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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

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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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.

offsite link World Kindness Day is Just Another Way of Grooming Schoolchildren into the Climate and Open Border C... Sat Nov 22, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
World Kindness Day may have passed you by. But it won't have passed by your children, whose school will have been sure to teach that climate action and open borders are essential elements of 'kindness', says Steven Tucker.
The post World Kindness Day is Just Another Way of Grooming Schoolchildren into the Climate and Open Border Cults appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sat Nov 22, 2025 01:24 | Toby Young
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.

offsite link 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.
The post What Happened When Extinction Rebellion Had a Taste of its Own Medicine appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / environment / event notice Friday March 05, 2004 19:11 by Rise up brothers and sisters!
MEATH ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
AND SAVE THE TARA-SKRYNE VALLEY GROUP

Symposium on"TARA, SKRYNE AND THE M3 MOTORWAY"

To be held on
SATURDAY, 13TH MARCH 2004AT

ST COLUMBAN'S COLLEGE, DALGAN PARK,
NAVAN, CO. MEATH (3 miles south of Navan on N3)
From 2.00pm to 5.30pm

(optional pre-seminar visit to Hill of Tara: 11.30am-12.30) read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / event notice Friday March 05, 2004 19:07 by Barney Hartnett
Vote Barney Hartnett (ATGWU nominee) for Irish Senior citizens parliament read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Friday March 05, 2004 16:39 by redjade
Venue: Department of Justice, St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.

Time: 12.30 pm. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Friday March 05, 2004 16:15 by Janus   text 22 comments (last - saturday march 13, 2004 18:53)
Socialist revolutionaries and the use of force read full story / add a comment
donegal / environment / press release Friday March 05, 2004 13:19 by R
Below is a press release sent to 10 local media outlets, covering Donegal's 130,000+ population. The Tara issue, the Corrib gas field and many other assaults on Irish life continue to be ignored by the national media.

Local media is usually quite stale but very open to alternative news, so long as it has a local slant. Politicians are great users of local media but activists are often to busy lambasting Fox news to notice. You can localise easily by (a) keeping it simple (b) making it easy on the journo (email it etc) and vitally (c) puttting a local slant on it.... / this applies of all issues - war, environment etc. And remember, local elections around the corner - they don't like their names in the paper! read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday March 05, 2004 11:59 by Janus   text 11 comments (last - monday march 08, 2004 23:10)
PLEASE do not delete this. I know there is a rule against providing links to racist sites but surely that applies to people encouraging such stuff, and not people warning others. NOTE FROM EDITOR: Sorry J - no exceptions - I'm removing the links - the curious will know where to look. read full story / add a comment
down / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Friday March 05, 2004 10:52 by News reader   text 19 comments (last - saturday may 14, 2005 16:32)
Newry and Morne District Councillor Martin Cunningham has resigned from SF citing the reason as an "internal dispute". read full story / add a comment
national / crime and justice / news report Friday March 05, 2004 09:40 by JMcK   text 10 comments (last - tuesday march 09, 2004 15:51)
A 24 yo male suspect was released without charge late last night after being questioned about the production of child pornography. He is suspected of distributing hundreds of images on the internet. read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Friday March 05, 2004 01:48 by John McDermott
The cosy arrangement between Fianna Fail politicians from Bertie Ahearn's own Dublin constituency was brought to an abrupt end when Mary Harney began a crusade to reform the Taxi industry...read on for details of the fallout,(compensation)as announced by minister Seamus Brennan this week. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / press release Thursday March 04, 2004 19:00 by Release Owen Rice Campaign   text 9 comments (last - thursday march 18, 2004 13:23)
A draconian sentence has been handed down to Owen Rice in the ongoing campaign of harassment that he is suffering under the Irish Judicial system. read full story / add a comment
national / eu / news report Thursday March 04, 2004 18:28 by Jonah   text 7 comments (last - friday march 05, 2004 13:16)
Well, probably not, but she did endorse a key demand of campaigners against the privatisation of public serviced through the European process. read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Thursday March 04, 2004 17:52 by Nader for Pres
Interesting comment from Ralph Nader in the States over the use of electronic voting there. Good background for our problems with electronic voting here... read full story / add a comment
dublin / bin tax / household tax / water tax / press release Thursday March 04, 2004 16:46 by Mark G   text 3 comments (last - friday march 05, 2004 10:22)
Bank of Ireland have achieved their target to recycle 80% of all waste generated in their Head Office in Baggot Street.

