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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.
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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
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Hugh Grant Teams Up With Climate Activists Wed Oct 08, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Last week Hugh Grant, one of several celebrities behind press censorship campaign group Hacked Off, announced a joint campaign with 38 Degrees, a radical climate activist group. Charlotte Gill investigates what's going on.
The post Hugh Grant Teams Up With Climate Activists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Wed Oct 08, 2025 01:19 | 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.
Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Students Sing Antisemitic Chants on October 7th Anniversary Tue Oct 07, 2025 19:30 | Will Jones
Hundreds of pro-Palestine students chanted "from the river to the sea" ? an antisemitic slogan calling for the destruction of Israel ? during protests on the second anniversary of?Hamas's October 7th attacks.
The post Hundreds of Pro-Palestine Students Sing Antisemitic Chants on October 7th Anniversary appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Scientists Are at Last Uncovering the Links Between ME, Long Covid and Long Vaccine Tue Oct 07, 2025 17:59 | Patrick Ussher
Scientists are at last uncovering the links between ME (aka Chronic Fatigue), Long Covid and Long Vaccine. It's a breakthrough that promises treatments that target the underlying cause, says Patrick Ussher.
The post Scientists Are at Last Uncovering the Links Between ME, Long Covid and Long Vaccine appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Gary Neville Suffers Backlash as ?Angry? Workers Who He Ordered to Remove Union Jack Accuse Him of S... Tue Oct 07, 2025 15:38 | Will Jones
Footballer turned property developer Gary Neville?is facing a furious backlash after he ordered builders to take down a Union Jack, saying that "angry, middle-aged white men" were using flags to divide the country.
The post Gary Neville Suffers Backlash as “Angry” Workers Who He Ordered to Remove Union Jack Accuse Him of Suppressing Free Speech appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34It's not such a black day after all.
Mary's verdict was finally handed down today.
Innocent!
Great News , well done .
It has taken 5 years longer for Mary to get official justice compared to the Shannon 5/CW 5 group. TV3 did a short piece on their 5:30pm news after the L. Minihan case report. Anyhow, I haven't been involved in providing any support for Mary for many years so just wanted to congratulate her on this momentuous victory and to thank those who stuck by her throughout the whole saga.
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Following the WiliLeaks revelations that US ambassador Thomas C. Foley congratulated then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern for rejecting the Irish Human Rights Commission's damning report into extraordinary rendition captives being transited through Shannon Airport and for having “tamped down” public reaction to the report even though "He (Ahern) seemed quite convinced that at least three flights involving renditions had refueled at Shannon Airport before or after conducting renditions elsewhere," the symbolism, synchronicity, serendipity, whatever, of your vindication, Mary, on the very day Fianna is getting "tamped down" by the electorate adds further relish and satisfaction to this red letter day.?
Grassroots committees in Palestine, we appreciate your wonderful job you are doing to Palestine and hard work. and we assure you that the injustice would soon end. We are with you and will not forget all the Liberal who stood with us
I am grateful (slightly!) for the many obstacles and everything good and bad that happened in the course of these trials as it has lead to such a thorough and fulsome result, and the second time? ( in anti-war activity context) that the Irish courts have had the opportunity to uphold the defence of lawful excuse.
Great work and huge thanks to all the people who have contributed over the years to this great verdict today.
In the light of the Irish governments self-imposed contemptible inertia in enforcing legal international obligations preventing torture and crimes against humanity, today's exoneration, coupled with the 1996 jury acceptance of the Pitstops defence paves the way and, indeed, facilitates further similar, strong actions by activists with conscience.?
Thanks Mary for your courage and integrity. Your victory is immense.
The action you took was one of a very small number of effective protests over the course of this war. And now you have been vindicated.
Justice delayed is justice denied, but one of your achievements is exposing the hollowness at the heart of this so-called democracy, where the puny shadow men have the power to keep this hanging over you for so many years. But you have not let the grass grow under your feet, you have stayed out there fighting for what's right. Again, thanks.
AC: Today's election results will show that the electorate, for the time being, has given the puny shadow men; Fianna Fail and Greens their P.45 but the results will also show the masochistic sheeple have replaced the fuckers with even punier men and women of straw in the form of Fine Gael, so, the likes of Mary Kelly and the Ploughshares are needed now more than ever.?
Mary
I was pleased to see your conviction was overturned. You were treated badly by the judge in Ennis and now you have been treated badly by the High Court. They have buried your success under the elections and the press seem to be ignoring you again.
I wish you well Mary. You are a giant compared to the pigmies of the Irish establishment.
Congratulations Mary, we need more people with your courage and diligence. What you (& the Ploughshares) did had such a galvanizing effect on grassroots activism in Ireland. Now it's been legally vindicated at last.
Congratulations Mary.
Solidarity with you and all those who accompanied you through this long journey through Limerick Prison and the courts.
For many the war lost its "sex appeal" a long time ago. For those widowed and orphaned in Iraq - and those who were sent through Shannon to kill and be killed - the ongoing war on Iraq will never be just a memory. Likewise, those who resisted and are left with the trauma of the judicial and jail experience. We need to accompany all these folks as best we can.
