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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 RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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offsite link News Round-Up Mon Sep 22, 2025 00:43 | Richard Eldred
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 The BBC?s ?1 Billion Pension Bailout Sun Sep 21, 2025 19:47 | Richard Eldred
The BBC has poured over ?1 billion into its gold-plated pension scheme, gobbling up nearly ?850 million of licence fee money ? and it looks like the bill could keep climbing.
The post The BBC?s ?1 Billion Pension Bailout appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Education Secretary Launches Fresh Attack on Private Schools Sun Sep 21, 2025 17:13 | Richard Eldred
In a fresh raid that could force more closures and squeeze parents' wallets, Bridget Phillipson is hitting private schools again, this time tripling Ofsted inspection fees.
The post Education Secretary Launches Fresh Attack on Private Schools appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Keir Starmer Confirms Britain Will Ignore US and Israeli Anger and Recognise a Palestinian State Sun Sep 21, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Keir Starmer has sparked fury by pledging to recognise a Palestinian state even though critics say it rewards Hamas, angers Israel and the US and won't help hostages or feed Gaza's starving.
The post Keir Starmer Confirms Britain Will Ignore US and Israeli Anger and Recognise a Palestinian State appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link North Sea ?Has Three Times More Oil and Gas? Than Government Claims Sun Sep 21, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
Britain's North Sea could have 14 billion barrels of oil and gas ? three times what the Government reckons ? but sky-high taxes and drilling bans are leaving it in the ground while jobs and cash go begging.
The post North Sea ?Has Three Times More Oil and Gas? Than Government Claims appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / housing / press release Friday June 01, 2007 15:54 by SDLP Youth   text 1 comment (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 17:06)
SDLP Youth shocked at the continual rise in house prices, leaving young people with no hopes of getting onto the housing ladder. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday June 01, 2007 13:59 by John McAnulty   text 20 comments (last - tuesday june 05, 2007 13:15)
The Irish election of 24th May astounded all the political observers commenting on it. read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Friday June 01, 2007 13:54 by John McAnulty
The New Stormont regime in the North of Ireland
“And this is hell, nor am I out of it”

John McAnulty

A local cartoonist, Ian Knox, summed up the May 8th re-opening of the Stormont executive in the North of Ireland as the coronation of the sectarian bigot Ian Paisley, read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Thursday May 31, 2007 20:05 by Paul Kinsella
The European Commission proposes to liberalise all Postal Markets in January 2009, which means opening them up to competition which may have adverse repercussions for the safety of our jobs. Postal Services throughout Europe are calling for safeguards to be put in place to protect our postal business. A European wide protest has been organised for 1-2pm on Wednesday 6th June which will see demonstrations at ALL Major European Post Offices read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday May 31, 2007 19:41 by Paul Kinsella
Day Of Protest

GPO

1-2pm

Wednesday 6th June

Hands Off Our Post Office

The European Commission proposes to liberalise all Postal Markets in January 2009, which means opening them up to competition which may have adverse repercussions for the safety of our jobs. Postal Services throughout Europe are calling for safeguards to be put in place to protect our postal business. A European wide protest has been organised for 1-2pm on Wednesday 6th June which will see demonstrations at ALL Major European Post Offices.

We are urging all our members to support this lunch hour protest outside the GPO on the day. ALL company post offices are closing between 1-2pm to show solidarity across Europe to save our postal services. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Thursday May 31, 2007 18:00 by éirígí - For a Socialist Republic
On May 8, four anti-war activists were assaulted and arrested by the PSNI while taking part in peaceful demonstrations against the visit of British war criminal Tony Blair to Belfast.
These men are now facing trumped-up charges for using their right to peaceful protest.
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galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday May 31, 2007 15:31 by TD
In a Haaretz article, Amira Hass exposes yet another ugly facet of Israeli discriminatory policy towards Palestine: "(Israel) does not allocate cellular frequencies to the Palestinians that answer their modern technological, economic, social and personal needs. More precisely, Israel refuses to coordinate with the Palestinians so they can use the cellcom frequencies they should have according to the International Telecommunications Union ...
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday May 31, 2007 11:40 by Red Banner   text 2 comments (last - monday july 02, 2007 22:03)
The latest issue of Red Banner: a magazine of socialist ideas is available now. €2 / £1.50 from the above address, or from good bookshops. The Red Banner website is also now on line. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday May 30, 2007 23:33 by knowing i did my best to tell you about the blue white flash   text 2 comments (last - thursday april 30, 2009 11:40)
Lebanon might have caught readers attention again in the last ten days. An awful lot has happened since the Valentine Weekend 2005 murder of "Mr Lebanon" Rafik Hariri, an event of such importance that it prompted a series of 9 new stories with constant ongoing analysis of one of the pivotal states as preparation for any geopolitical strategic understanding.

