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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

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offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

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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What RISE promote!
national / animal rights / press release Thursday June 02, 2011 13:16 by Bernie Wright   text 1 comment (last - friday june 03, 2011 16:45)   image 2 images
RISE group nominated for PR excellence for their failed pro-hunt campaign.

AOHS to demonstrate at PRII AWARDS.

Pro animal abuse group RISE has been nominated for the shortlist of the Awards for ‘Excellence in Public Relations 2011’by the Public relations Institute of Ireland.
Rise who ran a campaign of lies, intimidation and false claims has made the shortlist for this year's PR Awards for Excellence.

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international / environment / other press Thursday June 02, 2011 12:41 by Chris Hedges   text 51 comments (last - monday june 13, 2011 15:09)   image 6 images
Those who concede that the planet is warming but insist we can learn to live with it are perhaps more dangerous than the buffoons who decide to shut their eyes.

This is the message from Chris Hedges as he writes on the weird weather and the danger to our planet. Full story at url.

The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite with two kinds of self-delusion. There are those, many of whom hold elected office, who dismiss the science and empirical evidence as false. There are others who accept the science surrounding global warming but insist that the human species can adapt. Our only salvation—the rapid dismantling of the fossil fuel industry—is ignored by both groups. And we will be led, unless we build popular resistance movements and carry out sustained acts of civil disobedience, toward collective self-annihilation by dimwitted pied pipers and fools. read full story / add a comment
Protest Poster
national / eu / event notice Thursday June 02, 2011 11:21 by Kieran O'Sullivan   text 5 comments (last - wednesday july 20, 2011 18:01)   image 1 image
WE WANT JOBS, FAIRNESS & DEMOCRACY
BAIL OUT THE PEOPLE NOT THE BANKERS read full story / add a comment
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international / animal rights / press release Thursday June 02, 2011 10:09 by Bernie Wright   image 2 images
‘Horses without Carriages’
International Day is on 4th JUNE 2011
DUBLIN AWARENESS DAY WILL BE HELD AT THE TOP OF GRAFTON STREET ON FRIDAY 3RD JUNE from 1-2pm.
[this is across the road from the St Stephens Green hiring stand] .
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Bundoran Hunger Strike Commemoration 2011.
international / history and heritage / event notice Wednesday June 01, 2011 16:27 by Sharon.   text 5 comments (last - thursday september 01, 2011 16:57)   image 3 images
East End , Bundoran , Saturday 27th August 2011 , 3PM.
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday June 01, 2011 13:24 by éirígí Sligeach   text 2 comments (last - saturday june 04, 2011 10:46)   image 6 images
This is an article remembering those massacred by Israel and asking what has changed in the 12 months since. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday June 01, 2011 13:19 by Stephen Rigney   text 7 comments (last - friday july 01, 2011 03:42)   1 attached file
Fianna Fail and their cronies in big business have wrecked the country. However, Fine Gael and Labour have shown that they represent more of the same. As much as they try to blame the old government for the crisis, they are responsible for continuing the disastrous bailouts and have promised further unfair taxes, privatisations and cuts in jobs and public services. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Wednesday June 01, 2011 12:51 by SP
The announcement on Friday by Vodafone that they are to make 139 workers redundant and that their jobs would be shifted east is the latest sickening blow to workers in the telecommunications sector. It comes in the wake of their former parent eircom’s announcement on Thursday that they are to seek yet another 1,000 voluntary redundancies amongst eircom and Meteor employees. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday May 31, 2011 21:09 by Contrarian   text 36 comments (last - tuesday june 21, 2011 14:49)   image 5 images
PA President Mahmoud Abbas tells Arab League Conference that future Palestinian state is to be Israeli free. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Tuesday May 31, 2011 10:37 by RNU PRO
THE REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) NATIONAL CHAIRPERSON, CARL REILLY has expressed serious concerns about the situation facing Republican Prisoners in Maghaberry Gaol. "In spite of repeated warnings from RNU and others who represent Political Prisoners in the Gaol, the Stormont Executive and it's Justice Minister have completely ignored the suffering of Republican Prisoners in Roe House. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday May 31, 2011 10:25 by eileen fleming   text 5 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2011 15:43)   video 1 video file
Mixed-media event in Galway Town Hall Theatre in support of Mordecai Vanunu and Bradley Manning. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Monday May 30, 2011 21:23 by Stranded passenger   text 5 comments (last - tuesday june 07, 2011 19:03)   image 3 images
As part of it s cost cutting plan Dublin Bus have plans to introduce radical cuts to our bus services. Every route in the city will be affected to some degree, with 10 new super routes being introduced and some existing routes scrapped and others amalgamated into other routes which will overall have less frequent service. read full story / add a comment
Fred Johnston
limerick / arts and media / press release Monday May 30, 2011 15:08 by Western Writers' Centre Galway   image 1 image
Fred Johnson will be guest poet on June 1st Born in Belfast and spending his childhood in Canada, in 1972 he received a Hennessy Literary Award. Fred Johnston was a co-founder of the Irish Writers' Co-operative in Dublin in the 'Seventies and founded Galway's Cúirt festival in 1986. Eight years ago he founded The Western Writers' Centre in Galway. read full story / add a comment
cork / history and heritage / event notice Monday May 30, 2011 14:59 by Diarmuid Mulcahy
Ocean to City’s Maritime Festival, highlights Cork’s magnificent river and harbour. Festival includes markets, kayak/boat trips, racing, corcumnavigation, boats to Spike Island, photography competition, Blackrock Castle Youth Race, harbour school, tours on LE Orla and more.

