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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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

offsite link RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony

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offsite link National Trust Puts Vegan Tampons in Men?s Toilets Fri Oct 10, 2025 17:28 | Will Jones
The National Trust is under fire for putting vegan tampons in men's lavatories, dispensing them from a large box fixed to the wall near the urinals with the message: "Got a period situation going on? We got you."
The post National Trust Puts Vegan Tampons in Men’s Toilets appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link BREAKING: Hamit Coskun?s Conviction for Burning Quran Overturned by Crown Court Fri Oct 10, 2025 14:13 | Will Jones
Hamit Coskun's criminal conviction for burning a copy of the Quran while shouting "f*** Islam" in a protest outside the Turkish consulate in London has been overturned by the Crown Court in a victory for free speech.
The post BREAKING: Hamit Coskun’s Conviction for Burning Quran Overturned by Crown Court appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link It?s Time to Make Judges Accountable Again Fri Oct 10, 2025 13:26 | Dr David McGrogan
Nearly 80% of Britain's 'Establishment' is Left-wing. No wonder our 'independent' judges keep making lunatic decisions. It's time they were made accountable to voters once again, says Dr David McGrogan.
The post It’s Time to Make Judges Accountable Again appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East Fri Oct 10, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Donald Trump was today snubbed by Nobel Peace Prize judges ? who instead awarded the prize to a Venezuelan politician ? despite the President bringing peace to the Middle East.
The post Donald Trump Snubbed for Nobel Peace Prize Despite Bringing Peace to the Middle East appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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.

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Ecuador IMC - Civil Society Organisation
international / crime and justice / other press Friday May 16, 2008 18:46 by Jean B   text 1 comment (last - friday may 16, 2008 19:30)   image 1 image

Carlos Andrade.
Santiago Cadena.
Diana Cabascango
Francisco Jaramillo.

The Colombian Citizen whom was picked up by Interpol has not been named (as yet) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday May 16, 2008 18:44 by pat c
Hamid Dabashi, Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York writes on Hillary Clintons outburst regarding Iran in the 8 may issue of al-Ahram.

Hamid writes: The only legitimate manner in which the Islamic Republic can be prevented from becoming a nuclear power is by ensuring that all the other nuclear powers in its neighbourhood engage in regional disarmament, first and foremost the mirror image of the Islamic Republic, the Jewish apartheid state of Israel. The latter is fully supported and sustained by the American Christian Empire, and will be after Senator Golda Clinton Meir possibly becomes its Commander-in-Chief.
Full text at link.

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international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Friday May 16, 2008 14:55 by Ciaron   text 1 comment (last - friday may 16, 2008 15:01)
Pauline Campbell, who was found dead yesterday morning, put the deaths of women in prison on the map. A formidable and tireless campaigner, she had personal experience of deaths in custody. Just over five years ago, her much-loved daughter Sarah, 18, died of a drug overdose at Styal prison. Campbell's body was discovered close to her daughter's grave in Oakhills cemetery in Malpas, Cheshire. As we went to press, it was not clear whether she had killed herself or died of other causes, but it looks bleak. read full story / add a comment
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international / crime and justice / other press Friday May 16, 2008 12:08 by Jean B   text 9 comments (last - wednesday may 28, 2008 21:58)   image 2 images
The European Union has criticised the mass expulsion of Romani from four provinces in the Italian state.
12,000 families including children are moving north through italy and facing summary expulsion.

it's called hate crime.

For three days in Naples, Shanties and encampments have been subject to mob violence.
This is after the media-owning Mr Burlusconi and his friends decided to abuse citizen rights in an act of expulsion
that has no precedent in Post WW2 European History. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Tuesday May 13, 2008 19:15 by Terence   text 7 comments (last - tuesday november 04, 2008 21:31)   image 2 images
This article from the LA Times by Bill McKibben presents the case that the situation with the Earth's environment is far worse than has been admitted so far and he reports on the latest scientific paper from climate scientist James Hansen which in the opening paragraph he says:

"if humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm." read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday May 13, 2008 13:13 by tomeile   text 3 comments (last - friday may 16, 2008 01:47)
GARY LEUPP in Counterpunch argues that a US attack on Iran seems now to be unstoppable . He warns that the US National Security Council has agreed in principle to launch missile strikes on al-Qods sites located close to Tehran , and that the US will use the inevitable reaction from Iran to launch a wider scale war. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday May 13, 2008 12:34 by éirígí   text 4 comments (last - friday june 06, 2008 09:31)
Second éirígí Ard Fheis read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests / other press Saturday May 10, 2008 17:15 by pat c   text 1 comment (last - monday may 12, 2008 14:28)
The latest edition of Iranian Workers Bulletin covers the release of Mahmoud Salehi, Haft Tapeh Sugar workers Strike Again, Riot Police attack Kian workers, pensioners still haven't been paid their New Year bonus.

