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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.
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.
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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
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Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose C... Wed Oct 08, 2025 19:36 | Will Jones
Two-tier justice was on full display as three Epping protesters received longer prison sentences than the asylum seeker whose sex attack on a child they were protesting about, says Laurie Wastell.
The post Two-Tier Justice on Full Display as Epping Protesters Get Longer Sentences Than Sex Attacker Whose Crime They Were Protesting appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
British Steel Industry Faces ?Existential Threat? as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer?s ?EU R... Wed Oct 08, 2025 17:23 | Will Jones
Britain?s Net Zero-ravaged steel industry is facing an "existential threat" as the EU threatens the UK with tariffs of up to 50% despite Keir Starmer's recent 'EU reset' giveaway on fishing rights and youth mobility.
The post British Steel Industry Faces “Existential Threat” as EU Hikes Tariffs to 50% Despite Starmer’s ‘EU Reset’ Giveaway appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun Wed Oct 08, 2025 15:27 | Ferro
The public's indifference to art has never been greater. No wonder, says Ferro: it's all just tired Left-progressive politics by another means. But the fightback for real art that moves the human soul has begun.
The post The Fightback Against Politicised Art Has Begun appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV Wed Oct 08, 2025 13:00 | James Alexander
Not until Leo XIV did we have a picture of a holy man staring at an ice cube with his hand on it, respectfully gazing as if imagining the whisky that could go with such a rock, says Prof James Alexander.
The post Upon This Ice I Will Build My Church, Says Leo XIV appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Sir Lenny Henry Wants ?18 Trillion of Slavery Reparations Wed Oct 08, 2025 11:17 | Sallust
Sir Lenny Henry has called for Britain to pay ?18 trillion in reparations to black people, arguing in a new book that high rates of black crime and unemployment are "all because of the slave trade".
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11Last Friday, as has been happening the past two years there was a vigorous protest in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalemin against the ongoing Israeli ethnic cleansing of that area to make lebensraum for the "settlers," in contrast to the brutal suppression of the demonstrators - overwhelmingly comprised of Israelis with conscience - three and four weeks back where there were mass arrests, this protest was relatively benign.
However, two weeks ago the colonists came to the tent of Sheikh Jarrah evictee, the indomitable and personable Nasser Ghawi to beat the crap out of him, fought off and stymied in this they returned on their Sabbath holy day to finish the task but injured a French activist instead, there are two tents where the evicted Kurd and Ghawi families live and sleep; in the case of the Kurd family at the side of their lost house and in the case of the Ghawi family on the pavement oppossite their, again, lost dwelling. To forestall these regular attacks or at least to give warning, internationals keep watch 24 hours a day and sleep on a rota basis in the same tents - last Friday night there were activists from Tel Aviv, Germany, UK, Afghanistan, the US and France.
On Saturday morning, it was good to witness Palestinian sumoud or steadfastness in action when I was wakened by the tent being readied for their childrens school lessons. Life goes on here in severe constraint and under the cosh and guns of the Israeli police, IOF and colonists but the nonviolent resistance goes even more so; powerful, deep, undimmed and awesome.
Life Under the Tent & Settler Rocks
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Sheikh Jarrah Protest : Life Under the Tent & Settler Rocks
The stink of corruption and criminality isn't confined to Fianna Fail and the Catholic Church in Ireland, for CRH has wafted it over here to Palestine where through its Israeli subsidiary, Nesher Cement, it provides a large portion of the cement for the construction of the Apartheid/Annexation Wall and illegal colony-settlements in the West Bank. To boot, subject to Israeli monopoly clearance, it has acquired Hanson Israel "Israel's 2nd largest building materials company, which operates illegal quarries, asphalt, aggregate and cement factories in the Occupied West Bank" http://www.ipsc.ie/
CRH (formerly known as Cement Roadstone Holdings) is clearly complicit in the breaking of international law in its activities in the West Bank, specifically, the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice which ruled in 2004 that the Wall was illegal, had to be torn down and reparations paid to the Palestinians.
The Irish Times reported on Jan 5th last that: "CRH profit to fall 55% in 2009" http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0105/...6.htm and it was these propitious tidings that stimulated Iyad Burnat, head of Bil'in's Popular Commitee, to launch a further withering verbal attack on CRH's complicity in Israeli war crimes at the Wall during last Friday's protest in Bil'in.
Wikipedia reports that: A tribunal of inquiry set up by the Irish Government to investigate corrupt payments to politicians, discovered that between 1987 and 1994, a private, unlicenced bank had been operated from the registered offices of CRH by its chairman, Des Traynor. It was further found that eight directors of CRH had control of accounts in this bank. These directors were:Tony Barry, James Culliton, Michael Dargan, Gerald Hickey, Diarmuid Quirke, Desmond Traynor, Robert Willis and Richard Wood. The scheme was run in conjunction with Guinness Mahon Bank and Ansbacher Cayman Bank. Its founding purpose was to avoid currency exchange controls, but was later used to facilitate personal tax evasion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRH_plc
Malodorous as all this is, CRH aggravates the stench further with the hum of hypocrisy as it purports on its website to comply with the “highest standards of corporate and social responsibility.”
