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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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Public Inquiry
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

offsite link RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony

offsite link Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony

offsite link Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

offsite link Waiting for SIPO Anthony

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offsite link Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits are Cooling on Global Warming appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Sep 19, 2025 01:07 | 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 We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture Thu Sep 18, 2025 19:00 | Noah Carl
The Right has spent much of the last decade railing against cancel culture, and was arguably winning the debate. It would be a mistake to abandon that position now.
The post We Shouldn?t Welcome Right-Wing Cancel Culture appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech Thu Sep 18, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump?urged?Keir Starmer?to deploy the military to stop the Channel small boats crisis that is "destroying" the country, drill in the North Sea and uphold free speech at a tense joint press conference today.
The post Trump Tells Starmer: Use Military to Stop Small Boats, Drill in the North Sea and Uphold Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / news report Thursday February 17, 2005 10:57 by Patrick McGee   text 2 comments (last - thursday october 13, 2005 05:12)
One of the great unresolved questions of the early twenty-first century is that of Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. How far had Saddam’s WMD programs progressed prior to the United States toppling his government in 2003? And to what can we attribute the failures of U.S. intelligence – and virtually all the intelligence services throughout the world – in massively overestimating Saddam’s WMD capabilities? read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Thursday February 17, 2005 04:24 by Nataraj
Are you willing to take a few minutes a day and focus on a positive result? Try this... read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Thursday February 17, 2005 01:39 by John Meehan
Follow this link for an article by Brendan Young on why the left should oppose the EU Constitution :

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=555 read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / opinion/analysis Wednesday February 16, 2005 22:05 by Various   text 1 comment (last - tuesday may 24, 2005 00:26)
[FOR INDYMEDIA IRELAND'S FILM CRRRRITTTIIICCCSSS] read full story / add a comment
dublin / arts and media / event notice Wednesday February 16, 2005 20:33 by pc
Seomra spraoi: Social Centre organising meeting

All welcome

There will be an general organising meeting this Thursday 17th at 7pm in the EENGO office (above the bounty store,across from the palace), Camden street.

Agenda

focusing on

finding location
choosing preparing gig pencilled in 4th of march

We are looking for more people or groups who think they could help with the project in any way or possible co-host events of the type that one day may be held in the such a centre.

AOB

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For minutes from the previous meeting and more info subscribe to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimme_space/

or email mail_gimme_space@yahoo.com

Previous update http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68333 read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday February 16, 2005 18:00 by Basque Observatory of Human Rights
Dear Friends,

We are getting in touch again to let you know that our Bulletin Nş 18 is available at the usual address. Alternatively, you can access it directly by clicking on this link:
http://www.behatokia.info/docs/boletinak/Islada180205eng.zip

The bulletin can be found in pdf compressed format in order to make downloading swifter, or you can also find it in word format: read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday February 16, 2005 13:51 by cleaves   text 1 comment (last - friday february 18, 2005 03:26)
There has never been an instance in recorded history when a nation that achieved military superiority did not attempt to dominate other nations. This is the inevitable result of gaining a strategic or technological ‘advantage.’ In view of the historical record, is it unusual that America would abandon its founding principles in favour of despotism and the pursuit of world domination? The path the US has taken is not new; it is a tired well-worn path that leads to certain destruction. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday February 16, 2005 11:33 by obit   text 17 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2006 09:07)
The Lebanon is familiar to many Irish, the former French posession saw the Irish army serve with the United Nations in peace keeping operations throughout the late XX century.

In that time, one man came to epitomise Lebanese politics and further became the richest man in the state. Rafik al Hariri was assasinated in a car bomb on St Valentine's day 2005. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Wednesday February 16, 2005 08:54 by joeranii@yahoo.com   text 4 comments (last - thursday february 17, 2005 18:08)
Colombia and Venezuela promise new initiatives to stop terrorism across their borders. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-capitalism / event notice Wednesday February 16, 2005 03:38 by Anthony G
The film follows two anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences. After launching a web site http://www.gatt.org/ as a parody of the official WTO site, they find themselves being invited to speak about trade issues at business conferences around the world. They use these opportunities to lampoon neo-liberal ideology by taking the ideas to extreme conclusions which make no sense from a "common-sense" perspective. They advocate a market in human rights abuses and say that democracy should also be turned into a free market by auctioning off votes to the highest bidder. Finding that their ideas are taken seriously rather than being dismissed out of hand, they come up with even more shocking ideas and absurd antics. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Wednesday February 16, 2005 01:13 by Billmon
Xcept he hasn't killed himself crossing the border into canada (Yet) read full story / add a comment
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / event notice Tuesday February 15, 2005 22:58 by Sean   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 08, 2005 17:57)
FREE THE MIAMI FIVE
CAMPAIGN IRELAND

present
The Irish Premier of the Film

MISSION AGAINST
TERROR
A Documentary Film written and directed by Bernie Dwyer and Roberto Ruiz Rebo

Thursday 21 April 2005 at 7.30pm
in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1
Admission Free

Followed by a discussion with the co-directors read full story / add a comment
national / sci-tech / news report Tuesday February 15, 2005 21:19 by yet again minister.   text 2 comments (last - tuesday april 04, 2006 23:40)
the 2002 Road traffic Act was meant to stop people hurling themselves at full kilter "speed" as it is technically known, on the high roads and bye roads of Eire in anything more threatening than a milk float (not very original I know but who is these days?) read full story / add a comment
galway / anti-capitalism / news report Tuesday February 15, 2005 19:19 by Eve   text 5 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2005 17:13)
cork / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Tuesday February 15, 2005 14:25 by Ray Hanrahan   text 1 comment (last - thursday february 17, 2005 15:46)
An information stall on the upcoming Ploughshares trial starting 7th March at the Four Courts, Dublin. This is an opportunity for people in Cork to show solidarity with the five defendants and to find out how to support them in their quest to expose the collaboration of the Irish Government with the so-called 'War on Terror' and the illegal occupation of Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Tuesday February 15, 2005 13:23 by an admiring mac   text 6 comments (last - tuesday february 14, 2006 12:18)
the Mc Libel duo are two of the most significant activists in the development of a movement which grew from a little cupboard office to a global assault on the politics and economics of trans-national malnutrition, exploitation, disregard for the environment, labour abuses, greed and corporate negligence and deceit which was best represented in the 1980s by the Mc Donalds food corp amongst others. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Tuesday February 15, 2005 06:15 by Cal Crilly   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 15, 2005 13:12)
These are the photos that need to be seen to understand the urgency of changing HIV/AIDS policy. read full story / add a comment
dublin / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday February 14, 2005 23:12 by Clondalkin, Ballyfermot & Tallaght anti war groups   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 15, 2005 15:52)
Clondalkin, Ballyfermot & Tallaght anti war groups are holding a torchlight
vigil outside the HQ of Cement Roadstone Holdings on the Belgard Road
between 5pm and 6pm. They have a banner which reads, CRH OUT OF PALESTINE -
THE WALL MUST FALL. we will leaflet the rush-hour traffic and
advertise the Global Day of Action Against the Occupation of Iraq and
Palestine to take place on March 19th read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / event notice Monday February 14, 2005 23:07 by Rialto anti war group
Rialto anti war group will hold a white line protest, with People dressed
in white blood spattered clothes, on the roundabout in Rialto between 530
and 630 pm. They will leaflet the traffic and advertise the March 19th Demo
Date: February 15, 2005 read full story / add a comment
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