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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

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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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.

offsite link Trump hosts former head of Syrian Al-Qaeda Al-Jolani to the White House Tue Nov 11, 2025 22:01 | imc

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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

offsite link The Golden Haro Fri Oct 31, 2025 12:39 | Paul Ryan

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offsite link News Round-Up Tue Nov 18, 2025 01:47 | Jonathan Barr
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 The Doomed Attempt to Create Academic Journals That Nobody Pays For Mon Nov 17, 2025 19:46 | Dr Roger Watson
Is the academic publishing industry facing ruin from open access journals? Not likely, says Prof Roger Watson. There are some pretty fundamental problems with trying to run a journal that nobody pays for.
The post The Doomed Attempt to Create Academic Journals That Nobody Pays For appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How I Found Myself in the Middle of ?Anti-Fascist? Violence at UC Berkeley Mon Nov 17, 2025 17:14 | Andrew Doyle
Andrew Doyle was warned there would be trouble when he appeared at UC Berkeley for what was intended to be the final stop on Charlie Kirk's tour. Sure enough, he soon found himself in the middle of 'anti-fascist' violence.
The post How I Found Myself in the Middle of ‘Anti-Fascist’ Violence at UC Berkeley appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Science Career Bias Against Women Debunked After Study is Repeated Mon Nov 17, 2025 15:12 | Will Jones
A landmark study that claimed men enjoy an unfair advantage in scientific careers has been debunked after a nearly identical rerun of the experiment finds the opposite is true: it's women who have the unfair advantage.
The post Science Career Bias Against Women Debunked After Study is Repeated appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Are Economically Literate Americans More Right-Wing? Mon Nov 17, 2025 13:00 | Noah Carl
Two academics gave a test of economic literacy to a representative sample of Americans. Men scored higher than women, the old scored higher than the young, and Republicans scored higher than Democrats.
The post Are Economically Literate Americans More Right-Wing? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 16, 2006 08:25 by Brian Covert / Independent Journalist
As the three-year mark of the U.S. invasion of Iraq nears, Makoto Oda, one of Japan's most prominent authors and anti-war activists in the last half-century, looks back on wars of the past....and ahead to the path toward peace in the future. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / news report Thursday March 16, 2006 01:23 by Athenian   text 1 comment (last - thursday march 16, 2006 11:21)
Greek general strike on 15th March led to the following read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / press release Wednesday March 15, 2006 20:53 by John Meehan   text 2 comments (last - thursday march 16, 2006 06:48)
In view of the Bush Administration's brutal illegal and inhumane war against Iraq, we the undersigned call on the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, other Irish politicians and Government representatives, not to meet with President Bush in the United States over the coming Saint Patrick's Day events.

Shannon Airport should no longer be used to ferry American troops back and forward to Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 15, 2006 19:29 by MichaelY   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 15, 2006 19:59)
As the Israeli Army attacks, the streets are burning in Milan, French Universities are occupied, Paris reminisces of '68 and the US Senate will discuss impeaching Bush. Is Spring on the way? read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday March 15, 2006 18:26 by Terence
The World Socialist Website (WSWS) has published a 3 part series of articles titiled:
"The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class". It is an interesting analysis of the current state of capitalism in Europe read full story / add a comment
tyrone / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday March 15, 2006 16:04 by Ógra B
Their will be a launch of a new Sinn Fein Cumann in Killyclogher, Co Tyrone.

It is named the Murray/Mc Aleer Cumann in memory of local Vol Kevin Murray (killed in action in Dungannon on 15 March 1974) and my Barney Mc Aleer who was the cllr for the area before his son Declan stood in his place last May. He passed away in Sept 2005.

There will be a public launch and social evening at the Dun Uladh Centre in Killyclogher on Friday 24
March, commencing at 8.30pm. The format is rather open and involves a few words from Declan McAleer and Barry Mc Elduff and an address by Pat Doherty MP. read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 15, 2006 15:12 by Muireann Ni Bhrolchain
Anyone who can, would they carry a SAVE TARA banner at their Patrick's Day parade or whatever event is being held in their town or city? Here or abroad?

