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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 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.

offsite link Bill Gates?s Climate U-Turn: Real Epiphany or Expedient Pivot? Thu Nov 06, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
Devotees of the Church of Climate are in uproar after mega-donor Bill Gates turned heretic and conceded humanity is set to thrive under climate change. But is his conversion all it's cracked up to be, asks Tilak Doshi.
The post Bill Gates’s Climate U-Turn: Real Epiphany or Expedient Pivot? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Thu Nov 06, 2025 00:42 | 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.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link What Will it Mean in the Future to be English? Wed Nov 05, 2025 19:00 | Dr Nicholas Tate
With 'white British' set to be a minority in their homeland within 40 years, talk among many has turned to ethno-nationalism. Dr Nicholas Tate asks what the great French historian Ernest Renan would have to say about this.
The post What Will it Mean in the Future to be English? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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

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international / crime and justice / other press Friday February 25, 2005 11:20 by plaintiff judge defense counsel stenographer and jury.   image 1 image
Before the Mc Libel Duo recently had time to file their claims on HMG UK for all the money Blair's regime refused them in their struggle against Mc Donalds, the Angel of the Lord George Bush had cleared through the US legislature the first part of his bid to stop "class actions".

Class actions are multi-state very american style law suits taken against corporations mostly under the guise of consumer relations (Nadarism) and rarely under the guise of worker relations (trade unionism an almost extinct activity in the USA). read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday February 25, 2005 00:17 by BY SERGIO NAZZARO AND ROBERTO SAVIANO   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 08, 2005 04:12)
INTERVIEW WITH HAMID MIR
BY SERGIO NAZZARO AND ROBERTO SAVIANO

(Hamid Mir, Osama Bin laden's official biographer is working as Editor Northern Region, GEO Television Network (24 hour private Urdu News Channel) read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday February 24, 2005 20:51 by Our Los Angeles Correspondent   text 7 comments (last - wednesday march 02, 2005 04:11)
State Department correspondent for Time Magazine "Elaine Shannon" talks on National Public Radio about a recent story that she and Mike Weare were involved with reporting on talks between "US intelligence" and "insurgency leaders". During her interview she talks about how the Sunni resistance may model themselves on Sinn Fein/IRA. Audio up soon on http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/index.shtml
Time Magazine article on: read full story / add a comment
from the first videoconference ever yesterday - the word on his lips is PAX. & BASTA!
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday February 24, 2005 18:11 by vita   text 1 comment (last - friday february 25, 2005 00:17)   image 1 image
number one spokesperson for pax mundi, recent publisher of a book which claims most world evil is rooted in the materialist european tradition of the enlightenment from materially based totatalitarian marxism in China, USSR and free market material based war economy based capitalist imperialism as expounded by the best candidate for antichrist there is - Tony Blair.
the man who gave us the Good Friday agreement has continously mocked the ideas of christian belief since his meteoritic rise to power. His main spokesperson is The Angel of the Lord George Bush. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Thursday February 24, 2005 16:19 by xare   text 3 comments (last - friday february 25, 2005 19:32)
In this article I speak about the parliamentary situation on the Basque Autonomous Parliament and the autonomous movement. in the Basque Country.

This article does not include the Navarrian situation neither the one of the basques in the French State. read full story / add a comment
meath / arts and media / other press Wednesday February 23, 2005 15:28 by BCI
''The moratorium is used in times of general elections and referenda as an additional mechanism to ensure that fairness and balance are achieved by the broadcast media during the final 24 hours before polling commences or while polling is underway. This allows voters a period for reflection in the final stages of a campaign.'' read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday February 22, 2005 14:59 by redjade   text 29 comments (last - tuesday march 08, 2005 00:57)   image 1 image
''American and Iraqi government forces have surrounded the city of Ramadi in preparation for an expected full-scale attack on the city, which has in effect slipped into the hands of insurgents.'' read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday February 22, 2005 08:16 by Mary La Rosa
Israel has created a purgatory in which a free man is held prisoner because of nineteen year old memories in a fifty year old brain. read full story / add a comment
the poisoned chalice of Socrates
international / politics / elections / other press Monday February 21, 2005 21:34 by iosaf & julia   text 7 comments (last - wednesday february 23, 2005 04:23)   image 1 image
Portugal celebrated as its right as a democratic state and member of the family of civlised nations a general election Sunday last February 20th 2005.

