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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 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.
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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 / opinion/analysis Tuesday June 28, 2011 08:49 by Kathy Kelly   text 6 comments (last - sunday july 03, 2011 15:30)   image 2 images   video 4 video files

Last week, newly-arrived in Athens as part of the US Boat to Gaza project, our team of activists gathered for nonviolence training. We are here to sail to Gaza, in defiance of an Israeli naval blockade, in our ship, "The Audacity of Hope." Our team, and nine other ships' crews from countries around the world, want Israel to end its lethal blockade of Gaza by letting our crews through to shore to meet with Gazans. The US ship will bring over 3,000 letters of support to a population suffering its fifth continuous decade of de facto occupation, now in the form of a military blockade controlling Gaza's sea and sky, punctuated by frequent deadly military incursions, that has starved Gaza's economy and people to the exact level of cruelty considered acceptable to the domestic population of our own United States, Israel's staunchest ally.
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dublin / crime and justice / event notice Monday June 27, 2011 23:34 by 1 of Real Democracy Now! Ireland   text 3 comments (last - friday july 01, 2011 16:02)   image 7 images
Real Democracy Now! Ireland Public Assembly
2pm
Dublin City Centre
Saturday July 2nd read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday June 27, 2011 21:39 by Paddy Hackett
Financialisation is a universal scam dressed up as a sophisticated exercise designed to create the illusion that the economic system is faring well. But at the end of the day it is just a paper generator with no authentic exchange value. It just postpones the day when the law of the tendency of the general rate of profit manifests itself in the form of an economic crisis.

Marx's Capital has not lost its value as a means to a correct understanding of the nature of capitalism today. The law of value is every bit as relevant today as it was in the past. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Monday June 27, 2011 16:43 by SIPTUPR   video 1 video file
Renowned UK based Academic Eilis Lawlor explains why Cleaners are more valuable to society than Bankers! read full story / add a comment
national / animal rights / event notice Monday June 27, 2011 15:13 by Sue Anthony
Become and On Shore Volunteer with Sea Shepherd and become part of the national volunteer team in Ireland.

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national / miscellaneous / event notice Monday June 27, 2011 13:45 by Laurence Cox   text 2 comments (last - monday october 17, 2011 22:33)
Preliminary announcement and call for papers of this day conference for people (academics, students, movement participants) researching social movements in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Monday June 27, 2011 12:58 by Progressive Film Club   text 3 comments (last - friday july 22, 2011 16:26)
CUBAN FILM FESTIVAL

SATURDAY 23 JULY, 2011

To celebrate Cuban National Day (26 July), the Progressive Film Club presents a selection of films from and about Cuba read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / other press Monday June 27, 2011 03:20 by Skippy
It has now been revealed that the order of nuns who ran the notorious Magdalene laundry in Drumcondra were receiving thousands of pounds through wills and legacies during the period while hundreds of women and young girls were forced to work six days a week for no pay and no pension.
On a number of occasions they had radio appeals made on their behalf by several priests. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday June 27, 2011 01:55 by R   text 9 comments (last - saturday july 02, 2011 16:08)
The death has occured of Margaret Gaj (nee Dunlop), a founder member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement. She is survived by two sons, three granddaughters and three grandsons. She had other relations in Scotland but at this point I do not know their details. read full story / add a comment
Section of the huge crowd on the M5 Movement demonstration June 19th
international / anti-capitalism / news report Monday June 27, 2011 00:53 by Diarmuid Breatnach   image 1 image
The 15 M movement in Madrid is a broad one which at one moment raises general slogans of an apparently reformist kind and the next is calling for the capitalists to pay the costs of the crisis it created and for a general strike. It is energetic and coming up with different methods of internal democracy in the neighbourhood assemblies and central coordination and adapting traditional methods of protest. On the 19th streams of people marched from many different areas and met at the Neptuno monument, near the Spanish parliament. read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / press release Sunday June 26, 2011 15:57 by Campaign to Abolish Animal Cruelty in Sport   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 05, 2011 03:18)
The UK parliament has voted to ban wild animals from circuses. Lets do likewise in Ireland! read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday June 26, 2011 15:34 by Conor, Suzanne & Shane   text 21 comments (last - friday july 15, 2011 03:07)   image 1 image
Please join us in our demonstration and fight with us for the rights of women and future generations read full story / add a comment
Belfast Mayor Niall O'Donnghaile supports Boots workers
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Saturday June 25, 2011 15:26 by PRO   text 1 comment (last - monday june 27, 2011 13:23)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
SIPTU, the trade union representing Boots workers held a day of action at the company’s flagship store in Donegall Place, Belfast today (Sat 25th June) to highlight Boots attack on low paid workers despite achieving record profits of over £1 billion last year.

Workers held a protest for over 2 hours and handed out thousands of leaflets to bring attention to Boots withdrawal of basic terms and conditions of employment.

Mayor of Belfast Niall O'Donnghaile, a former Boots worker attended the protest to show his support.
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international / education / press release Saturday June 25, 2011 14:47 by Louise K Thomas
TheBest Poems Encyclopedia would like to call for submissions for its second annual Poetry print Anthology for the best 303 creative works and poems written of the year and develop a new collection dedicated to promote the best poets in english literature and also discover young emerging poets among social poetry diaspora. The deadline for submission is 30 November 2011. All current members and those who join in advance of the deadline are eligible. Submissions are free and information on how to submit directly via the online form can be found at our website http://www.best-poems.net read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / press release Saturday June 25, 2011 12:50 by Maureen Gallagher
Maureen Gallagher has just won an award in the Swift Satire Competition. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday June 25, 2011 12:44 by Kev   image 1 image
On Tuesday 28th June at 6pm the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) will hold a loud and colourful ‘Don’t Dance for Israeli Apartheid’ protest outside Riverdance’s opening night in the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin. The protest was called to highlight the shameful fact that Riverdance is scheduled to tour Israel this September.
The protest forms part of the international Cultural Boycott of Israel campaign which has seen many stars such as Roger Waters, Elvis Costello, Carlos Santana, Christy Moore and Damien Dempsey refuse to perform in Israel. The Palestinian call for a cultural boycott of Israel – until it ends the occupation of Palestine and abides fully by its obligations under international law – has also been endorsed by over 200 Irish performing and creative artists as well as countless others internationally (See http://www.ipsc.ie/pledge ). read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Saturday June 25, 2011 12:17 by Kev   image 1 image
This Tuesday 28th June a demonstration will be held in Dublin in support of the Irish Ship To Gaza and the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. The demonstration, which begins at 6pm at the Central Bank Plaza on Dame Street, will call for an end to Israel’s illegal five-year siege of Gaza and for the Flotilla’s safe passage. It will then march to the Israeli Embassy in Ballsbridge. There will be a live phone link-up to the Irish boat MV Saoirse, along with high profile speakers and music plus a stop off at the Gaeity Theatre to link up with the ‘Don’t Dance for Israeli Apartheid’ protest at Riverdance’s opening night (see NOTES below for full details of speakers etc). read full story / add a comment
dublin / history and heritage / event notice Friday June 24, 2011 23:06 by Ben Williams
The book launch will take place at Connolly Books, Essex Street, Dublin 2, on Thursday 30 June at 5.30pm.
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