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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 Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
The post Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / press release Friday October 15, 2010 17:57 by john throne
the Chilean miners rescue was watched by tens of millions of people worldwide. These workers are now heros internationally for their great collective struggle underground to stay alive. Unfortunately they are now being corralled by the Chilean President and his right wing capitalist allies. Instead these heroic workers should be organized to go on a Chilean wide and world wide tour to organize the unorganized, to oppose the attacks on workers and to put forward the democratic socialist alternative. read full story / add a comment
Poster
galway / history and heritage / event notice Friday October 15, 2010 17:26 by Marion Mitchell Morrison   image 1 image
One of a series of counterfactual history talks at the Galway City Museum.
Starts at 7 pm on Monday 18 October.
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Gort Meeting Poster
galway / housing / event notice Friday October 15, 2010 11:07 by Galway Sustainable Community   image 1 image
A 3rd public meeting for people interested in our project takes place in Gort, Co. Galway on Thursday 21st October. read full story / add a comment
Photo by Barra Hammilton
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday October 15, 2010 08:17 by Freda H   image 2 images
The wall that Israel has built in Palestinian territory is more than a barrier -- it’s also a focus for popular art.

Graffiti in the form of words and images have transformed the wall into a living canvas of resistance and solidarity, created not only by Palestinians but also by international artists.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Thursday October 14, 2010 17:40 by john throne   text 3 comments (last - friday october 15, 2010 20:32)   video 1 video file
Now is the time for the international workers movement to build a world tour for the Chilean miners. this should have as objectives. Organize the unorganized. explaining that capitalism does not work. Promoting the alternative of democratic socialism world wide. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday October 14, 2010 16:26 by AIMS Ireland   text 1 comment (last - monday october 18, 2010 23:31)   image 1 image
The Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services Ireland (AIMS Ireland) release today reports from women of an underground home birth movement. The underground grassroots movement has grown from concerns that the proposed Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010 will limit women’s fundamental human right to make informed decisions in childbirth about place of birth. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Thursday October 14, 2010 14:32 by john throne   text 3 comments (last - friday october 15, 2010 06:24)
The mine owners were so greedy for profits they would not put in the proper safety safeguards and this is why the miners were trapped in the first place. The right wing in Chile are trying to exploit the popularity of the miners. see the right wing president at the rescue site. but it was the right wing who supported their hero the dictator Pinochet who slaughtered tens of thousands of union and left activists. if this had not happened the miners union might have been strong enough to enforce safe conditions in the mine and not been trapped in the first place. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday October 14, 2010 12:44 by kevin Flanagan   text 8 comments (last - sunday october 17, 2010 14:45)   image 1 image
Religious Abuse Truth isued a summons to the Navan Rd residence of the Papal Nuncio on Monday . The summons requires that Pope Bendeict and six accomplices attend the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) being held in London next year. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday October 14, 2010 12:16 by Gerry C   text 1 comment (last - friday october 15, 2010 12:42)
The Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) today called on the Department of Foreign Affairs to summon the Egyptian Ambassador to Iveagh House to seek assurances for the safety of the Viva Palestina convoy and to ensure the swift delivery by the convoy of its much needed humanitarian aid into Gaza without any further delaying tactics by Egyptian authorities. read full story / add a comment
WE  keep fighting for hunted animals
national / animal rights / press release Thursday October 14, 2010 09:11 by Bernie Wright   image 1 image
Over 30,000 people have signed our petitions on the streets, they have said no to hunting with hounds-
ALSO 64% of the population now want a ban on bloodsports!!!!
THE STAG HUNT HAS BEEN BANNED….NOW LETS GET RID OF THE OTHER BLOODSPORTS!!
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Inaugural Raymond Crotty Lecture: Ireland in Crisis, Radical Alternatives (Kilkenny, 15th October; Dublin 16 October)
national / anti-capitalism / press release Wednesday October 13, 2010 22:48 by O. O'C.   image 2 images
Raymond Crotty's intellectual significance was recognised outside of Ireland as is evidenced by extracts from reviews of his last book, When Histories Collide, 2001, by Professor Charles Tilly, historian and sociologist, University of Columbia, New York:

"Raymond Crotty has the knack of seeing form the ground up processes that others have viewed from the top down. He had the agronomic and comparative experience to recognize what he was seeing. The result is a fresh, challenging, at times astonishing set of insights into relations between agriculture and civilization."

'Ireland in Crisis, Radical Alternatives', Lecture by Professor Lars Mjřset, University of Oslo, Norway in memory of Raymond Crotty. Butler House, 16 Patrick Street, Kilkenny, 15th October, 7.30 p.m. and Ireland Institute, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin, 16th October at 3.00 p.m.
Both lectures are organised by the People's Movement. read full story / add a comment
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national / crime and justice / press release Wednesday October 13, 2010 20:40 by Ardoyne Republican   image 1 image
REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (R.N.U.) Ard Chomhairle member, CARL REILLY, has expressed anger at the brutal treatment of Political Prisoner, Colin Duffy.
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international / environment / news report Wednesday October 13, 2010 15:32 by Seanach   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 28, 2010 17:00)   video 1 video file
A cavalcade of bicycles cycled down Wellington Street to Oxford Street and converged on a shell Gas Station and held a rally while blocking all entrances to the station. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday October 13, 2010 14:41 by Kevin Flanagan   text 7 comments (last - sunday march 02, 2014 11:06)   video 1 video file
Count Me Out , which had simplified the process for Catholics who wished to formally leave the Church, has suspended its service. This follows the Church’s modification of the Code of Canon Law in April this year which removed all references to the act of formal defection, the process used by those who wish to formally renounce their membership of the Church. read full story / add a comment
dublin / crime and justice / event notice Wednesday October 13, 2010 14:05 by David Dunn   text 3 comments (last - friday october 15, 2010 16:35)
Transparency International Ireland marks the launch of the Corruption Perceptions Index with a public workshop on how corruption can be measured.
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday October 12, 2010 23:38 by dub   text 2 comments (last - wednesday october 13, 2010 06:31)
A facebook group encouraging people to organise together to share ideas on how they may peacefully demononstrate against the governments economic policies.

http://www.causes.com/causes/536332?m=0d43bb06 read full story / add a comment
Seamus and Teresa Ferris, who visited the convoy in Latakia
international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday October 12, 2010 22:59 by Daniel O'Leary   text 3 comments (last - thursday october 14, 2010 13:36)   image 4 images   video 1 video file
On Thursday, September 16th, Joe Gilmartin and Seamus O’Nualláin left Tipperary with a van full of aid to drive 5000 km to Gaza.
Along with others from the north and the UK, they are part of the international VIva Palestina convoy of almost 200 vehicles, $3million of medical aid, and 400 people from 30 different countries, for the people of Gaza.
Having crossed through France, Italy, Greece and Turkey, the latest news is that that the convoy is waiting in Latakia, Syria, to get a ferry to Egypt and then travel into Gaza.
The Egyptian government is currently threatening not to allow them through.

Here is the diary that Joe and Seamus have sent back. To follow their progress go to facebook page “Tipp2Gaza”.
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some of our problem children
dublin / anti-capitalism / feature Tuesday October 12, 2010 16:24 by 1% Network   text 11 comments (last - friday october 15, 2010 20:52)   image 21 images   video 1 video file
Up to 250 people took part in the 1% Network’s walking tour on Saturday last, October 9th. As people began to gather from as early as 12.30pm it was clear that large numbers were going to to take the opportunity to ‘see how the 1% live.’ The unusually warm weather and low-key Garda presence added to the almost festive atmosphere for this most unusual of political protests. read full story / add a comment
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