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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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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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Guy de la B?doy?re has recently returned from a road trip across the American West. Along the way he spoke to various Americans, among them Trump supporters but more noticeably demoralised and disaffected Democrats.
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A migrant deported to France under?Keir Starmer?s 'one in, one out' scheme has returned to the UK on a small boat, leading Kemi Badenoch to ask, "Does that mean we now have to take two people from France to return him?"
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Bree criticises elements of the Irish labour movement for discarding its socialist values

category leitrim | anti-capitalism | news report author Wednesday January 04, 2006 21:39author by Kat H Report this post to the editors

Elements of the Irish labour movement are actively undermining its philosophy to keep establishment parties in power, a Labour Party stalwart has claimed. Declan Bree, a former TD and the current mayor of Sligo, made his comments while addressing a wreath-laying ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of the Leitrim socialist Jim Gralton on January 1.
His comments were widely seen as a thinly veiled attack on his party leader, Pat Rabbitte.

The two men have clashed over the party’s strategy of having a pre-election pact with Fine Gael and Mr Rabbitte’s support for the European Union constitution.
Last year, Mr Bree was subjected to an internal disciplinary hearing after criticising fellow Labour councillors for joining with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil to vote down Sligo’s Traveller accommodation unit programme last June.
Mr Rabbitte was also subjected to a hearing after Mr Bree complained about a letter by Mr Rabbitte that appeared in The Irish Times. Mr Bree described as “false and scurrilous” the claims he had tried to relocate the accommodation unit from his own ward.
Speaking at the site of the Pearse-Connolly Hall in Gowel, Co Leitrim, Mr Bree said: “Today, people who would have us compromise would say that socialist activists like Jimmy Gralton and James Connolly were born before their time, that their ideas and philosophy were much too advanced or too radical.
“Unfortunately, people who hold such views and who would have us compromise on our principles can today be found in the ranks of our own movement.
“They are the same elements who consistently attempt to undermine our ideology and who would have the labour and socialist movement in Ireland discard its philosophy and its values and become mere props to keep the main establishment parties in power.
“Our challenge today is to make it abundantly clear to these elements that, like Connolly’s ideology, Gralton’s philosophy and Gralton’s values are fundamental to what our movement is all about.”
Mr Bree added: “We need to fight for the vision of an alternative Ireland, a society driven by values other than greed, environmental degradation and blind consumerism.”
Amid a red scare in 1933, the Free State government deported Jim Gralton.
He spent the rest of his life involved in the US labour movement and was buried in New York’s Woodlawn cemetery 60 years ago last week.

A Connolly Forum public meeting entitled Jim Gralton — the Leitrim Socialist will be held in the Trades Club, Castle Street, Sligo, on Wednesday, January 19, at 8.30pm.
Pat Feeley, the writer and former RTÉ radio presenter, will be among the speakers.

http://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/news/2005/gralton-tribute/

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Fair play     Mark P    Wed Jan 04, 2006 22:38 
   musings of a deeply disillusioned labourite     deeplydisillusionedlabourite    Thu Jan 05, 2006 03:57 
   Factual Inaccuracies.     Charles B.    Thu Jan 05, 2006 10:49 
   Bree     John    Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:00 
   John     SH    Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:08 
   Bree     Boxty    Thu Jan 05, 2006 12:19 
   The Connolly Forum (Sligo/Leitrim Independent Socialist Party!)     Ray    Thu Jan 05, 2006 14:50 
   This story is from Daily Ireland     Corkman    Thu Jan 05, 2006 15:18 
   The Future of the irish Left     Socialist    Thu Jan 05, 2006 18:12 
 10   Nice idea, but...     Ivor Bell    Thu Jan 05, 2006 18:23 
 11   Sinn Fein!     Wake up    Thu Jan 05, 2006 18:24 
 12   Sinn Fein!     Frank    Thu Jan 05, 2006 18:44 
 13   Correction on SF     Correction    Thu Jan 05, 2006 18:48 
 14   SF not left wing     SFwatch    Thu Jan 05, 2006 20:04 
 15   SF Watch     SP Watch    Thu Jan 05, 2006 20:12 
 16   SP watch..     SF watch    Thu Jan 05, 2006 20:17 
 17   SF Watch     SP Watch    Thu Jan 05, 2006 20:26 
 18   facts     SFwatch    Thu Jan 05, 2006 20:27 
 19   Watching this that and the other     Mark P    Thu Jan 05, 2006 20:40 
 20   SF Watch     SP Watch    Thu Jan 05, 2006 20:44 
 21   SF are sectarians     SFwathc    Thu Jan 05, 2006 21:19 
 22   An answer of sorts.     Mark P    Thu Jan 05, 2006 21:25 
 23   Read some history SFwathc     seedot    Fri Jan 06, 2006 01:48 
 24   seedot     Mark P    Fri Jan 06, 2006 02:38 
 25   row here or on Big Brother     seedot    Fri Jan 06, 2006 03:31 
 26   Back briefly     Mark P    Fri Jan 06, 2006 04:19 
 27   but Connollys socialist ireland     seedot    Fri Jan 06, 2006 04:33 
 28   Trying to get to bed but...     Mark P    Fri Jan 06, 2006 05:33 
 29   Nonsense     SH    Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:55 
 30   Mark     SP Watch    Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:17 
 31   Just a few comments...     SP Member    Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:38 
 32   Any Links?     Davy Carlin    Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:41 
 33   SP Member     SP Watch    Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:44 
 34   Hello There..     Fetish    Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:57 
 35   Fetish     SP Watch    Fri Jan 06, 2006 12:11 
 36   SP Watch     SP Member    Fri Jan 06, 2006 13:25 
 37   SP Member     SP Watch    Fri Jan 06, 2006 13:48 
 38   Replying     Mark P    Fri Jan 06, 2006 14:29 
 39   anti-sectarian     former militant member    Fri Jan 06, 2006 14:47 
 40   will Declan Bree and Labour Cllrs in Galway join SP or SF?     Pete    Fri Jan 06, 2006 21:25 
 41   Bree Supported Fine Gael AND Fianna Fail Govts.     Sean Philips    Fri Jan 06, 2006 23:20 
 42   Harshest possible assessment     Mark P    Fri Jan 06, 2006 23:31 
 43   in fairness     Sean Philips    Sat Jan 07, 2006 00:11 
 44   Where's the line Sean?     seedot    Sat Jan 07, 2006 03:24 
 45   Bree was longer ouside of Labour     Kat    Sat Jan 07, 2006 12:35 
 46   Shinners and the North     Hack    Sat Jan 07, 2006 14:29 
 47   Breaking with Labour is important for workers movement     Sean Williams    Sat Jan 07, 2006 17:59 
 48   Is this there is anything more left in the LP than Bree     Micko    Sat Jan 07, 2006 21:22 
 49   Bree     hs    Sun Jan 08, 2006 15:44 
 50   Long Rd with no turn     PP    Thu May 31, 2007 21:40 
 51   Give it a rest     leftwatch    Fri Jun 01, 2007 09:01 
 52   Centrerightwatch     Left wing Govt    Fri Jun 01, 2007 10:42 
 53   Bitter and twisted     leftwatch    Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:00 
 54   Comments please?     boxty    Fri Jun 01, 2007 13:36 
 55   Thats all irrelevant     leftwatch    Fri Jun 01, 2007 15:08 
 56   save labour     b s    Fri Jun 01, 2007 20:41 
 57   cancer removed     Pioneer group    Sat Jun 02, 2007 08:30 


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