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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
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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.
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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
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Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
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Waiting for SIPO Anthony
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21You did not include information on the amount of events you held in order to aid these people listed. Is it safe to say none have been held?
Are you going to blame other people on the left for stopping you from doing so?
you complain about divisions in the left, but also make whiny complaints about whatever a person's diet might be. constructive stuff.
Don't know precisely how the above is going to help the defendants, though I can understand the frustration if the defendants feel they have been abandoned. I don't think you can 'shame' anyone into assisting them. I don't think tone of personal abuse is helpful to anyone 'Middle class and well educated' describes many sincere activists. I've been arrested and charged a few times and received support from individuals who describe themselves as anarchist.
Perhaps we need some sort of defence network across the radical left to share expertise and experience. We are sure to need it in the future. Perhaps the author of above could convene such a network ?
There is a long left-wing activism tradition in Ireland, Gill, but there's been a tradition of splitting, in-fighting and just bitching generally for at least as long too. Looks like you're active in at least one of these traditions. ;-)
Seriously though, supporting people facing court, fines and prison is an area we've got to work on a lot as a movement. So there's nothing wrong with bringing this issue up, except for the way you've done it. You're obviously pissed off, but you're not going to shame activists into helping you ("Oh I'm so middle class! It's true! My FCUK jeans are designer-ripped! Here - let me organise a gig for you!").
And besides, you haven't said why the autonomous anarchists (the ones who you say do the foody and arty stuff) are responsible for those arrests. I'd agree with you to a point if you said that the DGN were responsible -- they did organise the event were the people got arrested -- but these autonomous folks are just participants, no? I mean, were those arrested under the impression that the autonomous folks were organisers?
Perhaps you're one of the arrestees or you've got friends who were. Maybe you could followup your post with some more info. Otherwise it just reads like you don't like people who eat or live differently to you, and you want them to look after you and your friends because (though you claim they're terrible organisers) they somehow got all those people arrested. Are you saying that they're cops?? :-)
This sounds like some one with an understanding of the Dublin activist scene gleaned totally from eavesdropping on websites.
Sowing the seeds of division for any particular purpose? State patsy?
Part of the problem here is that the people making these accusations choose to do so anonymously. So it's very hard for anyone else to know if they are sincere or not. This is a bigger problem when they choose to list all the defendents names in their posts even though some have made it known they don't want publicity.
The defendents I've spoken to in the months since mayday have not made the same complaints as 'Gill X', the people who have been working with defendents since May day (and this work is still ongoing despite the anonymous claims here) have not related these complaints either. These complaints have not been raised at DGN meetings since, some of which were advertised on indymedia. Nor have I heard them raised by individuals at the various social events I've been at.
As far as I'm aware the factual core of the claim made by 'Gill X' is also incorrect - in other words money has been raised - but I'll leave it to those who have and continue to do the defendent support stuff to clarify this for sure.
I'm getting sick of this to be honest.
Every now and then someone pops up and says that dgn has abandoned everyone who got arrested on mayday. To be honest I suspect that its the same person every time but I could be wrong. Its fairly obvious that they monitor anarchist email lists but also obvious that they don't really know how to understand what they read there. they sorta put 2 and 2 together and end up with 5. (“They are well-educated and middle class, and are more concerned with surface/"lifestyle"/fashion politics like vegetarianism and squatting than genuine working class struggles.” Doesn’t sound like whoever said this is someone actually involved in anarchist politics does it?)
Since mayday I've been involved in legal support and spoken to a good number of the people that Gill X named, as well as a few more. For fairly obvious reasons those conversations don't get detailed on sites like indymedia.
Some of those arrested just wanted to get on with things and didn't want to be involved in anything, in at least one case someone's solicitor told them not to go to a legal defence meeting in case they were fingered as a ringleader by gardai. Other people didn't feel they needed support but were happy to know it was availible if they wanted it. Other times we've gone to court with people.
There's more cases in March and just a couple of weeks ago we found out that someone has had new charges brought against them. Apologies for not going into detail but people are entitled to their privacy unless they want to go public. It's not up to a support group to decide how to handle these things. This is one of the reasons news on this issue has tended to be quiet. “X appeals his case and gets the probation act, criminal conviction dropped” isn’t a great indymedia story if X doesn’t want his name in the media.
