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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 RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

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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 What Will it Mean in the Future to be English? Wed Nov 05, 2025 19:00 | Dr Nicholas Tate
With 'white British' set to be a minority in their homeland within 40 years, talk among many has turned to ethno-nationalism. Dr Nicholas Tate asks what the great French historian Ernest Renan would have to say about this.
The post What Will it Mean in the Future to be English? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Migrants Given Asylum Despite Being Accused of Sexual Offences, Whistleblower Says Wed Nov 05, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Migrants who have been accused of multiple sex offences and other crimes are being granted asylum anyway, a whistleblower has said, with targets incentivising caseworkers to approve claims.
The post Migrants Given Asylum Despite Being Accused of Sexual Offences, Whistleblower Says appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Fury as Algerian Migrant Sex Offender is Accidentally Released From Wandsworth Prison But Police Wer... Wed Nov 05, 2025 15:13 | Will Jones
Police have launched an urgent manhunt after an Algerian migrant prisoner was mistakenly freed from HMP Wandsworth amid fury that police weren't told for a week.
The post Fury as Algerian Migrant Sex Offender is Accidentally Released From Wandsworth Prison But Police Weren’t Told for a Week appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Driver ?Shouting Allahu Akbar? Ploughs Into Crowd on French Holiday Island Wed Nov 05, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
A driver "shouting Allahu Akbar" has ploughed his car into a crowd of pedestrians on a French holiday island leaving four people critically injured. Authorities said the attacker's motive has not been confirmed.
The post Driver “Shouting Allahu Akbar” Ploughs Into Crowd on French Holiday Island appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Socialist Zohran Mamdani Becomes First Muslim Mayor of New York Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:12 | Will Jones
Socialist Zohran Mamdani has been elected the first Muslim Mayor of?New York in a political?earthquake?that puts the far Left in charge of America's largest and wealthiest city.
The post Socialist Zohran Mamdani Becomes First Muslim Mayor of New York appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / anti-capitalism / press release Monday February 28, 2011 18:10 by John Cornford   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 01, 2011 16:44)
The UNITE trade union has called on Labour to resist the lure of coalition with Fine Gael and opt instead to lead a ‘game changing’ opposition coalition of the left.

“This election was about change,” said UNITE Regional Secretary Jimmy Kelly. “Part of the change was unequivocal; the removal of Fianna Fáil from power, but the rest is now in the hands of the Labour Party leadership.”

“The people did not vote for a Fine Gael overall majority. Their policies on privatisation, austerity and income cuts did not attract eno
ugh support and should not now be facilitated by the tired old fallback of coalition with Labour.” read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Monday February 28, 2011 15:17 by Swing O'Meter   text 19 comments (last - tuesday march 01, 2011 22:16)
While the United Left Alliance got five TDs elected, its percentage vote has actually fallen since the disastrous 2007 election. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Sunday February 27, 2011 13:06 by Paul McAndrew   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 27, 2011 13:24)
Cork Social Welfare Defenders
are having a fund-raising table quiz, on 10th March,
9pm, Sportsmans Arms, Bandon Road. (next to Lennox's chipper) read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 27, 2011 10:29 by AC   text 1 comment (last - sunday february 27, 2011 18:45)
international / environment / other press Sunday February 27, 2011 00:39 by Ragerman   text 6 comments (last - sunday march 06, 2011 20:20)
An open letter appeared on the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance founded and run by Judith McGeary to save family farms in the US. The letter, written by Don Huber, professor emeritus at Purdue University, to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, warns of a pathogen “new to science” discovered by “a team of senior plant and animal scientists”. Huber says it should be treated as an “emergency’’, as it could result in “a collapse of US soy and corn export markets and significant disruption of domestic food and feed supplies.”
This could be the worst nightmare of genetic engineering that some scientists have been warning for years:
the unintended creation of new pathogens through assisted horizontal gene transfer and recombination. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / news report Saturday February 26, 2011 04:26 by Adrian Boutureira
These were a series of tweets received earlier tonight (late night, early morning Egypt time) from activists that had been demonstrating against the government in Tahrir Square. The most disturbing thing as someone receiving and trying to report these, was the media blackout that came along with the attacks. Al Jazeera was MIA. It has been on Egypt for a while. The Egypt Live Blog has been dormid for days and is now actually not even found in AJ's blogs page. There were NO news networks there to report on these attacks. Hours later, AJ produced a report, this after we bombarded their Libya live blog with pleas for coverage.

This is what we received between and around the hours of 8 and 10 pm US Eastern time.

