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 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.
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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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
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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. The Saker >>
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Successful IPSC at Protest Bogus Israeli Embassy Conference on Migrant Rights One Speaker Pulls Out
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 Friday December 18, 2009 18:11 by Freda H, Fintan L & Kev - IPSC info at ipsc dot ie
- Successful IPSC Protest at Bogus Israeli Embassy Conference on Migrant Rights
- AkiDwA Director Cancels Scheduled Speech
- Two Irish Pro-Palestinian Academics Refused Entry
 Thanks to everyone who came along and who phoned Deputy Tuffy asking her not to attend (in vain) Members and supporters of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) today, Friday 18th December, staged a two-hour protest outside a lecture being hosted by the Israeli Embassy in the Dublin 4 Berkeley Hotel. The embassy invited many women's rights, migrant and refugee advocacy groups to attend what they described as a lecture on "Migrant Women: Sharing the Israeli experience in Migrant absorption". The human rights activists stood at the gates of the hotel holding flags and placards, and distributed leaflets asking invitees not to attend.
IPSC spokesperson Freda Hughes said: "The title of this lecture would almost be laughable were it not so serious an issue. This is a hypocritical and disgraceful attempt to soft-peddle Zionism to progressive organisations in Irish civil society. The impression given is that Israel has a particular empathy with, and concern for, migrants, but the reality, of course, is very different. Israeli state racism against its own non-Jewish citizens and Palestinians in the occupied territories and the Palestinian Diaspora are well documented facts. Israel operates a system of apartheid against the Palestinian people." [1]
Ms. Hughes continued: “The main speaker at the lecture was Joanna Tuffy, TD, the Labour Party spokesperson on Environment and Heritage. We in the IPSC, and supporters of Palestinian human rights all over Ireland, are very disappointed that Deputy Tuffy chose endorse this spurious conference which serves only to promote Israeli apartheid. We would also question why the Labour Party, many leading members of which have been outspoken supporters of Palestinian rights, would allow any party member to represent them at such an event.” [2]
Ms. Hughes concluded: “We are, however, very pleased to report that Ms. Salome Mbugua, the Director of AkiDwA, who was also scheduled to speak chose not to when she was alerted to hypocrisy underlying the conference. Instead she went along to the event and handed the Israeli Ambassador a copy of the speech she was due to deliver along with the letter she received from the IPSC and a human rights report from Amnesty International. The IPSC thanks and congratulates Ms. Mbugua for her principled stance in favour of rights for all migrants and refugees.”
IPSC Chairperson Dr. David Landy and spokesperson Freda Hughes attempted to attend the lecture in an effort to engage with participants and speakers by highlighting Israel’s denial of the right of return to Palestinian refugees, of which there are now over four million worldwide. Dr. Landy is a sociology lecturer in TCD who has taught courses on Race and Ethnicity, which have focused on migrant and refugee issues. Ms. Hughes is a teacher and educational researcher who specialises in interculturalism and migrant rights in the Irish education system. Both were refused entry and questioned as to whether they were carrying weapons.
Dr. Landy commented: “Instead of merely standing outside protesting the event, we sought to engage with the participants. However, instead of being allowed a democratic forum to air criticisms, we found ourselves subject to degradation, humiliation, bag searches and repeated threats of forcible removal. Such actions by Israel Embassy staff were totally uncalled for in light of our polite and academic approach, and also show that Israel’s so-called commitment to migrant rights is completely insincere. They simply refuse to acknowledge the elephant in the room, which is the continued denial of rights to the Palestinian people.”
After being denied entry, the two academics, Dr. Landy and Ms. Hughes, joined the protesters outside.
Notes:
[1] The Israeli state was founded on the principles of ethnic supremacy, and non-Jewish migrants in Israel are treated worse than migrants in European countries. This year, the Israeli state has deported thousands of foreign workers and their families - family reunification for non-Jewish migrants forbidden and this is a law the Israeli state enforces brutally. For more information on the condition of migrants in Israel the following document by FIDH (International Federation for Human Rights) from a few years ago makes grim reading: Migrant workers in Israel: A contemporary Form of Slavery: http://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/il1806a.pdf
Even more seriously, Israel regularly abuses Palestinian women's rights - for example, the UN noted in a report in February 2009:
"Palestinian women’s access to adequate prenatal, natal and post-natal medical care remains a matter of serious concern, impairing the fulfilment of the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. It should also be noted that Israeli policies on closure may, in certain instances, amount to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment under article 16 of the Convention against Torture. Finally it is reiterated that the issue of pregnant Palestinian women giving birth at Israeli checkpoints must be understood within the context of the broader regime of the Israeli occupation and associated restrictions on movement, impacting as they do on all aspects of life in the occupied territories." - http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/C7067BCF833833DE852...853D3
[2] In early November 2009, Deputy Tuffy visited Israel as a member of the Oireachtas Ireland-Israel Friendship group of which she is vice-chair. In her own words, "The idea of the trip was to try and facilitate links between Irish business people and Israeli counterparts. The Israeli Embassy was involved in the organisation and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs contributed to the cost." (See link to her blog below.)
