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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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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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offsite link Study of 1.7 Million Children: Heart Damage Only Found in Covid-Vaxxed Kids Sat Nov 01, 2025 00:44 | imc

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offsite link Humiliation for Police Scotland as it Drops Case Against Women?s Rights Campaigner in Brollygate Row Fri Nov 07, 2025 17:00 | Will Jones
Police Scotland has been left humiliated after it was forced to drop its case against a women's rights campaigner for allegedly damaging a trans activist's umbrella in what's been dubbed the 'brollygate' row.
The post Humiliation for Police Scotland as it Drops Case Against Women’s Rights Campaigner in Brollygate Row appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Oatly CEO Admits ?Climate Doom? Marketing Has Backfired as Sales Plummet Fri Nov 07, 2025 15:04 | Lee Taylor
Oatly's CEO has admitted that the company?s 'climate doom' marketing has backfired as sales plummet. It turns out that terrifying people into buying oat milk isn't a sustainable business model, says Lee Taylor.
The post Oatly CEO Admits ‘Climate Doom’ Marketing Has Backfired as Sales Plummet appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour?s National Curriculum Review Risks Being a Trojan Horse for Smuggling Left-Wing Agendas Into ... Fri Nov 07, 2025 13:00 | Amanda Spielman
Labour's National Curriculum review is finally out. While it's much better than feared, there's a clear risk it will be a Trojan Horse for smuggling Left-wing agendas into schools, warns Amanda Spielman.
The post Labour’s National Curriculum Review Risks Being a Trojan Horse for Smuggling Left-Wing Agendas Into Schools appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link 10 Stupid Studies Costing ?23 Million That Rachel Reeves Could Have Easily Cut Fri Nov 07, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
The Government is wasting astronomical sums of money and has no excuse to tax the nation more, says Charlotte Gill. Behold, here are 10 examples of stupid university projects costing taxpayers ?23 million.
The post 10 Stupid Studies Costing ?23 Million That Rachel Reeves Could Have Easily Cut appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The False Temperature Claims That Underpin the COP30 Alarmist Agenda Fri Nov 07, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
COP30 kicks off soon and expect to hear the usual climate scare stories on repeat across the obedient media. It's all based on false claims about global temperatures that real science disputes, says Chris Morrison.
The post The False Temperature Claims That Underpin the COP30 Alarmist Agenda appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday April 24, 2006 20:03 by Gaz B -(A)-   text 15 comments (last - wednesday june 14, 2006 16:21)   image 3 images
No-one should be surprised by the actions of our Guardians Of Privilege in Baldonnel last weekend. The grumpy authoritarian ego-trippers had to do something to justify their bank holiday overtime pay and the use of the copper-copter. Cuffing a young lad, forcing him to the ground and kneeling on him because he didn’t want to piss himself – that’s really guarding the peace. It seems as though the boys in blue haven’t quite moved on from the days of former blueshirt Garda Commissioner Eoin O’ Duffy. The "few rotten apples" thesis spouted by the Garda Representatives Association (ironically acronymed GRA) isn't credible. One only has to look at the cases of the Wheelock, Mulhall, Abbeylara, McBrearty families, RTS 2002 along with the Sallins train robbery, the 'Kerry Babies' case and Shercock cases in the past as evidence of a wider, institutional and generational malaise with the Gardai. Even, Henry Grattan called the police service" an abominable institution". read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Sunday April 23, 2006 15:24 by Edward Horgan   text 6 comments (last - thursday april 27, 2006 23:30)   image 2 images
For the record, the group of four, Tim Hourigan, Mary Kelly, Deirdre Morgan and Edward Horgan, who made a similar submission to the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs on 20 Dec 2005, also offered to make a similar presentation to the EU Committee. The EU declined on cost grounds, and invited me only. However, I have received substantial help from a dedicated group of peace activists, mainly Irish, but with a few significant non-Irish contributers.

Over the past month a Garda has confirmed to me in confidence that they have directed not to search US CIA aircraft or US military aircraft at Shannon airport, and that many of the Gardai disagree with this directive because it means “… turning a blind eye to the probability of wrongdoing, and we all know what terrible things such policies have led to in the past.”

