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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.

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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.

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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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CLASSROOM ASSISTANTS DISPUTE

category antrim | worker & community struggles and protests | press release author Thursday November 01, 2007 12:10author by . - CWSC Report this post to the editors

NIPSA CALLS FOR TRANSPARENCY

The Minister for Education Catroina Ruane has stated publicly that the current offer on the table to settle the Classroom Assistants dispute is valued at £45 million. This is in direct contradiction to the statements by the Education Boards that the offer is valued at £40.2 million.

These opposing statement have caused great confusion amongst parents and staff.

NIPSA is calling for transparency in the job evaluation process and demanding access to the costings for the job evaluation process.

NIPSA General Council member and Classroom Workers Strike Committee member Brian Booth stated

“The Minister for Education has called on all trade unions to consult their members on the current offer to Classroom Assistant. In making this call the Minister has stated that the offer is worth £45 million. It is, therefore, a matter of considerable concern that statements issued by the Education Boards and the documentation issued to trade unions clearly state that the value of the offer is £40.2 million.

Throughout the job evaluation process there has been a history of inconsistencies in management’s approach. At one point management asked the Department of Education to set aside £80 million for the process then the Minister announced £30 million. Subsequently the Education Boards announced £25.2 million. This confusion has led to serious concerns amongst Classroom Assistants. These concerns have been heightened by the history of major financial problems faced by Education Boards over the last number of years.

The Minister must come clean on the real financial situation. Trade unions must be allowed access to the costings for job evaluation for Classroom Assistants and an explanation must be provided for inconsistencies.

Classroom Workers, parents and the general public have a right to know if money that was set aside by the Direct Rule administration for support services in schools has been diverted by the Assembly for other purposes.

If the financial trail leads us to the conclusion that the job evaluation dispute in education has been deliberately manufactured by the Assembly we are facing a very serious situation for everyone in this country”

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author by Marty McK - does it matter if there is an organisation?publication date Sat Nov 10, 2007 21:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Thursday, 18 November, 2004, 19:21 GMT BBC PRESS RELEASE (copied of the internet)

The Southern Education and Library Board (SELB), which is based in Armagh, is predicting a shortfall of an estimated £28m over the next three years.

SELB chief executive Helen McClenaghan revealed the projected shortfall at a monthly meeting on Thursday.

Ms McClenaghan said she feared its budget for services supporting schools from 2005 to 2008 may be "totally inadequate".

The board will hold a special meeting in two weeks' time to plan how to cut costs.

The Belfast and South Eastern Boards are already the subject of a special government inquiry into their overspending.

The North Eastern Board has cancelled all but emergency maintenance to stay within its budget this year.

In a statement, the Department of Education said the money allocations had not been finalised.

It added that it was the responsibility of the boards' chief executives to make sure their spending remained within budget.

This is 2007 how quickly have the ELBs made up their shortfalls and on whose backs are these savings made? Is special education one area, ask parents who are waiting to have their child
statemented or education psychology employees who are still awaiting salaried money owed from 2002? Make up your own minds regarding classroom assistants, taking into account how many ELBs honour time term agreements and issue permanent contracts? Helen McClenahan is very welcome to respond to this posting.

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