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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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offsite link Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits are Cooling on Global Warming appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:07 | 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.
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offsite link We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture Thu Sep 18, 2025 19:00 | Noah Carl
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
The post We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech Thu Sep 18, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump?urged?Keir Starmer?to deploy the military to stop the Channel small boats crisis that is "destroying" the country, drill in the North Sea and uphold free speech at a tense joint press conference today.
The post Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday September 23, 2012 19:38 by pat c
Not all of the Syrian Opposition Groups wish to impose an Islamist Dictatorship by force of arms. There are long time dissidents who wish to achieve peaceful change, they have opposed the armed actions of the Islamists from the outset. The holding of the conference was facilitated through talks between the Russian and Syrian Foreign Ministers. Full text at link.

Syria opposition members are holding a meeting in the capital Damascus to debate peaceful ways out of the long-lasting bloody conflict. The Free Syrian Army (FSA) is boycotting the forum. Fifteen opposition groups and six movements are participating in the National Conference for Rescuing Syria, RIA Novosti news agency reports. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday September 22, 2012 22:33 by Ireland For Peltier Campaign   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 23, 2012 14:27)
Protesting his 36th year of captivity
He recently spent his 68th birthday in prison
compliments of the American Injustice System read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Saturday September 22, 2012 11:44 by ALiberation
ALiberation have held demonstrations outside of this circus since last Tuesday and will continue to do so till the day before they leave on the 29th Sept to ban the use of animals in circuses and to highlight that Dublin City Council land is used. read full story / add a comment
The Martyrdom of Marian Price
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday September 22, 2012 03:40 by BrianClarke   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 22, 2012 04:04)   image 1 image   video 2 video files
In May 2011, Marian Price was arrested after she held up a piece of paper on a windy day, at a traditional Easter commemoration from which a masked man read. She was taken to Maghaberry high security prison an all-male prison and was placed in solitary confinement, where Marian was accused of, ‘encouraging support for an illegal organisation’. Marian has now been in prison for 16 months, during which time neither her lawyers, or Marian have been allowed to see any of Britains ‘alleged’ evidence. Having been previously force fed 400 times by the British in an English prison and in considerable, ill health, distress with extreme pain as a result, she was taken ; read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday September 22, 2012 01:18 by Amy Hall   text 1 comment (last - sunday september 23, 2012 17:59)   image 1 image
Amy Hall meets outspoken Filipino campaigner Lidy Nacpil, who shares her thoughts on floods, solidarity and ramming home the climate-change message.
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dublin / animal rights / event notice Friday September 21, 2012 15:37 by ALiberation
ALiberation have held demonstrations outside of this circus since last Tuesday and will continue to do so till they leave on the 30th Sept to ban the use of animals in circuses and to highlight that Dublin City Council land is used. read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / event notice Friday September 21, 2012 15:27 by ALiberation
ALiberation have held demonstrations outside of this circus since last Tuesday and will continue to do so till they leave on the 30th Sept to ban the use of animals in circuses and to highlight that Dublin City Council land is used. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Friday September 21, 2012 15:19 by ALiberation
ALiberation have held demonstrations outside of this circus since last Tuesday and will continue to do so till they leave on the 30th Sept to ban the use of animals in circuses and to highlight that Dublin City Council land is used. read full story / add a comment
Starts Ups 2012
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday September 20, 2012 16:16 by Mario Marchetti   image 1 image
The Sunday Business Post’s Entrepreneurs Conferences have been running for 4 years now and have gone from strength to strength over the years. This conference is Ireland’s leading entrepreneurs and small business event. It’s a get together for small business owners, entrepreneurs, investors and service providers to share ideas, keep up to date with new developments, get motivated, network with peers and discuss investments. All delegates leave inspired and motivated with a ‘can do’ attitude. read full story / add a comment
Map of oil and gas exploration in Irish territory
national / crime and justice / feature Wednesday September 19, 2012 23:33 by WSM   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 11, 2012 22:51)   image 2 images   video 1 video file   1 attached file
€1,600 billion. That is the figure for Irish Oil & Gas reserves already licensed revealed this morning in a detailed report from Shell to Sea using the energy corporations own reports and estimates. People in Ireland will see almost no benefits from this incredible wealth because the Irish state gives these reserves to the corporations at the cheapest terms in the world. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2012 16:17 by Comhlámh   1 attached file
This weekend workshop is open to anyone who has worked or volunteered overseas for 3 months or more in a development/humanitarian/aid or human rights capacity.

When: Sat 20th & Sunday 21st October (inclusive) 2012
Venue: All Hallows College , Grace Park Road, Drumcondra, Dublin
Accommodation: Residential (Overnight; single en-suite rooms)
Cost: €50 - accommodation and all meals included - (No charge for VSO returnees, Rapid Response Deployees or UNVs)
Book: Book online at http://bit.ly/RPGcvO or for more information please contact Susan, email: susan@comhlamh.org, tel: 01 4783490.
Website: http://www.comhlamh.org/support-for-development-workers....html
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national / education / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2012 15:47 by Comhlámh   1 attached file
'What Next’ is a course for returnees who have lived and worked overseas in the capacity of learner, volunteer or development worker, and who are interested in continuing to engage in development education from Ireland. The course inludes funding to start an awareness-raising project in your local area.