Photo: Hamde Abu Rahma
This activist sustained a shoulder injury from a gun fire tear gas canister
IOF attempting to arrest an Israeli Anarchist Against the Wall - happily, the attempt failed
Iyad Burnat in distress after being tear gassed
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Bil'in protests against CRH & Egypt's Wall of Death
Alison Weir, executive director of If Americans Knew lacerates Bono in a Counterpunch article for his ill informed whining in the New York Times: "I’ll place my hopes on the possibility — however remote at the moment — that...people in places filled with rage and despair, places like the Palestinian territories, will in the days ahead find among them their Gandhi, their King, their Aung San Suu Kyi."
Ms Weir informs Ireland's most notorious preachy hypocrite that: Your hope has already been fulfilled in the Palestinian territories. Unfortunately, these Palestinian Gandhis and Kings are being killed and imprisoned.
The first Palestinian Gandhi to be rounded up in this recent purge was young Mohammad Othman, taken on Sept. 22 when he was returning home from speaking in Norway about nonviolent strategies to oppose Israeli oppression and land confiscation. He has now been held for 107 days without charges, much of it in solitary confinement.
The second was Abdallah Abu Rahma, a schoolteacher (from Bil'in) and farmer taken from his home on Dec. 10, the only one to be charged with a crime. After holding him for several days, Israel finally came up with a charge: “illegal weapons possession” – referring to the peace sign he had fashioned out of the spent teargas cartridges and bullets that Israel had shot at nonviolent demonstrators. (One such cartridge pierced the skull of Tristan Anderson, an American who was photographing the aftermath of a nonviolent march, causing part of his right frontal lobe to be removed.) ... Full article on link.
This is the Bono who has given away millions of his own personal wealth to charities in impoverished countries and who intends to do a U2 concert in aid of the refugees in Gaza? Thought not.
As head of Bil'in's Popular Committee, I ask all activists in Ireland and particularly the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign to increase the pressure on CRH through pickets of their HQ in Dublin, petitions, public awareness flyers, etc, as with the recent dramatic drop in that company's profits they are now vulnerable. A similar campaign against Veolia has already yielded results with that rogue outfit losing billions worth of contracts worldwide through its involvement in the illegal East Jerusalem tramway.
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Bilin weekly demo. 08.01.2010. By Haitham Al Katib-media. Coordinator of f.f.j
By the way, Tommy, yours is the best and most on-the-spot reporting we're getting over here, so congratulations to you, highly commendable. CRH . . . well, how can we be surprised?
Last night in an accelerating campaign of arrests and sheer terror raids by the Israeli Occupation Forces on Bil'in, the home of 22 year old Yaseen Mohammed Yaseen was raided at 3.14am approx where he was arrested, bundled into the back of a jeep and ferried to the military checkpoint at the nearby Apartheid Wall. Yaseen was arrested for ostensibly stone throwing at one of the Bil'in's Friday weekly demonstrations at the Wall, this followed hard on the heels of several previous failed attempts to do so, what is chilling is the cold dedication of the IOF to terrorise and cow the villagers of Bil'in into submission and to spare no effort to suppress any resistance to the occupation, for some 35-40 soldiers infiltrated the village through the olive groves between the village and Wall, all this effort for a young man whose real "crime" was particitating in the nonviolent demonstrations but who grew tired of running and wishing for closure returned to the village last week knowing the high risk involved as Israel's "internal security" Shabak forces have informers seeded in the community. Yaseen didn't know why the IOF were hunting him but the usual suspect, catch all charge was stone throwing which brings jail sentences of nine months or more in Israel's draconian and corrupt judicial system for the Occupied Territories and Yaseen also knew of the IOF's ruthless framing of some of his fellow villagers and maybe he should have kept evading his hunters but he was tired, tired of running: Mohammed Khatib, a member of Bil'in's Popular Committee was charged with stone throwing which he easily refuted when he proved he was abroad at the time of the alleged offence on a speaking tourAlso, media coordinator of the Committee, Abdallah Abu Rahma is currently in Israeli custody pending his trial for "possession of arms" - spent tear gas canisters collected at the Wall for display to the many fact finding internationals visiting Bil'in.
Yesterday, in Ramallah an arrest was effected which has put the international activists in Bil'in on tenterhooks: Eva Novákováa a 28 year old Czech national and media coordinator with the International Solidarity Movement was lifted from her Manara square apartment at 3am by the IOF and Israel's special "Oz" immigration task force and she awaits deportation. Maan News reports that: Her attorney, Omer Shatz, said Israel's alleged use of its special "Oz" unit was illegal. "This arrest is part of the continued and illegal use of the immigration police against activists, for political purposes," Shatz said in an ISM statement. Immigration police, in general, work under the explicit authority of the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, Shatz added, and thus would have no business operating in Palestinian cities (Link).
Three weeks ago, Bil'in's international house was raided by the IOF and Shabak and now it appears the "Oz" unit in tow - no arrests were effected as all the internationals on Israelis visas were within the prescribed time period.
Aftermath of the arrest
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IOF Night Raid on Bil'in : Yaseen Mohammed Yaseen Arrested
Nawal Akram
Photos: EAPPI activist Miranda Pinch (Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel)
Thank you T.D for all of your up to date reporting & coverage. Keep it up, solidarity.
To echo the others - thanks a million Tommy for your reporting and work out there in the West Bank. In the IPSC, we're responding to the Palestinian call to focus on CRH, which is helping build the apartheid wall and settlements. We're rolling out a campaign, asking folks to divest from CRH, councils to rethink giving them contracts etc while they are engaged in illegal activities in Israel. Part of this is on-the-streets action, but the campaign is going to have to work on all levels to succeed.