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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.

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 Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of ?Misguided Attempts at ... Fri Sep 19, 2025 15:00 | Will Jones
Oxford and Cambridge universities have?failed to get into the top three in the Times's prestigious annual university ranking for the first time, with experts blaming "misguided attempts at equality".
The post Oxford and Cambridge Drop Out of Top Three in University Rankings Because of “Misguided Attempts at Equality” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Jeremy Corbyn?s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She?s Been ?Frozen Out... Fri Sep 19, 2025 13:16 | Will Jones
Jeremy Corbyn's new hard Left party has been plunged into chaos as his co-founder Zarah Sultana claimed she had been "frozen out" from the "sexist boys' club" and Corbyn threatened her with legal action.
The post Jeremy Corbyn’s New Hard Left Party Descends into Chaos as Zarah Sultana Says She’s Been “Frozen Out” of “Sexist Boys’ Club” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Sadiq Khan?s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don?t Cut Car Use Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Sadiq Khan?s officials suppressed taxpayer-funded research that showed low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) do not reduce car use after the London Mayor spent five years baselessly claiming LTNs are good for the planet.
The post Sadiq Khan’s Officials Suppressed Report Showing LTNs Don’t Cut Car Use appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Europe?s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered Fri Sep 19, 2025 09:00 | Tilak Doshi
The delusional EU believes it can wield carbon tariffs as weapons. But its grandiloquent Net Zero scheme is destined to collapse under the weight of the bloc's utter economic irrelevance, says Tilak Doshi.
The post Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits... Fri Sep 19, 2025 07:00 | Richard Eldred
In Episode 51 of the Sceptic: Michael Murphy on Charlie Kirk, free speech and the scourge of ?anti-fascism?, and Ben Pile on how the British public are going cold on global warming.
The post The Sceptic | Episode 51: Charlie Kirk, Free Speech and the Scourge of ?Anti-Fascism?, and Why Brits are Cooling on Global Warming appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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Civil service bosses attempt to supress trade union rights

category national | worker & community struggles and protests | opinion/analysis author Friday November 05, 2004 11:05author by madge Report this post to the editors

Senior Management in the NICS attempt to bully staff to prevent them exercising their democratic rights to protest.

Senior Management in the NI Civil service have attempted to threaten and intimidate staff who choose to exercise their rights and freedoms to join with colleagues from PCS (UK Public Services union) at a lunchtime rally today which NIPSA has called for members and branches to support. The rally is to support the PCS against the massive job cuts Gordon Brown has forced the Civil service to make. Here in NI we face the prospect of losing around 4000 posts including the water service. Senior Managment obviously can't face the prospect that while at the moment NIPSA is not in dipsute (watch that space) members may wish to make public their disgust at the Government's policy and exercise their right to attend this rally and protest.

The actions of senior managment to attempt to try and control what people can do in their own time and whom they are permitted to associate with on an issue like this is clearly an abuse of the rights of staff and should not be tolerated.

I hope that any staff wishing to attend the rally in Transport House today will do so anyway and that if management do attempt to deduct pay that they will be flooded with unlawful deductions cases.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   PCS STRIKE     TFC    Fri Nov 05, 2004 12:15 
   Strike News     pat c    Fri Nov 05, 2004 13:01 
   government     joseph    Fri Nov 05, 2004 14:45 
   yeah right!     pat c    Fri Nov 05, 2004 14:48 
   solidarity     annmarie    Fri Nov 05, 2004 15:20 
   Why you asking?     Amused Labour Man    Fri Nov 05, 2004 16:21 
   solidarity     madge    Fri Nov 05, 2004 17:55 
   point of order     stroppy    Sat Nov 06, 2004 00:01 
   stropped out     madge    Sat Nov 06, 2004 09:41 
 10   uncivil servants     Jim    Mon Nov 08, 2004 01:11 
 11   to jim     .    Mon Nov 08, 2004 01:35 
 12   To . The Trot     Trotwatch    Mon Nov 08, 2004 12:11 
 13   trot lost the plot?     madge    Mon Nov 08, 2004 20:02 
 14   Why am I not surprised?     Bureaucratwatch    Mon Nov 08, 2004 23:11 
 15   ?     madge    Tue Nov 09, 2004 00:15 
 16   time for common sense to prevail     Jim    Tue Nov 09, 2004 00:55 
 17   One question answered, now     .    Tue Nov 09, 2004 08:30 
 18   One question answered, now     .    Tue Nov 09, 2004 08:30 
 19   ask another one     madge    Tue Nov 09, 2004 10:30 
 20   Pull the Other one!     The Members    Tue Nov 09, 2004 11:00 
 21   trotting out the same old rubbish     Jim    Tue Nov 09, 2004 13:06 
 22   its got bells on!     madge    Tue Nov 09, 2004 20:14 
 23   Answer the question     The Members    Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:37 
 24   I thought I had     madge    Wed Nov 10, 2004 18:08 
 25   confused     stroppy    Thu Nov 11, 2004 01:01 
 26   elections elections     interested    Sun Nov 21, 2004 00:47 
 27   interesting question     madge    Mon Nov 22, 2004 01:09 
 28   who is stroppy     patrick Mcginley    Sun Nov 28, 2004 02:59 
 29   out in the open     madge    Sun Nov 28, 2004 11:34 
 30   open debate     patrick mcginley    Mon Nov 29, 2004 19:48 
 31   oafen debate     stroppy    Thu Feb 24, 2005 01:09 
 32   oafwatch     trot spy    Fri Feb 25, 2005 00:48 
 33   trotspite     stroppy    Sat Feb 26, 2005 01:45 
 34   overtime debate     stroppy    Tue Mar 22, 2005 01:46 
 35   banner     james    Fri Mar 25, 2005 01:08 
 36   ?     madge    Sat Mar 26, 2005 13:33 
 37   group strategy     james    Sat Mar 26, 2005 19:57 
 38   easy way out     madge    Sun Mar 27, 2005 21:53 
 39   the banner     Branch 8 member    Sat Apr 09, 2005 17:45 
 40   banner money     stroppy    Sun Apr 10, 2005 23:48 
 41   the banner     patrick mcginley    Mon Apr 11, 2005 20:46 
 42   Hail Patreek     stroppy    Tue Apr 12, 2005 01:02 
 43   Dear Stroppy     patrick mcginley    Tue Apr 12, 2005 02:31 
 44   Dear Sniveller     patrick mcginley    Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:03 
 45   Strange goings on.     The Phantom    Tue Apr 12, 2005 18:39 
 46   spooky or what     stroppy    Wed Apr 13, 2005 00:28 
 47   Spooked or what?     patrick mcginley    Wed Apr 13, 2005 02:06 
 48   ghosts in the party machine     son of stroppy    Wed Apr 13, 2005 23:43 
 49   son of stroppy     patrick mcginley    Thu Apr 14, 2005 01:22 
 50   The End     patrick mcginley    Sat Jun 04, 2005 19:29 
 51   the end is nigh     stroppy    Sat Jun 04, 2005 20:05 


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