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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 Exposed: How Green ?Philanthropy? Writes Scripts for Ulez ?Clean Air? Activists Sun Nov 23, 2025 07:00 | Ben Pile
Ben Pile highlights the work of Charlotte Gill exposing how green 'philanthropy' gives scripts to activists pushing 'clean air' schemes like Ulez as blatant proxies for the climate agenda.
The post Exposed: How Green ‘Philanthropy’ Writes Scripts for Ulez ‘Clean Air’ Activists appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link News Round-Up Sun Nov 23, 2025 01:46 | Will Jones
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 British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class Sat Nov 22, 2025 17:00 | Finlay McLaren
The BBC's Director of Comedy wants to "save the sitcom". But the sitcom is only endangered because most of them stopped being funny. As To the Manor Born reminds us, British comedy has lost its class, says Finlay McLaren.
The post British TV Comedy Has Lost its Class appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? Sat Nov 22, 2025 15:00 | Noah Carl
Is the era of cheap internet surveys over? A new paper demonstrates that AIs can now be "trivially programmed" to answer online surveys in ways that are essentially indistinguishable from humans.
The post Is the Era of Cheap Internet Surveys Over? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

offsite link Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History Sat Nov 22, 2025 13:00 | Will Jones
We're a week away from the most painful Budget in history thanks largely to the eye-watering cost of lockdown. Yet Baroness Hallett says next time the Government must be ready to go harder and faster. This is insanity.
The post Thank Lockdowns for the Worst Budget in History appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Voltaire Network
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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NEW AT FRONTLINES: BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, US ELECTIONS, ANTIWAR MOVEMENT ...

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Monday December 02, 2002 02:39author by Frontlines newspaper - Frontlines newspaperauthor email alternative at sbcglobal dot netauthor address 3311 Mission St., Suite 135, San Francisco, CA 94110author phone (415) 452-9992 Report this post to the editors

Articles, news, pamphlets and books online for activists

Brazil: the challenges of Lula and the PT; the Continuous saga of Argentinean crisis; US Elections: No Mandate, no Surrender ... and much more.

NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW! NEW!

NOW YOU CAN READ THEM ONLINE!
At http://www.sf-frontlines.com
Frontlines, the newspaper of the Left

Argentina:
CRISIS, REVOLUTION, COUNTER-REVOLUTION AND THE LEFT
Interview and dialogue with Carlos Petroni

The December, 2001 revolutionary crisis - the new phenomena of the class struggle: piqueteros, occupied factories, neighborhood assemblies - the middle class left - the working class left - the meaning of internationalism - strategy, tactics and language of the revolutionary movement - elections and the left - the subject of revolution and much more...

A book from October Publications, the Left Party and Frontlines newspaper.

Read the book at: http://www.sf-frontlines.com

If you would like a hard copy (U$S 7 in the US, U$S 10 Internationally) send check/money order to: Frontlines, 3311 Mission Street, Suite 135, San Francisco, California 94110, USA

Coming soon: Spanish edition, same cover prices.
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Argentina:
HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL BACKGROUND NOTES, POLITICAL PARTIES AND THE LEFT Who is who in the revolutionary left, the ruling class and events that shaped the present crisis.

A Pamphlet from October Publications, the Left Party and Frontlines newspaper.

Read the pamphlet online: http://www.sf-frontlines.com

If you would like a hard copy of the book (U$S 3 in the US, U$S 5 Internationally) send check/money order to: Frontlines, 3311 Mission Street, Suite 135, San Francisco, California 94110, USA

Coming soon: Spanish edition, same cover prices.
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Articles:

Brazil:
LULA'S GOVERNMENT: PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES
By Gina Alvarez
Plus:
*Brazil: the most populous, largest and economically powerful country Of Latin America (Factoids) *Elections Results by candidates and political party *Brazilian Political Parties (a guide) The left, the right, the center. Who are the PT, PCB, PCdoB, PDT, PSB, PSTU, Greens, PL...? *Bushism on Brazil: "Do You have Blacks, Too?"

Read the articles online: http://www.sf-frontlines.com

Would like to subscribe to Frontlines newspaper, the newspaper of the Left? U$S 20 in the US per year - U$S 30 International and Institutions. Send check/money order to: Frontlines, 3311 Mission Street, Suite 135, San Francisco, California 94110, USA
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US Elections, Preliminary Report:
NO MANDATE, NO SURRENDER
By Sebastian Robles
16% of the eligible voters is no mandate, the defeat of the Democratic Party is not our defeat nor does not mean surrender of the antiwar movement.

Read the article online: http://www.sf-frontlines.com
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San Francisco's Secret Race (article)
How And Why The Media Kept The College Board Race Out Of Voters' Sight

The media tried to ignore the race where a socialist received 29% of the vote.

Now you can read the article online at http://www.sf-frontlines.com Click the "Bay Area" navigating button.
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Also online:

Frontlines Editorial
WAR AND MADNESS

Six months ago we stated that the US will be unable to massively attack Iraq, or anyone else for that matter, for six months or a year.

We based our analysis on the fact that there is a widespread distrust - higher than ever - in the Bush administration around the world; that most peoples of the world opposed such imperial adventure and that many US-allied governments had misgivings about the bullying tactics and unilateral decisions of George W. and his trigger-happy fundamentalists.

Read the article online: http://www.sf-frontlines.com
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COUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY
Capitalism to Destroy Human Habitat?

The final struggle over the survival of planet Earth, as the habitat for life, is fast approaching.
The main obstacle to saving the planet is the existence of the worldwide capitalist/imperialist system, a juggernaut oblivious to the fate of billions of people.
Plus:
* Reforms Won‘t Do
* USA, War and the Environment
Read the article online: http://www.sf-frontlines.com
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Frontlines Editorial
A Tale of Two Recessions
(one for the rich, one for the poor)
According to analysts sitting comfortably in the towers of high finance, the economy sank into a recession for the first time in more than a decade in early 2001. Surging consumption and the dot-com investment frenzy went down the drain, pulling the rest of the economy behind them.

Read the article online: http://www.sf-frontlines.com
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Operation Eagle Takes All
Plan Puebla Panama, Venezuela's oil, US intervention in Colombia

The government of the United States stepped up its military, economic and political intervention in Colombia last year, is trying to overthrow the government in Venezuela and trying to implement the Plan Puebla-Panama in Mexico and Central America.

Read the article online: http://www.sf-frontlines.com
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Frontlines Editorial
Polarization: Reaction & Struggle

First, the bad news:
September 11, 2001’s heinous terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC had a profound effect on the world political situation. For anyone doing left wing politics, the situation became far more complex, and especially difficult for leftists operating in the United States.

Read the article online: http://www.sf-frontlines.com
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Ashcroft’s Disappearing Act (Article)

“To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty; my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists." –US Attorney General John Ashcroft”

Read the article online: http://www.sf-frontlines.com
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Frontlines Editorial

The world political situation changed on September 11, 2001.

That day’s events and the US government’s reaction to them transformed the world into a polarized battleground of reaction and counter-reaction, but also of resistance.

Read the article online: http://www.sf-frontlines.com
AND MUCH MORE!

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