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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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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.

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offsite link BBC to Review Bias in Climate Change Coverage Sun Nov 09, 2025 13:00 | Richard Eldred
The BBC has launched an internal probe into its crummy climate coverage. Has the Director-General seen our article listing 50 times the BBC spread climate misinformation?...
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offsite link Bridget Phillipson?s School Reforms Are Deepening the Two-Tier Crisis Sun Nov 09, 2025 11:00 | Mary Gilleece
Bridget Philipson's curriculum reforms have ignored a growing two-tier state education system, warns Mary Gilleece.
The post Bridget Phillipson?s School Reforms Are Deepening the Two-Tier Crisis appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Criticism of Islam is a Protected Belief, Judge Rules Sun Nov 09, 2025 09:00 | Toby Young
In a landmark Employment Tribunal ruling, a judge has found that being critical of Islam is a protected belief under the Equality Act. This renders the Government's efforts to ban 'Islamophobia' largely pointless.
The post Criticism of Islam is a Protected Belief, Judge Rules appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Joining the Dots Between Bill Gates and the BBC Sun Nov 09, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
What connects the scandal of the BBC doctoring Jan 6th footage to cast Trump in a bad light and Bill Gates's retreat from climate alarmism? More than you might think, says Ben Pile. It's all about how the Blob is made.
The post Joining the Dots Between Bill Gates and the BBC appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Nov 09, 2025 00:20 | Will Jones
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.
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mayo / environment / news report Friday September 10, 2010 20:36 by Shell to Hell   text 1 comment (last - thursday september 16, 2010 12:08)   image 3 images
Whilst the Oral Hearing on Shell's pipeline route continues, the last few weeks have seen yet more successful actions against the borehole drilling in the Special Area of Conservation Sruwaddacon estuary. read full story / add a comment
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Friday September 10, 2010 15:41 by ISPC   image 1 image
Dear M. Ambassador,

The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) condemns the decision taken by French authorities to prosecute people of conscience for calling for a boycott of Israeli produce. The IPSC also extends its solidarity to these activists and calls for the immediate dropping of these ridiculous charges. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday September 10, 2010 13:29 by pat c
More sickening crimes exposed on the part of US forces in Afghanistan. Full story at link.

Twelve US soldiers have been charged with crimes in Afghanistan ranging from murdering civilians to keeping body parts as war trophies.

The soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade, based in Washington State, were deployed to Kandahar province a year ago, and the murders occurred between January and March, according to charges by army prosecutors made public this week.

"Allegations like this are . . . very serious," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell told a news briefing."Clearly, even if these allegations are proved to be untrue, it is unhelpful. It does not help the perceptions of our forces around the world." (Morrell is a master of understatement) read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / press release Thursday September 09, 2010 23:23 by Ardoyne Republican   text 9 comments (last - monday september 20, 2010 11:49)
REPUBLICAN NETWORK for UNITY (RNU) Spokesperson, MARTIN ÓG MEEHAN has highlighted a serious intensification of sinister anti-Republican activities across the Six Counties by British Intelligence Agencies and the RUC/PSNI. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / arts and media / news report Thursday September 09, 2010 19:50 by Darren J. Prior/Mac an Phríora   image 5 images
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www.near.ie read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / press release Thursday September 09, 2010 14:44 by Assembly for Solidarity (Athens, Greece)
international call for actions of solidarity to the comrades in Chile, for Friday, September 24th read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests / news report Thursday September 09, 2010 10:36 by banbora   text 4 comments (last - thursday october 21, 2010 23:10)
Trade unions representing Irish construction workers called for a 7.5 % cut in their members’ wages after meeting in Dublin yesterday. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Wednesday September 08, 2010 15:04 by Ciaron O'Reilly   text 10 comments (last - thursday january 06, 2011 21:36)   image 3 images
A few months ago the Catholic Worker network in England decided to embark on a series of "Faith and Resistance Retreats" as a basis of nonviolently confronting the war & the war machine and deepening our broader sense of community beyond our specific projects & living/working situations. The first was timed to mark the 30th. anniversary of the original Plowshares 8 action and to nonviolently confront Britain's ongoing production and refinement of nuclear weapons at Aldermaston. read full story / add a comment
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international / history and heritage / news report Wednesday September 08, 2010 15:00 by Ahaztuak   image 1 image   1 attached file
News from the Basque Country read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / event notice Wednesday September 08, 2010 13:40 by Spartacus
As you may already be aware, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), the European wide umbrella to which ICTU is affiliated, has named Wednesday 29 September as the date for European wide action under the title 'No to Austerity - Priority for Jobs and Growth'. See http://www.etuc.org/a/7407 for details on their website.

