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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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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 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.
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offsite link 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.

offsite link 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.

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antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 16, 2004 11:27 by Davy Carlin   text 17 comments (last - friday november 19, 2004 12:27)
Dear Friends,

Attached is the final article written in large part as an activist within the SWP. It details, for the record my leaving the Belfast SWP as well as Part two of the ARN - now a Movement.. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday November 15, 2004 16:14 by Justin Moran   text 9 comments (last - friday november 19, 2004 15:44)
An unpublished feature article submitted to An Phoblacht dealing with the need to expand the democratic process in the 26 Counties in order to allow people to take ownership of pushing political change. read full story / add a comment
Archbishop Michael Desmond Hynes prepares to serve on the dusty alley in Tullyvin.
cavan / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday November 14, 2004 12:45 by Sean Crudden   text 3 comments (last - wednesday november 17, 2004 11:29)   image 2 images
Whither handball? Will the sport of handball, which was played in the Ancient Olympics and whose mother in the modern world is Ireland, bite the dust or will it live on in far-flung places around the world - including in The Cooley Peninsula? read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Saturday November 13, 2004 19:34 by john mcdermott   text 2 comments (last - sunday november 14, 2004 16:14)
Minister Martin O,Donoghue denounces those who promulgate Ireland as a rip off country-or Fianna Fail as a rip-off government.. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday November 13, 2004 18:19 by Zeev bin Natan   text 9 comments (last - sunday november 21, 2004 04:26)
There is need now to build a mass non-violent movement toward a single democratic non-national state, a “politics from below” for a sustainable just future for Israelis and Palestinians, forging bonds of ta'ayush (togetherness) in common struggle, the return of refugees in massive numbers – and inside Israel moving beyond apartheid ethnocracy and its oligarchy. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday November 11, 2004 16:53 by Israeli Socialist   text 14 comments (last - saturday november 20, 2004 23:16)
Many Palestinians will view the death of Yasser Arafat with a mixture of sadness and a wish that the Palestinian Authority he led, had done much more to end the poverty and oppression that blights their lives. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday November 11, 2004 16:47 by -   text 13 comments (last - wednesday november 17, 2004 21:50)
Below is a statement (10 November) Joe Higgins made in Dáil on the US forces’ bloody assault on Fullaja. It is followed with Joe’s exchange with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 10, 2004 23:16 by Ciaran Long   text 25 comments (last - friday november 24, 2006 19:03)
Thousands of drugs passed safe in animals have been withdrawn or banned due to their effect on human health. 95% of drugs passed by animal tests are immediately disgarded as useless or dangerous to humans. At least 450 different methods exist with which can replace animal experiments. So, why is animal testing still legal? read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 10, 2004 19:11 by hear bendover basil mcivor's dead   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 11, 2004 04:15)
School hounds pupil after he tells visiting President of East Timor , the school principal spends budget on flash luxury limos. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 10, 2004 19:09 by Ciaran Long   text 19 comments (last - tuesday december 21, 2004 19:25)
As we come into another Fox and Stag hunting season, I can't help but think back to the last season and wonder if the Board of Education have included Bloodsports in the school curriculum. I have regularly witnessed many children participating in hunts throughout the country, even though it was clearly not a public or a school holiday. Surely it would be more beneficial to a child's intellectual well-being to follow the same educational system that a normal well-adjusted child would follow in order to become a normal upstanding member of society in later life, rather than turning into the violent blood junkies that certain members of society have become? read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 10, 2004 00:50 by Elaine O'Sullivan   text 5 comments (last - thursday november 11, 2004 01:23)
We held a vigil for the dead at Shannon Airport on 31st October 04. This was promptly ignored or ridiculed by the mainstream media. We expected as much, water off a duck's back etc. However, I have taken exception to the misrepresentation of the purpose of our vigil by one periodical, The Limerick Leader. Below is the offending section of Editorial and my open letter in reply. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday November 08, 2004 21:57 by IRSP   text 21 comments (last - monday december 13, 2004 14:10)
On 6 November 1917 was the date of the Bolshevik Revolution. The Irish Republican Socialist Party recognizes this event as a watershed in human history and therefore pays tribute to the memory of the “ten days that shook the world”. read full story / add a comment
antrim / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday November 06, 2004 19:55 by Fuse   text 3 comments (last - tuesday november 09, 2004 16:41)
Has there ever been anything to vote for ? read full story / add a comment
o so pretty a building all that glitterss aint gold
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday November 05, 2004 17:57 by ipsiphi   text 11 comments (last - friday april 28, 2006 19:25)   image 2 images
President Bush of the USA has called for the full co-operation of Europeans in a wide range of issues, not least the shared commerce and trade which daily sees billions of $=€ cross the Deep Blue Sea and also including the War on Terror, which President Bush declared in the immediate aftermath of September 11 2001 in his first term.
Meanwhile Yasser Arafat the leader of the Palestinian people has spent a week in Percy Military Hospital in Paris, France where despite passing tests for cancer and many neurological illnesses, has this day entered into a level 4 coma. read full story / add a comment
louth / arts and media / opinion/analysis Friday November 05, 2004 16:45 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - friday november 05, 2004 17:21)
Platform 10 is the title of a new exhibition by Bridge Street Studios, Dundalk. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday November 05, 2004 11:05 by madge   text 51 comments (last - saturday june 04, 2005 20:05)
Senior Management in the NICS attempt to bully staff to prevent them exercising their democratic rights to protest. read full story / add a comment
antrim / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 03, 2004 11:06 by Davy Carlin   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 13, 2004 12:39)
Dear friends, last night saw a magnificent response by the local residents who came out at the corner of Violet Street, Falls Road, against attacks on Filipino Nurses. Three to four hundred people came out in a united stand against the attacks read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 02, 2004 21:21 by Rolf   text 54 comments (last - monday november 08, 2004 19:56)   image 2 images
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 02, 2004 01:21 by pc   text 5 comments (last - saturday november 06, 2004 21:34)
Decision to happen by the 16th December 2004. read full story / add a comment
dublin / summit mobilisations / opinion/analysis Monday November 01, 2004 10:45 by R   text 49 comments (last - thursday november 11, 2004 02:10)   image 1 image
Prisoner support is non existent in Dublin. read full story / add a comment
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