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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 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.
The post Labour Sinks to Lowest Ever Poll Rating ? as Andy Burnham Fuels Starmer Challenge Rumours appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday August 04, 2010 11:27 by Eamonn Lynskey
Don't miss this event (incorrectly entered above for 12th): read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Wednesday August 04, 2010 11:24 by Communities Aganist Cuts   text 2 comments (last - thursday august 05, 2010 04:07)
Lone Parents and People with Disabilities on Community Employment schemes fight for equality read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / other press Tuesday August 03, 2010 17:59 by Darklight
Darklight Free Your Film Movie Making Challenge in association with The Darklight Festival 2010 and Sony Ericsson. read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / event notice Tuesday August 03, 2010 16:45 by Stuart White
Comhlámh (pronounced ‘co-law-ve', Irish for ‘solidarity') is a member and supporter organisation open to anyone interested in social justice, human rights and global development issues. Marking its 35th anniversary this year it connects, informs, educates and campaigns on these matters.

Comhlámh was set up originally in 1975 to support development workers returning home and to promote greater understanding of development issues in Ireland. Today the support we provide to development workers and volunteers before, during and after overseas assignments is a core element of our work. We also actively promote the continued involvement of returned development workers and volunteers in working for a better world from Ireland and provide a range of information and opportunities for how you can get involved.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday August 02, 2010 18:12 by John Cornford
Another Iranian journalist, Abdolreza Tajik , is imprisoned without charge and is being mistreated. The International Federation of Journalists have issued this statement. Full text and more details at link.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Iranian authorities to release journalist Abdolreza Tajik who has been in detention for 50 days without being charged. His family claims he has been ill treated in jail.

"The failure to produce evidence that he has broken the law and the fears that he is being abused in jail should be enough to indicate that there is a terrible injustice here," said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. "If there is no case to answer he should be freed immediately and all the allegations of ill treatment must be investigated." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday August 01, 2010 23:27 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 2 comments (last - monday august 02, 2010 07:59)
Last Monday I went to Conway Hall in downtown London to welcome Joe Glenton out of 4 months in a military prison in Colchester. read full story / add a comment
donegal / education / press release Sunday August 01, 2010 13:59 by éirígí Sligeach   text 1 comment (last - sunday august 01, 2010 15:30)
The proposal to use the widely discredited public private partnership scheme to build a new school premises for Coláiste Ailigh in Letterkenny has been condemned by éirígí. read full story / add a comment
wexford / arts and media / event notice Sunday August 01, 2010 10:18 by Mark
Tomfarney Productions is a new zero budget film making group in Wexford and we're looking for anyone interested in acting or helping out as crew.
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mayo / environment / news report Saturday July 31, 2010 23:14 by Stop Shell Hell in Mayo   text 1 comment (last - tuesday august 03, 2010 16:45)
On Wed 28th July a delegation of residents handed in their objections to An Bord Pleanála and Eamon Ryan regarding Shell's latest plan to put a raw gas pipeline close to homes and through the Special Protected Area (SPA) of Sruwaddacon estuary. read full story / add a comment
dublin / animal rights / event notice Saturday July 31, 2010 21:15 by Laura Broxson
FUR FARMING BAN COMING IN 2012 - SO IT'S TIME TO GET ALL IMPORTS BANNED TOO!!! read full story / add a comment
galway / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday July 29, 2010 14:15 by Climate Camp Galway
A screening of a short documentary about Climate Camp Ireland 2009 and a
collection of other shorts from previous Climate Camps in other countries
accompanied by a brief talk about what Irish Climate is and where/what it
will be this year. There will also be a chance to ask questions of some of
the people involved. The main film is 20 minutes along and the others are
between five and twelve minutes. There will be Dj's afterwards til 12.

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international / environment / other press Thursday July 29, 2010 14:15 by Oswald Bastable   text 2 comments (last - sunday august 01, 2010 16:35)
New Scient interviews Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, UK. Full text at url.

Do you feel that climate science and policy should be separate?

PJ I think there should be some separation. What we say about the science should be treated separately from what's happening with the policy. There should be an acceptance that the climate has warmed since measurements began. OK, there's then debate about what caused that warming. But I do find it difficult engaging with people who deny the evidence and say the world has not warmed. read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues / press release Thursday July 29, 2010 11:23 by Tracy Donegan
1 in 4 babies will be born by caesarean in Ireland. Experts estimate that 1/3 of Irish caesareans are
avoidable. As the HSE announces a caesarean reduction strategy more Mothers are questioning the rise
in surgical birth.

A must read for all expectant Mothers. Tracy Donegan’s latest guide to birth in Ireland explores the
epidemic of surgical births in Ireland and the growing number of women choosing VBAC (vaginal birth
after caesarean). The Irish Caesarean and VBAC Guide provides answers to the many overwhelming
questions associated with caesarean birth and VBAC. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / opinion/analysis Wednesday July 28, 2010 20:48 by Tony Healy   text 4 comments (last - tuesday august 03, 2010 23:42)
A ban on trade union donations to the Labour Party will not benefit anyone other than the enemies of the working class and the organised working class in particular.

The Green Party leader John Gormley has announced that the ban is to be introduced, alongside a ban on corporate donations, so much for the Green Party’s veneer of radicalism. This “radicalism” has become very stale and particularly mouldy also. Of course the proposed legislation is designed to appear even handed.

But the truth of the matter is that the link between Labour and the working class is potentially very important and the bourgeois understand that very well.
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dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday July 28, 2010 16:15 by SHE-D
Film:
Investigation of a citizen above suspicion by elio petri
(112 min. Italy 1970, spoken italian language. English subtitles) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday July 28, 2010 14:59 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - friday july 30, 2010 11:29)
Tariq Ali has written the commentary for Oliver Stones new documentary about Hugo Chavez. Here he writes on how the film was made. Full story at link.

Almost a year and a half ago I received a phone call from Paraguay. It was Oliver Stone. He had been reading Pirates of the Caribbean: Axis of Hope, my collection of essays on the changing politics of Latin America, and asked if I was familiar with his work. I was, especially the political films in which he challenged the fraudulent accounts of the Vietnam war that had gained currency during the B-movie years of Reagan's presidency. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / opinion/analysis Tuesday July 27, 2010 17:19 by Catholic Worker   text 1 comment (last - wednesday july 28, 2010 15:42)
VID (8 mins 30 secs) - (A slightly hungover) Ciaron O'Reilly on "Christian Anarchism & the Catholic Worker". Talk given at Christian - Anarchist gathering in England 2010.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / news report Tuesday July 27, 2010 00:28 by KSI   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 27, 2010 00:38)
Kurdish spokesman's lawyer condemns arrest as political in nature. read full story / add a comment
cork / environment / event notice Monday July 26, 2010 22:04 by Ruth Fortune
A unique chance to hear a global perspective on current Money and Energy challenges, and how Cork communities can gear up locally for power-down.

Date: Sunday 1st August 2010

Time: 7:30 pm

Location: The Pegasus Room, Clarion Hotel, Lapp’s Quay, Cork

Entrance: €5 (free for unwaged) read full story / add a comment
national / gender and sexuality / opinion/analysis Monday July 26, 2010 17:17 by Paul McAndrew   text 1 comment (last - tuesday july 27, 2010 14:48)
Urgent! Attack on vital health provision for trans people in Ireland
The Labour councillor making the call for cuts. is Colm Keaveney . I've already spoken to him on this mobile number. It works. Got it from Labour website.
colm@colmkeaveney.ie
087-6776812 read full story / add a comment
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