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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

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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

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offsite link Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours Fri Sep 19, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Labour has sunk to its lowest ever poll rating as Andy Burnham fuels rumours he is preparing to challenge Keir Starmer for the Labour leadership by refusing to commit to serving a full term as Greater Manchester Mayor.
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offsite link Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link 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.

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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
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
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 / history and heritage / opinion/analysis Monday March 13, 2006 17:02 by Godot
Identity, Language and the Recent Riots in Dublin read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Sunday March 12, 2006 14:03 by Seán Ryan   text 9 comments (last - sunday april 02, 2006 22:03)   image 1 image
A tongue in cheek piece that explores many paradoxical ideas associated with the theory of evolution. - That evolves into a discourse into a series of primal theological questions that still remain unanswered.

Might be interesting reading for anyone into evolutionary debate and for anyone with pre-conceived notions about their right to define creation superceding the rights of others.

This is my first submission from what will be my second Indybook. It is the fourth chapter - but stands on its own merits. It becomes my first submission simply because I think it's relevant to many religious and secularist debates currently raging on Indy. read full story / add a comment
cork / arts and media / opinion/analysis Saturday March 11, 2006 21:17 by corporaterockwatch
The following folk protest song was recently written to protest the commodification of music by U.S. professional musicians and the global corporate music industry. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Saturday March 11, 2006 20:01 by ipsi   text 16 comments (last - sunday march 19, 2006 16:21)   image 1 image
no time to add more. read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Friday March 10, 2006 21:28 by Ergazomenos (Working Man)
While Greek government blamed seamen for paralyzing the country’s transport network due to their strike action last month, and forced them back to work by means of “civil mobilization”, some island residents that were supposed to be harmed by the strike, actually stood on the sailor’s side and supported their demands. A short translated text follows, explaining why. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday March 10, 2006 17:29 by Workers Power Ireland   text 2 comments (last - monday march 13, 2006 11:25)
The yearly SWP event “Marxism 2006” was held this weekend in Trinity College, Dublin. Two comrades from Workers Power attended on Saturday, participating in the debates, and selling and spreading our propaganda. We publish here an edited version of their report. read full story / add a comment
Catalan Solidarity
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Thursday March 09, 2006 23:10 by Catalan Solidarity   text 1 comment (last - friday march 10, 2006 14:42)   image 1 image
E-news service of the Catalan Solidarity: Ireland Committee

March 2006 E-news service No.2

1. INTRODUTION
2. WHO WE ARE
3. REGIONAL POLICE CONTINUE WITH ILLEGAL RAID
4. NATIONAL UNITY DEMONSTRATION – BARCELONA
5. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY MANIFESTO
6. STOP POLITICAL ANNIHILATION – A SOLIDARITY MESSAGE
7. COMMUNIQUÉ FROM HORTA & RESCAT
8. SOLIDARITY WITH RUBEN & IGNASI
9. FAX IN SOLIDARITY WITH RUBEN & IGNASI
10. SOLIDARITY BENEFIT FOR RUBEN & IGNASI
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Iraqis go about their daily lives under the shadow of a hostile foreign military presence.
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 09, 2006 21:07 by Mark Chapman   image 1 image
On March 18th it will be 3 years since the (second) US and UK led invasion of Iraq. Around the world 11 million members of the public protested and continue to protest against this aggressive and illegal military action by the West. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 07, 2006 18:15 by Thomas   image 3 images
Trial of Zacarias Moussaoui opens and it is time for more 'judicial killing' in the USA, but why now? read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday March 07, 2006 00:05 by Geri Timmons and John Keaveny   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 08, 2006 03:46)
Civil Rights in Ireland and The United States read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Monday March 06, 2006 21:42 by c murray   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 08, 2006 13:17)
The case against the state challenging the constitutionality of the amended National monuments act 1930-2004 has been deffered for the third time.
The date for judgement of this important case had been variously given, the last one was Feb 16th, the day of the launch of the Planning and Development Bill 2006,(The Strategic Infrastructure Bill)I am not a lawyer, and have not studied the details of the Carrickmines case too closely, but the locus of the case was based on the signing of the joint consent order to destroy the castle remains at Carrickmines and to remove sections of the revetted fosse. Ministerial consents for destruction of a national monument could occur after 21 days sitting of the Oireachtas, which in real terms gave the minister his unreviewable discretionary powers.The judgement was listed for tomorrow but is now deffered, it will
have a direct repurcussion on the situation at the Tara Complex and other heritage sites in Ireland. No reason has been given for the deferral. The case has been put back for mention for Thursday the 9th of March. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Monday March 06, 2006 16:23 by Shoplifter   text 52 comments (last - thursday march 09, 2006 18:12)   image 1 image
Crime is now seen as undesirable because of the impact on the victim
rather than the financial impact, as such shoplifting should be decriminalised. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday March 06, 2006 15:18 by James Reilly   text 2 comments (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 15:52)
It is astonisihing that only Susan McKay has raised the question of the bona fides of FAIR in a substantive manner. It is not as though the information is hard to come by.

For instance:

FAIR demonstrated outside Stormont about the early release of Republican prisoners. When asked by David Dunseath of the BBC about the early release of loyalist prisoners Frazer replied “They should never have been locked up in the first place” read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Monday March 06, 2006 00:58 by Pat fitzgerald   text 3 comments (last - tuesday march 07, 2006 14:35)
According to the Irish Times two protesters who sued the State and Garda Commissioner for assault following the reclaim the streets protest three years ago have settled out of court. No details were disclosed. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday March 05, 2006 20:06 by Sean   text 13 comments (last - tuesday march 07, 2006 16:26)

From WCR 11. We don't usually print articles from WCR so soon after publication but in light of requests made in the wake of the rioting in Dublin sparked by an attempted Love Ulster rally we are making this article available online at this time.
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national / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Sunday March 05, 2006 15:32 by MichaelY   text 4 comments (last - thursday march 09, 2006 17:05)
A response to a Martin Mansergh article in the irish Times read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Saturday March 04, 2006 15:22 by Keith Martin   text 5 comments (last - thursday april 06, 2006 12:47)
One of the biggest lies to emerge over the year was the lie that nuclear power is the solution to the problems of climate change. read full story / add a comment
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