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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
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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.
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.
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
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.
The Saker >>
Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
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Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
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Taliban Sells ?40 Fake Death Threats for Asylum Seekers to UK Sat Oct 11, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
Fake death threat letters produced by the Taliban are being used to dupe the Home Office in asylum applications for Afghan migrants.
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Sadiq Khan Called ?Disgrace? for Claiming ?From River to Sea? Chant is Not Antisemitic Sat Oct 11, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sir Sadiq Khan has been called a "disgrace" by a former Labour minister after he suggested that protesters who chant 'From the river to the sea' are not antisemitic, despite it calling for Israel to be wiped off the map.
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How Many Gulags Will We Need to Rid Us of the Progressive Blob? Sat Oct 11, 2025 09:00 | Graham Cunningham
Across the West, the Right is in the ascendancy, but an Establishment Blob of millions of progressive Lefties remains implacably opposed. Graham Cunningham ponders how many gulags will be needed to resolve this situation.
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Saturday March 06, 2004 14:13
by Niav - Alliance For Choice
‘Alliance For Choice’ will be publicly breaking the 1995 Information Act outside the Department of Justice in Dublin on Monday 8th March. The ‘Regulation of Information (Services outside the State for Terminations of Pregnancies) Act 1995’ or more commonly known as the ‘Abortion Information Act 1995’ severely restricts Irish people’s access to information about abortion services abroad. The legislation has serious implications for the protection of women’s welfare when they are faced with a crisis pregnancy. The Act sets out the conditions under which information (the names, addresses and telephone numbers of abortion clinics) may be given, by individuals or agencies, on legal abortion services available outside Ireland. Under the terms of the Act, information can only be given in the context of face-to-face counselling. It is illegal for a doctor to make an appointment with an abortion service on behalf of a pregnant woman, even if her health is at risk. 
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14the 'contact' form. Would be a good idea here too. A press release without a contact number?
The concept of choice is gluttony in a hedious desguise. If choice is to be considered for humans it must be considered for all. If a poor woman in Ethiopia concieves then she must live and die with that child. The selfishness of the west convinces women that they have a choice to love their child. If you loved someone, would you deny them life.
Be not so quick to deal out death.
The sad part is that this campaign is still necessary after all that has transpired over the past thirty-plus years. We are still having to deal with the restrictions originating from the dominance of religious fundamentalism. If our politicians had any courage we would not now be having to mount campaigns for basic civil rights, and having to endure the ignorant outpourings of semi-literates like "Flange joint".
Abortion is sick. May i suggest all of y'all check out the link to see what really happens.
God Bless
The abortion laws in this country are perfectly adequate to protect women's health. Suggestions of 'psychological' damage are irrelevent. If we work by this logic, why shouldn't a depressed mother be allowed to kill her child or husband or anyone who causes her depression?
So, a person's psychological condition is "irrelevent". Of course it is - to people who regarded the psychical and psychological welfare of living children as irrelevent when they were being abused in religious-run institutions.
These are the same people who think nothing of murdering doctors who perform necessary medical procedures for women. They are only interested in pushing their stupid religion down our throats. This is where we say 'STOP', we are not having any more of it.
For the record, I don't believe in God and have no religious agenda to push. Frankly I don't see how child abuse in religious institutions is relavent to this discussion either. Also, How exactly is abortion on demand a "necessary medical procedure" anyway. If ANYONE can draw a line in the sand and say here is a cluster of cells and now its a baby, I'll become Pro-Abortion. But you can't. And I don't see a world of difference between an (especially late term) abortion and killing a newborn. Have you seen the videos? I have, and its not pleasant. How far do you go? How about plunging a syringe of formaldehyde into the babys head as its being born, like in China? How about abortion up th the age of 5?
CONSERVATIVE AND PROUD.
Right to Choice, Right to Information!
To contact the BPAS action line from Ireland phone +44 121 450 7700.
This action line is available, Monday to Friday from 8am to 9pm,
Saturday – 8.30 am to 6pm and on Sunday – 9.30am to 2.30pm.
