting in a loss of €1000 per year for each employee.
For a company that wants to lead in corporate social responsibility, this
is unacceptable." read full story / add a comment
cork / anti-capitalism / event notice Monday September 24, 2007 20:29 by Joe Moore
A one day Forum of Resistance will be held on Saturday 6th October, in the Victoria Hotel, Patrick St., Cork, between 2.00pm and 6.00pm.

This event is organised by the Socialist Workers Party.

Contact Joe at 087-2994796. read full story / add a comment
Community Powerdown: Wexford
wexford / environment / event notice Monday September 24, 2007 20:05 by E. Goldstein   image 1 image
This course will help you to understand and respond to two of the most critical global issues we are facing today. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / news report Monday September 24, 2007 19:29 by NIFC   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 26, 2007 03:21)
On 11 am Saturday, September 22nd, Susan Mc Keown, event organizer welcomed an enthusiastic crowd gathered outside the Irish consulate on Park Avenue in Manhattan to show their opposition to the proposed four-lane motorway through the world famous and archeologically rich Tara in Co. Meath, Ireland. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / other press Monday September 24, 2007 16:16 by IT READER   text 4 comments (last - tuesday october 02, 2007 22:06)   image 1 image
For those without a subscription, here's the text of the long article in last Saturday's IT about the Corrib Gas dispute. It makes interesting reading, and gives a fairly balanced account of the recent history of Shell's scheme. Sadly, the lie that the project will provide 700 jobs is repeated as if it was a fact. Careful readers will notice that Shell never commit themselves to this (or any) figure, instead using meaningless phrases like "up to 700 jobs in the construction phase", etc.

The Shell PR machine now seems to think that if it repeats the notion that the majority of the people in Erris actually support the scheme then it will become accepted.

The company's plan, to install a high pressure pipeline and a huge refinery in a area of bogs which is prone to landslides, has never enjoyed local support, but Shell says the people of the local communities have "moved on". The coming months will show how much support Shell has.

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national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Monday September 24, 2007 12:29 by Solidarity seeker   text 3 comments (last - wednesday september 26, 2007 17:23)
No wonder workers are allways on the back foot fighting battles> Struggling up hill to defend themselves their jobs and their futures. Employers/Management have a vested interest in keeping workers on their knees. But when (So called) brother and sister unions, in a vain attempt to save face try to "Pull the rug" from under the feet of workers about to embark on industrial action, then the trade union movement is in a sorry state. read full story / add a comment
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