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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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Human Rights in Ireland
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 [1] Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:48 | Mark

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 [2] Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:43 | Mark

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 [3] Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

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Lockdown Skeptics

The Daily Sceptic

offsite link The Reaction of My Mental Health Nursing Students to Being Shown an Image of a Black Murderer and Wh... Thu Nov 06, 2025 19:01 | Dr Niall McCrae
The reaction of my mental health nursing students to being shown an image of a black murderer and white victim shows why 'anti-racist' ideology is putting us all at risk, says Dr Niall McCrae.
The post The Reaction of My Mental Health Nursing Students to Being Shown an Image of a Black Murderer and White Victim Shows Why Ideology is Putting Us All at Risk appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected ?Pregnant People? to ?Women? Thu Nov 06, 2025 17:52 | Will Jones
The BBC newsreader who went viral after she changed "pregnant people" to "women" during a live broadcast has been rebuked by the BBC after being found to have breached impartiality rules.
The post BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected “Pregnant People” to “Women” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Southport Inquiry?s Sinister Censorship Agenda Thu Nov 06, 2025 15:23 | David Shipley
The Southport Inquiry summoned X this week to lecture it on the wonders of the Online Safety Act. It shows a sinister willingness to use the worst kind of tragedy to advance a censorship agenda, says David Shipley.
The post The Southport Inquiry’s Sinister Censorship Agenda appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How the Government?s Digital ID Fantasy Will Fall Apart Thu Nov 06, 2025 13:21 | Guy de la B?doy?re
Keir Starmer is planning digital ID for UK citizens. You may worry about the impact on civil liberties, but worry not, says Guy de la B?doy?re. A recent experience shows the system will never get off the ground.
The post How the Government’s Digital ID Fantasy Will Fall Apart appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reeves to Hit EVs With ?250 Pay-Per-Mile Tax Thu Nov 06, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Electric vehicle drivers will be hit with a new pay-per-mile tax in?the Budget,?with a new charge of 3p per mile being levied on top of other road taxes, costing the average driver an extra ?250 a year.
The post Reeves to Hit EVs With ?250 Pay-Per-Mile Tax appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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US Election Countdown....

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Friday October 29, 2004 12:54author by redjade Report this post to the editors

Bush or Kerry, the war will continue - one candidate may end it the other will expand it

referendum on world war four (non-americans need allowed to vote)
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THE MINORITY VOTE....
By Kevin Drum
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2004_10/005002.php

Hmmm. Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio has just finished a survey of 12 battleground states and finds Bush and Kerry tied with 47% of the vote apiece. But when he weights for minority turnout based on the 2000 exit polls, Kerry is ahead 49.2%-45.7%. And when he further updates the weighting to take into account the most recent census results, Kerry is ahead 49.9%-44.7%.

As Fabrizio blandly puts it, "It is clear that minority turnout is a wildcard in this race and represents a huge upside for Sen. Kerry and a considerable challenge for the President's campaign." More accurately, if Fabrizio is right — that Kerry is ahead by 5% overall in the battleground states — Kerry is a sure winner on November 2.

Suddenly the Bush campaign's obsession with challenging voters in minority neighborhoods makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?

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The GOP's Shameful Vote Strategy
By Harold Meyerson
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A707-2004Oct26?language=printer

With Election Day almost upon us, it's not clear whether President Bush is running a campaign or plotting a coup d'etat. By all accounts, Republicans are spending these last precious days devoting nearly as much energy to suppressing the Democratic vote as they are to mobilizing their own.

Time was when Republicans were at least embarrassed by their efforts to keep African Americans from the polls. Republican consultant Ed Rollins was all but drummed out of the profession after his efforts to pay black ministers to keep their congregants from voting in a 1993 New Jersey election came to light.

[....]

In Ohio, Republicans have recruited 3,600 poll monitors and assigned them disproportionately to such heavily black areas as inner-city Cleveland, where Democratic "527" groups have registered many tens of thousands of new voters. "The organized left's efforts to, quote unquote, register voters -- I call them ringers -- have created these problems" of potential massive vote fraud, Cuyahoga County Republican Chairman James P. Trakas recently told the New York Times.
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Pledge of Action to Stop A Stolen Election
http://www.nov3.us/

"I remember the stolen presidential election of 2000 and I am willing to take action in 2004 if the election is stolen again. I support efforts to protect the right to vote leading up to and on Election Day, November 2nd. If that right is systematically violated, I pledge to join nationwide protests starting on November 3rd, either in my community, in the states where the fraud occurred, or in Washington DC."