Or visit their website at http://www.bpas.org
To contact Marie Stopes from Ireland phone +44 117 900 5555
Or visit their website at http://www.mariestopesorg.uk
This website has been set up by Irish Pro-Choice activists and gives information about abortion services in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands. It also provides you will information about travel and accommodation as well as the numbers of Irish agencies that provide both pregnancy counselling and post-abortion counselling.
http://struggle.ws/ireland/choice
Good work.
Pity we are still at the stage we were at twenty years ago, having to defy the law to give out basic information about services in another country, when these services should be freely available here. I pay my taxes, I want those taxes to be used to provide these services. I don't want my taxes to be creamed off into the pockets of crooked Fianna Fail layabouts.
Great work so far. Heard Niav on the radio this morning - very good.
Let us all know how ye get on today on the streets. I'm sorry I couldn't join in today.
Abortion is acrid with selfish morals. Why would a mother want to give up her child? For the childs benifit? Dancing across fields lavished with flowers of gluttonous desire, the women of the western world are content.
Jealousy, the desire for sloth and the hunger of lust has led us into thinking that we can always choose the easiest way out.
The dying people of the third world need more attention than the spoilt brats of the first world.
Like the stopped clock that is right twice a day 'flange joint' accidentaly says something in his reference to the 'third world' above. I thought I'd use a right wing source for this one to help him see the point a bit clearer, this is from the RAND web site (right wing US think tank).
"The World Health Organization defines an unsafe abortion as an abortion not provided through approved facilities and/or persons. WHO estimates that almost 20 million unsafe abortions (43 percent of the total number of abortions) occur each year. The vast majority of these are in Asia and Africa in countries where abortion is illegal. ... One-third of women undergoing unsafe abortions experience serious complications as a result of the procedure - often in countries least prepared to deal with them - including approximately 80,000 maternal deaths each year and hundreds of thousands of disabilities. One in eight maternal deaths worldwide is a result of an unsafe abortion."
http://www.rand.org/labor/popmatters/ans4.html
So yes women in Ireland are 'lucky' that they (mostly) have the freedom to travel and can (mostly) get the cost of going abroad for an abortion together, even if that involves money lenders. It's women in anti-abortion 3rd world countries that really suffer with some 80,000 dying because abortion is illegal so they have no obtion but an unsafe and illegal abortion.
So FC feel free to not worry about women in Ireland and go off and campaign for free, safe and legal abortion everywhere else on the planet. From the attitudes you display towards women in your posts you wouildn't be that welcome here and are probably better off heading off for somewhere where no women speaks English.
It's thigh time we had a comprehensive sexual health program, with explicit sex education, free contraception and advice, full free safe abortion facilities, and non-directive pregnancy counselling, north and south of the border.
Yesterday Alliance for Choice gave the proverbial two fingers to the State by handing out pro-choice leaflets outside the Dept. of Justice and defying the 1995 Information Act, which prohibits women from accessing information about abortion sevices abroad. Amongst the 15 or so people participating in the action were members of UCD Alliance for Choice and members of the Socialist Party and Labour Party. Just as in the anti bin tax campaign, the armchair communists from Spartacist Group Ireland also paid a visit to us activists to push their paper, but refrained from participating in the action because of the 'craven appeals' in the leaflet which only served to 'reinforce people's illusions in the bourgeois state'(!).
Despite the poor turnout, but armed with a swanky new banner and a megaphone, we managed to distribute all our leaflets in a one hour period between 12.30 and 1.30. Amongst the chants screamed with gusto from the megaphone were 'Not the Church, Not the State, Women must decide their Fate!' and, well, I kinda forget the other ones!
One of the activists also presented a cop present at the protest with a leaflet, which he accepted. When informed he had just broken the 1995 Information Act, he looked puzzled and bewildered! Alliance for Choice 1, the State 0. Should have made a citizen's arrest!
Though the anti-woman and clerical fascist pricks from Youth Defense didn't show thier ugly mugs, a senile nun on two occasions made it known that we were advocating 'mass murder' and that she would pray for our souls. Did it make me and the others reflect on what we were doing, that we may be responsible for the genocide of a bunch of cells? Did it fuck! Alliance for Choice 1, the Church 0!
All in all, it was a relatively successful action and despite the small numbers, all those involved in the action were buoyed by the positive reaction of the public. If anyone has any info as regards the actions that took place down in Shannon and Cork, please do post.