These activities are in complete opposition to international calls by human rights activists to boycott Israeli produce and services in solidarity with the oppressed people of Palestine.
Joanna Tuffy has also publicly criticised the Irish government for its support for the Goldstone report at the UN Assembly. For Ms Tuffy's views on Israel/Palestine, please click on the following link to her blog: http://www.labour.ie/joannatuffy/blogarchive/2009/11/16...srael
Her attendance at this Israeli propaganda event in Dublin today is a further source of concern for Palestine solidarity activists in Ireland and, in our opinion, shows a serious lack of understanding with regard to the routine human rights abuses carried out by the Israeli state against the Palestinian people.
ENDS
The IPSC would like to thank to everyone who came along and/or who phoned Deputy Tuffy asking her not to attend (in vain) or any of the other participants.
Concerned people should consider calling the Labour Party to complain about Deputy Tuffy's presence at this event.
Access Denied! Freda and David, who were refused entry to lecture
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10"this resolution was drafted by the Arab League and, in my view, involved taking sides"
Yeah. God forbid you'd take sides Joanna.
you said, '' I think a biased view against Israel is prominent in Irish debate on the conflict ''
Why is there a biased view? Read Robert Fisk's 'The great war for civilization'.
I'm pretty shocked at Joanna's attempted justification for attending the conference at the Israeli Embassy. Her whole argument seems to be based on the assumption that this is a conflict between two states of more or less equal power but with opposing interests, and ignores the stark reality of the situation; that there has been an ongoing military occupation of the West Bank for over 40 years and a brutal economic seige of Gaza since 2006. For Irish delegates to engage in diplomatic and business relations with the very state whose policy toward Palestinians has been consistently brutal and in complete contempt of International Law and Security Council Resolutions is not to take a neutral stance in the conflict, and actually serves to enocurage and strengthen the primary obstacle to peace. She also states; "that is not to say that I believe that the Irish State should not criticise or condemn particular actions by Israel, or call for particular measures to be carried out by its Government." There is another false assumption implicit here; these "particular actions" which merit condemnation are not isolated incidents or atrocities committed by rogue officers within the IDF. Rather, they are part of a sustained policy of ethnic cleansing which has been going on since 1948, which is glaringly obvious after even a brief glance at history. It's almost laughable to criticise the "biased view" of the conflict which is allegedly prominent in Irish debate on the conflict while at the same time refraining from taking a firm stand against the Israeli Government's racist policies, which are hardly more conducive to the objectives of a peace process.
Re: Conor.
Since when is Robert Fisk not biased against Israel?
It's not so much that Robert Fisk is biased against Israel. It's just that when you write down all Israel's bad behaviour in the one place, it seems that way. There's so much of it.
It's very unfortunate that when Fisk and others write all the bad things they can dig up about Israel, they fail to mention all the good things such as all the medical and technological advances that are developed there for the good of us all.
That's why Fisk is biased.
unfortunately there's not much digging required. except where the Israelis have tried to bury something. Y'know, like 200 NUCLEAR WARHEADS!!.
The pious little angels of Israel develop medical procedures purely for the altruistic benefit of all of mankind while at the same time they bomb children and schools into a paste with US supplied munitions and illegal white phosphorous bombs and create a blockade around gaza preventing the most basic of supplies to reach the palestinians afterwards. In parallel with these activities they continue the systematic erosion of palestinian lands for settlements.
What kind of schizophrenia are you describing mr filament?
A filament is a thread. Perhaps you are referring to the thread you are weaving here into a blanket of misdirection to cover up for the atrocious behaviour of Israel?
Of course, they aren't doing this because of their warm fuzzy love for all of mankind. They're just doing it for the hard cash. Big pharma is a multi billion dollar industry and regularly corners are cut in pursuit of profit. So you are promoting the fact that Israel is up to it's neck in a rather corrupt but lucrative business in order to improve it's image?? Great choice! And I guess the 200 nukes are there for radiology treatment for poor dying cancer victims too? What about the F16's and cluster munitions and phosphorous bombs? Well, yeah I guess they certainly cured any illness 1400+ palestinians including 300+ children in Gaza might have had very effectively!!
Perhaps the Israelis should take some of that schizophrenia medication they make now! Evidently they truly need it
Filament
Israel is a rogue state no matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise
Its war crimes (Gaza last year for just one example)
Theft of organs from dead bodies
Sectarian Jewish state that denies Palestinians the right to return to their homes while allowing Jewish immigrants with no connection to Palestine the right to emigrate there.
The theft of palestinian land and the building of illegal settlements there
The breach of UN resolutions
etc etc