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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 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.
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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.

offsite link Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not Sat Nov 22, 2025 11:00 | Charlotte Gill
It's bad enough that all UK TV users are forced to fund the BBC via a TV licence. But it's worse than that, says Charlotte Gill: millions of pounds of taxpayers' money are handed to the corporation via backdoor channels.
The post Taxpayers Are Charged for the BBC Whether They Like it or Not appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

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Bad Police, Good Police...

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Monday January 20, 2003 03:22author by Bijanauthor email javanji at earthlink dot net Report this post to the editors

B & G

NON

This is nothing but playing the world good police - bad police in capitalism format.

Although many documents from Bill Clintons speech in Holland regarding american plan to attack North Korea, the bombing of Chinas embassy in Belgrade, the declaration of Axes of evil’s by Bush, the Richard Pearls declaration in total war, Donald Rumsfeld and his declaration in surgical war in Iraq and his offer in “immunity” for possible war crimes if some senior leaders would live Iraq! Meanwhile, there is lawsuit against Bill Clinton, Madeline Albright, Henry Kissinger and others pending in the international court for war crimes in Cambodia, Yugoslavia and Iraq. These are the words from a “hesitant intelligent” man who by Henry Kissinger been called a “rootless man” and where he is responsible for the war machinery in US and is just scary to think that, such a man even has a position in any system! Here, Mr. Hans Blix and Mohamed Elbaredi should consider these kind of links to what they are demanding and if the 12 years of Iraqis people suffering hasn’t been enough and or a ground for a legal case to indict the entire leaders in what has by this kind of “unintelligent and undemocratic” personality been called the “world community”!

But then again, Donald Rumsfeld gesture although it sounds “fair” but one has to consider why he is offering such “fair” idea now! Could it be that 87% of people around the world are against any kind of war in Iraq! Could it be that Bush administration is out of any “fair” policies for American people and therefore desperately wants to end the Iraqi matter before more people are organized and against US – NATO militarism wars!

Now, when Hans Blix and Mohamed Elbaradei demanding Iraq to “cooperate more”, which Iraq is fully cooperating, is yet another “fair” gesture that United Nations inspectors and Hans Blix or Mohammad Elbaradei would save Iraq from US and NATO attack! Question is, what more do you want and what kind of international guarantee would Iraq have if and when or as they are fulfilling and cooperating with UN resolution 1441! And after Iraq, what international guarantee would Syria or Iran and for that matter North Korea and almost every other country in the region would have in not being attacked by US – NATO militarism!

During the time in Patrick Lumombas democratic government in Congo the Swedish UN general secretary Dag Hammarskjöld did the same thing, when his Europeans blue helmet solders handcuffed Patrick Lumomba in the 60is and give him to his archenemy Mossa Chombeh, (Mossa Chombeh’s dictatorial government was appreciated by the European and Americans government) where Patrick and many others like him were hanged, yet there is still a civil war with European and american weapons in Congo, and no sight in democracy to be noted in that country. At that time, the reason behind US and European involvements was that Congo’s being a socialist government and Congo’s natural resources. Belgium, France, England and their political and economical interests in the region was beneficial in killing Patrick Lomumba. Here, the history of World Democracy has noted that fact and once again the naïveté in Swedish politic and its involvements are about to commit the same crime as in Congo. Everyone knows that if Iraq and Saddam regime falls the region as whole would fall in hand of US and European militarism and that’s what they want, but that wont happen without a long time war in the region and massacre of many thousands peoples. The “axes of evils” by Bush presidency is about these countries, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and North Korea! The bizarre matter is, that non of the political or social injustices or the inhuman acts in terms of military or CIA’s involvement in not letting the democracy in countries such as Iran and Etc. to grow, has ever by any of the European “democracy” been called a evils act, yet these governments calling every one whom is not or will not agree with their policies a axes of evils, but willing to cooperate with the sponsors of such preference in words!

The US and European Emperors and its stone aged Democracy in militarism in cooperation with American Neo Liberalism, playing the same game as policing the world, here the only difference is that, one plays the good one, and the other acts like if the other one is the bad one!