Since mayday we organised 2 legal defence meetings, set up a mailing list (which didn't really work) and have been in touch with those people who were happy to talk to us. (Sometimes we got talking with people who didn't want us to be involved, sometimes we left messages with people who didn't get back to us. We never pushed anyone, which is only right.) About 1,000 has been raised and as i speak there's fundraisers being organised in Dublin and Belfast, details to follow. We're not going to be able to cover people's complete costs but we will be able to help people out to some extent. (the 13,000 euro figure isn’t quite accurate since not everyone has finished with the court process yet but its going to be a lot of cash). If you were arrested on mayday and haven't heard back from us please get in touch. If Gill X wants to help out she'll be more than welcome.
Gill, your welcome to the Certain Death Vegan Cafe in warehouse next sunday or any sunday after that to voice your concerns with the autonomists. It may be more constructive than posting on Indymedia.
I'd give you fairly long odds on ever seeing Gill X in person. They obviously don't have much of a clue and are pretty much trolling. I think its important not to play up to their idea of a divide between organised and autonomous anarchists too. After all dgn was started in the Leeson St squat, where people also got together around Shannon and the hunger strikers in Greece, all kinds of everyone are involved in Seomra Spraoi (even *shock* non anarchists... even *shock* someone from a socialist party) and lotsa different heads will be going to the G8.
Gill X / R. etc try to set people against eachother, don't play along.
Given that many of the people assaulted by the police appear to be keen on keeping a low profile I think it's fairly obvious that the person publishing the list of names above is hostile to them.
The only positive outcome from this type of thing is that it's likely to bond "the left" together as it becomes more obvious that anti-democratic elements are at work.
like this should be not made anonomously, i would tend to discount them. Possibly more could be done but the article writer doesn't seem to want to do anything him/herself but simply blame others for not doing so. Anyone who went to that march should have known there was some risk and a certain amount of personal responsibility has to be taken. (and probably has),
It was apparently suggested on a previous thread on a this topic that I had some axe to grind with the DGN/legal support re RTS 2002, and I am the one engaged in this activity.
I'm not in a position to really comment about Mayday 2004, but I have a fair idea the solid work several people have done to support those arrested (and on an aside re reading the thread the suggestion that I was having a go at chekov for doing what I'm famous for "media whoring" would be just a tad hyprocritical, and I hope he takes that in the tongue in cheek way I coined the term)
Onto mayday 2002, i still get occasional contact from members of DGN/RTS who have asked me to help provide solicitors for accused copies of footage. They've not forgot this, and I know this, and I did not decide to fling mud anonymously, I know many of these people if I thought they could do more I would let them know. I know they contact me, as soon as someone contacts them and they're doing all they can.
So sorry to hijack this, just wanted to set the record straight.
So from what I'm reading here, it seems like this is the same person who has been continuing with the same theme of lack of prisoner support. Yes? So far we have established, that they are a member of the labour party and do have some sort of a personal problem due to the fact that they have been arrested in the past. Yes? Their previous pieces have attempted to attack DGN, but these having been subsequently disproved they have decided to attack what they perceive as the "weaker" target, the "autonomous anarchists" (not that they haven't hinted at this in other pieces on the wombles and prisoner support, this having also been disproved). Yes? This person is also trying to create some sort of false divide between the supposed "organised" and "non-organised" anarchists when this quite clearly isn't the case. Yes?
Just looking for some clarification.
Also, in the previous pieces invitations to this anonymous indymedia contributor have been extended to come forward and again for the certain death vegan cafe/G8 discussion this sunday. We wait with bated breath ...
Is this another person or the same?
more complete nonsense, its worrying to think that some people can gleam such cynical view from their experiences...
even if half this stuff were true, what purpose does bitching on the internet serve, why not spend your time more constructively doing something like ORAGANISING A BENEFIT YOURSELF INSTEAD OF CONSTANTLY FUCKING MOANING.