In my submission to the European Parliament I called a spade a spade, and referred several times to the unlawful killing of over 100,000 in Ir read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Friday April 21, 2006 14:52 by Edward Horgan   text 24 comments (last - wednesday august 22, 2007 19:16)
I went to the European Parliament in Brussels to tell the Parliament what I knew of Ireland’s involvement in the unlawful rendition for torture process at Shannon airport. I insisted on linking the extraordinary rendition process with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the combined serial abuses of international law that these wars and the torture processe involved. To a large extent I was telling the EU parliamentary special committee what they did not want to hear – “don’t mention the wars” – I told them anyway, in the brief summary of my submission that the 15 minute time slot allowed me. My main submission was thirty-seven pages long, with 45 separate attachments and it became clear very quickly that very few had even read the executive summary of my submission, and some of those who did, read it only with the intention of trying to discredit it, and discredit me. The Irish Times report on Friday captured the tone of the parliamentarians response “the witness failed to present t read full story / add a comment
is this the DEATH of our garden?
dublin / environment / feature Wednesday April 19, 2006 00:06 by dolphins barn gardener   text 18 comments (last - thursday april 19, 2007 15:51)   image 22 images
Builders and machinery have moved in, trees and plants have been taken up and it looks like it might be the end for the Dolphins Barn Community Garden, which celebrated its first birthday on Wednesday the 12th of April. Presently the garden crew has 54 people on its mailing list and there have been at least twice that in the garden.

After nearly a year of what turned out to be a really positive experiment in sustainable urban gardening, re-establishment of community, healthy use of derelict space and the creation of new friendships, things have taken a change for the worse… but it might not be the end. There is the possibility of revisiting the issue later in the year, but the gardening project has been put on hold for the moment after a number of meetings with the owners of the land where the garden is established. read full story / add a comment
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dublin / anti-war / imperialism / feature Monday April 17, 2006 21:45 by Casement deserves better   text 38 comments (last - wednesday may 03, 2006 02:32)   image 12 images
In the run up to the 90th anniversary of 1916 many wondered how best to mark the event. Some marched the day before, some a few hours after. But the teflon Taoiseach trod where few men dared. At 12.00 he was at the GPO to commemorate an insurrection against imperialism. At 15.00 he was sending the troops in against an anti-imperialist demonstration. read full story / add a comment
<a href="http://www.indymedia.ie/article/72548">Kathy Sinnott article</a>
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Saturday April 15, 2006 00:41 by the other free market   text 6 comments (last - friday january 12, 2018 21:02)   image 1 image
(Indymedia.ie, 2006) Under the terms of the casual trading act, 1995, thousands of towns will loose their market trading rights. However, if a town hold a market before the end of this month, the right will be held onto for another 10 years. read full story / add a comment
Money issued by 1919 Limerick soviet
national / history and heritage / feature Thursday April 13, 2006 18:35 by Andrew Flood   text 49 comments (last - monday december 04, 2006 21:16)   image 6 images
An anarchist analysis of the 1916 insurrection and the war of independence / tan war in the context of the struggle for socialism in Ireland and internationally. Concentrates on the 'unknown' intense class struggle that ran alongside the war of independence and the role republicanism played in the suppression of that struggle in the interests of nationalist unity. Asks what is freedom and shows how anarchism originated amongst earlier European left republicans as an answer to the limitations of republicanism. read full story / add a comment
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cork / racism & migration related issues / feature Wednesday April 12, 2006 17:28 by Robbie Sinnott   text 23 comments (last - wednesday april 19, 2006 09:55)   image 2 images   audio 1 audio file
A phone interview with Madu Innocent Chuckwunyere (eye-witness), broadcast live on Near FM's Majority World on thurs April 6th. On march 29th, 2006, residents (inmates) of the Kinsale Road refugee hostel took to the streets to demand that they be treated with dignity and respect. Listen here (mp3 12min 128kbps) Below is a transcript of the phone interview with Madu, an eye-witness and himself a resident. read full story / add a comment
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national / miscellaneous / feature Wednesday April 12, 2006 01:02 by Terry   text 43 comments (last - thursday may 04, 2006 15:33)   image 9 images
As we approach the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising this article looks at the world of anti-Agreement Republicanism by reviewing its press.
The three main dissident republican political organisations are the Irish Republican Socialist Party, the 32 County Sovereignty Movement, and Republican Sinn Fein. This article reviews their publications, which are The Starry Plough, The Sovereign Nation, and Saoirse. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / feature Monday April 10, 2006 22:10 by EC   text 6 comments (last - tuesday april 18, 2006 20:07)   image 6 images
For the second Monday in a row Shell to Sea protesters have prevented Shell machinery from entering the Bellanaboy gas terminal construction site. read full story / add a comment
John Moloney's parents talk to the media.
dublin / crime and justice / feature Monday April 10, 2006 14:47 by kevin   text 37 comments (last - tuesday april 17, 2018 07:59)   image 5 images
An interview with John and Sandra Moloney, the parents of "Johner" Moloney, who have joined up with the Wheelock family in their campaign in recent months. read full story / add a comment
national / health / disability issues / feature Sunday April 09, 2006 21:46 by Indymedia Ireland Editorial Group
Indymedia users highlight the lack of accessiblity for people with disabilities in Ireland today with their personal accounts. read full story / add a comment
A sense of community and no agression at gigs
national / anti-capitalism / feature Tuesday April 04, 2006 22:18 by W   text 26 comments (last - saturday august 19, 2006 15:02)   image 7 images
Wicklow based Basta youth collective, a radical non-profit youth group, are to find themselves homeless as Paddy’s Hall in Greystones has been boarded up.

