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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 BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected ?Pregnant People? to ?Women? Thu Nov 06, 2025 17:52 | Will Jones
The BBC newsreader who went viral after she changed "pregnant people" to "women" during a live broadcast has been rebuked by the BBC after being found to have breached impartiality rules.
The post BBC Rebukes Newsreader Who Corrected “Pregnant People” to “Women” appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The Southport Inquiry?s Sinister Censorship Agenda Thu Nov 06, 2025 15:23 | David Shipley
The Southport Inquiry summoned X this week to lecture it on the wonders of the Online Safety Act. It shows a sinister willingness to use the worst kind of tragedy to advance a censorship agenda, says David Shipley.
The post The Southport Inquiry’s Sinister Censorship Agenda appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link How the Government?s Digital ID Fantasy Will Fall Apart Thu Nov 06, 2025 13:21 | Guy de la B?doy?re
Keir Starmer is planning digital ID for UK citizens. You may worry about the impact on civil liberties, but worry not, says Guy de la B?doy?re. A recent experience shows the system will never get off the ground.
The post How the Government’s Digital ID Fantasy Will Fall Apart appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Reeves to Hit EVs With ?250 Pay-Per-Mile Tax Thu Nov 06, 2025 11:00 | Will Jones
Electric vehicle drivers will be hit with a new pay-per-mile tax in?the Budget,?with a new charge of 3p per mile being levied on top of other road taxes, costing the average driver an extra ?250 a year.
The post Reeves to Hit EVs With ?250 Pay-Per-Mile Tax appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link The BBC?s Top 50 Pieces of Climate Misinformation ? Part 2 Thu Nov 06, 2025 09:00 | Paul Homewood
Paul Homewood returns with Part 2 of his top 50 pieces of BBC climate misinformation from the last couple of years, adding to the pressure on the corporation over its terrible track record on bias and spreading falsehoods.
The post The BBC’s Top 50 Pieces of Climate Misinformation ? Part 2 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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international / politics / elections / other press Sunday April 24, 2005 13:43 by endevant!   text 4 comments (last - sunday july 09, 2006 20:40)   image 2 images
Andorra is a small country, official language catalan, which sits in the pyrennes between Catalonia and France.
It's a great place to hide papyrus, do banking, buy cheap tobacco, ski, and pick wild flowers.

Today it's 16,022 registered voters have been called to exercise their democratic right to vote, regardless of ethnicity (they're all andorran), gender, creed, in secret, and they don't get their thumbs inked, so you don't know if an andorran has voted by looking at their paw afterwards. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday April 24, 2005 11:30 by oz.unslaver.com   text 1 comment (last - monday april 25, 2005 13:58)
Less than a week old, one globally based Counter Surveillance Co-operative is more than aware of the new strategies employed in the effort to bring rampant censorship across the Internet.

ACLU, Global Coalition Launch International Surveillance Campaign coincided with the lauch of the ICAM Co-op and is endorsed as a practical and forceful statement against the increasing and seemingly endless array of surveillance being utilised openly and covertly across the globe. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday April 23, 2005 23:50 by Paul King
As a journalist who writes about AIDS, I am endlessly amazed by the difference between the public and the private face of HIV; between what the public is told and what’s explained in the medical literature. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Saturday April 23, 2005 23:10 by Hugo Webber   text 2 comments (last - friday april 29, 2005 23:12)
On the 23rd April 1984 at a press conference in Washington, Dr. Robert Gallo proclaimed to the world, that he had discovered HIV the probable cause for AIDS. To mark this day, many AIDS-CRITICS worldwide will make the 23rd April a DAY of ACTION and voice CRITIC about the "HIV causes AIDS" theory... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Friday April 22, 2005 11:31 by John K
Call to Action against the G8!

The leaders of the eight richest nations in the world
will be attending the G8 Summit in Gleneagles,
Scotland this July. We want Bush, Blair, and the rest
of them to know that they are not welcome, and they
will be opposed. We must continue the tradition of
mass protests to oppose the G8 and its policies of
poverty, war and imperialism. read full story / add a comment
didn't look like this - looked like a monkey instead.
international / arts and media / other press Friday April 22, 2005 10:11 by for struth!   text 1 comment (last - saturday april 23, 2005 16:05)   image 1 image
shocker!
the painting is a fake!

"from false to false among false maids in love Upbraid my falsehood"

"The oath of a lover is no stronger than the word of a
tapster; they are both the confirmer of false reckonings." read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice / other press Thursday April 21, 2005 23:55 by Irish American
Report on NYC indymedia that Irish americans are being targetted by neo-nazi groups in the US. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday April 21, 2005 16:48 by Enlarger   text 3 comments (last - sunday april 24, 2005 15:36)   image 1 image
VATICAN CITY - Got a prayer or a problem for the new pope? Now you can e-mail him. Showing that Pope Benedict XVI intends to follow in the footsteps of John Paul II's multimedia ministry, the Vatican on Thursday modified its Web site so that users who click on an icon on the home page automatically activate an e-mail composer with his address.

