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 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.
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.
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.
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
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. The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony Public Inquiry >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Friday September 19, 2025 12:46
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. Lockdown Skeptics >>
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Briogáidí Idirnáisiúnta go Cúba
Is í an cheist atá á cur agam ná an bhfuil slí eile ann chun ár laethanta saoire a chaitheamh, gan ár gcuid airgid a chur i bpócaí rialtais an chogaidh is déanaí. Tá muid ag teacht chuig an am sin den bhliain arís a thosaíonn na comhlachtaí turasóireachta ag obair lenár mealladh chuig Mallorca, Gran Canaria, an Tuirc nó eile. Agus más ar an ollscoil atá tú, is cinnte go raibh tú báite faoi thonn fógraí don J1 go dtí na Stáit Aontaithe.
Ach is í an cheist atá á cur agam ná an bhfuil slí eile ann chun ár laethanta saoire a chaitheamh, gan ár gcuid airgid a chur i bpócaí rialtais an chogaidh is déanaí (páirt a dó san Iráin i gceann cúpla míonna?)?
Nó níos fearr arís, trínár laethanta saoire a chaitheamh ann, an féidir linn tacaíocht a léiriú do thíortha eile ina bhfuil gluaiseachtaí nó rialtais a bhíonn ag streachailt faoi chuing ‘rialtais an chogaidh’?
Bhí fonn orm i gcónaí dul go Cúba, mar shampla, agus anuraidh fuair an seans nuair a bhuail mé le ball de chuid an Ghrúpa Thacaíochta Chúba i mBaile Átha Claith ag caint de chuid Aleida Guevara (iníon Che).
D’inis sé dom faoi na Briogáidí oibre a théann amach go Cúba agach bliain ón tír seo agus shocraigh mé dul ann.
Bhain mé an oiread sin suilt as an bhriogáid gur eagraigh mé caint ar an mBriogáid nuair a d´fhill mé, rud a mholann go leor d’eagraithe na mBriogáidí Idirnáisiúnta, nó níl an t-airgead nó na baill acu chun dul san iomaíocht i ndáiríre le comhlachtaí móra turasóireachta.
Anseo thíos, tá na ceisteanna a chuir mé ar Declan McKenna ó Ghrúpa Tacaíochta Chúba faoin mBriogáid Idirnáisiúnta Oibre:
Cad chuige a roghnaíonn daoine dul go Cúba?
“Fáthanna éagsúla – le tacaíocht polaitiúil a léiriú, mar shampla amháin; i gcás daoine eile, is mian leo an dul chun cinn sóisialta agus a thionchar a fheiceáil; daoine eile, téann siad de bharr na fiosrachta. Don chuid is mó, ámh, téann daoine go Cúba chun foghlaim faoi Chúba, chun foghlaim faoin Réabhlóid agus chun fáil amach cad a dhéanann Cúba difriúil.”
Cad é go díreach é an Bhriogáid Idirnáisiúnta Oibre?
“Grúpaí as eagraíochtaí dlúthpháirtíochta ó cheann ceann na hEorpa a chomhdhéanann Briogáid Idirnáisiúnta Oibre. Cónaíonn na Brigadistas ar feadh 3 sheachtain i gcampa atá tógtha go spéisialta don Bhriogáid agus atá lonnaithe i ndeas do Havana, áit a gcuidíonn siad le hobair thalmhaíochta agus obair thógála taobh le Cúbaigh.
Glacann na Brigadistas páirt i gclár leathan, a chlúdaíonn cuairteanna ar scoileanna, ospidéil, ceardchumainn agus monarchana agus dá thoradh sin, faigheann an Brigadista léargas áirithe ar shaol an ghnáthdhuine sa tsóchaí Cúbach agus tugann sé seans dóibh bualadh le gnáth-Chúbaigh.
“Tá an Bhriogáid Oibre eagraithe ar bhonn oideachais agus polaitiúil – tugtar an deis do dhaoine foghlaim faoi Chúba agus faoi mhuintir Chúba agus tacaíocht a léiriú do cheart féintreoraithe Chúba.
Eagraítear an Bhriogáid dhá uair sa bhliain i gcomhar le ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos) chun tacaíocht a léiriú le muintir Chúba agus lena Réabhlóid trín obair, an éisteacht, an fhoghlaim agus fiú amháin trína bheith ansin, dar le McKenna.
“Tá na Briogáidí Oibre go Cúba a n-eagrú le tríocha bliain anuas (cé gur seo an t-aonú bhliain déag don Bhriogáid Oibre Éireannach dul go Cúba) agus chuidigh siad le go mór le líonra domhanda d’eagraíochtaí dlúthpháirtíocht a bhunú.”, ar seisean.
Caitear an chéad choicís ag obair agus an tseachtain dheireannach ar thuras treoraithe thart timpeall ar Chúba.
Nuair a bhí mé féin ann, bhí an t-ádh linn gur tugadh muid ar cuairt chuig Iarsmalann Che Guevara. Cuimhneachán iontach ar fad a bhí ann.
