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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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offsite link 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.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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Prof Liviu Librescu
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 19:11 by Obit   text 3 comments (last - thursday april 19, 2007 02:30)   image 1 image
Professor Librescu was a 75 year old professor in Virginia Tech.
He lectured for twenty years in solid fuel mechanics.
He chaired the International organising Committee of the 6th international
congress on thermal stresses in 2005.

He will be buried in Ru'anna ,Israel on Wednesday read full story / add a comment
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international / housing / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 18:32 by La Plataforma   image 1 image
A group of activists from the "8 de Marzo" collective squattered the old wedding hall "Milano". One week later, and one hour before starting a neigbourhood afternoon snack organized for the neighbours and local people as a part of the "presentation working days", the police sealed the building and started a pressure campaign trying to nip the project in the bud before it could grow. read full story / add a comment
Gardaí stand watch over trucks moving surface peat from the site of the propesed refinery
mayo / environment / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 12:33 by IT Reader   text 47 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 13:15)   image 3 images
The oral hearing in Belmullet continues, with questions still unanswered about the large Garda presence in the hotel where the hearing is taking place, and then, the surprise revelation that the consultation process carried out by Shell and Mayo County Council on the subject of "cold-venting" did not include actually consulting with anyone who lives near the proposed refinery.

Mayo County Council are still not attending the hearing.

"Cold-venting" is when you release gas directly into the environment, rather than burning it off, which is called "flaring". read full story / add a comment
Rosette Nebula
international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 11:52 by C Murray   text 2 comments (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 18:37)   image 2 images
The images and story about the Rosette Nebula are in today's Guardian
and include all the technical language regarding the birth of stars.
[including the Bok Globules]

The images are very arresting and only published in black and white
in the dailies.

A bit of the science :-" The image the most detailed taken , reveals the red
glow of hydrogen in the Rosette nebula, a vast cloud of cosmic detritus
left over from dying stars and cataclysmic explosions drifting in space
4,500 light years from earth...." read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 11:43 by Christopher Isherwood   text 19 comments (last - wednesday april 18, 2007 16:47)   image 2 images
An in-depth survey into the attitudes of Muslims living in London has revealed that less than 5% thought homosexual acts are "acceptable," compared with over 65% of the general population

The Gallup poll, reported in The Times, found that Muslims differed significantly with the rest of the capital's population in their attitudes to a range of social questions.

More than 80% of the public think sex outside marriage is acceptable, with only 10% of Muslims agreeing.
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 10:30 by pat c
The diary entries below give just a taste of the trials and tribulations endurded on a daily basis by the staff of the National Archives and Library in Iraq. In March 2007 2 members of staff were kidnapped, 1 had a son killed, 2 had relatives kidnapped, 2 received death threats and 4 were forced to leave their homes.

Full diaries at the link.

Diary by Saad Eskander, Director of the National Archives and Library in Iraq, Saad Eskander, Director of the National Archives and Library, has generously agreed to share an account of his day-to-day life in Iraq.

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Nagasaki's anti-Yakuza Ito Itcho Mayor Killed by Suishin Kai (Yamaguchi Gumi)
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday April 18, 2007 02:25 by blonde haired bar worker   text 4 comments (last - saturday november 03, 2007 11:55)   image 4 images
The mayor of Nagasaki city in Japan made popular by the role it played Nuclear weapon development & Global Psychological Warfare suffered serious injuries in the last 24 hours when he was shot twice by Tetsuya Shiroo a 59 year old member of the Suishin Kai branch of the Yamaguchi Gumi.

A very well known and feared Yakuza clan.

as seen in movies like Kill Bill and Kill Bill (2).
Itcho Ito had campaiging for re-election on an anti-yakuza platform; all types of yakuza, suishin kai, yamaguchi gumi, non-yamaguchi gumi. This would have been at root, branch and clan level. The Japanese a usually stoic and reserved people see no immediate threat to their institutions or democracy. The emperor is safe. read full story / add a comment
Protests against Bellanaboy refinery last week
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday April 17, 2007 14:02 by Shell to Sea   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 17, 2007 21:17)   image 1 image
Concerns expressed about Shell's record on environmental destruction.

Fishermen troubled by outfall.

Many say that EPA hearing is a "rubber stamp" process.

Cops cram the hotel where inquiry to be held.

Translators provided are for the benefit of English speakers who need Irish translated, English used throughout.

