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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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Seanad Election Results - Voting Pacts Hold Up

category national | politics / elections | news report author Monday July 23, 2007 16:07author by Maurice Ross Report this post to the editors

Counting begins on election

Counting began today on the 43 seats on the 5 Vocational panels. Tomorrow counting of the University seats begins. Early indications show that the voting pacts between Greens and Fianna Fáil and between Sinn Féin and Labour are holding up.

The Culture and Education panel was the first constituency to begin counting this morning in Leinster House. Fianna Fáil are likely to loose one seat. There are also intense intra-party battles within Fine Gael and within Fianna Fáil. The Culture and Education vote went as follows: FF 509 votes, FG 354 votes, Labour 198 votes, Independents 11 votes and Green 0 votes.

It is likely there will be a Labour Party gain at the expence of Fianna Fáil. Labour's Alex White topped the poll with 161 first preferences. White was an unsuccessful candidate in the Dublin South constituency. Fianna Fáil are likely to win 2 seats. Cecilia Keaveney, an unsuccessful former FF TD won most FF votes with 131 first preferences. Two outgoing Fianna Fáil Senators Labhras Ó Murchu and Ann Ormonde are going for the one seat. Ó Murchu hold the advantage with 128 on the first count opposed to Ormonde's 115. Outgoing FF Senator Paschal Mooney topped the poll in 2002 but is now certain to loose his seat. Fine Gael's candidates are going for 2 seats. Former Health spokeperson Liam Twomey is likely to get FG's first seat with Colm MacEochaidh and outgoing Senator Fergal Browne going for the remaining FG seat.

A Green Party councillor Tom Kelly from Meath was nominated but did not vote for himself as he achieved 0 votes! This shows that the Green agreement to vote for Fianna Fáil is holding up, however may not be enough to get a government majority due to the SF-Labour deal and the Fianna Fáil set backs in the 2004 local elections.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Sinn Féin Give Fianna Fáil transfers. Govt May Hold Majority     Maurice Ross    Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:19 
   Sinn Féin backing Fianna Fáil continues     Maurice Ross    Tue Jul 24, 2007 11:38 
   Seanad elections - How exciting     Justin Moran    Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:56 
   Justin Moran supports Government     SF watch    Tue Jul 24, 2007 13:24 
   On SF votes     Maurice Ross    Tue Jul 24, 2007 13:32 
   Ridiculous     Watcher    Tue Jul 24, 2007 14:31 
   Watcher...     Paul Reddy    Tue Jul 24, 2007 15:08 
   "facts" or just pathetic "sources"     Watcher    Tue Jul 24, 2007 15:22 
   FACTS     Reddy    Tue Jul 24, 2007 15:39 
 10   Pathetic     Justin Moran    Tue Jul 24, 2007 15:48 
 11   SF & FF     Maurice Ross    Tue Jul 24, 2007 16:13 
 12   Pathetic     Watcher    Tue Jul 24, 2007 16:24 
 13   The wacky world of Maurice Ross     Justin Moran    Tue Jul 24, 2007 16:27 
 14   Spin from SF     Maurice Ross    Tue Jul 24, 2007 16:46 
 15   FF could get NUI seat     Maurice Ross    Tue Jul 24, 2007 16:54 
 16   Cut Maurice some slack     Amused    Tue Jul 24, 2007 17:13 
 17   Maurice I would like to sign up to your newsletter     Watcher    Tue Jul 24, 2007 17:35 
 18   81%     SFwatch    Tue Jul 24, 2007 19:11 
 19   SF spinners avoid the nub of the issue     Maurice Ross    Tue Jul 24, 2007 21:16 
 20   Maurice I've a little parable for you. coz you're upset at the oireachtas & SF.     iosaf    Tue Jul 24, 2007 21:31 
 21   Deep breaths Maurice     Justin Moran    Tue Jul 24, 2007 23:32 
 22   College Results and SF     Maurice Ross    Wed Jul 25, 2007 08:18 
 23   Once again     Watcher    Wed Jul 25, 2007 10:36 
 24   More Slurs, Lies and Spin     Maurice Ross    Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:18 
 25   Labour Panel Results     Maurice Ross    Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:39 
 26   Total count results so far.     Maurice Ross    Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:02 
 27   This quote is a bit strange     Watcher    Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:06 
 28   Trinity College First Count Figures     Maurice Ross    Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:13 
 29   More slurs, More Muddy Waters from SF over their "dig out" to Bertie     Maurice Ross    Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:28 
 30   Hannigan     Maurice Ross    Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:42 
 31   ASTI election     ASTI member    Wed Jul 25, 2007 12:51 
 32   Liar     Watcher    Wed Jul 25, 2007 14:01 
 33   National University 1st count     Maurice Ross    Wed Jul 25, 2007 14:37 
 34   Bacik, Norris and Mullan     Sean Seán    Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:50 
 35   NUI vote continues     Maurice Ross    Thu Jul 26, 2007 12:18 
 36   Industrial and Commercial count complete     Maurice Ross    Thu Jul 26, 2007 13:05 
 37   Final Tally     Maurice Ross    Thu Jul 26, 2007 13:17 
 38   Fianna Fáil about to win Majority     Maurice Ross    Thu Jul 26, 2007 16:13 
 39   Fianna Fáil take majority - FF celebrate victory thanks to Greens, SF and Inds     Maurice Ross    Thu Jul 26, 2007 16:34 
 40   NUI result & Taoiseach nominations     Maurice Ross    Thu Jul 26, 2007 19:30 


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