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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 RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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offsite link British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
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offsite link Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
The post Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
It's bad enough that all UK TV users are forced to fund the BBC via a TV licence. But it's worse than that, says Charlotte Gill: millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are handed to the corporation via backdoor channels.
The post Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran Sat Nov 22, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing against the acquittal of Hamit Coskun, who was convicted of burning the Quran in a protest, reigniting fears Britain could introduce blasphemy laws by the back door.
The post CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Thursday August 23, 2007 10:05 by Elizabeth   image 2 images
Heritage Week begins August the 25th 2007. The web-address is included here:-

http://www.heritageweek.ie/en/register-event-introducti....aspx

This is the week , when well meaning groups such as the Heritage Council provide
the Irish people with a brief reminder of the importance of heritage to us as a community
and a nation. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Thursday August 23, 2007 09:37 by Supporter   text 2 comments (last - friday august 24, 2007 15:29)


CST has initiated a regular 2pm Vigil outside the GPO on
Saturday afternoons. All welcome to help with leafleting and
petitions.

The next one will be on Saturday the 25th august at 2pm.
GPO , O Connell Street. read full story / add a comment
Front page of The Independent (UK) of Saturday, August 18th, 2007
international / environment / other press Wednesday August 22, 2007 19:13 by XIT   text 5 comments (last - sunday august 26, 2007 10:39)   image 1 image
It's almost unheard of for any mainstream media organisation to give positive or honest coverage of direct action, action camps etc, so on the rare occasion that it does happen, it's worth seeing. Below is a scan of the front page of last The Independent (UK) of last Saturday (18 August, 2007). The cover story is a special report on the Climate Camp at Heathrow. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Wednesday August 22, 2007 16:26 by A Green Man   text 2 comments (last - wednesday september 12, 2007 16:40)
Cultural Conservationists stop work on Tara valley, Irelands heart of ancient heritage,by M3 Climate Criminals.
International Climate Concern actions start early for frontline Earth defence activists.

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antrim / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday August 22, 2007 15:05 by reabhloid dearg   text 6 comments (last - thursday august 23, 2007 21:52)
Urgent protest: Bord Failte in Castle Street read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday August 22, 2007 12:22 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - wednesday august 29, 2007 14:29)   image 1 image
Heres an English translation of a story which got little attention in the mainstream media, what was published was sketchy and confusing. Kathlyn Stone provided the translations for the statements and wrote the main story. The full story is at the link.

On the 4th of July, U.S. military and Iraqi national guards opened fire with bullets and grenades on the Baghdad home of Abdel-Hussein Saddam. The severely wounded Abdel-Hussein was taken away and his 18-year-old daughter was left alone, injured and bleeding on the floor. Abdel-Hussein’s beaten body turned up at the Yarmouk morgue on July 6. The murder of Abdel-Hussein was the most devastating of four attacks by the U.S. military on the Iraq Freedom Congress in the past 10 months. The IFC is comprised primarily of trade unionists, community leaders, women’s and children’s rights workers who are determined to look after their own. IFC’s goals are to salvage the lives of as many Iraqis as possible, and to end the occupation and sectarian fighting. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / opinion/analysis Wednesday August 22, 2007 10:03 by Bernie Wright   text 15 comments (last - wednesday october 31, 2007 17:07)
I have just heard that the American Humane Association has awarded a "Humane award" to a 900-cow factory farm because they slaughter cows with compassion.

Despite the fact that each birthed calf is separated from her mother, they rationalize by calling themselves humane. Despite the fact that each and every one of their cows ends up hanging upside down with her throat cut in a slaughterhouse, they now call themselves humane. Some people might argue that there is such a thing as humane slaughter.I disagree completely. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / news report Wednesday August 22, 2007 01:46 by Over The Edge   text 1 comment (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 18:17)
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galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday August 21, 2007 23:56 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
North Beach Poetry Nights

presents

Perciphone Petticoat

Thursday 23rd August at 9pm

BK's Winebar, Spanish Parade, Galway

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Protect Irish Natural Resources
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 21, 2007 22:02 by Shell to Sea   text 3 comments (last - friday august 24, 2007 01:17)   image 4 images
D'iarr Shell chun Sáile orainn theacht ag Ambasáid an Ioruaidh, 34 Sráid Theach Laighin, BAC 2, ar an Déardaoin seo, 23 Lúnasa, ag 1 p.m.