Two Latin biographies of Patrick appear in the seventh century and
it is no accident that his major confrontation with druidry and
paganism happens at Tara the main pre-Christian site in Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 15, 2006 15:04 by nano
It should now be apparent to all that the usual strategies have proven ineffective against the ultra-right of today. The reasons are clear; the right is playing hard, fast and bold while the opposition is lost in analysis and navel gazing. ‘Storming the Bastille’ may again be required to precipitate change. Demos, alternative media, various forms of dissenting propaganda have all failed to alter the course of events. It would seem that while one side is playing hardball (for keeps) the other is content to fossick on the shores of world-shaping politics. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 15, 2006 14:59 by reader   text 1 comment (last - friday march 17, 2006 03:09)
After three years since the start of the Iraq, where is the US in this project? To answer that we have to look at why the war was launched and what the neocon elite in Washington wants. Their aim is very simple, and very hard to achieve – control of the world order. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Wednesday March 15, 2006 13:45 by Save Our Seafront
Save Our Seafront is hosting a conference on Dublin Bay - Protecting Our Coastal Environment & Public Amenities
Debating the Privatisation, Public-Private Partnership, Public Funding options of public amenities
Campaigners sharing their experiences & the Question of Public Consultation
Discussing the Future for Dublin Bay - Environment and Heritage
A Question and Answer Session with representatives from political parties
Campaigning Strategy and Tactics: How can we win? read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 15, 2006 12:19 by John Byrne   text 28 comments (last - sunday march 19, 2006 16:13)
"No one now disputes that stopping Slobodan Milosevic was the right thing to do,” wrote the Wall Street Journal this week, several days after the deposed Serbian strongman expired in his cell in the Hague. It’s an appealing sentiment, suggesting as it does that the man who presided over the deaths of 250,000 people in Yugoslavia in the 1990s died unsung and unmourned. In reality, however, even Slobodan Milosevic had his defenders. What is more, they are the same voices--largely on the far Left but also on the isolationist Right--who have now taken up the cause of Saddam Hussein. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday March 15, 2006 11:37 by Lorca
Labour LGBT Fundraising Table Quiz in aid of KAL Case

Labour LGBT is organising a fundraising table quiz on Wednesday 15th March @ 8pm in the Front Lounge, Parnell St Dublin 2.

Tables will be 40 EUR for a table of 4

The funds raised on the night will go to the KAL Initiative (see www.kalcase.org ), an advocacy and fundraising group set up to assist Katherine Zappone and Anne-Louise Gilligan with their high court case to have their Canadian marriage recognised.

The quiz is being hosted by Neil Watkins
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 15, 2006 10:51 by posted by Global Women's Strike Ireland   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 15, 2006 11:49)
Mehmet Tarhan, gay Kurdish conscientious objector, was released from military prison on 9 March. The highest military court of appeal in Turkey (the Military Court of Cassation) ruled that he had been punished enough for his “crime”. His crime was refusing to kill... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 15, 2006 09:41 by Xinhua   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 15, 2006 12:08)
The Alternative Social Forum said that the real reason the U.S. army is present in the region is to control, dominate and interfere in the Dominican Republic's politics.
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dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Wednesday March 15, 2006 03:39 by Danny Feinstein   text 10 comments (last - friday march 17, 2006 12:53)
Jericho was a Canaanite city destroyed by the Israelites after they crossed the Jordan into the Promised Land; its walls were flattened by the shout of the army and the blast of trumpets.
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national / miscellaneous / press release Wednesday March 15, 2006 00:57 by M. Ni Bhrolchain
As most of the Government leaves Ireland to sell the Emerald Isle to countries abroad will they also tell those countries they are visiting that the island will soon be covered in concrete, apartments and motorways? That the Green and Emerald Isle is quickly becoming the Concrete Isle? read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday March 14, 2006 21:38 by Karen Murphy   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 15, 2006 03:42)
Pakistani national, Khalid Mehmood Rashid and his house mate, Indian born Moulana Mohammed Ali Jeebhai, were abducted by heavily armed police and Home Affairs officials on the 31st of October last year and locked up at an unknown place thought to be in Cullinan outside Pretoria, South Africa.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday March 14, 2006 21:16 by Cohlien Oh-Aissieux   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 14, 2006 21:36)
In an article published on Sunday 12 March, The Chicago Tribune disclosed that it had discovered the identities of "more than 2,600 CIA employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers and the locations of some two dozen secret CIA facilities around the United States."

Some of those exposed were supposedly secret agents, but the information was freely available on searching in an online database accessed on paying a subscription.

Searching aviation databases for flights landing or taking off from the small airstrip at the CIA's training facility at Camp Peary revealed 17 aircraft whose ownership and flight histories could also be traced.

Unfortunately, the Trib has not published details of just how it found the classified information.

Please read the full article below - reproduced in full so as to ensure free and full access under principles of fair use. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / press release Tuesday March 14, 2006 20:29 by Allison H   text 4 comments (last - thursday march 16, 2006 04:18)
For Immediate Release:
14 March 2006

Contact:
John Carmody 087-6275579

Dublin, Ireland - Lying naked in flower-decorated coffins, PETA members will be on display on Friday to remind consumers that an addiction to poultry could lead to a bird flu pandemic. Activists will carry placards reading, "Bird Flu Kills: Go Vegetarian":

Date: Wednesday, 15 March
Time: 12 noon sharp
Place: Henry Street, (Opposite Spire)
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national / environment / event notice Tuesday March 14, 2006 19:27 by c murray
12pm at the Baronstown 1 site. We will meet up at the junction to the hill a little earlier , for anyone who does not know their way. read full story / add a comment
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