In English, the address is benedictxvi@vatican.va. In Italian: benedettoxvi@vatican.va. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Wednesday April 20, 2005 08:44 by Indy   text 7 comments (last - saturday april 23, 2005 15:31)   image 2 images
CUENCA, ECUADOR – By a unanimous vote Ecuador's lawmakers removed President Lucio Gutierrez from office Wednesday and replaced him with Vice President Alfredo Palacio, following days of intensifying street protests.

While the focus of media attention has been on the capital city of Quito, the southern city of Cuenca has been in open rebellion against its former president for the past week. The discontent had been simmering for some time but in the weeks and days before the ouster of Gutierrez it reached a boiling point. Daily, students manned street blockades and fought pitched battles with police over control of the streets while across town the main park overflowed every night with a diverse array of people who had come to protest the president and government. read full story / add a comment
international / sci-tech / other press Tuesday April 19, 2005 02:56 by sun
NIAID Encourages Use of Leaky Device in Biodefense
Chambers are Located in Nine US States, India, New Zealand, and
Northern Ireland read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Monday April 18, 2005 22:03 by LOL   text 10 comments (last - wednesday april 20, 2005 17:02)   image 1 image
In case you've missed it, 115 men are voting for the black pope at the moment in rome who will lead 1,200,000,000 catholics, of which over 500,000,000 are eligible to be pope, into what they call the XXI century.

your participation is requested.

please burn your rubbish and ring your neighbours doorbells at the appointed time "habemus papa!" is the appropriate and indeed ritual expression. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Monday April 18, 2005 12:11 by Yoshie
While it is clear that the US and coalition forces have been killing more civilians than combatants and that more civilians have been killed by the US and coalition forces than by guerrillas, questions stilll remain.

First of all, do Iraqi guerrillas themselves in fact attack more civilians than combatants, as the corporate media regularly suggests? read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Sunday April 17, 2005 20:54 by -   text 5 comments (last - friday march 09, 2007 14:47)   image 1 image
The _*unrecognised*_ Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has a presidential election today.

The self-proclaimed republic was declared in 1983 in the the northern region of the island which the Turkish Army occupied back in 1974.

Turkey is the world's only country to have recognized it. The Organization of the Islamic Conference (bit bigger than the arabic league but the mint tea isn't as food) granted it observer member status under the name of "Turkish Cypriot State". read full story / add a comment
international / politics / elections / other press Sunday April 17, 2005 10:55 by -   text 9 comments (last - monday april 18, 2005 12:04)   image 1 image
1,800,000 voters to decide today on distribution of 75 seats.

Seven main parties will be competing for seats in the Basque Autonomous Community Parliament.

coverage of the elections in english starts today- read full story / add a comment
international / animal rights / other press Saturday April 16, 2005 20:40 by micheailin o'cinnsealach   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 17, 2005 20:51)
Links to use to protest the seal slaughter read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Saturday April 16, 2005 20:08 by John Meehan
A written debate between Gilbert Achcar (Ligue Communiste Révolutionnaire, LCR, France) and Members of the Inerrnational Socialist Group (ISG) (Britain) on the above topic can be found at this link to the International Viewpoint site :

http://212.67.202.147/%7Eivnet05/index.php3 read full story / add a comment
antrim / crime and justice / other press Friday April 15, 2005 20:55 by examiner
The PSNI today raided the offices of the Ulster Unionist Party in Castlereagh, Co. Antrim. read full story / add a comment
British mercenary Tim Spicer
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday April 15, 2005 17:39 by redjade   text 2 comments (last - sunday april 17, 2005 00:07)   image 2 images
The US Government has defended its decision to award a £293 million Iraq Security contract to British mercenary Tim Spicer, in reponse to concerns raised by the family of Belfast man Peter McBride, who was shot dead by Scots Guards soldiers under Spicer’s command in 1992. read full story / add a comment
.:. Liberty .:. Equality .:. Fraternity .:. require Global Peace & Justice
international / arts and media / other press Friday April 15, 2005 13:49 by .:.   text 2 comments (last - friday april 15, 2005 14:47)   image 2 images
1931 the 14th of April was declared the 2nd Republic of Spain.

In its short life it brought hope, inspiration, creative solutions, the values of fraternity, liberty, equality to countless people who had lived in near feudal conditions through dictatorship.
It's "firsts" were many-
free education, free health care, over 50% of the arable land organised in autonomous collectives,
the first parliamentary representation by anarchists, the first political radio broadcasts, the first Catalan & Basque republics were declared as an associate component within it's state architecture.

All too quickly it fell, as the first victim of European fascism. read full story / add a comment
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