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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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offsite link The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails Fri Oct 10, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The technocrats are falling across the West as their ideology founders on reality. The cracking of the Net Zero consensus, like the end of Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, is a moment of hope, says Dr Tilak Doshi.
The post The Technocrats Are Falling as Their Ideology Fails appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 54: Alexander Adams on Dissident Art, the Tyranny of the Arts Council and His ... Fri Oct 10, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 54 of the Sceptic: Alexander Adams on dissident art, the tyranny of the Arts Council England and his new exhibition: Power and Intimacy.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 54: Alexander Adams on Dissident Art, the Tyranny of the Arts Council and His New Exhibition appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Fri Oct 10, 2025 00:47 | 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 Teenagers Must Be Warned About the Dystopia Being Built Around Them Thu Oct 09, 2025 19:00 | Mike Fairclough
Mike Fairclough was a nationally feted headteacher before he was cancelled during Covid for speaking out against the tyranny. Now he has written a novel to warn teens about the dystopian world being built around them.
The post Teenagers Must Be Warned About the Dystopia Being Built Around Them appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Italy to Ban Burka Thu Oct 09, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Italy is to ban the burka as part of new legislation against "Islamic separatism" that includes strengthening penalties for forced marriages and stricter financial regulation of Muslim organisations.
The post Italy to Ban Burka appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / public consultation / irish social forum / other press Thursday October 23, 2008 05:44 by A Questioning Catholic waiting for change   text 39 comments (last - friday december 05, 2008 18:51)
This is a wonderful site run by an Irish Priest who believes in giving the full story of happenings within the Church in Ireland and worldwide and not the spin often given by those high up the ranks who give the watered down version or spin. There are interesting things to read about the Church worldwide every day even if you are not an active member of the Church or even a Catholic for that matter. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday October 22, 2008 06:17 by gar
Jewish settlers have been caught on camera punching and kicking two news photographers and a British woman who was helping Palestinians pick olives near a West Bank town.The Israeli police responded to the situation on Saturday by stopping the harvest.
The scuffle near the town of Hebron was the latest in a series of incidents blamed on settlers trying to disrupt the annual harvest which provides a livelihood for many Palestinians.
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international / sci-tech / other press Wednesday October 22, 2008 06:07 by gar
An angry Chinese lawyer accused Microsoft of perpetrating the biggest ever hacker attack in response to the software giant's controversial move to trigger hourly screen blackouts on computers using pirated copies of Windows XP.
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Tuesday October 21, 2008 18:42 by a-films
Bourj ash-Shamali Camp: "Harvesting Oranges"
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national / animal rights / other press Tuesday October 21, 2008 17:58 by Duchamp
A Fianna Fail spokesperson has claimed that the former leader of the party, Bertie Ahern, broke his leg in what they are calling an accident. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday October 20, 2008 18:05 by Peter Sutherland's Nemesis
Good news for the Left and progressives in general today, when the FT revealed that 30% of people in Germany, Europe's biggest economy and the world's second* largest exporter, "attributed the financial market crisis to ... the 'failure of capitalism'" rather than "to 'abuses of capitalism'.

Or, as the Financial Times newspaper themselves put it: "Majorities in the UK, France, Spain, Italy and the US attributed the financial market crisis to “abuses of capitalism” rather than the “failure of capitalism”. The Germans were more divided, with 46 per cent blaming abuses, and 30 per cent saying capitalism itself had failed." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday October 20, 2008 11:27 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - monday october 20, 2008 13:49)
Yassamine Mather writes on the danger of a US/Israeli military strike on Iran over the next 3 months. She also criticises those on the "left" who criticise Iran but who fail to condemn US/Israeli Imperialism. Full text at link.

Over the last few weeks French president Nicolas Sarkozy has publicly suggested on at least three occasions that an Israeli attack might be imminent - and acceptable - unless Iran quits enriching uranium, and implied that in such an event the international community should turn a blind eye. In early October French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said Israel was expected to launch a military strike on Iran before Tehran acquires a nuclear bomb. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday October 19, 2008 05:26 by Vets   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 19, 2008 15:35)
"Iraq Veterans Against the War" Attacked by "stay at home patriot" Cops on Horseback, Long Island, New York U.S.A.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-60628185897533...hl=en

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international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday October 18, 2008 17:09 by David Arthur Walters   text 1 comment (last - saturday october 18, 2008 18:51)
We want instant salvation: we want to be born anew from the injected liquidity. But it is difficult to make people have faith in anything, particularly in their fellow creatures if not in the supreme personality. read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Friday October 17, 2008 12:00 by Raul
Riot police in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo have clashed with other police officers who are on strike.