Article from Mayo News below read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / other press Tuesday April 17, 2007 13:02 by Cedar
Story on the Cedar Lounge about new Statoil surveying off the coast of Mayo in an area four times the size of the existing Corrib field.

http://cedarlounge.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/cheap-gas-f...ssue/ read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday April 17, 2007 03:08 by Kingfisher
The Prime Minister of Australia claimed today that he would contest the forthcoming Federal election as the underdog – another tired (and familiar) Howard tactic! The failing politician failed to mention that it was he who created the situation with his inane, ill-considered comments ranging from his hysterical criticisms of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama, as the terrorist friendly candidate, to his astounding comments on HIV and immigration bans. read full story / add a comment
More scenes like this if onshore refinering is planned
national / environment / other press Sunday April 15, 2007 22:50 by Tribune reader   text 1 comment (last - tuesday april 17, 2007 20:02)   image 1 image
Lots of people have been concerned that the Bellanaboy Refinery Site is as big as it is.

400 acres for an installation that the world's frendliest company tell us will only occupy about 20.

So what's the story?

Others tell us that the government can't get involved in the oil and gas business (as the Norwegians did) because just isn't enough oil and gas out there.

But what's this in todays business section of the Sunday Tribune? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday April 15, 2007 16:32 by Kwang zi
The current population of East Timor is approximately one million souls while the value of its natural gas and oil reserves amount to billions of dollars. However, the tiny new island nation is impoverished with above 35% unemployment and a rural based economy. Without elaborating further, Timor-Leste presents an extremely volatile situation as greedy interests, primarily America via its ‘World’ Bank and Australia-New Zealand acting as the military arm, poise themselves to exploit the impoverished people and nation of Timor-Leste. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday April 14, 2007 23:07 by Zezta LA
"We Will Come and Stay With You, Without Guns, Only With Our Words" Zapatista Comandantes Arrive at Mexico-US Border

By Brenda Norrell
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
April 11, 2007 read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous / other press Saturday April 14, 2007 12:15 by Mayo/M
1. Just a short upade there are people still inside the refinery site.
2. 14 Women entered site yesterday were in site for 9 hours MANY pics and coverage to follow... too busy to get uploads to I media.
3. Heavy guarda presence ... there everywhere today read full story / add a comment
Alan Johnston.
international / crime and justice / other press Friday April 13, 2007 21:11 by C Murray   text 16 comments (last - sunday november 18, 2007 14:27)   image 7 images


Alan Johnston was kidnapped in Gaza on the 12th March 2007,
making him, at this point the longest held foreign Journalist
in the region.

Links are at ;-

http://www.cpj.org
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6548237 read full story / add a comment
Eoin Ó Broin
national / miscellaneous / other press Friday April 13, 2007 19:00 by Eoin Ó Broin   text 16 comments (last - tuesday april 17, 2007 23:14)   image 1 image
Writing in this weeks An Phoblacht, Sinn Féin's Director of European Affairs and Candidate for Dún Laoghaire Eoin Ó Broin argues that its time for a debate about 'post-conflict' politics. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Friday April 13, 2007 18:09 by Terence
There is a new article over on the oildrum.com website about: Peak Oil and Senegal. The author of the piece recently visited the country for himself and noted that they generate about 75% of their electricity by burning oil. This makes them very vulnerable to price increases since they are a relatively poor country and will have difficultly affording it.

This story is interesting because it is probably a relatively good model of how Peak Oil will affect much of the Third World. read full story / add a comment
international / racism & migration related issues / other press Friday April 13, 2007 11:29 by nano   text 5 comments (last - saturday april 14, 2007 00:43)
The grotesque and disgusting, pathological, lying coward Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard is cutting a comical figure as he flounders from one gaffe and blunder to another. Jumping straight from the ‘cubicle’ of support for a known racist and questionable character (Alan Jones) to the primitive, superstitious behaviour of stigmatising individuals suffering manageable maladies and preventing them from entering the country. Howard’s recent gesture of banning individuals with HIV is reminiscent of the all-male, ruling priest class of the Old Testament who banished women experiencing their menstrual cycle. Menstruating women once struck fear into the hearts of ignorant and primitive men – the primitivism of it all! Howard is exposing some extremely disturbing gender issues and phobias with his latest unenlightened attempt to manipulate Australian society. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Friday April 13, 2007 05:26 by barra
One could almost feel sorry for highflying, right wing, media types who derive a living from exploiting the lowest aspects of human nature. But there is ‘no love lost’ around here and I imagine anywhere else. Media moguls are getting a taste of life at the receiving end, perhaps they may think twice before making IRRESPONSIBLE racist, vilifying comments at the expense of those in the least position to defend themselves. The results of negative media hype and racist remarks include foul abuse levelled at you, your wife and kids in public; being spat on for no reason other than your skin colour or religion, and the ugly culmination of all racist behaviour, the race riot (Cronulla, 2005). Are we sorry the purveyors of social division and slur are experiencing frustration at the lack of recourse and remedial action available to them – not on your life? read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday April 12, 2007 16:24 by Cormac Ryan PRO éirígí   image 1 image
John Monaghan provides an insight into the ongoing campaign. read full story / add a comment
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