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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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offsite link I Don?t Want 600 Illegal Migrants Moving into My Town Sun Nov 02, 2025 17:00 | Madeleine Gillies
Crowborough's been blindsided, says Madeleine Gillies, as locals learn their quiet Sussex town will host 600 illegal migrants in a former army camp ? news that's stirred anger, fear and a deep sense of betrayal.
The post I Don?t Want 600 Illegal Migrants Moving into My Town appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link We Need Properly Funded Palliative Care, Not Suicide on the State Sun Nov 02, 2025 15:02 | Toby Young
The assisted dying bill is a bodge job that hasn?t been properly thought through. But even with a better written bill, do we really want to grant the NHS the legal right to kill patients?
The post We Need Properly Funded Palliative Care, Not Suicide on the State appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link All-Female Cambridge College Lets In Students Who Were Born Male Sun Nov 02, 2025 13:02 | Richard Eldred
Cambridge's oldest women-only college has caused outrage after refusing to back down on letting in trans women, even after the Supreme Court made it clear that "woman" means biological female.
The post All-Female Cambridge College Lets In Students Who Were Born Male appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Horror Knife Rampage on Train Leaves 10 in Hospital ? With 9 Fighting for Their Lives Sun Nov 02, 2025 11:13 | Richard Eldred
Ten people have been rushed to hospital, nine with life-threatening injuries, after armed police responded in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, to a mass stabbing on a train travelling from Doncaster to London King's Cross.
The post Horror Knife Rampage on Train Leaves 10 in Hospital ? With 9 Fighting for Their Lives appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Orwellian Sacking of Editor for Allowing Debate Over Climate Change Sun Nov 02, 2025 09:00 | Andrew Sibley
An editor at the American Journal of Economics and Sociology has been sacked for daring to allow debate over the impact of climate change. This suppression of science is Orwellian, says Andrew Sibley.
The post Orwellian Sacking of Editor for Allowing Debate Over Climate Change appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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offsite link Will intergovernmental institutions withstand the end of the "American Empire"?,... Sat Apr 05, 2025 07:15 | en

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Labour To Table a motion of no confidence in Harney

category national | miscellaneous | press release author Friday November 23, 2007 15:35author by Labour Lover - Labour Report this post to the editors

Labour lash out!!!

The Labour Party has tabled a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Health, Mary Harney TD, which will be taken in Labour Party Private Members time on Tuesday and Wednesday next.

The Labour Party Spokesperson on Health, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan said:
"The tabling of a motion of no confidence in a government minister is a very serious development that is only merited in the most serious of situations.

"However, the disclosures about the failures in cancer screening and care at the Midland Hospital, Portlaoise, and the questions that have been raised about the subsequent handling of the disclosure of information by the Department of Health and the HSE are of such seriousness that they cannot be ignored by the Dail.

"While nobody questions Minister Harney's personal integrity, the patience of the public has now expired at the continued failures in the health service on her watch.

"The disclosure that ninety-seven patients who attended at Portlaoise for ultrasound scans were being recalled for a surgical review was bad enough, but the fact these women heard about this development over the airwaves is scandalous. And then we learn today that these women have not yet even been contacted by the HSE, never mind being offered the counselling that they will now need.

"Minister Harney's claim that she was not even aware that these ninety-seven women were being recalled, suggests that she is out of touch and that the HSE is out of control. The HSE was Mary Harney's political initiative and she must now take responsibility for the monster she has created.

"If the principle of political accountability is to mean anything Mary Harney must accept overall responsibility for the Portlaoise debacle.

"The motion of no confidence will enable members of the Dail to outline their views on Minister Harney's record and will allow all members to vote on whether or not they have confidence in her. I hope that those Fianna Fail backbenchers and Independents who have been happy to engage in whispered criticisms of Mary Harney in the corridors of Leinister House, will now have the courage of the convictions and come into the House and put those views on the record.

"It is time for all members to stand up and be counted on where they stand on the record of Mary Harney and this government on health."

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