As always, Iranian Workers Bulletin says:
No War! No Sanctions!
No To The Iranian Regime!


Full text at link.
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international / arts and media / other press Thursday May 08, 2008 23:09 by not 1 of   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 08, 2008 23:16)
Some Indymedia Journalists in Ecuador were arrested earlier this week and have not been informed as yet of the charges that they may face. A full (rough) translation of the press release from Indymedia Ecuador is available at this link. http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/398483.html?c=on...95189
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mayo / environment / other press Thursday May 08, 2008 19:38 by Mayo News Reader   image 1 image
Respected commentator Liamy MacNally wrote an interesting column on the Corrib gas scheme in The Mayo News this week.

He does a good job of getting to grips with the various strands of the conflict regarding the production pipeline, gas pressure, the history of the Glinsk proposal, and Minister Eamon Ryan's responsibilities.

He also raises the leaked minuttes of an internal Shell meeting where the fact that the refinery had been denied planning permission (in 2002) and the intriguing response of company's executives to this setback.
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laois / animal rights / other press Thursday May 08, 2008 15:19 by animal lover   text 1 comment (last - thursday may 08, 2008 18:30)
A WOMAN who ran a dog rescue centre has been found guilty of cruelty to more than 40 animals under her care.
Cassidy Sinclair (50) appeared before Portlaoise District Court yesterday on two charges of cruelty to animals.
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international / arts and media / other press Thursday May 08, 2008 08:54 by Miriam Cotton   text 2 comments (last - thursday may 08, 2008 09:52)
The unembedded journalist and author of 'Beyond the Green Zone' gives a fascinating account of his personal journey from childhood in Texas, being a mountain guide in Alaska and on to reporting war in Iraq. read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Wednesday May 07, 2008 12:32 by Miriam Cotton   text 21 comments (last - tuesday may 13, 2008 20:16)
Get ready for acres of Israel's 60th 'birthday' bullshit. read full story / add a comment
national / racism & migration related issues / other press Tuesday May 06, 2008 15:13 by The Sovereign Nation   text 5 comments (last - wednesday may 07, 2008 02:08)
The 32 County Sovereignty Movement are campaigning for a NO vote in theupcoming referendum on the Lisbon Treaty,
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national / anti-capitalism / other press Tuesday May 06, 2008 10:04 by Libertarian
TEEU rejects treaty over real practical concerns in relation to workers rights. The premise of their argument is the ambiguity surrounding the right to industrial action for those working in 'goods and services'.

Other concerns include the acceptance of unequal wages for migrant workers in the 'goods and services' industry. Several judgements from the European Court have fallen in favour of Employers.

The court recently found that a Polish subcontractor operating in Germany was entitled to pay workers less than half the agreed minimum wage for the construction sector, because the right to provide unrestricted services took priority over collective wage agreements.

These are concrete valid reasons that highlight how Lisbon is a bad deal for workers across Europe.

The following article is copylifted from the Irish Times
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The Socialist (#34) - April 2008
national / miscellaneous / other press Saturday May 03, 2008 15:02 by SP Online   image 1 image
The April 2008 issue of The Socialist (#34) is now online at the Socialist Party website. See below for contents. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Friday May 02, 2008 16:18 by Miriam   text 1 comment (last - friday may 02, 2008 16:21)
Are short term profits determining the decision? read full story / add a comment
DAWC pamphlet
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday May 02, 2008 10:20 by isn'er   text 5 comments (last - thursday may 08, 2008 08:43)   image 1 image
Here's Harry's review from the ISN paper, RESISTANCE (March/April), no.5. Copies are still available in Connolly Books and Books Upstairs Dublin), Barracka Books (Cork) and Charlie Byrne's (Galway) or free from irishsocialistnetwork@dublin.ie read full story / add a comment
Shell To Sea newsletter
international / environment / other press Thursday May 01, 2008 23:50 by JM   image 1 image   1 attached file
Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Thursday it plans to sell its share in a project to build the world’s largest electricity-generating wind farm near the British capital, raising a strong possibility that the project will be scrapped. read full story / add a comment
Viva 1 Maggio, International Workers Day
international / anti-capitalism / other press Thursday May 01, 2008 11:12 by mario sughi   image 1 image
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