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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.
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.
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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.
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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
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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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RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
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What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine Fri Nov 21, 2025 17:00 | Anonymous
Read what happened when an Extinction Rebellion meeting was disrupted by a protester. Seems they can give it out but have no intention of putting up with it themselves.
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Are the Grooming Gangs a Muslim Phenomenon? Fri Nov 21, 2025 15:00 | Mark Durie
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Free Speech Documentary Cancelled by London Cinema Fri Nov 21, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
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The Covid Inquiry Has Failed to Engage With the Evidence Fri Nov 21, 2025 11:00 | Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
The Covid Inquiry module two report fails to question faulty assumptions and draws conclusions without engaging with the evidence, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson in a damning assessment.
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Debunking the BBC?s Claim That Pakistan?s Floods Are Made Worse by Climate Change Fri Nov 21, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
If the BBC's Standards Committee, which is reviewing the corporation's coverage of climate change, wants a good example of bias, it should take a look at its report of recent floods in Pakistan, says Paul Homewood.
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Jump To Comment: 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Hi Pit Stops,
All the best as you head to trial. A few of us from Ringwood Uniting Church will be at the Office of the Honourary Irish Consul in Melbourne on Monday in support.
Cheers,
Paul
Vigil for the Pit Stop Ploughshares
Monday 24th October 2005, 5pm-6pm
Office of the Honourary Irish Consul Cnr Queen & Little Lonsdale Sts, Melbourne
On Monday 24th October Ciaron O'Reilly and the rest of the Pit Stop Ploughshares will be going to trial in Dublin.
Show your support by coming along to the vigil.
Bring signs, e.g. "No War", "Stop Australian and Irish Complicity in War", "Justice for Pit Stop Ploughshares" etc
http://margokingston.typepad.com/harry_version_2/2005/10/entering_the_ga.html#more
If you wish to make donations to the Ploughshares Defence Fund in support of the PIt Stop Ploughshares
Cheques "Ploughshares Defence Fund"
134 Phibsborough Rd.
Phibsborough
Dublin 7
IRELAND
Donations can be lodged at any Bank of Ireland Branch
Ploughshares Defence Fund
Account No. 80965573
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Did Lord Steyn oppose the war when he was a Lord? I'm asking out of genuine interest. It seems to me that too many people wait until it's too late to make their voices heard. For example, Lord Steyn, as a Law Lord, was in a very good position to do something about Britains involvement in the war. I hope he used this position when it mattered.
Mark Conroy.
The Pentagon has reneged on its offer to pay a $15,000 bonus to members of the National Guard and Army Reserve who agree to extend their enlistments by six years, according to Sen. Patty Murray (D-Seattle).
The bonuses were offered in January to Active Guard and Reserve and military technician soldiers who were serving overseas. In April, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs ordered the bonuses stopped, Murray said.
“This is outrageous,” the senator said in a telephone interview. “It makes me angry that this administration has broken another promise to our troops.”
A Pentagon spokeswoman, Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke, confirmed the bonuses had been canceled, saying they violated Pentagon policies because they duplicated other programs. She said Guard and Reserve members would be eligible for other bonuses.
Krenke said some soldiers had been paid the re-enlistment bonuses, but she was unsure how many or whether the money would have to be repaid. Murray’s office said that as far as it knew, no active Guard or Reserve members had received the bonuses.
If you do the crime, you should have to do the time.
Former law lord attacks 'folly' of Iraq war
By Robert Verkaik, Legal Affairs Correspondent
Published: 19 October 2005
The war with Iraq has made the world a more dangerous place and London a target for terrorist attack, according to one of Britain's most senior judges.
Lord Steyn, who retired last month as a judge sitting in the UK's highest court, described the invasion of Iraq as "military folly" and accused the Government of "scraping the legal barrel" in trying to justify it.
The former law lord told an audience of lawyers and civil rights campaigners in London that it was wrong for the Prime Minister to have called the rule of law a "game".
He said: "The maintenance of the rule of law is not a game. It is about access to justice, fundamental human rights and democratic values."
He added: "After the recent dreadful bombings in London we were asked to believe that the Iraq war did not make London and the world a more dangerous place. Surely, on top of everything else, we do not have to listen to a fairy-tale."