The yes sometimes and no sometimes, in English Neo Liberals governments, its foreign and domestic policies is always been the fact in, what I will gain if I would agree, or if I would not agree! The French I don’t know attitude, is not far as the British in questioning, who is going to be the boss, me or England and Germans attitude in saying, to hell with it, we either go or don’t go wit the plan, but let see what the Swedish government has to say, and Swedish governments opportunism policies is always in the right side of those whom is the winner and therefore, the country has lost its integrity in being neutral and the reputation in peace making and working for a non-militarized world, is more capitalist today then before.

But the fact is, that both continents are industrialized and its technology is in need of fuel and fuel is in Persian Gulf and there is lots of oil in every country located there and Iraq is one of them. Here, the meaning of the word capitalism and democracy is part from each other and cannot be connected in any way. One is about people, and the other is about money; therefore, when US - NATO is a talking about “democracy” in the region, they actually talking about oil and how its militarism could provide for the system to gain more by controlling the source of the money and capitalism “tactical” democratic systems in the region!

Here, humans are not of concern to the capitalism systems but the big Americans cars are. Where European, American and Arabian bourgeoisie feels that, these cars are “safe” to driving them, yet without considering the fact that for every gallon of gas they use, there is a child, elderly man and women, a mother, a father or son and daughter in Palestine, Iraq or Afghanistan, Pakistan, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Chili, Granada, Iran, Yugoslavia and in many more countries, been killed by the US – NATO militarism, these people have lost their life for capitalism interests and not for capitalism to implement democracy in their country. The history of democracy in each and every one of these countries where capitalism have committed genocide in terms of killing democracy, and for people of every and each of these countries struggle for achieving it, is over 130 years old, yet in 1972 it was CIA which helped General Augusto Pinochet to assassinate another democratically elected government Dr. Salvador Aliende along with 30.000 young and old Chileans in Chili!

Over production of goods, consumption of oil along with capitalism concurrence, the economical and social policies by capitalism is peoples worst enemy and above all, the developments in capitalism social and international political design in New World Order for last two decades, has become its habits in forcing the idea. The motive behind capitalisms today’s war or in time of Congo, Vietnam, Cambodia, First and Second World War and now all over the world war is the same. Behind presents US-NATO militarism and its buildups in Persian Gulf, Central Asia, Far East and Middle East is the capitalism history in conducting wars where the history answers the capitalism democracy! In other word, capitalism is against any form of people’s democracy period.

Question is; has any one from any of UN atomic or chemical and biological organizations in any time questioned the Atomic, chemical and biological warheads and its pileups in US and NATO countries! Have any of these organizations questioned the matter about Israel and forced its government to comply in the same meaning or manners as in Iraq! How about Franc, England, Germany or Japan and Australia, or even Sweden for that matter!

What all this adopted “militarism” in foreign policies by industrialized countries means is that, people in Middle East, Central Asia and Persian Gulf are forced to accept the US and Europeans “Emperors” democracy while the Emperor himself is stealing peoples wealth in middle east and robes its own people from a true democracy at home. Therefore, the right wings of Neo Liberals in Sweden asking for more cooperation between Swedish army and NATO and further they are asking for Swedish solders to be involved and sent to Iraq!

The capitalism militarism is a desperation act showing the destruction of capitalism itself and by itself; therefore, and due to the nature of capitalism, capitalism asks for more war and challenges the world to face him, here, the Swedish capitalism has joined the force in the idea of “new world order” and asks for more wars to be conducted by even the Swedish solders! The Iraq war, and all other capitalisms war never been or ever going to be about democracy unless there is a true democracy implemented at where capitalism home is, that home could be Iran, Sweden, Franc, England, Germany or for that matter America!

A statement from the White House said the president "welcomes the fact that we are a democracy and people in the United States, unlike Iraq, are free to protest and to make their case known." Sunday January 18,2003. Question is Mr. President, do you listen to what people say!
In the name of solidarity,

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