Nonviolent resistance and proactive solidarity are the only way out of this mess and we need to continue these practises long after the day of arrests, through the long years of being dragged through their judicial an punitive systems. I know that's hard for folks who have to deal with personalities like mine, but no one ever said that anti-war resisters were saints and the gig to stop this war would be easy.
The engagement of many and the now diseengagement of most is not unprecedented. In 1972, when Nixon started to meet the moderate demands of the mss anti-Vietnam War movmement by "bringing the boys home" as he "Vietnamised" the war and escalated the U.S.aerial bombarment campaign that mass movement collapsed. Reisters from the anti-Vietnam War are still on the run form the U.S. state others have had to live their lives blacklisted - for some wonderful folks like Abbie Hoffman it was all too much and they took their lives. There was one resister arrested at Shannon, jailed in Limerick who did likewise.
Today it is Julian Assange and Bradley Manning being dragged through the courts and tortured respectivey for their oppostion to these long wars. Manning was only 14 when Eoin Dubsky, Mary and the Pit Stops acted at Shannon and the U.S. war machine refeueled and erefreshed at Shannon to begin the invasion of Iraq. The last place Manning was not at war, or being tortured in prison, was Shannon Airport, Ireand!
Thanks to Mary, the Pit Stops, Dubsky, Horrigan, Cregan, Horgan, Lane and hundreds of others the name Shannon is not resigned to history as solely a place of Irish shame - Shannon is also a name that also conjures Irish resistance to imperial war.
Keep on keeping on Mary
Stay staunch
Keep it real
Respect
Ciaron O'Reilly, Pit Stop Ploughshares
I'm with ya on the election comment.
The other puny shadow men I was thinking of are the legion of unseen backroom fixers who really run this country, and not just their political puppets in FF FG and Labour.
I mean the corporate bagmen, the senior financiers, the crony judges who deliver politically acceptable verdicts like in Mary's case (and like Judge Mary Devins breaking the law to punish Shell resisters in Mayo), the shady diplomatic staff, the senior public servants disloyal to the public, the security specialists, the senior yellow union men, and the whole caste of shits-in-suits-with-all-the-right-contacts-for-getting-things-done-in-this-country.
The upheaval, where where these people get burned, is a long way from sight yet, but make no mistake - it is out there, somewhere in the savage wastes, no longer wandering aimlessly but now sniffing blindly for its target. The monster of the seas that is only seen once in three generations is still a mile or two from the surface - but it has left the seabed.
Just be ready.
Brilliant
We love you Mary
John R
A good day at last Mary, thanks to you for your strength, your belief and your endless courage.
Well done again on your tenacity in seeing this through to the end, Mary, when I know too well how emotionally draining it can all be at times, and how depersonalised you can feel going through the courts, like a pawn on a chessboard, your humanity routinely discounted both during and after the fact. Take care of yourself now, as it will take time to process all of it, both the loyalty and the betrayals, the joy and the cruelty. Some of it will still go on after it is all over -- the employment discrimination, the disappearing friends, etc. -- so find yourself a protective haven and try to be kind to yourself.
It was great to be there to celebrate another vindication for NVDA against injustice with you over coffee, so thanks for the invitation and for providing some much-welcome good news.
Brilliant news Mary, well done, you battled the system and their lies and you argued your own case before the Court of Criminal Appeal.
That is Power. And it is literally 'speaking truth to power' as the Quaker? saying goes.
Love and Light as always and 'keep smilin' thru..'
Martin
Fantastic Mary, a triumph for non-violence, intelligent due process of the law and for your courage and principles.
As all or virtually all Plowshares resisters are impecunious (or at least were for the duration of their action and its legal sequelae), I expect you were not going to meet their goofy demands anyhow, but this is such a ringing validation of your excellent action. Thank you from the heart.
Many congratulations to Mary on the Court of Criminal Appeal overturning her conviction. I have just read the full transcript of the verdict and it is very impressive even if it is many years late.
Just for the record, Shannonwatch did send RTE an advance notice that the decision was to be announced on Thursday 24 March. We also sent them a Shannonwatch prese release on the outcome of the Court of Appeal decision at 11 am on 24 March. In addition I contacted RTE Newsroom by email and by phone call at 7pm on the evening of 24 March and reminded them of the case and its results, and emphasised the importance of the case. I reminded them that they saw fit to report the outcome of the Mary Harney paint throwing case which was decided on the same day, and suggested that they include a report on the Mary Kelly acquittal in the 9pm news. As I expected there was only RTE silence on the matter.
On all matters associated with US military use of Shannon Airport, RTE has behaved as a Government Broadcasting Service instead of a public broadcasting service. Perhaps it is time RTE was sold off and privatised - because it is not providing a proper balanced broadcasting service.
But we must not let such matters take from Mary Kelly's landmark legal success on this matter. When the court ruling is published online, a copy will be available on www.shannonwatch.org
Mary Kelly & supporters celebrating at Court of Criminal Appeal
The date on the above report should read Friday 25 February 2011 and not Thursday 24 March
Hello Mary,
After watching many videos and reading about your actions and those of others at Shannon Airport, many years after the event, it is inspiring to hear that you kept fighting this until the end and won. Congratulations and peace and comfort be with you now that its over.
