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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 Epping Migrant Sex Offender Accidentally Released From Prison Fri Oct 24, 2025 18:50 | Will Jones
A police manhunt has been launched after the Epping Hotel asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a woman and?a 14 year-old girl?was accidentally released from jail due to "human error".
The post Epping Migrant Sex Offender Accidentally Released From Prison appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Are Girls Really ?Masking? Their Autism? Fri Oct 24, 2025 15:45 | Mary Gilleece
Teenage girls are now being labelled as autistic even when they have no symptoms, with the claim they are 'masking' their condition. Isn't it more likely that the 'autism spectrum' is now just a racket, says Mary Gilleece.
The post Are Girls Really ‘Masking’ Their Autism? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour ?Nowhere Near? Hitting 1.5 Million New Homes Amid ?Devastating? Collapse in Construction, Say... Fri Oct 24, 2025 13:27 | Sallust
Labour is "nowhere near" hitting its pledge to build 1.5 million homes amid a "devastating" collapse in construction of new-builds across London, with excessive regulation to blame, according to experts.
The post Labour “Nowhere Near” Hitting 1.5 Million New Homes Amid “Devastating” Collapse in Construction, Say Experts appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Labour Humiliation as Party Loses By-Election in Key Heartland With Just 11% of Vote Fri Oct 24, 2025 11:30 | Will Jones
Labour has been humiliated in the Caerphilly by-election, losing its 100-year hold on a key heartland as its vote collapsed to just 11% while the Welsh nationalists romped home with 47.4% and Reform came second on 36%.
The post Labour Humiliation as Party Loses By-Election in Key Heartland With Just 11% of Vote appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Tony Blair?s Call for Net Zero Levies to Be Abandoned is Hugely Damaging for Ed Miliband Fri Oct 24, 2025 09:00 | Ben Pile
Tony Blair's call for key Net Zero targets and levies to be abandoned over cost is hugely damaging for Ed Miliband, says Ben Pile. But in truth the ex-PM is trying to salvage the fast-sinking green agenda.
The post Tony Blair’s Call for Net Zero Levies to Be Abandoned is Hugely Damaging for Ed Miliband appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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

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Arctic sea routes open as ice melts

category international | environment | other press author Monday August 29, 2011 11:58author by Richard Black Report this post to the editors

Every cloud has a silver lining: melting Arctic ice opens up new shipping routes. But is the lining really silver? Environmental groups are worried about the exploitation of natural resources. Two major Arctic shipping routes have opened as summer sea ice melts, European satellites have found. Data recorded by the European Space Agency's (Esa) Envisat shows both Canada's Northwest Passage and Russia's Northern Sea Route open simultaneously. This summer's melt could break the 2007 record for the smallest area of sea ice since the satellite era began in 1979. Shipping companies are already eyeing the benefits these routes may bring if they remain open regularly. The two lanes have been used by a number of small craft several times in recent years. But the Northern Sea Route has been free enough of ice this month for a succession of tankers carrying natural gas condensate from the northern port of Murmansk to sail along the Siberian coast en route for Thailand.
The two Arctic passages combine to form a route right around the regio
The two Arctic passages combine to form a route right around the regio

"They're often open at the same time in the sense that with some ingenuity you can get through them," observed Peter Wadhams, an Arctic ice expert from the University of Cambridge. "But this time they've really been open, with a proper Suez-size tanker going through the Northern Sea Route with a full cargo - that's a real step forward," he told BBC News.

A number of major shipping companies are looking to the opening of these routes to shorten journey times and make their businesses more efficient.

But environmental groups are concerned that the progressive ice loss will lead to increased exploration for oil and gas.

Related Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14670433

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Corporate psychopaths destroying our world for a buck     Serf    Mon Aug 29, 2011 19:27 
   Point of info and graphs of extent of annual sea ice melt     T    Mon Aug 29, 2011 23:59 
   Actual evidence?     Real Scientist    Tue Aug 30, 2011 00:26 
   Difference between 'Ice area' and "Ice extent"     Real Scientist    Tue Aug 30, 2011 01:29 
   heres a blatantly obvious link for you mr scientist     Serf    Tue Aug 30, 2011 02:57 
   re: your Bizzare rant     Real Scientist    Tue Aug 30, 2011 03:49 
   re: your complete misunderstanding of Ice and Solar activity.     Real Scientist    Tue Aug 30, 2011 04:07 
   yeah why would you want to?     Serf    Tue Aug 30, 2011 04:25 
   $79 Billion spent by US Gov't on promoting Global Warming     Real Scientist    Tue Aug 30, 2011 04:45 
 10   Well, I cannot vouch for YOU . . . .     Real Scientist    Tue Aug 30, 2011 05:20 
 11   Global Warmists Greenland-Ice predictions a total exaggeration     Arctic Juggernaut    Tue Aug 30, 2011 06:22 
 12   T     Curious    Tue Aug 30, 2011 17:48 
 13   Tankers getting through?     T    Tue Aug 30, 2011 21:06 
 14   address the points, not my idiocy please.     Serf    Tue Aug 30, 2011 21:36 
 15   I would, if it were possible, but it's not . . . .     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 02:01 
 16   Now that I got that out of the way . . .     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 03:17 
 17   The CERN Experiment is the Nail in the coffin of the nonsense peddled by CO2 Junkies     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 03:44 
 18   I don't know but I know its not CO2     Serf    Wed Aug 31, 2011 08:24 
 19   So     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 09:40 
 20   insulting me proves nothing     Serf    Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:34 
 21   It's like watching a train crash in Slo-Mo - - over and over and over again     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:04 
 22   sigh, I'll repeat the question...     Serf    Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:19 
 23   simply repeating yourself     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:30 
 24   More insults (yawn) but still no honest answer to a very simple question     Serf    Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:39 
 25   yes, dear     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:56 
 26   Dear Mr ' I have a Science Degree" . . . .     dear oh dear    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:00 
 27   perhaps you should just answer the question     undecided    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:05 
 28   blatant denial of your own statements     Serf    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:21 
 29   speaking of toal knobs     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:22 
 30   you wouldn't let it lie, eh?     oh you silly billy    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:25 
 31   Re: The CERN Experiment is the Nail in the coffin of the nonsense peddled by CO2 Junkies     T    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:29 
 32   real scientist my ass     Serf    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:32 
 33   you did say that...     Serf    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:39 
 34   Yep, definitely a Degree in Domestic Science     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:40 
 35   and while I'm being petty and descending to your level....     Serf    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:43 
 36   hahahaha     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:43 
 37   yes dear     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:47 
 38   a scientist who never heard of a wilson cloud chamber??     Serf    Wed Aug 31, 2011 12:55 
 39   dear oh dear     Real Scientist    Wed Aug 31, 2011 13:10 
 40   I'm afraid you'll have to find someone else to abuse     Serf    Wed Aug 31, 2011 13:22 
 41   Arctic sea ice shrinks to second lowest level     Liege    Fri Sep 16, 2011 19:48 
 42   Whales find Arctic path from Atlantic to Pacific     Liege    Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:43 


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