The group of self-organised teenagers have been using the hall for over a year to put on alcohol free, drugs free gigs as well as film showings and providing space for their Basta drama group. read full story / add a comment
A major addition to our understanding of media manipulation
national / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday March 30, 2006 03:22 by Niall Meehan   text 16 comments (last - thursday august 03, 2006 13:40)   image 14 images
Implications for how historians, journalists and others confront media manipulation, historical and contemporary spin
Reading Brian Murphy on how the British manipulated the truth in 1920 "made the hairs stand up on the back of your neck" said Danny Morrison. The parallels between events in that one year and British activities many years later in Ireland are striking, he said.

The one time An Phoblacht editor and Sinn Fein Publicity Director, now author and playwright, launched Brian Murphy's 'The Origins and Organisation of British Propaganda in Ireland 1920’ on March 24th in the Teachers’ Club in Dublin.

The 100-page work was also launched by Professor David Miller of Strathclyde University and by the author, Brian Murphy. read full story / add a comment
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international / worker & community struggles and protests / feature Tuesday March 28, 2006 03:27 by Gearóid O Loingsigh   text 23 comments (last - wednesday april 05, 2006 12:15)   image 1 image
The US is once again set to use the so called war on drugs as an excuse for direct US intervention in Colombia. read full story / add a comment
The traveller man is saying 'we are people, just like you'.
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Monday March 27, 2006 19:09 by Nina   text 17 comments (last - saturday february 19, 2011 16:54)   image 5 images
St. Margaret’s Park is a 30 bay permanent halting site sandwiched between 2 busy roads on the outskirts of Ballymun. There are currently 63 families living in a space originally designed to accommodate 30 families. There is no playground and no safe pedestrian access to and from the site. Families on the site have been living without electricity on and off for three past 5 months.

Travellers and workers, angry at the situation, called a meeting on Wed March the 22nd. Councillors and Dublin City Council (DCC) officials were invited to explain to a meeting on site how they proposed to resolve the situation. Earlier on in the day a group of Slovakians from the LEAP Project (Legal Education For All), along with members of the Irish Traveller Movement Accommodation Working Group visited the site.

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Store St. Garda Station, Dublin, Ireland
dublin / rights, freedoms and repression / feature Thursday March 23, 2006 12:30 by kevin   text 28 comments (last - wednesday march 19, 2008 10:15)   image 14 images
The Wheelock family protest outside the Dáil on what should have been Terence's birthday. An extended interview with Laurence Wheelock, brother of Terence Wheelock. read full story / add a comment
Sarah Kidder, a student founder of the peace group poses with Jarrod who is a songwriter and guitarist
international / anti-war / imperialism / feature Thursday March 23, 2006 00:50 by J.M. Collins   text 7 comments (last - wednesday april 05, 2006 00:25)   image 4 images

"But, hark! a voice like thunder spake, The West's awake! the West's awake!" This is a first hand account of what is probably the first anti-war demonstration on the campus of Glenville State College since the Vietnam era protests. Students are fed up with President Bush and his illegal war in Iraq that is costing the lives of West Virginia's youth which are being exploited by the military in promise for scholarships. We have arisen from our slumber and shall no long stand idly by as Bush and his cronies are destroying not only our country but the world of which all of us live!

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national / anti-capitalism / feature Wednesday March 22, 2006 12:16 by Vulture Capitalist   text 43 comments (last - sunday march 26, 2006 19:32)   image 1 image
As the lies about European restrictions on investment begin to unravel you don't have to be a socialist, to be concerned about the employees or even worried about transport links to feel that Aer Lingus should stay in state hands.

This is not a sentimental or political debate.

This is just a rip off. read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / feature Monday March 20, 2006 22:17 by Text: Terry, Photos: Aron + EC   text 3 comments (last - thursday february 01, 2007 12:36)   image 11 images
The saga of Shell's pollution into Carrowmore Lake, plus lots of photos and an interview with Terence Conway, Erris Shell to Sea activist. read full story / add a comment
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