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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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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

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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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Children these days Aren't the same

category international | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Friday April 17, 2009 01:14author by Philip O' Rourke - Noneauthor email phish20007 at hotmail dot comauthor address 6 Ridgewood Avenue, Swords Co. Dublin Report this post to the editors

Some things have changed that will never be the same.

When I was young we used to be out from 10 o'clock in the morning til 10 o' clock at night. The boys would be playing football while the girls would be making up dance routines or talking about the boys they fancied. Times have changed? But what has changed them?

Think back 15 years ago, there was no such thing as a Playstation, a Nintendo Wii, a Xbox 60. Kids had to use their imagination to have fun. They wern't stuck in the house living thier lifethrew a televsion screen. They wern't scoring goals on an imaginary football field. Instead they were out in the fields, the greens in thier estates kicking a real football around, out in the real fresh air, making thier local green or park their theatre of dreams.

It sad that most kids these would now rather sit in their bedrooms and use their hands with a controller to play the 'Beautiful game'. Its a sign that maybe the creative minds of the children today are disappearing and the virtual world takes over.

When I was young we used to build go-carts out of blanks of wood, we used to build base's in the forrest, we used to have water fights on the hot summer days, although them hot summer days were rare.

As well as limiting childrens creativity it limits their, what I like to call, 'Street eduacation'. Every kid has to learn how to live their life on thier own, learn their own mistakes, and lets face it no computer or Ps3 can ever teach them that.

My point is that these virtual games and computers are changing the way kids should be living. More of them are going to become obese, unhealthy, short-sighted and not 'street educated' which will have bad implications for their futures. It will also harm their social skills. If they are in their bedrooms playing games on their own and not out playing with their friends their social skills are going to be harmed and maybe never ully developed by the time they grow up. What is the saying, You can't teach a dog new tricks.

I think we should be urguing the kids today to be as creative as they can be, not stuck in playing in a unrealistic world where violence rules and shooting people dead gets reward. Because this is going to become a real problem in the future.

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Outside paly     Fergal    Fri Apr 17, 2009 12:50 
   come and play, come and play, forget about the movement     active person    Fri Apr 17, 2009 13:23 
   lost childhoods     maverick    Fri Apr 17, 2009 15:00 
   ( I cant get no) Satisfaction     pseudonym    Sat Apr 18, 2009 06:14 
   creativity     hans c. anderson    Sat Apr 18, 2009 14:19 
   Teenage Kicks?     Aimee M    Tue Apr 21, 2009 14:45 
   Take it off!     Brown Pelican    Tue Apr 21, 2009 20:56 
   amen to that     Hans c. a.    Tue Apr 21, 2009 23:32 
   teenage kicked parent     mr blue    Wed Apr 22, 2009 07:30 
 10   alternatives to mainstream education     Soupstone kindergarten    Thu Apr 23, 2009 19:33 
 11   education at home     hans c. a.    Thu Apr 23, 2009 23:33 
 12   Old Men.     Aristolle    Sat Apr 25, 2009 02:00 


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