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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.

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

offsite link Rip The Chicken Tree - 1800s - 2025 Tue Nov 04, 2025 03:40 | Mark

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

offsite link Top Scientists Confirm Covid Shots Cause Heart Attacks in Children Sun Oct 05, 2025 21:31 | imc

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offsite link British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
The post British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
The post Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
It's bad enough that all UK TV users are forced to fund the BBC via a TV licence. But it's worse than that, says Charlotte Gill: millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are handed to the corporation via backdoor channels.
The post Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran Sat Nov 22, 2025 09:00 | Will Jones
The Crown Prosecution Service is appealing against the acquittal of Hamit Coskun, who was convicted of burning the Quran in a protest, reigniting fears Britain could introduce blasphemy laws by the back door.
The post CPS Appeals Against Acquittal of Hamit Coskun for Burning Quran appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Double Job Joe

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Monday April 28, 2003 12:47author by Trim Reaper Report this post to the editors

Keeping The Council Seat In The Family

While most other TDs have resigned their council seats, Joe Higgins has his bum firmly attached in Fingal. Could this be due to internal Socialist Party wrangling?

While most other TDs have resigned their council seats, Joe Higgins has his bum firmly attached in Fingal. Could this be due to internal Socialist Party wrangling?

In the best of Irish traditions Joe wants to keep the seat in the family and pass it on to his partner, Ruth Coppinger. The nasty Democratic Centralists of the SP dont agree and think it should go to a more orthodox party activist outside Joes area.

Truth be told, Party Leader Kevin MacLoughglin feels its his right to hold the seat for a year. Little Lenin MacLoughlin feels his profile is not high enough for one who holds the exalted title of General Secretary (the expenses would do nicely as well).

This could all end in tears, Little Lenin gets his moment of glory, but the SP loses the council seat.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Whatever     Justin Moran    Mon Apr 28, 2003 13:45 
   But     Curious    Mon Apr 28, 2003 13:51 
   lie     Trim Reaper 2    Mon Apr 28, 2003 13:55 
   Who Is Going To Get The Seat???     Fat Reaper    Mon Apr 28, 2003 13:56 
   Who is in charge?     Flummoxed    Mon Apr 28, 2003 14:11 
   An interesting debate about the SP     Badman    Mon Apr 28, 2003 14:19 
   Little Lenin MacLoughlin The Outstanding Mediocrity Of The Party     Trim Reaper    Mon Apr 28, 2003 14:37 
   Badman     Durutti    Mon Apr 28, 2003 14:59 
   Another load of bollocks     KF    Mon Apr 28, 2003 15:22 
 10   SP Come Out Well?     Durutti    Mon Apr 28, 2003 15:32 
 11   answers     KF    Mon Apr 28, 2003 15:48 
 12   SP have dropped a few of Trotskys tenets     Pat C    Mon Apr 28, 2003 15:55 
 13   I fear to ask     Justin Moran    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:11 
 14   Throne     Durutti    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:14 
 15   I'll bite     Andrew    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:30 
 16   SP in the North     Janus    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:33 
 17   andrew     pat c    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:33 
 18   We've All Read On Indy     Durutti    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:36 
 19   Thanx Andrew     Justin Moran    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:50 
 20   SP in elections     Flummoxed    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:53 
 21   Sick to The Back Teeth     Pettycoat Luce    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:54 
 22   It's the mediocrities that you have to watch     Badman    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:55 
 23   Pettycoat     Curious    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:56 
 24   What the hell?     Jonno    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:58 
 25   Trotsky     Trim Reaper    Mon Apr 28, 2003 16:58 
 26   Jonno     Durutti    Mon Apr 28, 2003 17:01 
 27   That was nothing     Andrew    Mon Apr 28, 2003 17:01 
 28   again sorry     john throne    Mon Apr 28, 2003 20:57 
 29   Jonno/KF & SP/SY     Durutti    Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:02 
 30   The SP leadership's betrayal of its members     Left observer    Tue Apr 29, 2003 10:53 
 31   Thrones lies     Cordelia    Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:36 
 32   Straight lines     Daithi    Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:55 
 33   Nice to see the leftist fringe in disarray     Josef    Tue Apr 29, 2003 13:25 
 34   Squabbling?     left observer    Tue Apr 29, 2003 13:57 
 35   The Hadden Variations.     Durutti    Tue Apr 29, 2003 14:47 
 36   Lies & Lies     pat c    Tue Apr 29, 2003 15:12 
 37   SPECIAL ORDERS     TROTWATCH    Tue Apr 29, 2003 16:07 
 38   Backbiting     Jim Monaghan    Tue Apr 29, 2003 16:34 
 39   Jim     Pat c    Tue Apr 29, 2003 16:45 
 40   slagging or discussing?     left observer    Tue Apr 29, 2003 16:47 
 41   Amusement     Cordelia    Tue Apr 29, 2003 19:27 
 42   holy crap, you people really hate the sp (now that the swp have left the site en masse)     socialist observer    Tue Apr 29, 2003 19:35 
 43   Holy crap! this is the 43rd comment!     socialist troll    Wed Apr 30, 2003 03:53 
 44   amusement?     left observer    Wed Apr 30, 2003 08:59 
 45   Pat C     KF    Wed Apr 30, 2003 10:26 
 46   There is a need for an organisation     Jim Monaghan    Wed Apr 30, 2003 11:14 
 47   KF     pat c    Wed Apr 30, 2003 11:20 
 48   KF(2)     pat c    Wed Apr 30, 2003 11:26 
 49   Pat's points     left observer    Wed Apr 30, 2003 14:47 
 50   left observor     pat c    Wed Apr 30, 2003 15:19 
 51   So Why Did Left Observor Come On This Thread?     Socialist Troll    Wed Apr 30, 2003 15:32 
 52   Your just right     figment    Thu May 01, 2003 00:01 
 53   Figment     pat c    Thu May 01, 2003 10:45 
 54   Tory Island     John    Thu May 01, 2003 14:32 
 55   John Of God     pat c    Thu May 01, 2003 14:56 
 56   No SP here     Garcia Oliver    Thu May 01, 2003 20:06 
 57   Good Job Mr Garcia     Magneto    Fri May 02, 2003 10:37 
 58   yeah john the SP/SWP are sooooo radical     thomas    Sat May 03, 2003 15:29 
 59   lie     m    Mon May 05, 2003 02:49 
 60   But     Magneto    Mon May 05, 2003 16:23 
 61   Magneto: answer this!     Someone who was in Labour Youth in the 1980s    Tue May 06, 2003 11:18 
 62   4th Time I have Answered This     Magneto    Wed May 07, 2003 10:36 
 63   Magneto stop clogging up newswire     FK    Thu May 08, 2003 00:05 
 64   FK     Magneto    Thu May 08, 2003 10:28 


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