The race takes place on June 4th 2011. A unique, spectacular 15 mile race for traditional and non-traditional rowing boats and kayaks which starts at Crosshaven and finishes at Lapps Quay.

The festival atmosphere features acrobats, face painters, balloon artists, workshops, clowns and music. read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Monday May 30, 2011 13:50 by éirígí Sligeach   text 8 comments (last - thursday november 21, 2013 17:21)   image 3 images
Convicted garda walking free after leaving man he brutally assaulted for dead exposes corrupt two-tier nature of what passes for 'justice' in this state read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday May 30, 2011 09:42 by Ciaron   text 2 comments (last - monday june 06, 2011 11:15)
If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution (or even their "liberal democracy!")
Police Brutality at the Silent Flashmob at the Jefferson Memorial read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday May 30, 2011 07:55 by INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST PARTY   text 11 comments (last - wednesday july 11, 2012 19:21)   image 2 images
From "COMMUNIST LEFT" review of International Communist Party read full story / add a comment
kerry / anti-capitalism / event notice Sunday May 29, 2011 22:32 by julian
The United Left Alliance will have a launch meeting in Killarney on Saturday 4th June @ Malton Hotel, 2PM

Speakers feature: JOE HIGGINS TD of the Socialist Party

and Kieran Allen of People Before Profit

The United Left Alliance was formed shortly before the last General Election and currently has 5 TDs in the Dail.

This public meeting represents a rare opportunity to hear Kerryman Joe Higgins at first hand.

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Puerta del Sol: mass assemblies are the engine of the movement
international / anti-capitalism / news report Sunday May 29, 2011 17:01 by Mick   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 31, 2011 16:14)   image 1 image
It began on the 15th of May in the form of demonstrations across Spain with an estimated attendance of 150,000. This initial demonstration was organized by a new group called Real Democracy Now (RDN), a loosely organized collective which focused on expressing the feeling of outrage among the Spanish population without recourse to traditional left ideology. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Sunday May 29, 2011 16:28 by Cormac Mac Gall   text 1 comment (last - saturday june 11, 2011 00:19)
The municipal elections in the Basque Country last week gave Bildu, a coalition of social democratic parties and Abertzale Left candidates, overwhelming victory, now having the majority of town councils of any party across the Basque Country and in one of its major cities, while coming first in one of the four southern (Spanish-ruled) provinces, second and third in another two. read full story / add a comment
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