Great news.
Wish we had people like you in Scotland!
In terms of RTE and trhe rest od the Irish manisntream media.
You only get disappointed in life when you have false expectations.
When you get disapointed ya should really consider readjusting ya epectations!
I have no expectations of the Irish mainstream media and their housebroken foot soldiers
I'm sure this appeal victory will be the subject of more hysterical secret cables fromt he U.S. embassy to D.C. like the ones exposed by WikiLeaks that followed the 06 acquittal of the Pit Stop Ploughshares, but that one (reported in Time Magazine!) and this one did not rate as a subject for investigatory journalism in the Irish media
"Disillusionment" in the best sense of the word, "shedding of illusions" can be a liberating experience.
Harry Browne's in his fine book about the Pit Stop Ploughshares "Hammered by the Irish" looks at such censorhip in relation t all things Shannon, Ireland's ongoing complicity in U.S. troop movements for their invasions and wars over the last decade, the Pit Stop Ploughshares etc.
The Irish mainstream media lied about us before our trial
- that we assaulted a Gardia in th ehangar...the Gardai in 3 trials under oath testified that I conforted him while he had a stress attack in the hangar
- that the Puit Stop Ploughshares had cost the Irish taxpayer $U.S. 2 1/2 million (front page story/lie in the Irish Times just before trial)...at no point was this amount ever converted to euros in legal documents, the testimony in 3 trials never pointed to the Irish picking upthe bill and of course now confirmed by WikiLeaks exposure we know the embassy were asking theirmasters back in D.C. wheteher they should privately sue us ( a course they are now taking wth the Aitearoa/ New Zealand Plougshares acquitted in Wellington 2010).their have now been 9 plowhshares. nonviolent disarmament acquittals in various countries and jurisdiction!
For many years RTE were dominated by Stalinists
For example, they literally censored the now present leader of the 26 county parliamentary oppostion Gerry Adams for ages...wouldn't let his voice be broadcasted
Even if the Stalinists have "passed on" in terms of mortality or upward mobility
the culture of Stalinism...airbrushing, censorship etc is vibrant they have left a culture there
"Blanking", pretending someone don't exist, is a stong component of Irish culture
Corruption has a popular base in Irish culture due to 800 years of colonisation.
A lot of people think the succesfully corrupt...........(those who go offshore wit their loot not to jail) are still "getting one over on the Brits by ripping off the public purse....but the Brits left 90 years ago...but likewise the cuture carries on...800 years is a long time
As I tell my aboriginal Australian frends
"You've only been colonised for 200, try 800 mate!"
...at least aboriginal Asutralians run decolonisation workshops at home...haven't hear of that in my 7 years of living in the first and last Beritish colony.
Once again congratulations and thanks Mary for your stedfastness
Hesed
Ciaron
words seem inadequate and i can't find the right ones...
but reading this has made me cry and has given me strength and hope and inspiration.
thank you mary.
big hug
Congratulations, the wheels of justice grinded very slowly but justice was done in the end: the innocent protectors of peace were cleared although the guilty, waging war, still have not been asked to explain themselves.
Mary,
It has been so very long but at last you have won through their lies. Congratulations to you!
Your tenacity to pursue truth and justice is and has been amazing. I hope that you can move on now with life and wish you all the very best.
deepest respect.
karen
If there was any justice in Eire, it would be Mary Kelly, President.
Sadly we realize that Eire is little better than England.
At noon today there were virtually no civilian passenger planes at Shannon airport. The main activity was an OMNI Air International DC10 with about 200 US soldiers complete with their arms and ammunition on their way to or from the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan. Over two million US troops have passed through Shannon airport since Mary Kelly damaged the US Navy aircraft in Jan 2003. Over two million people, mainly civilians have been killed in these wars in Iraq and Afghanistan waged by the United States with the active assistance of its European allies including Ireland. In Ireland's we only do it for the money. There are no principles involved
OMNI Air DC10 carrying US troops through Shannon airport today 5 Mar 2011
Thank you Mary,for the courage of your convictions
Thank you Mary Kelly. God bless you and God bless Ireland's Republic so that it may grow into a more compassionate community.
Kay McPadden
Our best wishes on you success. A long time coming. We applaud you tenacity.
Hi
I think we last met in the Quaker Meeting House in Cork ! Time passes.
What a terrible long time you have had to wait for this great result. The war mongers must go. They must change their mind set from Neanderthal to modern creative and peace making.
Love Sarah
The People of Ireland ( DPP) v Mary Kelly
Read judgment on courts.ie website http://www.courts.ie/Judgments.nsf/bce24a8184816f158025...ument
"With all respect to the learned trial judge, and indeed to the prosecution, the transcript suggests that the applicant was at all times aware that the statutory provision had been amended: but the first quotation above in particular seems to suggest that this came as new information to the learned trial judge".
(For those who had to sit through two trials and suffer the trial judge's twisting and distortion of the law, this will help erase that woeful memory of abuse of power and his farceful 'interpretation' of justice.)