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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

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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Human Rights in Ireland
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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Lockdown Skeptics

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offsite link Judges Need Fewer Powers, Not More Thu Nov 20, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
The Hillsborough Law is well-intentioned, but its effect will be to transfer yet more power from Parliament to unelected judges ? the opposite of what is needed to restore public trust and democratic accountability.
The post Judges Need Fewer Powers, Not More appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Lockdowns Could Have Been Avoided Entirely If ?Stringent Restrictions? Were Imposed Earlier, Covid I... Thu Nov 20, 2025 17:03 | Will Jones
Lockdowns could have been "avoided entirely" during Covid had ministers?more quickly?imposed "stringent restrictions" such as social distancing and face masks, the COVID-19 Inquiry has concluded.
The post Lockdowns Could Have Been Avoided Entirely If “Stringent Restrictions” Were Imposed Earlier, Covid Inquiry Finds appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Majority of Public ?Does Not Want? Labour?s Islamophobia Definition Thu Nov 20, 2025 15:14 | Will Jones
Labour?s new definition of Islamophobia is not wanted by the majority of the public in any form, with just a fifth backing it, a poll has found, amid a free speech backlash.
The post Majority of Public “Does Not Want” Labour’s Islamophobia Definition appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Call Prostitutes ?Sexual Entrepreneurs?, Say Police Thu Nov 20, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Police chiefs have been accused of treating prostitution as a normal job and effectively decriminalising it by telling officers they should call prostitutes "sex workers" or "sexual entrepreneurs".
The post Call Prostitutes “Sexual Entrepreneurs”, Say Police appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Shabana Mahmood?s Asylum ?Fix? is Destined to Fail Thu Nov 20, 2025 11:23 | Will Jones
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's asylum 'crackdown' is not nearly enough to stop the flow, says Juliet Samuel in the Times. It still leaves Britain looking like a utopia for far too many.
The post Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum ‘Fix’ is Destined to Fail appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday November 08, 2006 16:46 by SI
Following on from a working group discussion at Labour Youth conference last weekend, a protest has been organised this Friday in solidarity with the people of Rossport. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday November 08, 2006 14:29 by Brian Wardlow   text 3 comments (last - monday november 20, 2006 21:19)
Informative interview of a lifelong Irish republican that will provide the viewer/listener with an inside prospective on the struggle for Irish freedom ,and the history and promotion of Eire Nua (New Ireland) an Irish formulated solution for a just and lasting peace in Ireland in the context of a British intent to withdraw from Ireland. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday November 08, 2006 14:10 by Niamh Nic Carthaigh
Against a backdrop of poverty, failing rains and increasing drought, delegates from 189 countries are meeting in Nairobi, Kenya to discuss climate change. Christian Aid is there too, urging the world’s environment ministers and their climate change negotiators to agree a new framework for rapidly and dramatically cutting carbon emissions to safeguard people’s lives and livelihoods in the future. read full story / add a comment
cork / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Wednesday November 08, 2006 11:55 by John
Fri 10th Nov starting 8am, Blockade of Shell depot at Cork Airport read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday November 08, 2006 05:02 by cool j
Just to remind people, particulary in Dublin that Noel Dempsey and his friends at Shell etc. are having another love-in at a city centre hotel at which yet more of our national resources will be given away to the usual suspects. read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday November 08, 2006 03:59 by TJ   text 2 comments (last - monday november 13, 2006 11:05)
Through "purity of arms" at least 50 Palestinians have been butchered, forty homes destroyed and 400 damaged in the IDF's latest invasion of the Gaza Strip, read full story / add a comment
national / environment / other press Wednesday November 08, 2006 00:48 by paddyweb   text 1 comment (last - saturday november 11, 2006 16:45)
How Kildare County Council treats it's tennants. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday November 07, 2006 20:37 by Ploughshares   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 18, 2006 22:25)
On Saturday Nov 18th. from 12 noon- 2pm
there will be a solidarity vigil outside the U.S. Embassy Dublin
(Cnr. Elgin and Pembroke Rds. Balsbridge, Dublin 4)
calling for the closure of the "School of the Americas" and the Demilitarisation of Shannon Airport.
The vigil is in solidarity with the mass convergeance & nonviolent direct action at Ft. Benning, Georgia, USA. The vigil is in concert with other solidarity vigils in Manta/Ecuador, San Salvador/El Salvador, Asuncion/Paraguay, Colombia and throughout the U.S. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday November 07, 2006 17:32 by Maryam Namazie
A 21st century worthy of human beings is difficult to envision when our lives, our rights, our children, cities, schools and homes – are caught in the crossfire in a war of terrorists.
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dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday November 07, 2006 17:06 by rory   text 12 comments (last - saturday november 25, 2006 23:06)
Speakers Include:

Vincent McGrath (Shell to Sea/Rossport 5)
Catherine Connolly (Galway City Cllr),
Joan Collins (Indp Socialist Cllr and Campaign for Indp Left, candidate for Dublin South Central),
Eamonn McCann (Raytheon 9, Journalist)
Catherine Murphy (Indp. TD)
Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit), Prof Kathleen Lynch (UCD), Carmel McKenna, Dr. Abdullah Sayed, Ailbhe Smyth, Kieran Allen, Rory Hearne read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday November 07, 2006 16:58 by rory   text 9 comments (last - sunday november 19, 2006 10:31)
Time for a real left alternative
Public Conference

Speakers Include:

Vincent McGrath (Shell to Sea/Rossport 5)
Catherine Connolly (Galway City Cllr),
Joan Collins (Indp Socialist Cllr and Campaign for Indp Left, candidate for Dublin South Central),
Eamonn McCann (Raytheon 9, Journalist)
Catherine Murphy (Indp. TD)
Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit), Prof Kathleen Lynch (UCD), Carmel McKenna, Dr. Abdullah Sayed, Ailbhe Smyth, Kieran Allen, Rory Hearne read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday November 07, 2006 15:01 by Kevin Higgins
The November Over The Edge: Open Reading takes place in Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway on Thursday, November 23th, 6.30-8pm. read full story / add a comment
galway / arts and media / event notice Tuesday November 07, 2006 11:53 by Kevin Higgins
Chapbook of poems by up-and-coming Galway poet to be launched at Sheridans on the Docks. read full story / add a comment
international / gender and sexuality / other press Tuesday November 07, 2006 11:32 by pat c
Yet another example of the compassion and mercy of Islam. Women are treated so well by those men who interpet the Koran and administer justice in the name of Allah.

Full story at the link.

pat c read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Tuesday November 07, 2006 01:33 by Rachel Dempsey   text 2 comments (last - sunday november 19, 2006 14:02)
Creative Café, 18 November 2006 @ 8pm
586 South Circular Road, Dublin 8
(Luas: Rialto, bus numbers 19, 123 from O'Connell street or Dame street)
For more information, phone 086 309 7232 or email racheldempsey@hotmail.com.

A relaxed social gathering open to all interspersed with musical and cultural offerings from friends from around the world. Relax and listen to the impromtu performances or contribute a song, a story or a poem. Tasty food and mulled wine, short film, musings and music! read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / press release Tuesday November 07, 2006 00:53 by Cllr Keith Martin   text 7 comments (last - monday december 04, 2006 18:32)
Westport Civic Trust will learn on Thursday 9th, if its appeal to An Bord Pleanala regarding the controversial Cloonmonad road development has been successful. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Monday November 06, 2006 22:46 by Political Hostage   text 1 comment (last - wednesday november 08, 2006 17:46)
The ongoing Omagh civil litigation has been listed for 16th April 2007 when the case is expected to finally get under way. Even at this early stage, many observers in the legal profession consider it, as being prejudiced, deeply flawed and under the present format it can only return an unfair and dishonest judgment. The British authorities have the case structured in such that it will deny the defendants any hope of defending themselves in the case. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Monday November 06, 2006 17:38 by C Murray
Central American Free Trade Agreement- Hugo Chavez's got a new Friend.

Ortega promised to uphold the trade agreement and will probably be buddies
with Hugo Chavez, which will displease Bush, however given Ortega's recent
aqquistion of God and anti-women voting- not overtly concerned.

The exit polls are suggesting Ortega is in the lead after 15% of the Ballots
have been opened, the liberal party are polling 7% and they are the nearest
political rivals. read full story / add a comment
dublin / miscellaneous / event notice Monday November 06, 2006 17:31 by E   text 4 comments (last - tuesday november 07, 2006 12:14)
2pm to 6.30, Saturday November 18th in the McClelland Room, Central Hotel, Exchequer St, Dublin 2 read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday November 06, 2006 17:10 by Cian   text 2 comments (last - thursday november 30, 2006 18:27)
The 2007 Budget was ratified by a large majority in the government. The current budget continues the policy of attacking the Israeli workers’ living conditions. Welfare benefits are frozen; the privatisation of the most basic social services continues; and unemployment benefit for workers under the age of 28 are simply cancelled. The government forces us – the workers, the unemployed, the pensioners and the youth in the country – to pay the price for its military adventure in Lebanon. And while the government attacks all the working women and men in Israel, it does not forget to take care of its real friends – the capitalists. This budget will grant them benefits and tax cuts.

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