They began recycling waste in June 2003 and for the past 8 months they have recycled :-

* 62 tonnes of cardboard - the equivalent of 992 trees.
* 83.33 tonnes of paper.
* Saved 1,720 cubic metres of landfill.

They now plan to improve waste segregation at source to improve things further and cut the costs of recycling.

There are NO under-desk rubbish bins in any of the three buildings; staff have no choice but to recycle all waste.

Here's hoping other organisations follow suit. read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Thursday March 04, 2004 16:46 by Paul O'Donnell   text 13 comments (last - sunday march 07, 2004 14:20)
Am I the only one to notice the huge difference in the way gardai are approaching the farmers blockade in Leitrim and their heavy-handed tactics at anti-war demos, particularly at Shannon? read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Thursday March 04, 2004 11:55 by allen
Climate change and Ireland’s commitments under the Kyoto Agreement are among the greatest political challenges faced by Ireland now. How Ireland responds will have huge implications not just for the environment, but also for the economy, employment, and taxation.

In order to facilitate discussion and debate on these issues, the Labour Party Finance Spokesperson Joan Burton TD is holding a seminar on the subject of Kyoto Commitments, Carbon Taxes and Emissions Trading on Saturday, March 6, 10.30am to 2pm, Liberty Hall, Dublin. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Thursday March 04, 2004 05:36 by john throne   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 07, 2004 01:36)
The Grocery workers strike/lock out in Southern California came up against the refusal of the union leaders to mobilize the power of the working class. Read some comments and reports from California. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / opinion/analysis Wednesday March 03, 2004 23:09 by Tara Monitor   text 2 comments (last - friday march 05, 2004 13:01)
Despite a letter signed by the leading world experts and support from former Taoiseach John Bruton RTE is ignoring the voices thyat wish to preserve the Tara/Skryne valley. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / news report Wednesday March 03, 2004 22:05 by Fergus   text 4 comments (last - thursday march 25, 2004 21:13)
2nd March - Minister for Social & Family Affairs Mary Coughlin, Announces Restrictions On Access to Social Welfare
http://www.welfare.ie/press/pr04/pr020304.html

“Yes, well one of the parameters and prerogatives of introducing any type of changes, that once you do it, it must be for EVERYONE and this would include all EU citizens and Irish citizens,
and I’m satisfied that the new changes that I’m introducing
...will be satisfied under EU law because they are going to be eh… eh…available to all people in the EU."
-Mary Coughlin read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Wednesday March 03, 2004 21:45 by An Púca
Public Lecture on the Life and times of Harry Boland. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday March 03, 2004 15:09 by Deirdre   text 2 comments (last - wednesday march 03, 2004 18:22)
Thursday 4th March, room 3074, Arts Block.
The Trinity Anarchist society will show the second part of the documentary of The Battle of Chile
(You don't have to have seen the first part in order to understand the second).
As with last week the documentary will be introduced by a Chilean trade union activist and anarchist, and
followed by a discussion.

The Battle of Chile

On September 11, 1973, President Salvador Allende's democratically elected Chilean government was overthrown in a bloody coup by General Augusto Pinochet's army.
Patricio Guzmán and five colleagues had been filming the political developments in Chile throughout the nine months leading up to that day. The bombing of the Presidential Palace, in which Allende died, would now become the ending for Guzmán's seminal documentary The Battle of Chile (1975-76), an epic chronicle of that country's open and peaceful socialist revolution, and of the violent counter-revolution against it. read full story / add a comment
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