(Thanks to the comrades of APIC(APICONG) for putting these together. http://apicong.blogspot.com/)

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international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Saturday February 26, 2011 02:57 by john throne
The countries of the Middle east and North Africa are rising up and crushing their imperialist imposed stooge regimes. They are forcing their way into modern history. We are witnessing the changing of the world. If you are not celebrating then you have a serious flaw to your system. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday February 26, 2011 02:36 by J. C. Phelan
Something funky is going on with our water. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Friday February 25, 2011 21:09 by London Catholic Worker
Feb. 24th. -Associated Press Photo (Matt Dunham) - Catholic Workers Ciaron O'Reilly, left, and Roland Gianstefani, right, are removed by police and security officers after sitting in the road after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange departed after his extradition hearing at Belmarsh Magistrates' Court in London, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011.
http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20110224/img/pwl-britain-wik....html read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 25, 2011 19:23 by Moshé Machover
Moshé Machover writes on the Wikileaks revalations, the emerging Arab revolutions and his fears that Israel could launch an attack on Iran. Full article at link.

For nearly 50 years I have been talking and writing about the prospect of an Arab revolution and only last year I said that, while I am confident this is going to happen, “don’t hold your breath”. What has been taking place has been a nice dress rehearsal, but we can see that the Arab revolution is not such a distant prospect. It is difficult to exaggerate its significance - not only for the region, but also for the whole world and for human history.

It is against this background that I would like to discuss the Wikileaks revelations. One whole section of Wikileaks has to do with the Middle East, and specifically with Israel and Iran read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday February 25, 2011 18:56 by Yassamine Mather
For Immediate Publication.

On February 22, a one-day general strike against the Iranian regime closed down Kurdish towns and cities. In Mahabad anti-government protestors torched a truck belonging to the Revolutionary Guards, who opened fire, wounding at least four people. There are reports of demonstrations and protests from Bukan, Sardasht, Sanandaj, Saqez, Marivan, Kermanshah and Kamyaran. read full story / add a comment
mayo / animal rights / event notice Friday February 25, 2011 16:46 by Laura Broxson
This place is hell on earth for animals - it's time to shut it down! read full story / add a comment
dublin / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday February 24, 2011 19:22 by Peter Geoghegan   text 3 comments (last - saturday february 26, 2011 14:59)
Beyond the political and financial classes, Irish people’s response to the crisis has surprised many on the Left, especially in the UK. Looking to riots in Greece last year, and more tangentially, the revolts spreading like wildfire across the Middle East, why, they ask, has Ireland not been more restive? Why, with joblessness running at over 13% and 1,000 people emigrating every week, did it take two years, and the intervention of the IMF, for mass street protests to take place? Where is the anger, why has Yeats’s ‘passionate intensity’ been monopolized by Fine Gael, a party of the rural and middle classes? read full story / add a comment
national / history and heritage / event notice Thursday February 24, 2011 02:33 by Markievicz
Hungerstrike 30th Anniversary Exhibition & Function Sat 19th March Armagh City
30th Anniversary of the 1981 Hungerstrike

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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday February 23, 2011 17:04 by Ruairi
The Off the Street Literary-Visual installation, sited at the DIT Library, Kevin Street and exhibited as part of Library Ireland Week, will conclude with readings and maybe a Q and A. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday February 23, 2011 12:54 by Michael B
3pm - 5pm Opposite GPO, O'Connell Street, Dublin read full story / add a comment
mayo / miscellaneous / news report Wednesday February 23, 2011 11:56 by shelly
The weekend of 19th/20th February saw over 40 women and trans people and lots of children gathered at the Rossport Solidarity Camp house for a few days of workshops, discussions and skillsharing. read full story / add a comment
national / education / news report Tuesday February 22, 2011 21:43 by Mick
Today, the 22nd of February, the provisional university sent an open letter to the Provost of Trinity College demanding a space for student-managed teaching and research and denouncing the neo-liberalisation of the university. This is the first step in our campaign to reclaim a space to fight for education as a right and to take back the university. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday February 22, 2011 19:18 by Ruairi   text 1 comment (last - friday march 04, 2011 01:01)
Steve will be reading from his best selling memoir Shiprocked, Life on the Waves with Radio Caroline in which he created the best, and the worst, of times fighting to stay on the waves – in every possible meaning of that statement – with Radio Caroline, including the collapse of the great mast, existing without food, life without chocolate, and what running aground is really like
THE MEZZ (UPSTAIRS AT THE TWISTED PEPPER 54 MIDDLE ABBEY ST) 7 PM read full story / add a comment
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