VOICES FROM THE IRAQ WAR
Jimmy Massey (US. War Combat Veteran of the Invasion & Occupation of Iraq))
Kathy Kelly (from Sanctions busting U.S. group "Voices in the Wilderness", was present in Baghdad during the U.S. invasion)
Ciaron O'Reilly (Shannon Defendant On Trial)
Trinity College Emmet Theatre Hall, 7.30pm
Saturday, October 29th
Cosantoiri Siochana Information Stall in Support of
Pitstop Ploughshares , Bank Of Ireland, 2-4pm
(Opposite Trinity College)
*Friday Oct 28th From 8pm: Mid-trial Party, St.
Nicholas of Myra Parish Hall off Francis St. Dublin 8.
Music by Paul O'Toole and Banda Zingara from 8pm
Bring Food To Share & Bring your own Drinks
*PUBLIC MEETING- "WAR IS TERROR IS WAR"
-Mairead Corrigan Maguire(Nobel Peace Laureate),
-Prof. John Maguire (Retired Professor Of Sociology, NUI Cork),
- Ed Horgan (Former Commandant Irish Defence Forces)
*Trinity College Edmund Burke Theatre Hall 7.30pm.
* Monday October 24th
Public Meeting
'Before the Courts For Peace And
Justice: The Case of the Shannon 5'
*Rose Gentle (British Military Families Against War),
*Carmen Trotta (New Yorker witness to the attack on Twin Towers, Organised the Peace Movement's 1st. Anniversay Commemoration of S11 Attack in New York)
& Other Speakers
Trinity College Swift Theatre Hall, 7.30pm
Entrance Free
DAILY ROUTINE (Mon-Fri) OF THE TRIAL
Starts Mon Oct. 24th- Expected to run 2 weeks
*All visuals employed on the way to court and around the court (placards, banners etc) will be provided by the defendants. Please respect!
*Autonomous nonviolent solidarity actions at other war related sites (eg. Dail, Aviation Authority, U.S. Embassy etc) by groups using their own visuals welcome.
- 8.30 am Anti-War Vigil at The Spire, O'Connell St
- 9.15 am Peace Walk to Court (single file/silent in memory of the war dead)
-10.30am - 1pm`'Remembering Iraq War Dead' Vigil outside Four Courts
- 1pm Folks organise their own lunch
- 2pm-4pm `Remembering The War Dead' Vigil outside Four Courts
- TRIAL REFLECTION, FOOD AND DRINKS
(Bring some food and drink to share!)
*5pm – 6.30pm, St. Paul's Church Hall, Arran Quay
-Food will be followed by public meetings at Trinity College (Mon Oct 24th, Thurs Oct 27th & Tues Nov 1st. and a gig at the Lower Deck Fri Oct 28th.
On other evenings food will be followed by a circle of resistance at St. Paul's Church Hall, Aran Quay as international and local activists share experiences of ongoing nonviolent resistance to the war on Iraq.
Need to vacate St. Pauls nightly at 8 pm.
The Ecology Society of NUI, Galway will host a public meeting with members of the Pit Stop Ploughshares this Thursday, 20 October at 7.30 in the Fotteral Theatre. The Pitstop loughshares begin trial next Monday for two counts of criminal damage arising from their disarmament of a US warplane at Shannon airport in the early hours of 3 February 2003. If convicted they face up to ten years imprisonment.
Speaking on Thursday night will be Ciaran O’Reilly and Nuin Dunlop of the Pit Stop Ploughshares; Tim Hourigan, the Shannon
plane-spotter who uncovered the use of the airport by CIA torture jets; and Farrah, an activist with Voices in the Wilderness who
spent time in Iraq.
On the
night a collection will be made for their legal defence. Please support.
Upcoming Trial-Related Occurences/Events/Activism
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Wednesday-Friday Oct. 19th-21st 4-6pm
– Daily Ploughshares Vigil, GPO, O'Connell St.
Join in vigil & leafletting.
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Saturday Oct. 22nd 2-4pm: Information Stall at
Westmoreland st. Bank of Ireland College Green
(Opposite Trinity College)
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Sunday Oct. 23rd 5pm
Pre-Trial Celebration of Mass
St. Catherine's Church Meath st.
with Fr. Peter McVerry. Music by Emmaus
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Sunday Oct. 23rd 6-9.30pm:
Social Gathering with Music & Food & Documentaries.
Meet Peace Activists on Trial & International
Activists attending trial
St. Nicholas of Myra Hall,Carmon's Hall (Between
Francis St. and Meath St.)
*Bring Food to Share & your own drinks