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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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offsite link Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday January 19, 2012 11:57 by RNU PRO   image 1 image
REPUBLICAN NETWORK FOR UNITY (RNU) Spokesperson, MARTIN ÓG MEEHAN calls for an Independent Public Enquiry into the 1981 Hunger Strike controversy. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday January 19, 2012 01:58 by Declan Cullen   text 4 comments (last - friday january 20, 2012 22:51)
The international banks are pushing for a war in Iran big time because they don't have a Central Bank in Iran,
in the same way as they didn't in Libya, .............. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Thursday January 19, 2012 00:35 by Maryam
Women strike back against the medieval muslim molestersEgyptian women lashing out at morality police, quite literally.

Vigilante gangs of ultra-conservative Salafi men have been harassing shop owners and female customers in rural towns around Egypt for “indecent behavior,” according to reports in the Egyptian news media. But when they burst into a beauty salon in the Nile delta town of Benha this week and ordered the women inside to stop what they were doing or face physical punishment, the women struck back, whipping them with their own canes before kicking them out to the street in front of an astonished crowd of onlookers.

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national / crime and justice / news report Wednesday January 18, 2012 23:35 by Sam Malone   text 2 comments (last - saturday may 12, 2012 14:54)   1 attached file
Kevin Tracey has legitimately complained for years about the atrocious abuse he has been so wrongly subjected to by the gardai only since he obtained a full legal planning permission to build a new house next door to a Judge, which was taken away from him through the courts. He has ample evidence that this same Judge instigated malicious charges against him through his friends in the gardai, principally at Ballyfermot. In fact Kevin has proved in the District Court that these 31 charges were maliciously concocted by the gardai, dpp and the courts service. read full story / add a comment
dublin / education / press release Wednesday January 18, 2012 23:00 by Gregor Kerr
Teachers from Dublin DEIS schools have welcomed the publication by the Department of Education & Skills and the Educational Research Centre of a report which shows that “…the DEIS programme is having a positive effect on tackling educational disadvantage…” and that “…improvement is taking place in the learning achievements of pupils in DEIS primary schools…”

They have called on the Minister for Education and Skills, Ruairi Quinn, to announce an immediate reversal of all cuts in the light of this report, and have announced that the planned DEIS schools protest will proceed this Thursday in the absence of such a clear announcement. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday January 18, 2012 19:55 by RSF   text 3 comments (last - thursday january 26, 2012 09:41)
Stormont 'Justice Department' deneying a Republican prisoner compassionate parole to attend his father’s funeral exposed the inhumanity of the British Prison service when dealing with Republican prisoners.
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national / environment / event notice Wednesday January 18, 2012 19:02 by Sue Anthony   text 1 comment (last - friday june 01, 2012 18:53)
Sea Shepherd Ireland will be holding an Information Session for new Onshore Volunteers on 27th June 2012. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Wednesday January 18, 2012 18:57 by Sue Anthony
Sea Shepherd Ireland have a number of volunteers and supporters in Northern Ireland and we will be holding our first Volunteer Information Session on 19th April 2012. If you wish to know more about Sea Shepherd please come along to our talk in the Carrickfergus Sailing Club on 18th April 2012 at 8.00pm.

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national / environment / event notice Wednesday January 18, 2012 18:49 by Sue Anthony
Sea Shepherd Ireland will be holding its first Onshore Crew information Session in Cork in on 31st March 2012. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / event notice Wednesday January 18, 2012 18:42 by Sue Anthony
Sea Shepherd Ireland, will be holding an onshore crew information session our first at NUIG.
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national / environment / event notice Wednesday January 18, 2012 18:34 by Sue Anthony
Sea Shepherd Ireland, will be attending the Dive Ireland Show 2012, North City Hotel, Dublin on 3rd & 4th March 2012. We will have an information stand and much more for volunteers, so please drop in for a chat. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday January 18, 2012 17:35 by Cathal Larkin
From this week's UCC Express, the Newspaper of Cork University. It doesn't have an online edition. read full story / add a comment
Geoffrey Canavan creator of The Solved System
international / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday January 18, 2012 14:04 by Eileen Bennett   image 1 image
You don't need to be a financial wizard to recognise that the global economy is struggling. For many businesses, this presents serious challenges to their very survival and sustainability.
However, a Galway-based businessman Geoffrey Canacan has created a unique formula for dealing those challenges that, he claims, can dramatically change results by supporting the individuals within an organisation as they learn to think and act in a more positive and affirming way. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 18, 2012 10:22 by Andrew
The idea that calling for a referendum is a good strategy for winning significant reforms often crops up in campaigns. It seems logical, as a referendum is a chance for the population to directly make a decision on the issue to hand. But the reality is that the demand for a referendum is seldom, if ever, the best way to build a struggle for a reform. Here are five reasons why: read full story / add a comment
international / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday January 18, 2012 05:59 by alf.co
Greed prompts ship owners to offer more daring and more spectacular voyages for their customers like the promise to view Venice at sunrise from the decks, a major promotional asset. read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice / news report Tuesday January 17, 2012 23:55 by oneofthe99   text 2 comments (last - wednesday january 18, 2012 12:56)   image 1 image
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cork / arts and media / event notice Tuesday January 17, 2012 17:20 by Eric   image 1 image
On Thursday January 26th, Solidarity Books will host a screening of Style Wars (1983)
Start time is 8pm. Hope to see you there.

There is no cover charge for the screenings but donations are, as ever, much appreciated.
( Beware, post-film discussion might be encouraged! ) read full story / add a comment
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cork / arts and media / event notice Tuesday January 17, 2012 17:13 by Eric   image 1 image   1 attached file
Starting this Thursday, we will be resuming our weekly film screenings at the bookshop. A full programme for the month of February will be up soon.
There is no cover charge for the screenings but donations are, as ever, much appreciated.   
( Beware, post-film discussion might be encouraged! )
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday January 17, 2012 16:39 by Baile Áth Cliath - RNU   image 2 images
The Republican Network for Unity wish to make an appeal to the wider public and call on all political representatives to get behind the protesting prisoners in Maghaberry Gaol in a humanitarian effort, and demand an end to the inhumane treatment directed towards the prisoners. read full story / add a comment
Le parole sono importanti
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday January 17, 2012 16:27 by Domenico Attanasii   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Words are important, even the President of the Abruzzo region, Gianni Chiodi, which, together with colleague Hugh Cappellacci of Sardinia, is the last president of Italy in terms of liking. read full story / add a comment
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