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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.
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.
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
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. The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony Public Inquiry >>
Parse failure for http://humanrights.ie/feed/. Last Retry Friday September 19, 2025 11:28
Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits are Cooling on Global Warming appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:07 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture Thu Sep 18, 2025 19:00 | Noah Carl
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
The post We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech Thu Sep 18, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump?urged?Keir Starmer?to deploy the military to stop the Channel small boats crisis that is "destroying" the country, drill in the North Sea and uphold free speech at a tense joint press conference today.
The post Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic. Lockdown Skeptics >>
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Protests Across Ireland And Basque Country At Spanish Police Arrests Of 35 Basque Youth Activists
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 Wednesday December 02, 2009 04:22 by Basque Info - Irish Basque Solidarity Committees
PROTESTS ACROSS IRELAND AT SPANISH POLICE ARRESTS OF 35 BASQUE YOUTH ACTIVISTS AS OVER 20,000 PROTEST IN BILBAO
Protests were held in Belfast, Dublin, Limerick, Omagh, Strabane and in Dungannon in solidarity with the Basque pro-Independence Left movement and in protest at a massive Spanish police repressive operation involving 650 police, raids on over 60 premises and the arrest of 34 Basque youth as a result of their political activities. The Basque Country itself saw a number of school strikes and other protests during the week, including one of 20,430 in Bilbao, the capital, on Saturday. Further protests are being organised. Thirty-one of the youth were sent to prison, bringing the total of Basque political prisoners to 762, the highest in 35 years.
PROTESTS IN DUBLIN, BELFAST AND ELSEWHERE IN IRELAND
Around 40 people gathered on a cold but dry O’Connell Street, Dublin’s main street, last Saturday with placards and Basque flags. The were there in solidarity with the Basque pro-Independence Left movement and protesting the previous Tuesday’s arrests by Spanish police of 35 Basque youth activists and raids on over 60 premises. The operation, in which 650 Spanish police took part, was interpreted by spokespersons of the Basque movement as a response by the Spanish state to the movement’s recent renunciation of armed struggle and their decision to fight the Spanish state on the political front only, where they felt the state was at its weakest.
The Dublin protest had been organised by the local branch of the Irish Basque Solidarity Committees and drew broad active support from the progressive political spectrum, including from both Ógra Shinn Féin and from Éirigí, as well as from independent activists. Some of the Basque community in Ireland attended, as did some originally from Madrid and elsewhere in Castille.
Standing on the central pedestrian reservation of O’Connell Street in two lines facing both traffic directions, the demonstrators received numerous expressions of support from passers-by, including motorists who sounded their horns and some Catalans who stated they came to express “solidarity with their Basque brothers and sisters”.
In addition to the Basque flags and the banner of the Dublin Committee, the protesters carried placards, some of which read: ”FREE THE 35!”, “FRANCO LIVES ON IN THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT!” and “NO TIME FOR LOVE IN THE BASQUE COUNTRY – end repression!” The latter was a reference to the former Irish band Moving Heart’s song No Time for Love if They Come in the Morning, about morning raids by the police in repressive states. When the demonstrators began to walk around in a big circle, they also chanted slogans against repression in the Basque Country, for the freedom of the 35 arrested youth and for democracy and freedom in the Basque Country.
As the protest drew to a close, the Coordinator of the DIBC thanked all present for their attendance and solidarity with the Basques, pointing out that the Basque pro-Independence Left movement was also known for their active internationalist solidarity, e.g. for the Irish, Palestinians, Guatemalan trade unionists and Saharan independists. A member of the Basque community in Ireland also thanked those present for their support and a group of Basques sang the Eusko Gudari song (“Soldiers of the Basque Country”) including the traditional shrill Irrintza (yell). The protest concluded with shouting in Euskara (the Basque Language) of “Ahieslari!” (The Arrested) to which all the participants replied with “AS-KAT-U!” (FREE!).
As the solidarity protest in Dublin concluded, people were gathering for the start of a white-line picket on the Falls Road in Belfast. This too had been organised by the local branch of the Irish Basque Solidarity Committees and also drew broad support. The attendance of around 60 people included the Belfast Deputy Mayor, two Councillors and two MLAs (SF).
Elsewhere in Ireland, protests were organised by Ógra Shinn Féin in Limerick, Omagh, Strabane and in Dungannon. The latter protest was attacked by fascist-Loyalist youth; when the Police Service of Northern Ireland appeared on the scene they proceeded to harass the Republican youth, searching one of them under anti-terrorist legislation, while they were seen to chat amiably with the youth who had carried out the attack.
OVER 20,000 MARCH IN BILBAO AND PROTESTS ALSO ACROSS THE BASQUE COUNTRY
Dozens of towns across the Basque Country saw protests and school strikes
during the week and on Saturday 20,430 people marched in Bilbao under the slogan: “ALL (POLITICAL) PROJECTS, ALL RIGHTS!”
As the 35 Basque youths began to get access to independent solicitors, reports of torture and sexual mistreatment began to emerge. Thirty-one out of the 35 youths were sent to prison as their interrogations came to an end, bringing the total of Basque political prisoners to 762, the highest in 35 years.
Hundreds of young people also gathered over the weekend in Zestoa at the national youth event which aims to join forces from all sections of the Basque youth movement to build a new front to jointly confront the capitalist system and help to develop the democratic process in the Basque Country.
In a separate development, Judge Garzon of the special no-jury Audiencia court indicted 43 alleged members of the political party Batasuna, most of whom are already being held in jail, for “membership of a terrorist organisation.”
Protests against Spanish state repression in the Basque Country have been called for the coming Saturday in Cork and in Derry, the first by the Basque Solidarity Committee and the second by the city’s Sinn Féin.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5Trying to load these up
any pictures or website of the Irish Basque Solidarity Committees
Still not been able to load those photos on to Indymedia but they may be viewed on Facebook at Louise Michel's site, where the Dublin branch of the IBSC is hosted as a group.
The IBSC is currently in the early stages of working on a website but it does have a blog: www.irishbasquecommittees.blogspot.com
My best wishes to you all.
Would like to learn more in the future.
J
How can Ógra Shinn Féin and from Éirigí be considered progressive? They are narrow nationalists. Anarchy now for Euzkadi, Ireland & the World.