When & Where: Residential* on the weekend of 5th (evening arrival), 6th and 7th October - Cloughjordan Ecovillage, Tipperary
Saturday 10th November: The Sophia Centre, 25 Cork St Dublin 8
Saturday 1st December : The Lantern Centre, 17 Synge St, Dublin 8

Cost: €60 per person, which covers all training materials, accommodation costs, meals and refreshments.
Booking: Book online at http://www.comhlamh.org/courses/booking.php?course=what...-next or contact Susan: susan@comhlamh.org, Tel: 01-478-3490 for booking queries read full story / add a comment
"Sport" for some...callous cruelty to a gentle creature
international / animal rights / press release Wednesday September 19, 2012 14:35 by Protect the Irish Hare   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 19, 2012 21:09)   image 3 images
Animal welfare groups are calling on Kilflynn Coursing Club in County Kerry to disband, or, if it does not do so voluntarily, that it be compelled to disband by the governing body of live hare coursing in Ireland. The Kilflynn coursing event is scheduled to be the second fixture of the new hare coursing season that begins at the end of this month. read full story / add a comment
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national / education / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2012 14:13 by Comhlámh   image 1 image
Comhlámh’s Volunteering Overseas: Where do I start?

A one-day participatory workshop for anyone considering volunteering overseas for global development

Date: Saturday 6th October 2012 (9:45 am - 5pm)
Venue: Irish Aid Volunteering and Information Centre, 27-31 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1
Cost: €15 Comhlámh member/student or unwaged, €30 non-member (waged)
(Lunch, tea and coffee included)
Booking: Complete the online booking form
http://www.comhlamh.org/courses/booking.php?course=volu...art-3
or for more information contact Susan by email susan@comhlamh.org or call 01-4783490.
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dublin / education / event notice Wednesday September 19, 2012 13:45 by Keelin FitzGerald   image 1 image   1 attached file
Comhlámh Global Trade Justice Course 2012

Six Thursday nights 6.15 - 8.15 pm, starting 25th October

Venue: Irish Aid Volunteer Centre, 27-31 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin 1
Cost: €35 (Comhlámh members), €55 (non-members), €15 (unemployed / student), €2 (asylum seekers)
How to book: Please complete the online booking form at http://www.comhlamh.org/courses/booking.php?course=trad...-2012

Or for more details please visit: http://bit.ly/UhwHn0 or contact Susan for any enquiries by email susan@comhlamh.org or call 01 4783490
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wicklow / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday September 19, 2012 10:15 by Wolfie   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 19, 2012 10:53)   image 1 image   1 attached file
Seamus Costello 35 th Anniversary Memorial Event.
The Seamus Costello Memorial Committee are holding the annual Seamus Costello commemorative evening, including a talk and an exhibition on Seamus's revolutionary life and much more, on Saturday October 6th 2012 at 7pm in Newtown Community hall in Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow.
Wicklow’s native son Seamus Costello – a man of vision and drive was brutally murdered in Dublin on October 5 th 1977. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday September 18, 2012 17:48 by mary   text 13 comments (last - thursday september 27, 2012 15:19)   image 10 images
Last night Enda Kenny met with Mary Robinson for an evening soiree in Ballina Arts Centre to launch her new book. The title of her memoir, ‘Everybody Matters’ was a ironic reminder of the silence maintained by Robinson on the human rights abuses associated with Shell’s Corrib Gas project. Since 2002 Shell have been operating less than 35 miles away from her home in Ballina and over that time human rights concerns have been documented by international human rights organisations including Frontline Defenders (“Breakdown of Trust: a Report on the Corrib Gas Dispute http://ww.frontlinedefenders.org/files/en/corrib_gas_re...t.pdf). read full story / add a comment
#Global FrackDown - Carrick-on-Shannon, Co.Leitrim
international / miscellaneous / news report Tuesday September 18, 2012 15:33 by member of NFI   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 18, 2012 17:39)   image 2 images
On Sept 22, 2012, The Global Frackdown Day will unite citizens everywhere for a day of action against fracking and the extraction of onshore unconventional gas. We will be gathering at the Tourist Office, on the Quays, Carrick on shannon at 1pm.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 18, 2012 11:31 by Anthony Ravlich
Expresses the opinion that the choice between neoliberalism and an ethical approach to human rights, development and globalization is a choice between war and peace. And also a concern at the effects of neoliberalism on the rebuilding of Christchurch following massive earthquakes. Considers New Zealand should pursue an independent path from the IMF and its neoliberal economic policies.
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday September 18, 2012 02:40 by Diarmuid Breatnach   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 18, 2012 13:05)   image 1 image
JIM RADFORD WILL BE AT THE CLÉ CLUB THIS WEDNESDAY 19th SEPT. Singer of traditional sea-shanties and folk songs, composer of songs, political activist for decades, ex-seaman and NORMANDY D-DAY VETERAN .... read full story / add a comment
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