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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 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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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.

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

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offsite link The Daily Sceptic Christmas Appeal Thu Dec 25, 2025 07:00 | Toby Young
The Daily Sceptic's Christmas Appeal is an opportunity for readers to show their appreciation of the work we do. Remember, donating just ?5/month or ?50/year will give you access to a range of premium perks.
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offsite link News Round-Up Thu Dec 25, 2025 01:03 | 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 The Strange Death of Knowing Stuff Wed Dec 24, 2025 19:00 | Dave Summers
In his Sixth Form Christmas quiz this year, none of Dave Summers's students could name the author of To Kill a Mockingbird ? previously one of the easy questions. Another sign that wokery is dissolving our culture.
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offsite link Will Labour Ban Christmas Carols Next? Wed Dec 24, 2025 17:00 | Julian Mann
If Christmas songs fall foul of Labour's 'banter ban', Christmas carols ? with their 'offensive' assertions of the divinity of Christ that are deemed blasphemous by Islam ? are even more likely to, says Julian Mann.
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offsite link Starmer to Push Britain into Stricter Net Zero Targets Under EU Deal Wed Dec 24, 2025 15:26 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer is preparing to tie Britain to the EU's Net Zero plans in a move that would impose radically stricter 'green' energy targets on homes and businesses, leading to further deindustrialisation and impoverishment.
The post Starmer to Push Britain into Stricter Net Zero Targets Under EU Deal appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 08, 2004 21:09 by ipsiphi
The Catalonia prize is rather like a stepping stone to a Nobel or at least a comiseration, in international prize land, it's like the Irish Order of Constantine and St George that Bertie got, except much better. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday September 08, 2004 19:10 by pat c
Lalo Delgado, Chicano poet and activist, was born on November 27, 1930. He died of liver cancer on July 23, 2004.

Aberlado (Lalo) Delgado was the father of Chicano literature and a pioneer of the Hispanic cultural identity in North America. A poet and an activist, his words commented on segregation, closed doors in education, casual racism and exploitation within the labour market. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday September 08, 2004 18:04 by Aziz
A new collaborative website to support struggles against bilateral free trade and investment agreements has been launched at www.bilaterals.org read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday September 08, 2004 16:52 by pat c
THE WACO RE-ENACTMENT

The ICA Thurs 16 September, Meet in Foyer at 7pm for Coaches
**Please** book in advance!

Artist Rod Dickinson will reconstruct the FBI's covert psychological warfare assault on the infamous Branch Davidian religious community in Waco, Texas, at a secret, remote location close to London, on Thursday 16 September. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Wednesday September 08, 2004 15:15 by Peter
[snip]
A philosophical difference over whether Greens should vote Democratic in November is at least partly to blame for a split among Greens in the traditional stronghold of Boulder, putting an end to local monthly meetings and leaving the chapter's Web site inactive.
[snip] read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / other press Wednesday September 08, 2004 15:00 by Peter
As if the Green Party hasn't had enough to deal with these days, now this. On August 24, Liz Trojan, the Co-chair of the Pacific Green Party stepped down from her post and exited the Party altogether. Only six days later her fellow co-chair, Jeff Strang abandoned his co-chair position but remained a member of the Party. The two are furious over a recent incident in which an Oregon Green candidate for the House of Representatives, Teresa Keane, switched races and decided to run for US Senate instead.

It sounds frivolous enough. But Trojan and Strang claim that Party by-laws were broken in the process, undermining Green ethics.
(continues)

http://www.counterpunch.org/frank09072004.html read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 08, 2004 12:40 by Where's the peace?
CBS news carries the following - the link takes you through to their report. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 08, 2004 00:42 by Ali G.
According to an-ex Muslim woman (now under threat of death for apostasy), the Palestinians have led themselves up the garden path. They consistently choose the path of violence when there are alternatives. read full story / add a comment
Lt. Commander Scott Zellem Died for a Lie.
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday September 07, 2004 21:06 by redjade   text 8 comments (last - wednesday september 29, 2004 19:58)   image 1 image
international / politics / elections / other press Tuesday September 07, 2004 20:10 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - saturday september 11, 2004 21:09)
Slashdot, the original and largest web-based discussion forum noted for it's advocacy of GNU/Linux as an operating system and its hundreds of thousands of rabid URI clickers has added a discussion section for politics. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Tuesday September 07, 2004 19:56 by paulc
Mr Dunne admitted he was disappointed with the decision but insisted the action was never taken to block the M50 motorway but as a protest against the Government’s “anti-heritage legislation“.

His spokesman added: “Many of us are close to financial ruin because of these court actions. But we feel good about what we have done and we feel the Irish people will understand.”

Mr Dunne said he was now focusing his attention on plans to build a section of the M3 motorway close to the Hill of Tara in Co Meath. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday September 07, 2004 06:07 by Pip Wilson   text 5 comments (last - friday september 10, 2004 14:53)
Wikipedia for social change read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Tuesday September 07, 2004 01:31 by cathbad
Project censored has released their annual listing of what they reckon are the top 25 stories of the last year which been largely ignored by the corporate media. http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2005/index.html read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday September 06, 2004 23:40 by paulc
“It is now vital that Washington introduces legislation to regularise the 50,000 plus undocumented Irish emigrants currently living in the US. Otherwise, many will be forced to leave the country or will find themselves unable to return home again for many years to come. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Monday September 06, 2004 07:30 by iosaf
Iraqi authorities assisted by the US arrested close to 500 people. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday September 05, 2004 16:55 by *
In this issue:

1. Cross-regional people's dialogues
2. New proposal for taxing corporations
3. New book: The Left in the City
4. Participatory budgeting in Uruguay
5. India - Pakistan relations
6. US Election Debates
7. Pinochet precedent
8. New from our fellows:
- David Sogge on the need to reform international aid
- Boris Kagarlitsky on terrorism in Russia
- Hilary Wainwright interviews New Left leader in Russia read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday September 05, 2004 14:21 by Michael Hennigan
Muslims worldwide are the main perpetrators of terrorism, a humiliating and painful truth that must be acknowledged, a prominent Arab writer and television executive wrote Saturday, as Middle East media and officials expressed horror at the bloody rebel siege of a Russian school. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday September 05, 2004 13:28 by James Petras
The Terror Experts existed before the Iraqi resistance and they will exist after it. Wherever the oppressed rise and effectively resist imperial rule there will be academic chairs, foundations grants and Centers for International Studies for the ambitious upwardly mobile Terror Expert. The Imperial state will demand their services, the prestigious Councils of Foreign Relations will offer membership and universities will reward them with distinguished professorships. They will be celebrities ­ the mass media talk shows will feature them. They will be far from the killing fields but their spirit will be there, on the front lines and in the torture chambers, guiding the hands that place the hoods over the unredeemable, nihilists, Muslims, Marxists or national patriots. read full story / add a comment
international / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Saturday September 04, 2004 19:56 by *
Arundhati Roy critiques the role of NGO's. She contextualises her discussion of NGOs by discussing what she sees as the dangers of the progressive NGOisation of the World Social Forum Movement. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Saturday September 04, 2004 19:36 by merrovinginvanjan   text 1 comment (last - wednesday september 15, 2004 19:27)
British Police yesterday launched a review of security after an intruder armed with a machete stormed the headquarters of MI5 and the Northern Ireland Office, wounding two security guards.
The man, in his 40s, is thought to have gone berserk after entering Thames House in central London, where both services are based. read full story / add a comment
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