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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.

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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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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.
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offsite link Now He?s Dead, the Truth About Purple Aki Can Finally Be Said Sun Sep 21, 2025 07:00 | Steven Tucker
Now he's dead, the truth about Purple Aki can finally be said, says Steven Tucker. A forerunner of all the sex-offending migrants that judges make excuses for, he targeted children in Liverpool for decades.
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offsite link News Round-Up Sun Sep 21, 2025 00:05 | 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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Coke Ban referendum defeated in Maynooth

category kildare | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday May 06, 2004 03:57author by matt - anti ban campaignauthor email no_to_coke_ban at oceanfree dot net Report this post to the editors

The referendum to ban coke in Maynooth has been defeated by 621 votes to 397

This means that Coca Cola will continue to be sold in the Student bar and the SU shop. Many of the executive in the Union were happy with the results as the Union is in severe financial dificulties. The large number of signatures needed to be collected means that it will be unlikely that another referendum will be held.

Related Link: http://www.yfgmaynooth.com

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   protecting jobs     SIPTU and USI member    Thu May 06, 2004 11:09 
   great news     pd'er    Thu May 06, 2004 11:44 
   Congratulations!     YFG Member    Thu May 06, 2004 11:56 
   Facts such as     David    Thu May 06, 2004 12:14 
   Makes a difference     Iona    Thu May 06, 2004 12:21 
   I'm ashamed     First year    Thu May 06, 2004 13:06 
   FG lies and mistruths     Constitutional Law Student    Thu May 06, 2004 13:24 
   A lot of bull     trekkypj    Thu May 06, 2004 13:48 
   Ah well..     Vote Yes    Thu May 06, 2004 13:52 
 10   Clergy dominated?     vpcomms    Thu May 06, 2004 14:16 
 11   NUIM is still clergy dominated     clergywatch    Thu May 06, 2004 14:21 
 12   Don't make silly excuses.     anti-coke    Thu May 06, 2004 14:42 
 13   Silly remarks     shinner    Thu May 06, 2004 14:44 
 14   NUIM is dominated by priests     abusedalterboy    Thu May 06, 2004 14:46 
 15   they do not train in maynooth - and if they did they would have every right to!     Shinner    Thu May 06, 2004 14:48 
 16   Religion is hocus pocus     abusedalterboy    Thu May 06, 2004 14:49 
 17   Seperate church and state     abusedalterboy    Thu May 06, 2004 14:50 
 18   If you add all the votes together     TCD Student    Thu May 06, 2004 15:08 
 19   credible proof?     David    Thu May 06, 2004 15:14 
 20   YFG     BossHogg    Thu May 06, 2004 15:22 
 21   Not true     David    Thu May 06, 2004 15:28 
 22   too true     BossHogg    Thu May 06, 2004 15:34 
 23   It was political     First Year    Thu May 06, 2004 16:10 
 24   .     NUIM student and yes voter    Thu May 06, 2004 16:13 
 25   Clergy control?     vpcomms    Thu May 06, 2004 16:15 
 26   Portraits of a ‘anti-coke campaigner’ as a ‘disillusioned nuim student’….     .    Thu May 06, 2004 16:29 
 27   nuim student     abstainer    Thu May 06, 2004 16:31 
 28   Well done to the NUIM anti-Killer Coke     Coke - drink of the death squads    Thu May 06, 2004 16:41 
 29   Well done     Off the Banned-Wagon    Thu May 06, 2004 16:42 
 30   Bollocks!     Ger    Thu May 06, 2004 16:46 
 31   .     .    Thu May 06, 2004 16:53 
 32   su did not remain neutral     pro ban campaigner    Thu May 06, 2004 16:56 
 33   rubbish.     David    Thu May 06, 2004 16:57 
 34   i agree     yes campaigner    Thu May 06, 2004 17:01 
 35   Facts     Ger    Thu May 06, 2004 17:10 
 36   not a Fan of coke but democratic rights!     ittsu    Thu May 06, 2004 17:13 
 37   Accept the result.     Anonymous    Thu May 06, 2004 17:14 
 38   Hey     BossHogg    Thu May 06, 2004 17:16 
 39   .     Ger    Thu May 06, 2004 17:19 
 40   pro ban- pro truth     yes campaigner    Thu May 06, 2004 17:21 
 41   Union Council     Anonymous    Thu May 06, 2004 17:23 
 42   I wonder who...?     random input    Thu May 06, 2004 17:35 
 43   best defence is attack eh?     David    Thu May 06, 2004 17:39 
 44   tell the truth     warrior for the truth    Thu May 06, 2004 17:41 
 45   Su     BossHogg    Thu May 06, 2004 17:43 
 46   Hypocritical     Anon    Thu May 06, 2004 17:44 
 47   we are not going to say.     David    Thu May 06, 2004 17:48 
 48   Illegal tactics     Anon    Thu May 06, 2004 17:51 
 49   whatever     David    Thu May 06, 2004 18:01 
 50   Pointless.     Anonymous    Thu May 06, 2004 18:08 
 51   A Triumph for democracy     matt bruton    Thu May 06, 2004 18:43 
 52   Boycott the taste of Colombian workers' blood     Coke, the drink of the death squads    Thu May 06, 2004 18:51 
