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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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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.
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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.
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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 / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday October 31, 2004 23:13 by fascists out   text 14 comments (last - wednesday november 03, 2004 23:44)
With up to 3 racist attacks carried out a day in northern ireland, the ARN had organised a rally to highlight the probelm. The south belfast area which has the highest number of racist attacks, the anti racism contigent set off from shaftsbury sq at 1.00pm, with about 25 marchers, the police said we could not march unless under Parade commission rules we had stewards to protect the marchers and maintain order. read full story / add a comment
galway / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday October 31, 2004 15:02 by Derrick Hambleton
Article detailing the public transport alternative to car orientated city development read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Saturday October 30, 2004 15:28 by Sean Crudden   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 31, 2004 02:21)
Is the dance of the seven veils beginning to end where the attitude of The Irish government is concerned towards the present world (dis)order? read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / opinion/analysis Friday October 29, 2004 12:09 by Michael Hennigan   text 9 comments (last - tuesday november 16, 2004 19:07)
'The Irish poet Brendan Kennelly once described Bewley's Café in Grafton Street as the 'heart and the hearth of Dublin'. Dublin, he said, would not be Dublin without Bewley's. These sentiments have been echoed by generations of Irish people since Joshua Bewley first introduced tea to the Irish public in 1835.

Bewley's is a name synonymous in the history of Dublin and more recently of Ireland as a whole. Bewley's itself has a rich history of growth and survival which has proved it to be one of the last bastions of tradition in a changing Ireland.' read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Thursday October 28, 2004 00:37 by never trust the rich   text 10 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2004 04:51)
For as long as time immemorial, the greedy rich, have been waging war against the poor/working class/peasants, all over the world.

From the shanty towns of africa, to the slums of brazil and sprawling run down council estates of the developed world. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 27, 2004 23:51 by Michael Hennigan   text 3 comments (last - monday november 15, 2004 17:12)
Some years ago, when I worked in a Swedish multinational, it issued a communication from HQ which read: 'Mr. X has asked to be relieved of his position as President of Y Division (the biggest in the group)..We wish Mr. X well in his future career.'

Mr. X of course go a pay-off to keep his trap shut and agree to a 2 yr non-compete clause. He was soon forgotten and the usual self-serving tripe about 'Group culture' continued to be peddled as if nothing had happened. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Saturday October 23, 2004 16:44 by Michael Hennigan   text 9 comments (last - wednesday october 27, 2004 22:25)
More than a decade ago, Leona Helmsley*, New York’s ‘Queen of Mean’ famously said that ‘only the little people pay taxes.’ She could have been talking about Ireland and yesterday’s announcement that 11 millionaires paid zero tax legally, can only add to the perception of inequity in our society. read full story / add a comment
mayo / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday October 23, 2004 02:57 by Keith Martin   text 3 comments (last - tuesday november 02, 2004 01:37)
Cllr Keith Martin, an Independent Cllr on Westport Town council says it is time to "get real" about industrial jobs in the town. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2004 20:53 by Nina Ni Cheallaigh   text 12 comments (last - friday october 22, 2004 12:37)
Intimidation and racism in Dunsink read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 20, 2004 13:55 by James O'Brien   text 62 comments (last - tuesday november 15, 2005 21:00)   image 2 images
This is the text of the talk I gave a couple of weeks back at the Irish Social Forum. A number of workshops were merged into that one, the SWP had requested one on the Party and the Anti-Capitalist movment, ourselves on anarchism, and somebody else on alliances, fronts and left organisations. So this talk concentrated on introducing anarchist ideas on and left it up to the discussion from the floor afterwards to see where things went. Kieran Allen of the SWP and Dermot Connelly formerly of the Socialist Party spoke from a Marxist-Leninist viewpoint.
Thanks to all the people in the ISF for putting the work in to make the weekend, at least, possible. read full story / add a comment
antrim / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday October 17, 2004 00:38 by skafrican   text 3 comments (last - tuesday october 19, 2004 07:51)
Racists blocking internet information about veteran two tone ska gigs.

Both Neville Staples/The Beat were due to play Belfast recently, both are Touring Ireland but no information about their gigs was available on the internet or even at the venues they were supposed to be playing at. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Friday October 15, 2004 06:31 by Black commentator
"...And now the de facto Prime Minister [Gerard Latortue] has said he is going to sign a contract with the former military to kill us one by one. In a secret meeting he had with the Minister of justice, a friend inside heard Latortue estimate that it would be necessary to kill 25,000 people in the capital, in the capital alone to stop the calls for the return of President Aristide." read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday October 14, 2004 23:40 by Michael Hennigan   text 20 comments (last - thursday october 21, 2004 16:05)
There is a significant minority who oppose non-white immigrants. The asylum system shambles is used by some to paint immigrants on work permits as spongers. read full story / add a comment
Ashrawi & O'Keefe
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday October 14, 2004 19:47 by Ken O'Keefe   image 1 image
Justice for Palestine read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday October 14, 2004 16:27 by Akrasia   text 114 comments (last - sunday october 31, 2004 05:37)   image 1 image
This is a call for meaningfull debate amongst the left in Ireland regarding anti fascist campaigning in Ireland read full story / add a comment
Teddy Roosevelt with His Rough Riders in Cuba
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday October 14, 2004 03:48 by James F. Harrington   text 10 comments (last - saturday october 23, 2004 13:16)   image 1 image
Open letter to my grandfather, Austin A. O’Malley, who I never really got to know, as he died when I was only four years old. He came over to the United States from his native country, Ireland around 1889, as a little boy of eleven years.

Like many other Irishmen from Louisburg, County Mayo, he settled in Clinton, Massachusetts.
I know that he worked there for a baker for awhile untill the Spanish American War broke out.

I also know that he was in and out of the Veteran’s Hospital all through his life. I also know that he liked to drink at bars in South Boston, sometimes with his dog beside him. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 12, 2004 14:54 by Jack White   text 7 comments (last - wednesday october 13, 2004 22:10)   image 1 image
This October the Jane's “Less Lethal Weapons Conference” is taking place in The Berkeley Court Hotel, Ballsbridge on Tuesday 19th and Wednesday 20th of October. read full story / add a comment
Talk in Teachers Club Dublin 1 October 15 at 8pm
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday October 12, 2004 09:55 by Niall Meehan   text 118 comments (last - wednesday july 20, 2005 18:52)   image 2 images
Before departing for the US as EU Ambassador John Bruton questioned the War of Independence that saw the emergence of his party and that eventually paved the way to his becoming Taoiseach.

He effectively disowned his Fine Gael Party and claimed allegiance to the defunct Irish Parliamentary or Home Rule Party that had failed to secure a subsidiary Irish parliament under the Crown. He said that having southern MPs in Westminster would have tempered British policy, seeming to forget that it had little impact on what Professor Roy Foster once called the famine “holocaust”. Indeed Bruton admitted that it resulted in the slaughter of many of the thousands of Irishmen who followed John Redmond’s lead in the First World War, as Redmond was “obliged to support imperial policy”. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday October 11, 2004 21:57 by Alois Vincenzo   text 22 comments (last - wednesday october 20, 2004 11:16)   image 15 images
An article on the experiences of a handful of activists from Ireland's libertarian left in Palestine this summer. A belated personal account, some of which subject matter has been reported on this site as it happened by one of the other participants. See links below. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Monday October 11, 2004 20:27 by Michael Hennigan
Michael McDowell has ministerial responsibility for the Equality Authority but for the second time in months, he has shown his contempt for it. read full story / add a comment
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