You will see from the link that a major protest is planned for Brussels that day and in terms of local actions a general strike will be taking place in Spain. It is likely that most other national trade union confederations who were party to the ETUC decision in naming this date will observe it with actions in their own country. For all the reasons that the CPSU officially endorsed the recent June Europe wide week of action against the cuts and bailouts initiated by Joe Higgins and other left MEPs, we feel international initiatives like this are a vital part of the fightback we need. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday September 08, 2010 12:55 by Wat Tyler
Fidel criticises anti-Semitism on the part of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad but also made clear his understanding of Irans fear of attack from Israel and the US. This is from an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, a journalist who writes for The Atlantic magazine. Full text at link.

Fidel Castro has criticised Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for what he called his anti-Semitic attitudes. The former Cuban leader also warned that an escalating conflict between Iran and the West could lead to nuclear war. Over the course of a five-hour discussion, Mr Castro "repeatedly returned to his excoriation of anti-Semitism", and criticised Mr Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust.

Mr Castro told Mr Goldberg that he understood Iranian fears of Israeli-American aggression and that he did not believe that sanctions and threat would dissuade Iran from pursuing nuclear weapons. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday September 08, 2010 12:17 by Eamonn Lynskey
It's time for the regular 'Last Wednesday' open mic. read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday September 08, 2010 12:08 by Eamonn Lynskey
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday September 08, 2010 12:03 by Eamonn Lynskey
international / gender and sexuality / press release Tuesday September 07, 2010 22:12 by Goranka Gudel   text 2 comments (last - friday september 10, 2010 02:09)
For Immediate Publication

One Law for All Protest the Pope
7 September 2010

One Law for All is adding its support to Protest the Pope. Spokesperson, Maryam Namazie, will be speaking at the 18 September march and rally beginning at Hyde Park Corner at 1.30pm (www.protest-the-pope.org.uk).

One Law for All’s opposition to Sharia courts and religion’s adverse role in public life necessitates a criticism of the Pope and Vatican. Whilst the Pope is free to travel to meet his supporters, he cannot be free from criticism, particularly given that his visit is a state one and because of his and the Vatican’s regressive policies. Amongst other things, the Pope and Vatican are opposed to equal rights for women and homosexuals as well as condom distribution to AIDS-ravaged societies in Africa. They have refused to address many thousands of cases of child sex abuse and torture, deliberately perverting the course of justice in these cases, and moving predatory priests from location to location giving them the opportunity to re-offend. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday September 07, 2010 22:00 by Paddy Hackett   text 18 comments (last - sunday september 19, 2010 22:40)   image 2 images
The problem is that profit cannot, by its very nature, increase continuously. It must fall leading to falling investment. Demand or consumption is a function of this process. read full story / add a comment
international / history and heritage / other press Tuesday September 07, 2010 17:27 by Paddy Hackett   text 25 comments (last - sunday february 06, 2011 17:01)
In a sense, then, there is a commonality between these three 19th century intellectual figures --Darwin, Marx and Nietzsche. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday September 07, 2010 16:20 by Antonette   text 2 comments (last - tuesday september 07, 2010 17:04)
Northern Irelands Consumer Council has been marched in to organise a series of ‘consultation’ meetings to mobilise the views of the ‘public’ about what cuts should to be made in public services.

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national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday September 07, 2010 13:58 by banbora
In spite of stringent austerity measures taken by the government , financial markets are beginning to see Ireland as "Europe’s next Greece"..Last week the Standard & Poor’s rating agency cut Ireland's credit rating to AA- . This is the lowest rating in the past 15 years .The revised rating means that this country will now have to pay increased interest rates to ensure the sales of its bonds.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / opinion/analysis Tuesday September 07, 2010 10:07 by Ardoyne Republican   text 3 comments (last - sunday september 19, 2010 22:23)   image 1 image
In recent weeks, there have been a host of news reports, columns and internet blogs seeking answers to the growth of dissenting Republicanism. Much of which has focused on the morality surrounding armed actions.However, what many have failed to grasp has been the shift in ideological terms between mainstream and dissenting republicans. A much better description would be contemporary and socialist republicans.
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