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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 Why is My Energy Bill Even Higher? Mon Dec 01, 2025 19:09 | David Turver
Labour came to power promising to cut energy bills by ?300 but instead they've risen by ?65. David Turver breaks down why and calls for an end to Net Zero, calling Britain's sky-high energy prices an existential crisis.
The post Why is My Energy Bill Even Higher? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Junior Doctors to Strike for Five Days in Run-Up to Christmas Mon Dec 01, 2025 17:35 | Will Jones
Junior doctors?will stage a five-day strike in the run-up to Christmas, walking out from December 17th to 22nd in demand of a further 26% pay rise, the?British Medical Association has announced.
The post Junior Doctors to Strike for Five Days in Run-Up to Christmas appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Woke Left is Reaping the Whirlwind Mon Dec 01, 2025 15:21 | Clive Pinder
The self-appointed priesthood of the woke Left rewrote the moral software of Western civilisation and silenced dissent. Now it can only look on in horror as it reaps the whirlwind it has sown, says Clive Pinder.
The post The Woke Left is Reaping the Whirlwind appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Restricting Jury Trials Will Undermine Free Speech, Lammy Warned Mon Dec 01, 2025 13:08 | Will Jones
Government plans to?scrap jury trials?for most crimes will undermine free speech, David Lammy has been warned, with research showing juries are twice as likely to acquit on free speech grounds.
The post Restricting Jury Trials Will Undermine Free Speech, Lammy Warned appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Hallett Inquiry Report: Of, By and For Lawyers Mon Dec 01, 2025 11:00 | Ramesh Thakur
The Covid Inquiry is an inquiry of, by and for lawyers, says Ramesh Thakur ? just a carefully staged political whitewash with no real search for the truth and no hope of accountability.
The post Hallett Inquiry Report: Of, By and For Lawyers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire, international edition

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

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?127 Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:38 | en

offsite link Disintegration of Western democracy begins in France Sat Apr 05, 2025 06:00 | en

offsite link Voltaire, International Newsletter N?126 Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:39 | en

offsite link The International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism by Amichai Chikli and Na... Fri Mar 28, 2025 11:31 | en

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WorldbyStorm - 14:25 Mon Dec 01, 2025
The deliberations this evening around this will be interesting: Dublin City Council will tonight discuss why proposals to change the name of Herzog Park in south Dublin should not now be voted on. Last night, Chief Executive of the Dublin City Council Richard Shakespeare wrote to councillors saying the proposal to rename the park, which … Continue reading "Naming issue"
WorldbyStorm - 09:30 Mon Dec 01, 2025
So, the name is staying. The new leftwing party founded by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana will be called Your Party after a vote by members, but its weekend conference laid bare bitter divisions. Just over 37% of members voted for the name Your Party, provisionally adopted when it was launched earlier this year, to … Continue reading "Your Party is… Your Party"
irishonlineleftarchive - 06:38 Mon Dec 01, 2025
To download the above please click on the following links: Please click here to go the Left Archive. Many thanks to the person who donated this. This document is an A5 four page leaflet from Labour Party Youth released in 2024.  It has a brief outline of the history of the Labour Party and it … Continue reading "Left Archive: Labour Party Youth, Labour Party, 2024"
WorldbyStorm - 10:43 Sun Nov 30, 2025
This is counterproductive I’d think. Calling plant-based food veggie ?burgers? or ?sausages? may be banned in the UK under the new trade agreement with the EU, the Guardian understands. The Labour government secured a new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) agreement with the EU earlier this year, which allows British businesses to sell products including some … Continue reading "Banning the term vegetarian ?burgers?"
guestposter - 09:55 Sun Nov 30, 2025
All examples welcome in comments. Is there any hope for Simon Harris? He was a very good county councillor; a diligent local TD; a forgettable minister of state; an underwhelming health minister; a wasted minister for further and higher education; a rejected taoiseach. Last week, he stepped into the last-chance saloon. He is planning to … Continue reading "Sunday and other stupid statements from this week"
WorldbyStorm - 12:59 Sat Nov 29, 2025
I’m old enough to remember science fiction stories that had vast computers in enormous rooms the size of aircraft hangers. Granted by the early 1970s computers were getting smaller, but the idea that you needed more, bigger, larger spaces for computers took a while to fade away. Miniaturisation was a thing, but oddly, and perhaps … Continue reading "Miniaturisation"
WorldbyStorm - 11:00 Sat Nov 29, 2025
Because: For those who hanker for the limelight, be careful what you wish for: shooting to stardom as a lead singer really does raise the risk of an early death, researchers say. Their analysis of singers from Europe and the US found that those who rose to fame died on average nearly five years sooner … Continue reading "Don’t be a lead singer."

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