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   NYC 911 Black Boxes Found - or covered up?     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 13:06 
   The Near Assasination of Katherine Harris     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 13:09 
   Bush website blocks foreigners     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 13:18 
   Canadian Solidarity: Marry An American     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 13:25 
   Homeland Intelligence Chief Warns Civil Rights to be 'Abridged' to Prevent Another Terror Attack     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 13:30 
   Reject the parties of big business!     votenader    Fri Oct 29, 2004 13:39 
   Democrats are not democrats     votenader    Fri Oct 29, 2004 13:41 
   Enjoy it     Ed    Fri Oct 29, 2004 13:42 
   FBI Investigating Halliburton Contracts     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 13:51 
 10   Alexander Cockburn: 'like voting for LBJ in 1964'     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 13:55 
 11   Village Voice: 'Nader to Dems: I'm Staying In'     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 13:57 
 12   Voter Suppression: Minnesota, Ohio and Florida Again     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 14:06 
 13   Rubik's Cube violates US National Security     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 14:53 
 14   Baghdad Burning Blog: Definitely Kerry     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 15:15 
 15   Voter Suppression in Ohio     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 15:42 
 16   Another Repub effort to support the Green Party     redjade    Fri Oct 29, 2004 15:48 
 17   .     eeekkk    Fri Oct 29, 2004 16:38 
 18   Spot the dodgy article     spotter    Fri Oct 29, 2004 17:56 
 19   Google is your friend     Ray    Fri Oct 29, 2004 18:03 
 20   what next...     pc    Fri Oct 29, 2004 18:50 
 21   (c) Boogeymen for Bush     eeekkkk    Sat Oct 30, 2004 02:16 
 22   What happens if Bush wins? It does not bear thinking about!     Tim    Sat Oct 30, 2004 19:38 
 23   The boogeyman did it..     Noel    Sat Oct 30, 2004 20:21 
 24   noel understands     kintama    Sun Oct 31, 2004 01:57 
 25   Neo-Cons     Devil Dog    Sun Oct 31, 2004 02:31 
 26   beyond votings actions across the us     pc    Sun Oct 31, 2004 02:39 
 27   neocons     kintama    Sun Oct 31, 2004 16:23 
 28   "nutcase theories"??     righteous pragmatist    Mon Nov 01, 2004 11:04 
 29   If Osama then mad IRA cads and mullahs and racists and fascists will all someday soon come out....     anagram    Mon Nov 01, 2004 15:03 
 30   Nutcase     James    Mon Nov 01, 2004 16:05 
 31   Yes on all counts.     righteous pragmatist    Mon Nov 01, 2004 17:42 
 32   Something goes bump in the night     Timothy    Mon Nov 01, 2004 21:26 
 33   Think before striking your ballot     Think first    Mon Nov 01, 2004 22:54 
 34   Vote Nader     vote nader    Tue Nov 02, 2004 15:15 
 35   post election bush admin     fhu    Tue Nov 02, 2004 15:40 
 36   US Republicans Pretend to be Gay     redjade    Tue Nov 02, 2004 16:24 
 37   priceless.     redjade    Tue Nov 02, 2004 16:35 
 38   THIS MORNINGS POLLS     Pollster    Tue Nov 02, 2004 16:41 
 39   Nader drags campaign to finish     redjade    Tue Nov 02, 2004 16:51 
 40   US Election already hacked?     redjade    Tue Nov 02, 2004 17:00 
 41   Voter Suppression Blog     redjade    Tue Nov 02, 2004 17:06 
 42   Why don't the democrats and greens unite against the common enemy?     Laurence Winch-Furness    Tue Nov 02, 2004 17:06 
 43   The Call     righteous pragmatist    Tue Nov 02, 2004 17:14 
 44   The Anarchist Vote: 'One more time, anarchists don’t vote'     redjade    Tue Nov 02, 2004 17:25 
 45   Redjade why do you support Kerry?     votenader    Tue Nov 02, 2004 17:34 
 46   FOX NEWS POLL FROM FLORIDA     pollster    Tue Nov 02, 2004 17:37 
 47   20 Reasons to vote Nader     votenader    Tue Nov 02, 2004 17:43 
 48   Bush Campaign's Photoshop 'Clone Stamp Tool'     redjade    Tue Nov 02, 2004 17:46 
 49   re: Redjade why do you support Kerry?     redjade    Tue Nov 02, 2004 17:56 
 50   pres. Kerry - No change, more imperialist war     votenader    Tue Nov 02, 2004 18:13 