Deir paimfléid eolais de chuid an Ghrúpa Tacaíochta Chúba gur chóir cuimhneamh, in ainneoin an dul chun cinn iontach atá déanta ag Cúba le blianta anuas, gur tír i mbéal forbartha í atá ag dul i ngleic le smachtbhannaí geilleagracha, neamhchinnteacht faoi ola agus faoi phraghasanna príomh-earraí, agus neamhchothromaíocht i dtaca le trádáil idirnáisiúnta de. Deir an paimfléad, leis, gur féidir go n-aimseoidh Brigadista lochtanna ar an chóras i gCúba ach go dtagann na Cubaigh orthu freisin agus gur sin an fáth go gcreideann siad go bhfuil an Réabhlóid ag leanúint leis.
Cé atá i dteideal dul leis an Bhriogáid?
“Caithfidh Brigadistas bheith ina mball de Ghrúpa Tacaíochta Chúba (ach is féidir ballraíocht a shaothrú le d’iarratas).
Bíonn daoine ó gach cinéal cúlra, aois agus ceantar in Éirinn ag dul leis Bhriogáid.
“Bíonn ar na Brigadistas bheith in ann comhoibriú lena chéile, uaireanta faoi bhrú agus bheith sásta páirt a ghlacadh in obair dlúthpháirtíochta Chúba nuair a fhilleann siad.”, deir McKenna.
De réir Ghrúpa Tacaíochta Chúba, tugann an Bhriogáid seans do dhaoine tacaíocht phraicticiúil a léiriú don phobal Cúbach ar laethanta saoire oibre i gCúba, taobh le Brigadistas eile ó gach cearn den Eoraip agus mic léinn Chúbacha.
Bíonn an bhriogáid ar siúl dhá uair sa bhliain, i mí Mheán Fómhair (30 Lúnasa - 20 Meán Fómhair) agus i mí na Nollaig (13 Nollaig 2003 - 03 Éanair 2004). Is iad na dátaí deiridh do na Briogáidí Oibre ná deireadh mhí Meitheamh agus deireadh mhí Mheán Fómhair.
Thug Declan an cinéal eolais seo domsa agus mé ag fiosrú faoin Bhriogáid Oibre anuraidh ach mar a d´fhoghlaim muid agus muid ansin, níor tugadh an eolas céanna do roinnt de na Brigadistas as tíortha eile.
Bhí roinnt Brigadistas ann a chaith a gcuid ama ag gearán faoi seo agus siúd eile agus de bhrí sin, chaill siad amach ar shaol shóisialta an champa; ar na díospóireachtaí agus an greann a bhí againn le Luis (comhordaitheoir an champa), ar na cluichí peile faochmhara idir tíortha Ceilteacha (agus an Bhreatain) agus tíortha an Meánmhuirí, ar na hoícheanta salsa nuair a rinne muid go léir amadáin dínn féin, agus ar ndóigh an seanleaid ón Ghréig a choinnigh an chraic ar siúl go luath sa maidin lena bhosca ceoil.
Bhain an chuid is mó againn an-sult as an mBriogáid agus ‘beidh muid ar ais’ ach mar a d’fhoghlaim na Brigadistas ón Iorua, ní fiú dul ar an mBriogáid Oibre muna bhfuil uait ach laethanta saoire saor i gCúba.
Tá tuilleadh eolais ar fáil faoi na Briogáidí ón Cuba Support Group,
15 Cearnóg Mhuirfean, Baile Átha Cliath 2
Fón: (01) 8436448, 087 6785842
ríomhphost: cubasupport@eircom.net
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Monday July 07, 2003 12:18
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4as they wont be able to understant the cupla focal (too nationalist for da comrades)
Dá Suíomh Deireanach
Ar an mBriogáid don tSamhraidh seo.
30 Lúnasa - 20 Meán Fómhair 2003
* LAST TWO PLACES *
International Work Brigade to Cuba
30 August - 20 September 2003
chun bhur saolta meánaicmeach compórdach a leanúint. Fanaigí thall agus cuidigi leis an reabhlóid (mall)agus beimid go léir sásta.
An tusa an "Eddy The Aggravator" s'againn. Dóibh nach bhfuil ar an eolas, is Meiriceánach an eite dheis amach is amach é ar fhoram "Eddy The Aggravator" Ireland.com.
"Táim cinnte nach raibh drogall oraibh filleadh ar ais...chun bhur saolta meánaicmeach compórdach a leanúint. Fanaigí thall agus cuidigi leis an reabhlóid (mall)agus beimid go léir sásta"
Níl eolas ar bith agat orm.
Ní dheirfinn gur ón meánaicme mé, ná go bhfuil saol compórdach agam.
Agus bheadh fonn orm fanacht nó tá an oiread sin daoine anseo in Éirinn le do dhearcadh féin go gcuirfeadh sé as d'éinne fanacht in Éirinn, ach má tá muid chun an tír seo a athrú ní fiú éalú agus rialú na tíre a fhágfadh chuig daoine le do dhearcadhsa.
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