The result was a foregone conclusion, José Sócrates won an outright majority returning his state to socialist rule with the lowest recorded abstention in Portuguese democratic history. read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday February 21, 2005 17:59 by redjade   text 3 comments (last - sunday february 27, 2005 10:46)   image 1 image
international / arts and media / other press Monday February 21, 2005 11:57 by life is good. appreciate it. use it well.   text 26 comments (last - tuesday march 21, 2006 17:59)   image 4 images
Hunter S Thompson, the American counterculture writer, has been found dead at his home in Colorado.

Thompson's son, Juan, found his body. He said the 67-year-old shot himself.

He is best-known for his 1972 account of a drug-addled Nevada trip, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Other books are Hells Angels and Generation of Swine. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / other press Monday February 21, 2005 03:39 by Mark Drolette   text 1 comment (last - monday february 21, 2005 15:42)
To see how the Bushies stack up against former regimes of a particular bent, read on. read full story / add a comment
international / eu / other press Sunday February 20, 2005 21:47 by frying other fish   text 10 comments (last - saturday march 19, 2005 11:20)   image 5 images
“And I like to talk about him about well, why did you do this, or why did you do that? And I suspect he likes to ask me the same questions,”

“We’ve got the framework for a good strategic relationship… I think this relationship can be invigorated,”

“Look, I think the biggest success would be twofold: one, an understanding of the war – the world we live in and the war on terror.” read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous / other press Sunday February 20, 2005 13:23 by John   text 8 comments (last - saturday february 26, 2005 14:30)
Politics.ie (http://www.politics.ie) has launched its own Wiki.

Their aim is " to create the largest central repository of political information on Irish politics. You may edit any page on this website, to add more information or correct mistakes, by clicking on the edit button which is visible on every page. You can also create new pages if you so wish. This is a member driven Irish political encyclopedia, so the more help you give us the better it will become."

Join, edit and contribute read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Sunday February 20, 2005 13:01 by seen in Green Left Weekly   text 1 comment (last - monday february 21, 2005 06:14)   image 3 images
A Freedom Ride bus trip by Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students of Sydney University has found crass racism in northern and north-western New South Wales. read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Saturday February 19, 2005 21:10 by John Kaminski
The Second Wave
New Books, New Groups Fuel Smoldering
Resurgence Of 911 Skeptics Movement
By John Kaminski
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national / crime and justice / other press Saturday February 19, 2005 04:08 by Chris Floyd
'You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force ... the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."
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international / crime and justice / other press Friday February 18, 2005 18:40 by R. Isible   text 1 comment (last - tuesday february 22, 2005 01:49)
Excellent Guardian summary of the history of US torture and how widespread it is.

"The infliction of pain or suffering per se, whether it is physical or mental, is insufficient to amount to torture." Jay Bybee, Assistant US Attorney General (now a federal judge in Las Vegas) read full story / add a comment
international / arts and media / other press Friday February 18, 2005 00:47 by european gossip and celebrity press office   text 4 comments (last - tuesday february 21, 2006 01:42)
To mark Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams first visit to Montserrat Abbey in Catalonia where he joined with the President of ERC Josep Carod Rovira (the Catalan republican left independence party) our own occasional contributor, Mr Eoin O Broin published at his welcomed suggestion a piece in the local english language (girona based) pan catalonia weekly paper today.

Mr Adams expressed his belief that there is enough wisdom in the current Spanish gov. to help the basques sort things out, and that Mr Blair for another term is still preferable to the tories.
He didn't say he had seen the BVM and I'm sure he got chocolate biscuits.

And stirring words they were too.
But it would breach copyright to publish them here at the moment, and so I won't. read full story / add a comment
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