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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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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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Voltaire Network
Voltaire, international edition

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Distortion of Thought. Drugs a Social Problem in need of informed input to gain impact

category national | crime and justice | opinion/analysis author Tuesday November 15, 2005 22:08author by Michelle Clarke - Social Justice and Ethics Report this post to the editors

This year, 18 people are dead, and so many friends, family and people are affected. Last year, it was 8 deaths in a turf war. The turf war is territory and the war relates to the sale of illegal drugs that destroy peoples' lives.

I believe in everybody having a degree of self reliance in and input to halting this plague of mind distortion so called pleasure.

The articles in New Scientist are worth a read. This week's article is second from the bottom.....the title is what motivates me to write, the remainder of my comment is about contextualising the effects of drugs on long term and health and in particular the consequences of mental health problems as a direct consequence of addiction. Let the children know. Why don't we have some for of game that shows you how unpleasant it is when your mind goes ary.....

http://www.newscientist.com

'Knowledge is no load'., a quotation used by a wise old Judge born in 1870's.

Today, thankfully our Gardai together with those from abroad, have successfully found large stashes......Long may this work continue.


Ecstacy, drugs can be suffice to cause the precipitating event into Mental Health crises.......Get the message across through education. As a bipolar person with Anxiety and then ABI all I can say is to inform people and contextualise.

Depression:
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Jesuit and Poet
'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day'
'O Lord : Send my roots rain'

Sr Joan, Franciscan Nun
'It was the onset of a mysterious numbness that crept into my whole being, caused me to want to die, closed down all my connections with the basic ingredients of life: COLOUR, ACTIVITY, CONVERSATION AND RELATIONSHIPS..I could not feel the wind on my face, the hand that clasped mine, my sister's death from cancer, the ground under my feet, the meaning of anything I heard or read. I was alone in my deep dark tunnel and there was no end to it, it seemed. I SIMPLY SAT THERE - MUTE, PITIABLE AND WASTED'

Martin Buber, Jeweish Theologian
'All suffering prepares the soul for vision'

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Illegal drugs; need for community action.....too many deaths and young people affected     K Walsh    Wed Nov 16, 2005 21:48 
   Current Drugs situation     Con Carroll    Thu Nov 17, 2005 14:30 
   Con: A reply re. Drugs from what you call a 'Bleeting Liberal'     Michelle Clarke    Thu Nov 17, 2005 21:42 
   social reality     Con Carroll    Fri Nov 18, 2005 17:47 
   Reply to Con Carroll from the fantasy land bleeting heart     Michelle Clarke    Sat Nov 26, 2005 22:14 
   A little 'classless' wisdom perhaps 'Knowledge is no load'     Michelle Clarke    Wed Nov 30, 2005 23:26 
   Reply to Michelle 'Knowledge is no load'     Kevin Walsh    Fri Dec 02, 2005 23:11 
   Funds please from Criminal Assets Bureau for a worthwhile cause....those addicted to drugs and rehab     Michelle Clarke    Sun Jun 11, 2006 00:10 
   Not surprising.     coconut    Sun Jun 11, 2006 14:45 
 10   whats new     jack    Mon Jun 12, 2006 16:39 
 11   Jack. I agree. Some benefit from CAB but the homeless and drug addicted are ignored.     Michelle Clarke    Mon Jun 12, 2006 21:42 
 12   The State benefits Euro 7 b. from CAB interception of Crime and racketeering     Jack Russell    Thu Jun 15, 2006 22:32 
 13   Cocunut. I agree. Let money be invested to people with drug addiction and similar problems     Michelle Clarke    Tue Jun 20, 2006 19:27 
 14   Daily Star : 'Veronica's Killing change the way crime was ever reported forever'     Jack Russell    Sun Jun 25, 2006 20:22 
 15   CAB Euros 7 billion...I think a large mistake here!     K.T.    Sat Sep 02, 2006 01:44 
 16   Trinity College Dublin Ecstacy Scandal.....Who is responsible?     No to illegal drugs    Mon Sep 04, 2006 01:14 
 17   Trinity College Dublin Ecstacy Scandal.....Who is responsible?     Michelle Clarke    Wed Sep 06, 2006 20:50 
 18   Rumours and Myths     d'other    Wed Sep 06, 2006 21:49 
 19   Couldn't agree more d'other     badman    Wed Sep 06, 2006 22:18 
 20   Badman's reply to Michelle (the one who rants) article about Research Parameters at leading Irish     Michelle Clarke    Thu Sep 07, 2006 01:32 
 21   shame on me?     badman    Thu Sep 07, 2006 03:17 
 22   Trinity Research 10 Euro voucher to research people who take ecstacy....     Jack Russell    Sat Sep 09, 2006 13:09 
 23   Reply to KT. Erratum re. CAB 7 Billion from crime sources     Michelle Clarke    Tue Sep 12, 2006 21:35 
 24   Rumour and Myth - The Rant Michelle and d'Other     Kevin T. Walsh    Sat Sep 16, 2006 20:56 
 25   A young man, three children, from Johnstown, Co. Meath     Michelle Clarke    Tue Oct 03, 2006 21:26 
 26   Weston: 10 m. euros. drug haul     Michelle Clarke    Fri Oct 06, 2006 02:05 
 27   Illegal Drugs...How do people deal with the problem?     Michelle Clarke    Sun Dec 31, 2006 22:52 
 28   The economic, the emotional, the impact on families of illegal drugs     Michelle Clarke    Sun Jun 17, 2007 20:58 
 29   Kerry hosts a conference of over 800 people from all over the world     Michelle Clarke    Wed Aug 29, 2007 21:16 
 30   Cocaine, Heroin, Cannabis: Illegal drugs of Addiction.     Michelle Clarke    Tue Jan 22, 2008 18:33 
 31   Illegal Drugs: What can be done? How about dealers? Where are they?     Michelle Clarke    Tue Jan 29, 2008 17:46 
 32   Yes     :-)    Tue Jan 29, 2008 20:12 
 33   Sniffer dogs and illegal drugs. :-) yes, it involves more. People need to take Responsibility     Michelle Clarke    Mon Nov 24, 2008 17:32 
 34   How Much Is The Doggy In The Window ?     Michael    Mon Nov 24, 2008 20:22 
 35   Reply to Michael - and the powerful and political dogs that could exist     Michelle Clarke    Tue Jan 20, 2009 18:09 


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