There will be a Shell to Sea Protest at the Norwegian Embassy, 34 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2, on Thursday August 23rd at 1.00 PM
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international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday August 21, 2007 18:25 by Maryam Namazie
This article is taken from the website of the International Humanist and Ethical Union. The article is written by Maryam Namazie, a leading member of the Worker-communist Party of Iran.

Recent reports on the Islamic regime of Iran’s crackdown on women who are ‘badly’ veiled (bad-hejab) and their resistance to the regime’s campaign of arrest and harassment has been reported quite extensively in comparison to other similar events over the years. This is partly due to amateur video footage taken via mobile phones by passers-by uploaded on YouTube for the world to see.

There are two pieces of footage that everyone should take a look at. One is of an unveiled woman shouting ‘we don’t want the veil; we want freedom’. The other is of a young girl who is being questioned by security agents for being ‘badly veiled’; she pulls off her veil in front of them and is kicked into a waiting car to be driven away. Given that veiling is compulsory in Iran, these acts of defiance are all the more heroic. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 21, 2007 18:24 by Mark G   text 1 comment (last - tuesday september 04, 2007 07:38)
Dublin Shell to Sea will be holding a table Quiz on Friday the 7th of September in the Teachers Club. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday August 21, 2007 17:54 by Diarmuid
Basque traditional band is brought to Dublin to play by Dublin Irish/ Basque Committee, amidst other support and solidarity activities. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday August 21, 2007 17:27 by Cormac Ryan   text 17 comments (last - monday august 27, 2007 13:03)   image 3 images
éirígí has started the rollout of its campaign for British withdrawal with the first phase - distribution of a new information leaflet - already under way. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / press release Tuesday August 21, 2007 17:15 by Fred Johnston, Manager
The Arts Council-sponsored Touring Experiment includes the Western Writers' Centre with €10,000 grant read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday August 21, 2007 17:07 by Fred Johnston, Manager
Co. Clare-based poet Knute Skinner launch from Salmon Poetry read full story / add a comment
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galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday August 21, 2007 16:39 by Over The Edge   image 1 image
Kevin Higgins’s debut poetry collection ‘The Boy With No Face’ was Salmon Poetry’s bestselling book of 2005 and has recently been reprinted. To celebrate the rare enough event of a debut poetry collection going to a second printing an invited group of readers will read their favourite poems from ‘The Boy With No Face’ in Galway City Library on Wednesday, September 5th at 6.30pm. The MC for the evening will be John Walsh, organiser of North Beach Poetry Nights. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday August 21, 2007 16:08 by David L
A diary from Electronic intifada describing everyday life in Gaza read full story / add a comment
Resist Oppression!
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday August 21, 2007 14:13 by republican socialist   text 10 comments (last - friday august 24, 2007 15:30)   image 1 image
The membership of Dublin IRSP has reacted angrily to the latest persecution by the special branch on a member of the party and his family. Yesterday evening twelve members of the special branch raided his family home and physically assaulted one of his sons who answered the door. Four of his children ranging from 20 years of age to a child of 10 were home at the time watching television when they were confronted by twelve special branch officers wielding machine guns and handguns, they were thrown to the ground and handcuffed, whilst firearms were held to there heads. The children were informed by an individual later identified as Detective Sergeant O’Driscoll (Harcourt Street) that they had a warrant to search the house for firearms.

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Drawing of Lismullin remains from Deevy report
meath / history and heritage / news report Tuesday August 21, 2007 11:59 by TaraWatch   text 4 comments (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 16:00)   image 2 images
An international archaeological expert has issued an independent report which contradicts many NRA findings and recommendations regarding the newly discovered national monument in Lismullin, and calls for full preservation of the "unique" national monument. read full story / add a comment
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