Lebanon returned to our telly screens as a long standing refugee enclave of Palestinians was targetted by the Lebanese army amidst calls to "take out the terrorists" who apparantly use Lebanon to attack Western interests. Tonight the UN security council has voted to bring the murder (or magnicide if you will) of Hariri to the International tribunal in The Hague.
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international / crime and justice / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 30, 2007 19:10 by Kevin T. Walsh   text 25 comments (last - thursday september 27, 2007 10:28)
I came back today from work, I passed through Town. I turned on the radio to listen to Drive Time by Mary Wilson. I could not believe what I was hearing - Beverely Flynn speaking about the formation of a new Government and her shopping basket for the people of Mayo. Is there anybody out there when any tiny bit of morality out there?
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Wednesday May 30, 2007 14:22 by pat c
This is an article about the war against the Working Class in Iran; a war which is waged by the Mullahs. In particular it tells the story of the challenges faced by the workers at one car manufacturing plant. The workers are in conflict with the Mullahs who represent the Capitalist System but this does not mean that they favour the US.

As Iranian union activist Ebrahim Madadi says: Our labour union does not regard anyone who propagates and prepares for war as its friends and allies. We reject strongly any military action against our country and warn the workers against the threat of war and the need to stop such aggression. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / opinion/analysis Wednesday May 30, 2007 00:20 by Schmaik
Can Ireland More Fully Participate in its objection to Global War by identifying its dependance on the European Banking system, and making moves to elect those who will not support it? Some questions are posed. read full story / add a comment
national / arts and media / other press Tuesday May 29, 2007 15:10 by Miriam Cotton & David Manning   text 11 comments (last - monday december 08, 2008 16:13)
Fintan O' Toole offers a detailed analysis of his percpetion of mainstream media. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Tuesday May 29, 2007 04:54 by moby   text 1 comment (last - monday june 11, 2007 09:51)
Why is a Northern Hemisphere nation, JAPAN, permitted to flagrantly slaughter whales in Southern Hemisphere waters? Perhaps widespread inaction in the face of blatant Japanese smugness, arrogance, contempt for the environment, the International Whaling Commission and other nations is related to the world’s toleration of criminal wars resulting in hundreds of thousands of innocent human casualties! What chance do whales have if innocent HUMAN BEINGS are treated as expendable? read full story / add a comment
international / consumer issues / other press Monday May 28, 2007 05:19 by staff report   text 2 comments (last - tuesday may 29, 2007 23:03)
The singularly profit driven Corporations have lied and lied regarding food additives, tobacco and climate changing pollutants. They only respond to VERY LARGE financial disincentives. A drive to sign up whole populations for a class action against these polluters is a great start for future mental and physical health.

This action may also reveal the combination of additives in foods and the water supply that impairs the human will. Never before in human history have entire populations become so subservient, helpless and passive in the most alarming circumstances. The apathy and complacency witnessed today in the face of horrendous illegal wars, pollution induced climate change/GLOBAL warming, to name the two most catastrophic events, is beyond comprehension.

Hit them hard and hit them in the pocket, the "class" of the action should include the entire population -- you and your children have been poisoned! read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Sunday May 27, 2007 23:25 by CAAT   text 19 comments (last - sunday december 09, 2007 11:56)
Pine Gap is an NSA/CIA Base located near isolated Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. The base is part of the sattelite targetting used for U.S. bombings in Iraq and Adfghanistan. In December of 2005, four Christian resisters made their way into the most secure area in Australia to carry out a Citizen's Inspection www.pinegap6.org They have been charged under draconian legislation never used before. Their trial begins this week. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Sunday May 27, 2007 21:05 by Henry   text 10 comments (last - tuesday june 19, 2007 16:01)
All but one Green TD see drop in their votes read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / event notice Saturday May 26, 2007 20:26 by Georgi Chicherin
August 11 - 18. A week of debate and controversy for the thinking left, Hosted by the Communist Party of Great Britain and sponsored by Critique, the Campaign for a Marxist Party, the Radical Anthropology Group and Workers Left Unity Iran

Russian Marxist Boris Kagarlitsky and Hillel Ticktin
(Critique) are amongst this years confirmed speakers.
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dublin / politics / elections / opinion/analysis Saturday May 26, 2007 17:14 by CTN   text 24 comments (last - sunday june 24, 2007 16:51)
Now that the Adams/McGuinness axis have crashed publicly at the election, their strategic incompetence and general political disconnection have been exposed to all especially the potential republican left activist base here in Dublin, with many seeing for the first time how out of touch these guys are. read full story / add a comment
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