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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 News Round-Up Wed Oct 22, 2025 01:01 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link The Firewall is Backfiring Tue Oct 21, 2025 20:00 | Eugyppius
The firewall is making AfD the strongest party in Germany, artificially empowering the Left and destroying the centre-Right, who alone can tear it down, says Eugyppius. Delaying its demise is only making things worse.
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offsite link Victoria?s Secret Has Paid the Price for Replacing its Angels With Trans and Plus-Size Models Tue Oct 21, 2025 18:28 | Emily Fox
Victoria's Secret's sales have been in freefall since it sacked its famed Angels and replaced them with trans and plus-size models. Now it?s desperately trying to backtrack, but the damage is done, says Emily Fox.
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offsite link Labour?s Islamophobia Definition is Redundant and Will Sow Confusion, Says Equalities Watchdog Tue Oct 21, 2025 17:47 | Will Jones
An official definition for Islamophobia is not needed and will sow confusion because there are already legal protections for Muslims, Britain's equalities watchdog, the EHRC, has told the Government.
The post Labour’s Islamophobia Definition is Redundant and Will Sow Confusion, Says Equalities Watchdog appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Starmer?s Grooming Gangs Inquiry in Crisis as Chairman Candidate Quits Tue Oct 21, 2025 17:15 | Will Jones
Keir Starmer?s?grooming gangs?inquiry has been plunged into fresh turmoil after one of the candidates to lead it withdrew from the process, a day after two gang victims quit the liaison panel amid worries of a cover-up.
The post Starmer’s Grooming Gangs Inquiry in Crisis as Chairman Candidate Quits appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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What indeed happened in Gory

category international | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Friday August 15, 2008 23:42author by Larussa - What indeed happened in Gory Report this post to the editors

Over the past week English-language press, newspapers and TV, have been blaming Russia for the recent events in the Caucasus. Here are some pictures for comparison.

The journalists say that Russians [purposefully] bombed civilian buildings and houses. Is this true?

Let's just think. How could a city block fallen under air bombardment appear? Look at these pictures: it is just heaps of the rocks and concrete. Nothing is left of the buildings. It is how the place would look after impact of a 1000-2000 pound blast bomb.

http://rksmb.ru/images/lenta/1006.jpg
http://img.lenta.ru/news/2006/07/30/qana/picture.jpg
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41950000/jpg/_419...2.jpg

Every of you saw news reports from Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, and Yugoslavia. It is enough just to remember. The journalists arrogated cruel bombardments using free-fall and guided bombs of 500 kg caliber to Russia. Those ammunitions are a little bit more powerful than 2000-pound bombs similar to those Israel used during the second war in Lebanon. Now, look at the photos published by the journalists from Reuters, CNN, BBC, and ARD. What kind of destruction can we see on their photos?

http://pics.livejournal.com/sirjones/pic/00167x5t/
http://pics.livejournal.com/drugoi/pic/00gw95hh.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/photo/2008...4.JPG
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/08/09/world/09...3.jpg
http://pics.livejournal.com/sirjones/pic/00168brw/
http://pics.livejournal.com/sirjones/pic/00167x5t/

What do we see? 1000-2000 pound blast bomb would tie lampposts in a knot; the windows would be shattered together with the walls of the buildings. But where are the destroyed buildings, heaps of broken concrete, and root out trees? You can see just shattered windows and a couple of fires. Probably, Russian heavy bombardment aircrafts had done a carpet bombing using firecrackers. Do you believe that? Do you believe that Russians bombed Gory? Do you believe the city could still exist at all on this planet? One explosion of one Russian air bomb would be enough for complete demolition of several buildings. In case of real air strike, Gory city would be wiped off from the face of the earth. It is enough just to remember the cities of South Lebanon after the war with Israel or to look at the pictures of destroyed Tskhinvali in South Ossetia. Why don't the journalists show the impact points in Gory? Where are the shell craters? The 500 kg blast bomb would leave a shell crater of 10 m (30 ft) in diameter. It would be impossible to hide. Who saw pictures of the shell crater? What do the journalists conceal? Or what don't they want to show? Why?

Wake up! Remember TV and photo reports from Iraq and Yugoslavia. Compare them with this unskillful fake.

What indeed happened? In Gory, Russians did pinpoint attack at Georgian artillery depot full of ammunition ready to go blasting off the map Tskhinvali and its civilians. Explosion of Georgian artillery ammunition broke out windows while scattering splinters hurt people.

Georgian heavy artillery was destroyed. The Saakashvili's order to use heavy artillery against Tskhinvali led to horrible loss of its civilians. Who knows the reason why the Georgian army disposed deathful artillery ammunition in the very centre of the residential area? What is the idiocy?

What would you say to a president who would dispose a depot with of napalm right on the central square of your city to bomb a neighbor village?

Ask journalists to answer a simple question: "Excuse me. Who do you want to deceive?"

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   what realy happened in S Osetia ..?     armenian    Sat Aug 16, 2008 09:45 
   Thanks for the photos armenian     Jim    Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:34 
   What happened in Gori     Larussa    Sat Aug 16, 2008 18:09 
   and more disinformation.     I-bawl    Mon Aug 18, 2008 16:25 
   ...The Russians, took advantage ?? ...     Armenian    Tue Aug 19, 2008 16:56 
   reply to "Armenian."     I-bawl.    Tue Aug 19, 2008 21:37 
   i-Bawl     Hugh Briss    Tue Aug 19, 2008 22:46 
   What's it all about?     Hugh Briss    Tue Aug 19, 2008 23:00 
   Hello again Hugh     I-bawl    Wed Aug 20, 2008 00:02 
 10   On: Geopolitical Expertise . . .     Hugh Briss    Wed Aug 20, 2008 00:48 
 11   Just the Facts, mam     Hugh Briss    Wed Aug 20, 2008 01:06 
 12   why someone start fire in his own backyard?     Armenian    Wed Aug 20, 2008 09:18 
 13   Armenian     I-bawl    Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:11 
 14   20 Ethnic groups in Kavkaz... managed to coexist so far !!!     Armenian    Wed Aug 20, 2008 11:48 
 15   Armenian..     Dear I-bawl..    Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:18 
 16   ethnic conflicts.     I-bawl.    Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:33 
 17   Armenian     refering to map above.. ( ethnic groups..)    Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:39 
 18   Armenian     Agree. ... but...    Wed Aug 20, 2008 13:24 
 19   Dear Armenian.     I-bawl    Wed Aug 20, 2008 14:45 
 20   After Abkhazia and S.Ossetia .. Transdnister and Crimea to follow ??     Armenian    Wed Aug 20, 2008 17:04 
 21   Armenian     ETHNIC MAP of KAVKAZ    Fri Aug 22, 2008 06:28 
 22   Israel's involvement in the Ossetian WAR ( and others..)     Armenian    Fri Aug 22, 2008 07:16 
 23   I figure this belongs here     Hubris    Thu Jan 01, 2009 20:45 


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