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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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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
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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.

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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

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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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War Drums Again in Middle East

category international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis author Wednesday January 11, 2006 12:49author by Timothy Report this post to the editors

US sets its sights on Iran.

In violation of its agreements with the IAEA the Iranian government has removed seals from its nuclear facilities and has begun uranium processing. The response of the international community led by the US and UK poodle with the support of effeminate France (the CIA staged Paris riots have convinced them of the need to clamp down on Muslims) and Russia (Chechens freedom fighters supported by Iran)is to refer the issue to the UN Security Council in preparation for a new Iran War

This time Bush is focusing on an old enemy of 25 years, Iran, an oil rich nation in the Middle East.

Whereas Iraq did not have WMD, Iran has long range ballistic missiles capable of hitting neighbouring states including Israel.
Potentially the Iranian nuclear processing could produce weapons grade uranium in their centrifuges with which to build bombs. A nuclear armed Iran would threaten American occupation of Iraq and could potentially fulfill the recently elected Iranian leader's desire to wipe Israel off the map. Iran has also supported Islamic terrorist organisations for many years.
Alarm bells are ringing loudly.

Or so we are told.

This is fact a new propaganda strategy by Cheney and Haliburtonm, Israel's friends (the real powers behind the US government) to topple the final dominos in their path.
Look at an atlas of the world and you should remember which countries have had the "benefit" of "regime change" since 2001.

Lebanon on the Mediterranean coast is no longer legitimately occupied by Syria after they were bullied out after the Mossad orchestrated assassination of Hariri which could be pinned on Assad. Israel has effectively taken control of all of Lebanon.

Syria is bordered by Iraq on the east occupied by the US military.

Iran is sandwiched between Iraq to the West (from where the ground attack will be launched) and Afghanistan and Pakistan to the East (where helicopter borne troops will be luanced). Remember Afghanistan was occupied by US forces (after the stage 9/11 attacks with the help of Mossad) and Pakistan is a US ally (Musharaff's military coup had US backing in order to threaten the potential of India to become a rival global superpower with nuclear blackmail over Kashmir).
To the north east is Turkey, a NATO member and US airbases in Uzbekistan are in range after an agreement with the pro-US puppet government.

It is clear that the US/Israel is carving out an empire encompasing the entire Middle East and south Asia.

Meanwhile the largest Muslim country in the world far to the east, Indonesia, is firmly in the Americans' pocket.

The Anti-War movement must recognise the re-run of the Iraq War in 2003 is imminent this time in Iran.
(They have similar sounding names so that ignorant fat SUV driving American morons wouldn't know the difference)
Also the fundie Christians will think Iraq/Iran and the threat to Israel sounds like the passage in Revelation about the armies from Gog and MaGog rising up over the earth to surround the holy city before God will come from heaven and burn them all up."And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. " Revelation 20:7-9.

I rest my case.

In fact the date has been set - sometime in March when Israel has plans to repeat its 1981 attack on supposed Iraqi reactors by hitting Iranian nuclear facilities.
Olmert the new Israeli prime minister has already been briefed.

Watch this space.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   American Christian fundies are behind this.     Jarleth    Wed Jan 11, 2006 13:00 
   We're all f***ed     Mark O 'Hehir    Wed Jan 11, 2006 13:08 
   mark     pat c    Wed Jan 11, 2006 13:31 
   don't touch the brown acid folks. REPEAT the brown acid is bad.     flashback    Wed Jan 11, 2006 13:33 
   OK     Mark O 'Hehir    Wed Jan 11, 2006 14:32 
   very serious about the brown acid thing. DON't DO the brown acid ok! (***)     flashbacks never stop!    Wed Jan 11, 2006 14:49 
   Zionists have NO birthright of murderous theft     TheTroll    Wed Jan 11, 2006 16:29 
   They're fanatics. So we can be mad.     David L    Wed Jan 11, 2006 17:14 
   I cant believe I just wet my pants laughing!!!!     Liam    Wed Jan 11, 2006 17:24 
 10   david     pat c    Wed Jan 11, 2006 17:55 
 11   Iran?     Plato    Wed Jan 11, 2006 18:12 
 12   the crazies arent just posting here     pat c    Wed Jan 11, 2006 18:36 
 13   Russia     Dido    Wed Jan 11, 2006 18:41 
 14   Fisk did speak out against the call     staying power    Wed Jan 11, 2006 18:47 
 15   dido     pat c    Wed Jan 11, 2006 18:56 
 16   and another link     staying power    Wed Jan 11, 2006 19:20 
 17   da hell wth religious governments     tomas    Thu Jan 12, 2006 14:04 
 18   Brace for Impact     BP    Sat Jan 14, 2006 22:49 
 19   The invasion was foretold in the Koran     rooster    Tue Jan 17, 2006 00:47 
 20   load of old cock     statto    Tue Jan 17, 2006 01:24 
 21   debunking rooster     redjade    Tue Jan 17, 2006 02:13 
 22   sorry, rooster.     gordi    Wed Jan 18, 2006 13:05 
 23   Guess which country has a Rooster as its emblem?     .    Sat Jan 21, 2006 18:57 
 24   .     gordi    Sun Jan 22, 2006 00:39 
 25   ah no the uganda flag doesn't have a rooster.     iosaf campaiging for a school of    Mon Jan 23, 2006 15:50 
 26   gone to roost     statto    Mon Jan 23, 2006 22:28 
 27   Ok, the solution is very simple then     .    Wed Jan 25, 2006 13:20 


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