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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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Collapse of the Council

category dublin | bin tax / household tax / water tax | opinion/analysis author Monday November 29, 2004 13:43author by Karen - Labour voter but ot a member Report this post to the editors

What's the plan if the Council collapses?

What is the Campaign Plan?

Tonight councilors in Dublin City will (Fingers crossed) reject the Estimates in protest at the imposition of another staggering increase in the cost of waste collection, the hated Bin Tax.

But talking to a Labour member this morning and arguing why their councilors should vote against the Charges he raised the question of what the Campaign plans to do if and when the Council collapses.

As he outlined it if the Council hasn’t passed the Estimates within the time set for it, the Government will collapse the Council and appoint a bureaucrat to run the city.

All input from elected representatives will be extinguished. This system will last until the next local elections. So for four years the city will be undemocratically run at the whim of the City Manager. No oversight, no representation from the people or anything like that.

This sounds like the nuclear option to me, but there doesn’t seem to be much thinking from Sinn Fein or the SWP or the Campaign itself about what people will do if the Council is brought down. The Labour guy I was talking to pointed out that the City Manager wants to privatize thousands of Council flats and radically cut the social housing stock and that projects like this and others will be implemented by the City bureaucracy.

Now I don’t have some sort of fetish for the Council or elected representation but I do think before the councilors and campaigners fighting to collapse the Council succeed in doing so they have a responsibility to explain what the strategy will be in the aftermath of it collapsing. I am NOT opposed to the idea of collapsing the Council, I just want to know what’s the plan if it is collapsed.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Council will NOT be dissolved     reality checker    Mon Nov 29, 2004 13:53 
   In the name of DEMOCRACY - Collapse the council.     ABTA    Mon Nov 29, 2004 14:02 
   Bring it on     Jack    Mon Nov 29, 2004 14:14 
   it IS happening     Jill    Mon Nov 29, 2004 14:26 
   Carry on     Still not payin    Mon Nov 29, 2004 14:29 
   Dissolution     easy answer    Mon Nov 29, 2004 15:29 
   Good Question     Justin Moran    Mon Nov 29, 2004 15:45 
   strike!     easy answer    Mon Nov 29, 2004 15:48 
   I don't think its going to happen     Ray    Mon Nov 29, 2004 15:54 
 10   A strike would also work     Ray    Mon Nov 29, 2004 15:56 
 11   Strike is what is needed     easy answer    Mon Nov 29, 2004 16:17 
 12   Indifferent Shrugs     Justin Moran    Mon Nov 29, 2004 16:24 
 13   So what you are saying Justin is....     ABTA    Mon Nov 29, 2004 16:29 
 14   Strike is the ONLY strategy that will defeat dissilution     easy answer    Mon Nov 29, 2004 16:37 
 15   Dissolution would be a significant victory     Cieran    Mon Nov 29, 2004 16:38 
 16   Cieran     Amused    Mon Nov 29, 2004 16:44 
 17   re. Justin     Ray    Mon Nov 29, 2004 16:52 
 18   I wonder what proportion of SF supporters....     provoid    Mon Nov 29, 2004 16:52 
 19   Justin - Ignore them     ABTA    Mon Nov 29, 2004 17:02 
 20   Amused, you're point is????????????     Cieran    Mon Nov 29, 2004 17:05 
 21   .     .    Mon Nov 29, 2004 17:06 
 22   Ah But Cieran     Amused    Mon Nov 29, 2004 17:10 
 23   Just to add, waiver scheme is to be abolished     Terry    Mon Nov 29, 2004 17:12 
 24   Very amused     Cieran    Mon Nov 29, 2004 17:27 
 25   HA HA     Amused    Mon Nov 29, 2004 17:48 
 26   Wha??????????     Curious    Mon Nov 29, 2004 18:14 
 27   So what?     voter    Mon Nov 29, 2004 18:17 
 28   more at politricks.ie     wolfotad4    Mon Nov 29, 2004 18:25 
 29   So What Indeed     Amused    Mon Nov 29, 2004 18:26 
 30   Curious What????????????????     Taxer    Mon Nov 29, 2004 19:16 
 31   Taxer     Curious    Mon Nov 29, 2004 19:22 
 32   Curious     Cieran    Mon Nov 29, 2004 19:30 
 33   Sinn Féin will be voting against the Book of Estimates - Burke     SF    Mon Nov 29, 2004 19:50 
 34   Lies     Tom    Mon Nov 29, 2004 21:29 
 35   was the election to the council democratic, accountable open to scrutiny and journalistic criticism?     iosaf    Mon Nov 29, 2004 21:44 
 36   SWP Sectarianism     pat c    Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:09 
 37   SWP     observer    Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:25 
 38   Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire     Justin Moran    Tue Nov 30, 2004 11:29 
 39   A yes voting leftie     A yes voting Leftie    Tue Nov 30, 2004 12:24 
 40   A yes voting Leftie?     ABTA    Tue Nov 30, 2004 12:37 
 41   Bin tax and Stealth Taxes     Michael Hennigan    Tue Nov 30, 2004 17:45 
 42   The Bin Tax is not just about money     seedot    Tue Nov 30, 2004 18:39 
 43   SWP Watcher     SWP Commment    Tue Nov 30, 2004 23:38 
 44   class party     Con Lee    Wed Dec 01, 2004 00:04 
 45   seedot     observer    Wed Dec 01, 2004 10:02 


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