The confrontation happened when the striking officers tried to force their way past barriers to reach a building used by state governor Jose Serra. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Tuesday October 14, 2008 18:18 by Saoirsí
From the site: "Superstruct is the world's first massively multiplayer forecasting game. By playing the game, you'll help us chronicle the world of 2019--and imagine how we might solve the problems we'll face. Because this is about more than just envisioning the future. It's about making the future, inventing new ways to organize the human race and augment our collective human potential." read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Sunday October 12, 2008 15:33 by Reports from Liverpool   text 1 comment (last - sunday october 12, 2008 21:44)
The Police have made arrests and issued fixed penalty notices of two political activists in Liverpool. Liverpool has long historical links with Ireland and the attached articles may be of interest.

The arrests were made as a result of a number of campaigning groups setting up stalls on Church Street, these ranged from the Anarchist Federation to the National Health Service. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Sunday October 12, 2008 12:04 by joe McIvor
The Chinese government is suspected of being behind the recent “denial of service attacks” on the Marxist Internet Archive website . Brian Basgen who has worked on the site since 1990, says that ,since January , there have been hundreds of attacks ,99 percent of which emanate from China . As a consequence , the MIA may be forced to sacrifice its Chinese language material to keep the rest of the archive open . Although the attacks have only targeted Chinese files , security experts say that Chinese machines can be exploited by people outside the country, making the attacks appear to come from China . read full story / add a comment
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dublin / history and heritage / other press Thursday October 09, 2008 19:18 by Betty   text 1 comment (last - friday october 10, 2008 15:24)   image 1 image
Jonathan Cook in an Electronic Intifada article addresses the phenomena of a book 19 weeks on Israel's bestseller list that challenges Israel's biggest taboo. The book: When and How Was the Jewish People Invented? written by Shlomo Sand, an"expert on European history at Tel Aviv University" controversially argues that: the Jews were never exiled from the Holy Land, that most of today's Jews have no historical connection to the land called Israel and that the only political solution to the country's conflict with the Palestinians is to abolish the Jewish state .... read full story / add a comment
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international / arts and media / other press Wednesday October 08, 2008 13:35 by gav corcaigh.   image 1 image
CrimethInc. operatives have labored over various versions of this text for more than eight years, and we’re excited to present what we consider to be the definitive edition. Those familiar with earlier versions will be glad to see new sections of text and plenty of new artwork. read full story / add a comment
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international / history and heritage / other press Tuesday October 07, 2008 16:33 by TaraWatch   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 07, 2008 19:32)   image 2 images
This article was picked up by Archaeology Magazine, run by the Archaeological Institute of America:

"Here’s a summary of what preservationists have tried to do to save Ireland’s Hill of Tara from highway construction. Their new argument suggests that the downturn in the country’s economy requires Ireland to save its historic resources as tourist destinations."
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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Tuesday October 07, 2008 00:46 by Paul McAndrew
Metropolitan Community Church Manchester (England) ishelping Prossy, who is from Uganda. She fled to the UK eight months ago. The Home Office accepts she is lesbian and has endured horrific treatment, read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday October 06, 2008 22:28 by Bazooka Joe
On Sunday tens of thousands across Turkey attended the funerals of soldiers slain by the PKK. 15 soldiers were killed, twenty wounded and two are missing after the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) launched a cross border attack from their base in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday October 06, 2008 22:20 by ec   text 1 comment (last - tuesday october 07, 2008 00:49)
Iceland is deflating at an unbelievable rate. This is a good English language blog tracking the Icelandic economy through the floor. Hope ours doesn't follow it. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday October 06, 2008 19:54 by Share
If you feel there are serious problems about intellectual property legislation, you need to watch this new film. read full story / add a comment
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