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

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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

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 British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
The post British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
The post Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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national / miscellaneous / news report Monday April 21, 2003 10:00 by James McKenna   text 1 comment (last - monday april 21, 2003 23:57)
Countries neighbouring Afghanistan are very concerned that NATO is now running ISAF operations in Afghanistan, to which Ireland is contributing troops. Nato officials in Brussels have been reported as saying the move represented a new era for the organisation. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Monday April 21, 2003 09:59 by Tim Hourigan   text 21 comments (last - tuesday october 07, 2008 13:30)
Earlier this year we saw some airlines leave Shannon following some spectacular direct action. “Good, Law-abiding” ‘ordinary’ airlines like World, North American and Miami Air. Just the folks you want to move your troops, DU and high grade explaosives. At the time we had Aer Rianta and some of the Chamber of Commerce lamenting their departure as tragic.Well- Good news ! One of them is back! read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 20, 2003 21:40 by Cork Anti-War Campaign   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 20, 2003 21:45)
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 20, 2003 19:40 by IRISH ANTI WAR MOVEMENT   text 6 comments (last - tuesday april 22, 2003 20:33)
IRISH ANTI WAR MOVEMENT BULLETIN 15/04/03 1.This was not a war of Liberation 2.Meetings on ‘Liberation or Occupation’ 3.Building the Anti War Movement 4.Make May Day Anti War Day. 5.National Assembly of the Irish Anti War Movement 6.G8 Summit in France – June 1st 7. IAWM Contacts read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 20, 2003 18:39 by Ailin   text 5 comments (last - tuesday april 22, 2003 23:05)
Approx 250 people gathered today at the GPO in Dublin for the annual RSF Easter commemoration. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 20, 2003 17:29 by Galway Alliance Against War   text 13 comments (last - wednesday april 23, 2003 00:17)
De Valera came back from the grave in Galway on Easter Sunday to voice his support for Irish neutrality at a “counter- Fianna Fail Easter Commemoration” in Galway’s Eyre Square. The organisers, the Galway Alliance Against War, had the actor Brendan Murray, formerly of Ros na Run, to play the part of Dev, while an original soundtrack of one of de Valera’s pro-neutrality speeches was played over loud speaking equipment. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 20, 2003 16:47 by €   text 1 comment (last - sunday april 20, 2003 20:55)
France. Athens. Moscow. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 20, 2003 15:53 by Passive   text 5 comments (last - thursday may 15, 2003 14:01)
Sunday Indo claim former Irish Attorney General and Donald Rumsfeld sold nuclear reactors to N. Korea in 2000. read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Sunday April 20, 2003 15:49 by IMC Editorial Group
Eye-Witness Report: I decided to lodge a complaint in Pearse St. Garda station [Dublin]. This is when it got really interesting. After a 25min. wait, I finally got the attention of the sergeant-on-duty.The conversation went somthing like this: read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 20, 2003 14:51 by F. Leddy   text 43 comments (last - monday june 09, 2003 15:08)
On friday 18 april at 1.30am, an incident happened on Dame st. Dublin city centre which put in perspective much of the recent debate over street safety and the poor availability of garda manpower to combat violent crime. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 20, 2003 01:39 by Mhatharaiche   text 5 comments (last - monday april 21, 2003 12:39)
IRELAND, the only country in Europe which still bans nude bathing, is facing a mass campaign by naturists for a change in the law. The Irish tourist board has been bombarded with e-mails from hundreds of nudists from Ireland and across the continent urging them to help establish a beach for those in search of an all-body tan. The Irish Naturist Association, which is leading the campaign, claimed it was being backed by four priests who are members. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Sunday April 20, 2003 00:58 by Joseph Abdel-Wahed   text 12 comments (last - thursday april 24, 2003 10:57)
As an Egyptian Jewish refugee, I celebrate Passover with special meaning. Passover is a time to commemorate the Jews' liberation from slavery in Egypt in 1300 BCE and return to freedom in Israel. At my family Seders in Cairo in the 1940s, we felt as if we represented the enduring memory of that exodus. Little did we know that we would soon experience our own exodus from Egypt as a result of racism and oppression. On Passover it is a Jewish tradition that, in retelling the exodus story, we should feel as if we ourselves experienced persecution and exodus from Egypt. I hope that this year we can also take a moment to experience the modern exodus of Middle Eastern Jews, one million of whom fled their homes in Arab countries and Iran between 1940 and 1980 under duress. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday April 19, 2003 19:02 by Jenny Hannon   text 22 comments (last - wednesday april 23, 2003 14:19)
You want the truth , you deserve the truth ! read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday April 19, 2003 17:25 by joe ranii   text 7 comments (last - sunday april 20, 2003 21:23)
Why do some Irish people apparently think that "demented acts" such as these are a good idea ? read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday April 19, 2003 11:40 by Karen Fallon (and Deirdre)   text 2 comments (last - monday april 21, 2003 04:13)
Karen is here and we're drinking copious amounts of proper coffee and looking at greenery (both novelties after the Limerick prison experience). She came out of prison yesterday (Good Friday) and I thank her for her lengthy witness. I also thank Tim, Laurence, Conor, Katherine, Joe, who have done incredible prison support day-in-day-out, throughout our stay, and who remained steadfast to Karen in her continuing witness. And HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAREN! Have a great bithday and a great first full day of freedom. - Deirdre. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday April 19, 2003 11:20 by Cllr Eoin O'Broin   text 6 comments (last - wednesday june 18, 2003 18:03)
Members of the UDA launched an attack on nationalist homes on the North Belfast interface of Limestone Road. At 10pm on Friday night, 19th April, a crowd of loyalists threw bottles, bricks and at least three pipebombs. No injuries were recorded. The Limestone Road is one of a number of interfaces which for two years, bore the brunt of UDA violence. Since September of this year the interfaces have been relatively quiet. Many commentators attributed this to the fued within Loyalism. Fears are now mounting that with the Loyal Orders marching season approaching, loyalist violence at Belfasts interfaces may return. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Saturday April 19, 2003 07:11 by Avi H.   text 21 comments (last - wednesday april 23, 2003 14:44)
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday April 18, 2003 23:05 by magog   text 8 comments (last - wednesday april 23, 2003 18:07)
Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday April 18, 2003 20:37 by Kev   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 20, 2003 23:07)
Less than 10 days after the 'liberation' of Iraq, thousands of Iraqis marched in downtown Baghdad on Friday to demand a rapid U.S. troop withdrawal and a prominent opposition leader said he expects Americans to relinquish most government functions within weeks. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / news report Friday April 18, 2003 19:56 by Claudia   text 1 comment (last - monday april 21, 2003 16:03)
Some of the ten activists arrested outside the City Hall on Tuesday 8th April were summonsed to court for Thursday 17th April. The next date for them to appear will be the 15th May. This will hopefully give the solicitors enough time to collect evidence like video footage or eye witness reports. We need as many people who were there as possible to help us out. Please get in touch with us via email (legal@gluaiseacht.org) snail mail (Legal Support c/o Giros, 1-5 Donegall Lane, Belfast) or give us a call 0044-7773918535 from the Republic of Ireland, 07773918535 from Northern Ireland and the UK. read full story / add a comment
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