"So from what I'm reading here, it seems like this is the same person who has been continuing with the same theme of lack of prisoner support. Yes? So far we have established, that they are a member of the labour party and do have some sort of a personal problem due to the fact that they have been arrested in the past. Yes? "
Personally i reckon Gill x is R. Think the person you're referring to was No.6. there was a theory that they were in the Labour p Party but i haven't seen anything near concrete.
And to be honest I don't think there's much point speculating.
Hey Gill, I personally loved the benefit you put on yourself to raise awareness and money for these issues...wait, what benefit? Always so easy to sit at the sidelines and dissect and snipe at what everyone else does but never willing to take a step in the direction you want things go yourself...except for posting on internet messageboards. Everyone knows your type.
There's always a million more issues to be dealt with, documented, had funds raised for etc than any one group or person can do themselves. You seem to be forgetting that we're humans too and if you tried to take the weight of all these issues on your shoulders you will only fall. So people do what they can, and then others just knock them down for it rather than make a positive contribution of their own.
Pissed off ex-idealist or just some right-wing snot looking to raise dissent? Whichever you are, your contribution is equally irrelevant.
pointless, anonymous moany badly researched rubbish, you havent a clue eg benefit in dalymount was organised not by anyone from leeson street or the warehouse but by a bohs fan but anyway.
please give details Gillx of events you have organised for the above and amount raised?
please give details of events you have planned for coming period?
Well seeing as 'Gill X' didn't turn up at the dissent meeting just as 'r' didn't turn up at any DGN meeting it is almost certainly safe enough to assume neither exist. Quite who would stand to gain by attempting (unsuccesfully) to sow division in this manner is left as an exercise for the reader. Personally I hope its a cop or a right winger rather than any of the more sectarian possibilities.
Wasn't there some Labour Youth guy stirring identical shit recently?
Consider that whoever posted this (and who presumably posted previous threads on the issue too):
1. Has a complete list to hand of all the people arrested on Mayday and a total of their fines to date. It would take quite a bit of research to compile this, and, as Gill points out, the full list of names has not been in the public domain until now. From this it's clear that Gill is either in a position where such information is readily available, or she is seriously obsessed for some unknown reason.
2. Despite members of DGN having been in touch with all of the arrestees, it appears that none of them have voiced any such opinions, nor has anybody attended any anarchist meetings in the last year to raise such concerns.
3. Gill's familiarity with anarchists, with indymedia and with previous discussions of this very topic here mean that she knows full well that many of these people have expressly asked for no publicity for their cases. Thus, despite her pretence, she could not have the interests of the defendants at heart and this 'campaign' must be motivated by some axe that she has to grind with anarchists. This impression is strengthened by her use of crude and inaccurate stereotypes.
Given these facts, it is safe to assume that this criticism is sinister in nature. However, it is more difficult to figure out who is behind it. As I see it, there are three main suspects.
1. The branch. They were very active around Mayday and after all the 'help' that they received from their brethern across the water (media management, watercannons, intelligence and riot training...) they must be very keen to show their mentors that they are good pupils. They are very eager to do a good job in advance of the G8 meeting in Scotland in July and would love to be able to boast about sowing division among the Irish anarchists and preventing them from mobilising for Dissent - "and we used that interweb thing that you showed us sir!".
2. A lone, random embittered coward who hates anarchism in an obsessive way. Perhaps somebody who got arrested on some anarchist event and has shifted the blame on to anarchists in general, or else somebody who just doesn't like that sort of thing and is offended by the very notion of a life without bosses.
3. A trot. I really hope it isn't and it's probably an outside chance, but it's seldom that you find depths that they won't sink to.
Good article wow somebody cared ! I got my friggin elbow broken at the thing! Stupid cops even stupider anarachists! Had quite a massive chain reaction in my life! Was it faith I should of been their probably Id like to think so anyhow! Tiz amazing how the governmeant can take away your freedom and dignity in the drop of a batton! I had to sit on my hands and plead guilty I made the right choice Im sure could never figure out why none of the heros ever got arrested I got attacked and stood my ground although it has to be said if i hadnt been drunk I wouldnt have been there. Ha I just got out of rehab a week ago better food than cloverhill worse tv you win some you lose some just never forget who you are!