 51   the ghost of LBJ     redjade    Tue Nov 02, 2004 18:21 
 52   The US lost?     Noel    Tue Nov 02, 2004 18:51 
 53   Noel     redjade    Wed Nov 03, 2004 03:45 
 54   a blog silenced.     redjade    Wed Nov 03, 2004 03:47 
 55   re: Noel (US Losing the war)     redjade    Wed Nov 03, 2004 04:24 
 56   Four More Years.     righteous pragmatist    Wed Nov 03, 2004 12:38 
 57   Post Election Blues and the Struggle Ahead....     redjade    Wed Nov 03, 2004 14:06 
 58   from a right-wing american site     redjade    Wed Nov 03, 2004 15:06 
 59   jebba votes....     redjade    Wed Nov 03, 2004 15:11 
 60   redjade     :)    Wed Nov 03, 2004 15:31 
 61   yep, you won - congrats     redjade    Wed Nov 03, 2004 16:11 
 62   re: 24 votes for Cobb in Ohio     redjade    Wed Nov 03, 2004 16:16 
 63   Greens are pathetic     votenader    Wed Nov 03, 2004 17:14 
 64   green party     peter    Wed Nov 03, 2004 17:52 
 65   Weaponised meda / The day after tomorrow / Great essay     eeekkk    Wed Nov 03, 2004 20:32 
 66   Hate and War Bigtime on the NYC IMC Wires:     b-movie    Wed Nov 03, 2004 22:37 
 67   Good for you     Splunk    Wed Nov 03, 2004 22:42 
 68   'The answer: It doesn't mean much at all. Not really. Not anymore.'     redjade    Thu Nov 04, 2004 14:06 
 69   Int'l Election Observers talk about the US Election     redjade    Thu Nov 04, 2004 14:25 
 70   Hungary Announces Withdrawal of Troops in Iraq     redjade    Thu Nov 04, 2004 14:44 
 71   how bad is it?.....     redjade    Thu Nov 04, 2004 14:56 
 72   Pro-Kerry people need some sole searching     votenader    Thu Nov 04, 2004 15:25 
 73   bush working class     Voice of Reason    Thu Nov 04, 2004 15:40 
 74   re: sole searching [ i assume you meant soul?]     redjade    Thu Nov 04, 2004 15:42 
 75   Democrats are incapable of ending imperialist wars     votenader    Thu Nov 04, 2004 15:56 
 76   By the way     votenader    Thu Nov 04, 2004 16:01 
 77   good luck with your bake sale!     redjade    Thu Nov 04, 2004 16:28 
 78   nader, nader, nader     for fecks sake    Thu Nov 04, 2004 17:39 
 79   another map....     redjade    Thu Nov 04, 2004 18:02 
 80   similar map     pc    Thu Nov 04, 2004 18:09 
 81   More interesting map from that site     Ray    Thu Nov 04, 2004 18:12 
 82   meanwhile     pc    Thu Nov 04, 2004 18:40 
 83   Machine Guns in Union Square     pc    Thu Nov 04, 2004 18:51 
 84   Which raises the question.....     redjade    Thu Nov 04, 2004 19:16 
 85   Day Two: The American Civil War Begins.... (Selective Service = Draft Board, by the way)     redjade    Thu Nov 04, 2004 19:43 
 86   Verification of Bush State Stereotypes     redjade    Thu Nov 04, 2004 20:05 
 87   Re: pc and machine guns.     Righteous pragmatist    Fri Nov 05, 2004 10:30 
 88   re: machine guns     a joke    Fri Nov 05, 2004 15:07 
 89   Run that by me again?     righteous pragmatist    Fri Nov 05, 2004 15:15 
 90   an apology from 55,384,497 people     redjade    Fri Nov 05, 2004 15:35 
 91   Baghdad Burning Blog: Disappointment...     redjade    Fri Nov 05, 2004 15:56 
 92   The American Civil War: Then vs Now     redjade    Fri Nov 05, 2004 16:02 
 93   JeBush Christ!     JeBush Christ    Fri Nov 05, 2004 16:33 
 94   Praise     Noel    Fri Nov 05, 2004 17:15 
 95   more seccession proposals...     redjade    Fri Nov 05, 2004 18:27 
 96   need a laugh?     Jon Stewart    Fri Nov 05, 2004 19:19 
 97   Ohio: hmmm something's fishy....     redjade    Fri Nov 05, 2004 19:34 
 98   North Carolina: Computer Loses More Than 4,500 Votes     redjade    Fri Nov 05, 2004 20:00 
 99   The Anarchist Vote: the debate continues...     redjade    Fri Nov 05, 2004 20:11 
 100   A badly written article on Anarchism & Social Democracy     Anthony    Fri Nov 05, 2004 23:06 
 101   anthony, i don't disagree actually     redjade    Sat Nov 06, 2004 14:00 
 102   'Voters reject liberalism, an evil ideology.'     redjade    Sat Nov 06, 2004 15:49 
 103   On Pastore's Glassy-Eyed Pronouncements     Bodhisattva    Sat Nov 06, 2004 21:04 
 104   rednecks     Bushwhacked    Sat Nov 06, 2004 23:32 
 105   US Election compared to Star Wars     wookie monster    Tue Nov 09, 2004 15:29 


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