 53   Funny how some people can't decide what's right and what's wrong!     Informed Observer    Thu May 06, 2004 19:21 
 54   The Truth about MAynooth     Maynooth Student    Thu May 06, 2004 19:23 
 55   freedom     Freedom    Thu May 06, 2004 19:31 
 56   Maynooth sutdents do not have the right to be wrong!!!!     Cynic    Thu May 06, 2004 19:56 
 57   To the anonymous "maynooth student"     matt bruton    Thu May 06, 2004 20:05 
 58   not deleted, moved.     watcher    Thu May 06, 2004 20:13 
 59   Questions to all...     Curious    Thu May 06, 2004 20:20 
 60   Please delete     UCD SU Officer    Thu May 06, 2004 20:28 
 61   Response to "UCD SU Officer"     Informed Observer    Thu May 06, 2004 20:41 
 62   yea lets play spot the lie.     matt bruton    Thu May 06, 2004 20:58 
 63   Clarification     Dermot Looney    Thu May 06, 2004 21:14 
 64   comments on UCD SU     matt bruton    Thu May 06, 2004 21:47 
 65   Matt you're talking shite now     matt watch    Thu May 06, 2004 22:02 
 66   ...     Dermot L    Thu May 06, 2004 22:07 
 67   mattwatch is a knob     mattwatch watch    Thu May 06, 2004 23:38 
 68   ok     mattwatch    Thu May 06, 2004 23:55 
 69   Wrong, wrong, wrong...     trekkypj    Fri May 07, 2004 00:38 
 70   to the anonymous "mattwatch"     matt bruton    Fri May 07, 2004 03:35 
 71   Do you know anything at the legal system in Colombia???     Law Student    Fri May 07, 2004 10:53 
 72   the workers were fired and re-hired at a wage cut     David    Fri May 07, 2004 11:27 
 73   Oh, and Matt, how can you possibly "know what you're talking about"     David    Fri May 07, 2004 11:30 
 74   clarification     OK    Fri May 07, 2004 12:27 
 75   Come on blueshits if you think youre hard enough     Dan    Fri May 07, 2004 17:30 
 76   my my my aren't we angry?     matt bruton    Fri May 07, 2004 19:08 
 77   Matt Bruton     VenusInFurs    Fri May 07, 2004 19:17 
 78   Retort     Ger    Fri May 07, 2004 19:49 
 79   Announcement     Peter Kavanagh    Fri May 07, 2004 19:51 
 80   Riddle me This     Off The Banned-Wagon    Fri May 07, 2004 19:56 
 81   to venus in far     matt bruton    Fri May 07, 2004 21:00 
 82   coming from somebody who..     factfinder    Fri May 07, 2004 21:24 
 83   clarification     matt bruton    Sat May 08, 2004 01:29 
 84   Chance of a rematch     ChrisL    Sat May 08, 2004 11:47 
 85   thats true but...     matt bruton    Sat May 08, 2004 16:26 
 86   sad end to campaign     der    Sat May 08, 2004 20:39 
 87   In support of the pro-ban coke campaigners     mary    Sat May 08, 2004 21:58 
 88   Um, sorry... but I need to say something here...     trekkypj    Sun May 09, 2004 01:18 
 89   Racism by no voters?     matt bruton    Sun May 09, 2004 04:58 
 90   Racist?     Anonymous    Sun May 09, 2004 15:07 
 91   the losers in this argument     me    Sun May 09, 2004 19:35 
 92   Racism..?!     Ger    Mon May 10, 2004 16:57 
 93   Come on Matt if you're man enough     Dan    Mon May 10, 2004 20:47 
 94   A reply     matt bruton    Mon May 10, 2004 21:56 
 95   Matt the Prat     Chunky Monkey    Tue May 11, 2004 14:39 
 96   Fine Gael support Fianna Fail?     confused    Tue May 11, 2004 14:46 
 97   This is wonderful stuff     Dan    Tue May 11, 2004 15:40 
 98   why the long post?     matt bruton    Tue May 11, 2004 18:02 
 99   Because I want to make everyone understand, especially you, just what a deceitful coward you are     Dan    Tue May 11, 2004 21:20 
 100   Interesting     John    Tue May 11, 2004 21:52 
 101   Libel? Ha fuckin' ha...     Dan    Wed May 12, 2004 21:40 
 102   Well said Daniel     Dermot L    Wed May 12, 2004 22:15 
 103   Dermot L     John    Wed May 12, 2004 22:46 
 104   why should he censor his feelings?     observer    Wed May 12, 2004 22:56 
 105   offence to colombians?     matt bruton    Thu May 13, 2004 00:03 
 106   a reply at last.     matt bruton    Thu May 13, 2004 00:39 
 107   UCD SU policy     Observer    Thu May 13, 2004 01:28 
 108   so what     original observer    Thu May 13, 2004 02:36 
 109   a reply     matt bruton    Thu May 13, 2004 04:04 
 110   which are "the other unions in Colombia"     David    Thu May 13, 2004 12:15 
 111   Hypothetical Answer     Swimmer    Thu May 13, 2004 14:47 
 112   Swimming coach - good comparison     intrigued    Thu May 13, 2004 16:45 
 113   More drivel from Matt, give up son you're not fooling anyone     Dan    Thu May 13, 2004 16:46 
 114   One more thing on Amnesty     Dan    Thu May 13, 2004 16:52 
 115   Reply to DAN and DAVID     matt bruton    Thu May 13, 2004 21:34 
 116   Saddam 'would' admit?     David    Fri May 14, 2004 13:05 
 117   Eight exclamation marks? Jesus you really are cracked Matt     Dan    Fri May 14, 2004 14:04 
 118   reply to dan and others     matt bruton    Sat May 15, 2004 04:53 
 119   Oh ffs will ye all just shut up!     trekkypj    Fri May 21, 2004 17:25 
 120   Re: comment above by "Trekkypj"     R. Isible    Fri May 21, 2004 20:42 
 121   to the enlightened writer above     matt bruton    Sun May 23, 2004 04:04 


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